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Alon Bar
Alon Bar ( he, אַלּוֹן בָּר; born April 2, 1966) is an Israeli-American filmmaker. He wrote the award-winning feature film "Aaron Cohen's Debt,". which he later adapted to the award-winning American screenplay "Under Arrest". He directed, wrote and produced the award-winning documentary film ''Exodus: A journey to the mountain of God'', which was the first Israeli film ever to participate a film festival in an Arab country. He is a graduate of the American Film Institute AFI Conservatory, Conservatory with a Master Degree in screenwriting. He holds a Bachelor Degree in film and television from Tel Aviv University. He participated iSOURCES 2 the screenwriting laboratory of the European Union'Media IIinitiative and taught documentary filmmaking at UCLA extension. In 1993, while still a student in Tel Aviv, he became the protégé of director David Perlov, a laureate of the Israel Prize. Following their first project, "Tel Katzir 1993," he collaborated as a researcher, w ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kibbutz
A kibbutz ( he, קִבּוּץ / , lit. "gathering, clustering"; plural: kibbutzim / ) is an intentional community in Israel that was traditionally based on agriculture. The first kibbutz, established in 1909, was Degania. Today, farming has been partly supplanted by other economic branches, including industrial plants and high-tech enterprises. Kibbutzim began as utopian communities, a combination of socialism and Zionism. In recent decades, some kibbutzim have been privatized and changes have been made in the communal lifestyle. A member of a kibbutz is called a ''kibbutznik'' ( he, קִבּוּצְנִיק / ; plural ''kibbutznikim'' or ''kibbutzniks''). In 2010, there were 270 kibbutzim in Israel with population of 126,000. Their factories and farms account for 9% of Israel's industrial output, worth US$8 billion, and 40% of its agricultural output, worth over US$1.7 billion. Some kibbutzim had also developed substantial high-tech and military industries. For exampl ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
