The Gatekeepers

The Gatekeepers (2012) is Dror Moreh's documentary you can watch online on iFILM. Six former chiefs of the Shin Bet — Israel's internal security service — sit down on camera for the first time and talk.

Ami Ayalon, Avraham Shalom, Yaakov Peri, Carmi Gillon, Avi Dichter and Yuval Diskin each spent years deciding who to arrest, who to follow, whose car to hit from the air. On screen they walk through specific operations and argue with their own choices, weighing security against the moral cost. Moreh stitches their testimony to archival footage and stark CGI reconstructions of targeted strikes.

The film landed an Oscar nomination for Best Documentary Feature and set off a storm at home, where six insiders speaking this plainly about counterterrorism was almost unheard of. Watch it for the rare thing it offers: not politicians, but the men who actually pulled the trigger. Stream The Gatekeepers (2012) online on iFILM.