'' Hill 24 Does n't Answer '' ( ) , the first feature film produced in Israel , is a 1955 Israeli war film directed by Thorold Dickinson . It was entered into the 1955 Cannes Film Festival . The plot revolves around the personal stories of a number of soldiers who are on their way to defend a strategic hill overlooking the road to Jerusalem . The plot revolves around four soldiers : James Finnegan , a British policeman ( who fell in love with a Palestinian Jewish woman named Miriam Miszrahi ) , Allan Goodman , Esther Hadassi ( a Yemeni Jewish woman ) , and David Airan . Their captain Yehuda Berger is a concentration camp survivor who arrived in Palestine illegally during the British Mandate period and joined the Jewish Brigade group to help other Jews make '' Aliyah Bet ''
1955 Cannes Film Festival
1955 Cannes Film Festival
Hill 24 Doesn't Answer