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The Jaglom family’s Diamond Charity Foundation supports social, cultural, medical, and educational projects in Israel. This specific project to help build a digital film archive in Israel was spearheaded by Daphna Jaglom. After finishing her Masters at NYU-Tisch Cinema Studies in 2012, Daphna became an avid supporter of moving image archives and preservation, and saw the risk that Israel might lose vital memories without a state-of-the-art digital film archive. The various recorded moving image media disintegrate over time, their content forgotten as if it had never existed. Even digital archiving requires great care to ensure that the format will remain usable for future generations. With all this in mind, Daphna made it her mission to work with the highly motivated staff of the Jerusalem Cinematheque to create the archive they needed, with the technology required. The dedicated and detailed work of these archivists now means that future generations will be able to enjoy these films; a publicly available treasure trove for the general public and researchers alike
The Beracha Foundation, established in 1971 supports three main areas of activity in Israel: education, culture, and the environment. In the field of education, the foundation’s focus is on promoting entrepreneurship amongst educators in schools, and training education and care professionals for day cares and nurseries. In terms of the environment, the foundation has been championing urban sustainability, alongside the active role it has played in environmental legislation and policy-making. The foundation’s cultural support extends to bodies and institutions that promote original Israeli content, whilst also advocating for culture-centric policies, and lending its support to local content creators.
The foundation has been supporting and shadowing the development and thought process at the heart of the Israeli Film Archive since its inception, as part of its global patronage of original Israeli content. This support is the product of a realisation that the country’s precious pool of Israeli films are part and parcel of the local narrative. The prospect of preserving the films that were made here over generations, and making them accessible will offer profound insights into the ways in which Israeli society has changed and evolved over the years, whilst also providing a unique and important perspective on life, relationships, and the multilayered intricacy of the land and State of Israel.
Israel’s National Lottery (‘Mifal HaPayis’) was founded to provide support and assistance to members of the Israeli general public from all walks of life. As such, the National Lottery’s aid targets and goals are dynamic, as per society’s and various communities’ ever-changing needs. In the year 2000, the National Lottery began allocating considerable resources towards the development of Israeli culture and art, with the aim of investing every bit as much in the community’s soul and spirit.
The Israeli National Lottery Council for Culture and the Arts is proud to aid and support both art and artists in a variety of geographical regions, as well as diverse demographics and sectors who, otherwise would not benefit from the support of traditional institutions. Funneling resources in those directions is meant to benefit and sustain the rich and diverse range of Israeli artistic productivity and creativity, with an emphasis on quality and accessibility for target demographics who do not live in the heart of the country.
The National Lottery Council’s support of the Israeli Film Archive is directly tied to one of the targets it has set for itself: the commemorating and enshrining of tradition by means of digital preservation and documentation of films which, over the years have become building blocks of Israeli culture. The archive will be available to Israeli and international users alike, thereby making Israel’s cultural heritage readily available to anyone looking to explore it from the comfort of their own computer; be they academics, film industry professionals, and new generations of industrious filmmakers and creators. We wish you all a pleasant viewing experience, a fascinating and productive learning journey, and many more years of essential, quality filmmaking.
The Israel Film Council was established in the year 2000 as part of the 1999 Film Act. It is the acting body in charge of the law’s implementation. The council’s role is to devise policy and a list of criteria that would facilitate a practical, equal disbursement of funds coming from parliament’s film support budget. Highlights of the council’s roles include: fostering an original and authentic Israeli cultural identity, whilst simultaneously showcasing and representing Israeli society’s cultural diversity and its people’s range of opinions and worldviews; promoting and championing the creation, production, and distribution of Israeli films; spearheading and facilitating international filmmaking collaborations; encouraging and promoting the marketing of original Israeli content overseas; supporting festivals and backing preservation schemes of Israeli films. The Ministry of Culture and Sport has provided the Jerusalem Cinematheque’s Israeli Film Archive with extensive support. The ministry’s backing and funding enable the ongoing compiling and preservation of Israeli film heritage for generations to come.
The Ministry of Culture and Sport and the Israel Film Council congratulate the Jerusalem Cinematheque for the launch of the film archive’s website, and commend both cinematheque and archive staff for their tireless researching, compiling, documenting, restoring, and preserving efforts over the last few years towards expanding and upgrading the archive that was founded by the late Mrs. Lia van Leer.
