Bar Rafaeli is suing the owners of Mimosa, a high-class Ramat Aviv fashion boutique, for using her photograph without receiving her permission.
By GREER FAY CASHMANBar Rafaeli 88 248(photo credit: Courtesy)
THE BIG riddle as to who would succeed Geula Even in hosting Channel 1's Weekend Magazine on Friday nights (with reruns at around midnight on Saturdays) has finally been solved. After giving several anchors of radio and TV current affairs programs the opportunity to host the magazine, the Israel Broadcasting Authority decided to spice it up by featuring a duo of anchors: seasoned political reporter Ayala Hasson, who already hosts a two-hour radio show on Thursday mornings, and Ma'ariv political correspondent and analyst Ben Caspit, who is a ubiquitous television personality in his own right. The two will join forces this coming Friday, November 14. Hasson's new role is in addition to her usual job.
ANOTHER RIDDLE, which will take a little longer to solve, is whether Ariel Berkowitz will become a third-generation hoopster. Ariel, not yet a month old, is the son of Givat Shaul basketball player Ro'i Berkowitz and his wife Sophie; he is the grandson of Mickey Berkowitz, considered to be one of Israeli basketball's all-time greats, and his wife Sheli.
WHEN LEGAL experts say to read the fine print before signing a document, they know what they're talking about. According to Yediot Aharonot, Bar Rafaeli is suing the owners of Mimosa, a high-class Ramat Aviv fashion boutique, for using her photograph in its advertising without receiving her permission. The question is whether the contract that Rafaeli signed with a German clothing manufacturer included a clause enabling the stores it supplies to use the manufacturer's photographs in their advertising. Another argument put forward by Rafaeli in her NIS 170,000 suit regards the proximity of the name or logo of the advertiser to the photograph. Apparently in this case - or at least according to Rafaeli - it looks as if she modeled for Mimosa.
THE POPULAR Israeli sitcom Life isn't Everything (Hehayim ze lo Hakol) has just launched its seventh season. To celebrate the program's longevity, Gabi Rosenberg, CEO of JCS - which produces the show - held a party at a Tel Aviv restaurant where some of the conversations between cast members Avi Kushnir, Anat Waxman, Idan Alterman, Yael Levental, Shlomo Vishinsky and Lilian Berto sounded as if they were scripts for the show.
THOSE PUNDITS who claim that politics are everything are not far off the mark. For instance, the Wala'at band, which will playing at the Jerusalem YMCA on the night of municipal elections (November 11), features Kher Fody, who was born and raised in Acre and has been instrumental in maintaining a sense of normalcy through his music, despite the tensions in the city. Fody uses music and art in his preservation efforts for the Old City of Acre and to encourage and support the city's troubled youth. Together with singer/guitarist David Broza, Wala'at will provide the entertainment at an awards ceremony for the Search for Common Ground's annual Eliav-Sartawi awards for Middle East Journalism. This is the first time that the awards ceremony is being held in Israel, and there is significance in the fact that it is being held at the YMCA where Jews, Christians and Muslims socialize together. Winners of the 2008 awards include Barbara Sofer of Jerusalem, who in her column in The Jerusalem Post described the feelings of a religiously observant Jewish woman sharing a room with a Palestinian woman from Hebron at an interfaith women's workshop in Jordan; Talah A. Rahmeh of Ramallah, who wrote in The Electronic Intifada about a young Palestinian woman who illegally accompanies her mother to an Israeli hospital and is surprised at the kindness she encounters; and Marie Medina, who lives in Paris and wrote about five bilingual schools in Israel where the student population and teaching staff are a mix of Jews and Arabs. The Eliav-Sartawi awards were conceived and funded by veteran American journalist J. Zel Lurie in recognition of two of the pioneers of the Israeli-Palestinian dialogue: Lova Eliav, who has indicated that he would attend the awards ceremony, and the late Dr. Issam Sartawi.
LIVING IN self-imposed exile for the past year and a half, former Balad MK Azmi Bishara was heard briefly on Israel Radio last week when a tiny segment of his broadcast on Al Jazeera's Arabic service was rebroadcast on Reshet Bet. Bishara was one of the Al Jazeera commentators on the US elections and declared president-elect Barack Obama to be a member of the establishment who would not carry out the hoped-for dramatic changes for minority groups that voted for him.
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