WHY DOES company commander Yossi (Ohad Knoller) insist that his second-in-command, Jagger (Yehuda Levi), accompany him on a routine task away from the other soldiers? The answer comes soon enough when ...

Yossi, a paunchy doctor in Tel Aviv, is a walking casualty of war. Ten years earlier, in the army, his handsome lover, nicknamed Jagger, was killed in a botched ambush at the Lebanese border, where ...

And yet, there is virtually no private equity available. “There is money coming from the funds and the TV channels — right now basically the only real money available,” notes Israeli critic Dan ...

For the past two decades, Eytan Fox has been Israel’s foremost chronicler of gay life — and the homoeroticized military — in the land of milk and honey. With Yossi, he has pulled off the rare feat of ...

Take a tragic gay romance, set it in the Israeli army, and you’ve got a recipe for outrage—or so it would seem. But Yossi & Jagger, which opens at Film Forum this week (see review), sparked a very ...

For the past two decades, Eytan Fox has been Israel’s foremost chronicler of gay life—and the homoeroticized military—in the land of milk and honey. With Yossi, he has pulled off the rare feat of ...

Yossi is a pair of films directed by Eytan Fox about soldiers at the Israel – Lebanon border who try to find some peace and solace from the daily routine of war, with the follow up film picking up the ...