Pierre Rehov
Pierre Rehov · Arts & Literature
French-Israeli documentary filmmaker and novelist — Silent Exodus, Suicide Killers, Pogrom(s) — filming what standard Middle East coverage leaves out.
1952, Alger, Algérie
Alger, Paris, Tel-Aviv
Pierre Rehov is recognized among Israeli contributors to Arts & Literature — French-Israeli documentary filmmaker and novelist — Silent Exodus, Suicide Killers, Pogrom(s) — filming what standard Middle East coverage leaves out.
Algiers
Pierre Rehov — the pen name under which he publishes — was born in 1952 in Algiers, then a French département, into a Jewish family. His school was the target of a terror attack by the FLN, and in 1961, at about nine years old, he fled to France with his family in the exodus of the pieds-noirs — the wound his camera would spend a lifetime answering.
Paris: law, magazines, novels
In France he read law at Paris-Assas, wrote for cinema magazines and went on to direct several magazines, one of them satirical. The novelist in him never left: Cellules blanches (Albin Michel, 2008), Tu seras si jolie (Belfond, 2018), TED, Beyond Red Lines (2020) and 88 (2021), down to 7 Octobre — La Riposte, written with Stéphane Simon (Fayard, 2025); his by-line appears in Le Figaro, Valeurs actuelles and The Jerusalem Post.
The other side of the lens
When the Second Intifada broke out in 2000, he took up the camera and launched Contre Champs, a video-magazine made to film what standard coverage of the Middle East leaves out; he also took a diploma at the institute for terrorism research of the Herzliya interdisciplinary centre in Israel. Then came the films: The Road to Jenin (2003) re-examined a battle; Silent Exodus (2004) told the exodus of the Jews from Arab lands — his own story; From the River to the Sea won at the Liberty Film Festival in 2006; Suicide Killers (2006) was filmed among failed suicide bombers in Israeli prisons; First Comes Saturday, Then Comes Sunday (2007) and Holy Land: Christians in Peril looked at the region's minorities; The Path to Darkness (2011), War Crimes in Gaza (2015), Unveiling Jerusalem (2017), Lies and Tears (2022) and Pogrom(s) (2024) followed.
Tel Aviv
In 2008 he left France for the United States, citing the climate of antisemitism, and in November 2011 he moved to Tel Aviv, where he lives and works with his wife Sharon, who comes from the Jewish community of India. The boy driven out of Algiers films, from Israel, the stories he believes the world is not shown.
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French-Israeli documentary filmmaker and novelist — Silent Exodus, Suicide Killers, Pogrom(s) — filming what standard Middle East coverage leaves out.
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