ABOUT THIS EPISODE
In a small Israeli village in the 1980s, three Arab brothers are born blind. When a payphone is installed at the end of the block, the brothers discover they can use their supersensitive hearing to manipulate the lines to do their bidding, the first step in what will become the largest telecom fraud in Israeli history.
JOURNALIST: YOCHAI MAITAL
EDITING: THOMAS CURRY
MUSIC, SCORING & SOUND-DESIGN: DOMINIC GOZO
VOICE: ALI SULIMAN
REPORTING BY: ADAM BIZANSKI
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United States
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