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Rony Oren
Rony Oren (; born on February 25, 1953) is an Israeli animator, claymator and academic. In the commercial world he is best known for more than 500 animated short films in clay and over 30 children books which he writes and illustrates. Career Oren was born in Haifa, Israel on February 25, 1953. He planned to be a biologist, and got into animation as a part-time job when he began making animated films for Channel 1 in the early 1970s. When he tried making an animated film with clay, he knew that he had found his material. From his independent studio Frame by Frame, established in 1978, he directed and animated over 500 short films and television series. Based on plasticine figures, a number of his films have received international awards. Oren won the Nachum Gutman prize for illustration. Oren's short films were submitted by the Israeli Broadcasting Authority and selected for screening in the Radio and Television Museum in New York and Los Angeles. Among the series that Oren prod ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Grabbit The Rabbit
''Grabbit the Rabbit'' (known in Hebrew as ארנב עכשיו) is a 1999 claymation animated television series produced by Israeli animator Rony Oren with the Israel Broadcasting Authority. The series' plot was based on Jean de La Fontaine's Fables and the African-American Uncle Remus folktales and stories by Joel Chandler Harris. It focuses on the adventures of Grabbit the Rabbit, who uses his brain and always succeeds in surviving and helping the less strong animals of the forest. The series was originally produced in Israel in 1995-1998. 13 episodes were produced. All the characters were made from moulded plasticine modelling clay on metal armatures. The series originally premiered on Channel 1. On 5 February 1999, Link Entertainment acquired the distribution rights to the series from Oren and the Israel Broadcasting Authority. On 17 September 1999, Channel 4 struck a deal with Link over broadcast rights for the series in the United Kingdom, with the show premiering on 20 Oc ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Animator
An animator is an artist who creates images, known as frames, which give an illusion of movement called animation when displayed in rapid sequence. Animators can work in a variety of fields including film, television, and video games. Animation is closely related to filmmaking and like filmmaking is extremely labor-intensive, which means that most significant works require the collaboration of several animators. The methods of creating the images or frames for an animation piece depend on the animators' artistic styles and their field. Other artists who contribute to animated cartoons, but who are not animators, include Page layout, layout artists (who design the backgrounds, lighting, and camera angles), storyboard artists (who draw panels of the action from the script), and background artists (who paint the "scenery"). Animated films share some film crew positions with regular live action films, such as director, producer, sound engineer, and editor, but differ radically i ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bezeq
Bezeq () is an Israeli telecommunications company. Bezeq and its subsidiaries offer a range of telecom services, including fixed-line, mobile telephony, high-speed Internet, transmission, and pay TV (via Yes (Israel), Yes). The company is traded in the Tel Aviv Stock Exchange under the symbol BEZQ, and is part of the TA-35 Index, Tel Aviv 35 Index. History In the late 1980s Anat Hoffman founded a group to protect the interests of Bezeq customers. A major complaint was that Bezeq did not send customers itemized bills. 46 cases were brought to small claims court and the consumers won 43 of them. Within two years of the campaign. consumers began to receive itemized bills. In April 2012, Bezeq acquired full ownership of Walla! Communications Ltd, Walla! Communications, Israel's leading Internet portal, which has more than 2.5 million monthly unique users. In December 2020, Bezeq sold its 100% stake in Walla! Communications. Bezeq operates the B144 Directory assistance, directory ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
WIZO Haifa Academy Of Design And Education
The Haifa University School of Design, established following a merger between the Neri Bloomfield School of Design and Education, formerly known as WIZO Haifa, and the University of Haifa. Prior to the merger, the academic center served as a college for training designers, integrating education studies into its programs. The School of Design is located on the Campus Hamoshava in the German Colony of Haifa. The Haifa School of Design, named after Neri Bloomfield and formerly WIZO Canada, It is the leading professional and academic institution for higher education in art in northern Israel. The school Dean is Prof. Leah Peretz. History The academy was founded in 1971 by the international WIZO organization to train professional artists and art teachers. Initially, the academy shared a building with the WIZO High School of Art in the neighbourhood of Upper Hadar. In 2004 the academy moved down to a refurbished modern building in the German Colony. In 2024 it was merged into the Uni ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Beit Tzvi
Kfar Tzvi Sitrin (), also known as Beit Tzvi (, ''lit.'' Zvi House) is a technical college and village in northern Israel. Located near Highway 4, it falls under the jurisdiction of Hof HaCarmel Regional Council. In it had a population of . History The village was established in 1953 as a professional religious school, and was named after Zvi Sitrin, a leader of Hapoel HaMizrachi in the United States. In the following years, the area was bought by Lev Leviev, and was used as a school and yeshiva A yeshiva (; ; pl. , or ) is a traditional Jewish educational institution focused on the study of Rabbinic literature, primarily the Talmud and halacha (Jewish law), while Torah and Jewish philosophy are studied in parallel. The stu ... named "Or Avner" after Leviev's father. References {{Authority control Villages in Israel Education in Israel Populated places established in 1953 Populated places in Haifa District 1953 establishments in Israel Words and ph ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Animated Haggadah
