Gila Almagor

ANY AUSTRALIAN ambassador would have been pleased to host a reception promoting Australian wines, but in the case of incumbent Andrea Faulkner, it…

2010 was a banner year for both high art and low comedy in the Israeli movie industry. Israel got its third Oscar nomination in a row – for Scandar…

SOMEWHERE IN AN ISOLATED part of post-Soviet Romania, two Israelis are seated in a dining hall in a nuclear-bombproof shelter deep underground. One…

Some 30 Jewish and Arab youngsters, whose common denominator, other than the fact that they live in Israel is that they are all cancer patients, met…

Foreign Minister Avigdor Lieberman (Israel Beiteinu) on Sunday vowed to work to cut funding for artists and academics who pledged to boycott the…

3 StarsThe Human Resources Manager (ISR) Directed by Eran Riklis. Written by Noah Stollman, based on the novel by A. B. Yehoshua. 104 minutes.…

Nowhere will the Israeli presence be more front and center than at the Toronto International Film Festival, which began on September 9 and runs…

Gilad Schalit is enduring his fourth year of Hamas captivity in Gaza. At the International Children’s Theater Festival in Haifa one of the six plays…

SINCE ASSUMING the presidency, Shimon Peres has said on more than one occasion how much more he enjoys this role than any of the other roles he held…

A celebration of women’s creativity, the Holon Women’s Festival, now in its 14th year, is more diverse than ever. Under the artistic direction of…

The 5th Tel Aviv International Children's Film Festival will take place at the Tel Aviv Cinematheque starting Wednesday and running through Saturday.…

Anyone over the age of 40 surely realizes by now that childhood isn't exactly what it used be. With online access to all kinds of information and…

'The controversy about my movie, Hounddog, always comes from people who haven't actually seen it," says Deborah Kampmeier, the director of the…

Do these movies ring a bell? Welcome, Il y a longtemps que je t'aime, Bienvenue chez les Ch'tis, Plus tard tu comprendras, Faubourg 36 and Entre les…

A student distributing leaflets expressing opposition to the new anti-Nakba Day Knesset bill outside the Ben-Gurion University campus in Beersheba on…

EVEN THOUGH Michelle Obama did not change her schedule in order to get together with Sarah Netanyahu this week, the US first lady did actually meet…

All proceeds from the Aloni gala at the Cameri will go toward funding the new Nissim Aloni Prize that the Cameri and Habimah theaters, together with…

The Tel Aviv University will bestow an honorary doctorate on actress Gila Almagor on May 18. The university's Senate said she was being honored for…

If you see someone walking around Tel Aviv who looks like royalty, it might be Academy Award-winning actress Helen Mirren. The 63-year-old actress,…

SUNDAY IS International Women's Day, which is being marked on Israel Radio's Reshet Gimmel as women interview women, beginning at 7 a.m. and…