Israeli Film Giant Assaf Dayan Dies at 68
Israeli screen legend Assaf "Assi" Dayan died on Thursday at his home in Tel Aviv, bringing the curtain down on a career that for many served as a microcosm of...
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Endemol Taps Top Exec to Oversee U.S.-Israeli Scripted Joint Venture
TEL AVIV -- Furthering its march into Israel, one of the most hotly-watched territories for fresh television content, Endemol has tapped prominent exec and producer Gal Zaid to oversee scripted...
Israeli Duo Hit MIP With Global Concepts
Tal Shaked and Einat Shamir were crossing the road together in Cannes two years ago when they decided it was time to make a change. The two women, both fortysomething...
Israeli TV Game Shows Raise the Stakes at MIP
TEL AVIV - Israel is upping its game ahead of April's MIPTV, with two new game show formats set to be shopped at the content market. Media goliath Keshet, which...
Israeli-based Pic Nonprofit Launches Support Fund for Female Directors
The New Fund for Cinema and Television , the Israeli nonprofit whose support helped produce such films as "5 Broken Cameras" and "Waltz With Bashir," on March 2 issued a...
Israeli Filmmakers Bite Into the Horror Genre
For a nation whose film culture has, for decades, revered the meditative and the political, Aharon Keshales and Navot Papushado 's film " Rabies " -- a twisted fairy tale,...
Series From ‘Homeland,’ ‘Heroes’ Producers Gets New Israeli Production Grant
"Dig," the new drama series from "Homeland" producer Gideon Raff, above left, and "Heroes" producer Tim Kring, right, is the first recipient of newly created grant from the Israeli government...
Ultra-Orthodox Israelis Can’t Watch TV, But Show Focuses on Them Anyway
A famous Israeli television presenter decides to leave the fast pace of her Tel Aviv life behind and become a devoutly religious Jew. She marries, and disappears into the cloistered...
Female Arab Directors Are Breaking Out of Region
Saudi Arabia, a country that still forbids its women citizens to drive, has submitted its first-ever feature film for Academy Award consideration: " Wadjda ," a critically acclaimed triumph from...
Rihanna and Other Artists Who Play Israel Feel the Pressure
Pop star Rihanna has confirmed an Oct. 22 concert in Tel Aviv, a decision that has delighted her legions of Israeli fans but angered proponents of the Boycott, Divestment and...