It is an asset of the most profound, national significance and is home to a historical collection of cultural gems, invaluable to the Israeli public. In order to carry on building the Israeli Film Archive’s precious catalogue, and to further expand its collections considerably, the Ministry of Culture and Sport and the Israel Film Archive have announced that from now on, all Israeli filmmakers will have to deposit a copy of the films they have made at the archives, for future generations. What is more, the Jerusalem Cinematheque’s Film Archive has been recognised by all Israeli filmmakers as an institution whose job it is to preserve and protect Israeli films – be they old or new.
The Ministry of Culture and Sport wishes the archive the best of luck en route to fully realising its mission – promoting Israeli film culture, locally and internationally by creating restored digital screener copies for cinematheques and festivals, alongside a viewing platform for heritage and cultural assets, for the benefit of the general public and scholars alike.
The Ministry of Jerusalem and Heritage is the government department in charge of cultivating the Israeli capital and preserving the country’s national heritage across Israel. The department’s Heritage wing endeavours to restore and amplify Israel’s national heritage in a myriad of ways, including curating content of national, historical significance and making it available to the general public in a range of media and formats, including digital. As part of these efforts that have seen an acknowledgment of Israeli cinema’s importance to the national heritage, the Israeli Film Archive’s digitizing scheme was shortlisted for the second phase of the Heritage Programme, thereby securing its government investment and funding as part of the ministry’s portfolio.
The Van Leer Group Foundation is a privately endowed charitable organisation. The organisation was established in 1979 by Oscar van Leer, the younger brother of Wim van Leer. The foundation manages the van Leer family’s range of philanthropic ventures and is also in charge of its investment portfolio and all philanthropic schemes. These charitable activities are presently embodied in the Van Leer Group Foundation in Amstelveen, the Bernard Van Leer Foundation in The Hague, the Van Leer Jerusalem Institute, and the Jerusalem Cinematheque.
The foundation has full ownership of Crecor B.V. – an Israeli risk management company that operates via its Israeli, Tel Aviv-based subsidiary, Docor International Management. One of the foundation’s main objectives is to aid and assist in the development and strengthening of Israel as a Jewish, democratic country that is committed to the creation and sustaining of a free, just, and equitable society for all its citizens, and to contribute to any and all efforts towards securing peace in the region; all to the benefit and bettering of Israeli society, culture, and individual life.
What is more, the foundation has taken it upon itself to create a range of positive opportunities for children around the world who are at a social, financial, and educational disadvantage. The foundation provides regular financial support to the Jerusalem Cinematheque, as well as funding for a range of awards that promote Israeli filmmaking, with an emphasis on young creators.
The Jerusalem Foundation, Israel’s largest of its kind, was founded in 1966 by Jerusalem’s then-mayor, Teddy Kollek, who viewed it as a potential fundraising engine towards developing the city, championing the community, and shaping it as a free, tolerant, and pluralist society.
The Jerusalem Foundation seeks out donations from Jerusalem lovers in Israel and all over the world. Funds raised are then invested into thousands of schemes and ventures that create opportunities for all Jerusalemites, regardless of faith, race, or nationality. Over the years, the fund has raised well over 1.5bn USD, and for many local councils and authorities around the country, it has been a role model and source of emulation.
The Jerusalem Foundation’s focus is on socio-cultural entrepreneurship that is geared towards Jerusalemites’ agendas and unique needs. As such, it remains successfully invested in a range of physical and content schemes promoting education, culture, financial, community, and welfare growth, and co-existence.
The Jerusalem Foundation is one of the cinematheque’s founders and considers it one of the city’s most fundamental cultural anchors. It is above and beyond proud to support its work and various endeavours all year round.
George Ostrovsky (1901-1980), a Pinsk-born businessman and philanthropist who lived in Rio de Janeiro, was the brains and driving force behind the building of the Jerusalem Cinematheque and the Israeli Film Archive in 1973. Ostrovsky was involved in the planning and design stages of the cinematheque’s building site on Hebron Rd. but never got to witness the completion of the Jerusalem Film Centre (JFC) that opened in 1981.
For the past 30 years, the Ostrovsky Family Fund (OFF) has been at the forefront of the JFC’s support and ongoing operations, providing annual donations and allocated funds towards the acquisition of films, programmes, festivals, equipment, staff training, and development consultants.
