Rebirth

Let My People Go (1x18)

Air date: Apr 29, 1998

The Six Day War woke up Jewish nationalistic feelings among the Soviet Union's Jewish population, they demanded the right to immigrate to Israel, under international pressure the gates were opened but the communist regime limited the number of immigrants and took steps to suppress Zionist activists, at the end of the 1980s with the fall of the Soviet empire, a large wave of immigrants from the Soviet Union come to Israel, the problems of absorption soon cools down the initial enthusiasm.