One of the most unusual episodes in the annals of the Arab-Israeli conflict took place in the early 1980s when the former queen of Jordan was directly drawn into the mechanics of a prisoner exchange between Israel and the Palestinians.

Duki Dor’s intriguing documentary, Royal Swap, lays it out in voluminous detail. It will be screened at the Toronto Jewish Film Festival, which runs from June 4-14.

During Israel’s invasion of Lebanon in 1982, eight Israeli soldiers were captured by Palestinian forces from Fatah and the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine: General Command. Fatah was under the command of Yasser Arafat, the chairman of the Palestine Liberation Organization. The Popular Front was led by Ahmed Jibril.

These incidents are richly documented through interviews with several of the former captives.

Meanwhile, as the Israeli army pushed into the southern Lebanese city of Sidon, Salah Tamari, a........

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