OFF was even the driving force behind the refurbishing and expanding of the JFC complex, which it funded in full. When the project was completed in 2008, the Fund then allocated additional funds towards upgrading the film archive and dedicating it to the memory of Wim and Lia van Leer; Ostrovsky’s partners on this project.
To date, the JFC and New York City’s Film Forum have been OFF’s primary beneficiaries. The fund’s patronage also extends to a host of international cultural and human rights schemes in Brazil, the US, and Israel.
The Jaglom family’s Diamond Charity Foundation supports social, cultural, medical, and educational projects in Israel. This specific project to help build a digital film archive in Israel was spearheaded by Daphna Jaglom. After finishing her Masters at NYU-Tisch Cinema Studies in 2012, Daphna became an avid supporter of moving image archives and preservation, and saw the risk that Israel might lose vital memories without a state-of-the-art digital film archive. The various recorded moving image media disintegrate over time, their content forgotten as if it had never existed. Even digital archiving requires great care to ensure that the format will remain usable for future generations. With all this in mind, Daphna made it her mission to work with the highly motivated staff of the Jerusalem Cinematheque to create the archive they needed, with the technology required. The dedicated and detailed work of these archivists now means that future generations will be able to enjoy these films; a publicly available treasure trove for the general public and researchers alike
The Beracha Foundation, established in 1971 supports three main areas of activity in Israel: education, culture, and the environment. In the field of education, the foundation’s focus is on promoting entrepreneurship amongst educators in schools, and training education and care professionals for day cares and nurseries. In terms of the environment, the foundation has been championing urban sustainability, alongside the active role it has played in environmental legislation and policy-making. The foundation’s cultural support extends to bodies and institutions that promote original Israeli content, whilst also advocating for culture-centric policies, and lending its support to local content creators.
The foundation has been supporting and shadowing the development and thought process at the heart of the Israeli Film Archive since its inception, as part of its global patronage of original Israeli content. This support is the product of a realisation that the country’s precious pool of Israeli films are part and parcel of the local narrative. The prospect of preserving the films that were made here over generations, and making them accessible will offer profound insights into the ways in which Israeli society has changed and evolved over the years, whilst also providing a unique and important perspective on life, relationships, and the multilayered intricacy of the land and State of Israel.
Israel’s National Lottery (‘Mifal HaPayis’) was founded to provide support and assistance to members of the Israeli general public from all walks of life. As such, the National Lottery’s aid targets and goals are dynamic, as per society’s and various communities’ ever-changing needs. In the year 2000, the National Lottery began allocating considerable resources towards the development of Israeli culture and art, with the aim of investing every bit as much in the community’s soul and spirit.
The Israeli National Lottery Council for Culture and the Arts is proud to aid and support both art and artists in a variety of geographical regions, as well as diverse demographics and sectors who, otherwise would not benefit from the support of traditional institutions. Funneling resources in those directions is meant to benefit and sustain the rich and diverse range of Israeli artistic productivity and creativity, with an emphasis on quality and accessibility for target demographics who do not live in the heart of the country.
The National Lottery Council’s support of the Israeli Film Archive is directly tied to one of the targets it has set for itself: the commemorating and enshrining of tradition by means of digital preservation and documentation of films which, over the years have become building blocks of Israeli culture. The archive will be available to Israeli and international users alike, thereby making Israel’s cultural heritage readily available to anyone looking to explore it from the comfort of their own computer; be they academics, film industry professionals, and new generations of industrious filmmakers and creators. We wish you all a pleasant viewing experience, a fascinating and productive learning journey, and many more years of essential, quality filmmaking.
The Israel Film Council was established in the year 2000 as part of the 1999 Film Act. It is the acting body in charge of the law’s implementation. The council’s role is to devise policy and a list of criteria that would facilitate a practical, equal disbursement of funds coming from parliament’s film support budget. Highlights of the council’s roles include: fostering an original and authentic Israeli cultural identity, whilst simultaneously showcasing and representing Israeli society’s cultural diversity and its people’s range of opinions and worldviews; promoting and championing the creation, production, and distribution of Israeli films; spearheading and facilitating international filmmaking collaborations; encouraging and promoting the marketing of original Israeli content overseas; supporting festivals and backing preservation schemes of Israeli films. The Ministry of Culture and Sport has provided the Jerusalem Cinematheque’s Israeli Film Archive with extensive support. The ministry’s backing and funding enable the ongoing compiling and preservation of Israeli film heritage for generations to come.
