The winner of the 2017 Corus-Hot Docs Forum Pitch Prize, Israeli director Michal Weitsβ Blue Box links her family story linked to bitter debates about Israelβs founding. The filmmakerβs great-grandfather, Joseph (Yosef) Weitz emigrated to Palestine from Eastern Europe as an 18-year-old labourer in 1908. In the 1930s, he became director of the non-profit Jewish