''The Animated Haggadah'' is a 1985 passover claymation film directed by Rony Oren Rony Oren (; born on February 25, 1953) is an Israeli animator, claymator and academic. In the commercial world he is best known for more than 500 animated short films in clay and over 30 children books which he writes and illustrates. Career Ore ... and produced by Scopus Films. References Passover fiction Claymation films {{Animation-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Steimatzky
Steimatzky () is a bookstore chain in Israel. History 1920–25: Tzvi Steimatzky years The first store was opened by Tzvi Steimatzky in 1920 in Tel Aviv, 6 Herzl St. 1925–63: Yechezkel Steimatzky years In 1925 Tzvi's half brother Yechezkel Steimatzky opened the second store on Jaffa Road in Jerusalem. Yechezkel Steimatzky was a Russian-born immigrant from Germany. He had originally come to the British Mandate of Palestine on a short visit for the opening of the Hebrew University of Jerusalem and decided to stay after he saw the potential in opening a foreign language bookstore that would serve a growing immigrants' market as well as British Army soldiers serving under the British Mandate. The concept was so successful that he opened an additional store in Haifa later that year. In 1927 Steimatzky saw the potential for expansion throughout the Middle East and opened a store in Beirut. The company name was changed to ''Steimatzky Middle East Agency''. During World War II, a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Dror Green
Dror Green (; born 1954) is a psychotherapist and author. He developed the methods of Emotional Training and Emotional Thinking, based on his concept of human nature. Although he was descended from a family that had lived in Israel for ten generations, he did not identify with Zionism, as he writes in the introduction to his book, ''ABC of Israeli Apartheid''. Biography Green was born in Jerusalem in 1954. As a thirteen-year-old boy he witnessed Israeli soldiers destroying a Palestinian neighborhood near the Western Wall in the old city of Jerusalem. As a soldier in the war of 1973 between Israel, Syria and Egypt, he witnessed the Israeli army destroying villages before withdrawing from occupied Syrian territory. He was wounded in the war and suffered from PTSD, and the experience of trauma and war crimes influenced his personal and professional life, as described in his ''Back to Crew No. 4''. He holds an MA and PhD in psychotherapy (Regent's College, City University, L ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
United States
The United States of America (USA), also known as the United States (U.S.) or America, is a country primarily located in North America. It is a federal republic of 50 U.S. state, states and a federal capital district, Washington, D.C. The 48 contiguous states border Canada to the north and Mexico to the south, with the semi-exclave of Alaska in the northwest and the archipelago of Hawaii in the Pacific Ocean. The United States asserts sovereignty over five Territories of the United States, major island territories and United States Minor Outlying Islands, various uninhabited islands in Oceania and the Caribbean. It is a megadiverse country, with the world's List of countries and dependencies by area, third-largest land area and List of countries and dependencies by population, third-largest population, exceeding 340 million. Its three Metropolitan statistical areas by population, largest metropolitan areas are New York metropolitan area, New York, Greater Los Angeles, Los Angel ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Greece
Greece, officially the Hellenic Republic, is a country in Southeast Europe. Located on the southern tip of the Balkan peninsula, it shares land borders with Albania to the northwest, North Macedonia and Bulgaria to the north, and Turkey to the east. The Aegean Sea lies to the east of the Geography of Greece, mainland, the Ionian Sea to the west, and the Sea of Crete and the Mediterranean Sea to the south. Greece has the longest coastline on the Mediterranean Basin, spanning List of islands of Greece, thousands of islands and nine Geographic regions of Greece, traditional geographic regions. It has a population of over 10 million. Athens is the nation's capital and List of cities and towns in Greece, largest city, followed by Thessaloniki and Patras. Greece is considered the cradle of Western culture, Western civilisation and the birthplace of Athenian democracy, democracy, Western philosophy, Western literature, historiography, political science, major History of science in cl ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Italy
Italy, officially the Italian Republic, is a country in Southern Europe, Southern and Western Europe, Western Europe. It consists of Italian Peninsula, a peninsula that extends into the Mediterranean Sea, with the Alps on its northern land border, as well as List of islands of Italy, nearly 800 islands, notably Sicily and Sardinia. Italy shares land borders with France to the west; Switzerland and Austria to the north; Slovenia to the east; and the two enclaves of Vatican City and San Marino. It is the List of European countries by area, tenth-largest country in Europe by area, covering , and the third-most populous member state of the European Union, with nearly 59 million inhabitants. Italy's capital and List of cities in Italy, largest city is Rome; other major cities include Milan, Naples, Turin, Palermo, Bologna, Florence, Genoa, and Venice. The history of Italy goes back to numerous List of ancient peoples of Italy, Italic peoples—notably including the ancient Romans, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Denmark
Denmark is a Nordic countries, Nordic country in Northern Europe. It is the metropole and most populous constituent of the Kingdom of Denmark,, . also known as the Danish Realm, a constitutionally unitary state that includes the Autonomous administrative division, autonomous territories of the Faroe Islands and Greenland in the north Atlantic Ocean.* * * Metropolitan Denmark, also called "continental Denmark" or "Denmark proper", consists of the northern Jutland peninsula and an archipelago of 406 islands. It is the southernmost of the Scandinavian countries, lying southwest of Sweden, south of Norway, and north of Germany, with which it shares a short border. Denmark proper is situated between the North Sea to the west and the Baltic Sea to the east.The island of Bornholm is offset to the east of the rest of the country, in the Baltic Sea. The Kingdom of Denmark, including the Faroe Islands and Greenland, has roughly List of islands of Denmark, 1,400 islands greater than in ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
