This classic of Israeli cinema was nominated for best international film at the Academy Awards. Like Peter Sellers’s Chauncey Gardner and Inspector Clouseau, the policeman Azoulay (as played by Shaike Ophir) neutralizes the cynicisms of the classist para-military bureaucracy that controls his life and future through his bumbling guilelessness. Kishon stealthily skewers and celebrates the vast and chaotic diversity of this young country.
— Jake Paltrow