When he can no longer stomach the moral compromises required to stay in power, a popular Israeli politician quits government and begins fiercely speaking uncomfortable truths. At great personal cost, he challenges Israelis to confront their historical traumas and acknowledge Palestinian suffering—crucial steps toward a new, shared future.

Directed by David Jakubovic

Produced by David Jakubovic and Adi Navon

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This isn’t just a film. This is a crucial message that needs to reach people.

When I read Avrum Burg’s book, it felt like discovering a new language. He talked about the Israeli-Palestinian conflict through the lens of trauma acknowledgment––the trauma of the Other, and of our own. There is a lot of Holocaust PTSD in my family's history, and Avrum talked about our own traumas with words I never heard voiced before, certainly not by a former Speaker of the Knesset. He talked about the hardened, militaristic soul that developed in many of us Jews because of unprocessed Holocaust and Exile traumas. “Hurt people hurt people.”

Avrum Burg makes nearly everyone, on the entire Israeli political spectrum, uncomfortable. Which makes him a fascinating subject for a documentary. As a character, he is colorful and charismatic. He runs marathons, expertly sings Hasidic nigunim, and has breakfast with his close friend Bernie Sanders. He takes Arab students to the Holocaust museum in Washington and joins them for a pro-Palestinian rally. He’s complex, funny, warm, serious, and emotionally engaging.

I believe that to be Pro-Palestinian, you have to be Pro-Israeli, and to be Pro-Israeli, you have to be Pro-Palestinian. And I always believed that mutual trauma acknowledgment is the missing key to a solution for this conflict. Finding Avrum Burg was to me, artistically and intellectually, a goldmine. I’ve been a director and editor for many years. I’ve worked on hundreds of projects. I’ve learned how rare it is to find a subject that is so meaningful to me. Avrum’s book hit hard because I know that to love your homeland means you must also look inward with unflinching honesty, understand not only the wrongdoings of your adversaries but your own, and your people’s, and constantly strive to repair them.

“Avrum’s Vision” is a film about that repair. It’s a film about Israel+Palestine 3.0.

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The Filmmakers

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David Jakubovic (director/producer)

David is a director, producer, and editor with extensive experience spanning feature and short documentaries, narrative films, TV series, live concerts, commercials, and branded content. 

Over the course of his career, David has directed and/or edited hundreds of projects, working with leading companies such as Walt Disney, National Geographic, HBO, Hulu, A&E, and IMAX. His credits include directing and Heroes of the Sky: The Mighty Eighth Air Force for Disney Plus, the feature documentary CBD Nation, and PBS’s Live from the Artists Den with Charli XCX. As an editor, his work includes PBS’s Fortunate Sons, History’s Washington and A&E’s The Machines That Built America. David is also known for his expertise in editing concert films, having worked for artists like Adele, Soundgarden, Norah Jones, Charli XCX and dozens of others. Through his production company, he continues to create meaningful content, committed to exceptional filmmaking across genres.

As the founder of New York based Mad Machine Films, he leads the development of a diverse slate of documentaries that tackle wide-ranging topics, rooted in powerful and exclusive intellectual property. Major topics of interest are science, history, culture, politics, Jewish stories, and music.

Adi Navon (producer)

Adi is an accomplished producer of feature-length and short films, both narrative and documentary. Through her production company, Bona Productions, Adi commands a slate of projects involving European and American co-productions. Her first completed feature narrative film, Houses, an Israeli-German co-production, premiered at the 2025 Berlin Film Festival to rave reviews. Houses and several of her other films have been nominated for the Ophir Awards (Israel’s academy awards.) Short films she produced had strong festival runs on the global circuit. 

She’s on the board of the Israeli producers union and Israeli Academy for Film and Television.

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