WHY DOES company commander Yossi (Ohad Knoller) insist that his second-in-command, Jagger (Yehuda Levi), accompany him on a routine task away from the other soldiers? The answer comes soon enough when ...

For the past two decades, Eytan Fox has been Israel’s foremost chronicler of gay life — and the homoeroticized military — in the land of milk and honey. With Yossi, he has pulled off the rare feat of ...