Holy Blood

This is the story of the holy places where history stands still. To this day these locations provoke the harshest of wars. They provide the headlines in the media of today and tomorrow and determine the agenda in the Middle East. This four-part series sheds new light on the ongoing bloody conflict.

The Temple Mount is the hot-spot for conflict and holds the most potential for a blow-out.

Biblical tradition identifies the general area of Shechem as the resting-place of the biblical patriarch Joseph. This film illuminates the complex logistics of just one sacred location.

According to legend, this is where Patriarch Jacob's wife Rachel was buried. Jews, and especially Jewish women consider this to be a holy site. In this unlikely turn of events, Jewish women are fighting for their right to pray and carve out a space of their own. The efforts of the conflict are not only with the Palestinian neighbors, but with the Jewish men who seek to control this holy site.