The Ministry of Culture and Sport and the Israel Film Council congratulate the Jerusalem Cinematheque for the launch of the film archive’s website, and commend both cinematheque and archive staff for their tireless researching, compiling, documenting, restoring, and preserving efforts over the last few years towards expanding and upgrading the archive that was founded by the late Mrs. Lia van Leer.
It is an asset of the most profound, national significance and is home to a historical collection of cultural gems, invaluable to the Israeli public. In order to carry on building the Israeli Film Archive’s precious catalogue, and to further expand its collections considerably, the Ministry of Culture and Sport and the Israel Film Archive have announced that from now on, all Israeli filmmakers will have to deposit a copy of the films they have made at the archives, for future generations. What is more, the Jerusalem Cinematheque’s Film Archive has been recognised by all Israeli filmmakers as an institution whose job it is to preserve and protect Israeli films – be they old or new.
The Ministry of Culture and Sport wishes the archive the best of luck en route to fully realising its mission – promoting Israeli film culture, locally and internationally by creating restored digital screener copies for cinematheques and festivals, alongside a viewing platform for heritage and cultural assets, for the benefit of the general public and scholars alike.
The Ministry of Jerusalem and Heritage is the government department in charge of cultivating the Israeli capital and preserving the country’s national heritage across Israel. The department’s Heritage wing endeavours to restore and amplify Israel’s national heritage in a myriad of ways, including curating content of national, historical significance and making it available to the general public in a range of media and formats, including digital. As part of these efforts that have seen an acknowledgment of Israeli cinema’s importance to the national heritage, the Israeli Film Archive’s digitizing scheme was shortlisted for the second phase of the Heritage Programme, thereby securing its government investment and funding as part of the ministry’s portfolio.
The Van Leer Group Foundation is a privately endowed charitable organisation. The organisation was established in 1979 by Oscar van Leer, the younger brother of Wim van Leer. The foundation manages the van Leer family’s range of philanthropic ventures and is also in charge of its investment portfolio and all philanthropic schemes. These charitable activities are presently embodied in the Van Leer Group Foundation in Amstelveen, the Bernard Van Leer Foundation in The Hague, the Van Leer Jerusalem Institute, and the Jerusalem Cinematheque.
The foundation has full ownership of Crecor B.V. – an Israeli risk management company that operates via its Israeli, Tel Aviv-based subsidiary, Docor International Management. One of the foundation’s main objectives is to aid and assist in the development and strengthening of Israel as a Jewish, democratic country that is committed to the creation and sustaining of a free, just, and equitable society for all its citizens, and to contribute to any and all efforts towards securing peace in the region; all to the benefit and bettering of Israeli society, culture, and individual life.
What is more, the foundation has taken it upon itself to create a range of positive opportunities for children around the world who are at a social, financial, and educational disadvantage. The foundation provides regular financial support to the Jerusalem Cinematheque, as well as funding for a range of awards that promote Israeli filmmaking, with an emphasis on young creators.
The Jerusalem Foundation, Israel’s largest of its kind, was founded in 1966 by Jerusalem’s then-mayor, Teddy Kollek, who viewed it as a potential fundraising engine towards developing the city, championing the community, and shaping it as a free, tolerant, and pluralist society.
The Jerusalem Foundation seeks out donations from Jerusalem lovers in Israel and all over the world. Funds raised are then invested into thousands of schemes and ventures that create opportunities for all Jerusalemites, regardless of faith, race, or nationality. Over the years, the fund has raised well over 1.5bn USD, and for many local councils and authorities around the country, it has been a role model and source of emulation.
The Jerusalem Foundation’s focus is on socio-cultural entrepreneurship that is geared towards Jerusalemites’ agendas and unique needs. As such, it remains successfully invested in a range of physical and content schemes promoting education, culture, financial, community, and welfare growth, and co-existence.
The Jerusalem Foundation is one of the cinematheque’s founders and considers it one of the city’s most fundamental cultural anchors. It is above and beyond proud to support its work and various endeavours all year round.
George Ostrovsky (1901-1980), a Pinsk-born businessman and philanthropist who lived in Rio de Janeiro, was the brains and driving force behind the building of the Jerusalem Cinematheque and the Israeli Film Archive in 1973. Ostrovsky was involved in the planning and design stages of the cinematheque’s building site on Hebron Rd. but never got to witness the completion of the Jerusalem Film Centre (JFC) that opened in 1981.
