Beit Zvi School Of Art
Beit Zvi School for the Performing Arts, and a Theater ( he, בית צבי) is an acting school, and a theater located in the Tel Aviv District city of Ramat Gan, Israel, established in 1950. History Beit Zvi is the country's first theater school . It was founded by Haim Gamzu. Former director Gary Bilu established a theater for Beit Zvi graduates and mounted plays not put on by the repertory theaters. . The Beit Zvi Theater is, until now, one of the most popular theaters in Israel, and the most famous actors in Israel have performed at the Beit Zvi Theater. It has five large venues which house over a dozen of productions a year. Beit Zvi's building was designed by Joseph Klarwein. Beit Zvi offers a three-year program with an emphasis on acting in real productions. Micah Lewensohn, appointed head of the school in 2009, is the former director of the Israel Festival. Lewensohn plans to institute a BA degree and a program in television studies. Notable alumni and actors at the ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Tzufit Grant
Tzufit Grant (also spelled Tzofit; he, צופית גרנט, born 13 November 1964) is an Israeli actress and former host of the television show '' Milkshake''. She was born in Petah Tikva, Israel. Career Grant has acted in several TV shows and films, among them '' Matok VeMar'' and ''Distortion''. In 2011 she started hosting a television documentary series called ''Lost'' (Hebrew: ''אבודים''), which helps reunite family members that have lost contact with one another, including adopted children and their biological parents. The show often involves international travel and ends with dramatic revelations. Personal life Grant was married to Avram Grant and they have a son and daughter. Since 2020, she has been in a relationship with singer and creator Shuli Rand Shalom "Shuli" Rand (also spelled Shuly; he, שולי רנד; born 8 February 1962) is an Israeli film actor, writer, and singer. He is a Breslover Hasid and is best known in the English-speaking world for his ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Film Schools In Israel
A film also called a movie, motion picture, moving picture, picture, photoplay or (slang) flick is a work of visual art that simulates experiences and otherwise communicates ideas, stories, perceptions, feelings, beauty, or atmosphere through the use of moving images. These images are generally accompanied by sound and, more rarely, other sensory stimulations. The word "cinema", short for cinematography, is often used to refer to filmmaking and the film industry, and to the art form that is the result of it. Recording and transmission of film The moving images of a film are created by photographing actual scenes with a motion-picture camera, by photographing drawings or miniature models using traditional animation techniques, by means of CGI and computer animation, or by a combination of some or all of these techniques, and other visual effects. Before the introduction of digital production, series of still images were recorded on a strip of chemically sensitiz ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Schools In Israel
A school is an educational institution designed to provide learning spaces and learning environments for the teaching of students under the direction of teachers. Most countries have systems of formal education, which is sometimes compulsory. In these systems, students progress through a series of schools. The names for these schools vary by country (discussed in the '' Regional terms'' section below) but generally include primary school for young children and secondary school for teenagers who have completed primary education. An institution where higher education is taught is commonly called a university college or university. In addition to these core schools, students in a given country may also attend schools before and after primary (elementary in the U.S.) and secondary (middle school in the U.S.) education. Kindergarten or preschool provide some schooling to very young children (typically ages 3–5). University, vocational school, college or seminary may be availabl ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Israeli Culture
The roots of the culture of Israel developed long before modern Israel's independence in 1948, and traces back to ancient Israel ( 1000 BCE). It reflects Jewish culture, Jewish history in the diaspora, the ideology of the Zionist movement that developed in the late 19th century, as well as the history and traditions of the Arab Israeli population and ethnic minorities that live in Israel, among them Druze, Circassians, Armenians and others. Israel is the birthplace of the Jewish culture, and encompasses the foundations of many Jewish cultural characteristics, including philosophy, literature, poetry, art, mythology, folklore, mysticism and festivals; as well as Judaism, which was also fundamental to the creation of Christianity and Islam."Upon the foundation of Judaism, two civilizations centered on monotheistic religion emerged, Christianity and Islam. To these civilizations, the Jews added a leaven of astonishing creativity in business, medicine, letters, science, the ar ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Yosef Shiloach
Yosef Shiloach ( he, יוסף שילוח; July 9, 1941 – January 3, 2011) was an Israeli actor. Biography Yosef Shiloach was born in Kurdistan. He immigrated to Israel at the age of nine.Israeli actor Yosef Shiloach dies at 69 after long battle with cancer Haaretz January 3, 2011 Shiloach was one of the first graduates of the acting school. In 1964, Shiloach appeared in his first film, ''Mishpachat Simchon.'' He went on to appear in many Israeli films, especially the Bo ...
