Film and televisionרחל שור

Rachel Szor

Rachel Szor is an Israeli filmmaker, journalist and activist who co-directed the Oscar-winning documentary No Other Land.

born 1994Co-directing No Other LandThe documentary NAZAInvestigative journalism and activism

Occupation: filmmaker, camera operator, film director, activist

Rachel Szor was born in 1994 in Jerusalem

Rachel Szor was born in 1994 in Tel Aviv. Her father Henri is a psychiatrist and her mother Nili is a clinical psychologist.

She attended the Thelma Yellin High School for the Arts. In 2017 she took part in a four-month program at the Arava Institute for Environmental Studies.

With Basel Adra, Yuval Abraham and Hamdan Ballal, she co-directed and co-filmed No Other Land, about Adra's struggle against settler violence and displacement in Masafer Yatta. The group had no prior filmmaking experience and worked on it for about 5 years. The film premiered at the 74th Berlin International Film Festival in 2024 and won the Academy Award for Best Documentary Feature Film in 2025.

In 2026 she co-directed NAZA with Abraham, a film about the killing of Palestinian civilians in Gaza, built on interviews with 24 Israeli soldiers and intelligence officers. It won the Special Jury Prize at the 83rd Venice International Film Festival. Culture minister Miki Zohar then called for revoking her citizenship, and in October 2026 she said death threats kept her in London.