Basketball as metaphor for the disengagement

ORIT ARFA, THE JERUSALEM POST

Elidad Schneid usually got nervous before major games of the Gush Katif inter-settlement basketball league. As a member of the Netzer Hazani team, the winner of most of the league's championship trophies, he should have been particularly nervous hours before the tournament final against Neve Dekalim. But he wasn't. He was too busy planning for another battle scheduled for the same day: the battle over his home.

Film records last days of Gush Katif
In two hours, you can see things about last year's pullout from Gaza that could not be written up in a lengthy New York Times analysis.
"Home Game," a powerful 120-minute documentary to be screened Saturday night at Cong. Beth Aaron and Sunday night at Cong. Bnai Yeshurun, both in Teaneck, opens with idyllic scenes of everyday life in a Mediterranean coast town.

Film captures Gaza teens' trauma

Yaakov Lappin, Ynet news.com - Published: 10.19.06

'Home Game,' a new documentary, accompanies teenage group during Gush Katif's final days
Yaakov Lappin
Published: 10.19.06

A new and powerful documentary on the traumas experienced by teenagers during the disengagement premiered in a small movie theatre in central Tel Aviv Wednesday afternoon.

The Logic in Madness
Column of October 27, 2006
Zev Galili
Makor Rishon [Primary Source - An Israeli Weekly]

Requiem to the Basketball Tournament at Netzer Chazani

The film "Home Game", tells the story of the destruction of Gush Katif, whose central theme is basketball and whose stars are the youth * "We wanted to make a movie, so that the most secular leftist of Tel Aviv would want to see without changing the channel" - says the producer, Avi Eblo[?] * The film's pivotal character is Einat Yefet, born in Netzer Sereni, who filmed for Channel 10

A Year Later, Gush Katif Recalled In Film

Sarah Bronson/Jerusalem, The Jewish Week

How do you make an apolitical film about one of Israel's most wrenching political events?

That was the challenge facing Avi Abelow, a Manhattan Day School graduate who made aliyah in 1990 at the age of 16, and whose film, "Home Game," an 83-minute documentary about Netzer Chazani, a settlement of Gush Katif, is being shown here and in Israel to mark the first anniversary of the disengagement from Gaza.