86-year-old woman named Israel's 'Miss Holocaust Survivor'

Backing up her costar! One week after Christine Quinn clapped back at rumors that she faked her pregnancy, Maya Vander confirmed that her fellow Selling Sunset star did carry son Christian.

Naman Ramachandran Studiocanal has sold a raft of global territories on four-part thriller drama series “Ridley Road.” Created by Studiocanal’s Red Production Company, commissioned for BBC One and co-produced with Masterpiece, the series will air in the U.S.

Ben Croll Since 2004, Israeli documentary filmmaker Avi Mograbi has sat on the board of Breaking the Silence, a whistleblower organization that collects and publishes testimonies about life in the Occupied Territories, all while exploring similar subjects via oft-irreverent films.

pulling productions of their new works to protest the treatment of women by the theaters in question. One show that is opening in L.A.

Helen Mirren, 76, looks nothing like her usual self in her latest film role. The iconic British actress is currently filming the upcoming biopic Golda in London, and new photos taken from the movie’s set that can be seen HERE show Helen looking near-identical to Golda Meir, the former Prime Minister of Israel.

Elle Smith was crowned 2021 Miss USA at Monday night’s pageant.Smith won the competition at the River Spirit Casino Resort in Tulsa, Oklahoma. The University of Kentucky graduate will now represent the USA in the Miss Universe pageant on December 12 in Eilat, Israel.The university congratulated Smith on Twitter.Smith, who majored in journalism, is a reporter for WHAS11 News. Smith’s colleagues also congratulated her on the winning the Miss USA 2021 title.

JERUSALEM -- The Black Eyed Peas’ will.i.am said Monday that politics don’t dictate his actions, with pressure from pro-Palestinian activists unable to deter him from performing in Israel and maintaining ties to the country's high-tech scene.A Palestinian-led movement has for years urged artists to boycott Israel over its treatment of the Palestinians.

Dame Helen Mirren looks completely unrecognisable in the latest photos that have emerged of her in character as Israeli prime minister, Golda Meir. The usually bright and beaming 76-year-old actress was seen in heavy make-up as she got underway with filming the biopic centred around the first female prime minister of Israel.

Organizers of the Miss Universe pageant said Monday that a contestant tested positive for COVID-19 after arriving in Israel, which is pressing ahead with plans to host the pageant despite closing its borders in the face of a newly detected variant.  They did not identify the contestant, and it was unclear if she had the omicron strain, which has raised alarm worldwide and was detected in a traveler returning to Israel last week.  The Miss Universe Organization said most of the 80 contestants

JERUSALEM -- Organizers of next month's Miss Universe pageant say one of the contestants has tested positive for COVID-19.It was not immediately clear if she had tested positive for the newly detected omicron variant.

Virgil Abloh died on Sunday at the age of 41 after a two-year battle with cancer. In 2017, Katrina Israel met him and wrote this profile for ES Magazine.

Alissa Simon Film CriticIn the gripping, naturalistic drama “The Flag” (“Alam”), a Palestinian-Israeli teen, living in a village in the Galilee, undergoes a political awakening catalyzed by a pretty, outspoken girl from his high school class.

must be QAnon."The same way we tend to use a broad brush to paint strangers on the other side of the aisle, we may jump to dramatic conclusions about loved ones with changing views. “If someone moves a little bit away from where they started, we imagine that they’re now completely on the other end of the political spectrum,” says Israel.

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elections.In 2018, South African DJ Black Coffee faced a backlash for performing in Tel Aviv, ignoring calls from various sectors to withdraw from the event in solidarity with the Palestinians.Next month's pageant in Israel is in the spotlight because of calls to boycott the event as a show of solidarity with the Palestinians. Over the past 54 years, Israel has systematically deepened its grip on occupied lands sought for a Palestinian state by building settlements.

Here’s your first look at Helen Mirren in the role of Golda Meir, Israel’s first female Prime Minister, in Guy Natttiv’s biipic Golda, which is now shooting in London.

Retracing the route that her father took after leaving Morocco and emigrating to Israel in 1965, Michale Boganim’s hybridized documentary “The Forgotten Ones” works as both a personal recovery of Boganim’s father’s life and a larger investigation into the mistreatment of Mizrahi Jews – families and their descendants who emigrated from North Africa and the Middle East – at the hands of the Israeli government.