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"Muhamad Will Mow" is a road movie taking us through the tobacco fields in the Upper Galilee, Kibbutz Ein Harod's drylands, and the orchards in the Rafiah Plains. Encounters with field workers, mostly Arabs, and their employers, mostly Jewish, reveal the beginnings of moral degeneration and indifference in Israel’s Jewish society. The film's soundtrack includes texts written by the founding fathers of Zionism from the turn of the 20th century: Ahad Ha'Am, Menachem Osishkin, and A.D. Gordon, which challenge the post-Six-Day War reality.

"Muhamad Will Mow" was inspired by a letter sent by a Moshav member to the Ministry of Defence, Moshe Dayan, in the early 1970s:

Both me and my husband were born in our Moshav. We live in the center of Israel and until the war we always worked hard and made a good living… Today, we have in our employment 5 Arab workers. The country is flooded by workers from the territories… the Arabs live in the groves, a short distance from the renovated villas and we have become "Effendis". Truth be told, we have more than we need now, not that we were ever starving. It has gotten to the point where we do not have to lift a finger, the workers receive their wages and my son refuses to even mow the lawn. "Muhamad will mow,"' he says.

Moshe Dayan never replied.

The film will be screened in a sequence with "Observation of Acre". After both films – a discussion with the filmmakers, directed by Dr. Shmulik Duvdevani.

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Muhamad Will Mow

Dir.: Yigal Borstein, 48 min., Israel, 1976

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