Israeli Idol is very similar to American Idol – a singing competition in the same format.

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An interesting new Israeli film had recently won the prize for a film from the Panorama at the 2011 Berlin Film Festival.

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TV in Israel

Daniel L ORT Ronson On July - 17 - 2011

A lot of the time we have to spare is spent watching TV. As we grow older we realize that the window of time we have is getting smaller and the things we like more are what we do in our spare time.

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Trinny and Susannah – we all know them (and if you don’t they are two British fashion advisors who change the fashion in the whole world).

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2011 At the Oscars

Tal A Blich On April - 4 - 2011

The Oscar for Best Actress in a Leading Role in 2011 was awarded to Natalie Portman for her performance in black Swan. Another Oscar for the Best Short Documentary went to “Strangers No More” by Karen Goodman and Kirk Simon, which is a movie about the Rogozin School in Tel Aviv, Israel.

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The 61st Berlin International Film Festival (the Berlinale), one of the biggest, most exclusive and most important international movie festivals, opened on February 10 2011 in Berlin, Germany with a movie of the Jewish filmmakers, the Cohen brothers True Grit – a remake for a western with the same name from 1969, based on a book by Charles Fortis.

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The Israeli movies made during the sixties and seventies were called Bourekas films. They were a combination of drama and comedy with relationships of people from different parts of the population as the main plotline.

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The great Israeli and Hollywood actor Natalie Portman won the Golden Globe and the Oscar awards for her performance in the movie Black Swan.

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Emilia Attias is an actress from Argentina who is very popular among youth and children from Israel, thanks to the telenovela Almost Angels, which is a huge success here.

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Hatufim

Maayan K ORT Guttman On January - 20 - 2011

Hatufim (kidnapped in Hebrew) is an Israeli drama series, directed by Giddy Raf and produced by Liat Benasuli and is broadcasted on Channel 2.

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Big Brother Show

Julian K ORT Dafna On January - 16 - 2011

On December 8, 2010, the third season of the Israeli Big Brother started at the new and improved Big Brother house at the Neve Ilan studios next to Jerusalem.

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