For the past 30 years, the Ostrovsky Family Fund (OFF) has been at the forefront of the JFC’s support and ongoing operations, providing annual donations and allocated funds towards the acquisition of films, programmes, festivals, equipment, staff training, and development consultants.
OFF was even the driving force behind the refurbishing and expanding of the JFC complex, which it funded in full. When the project was completed in 2008, the Fund then allocated additional funds towards upgrading the film archive and dedicating it to the memory of Wim and Lia van Leer; Ostrovsky’s partners on this project.
To date, the JFC and New York City’s Film Forum have been OFF’s primary beneficiaries. The fund’s patronage also extends to a host of international cultural and human rights schemes in Brazil, the US, and Israel.
The Jaglom family’s Diamond Charity Foundation supports social, cultural, medical, and educational projects in Israel. This specific project to help build a digital film archive in Israel was spearheaded by Daphna Jaglom. After finishing her Masters at NYU-Tisch Cinema Studies in 2012, Daphna became an avid supporter of moving image archives and preservation, and saw the risk that Israel might lose vital memories without a state-of-the-art digital film archive. The various recorded moving image media disintegrate over time, their content forgotten as if it had never existed. Even digital archiving requires great care to ensure that the format will remain usable for future generations. With all this in mind, Daphna made it her mission to work with the highly motivated staff of the Jerusalem Cinematheque to create the archive they needed, with the technology required. The dedicated and detailed work of these archivists now means that future generations will be able to enjoy these films; a publicly available treasure trove for the general public and researchers alike
The Beracha Foundation, established in 1971 supports three main areas of activity in Israel: education, culture, and the environment. In the field of education, the foundation’s focus is on promoting entrepreneurship amongst educators in schools, and training education and care professionals for day cares and nurseries. In terms of the environment, the foundation has been championing urban sustainability, alongside the active role it has played in environmental legislation and policy-making. The foundation’s cultural support extends to bodies and institutions that promote original Israeli content, whilst also advocating for culture-centric policies, and lending its support to local content creators.
The foundation has been supporting and shadowing the development and thought process at the heart of the Israeli Film Archive since its inception, as part of its global patronage of original Israeli content. This support is the product of a realisation that the country’s precious pool of Israeli films are part and parcel of the local narrative. The prospect of preserving the films that were made here over generations, and making them accessible will offer profound insights into the ways in which Israeli society has changed and evolved over the years, whilst also providing a unique and important perspective on life, relationships, and the multilayered intricacy of the land and State of Israel.
Israel’s National Lottery (‘Mifal HaPayis’) was founded to provide support and assistance to members of the Israeli general public from all walks of life. As such, the National Lottery’s aid targets and goals are dynamic, as per society’s and various communities’ ever-changing needs. In the year 2000, the National Lottery began allocating considerable resources towards the development of Israeli culture and art, with the aim of investing every bit as much in the community’s soul and spirit.
The Israeli National Lottery Council for Culture and the Arts is proud to aid and support both art and artists in a variety of geographical regions, as well as diverse demographics and sectors who, otherwise would not benefit from the support of traditional institutions. Funneling resources in those directions is meant to benefit and sustain the rich and diverse range of Israeli artistic productivity and creativity, with an emphasis on quality and accessibility for target demographics who do not live in the heart of the country.
The National Lottery Council’s support of the Israeli Film Archive is directly tied to one of the targets it has set for itself: the commemorating and enshrining of tradition by means of digital preservation and documentation of films which, over the years have become building blocks of Israeli culture. The archive will be available to Israeli and international users alike, thereby making Israel’s cultural heritage readily available to anyone looking to explore it from the comfort of their own computer; be they academics, film industry professionals, and new generations of industrious filmmakers and creators. We wish you all a pleasant viewing experience, a fascinating and productive learning journey, and many more years of essential, quality filmmaking.
