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You hired me

to serve as your doctor

but you don't allow me to do my job,

so I resign.

Wait, Doctor. Pinhas...

Edelman,

you have a lot of nerve,

but my doctor

won't allow me to get upset.

Why are you looking

at me like that?

No one blames you,

Leonard.

Don't patronize me, do you hear?

Don't patronize me.

If I had to,

I would say it all to him again

despite what you think.

- How do you know what I think?

Don't I know what you are thinking?

Don't I?

Please, tell me

what you are thinking.

I haven't finished cleaning them.

- I want them dirty.

You can soil them again

after I have cleaned them.

Where are you going?

"Exalted and sanctified

is God's great name

"In the world He

has created according to His will

"And may He establish

His kingdom..."

He's not here. I'm telling you,

if he doesn't come to the funeral

something serious must be going on.

- Not now, Damari.

This is no joke.

Our future is up in the air.

Mr. Rutenberg, you shouldn't be

out here in this weather.

Dr. Edelman, with all due respect,

you work for me, not the reverse.

Yes, and I am telling you

that if you go on this way

you will be lying here next to him

very soon.

"May there be much peace from

Heaven

"life for us and all Israel

and say, Amen.

"He who makes peace in His heights

may He make peace upon us

"And upon all Israel

and say, Amen."

We have come here today...

to bid farewell...

"Everything changes.

"You can make a fresh start

with your final breath.

"But what has happened

has happened

"and the water you

once poured into the wine

"cannot be drained off again.

"Everything changes.

"You can make a fresh start

with your final breath."

How long will it take

until he is forgotten?

One year, two?

- We will remember him.

And who will remember us, Becky?

Who will remember us?

Will you marry me?

What?

Will you marry me?

Does that mean yes?

Pinhas, do you remember back in Omni

when you carried me on your back

from one river bank

to the other?

The ice didn't hold us.

- But we made it.

People, Avraham...

People are what is important.

We will place the transformers there

like you said at the start.

Where is everyone?

They do not feel well...

- Go to each room and get them.

I don't care. I want you to go

to each room and gather everyone.

They don't want to come. - Everyone.

- Wait, wait, please.

Meir, Meir

I am requesting

that you postpone the meeting.

This is not a good time.

We all know

Mr. Rutenberg.

That goes without saying.

No need to lie or to betray...

Let him speak!

- But, I ask...

Gentlemen, gentlemen,

Naharaim will continue to be

the best possible place to work.

What? What?

Gentlemen, this is a crock.

You are relying on a man

who is leading you astray.

How can you speak of Mr. Rutenberg?

- I...

Are you not ashamed?

- Do not interfere!

Do not interfere!

I'm telling you, it is all a crock...

Meir says the plant will close down

and I don't believe it, but if so

Mr. Rutenberg should have the guts

to come and tell us outright.

The truth is simple and cruel,

and I say... - Meir

That we should all

go up to the white house.

He is lying there in his bed

while we... - Meir

You are inciting everyone,

it is an act of sabotage!

Madorski, you have always been

and will always remain an ass kisser

Watch your mouth.

- We should go up there,

and not leave

until the old man provides answers.

We'll show him

the true Hebrew workers

who cannot be taken advantage of!

Meir, you don't want to cut off

your nose to spite your face.

Avraham, stay out of it,

this is workers' business.

Whoever wants answers,

let's go, up to the white house.

You don't want to do that,

you will regret it later.

Please! - Let's go.

- Follow him. - Let's go.

Today, with the opening of the

hydro-electric plant on the Jordan,

an important chapter

in the revival of a wasteland,

barren of God and man,

comes to a close.

All those who worked and helped

will be praised by future generations

That is what I plan to say

within a relatively short time,

as soon as we finish

repairing the damages.

What will historians

say about this speech?

They will say that they were simply

empty words. - Precisely.

They will say that they were simply

empty words. Thank you, Meir.

We all know that it is not the words

or the turbines

or even Pinhas Rutenberg.

They are not what got us electricity

But rather...

Ben David of the engines.

Riskin. Where is Riskin?

Riskin the surveyor.

Ofania..."Who wants herring?"

Everyone here

is asking himself today

what the hell have we been wasting

all these difficult days on?

All the long nights?

The months?

The years? For what?

Why do we do it?

We do it so that we may

touch life, grab onto life.

To grasp it with our own hands.

With everything we've got.

You and I, in this place, together

must grab hold of life...

with all we've got.

And then some.

Because we have nothing else.

Grab it!

Two days after the flood

Pinhas Rutenberg left for London

to raise capital

to repair the damages.

The Naharaim Station

opened a year later

and furnished

electricity to the entire area

until

the War of Independence in 1948.

Pinhas Rutenberg died in 1942

at the age of 62.

He left the power enterprise

to his younger brother, Avraham.

"Rutenberg"

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