Tag: Above and Beyond

Above and Beyond is a documentary about the volunteers who played a crucial role in the air during the 1948 Arab-Israel War. Three years removed from liberation, war was inevitable in the days following Israel’s Declaration of Independence. Even though the Jews accepted the UN Partition Plan in 1947, it was rejected by the Arabs. Everyone knew that the British would be leaving in 1948 and that’s when Arab armies (Egypt, Transjordan, Syria, Saudi Arabia,…