 they were Israeli/Mizrahi and Diasporic/Ashkenazi at one and the same time, thereby satisfying the political, sociological, and psychological needs of both Mizrahi and Ashkenazi audiences in Israel.He believes eleven films produced between 1964 and 1977 make up the corpus of the genre.Bourekas films were highly successful in Israel during the 1960s and 1970s, but were also criticized for being shallow.