King David's at the top!
The lifestyle magazine Robb Report, has selected the King David Hotel in Jerusalem and Hotel Montefiore in Tel Aviv as two of the world's top 100 hotels in the African and Middle East categories. The King David hotel is one of the most prestigious hotels in Israel, and has hosted a respected list of world leaders and other famous figures, including former US Presidents George H. W. Bush, Bill Clinton and George W. Bush, former US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, Russian President Vladimir Putin, Jordan's late King Hussein, Britain's Prince Charles, French President Nicolas Sarkozy and Prince Felipe of Spain, as well as Irish musician Bono, British supermodel Naomi Campbell, American television personality Martha Stewart, British actor Roger Moore and many others.
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First ever Israeli exhibition at the Louvre
The Lod mosaic, which was uncovered in an archeological excavation by the Israel Antiquities Authority, is the first official Israeli exhibition to be displayed at the Louvre museum in France. The mosaic has been shown so far at five museums in the United States, including the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York. It will be on display in the Cour du Sphinx (Sphinx Courtyard) in the Roman wing of the museum until August 19th.
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Israeli director spins heads at Cannes Film Festival
Israeli director Ari Folman, has directed Robin Wright and Jon Hamm in a head-spinning part animated part live action film, The Congress. In the movie, Wright agrees to become a “scanned actor,” a digital avatar owned by her studio. The digital Wright can be endlessly, agelessly used in new movies – the studio makes her “Agent Robin” in a sci-fi action series – while the flesh-and-blood person grows old in obscurity. Folman is the man behind the 2008 film, “Waltz With Bashir,” an Academy Award-nominated animated film about his experiences as a young Israeli soldier in Lebanon in the 1980s.