ophir awards

Film about Yitzhak Rabin’s assassin is Israel’s entry for Academy Awards

“Incitement” winning for best film has incensed the nation’s culture minister.

By Marcy Oster September 23, 2019 9:07 am

Controversial Israeli film ‘Foxtrot’ makes Oscar shortlist

Israel’s culture minister said the film, one of nine picked in the foreign language category, attempts to “undermine” her country and its soldiers’ morality.

December 15, 2017 9:38 am

‘Israeli Oscars’ snubs culture minister who walked out on last year’s ceremony

Mimi Regev caused a stir at last year's Ophir Awards when she walked out in protest while an Arab-Israeli rapper performed a poem by a late Palestinian poet.

September 12, 2017 11:34 am