Kedma

Kedma (Hebrew: קדמה‎) may refer to:

Kedma, Israel

Kedma (Hebrew: קֵדְמָה) is a youth village in the southern Shephelah area of south-central Israel. It is under the jurisdiction of Yoav Regional Council.

History

Kedma was founded as a kibbutz as part of the 11 points in the Negev campaign in 1946. Because of social and economic difficulties the kibbutz was abandoned at the end of the 1960s, and it became later on a youth village.

The group that founded the community planned originally to locate it near Netanya or the northwest shores of the Dead Sea, but after the latter was captured by the Jordanian army, they moved to the present-day location.

It was founded on land traditionally belonging to the Palestinian village of Summeil. After 1948, it also started to farm some of the land belonging to Bil'in, Gaza.

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Coordinates: 31°42′4.67″N 34°46′32.15″E / 31.7012972°N 34.7755972°E / 31.7012972; 34.7755972

Kedma (film)

Kedma is a 2002 Israeli film directed by Amos Gitai and starring Andrei Kashkar and Helena Yaralova. It was entered into the 2002 Cannes Film Festival.

Plot

The film is a historical tragedy set during the opening stages of Israel's 1948 War of Independence. The film follows the fate of a group of refugees from the Holocaust who are illegally brought to Israel by the Palmach. When they arrive, they are chased by British soldiers. Once they escape, they are immediately drafted into the war, and take part in a grueling battle against Arab irregulars. The film centers on two long monologues, one by an Arab peasant who pledges to oppose the Jews forever; and one by an emotionally demolished refugee who laments the seemingly endless suffering of his people. Gitai intended the film to be a more realistic answer to the romanticized depiction of the war in Otto Preminger's Exodus. The final shot of Kedma is identical to the final shot of Preminger's film.

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