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Yona Rozenkier
Yona Rozenkier (Hebrew: יונה רוזנקיאר; born 1982) is an Israeli actor, writer and filmmaker. Early life Rozenkier was born in Kibbutz Yehiam. The second of four brothers born to Abrham Rozenfkier, the Kibbutz general secretary and Mapam's international general secretary, and Franzi Rozenkier, a kibbutz volunteer originally from Switzerland. Career After serving as a medic at the paratroopers brigade at the IDF, Rozenkier began his film studies at Tel Aviv University film school in 2007. Short films He has directed several short films including "Khaya im Kasda" (Bugs on a helmet) (2011), Parparim (Butterflies) (2019) and "Raz and Radja" (2012) a short film made for the "Water" project, a program by Tel Aviv University, showcasing short films made by both Israeli and Palestinian directors aiming at a better comprehension between the two communities. Feature Movies In 2018 Rozenkier debuted his first full-length feature " The Dive" at the 2018 Jerusalem Film F ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Yehiam
Yehi'am ( he, יְחִיעָם) is a kibbutz in northern Israel. Located at the western Upper Galilee, eight miles east of the coastal town of Nahariya and 14 miles south-east of the border with Lebanon it falls under the jurisdiction of Mateh Asher Regional Council. In it had a population of . It is located around 365 meters above sea level Yehiam is situated next to the ruins of the Ottoman-era castle of Jiddin, built on top of the 13th-century Crusader castle of Judin. History Yehiam was founded by a group of the socialist Zionist Hashomer Hatzair youth movement—Holocaust survivors from Hungary and members from Yishuv—who named themselves Kibbutz HaSela (lit. ''The Rock''), whereas "kibbutz" is still understood here as a wandering "collective", not as a settlement. For a while the HaSela collective lived in tents in the area of Kiryat Haim, looking for an appropriate place to settle. Eventually, on 26 November 1946, Kibbutz Yehiam was established at the site of the med ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mapam
Mapam ( he, מַפָּ״ם, an acronym for , ) was a left-wing political party in Israel. The party is one of the ancestors of the modern-day Meretz party. History Mapam was formed by a January 1948 merger of the kibbutz-based Hashomer Hatzair Workers Party, the non-kibbutz-based Socialist League, and the left-Labor Zionist Ahdut HaAvoda Poale Zion Movement. The party was originally Marxist-Zionist in its outlook, and represented the left-wing Kibbutz Artzi movement. It also took over the Hashomer Hatzair-affiliated newspaper ''Al HaMishmar'' ("On the lookout"). In the elections for the first Knesset, Mapam received 19 seats, making it the second largest party after the mainstream Labor Zionist Mapai. As the party did not allow non-Jews to be members at the time, it had also set up an Arab list, the Popular Arab Bloc, to contest the elections (a tactic also used by Mapai, with whom the Democratic List of Nazareth were affiliated). However, the Arab list failed to cross th ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Paratroopers Brigade
The 35th Brigade ( he, חֲטִיבַת הַצַּנְחָנִים, ''Hativat HaTzanhanim''), also known as the Paratroopers Brigade, is an infantry brigade unit of paratroopers within the Israel Defense Forces (IDF), and forms a major part of the Infantry Corps. It has a history of carrying out special forces-style missions dating back to the 1950s. Paratrooper Brigade soldiers wear maroon berets with the infantry pin and reddish-brown boots. Distinct from all other soldiers of the IDF, Paratroopers wear a tunic and belt over the shirt. The IDF has four reservist paratrooper brigades ( 55th, 226th, 551st and 646th) at any given time, consisting of personnel who served their mandatory time in the brigade, and who are mostly relatively recently discharged, aside from officers. History In 1949 Chaim Laskov asked Machalnik Captain Tom Derek Bowden to create a paratroop school. He did so, writing a training manual with the help of his Hebrew-speaking secretary Eva Heilbronner ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Dive (2018 Film)
''The Dive'' ( he, Hatzlila) is a 2018 Israeli drama film directed by Yona Rozenkier. The film premiered at the 2018 Jerusalem Film Festival. It was later screened in the Contemporary World Cinema section at the 2018 Toronto International Film Festival The 43rd annual Toronto International Film Festival was held from September 6 to 16, 2018. In June 2018, the TIFF organizers announced a program to ensure that at least 20 percent of all film critics and journalists given press accreditation to .... Cast References External links * 2018 films 2018 drama films Israeli drama films 2010s Hebrew-language films {{2010s-drama-film-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jerusalem Film Festival
The Jerusalem Film Festival ( he, פסטיבל הקולנוע ירושלים, ar, مهرجان القدس السينمائي) is an international film festival held annually in Jerusalem, It was established in 1984 by the Director of the Jerusalem Cinematheque and Israeli Film Archive, Lia Van Leer, and has since become the main Israeli event for filmmakers and enthusiasts. Over the course of ten days every summer, over 200 films from 60 countries are screened at the Festival, along with a variety of special events, panels, and meetings with prominent local and international filmmakers, as well as professional industry workshops and events. History The Festival was established by Israel Prize recipient and founder of the Jerusalem Cinematheque and Israeli Film Archive, Lia Van Leer. After being invited to serve on the jury at the 1983 Cannes Film Festival, Van Leer decided to create Israel's first international film festival. Already in its very first year, the Festival had the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Locarno Festival
