Communications in Israel

Source: Wikipedia. Pages: 29. Chapters: Israel Prize in communication recipients, Israeli media, Postage stamps of Israel, Telecommunications in Israel, Ram Loevy, Media of Israel, Postage stamps and postal history of Israel, Nahum Barnea, Nakdi Report, List of people on stamps of Israel, Ze'ev, Sokolov Award, Editors Committee, Israel Postal Company, Moti Kirschenbaum, Telephone numbers in Israel, Haim Yavin, Lynch test, Beit Sokolov, IsraGrid, Postal codes in Israel. Excerpt: Ram Loevy (Hebrew: ¿¿ ¿¿¿, born 1940 in Tel Aviv in the British Mandate of Palestine) is an award-winning Israeli television director and screenwriter since the medium first began broadcasting in the country in 1968. In a career spanning forty years, he has written and directed some of the most prominent and subversive television movies and documentaries, challenging the status quo on such issues as class conflict, torture, the prison system, and the Israel-Palestinian conflict. Despite his reputation as a gadfly, facing off against the Israeli establishment, Loevy was awarded the Israel Prize in Communication, Radio and Television in 1993 for his lifework. Loevy is currently Professor Emeritus of Cinema and Television at Tel Aviv University. Loevy was the son of Theodor Loevy, a journalist and his wife Elisa, originally from Poland. His father was the editor of the Danziger Echo, a prominent Jewish newspaper in the Free City of Danzig, who had been jailed for publishing anti-Nazi articles in his paper. Upon his release he fled to Poland, but that country later expelled him in the months leading up to World War II, under pressure from the authorities in Nazi Germany. He and his wife arrived in Palestine just three months before Ram Loevy was born. Loevy grew up in Tel Aviv, where he attended the Carmel School and Municipal High School A. As a boy, he was active in the Scouts and in the paramilitary Gadna program, in which high school age boys and girls received paramilitary training in preparation for their military service. It was in the Scouts that he met his wife Zipora. Upon being drafted to the Israel Defense Forces, he served in the Nahal unit, combining military training with agricultural work on kibbutzim throughout the country. He trained on Kibbutz Gal'ed in northern Israel, near the large Israeli Arab town of Umm al-Fahm, and later served on Kibbutz Sde Boker in the Negev, where David Ben Gurion had retired. In the army, he trained as a paratrooper. Even