Biography

Whenever I look at pictures of horrific things that soldiers do or that have been done to soldiers I always feel sorry for everybody involved because politics throws them into these horrific situations where really it's just 18-year-old kids.

When you live far away, home looks a little different every time.

The lives of prisoners of war after they are returned is almost never discussed, never explored.

Here in Israel, we want the boys back home, we demand it from our government, who often pay a steep price to get hostages back. But we need a happy ending. We don't want to deal with those days after release, their post-trauma or reintroduction to society. Yet coming home is only the start of their journey.

Israel's a small country but both the audience and programme-makers are very sophisticated.