An allegorical comedy about an angst-ridden hypochondriac, a half-Arab, half-Jewish Israeli-Mosh to his friends, Moshe to his mother, Mussa to his father-Yom Yom is the second of Gitai's trilogy about cities. Haifa, the city of Gitai's birth, an industrial city on the Mediterranean coast with a large Arab population, is the backdrop to Mosh's humdrum life-working in his parents' bakery, married, with a mistress. When his Arab Israeli father must decide whether to sell the last of the family's land, the characters' absurd yet complex situation parallels the reality of Israeli existence. Yom Yom received an award for Best Feature Film at the 1998 Jerusalem Film Festival and was cited for its "personal, ironic, and intense approach to the relationships which reveal the structure of Israeli society." The film employs some of the bold innovation of the French New Wave, as when Mosh's cousin, a traffic controller, watches the characters on surveillance videos.