Gili Izikovich
By Gili Izikovich
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The Schmooze Israel’s ‘Google Baby’ Wins Documentary Emmy
Crossposted from Haaretz Last week director Zippi Brand Frank became the first Israeli documentary filmmaker to win the Emmy award. Brand won the Emmy, the most prestigious award in American television, for News and Documentary, in the Outstanding Science and Technology Programming category. “Google Baby,” the film she directed, which was produced for Israel’s Yes…
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The Schmooze Israel’s Friday Night Sitcom
Crossposted from Haaretz This is apparently the ultimate all-Israeli experience, crossing sectors, affiliations and barriers. A family comes together for Friday night dinner. Elderly parents, their children with or without families of their own. Often there will be a blessing over the wine and there will always be a gut-busting meal, full of familiar dishes….
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The Schmooze Does the ‘Neighborhood’ Film Represent a Social Revolution?
Crossposted from Haaretz Local residents had no idea what hit them — one morning they were informed that everyone was being vacated from their homes. Real estate sharks had designated the neighborhood as the next luxury complex and thanks to their connections to the mayor their venture succeeded. Liat (the singer and actress Liat Banai),…
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The Schmooze High School From Hell
Crossposted from Haaretz It is impossible not to have a certain reaction while standing at the entrance to the school where the Israeli comedy series “The Most Beautiful Years” is being shot. True, this is an abandoned school in Azur that was rented for the filming, and production people are running around feverishly moving decidedly…
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The Schmooze Israel’s Secret Bromance
Crossposted from Haaretz About year ago, on an El Al flight to somewhere in Asia, was the usual variety pack of Israeli types: newly discharged soldiers, young couples, families with kids; religious, ultra-Orthodox and nonobservant. For all of about half an hour, when an episode of the second season of “Ramzor” (“Traffic Light”) played, we…
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The Schmooze Slices of Sderot Life — and Death
Crossposted from Haaretz There is a lot of festivity in the family scene that opens the film, “Edges.” Three of the brothers are smiling; another, who looks ill, congratulates his mother on her birthday; and the person holding the camera, director Tal Avitan, asks everyone to say something to Mom. But the joy does not…
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The Schmooze Israel’s Funniest Home Videos
Crossposted from Haaretz Tal Rosenthal sits lazily in front of a TV, indifferent to the scolding of the actress playing his mother and completely ignoring the woman portraying his grandmother. But the contents of the skit — for a new show produced by Rosenthal and his writing partner Noam Sharon — are actually far less…
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The Schmooze ‘Arab Labor’ in the Academy
Crossposted from Haaretz The University of Haifa will host a seminar next week on the Channel 2 hit sitcom “Arab Labor.” The series, now in its second season, is highly controversial in Israel’s Arab community and has engendered criticism in the mainstream Israeli press over its treatment of delicate issues of discrimination, religion and coexistence….
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