# 1980s VHS • Window to Israel: National Geographic, Russia 60 FPS

A Russian-language documentary in which the narrator recounts several weeks spent traveling through Israel, presenting the country to a Soviet audience. The film moves through Jerusalem, Tel Aviv, Jaffa, Eilat, Qumran, and the Negev, with extended attention to the religious significance of each location for Judaism, Christianity, and Islam. The narration draws on Jewish history, quotes from Mark Twain and the prophet Isaiah, and the narrator's own observations about Israeli society, immigration, and the revival of the Hebrew language by Eliezer Ben-Yehuda. Segments cover the kibbutz and moshav agricultural settlement systems, the Timna copper mines near Eilat, the ancient port city of Jaffa, Shabbat at the Jerusalem bazaar, the ultra-Orthodox Mea Shearim quarter, the Via Dolorosa, the Church of the Holy Sepulcher, the Western Wall, and the eschatological beliefs shared across all three Abrahamic religions regarding Jerusalem. The film appears to be a Soviet-produced documentary from the 1980s. The English audio on this tape is a translation, not the original Russian narration.

- Kind: Film
- By: The Vista Group®
- Archive: [Internet Archive](https://archive.org/details/TheVistaGroup-WindowToIsraelNationalGeographicRussia)
- Licence or status: none stated by the archive
- Who can watch: Teens profiles and older (the archive gives no rating; placed by Invisible Network from its collection and subjects)

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