Monday, May 20, 2013
Creative Coexistence at Arab-Jewish Theatre
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The Arab-Hebrew Theatre of Jaffa hosts bilingual plays -- in Hebrew and Arabic -- that increase understanding between people and bind the audiences and the actors in a common, fun experience.
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Israeli Ethiopian models reaching for success
Selection of first Ethiopian-born Miss Israel reflects growing trend, as more and more opportunities become available for local Ethiopian beauty to be exposed, promoted
In February this year an Ethiopian Israeli beauty queen won the Miss Israel contest for the very first time in Israeli history. This reflects a growing trend in Israel as more and more opportunities become available for local Ethiopian Israeli beauties.
Israeli actress Odeya Rush up for Young Artist Award
Israeli actress, 15, earns nomination for American award honoring excellence of youth performers
Israeli actress Odeya Rush may be just 15 years old, but she can already mark a major achievement in her career.
Rush, who has been dividing her life between New York and Los Angeles in recent years, has earned a Young Artist Award nomination as Best Supporting Actress for her role in the 2012 feature film “The Odd Life of Timothy Green,” directed by Peter Hedges.
The Annual Young Artist Awards ceremony, which will be held in Los Angeles on Sunday, is considered a great starting point for youth performers in Hollywood. Past winners include actresses Winona Ryder and Drew Barrymore.
Rush, who is represented by the ADD agency, has made guest star appearances in television series “Curb Your Enthusiasm” and “Law and Order: SVU.” In 2012 she was cast as young Mary in “Mary, Mother of the Christ.”
Source: Ynetnews.com
Barbie Loves Israel
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Barbie e Ken in Galilea, a Tel Aviv, in ammollo nel Mar Morto, dispersi a Sodoma, o a Nazareth: un surreale reportage fotografico tra l'ironico e il romantico ideato dagli alter ego dei fidanzatini più famosi d'America: Enrico Pescantini e Maria Giovanna Callea. Due giovani innamorati lontani, lei lavora in pubblicità a Milano, mentre lui fa il fotografo a Mumbai, che per rivedersi orchestrano una vacanza in medioriente molto speciale, che ha dato la luce a 14 scatti originali e divertenti ora in mostra a Milano.
India’s Tata invests in technology at TAU
Part of Indian conglomerate to be lead investor in planned $20 million fund at Tel Aviv University’s technology transfer company Ramot, says it sees university as its Israeli R&D center
Tata Industries will invest $5 million in a new Tel Aviv University (TAU) technology fund, saying it saw the university as its Israeli research and development center.
Tata, part of Indian conglomerate Tata Group, will be the lead investor in a planned $20 million fund at TAU’s technology transfer company Ramot aimed at commercializing their research.
“For Tata, we … see innovation and R&D as an area of focus and a source of competitive advantage going forward,” Rameshwar Jamwal, executive director at Tata Industries, told reporters last week.
Jamwal said it was Tata’s first major investment in Israel and that it would likely invest further.
“This is our attempt to scout Israeli technology more deeply,” he said. “This allows us over a period of time to show our commitment to Israel but we are interested in doing more.”
Tata will work with TAU’s scientists to help steer them towards applying commercial uses for their research.
“It’s someone to test your ideas and say what’s a mistake,” said Shlomo Nimrodi, Ramot’s chief executive. “Tata knows the market better.”
He noted that TAU invests $150 million a year in R&D. Among Ramot’s big successes is flash memory, which was licensed by an Israeli company before it was sold to Sandisk, which still pays millions of dollars of royalties to the university.
Nimrodi said the new fund will invest in healthcare, pharmaceuticals, cleantech, food security, the environment, engineering and software.
He noted that in some cases, Tata will get the right of first opportunity in a particular research project.
Many large global companies have R&D facilities in Israel, including Intel, Microsoft, IBM, Google, HP and Yahoo.
Source: Ynetnews.com
The Latest Shoe Security for Airport Travelers: MagShoe
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It's the holiday season and for airports that means an increase in the number of travelers and a higher level of security. However, the typically long lines at the security check will be cut in half this year at some worldwide airports thanks to this machine.
The Magshoe, created by IDO Security in Israel after the events of September 11th is the answer to one of the most problematic areas in security checks: your shoes. Walk through metal detectors today lack the technology to successfully scan below the shin, making it easy for weapons to go undetected. The Magshoe is designed to scan the whole foot, and the best part for travelers, you don't have to take your shoes off.
Ashton Kutcher looking for Tel Aviv office
Kutcher with high-tech entreprenuer Yossi Vardi (Photo: Motti Kimchi)
American actor, who visited Israel last week, said to be considering opening business incubator center in country
American actor Ashton Kutcher did not visit Israel last week just to find an Israeli startup company to invest in or to explore his roots through Kabbalah. Apparently, he is also looking for a luxurious piece of real estate.
