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Yair Raveh

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Yair Raveh is chief film critic of Pnai Plus, Israel’s largest entertainment magazine. He also runs Israel’s most popular film blog, cinemascope.co.il

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East meets West in film

By Yair Raveh
 It is not only in politics and the street that Israel’s ethnic tensions surface. Our film reviewer Yair... Read more > Spring 2014

Film Review: Bethlehem vs. Omar

By Yair Raveh
 The media pitted one against the other. It was indeed a catchy story: two films from two sides... Read more > Winter 2014

Letting the right one in: the rise of the Israeli horror film

By Yair Raveh
 This has got to be the most surprising, and thrilling, of all trends to have ever emerged in... Read more > Autumn 2013

Israeli cinema: gay but not queer

By Yair Raveh
 Israeli cinema has been more mainstream and gay than subversive and queer. But that may be about to... Read more > Summer 2013

Israel reinvents the documentary

By Yair Raveh
 The Gatekeepers is a masterpiece in a landmark year for Israeli documentaries. The last fifteen years have seen... Read more > Spring 2013

Films of faith

By Yair Raveh
 2012 will be remembered as the year in which Israeli movies finally found God. It's not often a... Read more > Winter 2013

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Our Image of the Fortnight is Palestinians attend the last Friday prayer of the fasting month of Ramadan at al-Abrar mosque in Rafah, in the southern Gaza Strip on May 22, 2020. Photo by Flash90.

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