Etgar Keret

Israel may not have scored any Oscar nominations this year, but an Israeli film has just won a major prize at Sundance. Restoration, directed by…

Afeature-length major motion picture starring Israel’s ancient capital city is to be filmed next fall and released to theaters, DVD and video on…

THE SLOGAN for Interflora is “Say it with flowers,” but local choirs have discovered that you can influence people and win even more friends with…

When American Jonathan Safran Foer and Israeli Etgar Keret shared the stage at Mishkenot Sha’ananim last week, the usual script for a literary event…

Dan Chill probably knows as well as anyone how the road of life can take a sudden and completely unexpected turn. In 1983, Chill was a high-powered,…

TA, J’lem to host literary eveningsAs part of the Tel Aviv centenary celebrations, the Municipality, in conjunction with Israel Radio, has initiated…

LONDON - The UK's Jewish Book Week 2010 kicked off on Saturday night with a wide array of events that celebrate the Jewish contribution to the…

It's all in the eyebrows. When I used to tell peopleI wrote about Israeli movies, their eyebrows would furrow downward,into an unmistakable…

In Annie Hall, Woody Allen fretted about how his beloved New York City was perceived. "Don't you see, the rest of the country looks upon New York…

Fashion design house HDL Dafna Levinson is sponsoring a photography exhibition to raise funds for One in Nine, a non-profit organization dedicated to…

According to several college textbooks on mass communication, the most irritating advertising is often the most effective. While people enjoy clever…

For many people, taking the bus is a mundane activity. But for Annie Albagli and Yasmine Soiffer, it is an exciting, eye-opening experience and a…

Compared to negotiating with the Palestinians, dealing with Hollywood stars and their agents is a piece of cake, says Yaki Dayan, the consul-general…

Top Hollywood filmmakers have seen it all and done it all - except, in many cases, visit Israel. That's an imbalance that David Lonner, a senior…

Urban living can get a bit claustrophobic sometimes, making you want to leave the concrete (or stone) jungle as quickly as possible and get to a…

The Ophir Awards, the prizes of the Israeli Academy of Film and Television, will take place on Tuesday at the Mishkan Le'omanuyot Habama (Opera…

I first encountered Etgar Keret as a first-year university student in a beginners' Hebrew class. Our professors had invited Keret and so assigned us…

Extract from an article in Issue 9, August 18, 2008 of The Jerusalem Report. To subscribe to The Jerusalem Report click here. This recent collection…

The 25th Jerusalem Film Festival is history, but it was one of the most memorable. Like many of the critics, I saw as many films as I could but…

Israel has scored another coup on American television. Following the cable TV success of HBO's In Treatment, based on B'Tipul, CBS has become the…