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Khalifa Natour
Khalifa Natour ( ar, خليفة ناطور) is an Israeli Arab actor. Born in Qalansawe in 1965-1966, Natour attended Beit Zvi School for the Performing Arts where he played Othello and Timon of Athens (among other roles) in student productions. He graduated from Beit Zvi in 1991. Since then he has performed on the stage and in films, both inside and outside Israel. His film credits include ''The Band's Visit'' (2007), ''The Other Son'' (2012), and '' Tikkun'' (2015). He has one of the lead roles in season three (2020) of the Netflix television series ''Fauda ''Fauda'' (, from ''fawḍā'', meaning "chaos") is an Israeli television series developed by Lior Raz and Avi Issacharoff drawing on their experiences in the Israel Defense Forces. The series premiered on February 15, 2015. It tells the sto ...''. References External links Living people Year of birth missing (living people) Beit Zvi School for the Performing Arts alumni {{palestine-actor-stub ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Rama Messinger
Rama Messenger ( he, רמה מסינגר; September 3, 1968 – August 18, 2015) was an Israeli actress, voice actress and singer. Biography Messinger was born and raised in Ramat Ef'al, Israel. She was named after her maternal uncle, Rami Gil (Mogilnik) who was an Israeli Air Force pilot who fell a year before she was born. She studied at the Thelma Yellin High School of Performing Arts. In the Israel Defense Forces, she served in the Southern Command Variety Ensemble. After her discharge, she studied at the Beit Zvi Acting School. Theater career Messinger played important roles in many plays in many theaters across Israel, but mainly at the national theater Habima, in plays such as ''Solo, Halon Balahot, Hops Ve Hopale'' (1991), ''Three Sisters, Hamefakeah Ba, Kukuriku, Sirano, Kaner Al Hagag'' (2008), and ''Meshartam Shel Shnei Adonim'' – a role for which Messinger won a Rosenblum Prize for Performing Arts and a Tamara Rubins Prize. At Haifa Theater she performed in ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Ayelet Menahemi
Ayelet Menahemi ( he, איילת מנחמי; born 1963) is an Israeli film director, producer, writer, editor, and actress. Life and Works Menahemi was born in Tel Aviv in 1963. She attended Beit Zvi School of Stage and Cinematic Arts, graduating with honors in 1985. In 1986, she directed the award-winning 45-minute film, "Crows," followed by her first two feature films, "The Skippers 3" (1991) and "Tel Aviv Stories" (1992). Other films directed by Menahemi include ''Noodle'' (2007) and ''It's About Time,'' (2001),IsraelFilmCenter.org. which she also produced, and she acted in ''Ben Gurion Airport'' (1997). She wrote the screenplays for ''Noodle'' and ''Tel Aviv Stories.''< Menahemi's work also includes numerous television commercials, short fiction films, documentaries and ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Samuel Maoz
Samuel Maoz (Hebrew: שמואל מעוז; born c. 1962) is an Israeli film director. His 2009 film, ''Lebanon'' won the Golden Lion at the 66th Venice International Film Festival. He also won the award for Best Screenplay for Lebanon at the Asia Pacific Screen Awards in 2010. Biography Shmuel (Shmuel) Maoz was born in Tel Aviv. At the age of 20, he was a gunner in one of the first Israeli tanks to enter Lebanon in the 1982 Lebanon War.. After the war, he trained as a cameraman at the Beit Zvi theater school, and did art direction in film and television productions. Film career As a director, Maoz was associated with the production of documentary films, directing the Arte production ''Total Eclipse'' (2000) with Evgenia Dodina. In 2007, Maoz began working on ''Lebanon'', his first feature film. The script, based on Maoz's personal experiences, describes the traumatic experiences of a four-man Israeli tank crew in a Lebanese village early in the war. At the end of July 2009, ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Keren Hadar
Keren Hadar ( he, קרן הדר; born 1975) is a crossover soprano singer from Israel. She was born in Neve Ne'eman in the Hod HaSharon municipality. She is the third of four siblings. Keren's father, a businessman, was born in Israel and her mother, a secretary, was born in Yemen. Youth and beginning of career She began her voice training at age 16 at the Petah Tikva Conservatory, studying classical singing with singer and conductor Nili Harpaz. After her army service in the Israeli Air Force, she studied at the Beit Zvi Academy of Performing Arts in Ramat Gan, specializing in musical theatre with Dorit Atzmon. As part of her studies she appeared, among others, as Polly Peachum in the musical ''The Threepenny Opera'' by Bertolt Brecht and Kurt Weill, as Eliza Doolittle in ''My Fair Lady'' by Alan Jay Lerner and Frederick Loewe and as the High Priestess in ''Hair'' by James Rado, Gerome Ragni and Galt MacDermot. In her last year of studies Keren started appearing in Tel Aviv's ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Amos Guttman
Amos Guttman ( he, עמוס גוטמן; May 10, 1954 – February 16, 1993) was an Israeli film director, born in Romania. He directed the first ever Israeli LGBT-themed film and most of his films were based on events that happened in his own personal life. Biography Guttman was born in Sita Buzăului, district of Covasna, in Transylvania, Romania and emigrated to Israel at the age of seven with his family. He studied film at Beit Zvi. Between 1975 and 1982, Guttman directed three short films: ''A Safe Place'', ''Returning Premiers'', and ''Drifting''. In 1983, he directed his feature debut, '' Drifting'' (no relation to the earlier short film). He then directed three other feature films: '' Bar 51'' (1985), '' Himmo, King of Jerusalem'' (1987), and ''Amazing Grace'' (1992). Guttman was an overtly gay man, and most of his films—except '' Himmo, King of Jerusalem'', a film about the 1947–1949 Palestine war, based on a story by Yoram Kaniuk—explored aspects of life for LGBT in ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |