Paying For Justice

A 2007 documentary film on the YES television network aired on the evening before Holocaust Day about the economic difficulties of many Holocaust survivors living in Israel. The program focuses on the investigation by journalists Orli Vilnai-Federbush and Guy Maroz into the financial retributions that have been allocated to the survivors and have not been passed on to them. Includes interviews with survivors and with different people working in the institutions dealing with this issue. Archival footage of Moshe Sharett, Foreign Minister in Ben-Gurion's Government (1953), about the signing of the agreement for financial retribution. Recorded conversation with Meirav Lapidot from the Finance Ministry. A segment from the Israeli news dealing with the acquisition of industrial equipment with retribution money.