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A massive crowd marches to Tel Aviv's Hostages Square for a rally calling for a deal to release the hostages held by Hamas in Gaza on August 26, 2025. (Chaim Goldberg/Flash90)
August 26, 2025, 11:17 pm
Large crowds fill Tel Aviv’s Hostages Square for rally urging deal to free captives
Hostage’s father says, ‘I don’t want to receive my boy in a bag’; protesters block several major highways, hundreds march outside PMO as Netanyahu convenes security cabinet
By Charlie Summers, Ariela Karmel and ToI Staff
Lior Ashkenazi as 'Sol' in episode one of Hulu's 'We Were the Lucky Ones.' (Vlad Cioplea/Hulu)
March 27, 2024, 4:03 pm
‘How many miracles can we get?’: Holocaust saga comes to life in new Hulu miniseries
Stars Joey King and Logan Lerman are joined by many Israeli cast members, including Lior Ashkenazi, Hadas Yaron and Michael Aloni, in ‘We Were the Lucky Ones,’ set in WWII Poland
By Amy Spiro
Actress Helen Mirren and co-star Lior Ashkenazi attend a press conference for the upcoming film 'Golda,' about prime minister Golda Meir, in Jerusalem, July 13, 2023. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)
July 13, 2023, 2:50 pm
In Jerusalem, Helen Mirren says Golda Meir ‘one of the greatest’ roles she’s played
Ahead of ‘Golda’ premiere at Jerusalem Film Festival, UK actress says she is ‘moved and excited’ to see mass pro-democracy rallies in Israel, recalls her time on a kibbutz in 1967
By Amy Spiro
Helen Mirren as Golda Meir in Guy Nattiv's film 'Golda.' (Jasper Wolf)
February 23, 2023, 10:49 am
Golda Meir biopic skirts politics as current government faces growing scrutiny
Star Helen Mirren says legendary former PM ‘would have been utterly horrified’ at legal overhaul, calls it ‘the rise of dictatorship’
By Gabe Friedman
The cast of 'Cinema Sabaya,' the big winner in Israel's Ophir Awards on September 18, 2022. (Courtesy: Cinema Sabaya)
September 18, 2022, 11:01 pm
Film about female Arab and Jewish city workers’ interaction is Israel’s Oscar entry
‘Cinema Sabaya’ will represent country at Academy Awards after sweeping Ophirs; other winners include Sasson Gabbay for ‘Karaoke’ and ‘Savoy,’ which portrays 1975 terror attack
By Jessica Steinberg
Helen Mirren as Golda Meir in HBO's 'Golda.' (Jasper Wolf)
January 13, 2022, 7:24 pm
Golda Meir’s grandson defends casting of Helen Mirren as former Israeli PM
Shaul Rahabi tells Jewish Chronicle his late grandmother would have loved casting, and being Jewish ‘doesn’t matter at all,’ amid renewed ‘Jewface’ debate
By ToI Staff
Helen Mirren as Golda Meir in HBO's 'Golda.' (Jasper Wolf)
January 6, 2022, 11:27 am
Casting of Helen Mirren as Israeli PM Golda Meir sparks ‘Jewface’ spat
Famed British actress Maureen Lipman says Jewishness of character is integral; others say actors should be allowed to act
By ToI Staff
Shira Haas and Yoav Rotman in 'Esau' (Courtesy of GVN Releasing and AEC/Distribution Solutions via JTA)
October 28, 2020, 10:26 pm
Trailer drops for ‘Esau’ flick, based on Meir Shalev novel
English-language film shot in Israel, starring Shira Haas and Harvey Keitel, will be available for streaming from December 1; based loosely on biblical story
By Gabe Friedman
The cast of 'Shtisel' began filming its long awaited third season in July 2020, during the coronavirus, with director Alon Zingman in a mask, far right (Courtesy YES Studios)
July 29, 2020, 11:30 pm
With masks, social distancing, ‘Shtisel’ and other Israeli shows resume filming
Third season of ‘Shtisel,’ ‘The Policeman’s Daughter’ and more Israeli TV programs find ways to stay on set despite coronavirus-bred complications
By Jessica Steinberg
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu holds a press conference at the Prime Minister's office in Jerusalem to address the coronavirus crisis, March 16, 2020. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)
May 28, 2020, 11:09 pm
PM’s virus speech about staying away from elderly is set to music
Singer-songwriter Daniel Salomon and actor Lior Ashkenazi release ‘Love is distancing,’ a musical version of Netanyahu’s address to the nation at height of crisis
By ToI Staff
Cast members of satiric comedy show, 'Eretz Nehederet,' singing about being home with the family during the coronavirus (Courtesy Eretz Nehederet)
March 27, 2020, 2:30 pm
Stuck at home, ‘Eretz Nehederet’ TV comics sing about virus closure
Satirists from the popular series gather on Zoom with their families for ditty about long days in lockdown mode
By Jessica Steinberg
Soldiers pose on top of a tank during the outbreak of the Yom Kippur War on October 6, 1973. (Avi Simhoni/Bamahane/Defense Ministry Archives)
August 21, 2019, 8:40 am
Production begins on ‘Valley of Tears,’ Israel’s most ambitious TV show ever
The eight-episode miniseries depicts the 1973 Yom Kippur War through the eyes of three young combatants
By JTA
Harvey Keitel, who will star in a film adaptation of the Meir Shalev novel, 'Esau,' here with his wife, Daphna Kastner, whom he secretly married in Israel during the Haifa International Film Festival (David Shankbone/CC BY 3.0)
April 4, 2018, 5:14 pm
Harvey Keitel to star in film version of Meir Shalev’s ‘Esau’
The cast of the modernized biblical tale includes Lior Ashkenazi, Mark Ivanir and Gila Almagor
By Jessica Steinberg
A still from '7 Days in Entebbe.' (YouTube)
March 2, 2018, 7:46 pm
New ‘Entebbe’ hijacked by heavy-handed political correctness
Action flick ‘7 Days in Entebbe’ disregards historical record to equalize the two sides’s struggles — choosing as its unlikely hero a German terrorist with a heart of gold
By Jordan Hoffman
Sasson Gabai, left, hands an award to film director Samuel Maoz at the 2017 Ophir Awards ceremony on September 19, 2017. (Flash90)
September 20, 2017, 1:11 am
‘Foxtrot’ film sweeps Ophir Awards as politics stay in spotlight
Movie about grief and IDF wins eight prizes, including best picture, actor and director at Israeli version of Oscars, as speakers blast absent Regev
By Jessica Steinberg
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