The preeminent wordsmith Sorkin, whose recent credits include Being The Ricardos, The Trial of the Chicago 7 and Broadway’s To Kill A Mockingbird, will script the story of Al Schwimmer, a post-WWII arms smuggler who helped create Israel’s air force, which helped the fledgling country survive.

Hollywood giants team up to make movie about Al Schwimmer, an American WWII veteran who helped to found the Air Force by smuggling warplanes into Palestine in 1948 The post Warner Bros, Aaron Sorkin to tell story of ‘father’ of IAF appeared first on The Times of Israel.

Al Schwimmer was the man behind the early military might of Israel and his story is becoming a movie from Warner Bros. and Aaron Sorkin