Israeli-based drama wins Emmy award
The TV show Homeland, based on the Israeli series Hatufim, won the top drama prize at the Primetime Emmy awards. The Guardian article below explains how Gideon Raff’s Israeli drama was taken to the USA. But the BBC World Service called Homeland a “home-grown” US series.
Blog summary
It was nice of the JPost blog editor Lidar Grave-Lazi to write a summary of blogs for the week ending Sept 12th. She wanted to end on a positive note, so my contribution “A time and a place for everything” featured as the finale.
Israeli victory in Davis Cup
Israel beat Japan 3-2 in Japan to advance to the top World Group of tennis’s Davis Cup. Israel’s Amir Weintraub, ranked 223 in the world, won the high-pressure deciding match in four sets, against Japan’s Go Soeda who is ranked 170 places above him at number 53.
On the way back up
Israeli hero Nadav Ben Yehuda is back to his favourite sport. In May, Nadav abandoned his record-breaking attempt to climb Mount Everest in order to save a Turkish climber. Now Nadav has scaled the 5,033 meters (16,512 feet), Georgian peak of Mount Kazbeck, planting an Israeli flag on the summit.
Israeli honey is the “bees knees”
The average Israeli consumer will buy two kilos of honey for the holiday season. Speciality honeys include organic honey, marzipan honey and halva honey. Flavours are introduced by placing hives near eucalyptus and citrus, avocado and apple groves. Or try onion and desert flower.
In the swim
10,000 participated in the annual Crossing Kinneret (Sea of Galilee) Swim – one of the largest amateur sports events in Israel. They included the British Ambassador to Israel, Matthew Gould who led a team of swimmers from the UK Embassy.
Shanananana Tova
Happy New Year from the Ein Prat Fountainheads. This is their 5772 Rosh Hashana video and “Dip The Apple” has had over 2 million views since last year. I love what they do with the iPhone.
Hadas Yaron is Venice’s “Best Actress”
Israeli actress Hadas Yaron won the Coppa Volpi Award for Best Actress at the 69th Venice Film Festival. The 22-year-old took the title role in Rama Burshtein’s film – Fill the Void (Lemale et Ha’chalal) – about the ultra-Orthodox Jewish community in Tel Aviv.
Red Hot in Tel Aviv
California rockers Red Hot Chili Peppers rocked 50,000 fans at Ganei Yehoshua.
Nine Israeli paralympic medallists
Six of the 25 Israeli team members won medals at the 2012 London Paralympics. One gold, two silvers and six bronze medals. Noam Gershony won a gold and a bronze in tennis and Inbal Pezaro won three bronzes in the swimming.