An Israeli photographer's new take on Disney fairytales
An Israeli born photographer is making waves with the project “fallen princesses.” Dina Goldstein created a photo project that shows alternative, more modern endings to the well-known Disney fairy tales. What kind of modern-day problems would Snow White face today? And what about Belle?
Another Israeli startup sold to a tech giant
Just months after the Israeli startup Waze was purchased by Google in a billion-dollar deal, it has been announced that IBM is acquiring Israel-based Trusteer, a maker of security software to protect data from phishing and other malware attacks. The deal is rumored to be worth between $800 million and a billion dollars.
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Babs thanking her Israeli fans. Personally.
During one of her two concerts in Israel, living legend Barbra Streisand dedicated a song to an Israeli couple, Nit Berger and Itai Or. The two are big fans of her, and before her performance, they sent her a letter: “We're together because of you.'Guilty' came out before we were even born, but we love it! Can you please sing it?” Now, almost two months since that performance, the couple was surprised to receive a “thank you” letter from the singer.
Another Israeli TV format to air abroad
After “Homeland,” “In Treatment,” “Mother's Day” and many more, another Israeli television series has caught the eyes of producers abroad. The Israeli television series “Ima Ve'abaz” (“Mom and Dads”), which is broadcast by the HOT cable company, has been sold to France and Britain. The show tells the story of two homosexual men who have a child with a straight single woman.
What got El Al plane to turn around?
11-year-old cancer patient Inbar Chomsky boarded an El Al flight in Israel to attend a camp for sick kids in New York, but had to get off the plane, after she found out her passport is missing. despite frantic efforts by her group to find it, the airline had to take off without her. Minutes after the plane had departed, another camper found Inbar's passport in another girl's backpack. Then, the pilots consulted with ground control and in a beautiful act decided to return to the gate to pick her up.
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Small country, big ideas
Did you know Israelis did all of that?!