Haim Yavin

AUSTRALIA IS celebrating the 100th anniversary of the arrival of the first Chabadniks, Moshe Zalman and Bere Feiglin, on its shores. They made sure…

Like many Israelis, Dani Inbar was at home watching TV on the night of November 4, 1995. The viewing choices that evening included the films…

■ ONE WONDERS when Bank Hapoalim CEO Zion Keinan has time to actually attend to bank business. He’s engaged in numerous hands-on philanthropic…

Director Gali Weintraub embodies many of the complexities and contradictions that are at the heart of the very ambitious Reframing Reality Festival,…

The Jerusalem Cinematheque is running the innovative Reframing Reality Festival, an international film festival aimed at challenging the concept of…

ALTHOUGH THE management of the Israel Broadcasting Authority (IBA) decided not to continue employing veteran broadcaster Daniel Pe’er after he…

I am a news addict whose true loves are books, newspapers and radio. It pains me that television and the Internet are winning the media war so…

THE MONTH of November has different connotations for different people. November 1 is All Saints Day, a Christian holiday in honor of good people. …

You give away your politics merely by how you refer to them - whether as Arab-Israelis, as Palestinian citizens of Israel, or in terms capable of…

HEBREW media have been having a field day at the expense of Ambassador to the UN Gabriela Shalev, reporting almost gleefully that former…

MOST FOREIGN heads of state and government visit Yad Vashem when they come here. It's not unusual for heads of state to visit on consecutive days.…

The government will take steps to encourage 300,000 Israelis to move to the Negev and an equal number to the Galilee by 2020, Vice Premier Silvan…

TOURISM MINISTER Stas Misezhznikov, who is directing his energies toward attracting Christian pilgrims to the Holy Land, is obviously not going to…

The Henry Crowne Hall at the Jerusalem Theater was packed recently as music lovers had come to hear famed cellist Yo Yo Ma play with the Jerusalem…

Israel Beiteinu leader Avigdor Lieberman used his appearance at the IDC Herzliya conference on Monday to fire back at critics and justify his party's…

HANUKKA IS almost upon us, and for just over a week, those of us who light candles each night recall the miracles that saved the Jewish people from…

Former IDF chief of General Staff Lt.-Gen. Moshe Ya'alon made his long awaited decision about his political future on Monday evening when he told…

On Tuesday the National Religious Party's central committee, a group of 1,160 crocheted kippa-wearers representing the heart of religious Zionist…

New Yorkers not satisfied with this month's Israel Film Festival can always check out the Other one. For the second consecutive year, New York City…

Doubly greatSir, - I am no fan of reality TV, Israeli or American, but I so enjoyed Ruthie Blum Leibowitz's "Big Brother, we're watching you"…