Ron Jacobsohn Discovers Which City has the Highest Numbers of High-School Graduates With less than twelve-thousand inhabitants the Druze Village, Beit Jann, has become world famous as number one place in Israel with highest high school graduates, as it reported one-hundred percent of its students graduated from the local high school.

Over 400 delegates from all five continents of the world gathered this week to talk about issues concerning Israel and the world Jewry at the annual Jewish Agency for Israel assembly. Under the leadership of Chairman Natan Sharansky, the Jewish Agency for Israel has shifted its priorities from promoting Aliyah to the strengthening Jewish identity […]

Ron Jacobsohn Attends the Israeli Premiere of “Hostages” Many Israeli television shows have made their way by now onto American television, however this is the first time ever that the Israel version of a show premieres after the American one. Series creators, Rotem Shamir and Omri Givon, claim the whole process has been overwhelming especially […]

We are at the Sanherdria cemetery, where these moments Rabbi Ovadia Yossef, one of the greatest Rabbis of the State of Israel is being buried. He passed away this afternoon at the age of 93. About 700,000 people, an eighth of the population of Israel, have swarmed into Jerusalem in order to participate in mourning […]

i24news’ Morning Edition with Yeal Lavie for October 4th, 2013 Ron Jacobsohn explains how the Academy for Motion Pictures and Sciences will vote for the 86th Academy Awards in the Foreign Language Movie category and discusses who are the Foreign Language Oscar contenders for this year.

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 […]