The Israel Film Council was established in the year 2000 as part of the 1999 Film Act. It is the acting body in charge of the law’s implementation. The council’s role is to devise policy and a list of criteria that would facilitate a practical, equal disbursement of funds coming from parliament’s film support budget. Highlights of the council’s roles include: fostering an original and authentic Israeli cultural identity, whilst simultaneously showcasing and representing Israeli society’s cultural diversity and its people’s range of opinions and worldviews; promoting and championing the creation, production, and distribution of Israeli films; spearheading and facilitating international filmmaking collaborations; encouraging and promoting the marketing of original Israeli content overseas; supporting festivals and backing preservation schemes of Israeli films. The Ministry of Culture and Sport has provided the Jerusalem Cinematheque’s Israeli Film Archive with extensive support. The ministry’s backing and funding enable the ongoing compiling and preservation of Israeli film heritage for generations to come.
The Ministry of Culture and Sport and the Israel Film Council congratulate the Jerusalem Cinematheque for the launch of the film archive’s website, and commend both cinematheque and archive staff for their tireless researching, compiling, documenting, restoring, and preserving efforts over the last few years towards expanding and upgrading the archive that was founded by the late Mrs. Lia van Leer.
It is an asset of the most profound, national significance and is home to a historical collection of cultural gems, invaluable to the Israeli public. In order to carry on building the Israeli Film Archive’s precious catalogue, and to further expand its collections considerably, the Ministry of Culture and Sport and the Israel Film Archive have announced that from now on, all Israeli filmmakers will have to deposit a copy of the films they have made at the archives, for future generations. What is more, the Jerusalem Cinematheque’s Film Archive has been recognised by all Israeli filmmakers as an institution whose job it is to preserve and protect Israeli films – be they old or new.
The Ministry of Culture and Sport wishes the archive the best of luck en route to fully realising its mission – promoting Israeli film culture, locally and internationally by creating restored digital screener copies for cinematheques and festivals, alongside a viewing platform for heritage and cultural assets, for the benefit of the general public and scholars alike.
The Ministry of Jerusalem and Heritage is the government department in charge of cultivating the Israeli capital and preserving the country’s national heritage across Israel. The department’s Heritage wing endeavours to restore and amplify Israel’s national heritage in a myriad of ways, including curating content of national, historical significance and making it available to the general public in a range of media and formats, including digital. As part of these efforts that have seen an acknowledgment of Israeli cinema’s importance to the national heritage, the Israeli Film Archive’s digitizing scheme was shortlisted for the second phase of the Heritage Programme, thereby securing its government investment and funding as part of the ministry’s portfolio.
The Van Leer Group Foundation is a privately endowed charitable organisation. The organisation was established in 1979 by Oscar van Leer, the younger brother of Wim van Leer. The foundation manages the van Leer family’s range of philanthropic ventures and is also in charge of its investment portfolio and all philanthropic schemes. These charitable activities are presently embodied in the Van Leer Group Foundation in Amstelveen, the Bernard Van Leer Foundation in The Hague, the Van Leer Jerusalem Institute, and the Jerusalem Cinematheque.
The foundation has full ownership of Crecor B.V. – an Israeli risk management company that operates via its Israeli, Tel Aviv-based subsidiary, Docor International Management. One of the foundation’s main objectives is to aid and assist in the development and strengthening of Israel as a Jewish, democratic country that is committed to the creation and sustaining of a free, just, and equitable society for all its citizens, and to contribute to any and all efforts towards securing peace in the region; all to the benefit and bettering of Israeli society, culture, and individual life.
What is more, the foundation has taken it upon itself to create a range of positive opportunities for children around the world who are at a social, financial, and educational disadvantage. The foundation provides regular financial support to the Jerusalem Cinematheque, as well as funding for a range of awards that promote Israeli filmmaking, with an emphasis on young creators.
The Jerusalem Foundation, Israel’s largest of its kind, was founded in 1966 by Jerusalem’s then-mayor, Teddy Kollek, who viewed it as a potential fundraising engine towards developing the city, championing the community, and shaping it as a free, tolerant, and pluralist society.
The Jerusalem Foundation seeks out donations from Jerusalem lovers in Israel and all over the world. Funds raised are then invested into thousands of schemes and ventures that create opportunities for all Jerusalemites, regardless of faith, race, or nationality. Over the years, the fund has raised well over 1.5bn USD, and for many local councils and authorities around the country, it has been a role model and source of emulation.
The Jerusalem Foundation’s focus is on socio-cultural entrepreneurship that is geared towards Jerusalemites’ agendas and unique needs. As such, it remains successfully invested in a range of physical and content schemes promoting education, culture, financial, community, and welfare growth, and co-existence.
