Confirmed feminist, member of the association for the struggle for women's right, she also militates in protest groups against Palestinian occupation. Her movies represent well her political actions. They are portraits of women who struggle for their dignity in a man's world, divided in classes, ruled by the military. Keren Yedaya studied at the Camera Obscura School in Tel-Aviv. Her school film Elinor (1994) describes daily humiliations against a young Israeli army girl. In her second short movie, Lulu (1998), she deals for the first time with the subject of prostitution. In 2000, she shoots her third short movie Les Dessous. She directs her first feature Or-Mon trésor in 2003, and wins the camera d'or and the Grand Prix de la Semaine de la Critique at the Cannes film Festival in 2004. In May 2009, Jaffa is presented the Official Selection at the Cannes Film Festival.
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