The Locarno Film Festival is an annual film festival, held every August in Locarno, Switzerland. Founded in 1946, the festival screens films in various competitive and non-competitive sections, including feature-length narrative, documentary, short, avant-garde, and retrospective programs. The Piazza Grande section is held in an open-air venue that seats 8,000 spectators. The top prize of the festival is the Golden Leopard, awarded to the best film in the International Competition. Other awards include the Leopard of Honour for career achievement, and the Prix du Public, the public choice award. History The Festival del film Locarno kicked off on 23 August 1946, at the Grand Hotel of Locarno with the screening of the movie ''O sole mio'' by Giacomo Gentilomo. The first edition was organized in less than three months with a line-up of fifteen movies, mainly American and Italian, among which was ''Rome, Open City'' directed by Roberto Rossellini, ''And Then There Were None'' dire ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Eilat
Eilat ( , ; he, אֵילַת ; ar, إِيلَات, Īlāt) is Israel's southernmost city, with a population of , a busy port and popular resort at the northern tip of the Red Sea, on what is known in Israel as the Gulf of Eilat and in Jordan as the Gulf of Aqaba. The city is considered a tourist destination for domestic and international tourists heading to Israel. Eilat is part of the Southern Negev Desert, at the southern end of the Arabah, adjacent to the Egyptian resort city of Taba to the south, the Jordanian port city of Aqaba to the east, and within sight of Haql, Saudi Arabia, across the gulf to the southeast. Eilat's arid desert climate and low humidity are moderated by proximity to a warm sea. Temperatures often exceed in summer, and in winter, while water temperatures range between . Eilat averages 360 sunny days a year. Name The name ''Eilat'' was given to ''Umm al-Rashrāsh'' () in 1949 by the Committee for the Designation of Place-Names in the Negev. The ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ophir Award
The Ophir Awards ( he, פרס אופיר), colloquially known as the Israeli Oscars or the Israeli Academy Awards, are film awards for excellence in the Israeli film industry awarded by the Israeli Academy of Film and Television. The award, named after Israeli actor Shaike Ophir, has been granted since 1990. History The first Israeli Academy Awards ceremony was held in 1982 with the first award being presented to director Shimon Dotan for the film '' Repeat Dive'', and since 1990 has been held annually at the Tel Aviv Performing Arts Center. The highest number of Ophir Awards won by a single film is 11, achieved only by ''Nina's Tragedies''. Assi Dayan won the award 8 times and is the only person to have won as a director, as a screenwriter and also as an actor. The winner of the Best Film award usually becomes Israel's submission for the Academy Award for Best International Feature Film, although exceptions include '' Aviva My Love'' (which was rejected in favor of the film it t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Yoel Rozenkier , a community in the United States
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Samuel Vilozny
Shmuel "Shmulik" Vilozny ( he, שמואל "שמוליק" וילוז'ני; born 10 January 1954) is an Israeli comedian, actor and director as well as a political activist. Early life Vilozny was born in Ramat Gan, Israel. His father Mordecai was a Holocaust survivor. Vilozny graduated from the Beit Zvi School for the Performing Arts in 1979. Career Stand-up comedy Vilozny was one of the first stand up comedians in Israel who contributed tremendously to the flourishing of the Israeli stand-up scene in the mid-1980s after he founded a stand-up club in Tel Aviv called the " Camel Comedy Club" which hosted various stand-up shows regularly and from which some of the most popular comedians in Israel nowadays originally emerged. Vilozny became fascinated with stand up comedy after he saw a street stand up show for the first time in London during the 1980s. After his return to Israel, Vilozny began performing in various stand-up routines throughout Israel, which were considered innovative ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Other Widow
''The Other Widow'' ( Hebrew: ''הפילגש'') is a 2022 Israeli-French drama film directed by Maayan Rypp (in her directorial debut) and written by Rypp & Anat Gafni. Starring Dana Ivgy and Ania Bukstein. It is about a woman whose lover dies and who seeks to reclaim her right to mourn even though her lover's family and wife are still there. Synopsis Ella is a theater dressmaker and lover of one of the actors in her play, who dies unexpectedly. In the context of the preparations for the premiere and the increasing pressure from the production, Ella insists on attending Shiva and exposes herself to a world that has been blocked from her until now. Things get complicated when she meets her lover's brother, mother and wife, and gets too close to them. Cast * Dana Ivgy as Ella * Ania Bukstein as Natasha * Itamar Rotschild as Dan / Assaf * Yaniv Biton as Yigal * Lee Gilat as Kiran * Naama Preis as Maya * Irit Gidron as Yehudit * Svetlana Demidov as Marina * Mouna Hawa as Ya ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
