Argentine-Israeli filmmakers Jorge Gurvich and Shlomo Slutzky travel to Argentina to speak to those who have stayed behind.

When people ask why he doesn't move to Israel, he responds: “Argentina is the best country in the world.” Argentina has a long history of anti-Semitism[clarification needed] and political unrest, which came to a head in the early ‘90s when attacks on its Israeli embassy and Jewish community center left 116 dead, most of them Jews.

But now, more than ten years after the attacks, and with the country’s economy on the rebound, Argentina’s Jewish community is staying put.

Many see aliyah as an unwise tradeoff; while Argentine Jews exchange anti-Semitic slurs in the shadow of the attacks, life in Israel demands the far more immediate and permanent sacrifices of a country that is perpetually at war.

Israelis believe that “in order to be Jewish you need to live in Israel, to sacrifice yourself and to give up your children for the defense of the country,” says Laura, whose husband was killed in the community center attack.