The documentary is produced by filmmaker and TBN president Matt Crouch.
QUICK FACTS:
- Former Secretary of State Mike Pompeo and former ambassador to Israel David Friedman are making a documentary on Route 60 meant as a “challenge to the viewer,” Friedman said.
- The documentary makers said they chose the location because “this is where the Bible happened, and it’s still here.”
- Documentary filmmaker and TBN President Matt Crouch is producing the film, which Friedman says has a theme of education.
- “At every place along the way, we explained what happened – anything from Jesus’s birth to the burial of Rachel along the side of the road,” said Friedman.
FRIEDMAN ON TRYING TO “PUT YOURSELF BACK IN TIME”:
- “As you stand in some of these spots, you think back to the days when there were pilgrimages to Jerusalem, over a period of a thousand years,” Friedman said as he sat in his Jerusalem apartment.
- “You try to put yourself back in time and think of the ancient life of the Jewish nation and what it was like,” said Friedman, who just completed a number of days of filming with Pompeo.
- “We were deeply moved by all these places,” Friedman added.
BACKGROUND:
- The documentary begins in Nazareth and ends in Beersheba, taking the literal paths mentioned in Scripture.
- The route begins and ends in sovereign Israeli territory, but will also include areas under Israeli military control outside sovereign Israel, known either as Judea and Samaria or Area C of the West Bank.
