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...Friday, May 14, 1948, the leaders of the Jewish settlement in Israel assembled in the Tel Aviv Museum, and David Ben-Gurion read out the Scroll of Independence: "By virtue of our national and intrinsic right and on the strength of the resolution of the United Nations General Assembly we hereby declare the establishment of a Jewish state in Palestine, which shall be known as the State of Israel...
...editors of Israel's two leading daily newspapers are now sitting in jail while authorities investigate allegations that the press barons ordered illegal wiretaps against each other as part of an all-out circulation war. Today, dozens of police poured into the Tel Aviv headquarters of Yediot Ahronot, the country's largest daily, carting off crates of documents and detaining the publisher and two top editors for questioning. The editor of Yediot's main competitor, Maariv, has been under arrest since Saturday. "It's a black day for journalism," said Israeli Communications Minister Shulamit Aloni, who took time to remind...
...show business. In 1980 Shear Madness was capitalized at $60,000. Since then it has grossed $54 million while playing to 3.8 million people in 23,000 performances in the U.S. (St. Louis, Philadelphia and Austin as well as the cities mentioned above) and around the world (Montreal, Tel Aviv, Melbourne, Barcelona, Buenos Aires, Budapest)-but never in New York City, the titular capital of live theater. Many audience members are repeaters, genial cultists; they come back bringing their friends and looking for the differences in each performance. Some fans even make pilgrimages to cities where the show has just...
...theme, so it is hardly surprising that Song of the Sirens is set against the backdrop of the Gulf War. What makes it unusual--and refreshingly so--is that the film is a romantic comedy about looking for love while Saddam Hussein's Scud missiles are headed for Tel Aviv. Says its director, U.S.-born Israeli Eytan Fox: ``Israeli films tend to be ideological and socially and politically oriented. No wonder Israelis run away from them as too heavy and morbid.'' Not so for Fox's Song of the Sirens: since opening last October, it has attracted 145,000 moviegoers...
...movie is based on a 1991 best-selling novel by Irit Linur and follows the zigzag entanglements of Talilah Katz, a thirtysomething advertising executive who fits easily into Tel Aviv's chic yuppie milieu and is representative of the modern, liberated young Israeli women contemptuous of the macho and militaristic values woven through their society. ``A fine movie, well produced and well acted,'' summed up l`Isha, a women's publication, and added, ``For a change, Tel Aviv doesn't look like it is part of a third-world country.'' Fox financed his $600,000 film from government grants...