Academy awards

Israeli film Butcher's Stain receives an Oscar nomination in Best Live Action Short category

Butcher’s Stain has already won a Silver Medal in the Narrative category at the 2025 Student Academy Awards, an important achievement for a filmmaker at the beginning of his career.

|ByHANNAH BROWN
Omar Sameer Mahamid stars in Meyer Levinson-Blount's Butcher's Stain, a short film that has received an Oscar nomination.
Recipients of the HIT Special Appreciation Award with Chairman of the Board Pini Cohen, HIT President Prof. Eduard Yakubov, Dr. Barkan, and CEO Samuel Goldberg.

HIT Holon Institute of Technology presents its first Special Appreciation Awards

Institute honors leading figures and organizations for advancing academia, industry, innovation, and community impact

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Scene in 'Red Alert'.

Israel's 'Red Alert' nominated for Critics Choice Award in Best Foreign Language Series category

The series is named for the phrase that signifies that a missile attack is imminent in Israel, and it dramatizes true stories of ordinary people in extraordinary circumstances on October 7.

|ByHANNAH BROWN
Israelis enjoy an open-air movie screening under the stars at the Sam Spiegel School for Film and Television in Jerusalem, August 6, 2025.

Israeli film, ‘Butcher’s Stain’, wins a Student Academy Award

The awards are presented by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences, and 15 student films from around the world were selected as semifinalists in four categories.

|ByHANNAH BROWN

Artur Brauner, German-Jewish producer of ‘Europa Europa,’ dies at 100

In 2010, the Yad Vashem Holocaust memorial in Israel named a new media center for Brauner. He reportedly called the recognition “the crowning achievement of my film career.”

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Bettina Bernhard, Artur Brauner and his daughter Alice Brauner arrive for screening of the movie Isle of dogs at the 68th Berlin International Film Festival Berlinale in Berlin, Germany, February 15, 2018.