Collaborate
"Collaborate" tells the story of Palestinian collaborators with the State of Israel who were exposed, ostracized by their people, and are now trying to find their way back to their homes, their people, and their identity: Bahaa, a informant who is released from Palestinian prison and flees to Israel in order to build a home for his new family; Abed, a senior source in the Shin Bet who, after many years living in Israel, is searching for a way back to the Palestinian village he left as a child; and Younes, a land collaborator on his deathbed, trying to create a new future for his family. The personal story is intertwined with the national story, in which the land brokers function as instruments of war in the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. This story is told in the voices of senior security officials.
Episodes
Younes is on his deathbed after a severe stroke. From his living room, he watches live feeds from security cameras installed around the house as a precaution, after he and his children were attacked numerous times. Younes wants to sell the house and find a safer place for his family, but no buyers are coming forward. "We are to blame for what happened, we brought shame upon ourselves," he tells his son, summing up his life's work—decades of helping Jews purchase Palestinian land in East Jerusalem.
Bahaa, an informant from a small village in the West Bank, flees to Israel after seven years in a Palestinian prison for aiding the enemy. Here, he tries to locate the Israeli police officer he worked for until he was exposed and imprisoned, but the officer rejects him. When the Israeli authorities are about to deport him too, despite the danger of death that surrounds him the moment he returns to Palestinian Authority control, Baha takes his fate into his own hands – crossing the border to rescue his family who remained in the territories.
The story of Abed, the son of a prominent Hamas and Fatah family, who tied his fate to Israel from his youth and became one of the most prominent spies working for Israel.
