documentary

It\’s little more than a week to the airdate, March 28, and Ofra Bikel is still putting the final touches on her hourlong documentary, \”Israel: The Unexpected Candidate.\”\nThat\’s not like Bikel, a meticulous professional, described by critic Howard Rosenberg in the Los Angeles Times as \”one of television\’s premier documentary filmmakers … whose camera wields the power to mobilize public opinion through exposure.\”\n\”Usually, I take seven to eight months to make a documentary, but in this case I had only six weeks,\” Bikel said in an hourlong phone call from Tel Aviv, her speech a medley of Israeli, French and American accents.