In Israel, having children has long been framed as a national duty, and a woman's body as an instrument of demographic strategy. Abortion in the Holy Land weaves personal testimony with startling archival material to show how reproductive choice collides with ideas of identity, nationhood and state control — where abortion is technically legal yet filtered through committees that weigh a woman's private decision against national priorities.

Why This Film Matters: It exposes a politics of the womb that is rarely discussed openly, and asks who really owns a woman's choices. Honoured with the Best Research Award at the Haifa International Film Festival, it is a rigorous, unsettling look at how nationalism and gender meet in the most intimate of decisions.