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You can watch The Honourable Woman (2014) for free on Kanopy.

Nessa Stein, the daughter of a Zionist arms procurer who as a child witnessed his assassination. Now an adult, Nessa inherits her father's company and changes course from supplying arms to laying data cabling networks between Israel and the West Bank. Her efforts to reconcile the Israelis and Palestinians lands her an appointment to the House of Lords and creates an international political maelstrom.

This political thriller swaps traditional battlefield combat for the quiet, high-stakes tension of fiber-optic cables and corporate diplomacy. A woman’s attempt to pivot a lethal family legacy toward peace triggers a dangerous collision of espionage and ancestral vendettas.

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