Kutcher, who arrived in the Holy Land as the guest of a conference organized by high-tech entrepreneur Yossi Vardi, found the time to search for an office on Tel Aviv’s Rothschild Boulevard. The Hollywood star is said to be considering opening a business incubator center in Israel.
Kutcher and his business partner Guy Oseary, one of the leading producers in the US music industry and Madonna’s personal manager, visited a site on 22 Rothschild Boulevard, where the Aviv Group is building one of the most luxurious office buildings in Israel (Aviv Rothschild Center, which will be ready in about six months) at a total investment of NIS 250 million (about $70 million).
Aviv Group Chairman Doron Aviv said in the past, “Because new office buildings have not been built in Tel Aviv for a long time, we are now seeing a surge in demands for the project on the part of Israeli and international financial institutions.”
The rent price per square meter in the new tower stands at NIS 130-150 ($35-41) on average.
Kutcher and Oseary spent Shavuot Eve at a restaurant in Tel Aviv before heading to the Western Wall in Jerusalem for midnight prayers and psalms in honor of the Jewish holiday. Before leaving for the United States on Wednesday evening, they met with several high-tech people.
Kutcher told his guests about his partnership with Oseary in startup investments: “Guy and I began investing together because we wanted to change the world. We wanted to be part of the social network revolution, which brings people who don’t know each other together to create a conversation or a community. We want to be part of that.”
Kutcher and Oseary are joint investors in the A-Grade venture capital fund, which they founded together with Ron Burkle in 2011. Their investments include Airbnb, Spotify, Path, Soundcloud, Groupon and Shazam.
Kutcher is considered one of the early adopters of the Twitter social networking website, beating CNN to become the first user to reach one million followers in 2009.
The actor also invested in the Katango startup of Yoav Shoham, an Israeli professor of computer science at Stanford University, and made a profit when it was sold to Google for tens of millions of dollars about two years ago.
Source: Ynetnews.com
Football - Israel Hosts Under-21 Championships
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Between June 5-18, 2013, Israel will host UEFA's European Under-21 Football Championship. National soccer teams from all over Europe will compete: the UK, Germany, Spain, Italy, Russia, the Netherlands and Norway, alongside the host country, will all vie for the title of champion.
Two outstanding players, Captain Eyal Golasa, a Netanya native who plays for Maccabi Haifa and Moanes Dabur, an Arab-Israeli player for Maccabi Tel Aviv, talk about the Israeli national under-21 team and show off their moves.
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2,000-year-old key found in Jerusalem
Artifacts (Photo: Clara Amit, courtesy of Israel Antiquities Authority)
Enormous quarry dating back to Second Temple period exposed in capital’s Ramat Shlomo Quarter. Huge stones quarried there were presumably used in construction of city’s magnificent public buildings
An enormous quarry from the time of the Second Temple (first century CE) was exposed in recent weeks in excavations the Israel Antiquities Authority is carrying out prior to the paving of Highway 21 by the Moriah Company.
A 2,000-year-old key, pick axes, severance wedges etc are also among the artifacts uncovered during the course of the excavation.
According to Irina Zilberbod, excavation director on behalf of the Israel Antiquities Authority, “The quarrying phenomenon created a spectacular sight of bedrock columns and steps and craters of sorts that were the result of the rock-cuttings.
“What remained are rock masses in various stages of quarrying, and there were those that were found in a preliminary stage of rock-cutting prior to detachment. Some of the stones that were quarried are more than 2 meters (6.5 feet) long. The giant stones were probably hewn for the sake of the construction of the city’s magnificent public buildings.”
Zilberbod explains that “the pick axes were used to cut the severance channels around the stone block in the bedrock surface and the arrowhead-shaped detachment wedge, which is solid iron, was designed to detach the base of the stone from the bedrock by means of striking it with a hammer.
“The key that was found, and which was probably used to open a door some 2,000 years ago, is curved and has teeth. What was it doing there? We can only surmise that it might have fallen from the pocket of one of the quarrymen.”
The enormous quarries that were exposed – totaling 1,000 square meters (10,760 square feet) in area – join other quarries that were previously documented and studied by the Israel Antiquities Authority. Research has shown that the northern neighborhoods of modern Jerusalem are situated on Jerusalem’s “city of quarries” from the Second Temple period.
The question arises why did the quarrymen select this specific region. Researchers speculate that the answer to this lies in the Meleke rock formation found there, which is a type of rock that is easily quarried and hardens immediately after it is hewn.
In addition to this, since the northern area is topographically higher than the city of Jerusalem in the Second Temple period, it was presumably easy to transport the huge stones, some which weighed tens if not hundreds of tons, down hill along the slope to the construction sites. An ancient road dating to the Second Temple period was exposed next to the quarry and it was probably used to move the large stones.
Another puzzle regarding the transportation of such large stones is how were they actually moved. Presumably this was accomplished by means of oxen and wooden rollers, but the contemporary historical sources also mention giant wooden lifting devices.
Source: Ynetnews.com
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