Coldplayâs Up&Up video won the MTV Visual Effects Award this week. The Israeli directors of the video clip with more than 75 million views on YouTube are the Israelis Gal Muggia and Vania Heymann. âThese are pretty prestigious awards in the world of music videos,â Muggia said. The artists used the âcompositingâ technique that visually… […]
Israeli artist Sigalit Landauâs âSalt Brideâ photography series is currently exhibited at the renowned Marlborough Contemporary Gallery in London. Propelling the magic of the salty lake to a new artistic level, Landau placed dresses for three months into the Dead Sea. The result is stunning: while the crystals cover each dress entirely, the shapes are… […]
Israeli US-actress Nathalie Portman is not only supposed to be one of the most beautiful Israeli women, she is now starring for the first time in Hebrew! However, in order to brush up her American-accented pronunciation, she had to learn an outdated version of Hebrew, namely spoken in Jerusalemâs 1940s. For Amos Ozâ film adaptation… […]
Promoting for a good cause is part of every celebrityâs career and the same is true for Wonder Woman Gal Gadot. The 31-year old actress recently starred in âBatman v Superman: Dawn of Justiceâ and is to continue as main actress in Wonder Woman next year. However, being an Israeli citizen, Gal served in the… […]
While the opening days of the Olympic Games were disappointing for the Israeli team, the country can be excited about its Olympics success nevertheless: an economic success that is. One of the most important apps for the games is Israel’s Moovit, which is responsible for navigation and transportation between the different sport arenas in Brazil.… […]
For many Jews in the Diaspora finding a life partner that shares their religion is like winning the lottery twice! Especially if you plan on raising your kids in the Jewish faith it helps that a possible wife or husband shares your belief and value system â but what if you know already every single… […]
Some phenomena are slowly rising and suddenly discussed all over â this is the case with the impressive number of 20 000 to 30 000 Israelis who are residing in Berlin. The reasons are various, from personal relationships, lower living costs, more diversified career options, a flourishing art scene and being swept away by a… […]
The third Holocaust commemorative âRide for the Livingâ in Poland is about to become a huge success. While only 15 cyclists signed up for the first ride three years ago, last yearâs ride listed 85 cyclists. This year, over 150 participants between 16 and 81 from eight countries are joining the 88 kilometre stretch from… […]
Or Sinaiâs drama âAnnaâ won the first place in the Cinéfondation student film competition in Cannes while Asaph Polonsky won a Criticsâ Week award for his comedy-drama âOne Week and a Dayâ. Both films feature Evgenia Dudina as main actress. Sinai, who graduated from the Sam Spiegel Film and Television School in Jerusalem, depicts a… […]
Glamorous news for the third Israeli Genesis Prize award ceremony: Oscar-winner Dame Helen Mirren is going to host the âJewish Nobelâ at the end of June in Jerusalem. This yearâs laureate is 16-time Grammy Award winning violinist Izhak Perlman. Last yearâs laureate was Michael Douglas, and the year before Michael R. Bloomberg â which led… […]
A new exhibition on popular Habima Square in Tel Aviv sheds light on the stories of eleven soccer players in the Third Reich. These sportsmen were excluded from the professional leagues, humiliated and some of them deported to concentration camps. âIt is significant to have this exhibition on such a central square just days before… […]
It has proven to become a significant week for photography lovers: The Israel National photo collection has been uploaded and is now available online. The collection comprises around 160 000 photos, made available in high resolution and for free. Among the impressions are gems, such as Israeli President Efraim Katzir kissing Golda Meir in 1975… […]
Dschinji is a foody. Or is there any other description for a dedicated Whiskas-aficionado on four paws? There you go. However, today we faced a problem that was new to me. Firstly, I had run out of cat food. All right. And secondly, it is Passover. You might wonder, gentle reader, how these two obviously… […]
The maestro sits. This is a rather rare occasion for the lively conductor who naturally takes this place at the front of the orchestra. Yet, this time, he is facing questions not instruments. It is surely going to be a musical birthday when world-renowned conductor Maestro Zubin Mehta turns 80 on April 29th this month.… […]
The British Broadcasting Corporation BBC has bought a script from Israelâs Keshet International and is now showing six episodes of the drama series âThe A Wordâ. It is a first that a British channel bought an Israeli script, even though the most popular Israeli TV export has been ‘Prisoners of War’ which was turned into… […]
This is a musical tour from the beginning to the end: A month before the 61 Eurovision Song Contest in Stockholm is taking place on May 14, 20 international artists are invited to a three-day-trip across Israel. The artists are: Albania – Eneda Tarifa Austria – Zoë Azerbaijan – Samra Belarus – Ivan Bulgaria –… […]
Jerusalemâs next prestige project is on its way: at the beginning of this week, President Reuven Rivlin symbolically laid the first cornerstone for the country`s new National Library. The building, due to be opened in 2020, is designed and carried out by the Swiss architects Herzog and de Meuron and the Israeli architects Amir Mann-Ami… […]
The India-Israel bilateral is more than the diplomatic ties shared by the two governments. The two countries enjoy a connection that goes back 2000 years. Jennifer Bligh speaks to Jaideep Sarkar who served as Indiaâs Ambassador to Israel until March 2016: Q: Most that people know about Israel-India relations is that India is a great… […]
The apartment in downtown Tel Aviv could feature in any architecture magazine as the quintessential artistâs digs. Two cats doze picturesquely amid piles of photographs, books, scripts. At the big round table sits Sara von Schwarze against a backdrop of trees swaying in the wind visible out the window behind her. The actress is very… […]
