Jewish World

The Ophir Awards, or the Israeli Academy Awards, is the official competition to what Israeli movie will go on to compete with around eighty films from around the world for the honor to be nominated in the foreign language category at the Oscars in Hollywood.  Winning the competition has become a lot more thought after as in the past six …

Ron Jacobsohn Attends the Opening Gala of the Haifa Film Festival The Haifa Film Festival is celebrating its twenty-ninth edition, making it the longest running international film festival in Israel. And at tonight’s opening gala Oscar nominated Israeli filmmaker, Ari Folman of Waltz with Bashir fame, is presenting his newest flick, The Congress.

In the new Israeli-European co-production, The Congress, everything that you think can come true, so JN1 Correspondent Ron Jacobsohn dared to ask some of the celebrities attending the premiere if they had it their way, how would the ideal Israel look like?  

This is the Tel-Aviv Farmers market, which once a week lets farmers from across Israel showcase and test their new brands and varieties to the public. And if some of those original Israeli fruits and vegetable will get a positive feedback expect to find them at the grocery store near you. Ron Jacobsohn, JN1 Correspondent: We are at the Tel-Aviv Farmers …

Ron Jacobsohn Explores the Israel and China Diplomatic Relationship The Israel-China relationship are on a kind of a honeymoon lately with a very successful visit of PM Netanyahu in Beijing, so the Israeli Export Institute is conducting a one day conference for Israeli exporters to get all the insider infos of trading with the biggest economy in the world.