Young Filmmaker Tackles the Ma’alot Massacre

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Orit Arfa

May 12, 2011

Brandon Assanti, 24, was a year older than most of the teenage victims of the “Ma’alot Massacre” when he first decided to make a documentary about this grueling attack. The attack was so grueling that, upon watching Assanti’s

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