Pierre Rehov

With more than 10 documentaries to his credit, Rehov made serious waves with his politically incorrect stance. Even though his work is sometimes accused of being one sided, it has been proven that all his films, as passionate as they seem, are based on actual facts. Rehov was born to a Jewish family from Algiers, when Algeria was still a French department. He experienced terrorism when he was seven. In the sixties, Pierre Rehov left Algeria with his family. They became a part of as many as one million French fleeing Algeria, which was to become independent the next year. He studied law in Paris, before becoming a journalist, mainly in the film industry, under his real name, which cannot be disclosed for security reasons. In his film about Jews expelled from Arab countries, ( Silent Exodus ) he chose not to describe his own community from Algeria, since the Algerian war was a problem involving France more than the Jewish community. Although he recalls that Jews in Algeria, had been suffering of Muslim antisemitism for decades, when Algeria was part of France. Rehov was not involved in the Middle East conflict until 2000, when he witnessed the death of Muhammad AL-Durrah on French television, and doubted its authenticity. He, and others, requested an investigation into the murder of AL-Durrah. He claimed that it was Palestinian gunfire that killed the child. His investigation led the B'Na Brith, an international Jewish NGO, to sue French Television for having aired fake news leading to violence. Since then, he has been working mostly in Arab countries, including in Iraq, where he was embedded in the US army as a free lance reporter in January/February 2008. Rehov claims that every reporter must appear to be pro-Palestinian to work in the Palestinian territories safely and this, among other things, creates systematic anti-Israeli bias. In January 2008, Rehov was embedded in the 4/1 US cavalry in Durah, where he filmed hours of dailies, showing the situation in Iraq from the field. Those images are part of his last documentary The Path to Darkness. In 2008 Rehov moved to the United States due to what he described as a growing climate of antisemitism in France and the rest of Europe. Three years later, in November 2011, he moved to Tel Aviv, Israel, where he now lives. Rehov lives with Sharon Yambem, a Jewish immigrant to Israel from India. He has a son, who lives in Hong Kong and a daughter.