Rock the Casbah (Hebrew: רוק בקסבה) is a 2012 Israeli war drama film co-written and directed by Yariv Horowitz.

A washing machine is deliberately pushed from the roof of a building as the patrol moves past, killing one of the soldiers.

Four of the young soldiers are assigned to uncomfortable, boring, surveillance duty atop the roof, interacting with the Arab family that lives in the building.

[1] [2][3] There is a dual focus lives in fear of being accused of collaborating with the Israeli soldiers, and on the young soldiers: sensitive, clean-cut Tomer (Yon Tumarkin); Haim (Iftach Rave) whose crude complaining about the food and his intestinal distress gives the film some laughs; feisty, hotheaded Aki (Roy Nik) who challenges the group's leader, marijuana-smoking Ariel (Yotam Ishay), who will muster out of his mandatory army service if he survives the next few weeks.

[6] However, Dan Fainaru of Screen Daily argued that the film "attempts to offer an even-handed portrait of their confrontation with the Arab population, but ends up as an impressionistic report rather than a full scale dramatic experience",[7] and Alissa Simon of Variety added that "the script fails to offer something viewers haven’t seen before.