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    Review: The brilliant, incorrigible 'Ahed's Knee' takes furious aim at contemporary Israel

    by Justin Chang, Los Angeles Times Apr 04, 2022 3 minutes
    From left, actress Nur Fibak, director Nadav Lapid and actor Avshalom Pollak during a photocall for the Israeli film "Ha'Berech" at the Cannes Film Festival on July 8, 2021, in Cannes, France.

    In December 2017, 16-year-old Palestinian activist Ahed Tamimi was videotaped slapping and punching two armed Israeli soldiers during a heated protest outside her home in the West Bank village of Nabi Salih. The video went viral, and Tamimi was arrested and sentenced to eight months in prison. Around that time, Bezalel Smotrich, a member of Israel's legislature, tweeted that he wished the teenager had "gotten a bullet, at least in the kneecap. That would have put her under house arrest for the rest of her life."

    The fallout from that furious confrontation has inspired the title of a

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