Rock the Casbah

Rock the Casbah (Hebrew: רוק בקסבה) is a 2012 Israeli drama film. Title The title is drawn from a punk rock song, "Rock the Casbah", that was wildly popular among young Israelis at the time. Synopsis A unit of new recruits sent to patrol Gaza during the First Intifada in 1989. A washing machine is deliberately pushed from the roof of a building as the patrol moves past, killing one of the soldiers. The perpetrator cannot be found. Four of the young soldiers are assigned to uncomfortable, boring, surveillance duty atop the roof, interacting with the Arab family that lives in the building. There is a dual focus lives in fear of being accused of collaborating with the Israeli soldiers, and on the young soldiers: sensitive, clean-cut Tomer (Yon Tumarkin); Haim (Iftach Rave) whose crude complaining about the food and his intestinal distress gives the film some laughs; feisty, hotheaded Aki (Roy Nik) who challenges the group's leader, marijuana-smoking Ariel (Yotam Ishay), who will muster out of his mandatory army service if he survives the next few weeks.