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Amos Gitai Born in Haifa in 1950. While he was a student in architecture, Amos Gitai joined the Yom Kippur war in 1973 as a reserve duty officer, and served as part of a helicopter rescue team. While serving during the war, he started filming with a 8mm camera. His helicopter was shot down by a Syrian missile. Among the 7 crews on board, 6 of them survived, including Gitai himself, who was inspired by this traumatic experience to quit architecture and move to filmmaking. He made a documentary on this incident and his fellow survivors, "Kippur: War Memories" in 1993, then a fictional recreation of it "Kippur" in 2000. After his first feature-length documentary "House" was censored by Israeli TV (for which it was produced) Gitai moved to France where he based himself for the next ten years. In 1993, following prime minister Yitzhak Rabin starting the peace process with Palestine, Gitai and his family moved back to live in his native town of Haifa. Tday he is living in Israel, France and the USA.
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