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Laizy Shapiro
Eliezer (Laizy) Menachem Shapiro ( he, אליעזר (לּייזי) מנחם שפירא) (born 13 May 1973) is an Israeli director and screenwriter best known for the TV show ''Srugim''. Shapiro was born and raised in Rehovot, Israel, and in Karnei Shomron, the youngest of four children. His older brother, Joseph Shapiro, a senior army officer, married writer Tali Baragles Shapiro. Shapiro studied history at Hebrew University. He also led tunnel tours in the Old City of Jerusalem. During his studies, Shapiro lived in the Nahlaot neighborhood with his roommates Yuval, Hagi, and Itzik Strasberg. In 2001 Shapiro was amongst the eighth graduating class of the Ma'aleh School of Television, Film and the Arts, a film and media school for Orthodox Jews. His graduation film "Lamentations", won the best film award at the Tel Aviv international student film festival. The movie is about settler girl named Eicha (Hebrew for Lamentations) who was born on Tisha B'Av. At eighteen she decides to c ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Rehovot
Rehovot ( he, רְחוֹבוֹת ''Rəḥōvōt'', ar, رحوڤوت ''Reḥūfūt'') is a city in the Central District of Israel, about south of Tel Aviv. In it had a population of . Etymology Israel Belkind, founder of the Bilu movement, proposed the name "Rehovot" (lit. 'wide expanses') based on Genesis 26:22: "And he called the name of it ''Rehoboth''; and he said: 'For now the Lord hath made room for us, and we shall be fruitful in the land'." This Bible verse is also inscribed in the city's logo. The biblical town of '' Rehoboth'' was located in the Negev Desert. History Ottoman era Rehovot was established in 1890 by pioneers of the First Aliyah on the coastal plain near a site called ''Khirbat Deiran'', an "abandoned or sparsely populated" estate, which now lies in the center of the built-up area of the city. According to Marom, Deiran offered "a convenient launching pad for early land purchase initiatives which shaped the pattern of Jewish settlement until the b ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
