Nathan Burstein
By Nathan Burstein
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Israel News Israeli Actress Cracks ‘Code’
Step aside, Bar Refaeli — starting next year, Israel’s most famous international face will belong to a 38-year-old thespian from Tel Aviv. Ayelet Zurer, a film and TV star in Israel for much of the past two decades, has been tapped to play the female lead in “Angels & Demons,” a prequel to “The Da…
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News Adventures in Speechwriting
They don’t bang their shoes at the United Nations or prematurely declare peace for our time, but with those fortunate exceptions, the Israeli diplomats described in Gregory Levey’s debut memoir appear capable of just about anything. There’s the memorable scene — unforgettable, really — in which the country’s foreign minister conducts a high-level strategy meeting…
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Israel News Israeli Pop Star Reports For Duty
It’s a publicity stunt that even Paris Hilton couldn’t have dreamed up. Maya Buskila, an Israeli pop star more than a decade past the average age of enlistment, will join the Israeli army April 13, just as the marketing campaign for her latest album kicks into gear. The singer’s enlistment, announced by her record company,…
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Israel News ‘High School Musical’ Heads to Holy Land
It boasts neither a high-school sports culture nor an after-school detention system, but that won’t stop Israel from becoming the third country to launch a stage version of “High School Musical.” A consortium of Tel Aviv-based producers, talent agents and TV distribution specialists recently announced auditions for the first-ever Hebrew version of the play, which…
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News Hollywood Story: Israeli Lands (Another) Big Role
It’s a real-life plotline familiar enough, and perverse enough, that it has become a running joke in the Israeli film industry: Actor forsakes Tel Aviv for the bright lights of Hollywood; actor struggles for years to get a part; actor finally gets cast, thanks to his dark looks and funny accent, as an Arab terrorist….
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