The Jerusalem Foundation is one of the cinematheque’s founders and considers it one of the city’s most fundamental cultural anchors. It is above and beyond proud to support its work and various endeavours all year round.
George Ostrovsky (1901-1980), a Pinsk-born businessman and philanthropist who lived in Rio de Janeiro, was the brains and driving force behind the building of the Jerusalem Cinematheque and the Israeli Film Archive in 1973. Ostrovsky was involved in the planning and design stages of the cinematheque’s building site on Hebron Rd. but never got to witness the completion of the Jerusalem Film Centre (JFC) that opened in 1981.
For the past 30 years, the Ostrovsky Family Fund (OFF) has been at the forefront of the JFC’s support and ongoing operations, providing annual donations and allocated funds towards the acquisition of films, programmes, festivals, equipment, staff training, and development consultants.
OFF was even the driving force behind the refurbishing and expanding of the JFC complex, which it funded in full. When the project was completed in 2008, the Fund then allocated additional funds towards upgrading the film archive and dedicating it to the memory of Wim and Lia van Leer; Ostrovsky’s partners on this project.
To date, the JFC and New York City’s Film Forum have been OFF’s primary beneficiaries. The fund’s patronage also extends to a host of international cultural and human rights schemes in Brazil, the US, and Israel.
The Jaglom family’s Diamond Charity Foundation supports social, cultural, medical, and educational projects in Israel. This specific project to help build a digital film archive in Israel was spearheaded by Daphna Jaglom. After finishing her Masters at NYU-Tisch Cinema Studies in 2012, Daphna became an avid supporter of moving image archives and preservation, and saw the risk that Israel might lose vital memories without a state-of-the-art digital film archive. The various recorded moving image media disintegrate over time, their content forgotten as if it had never existed. Even digital archiving requires great care to ensure that the format will remain usable for future generations. With all this in mind, Daphna made it her mission to work with the highly motivated staff of the Jerusalem Cinematheque to create the archive they needed, with the technology required. The dedicated and detailed work of these archivists now means that future generations will be able to enjoy these films; a publicly available treasure trove for the general public and researchers alike
The Beracha Foundation, established in 1971 supports three main areas of activity in Israel: education, culture, and the environment. In the field of education, the foundation’s focus is on promoting entrepreneurship amongst educators in schools, and training education and care professionals for day cares and nurseries. In terms of the environment, the foundation has been championing urban sustainability, alongside the active role it has played in environmental legislation and policy-making. The foundation’s cultural support extends to bodies and institutions that promote original Israeli content, whilst also advocating for culture-centric policies, and lending its support to local content creators.
The foundation has been supporting and shadowing the development and thought process at the heart of the Israeli Film Archive since its inception, as part of its global patronage of original Israeli content. This support is the product of a realisation that the country’s precious pool of Israeli films are part and parcel of the local narrative. The prospect of preserving the films that were made here over generations, and making them accessible will offer profound insights into the ways in which Israeli society has changed and evolved over the years, whilst also providing a unique and important perspective on life, relationships, and the multilayered intricacy of the land and State of Israel.
Israel’s National Lottery (‘Mifal HaPayis’) was founded to provide support and assistance to members of the Israeli general public from all walks of life. As such, the National Lottery’s aid targets and goals are dynamic, as per society’s and various communities’ ever-changing needs. In the year 2000, the National Lottery began allocating considerable resources towards the development of Israeli culture and art, with the aim of investing every bit as much in the community’s soul and spirit.
The Israeli National Lottery Council for Culture and the Arts is proud to aid and support both art and artists in a variety of geographical regions, as well as diverse demographics and sectors who, otherwise would not benefit from the support of traditional institutions. Funneling resources in those directions is meant to benefit and sustain the rich and diverse range of Israeli artistic productivity and creativity, with an emphasis on quality and accessibility for target demographics who do not live in the heart of the country.
The National Lottery Council’s support of the Israeli Film Archive is directly tied to one of the targets it has set for itself: the commemorating and enshrining of tradition by means of digital preservation and documentation of films which, over the years have become building blocks of Israeli culture. The archive will be available to Israeli and international users alike, thereby making Israel’s cultural heritage readily available to anyone looking to explore it from the comfort of their own computer; be they academics, film industry professionals, and new generations of industrious filmmakers and creators. We wish you all a pleasant viewing experience, a fascinating and productive learning journey, and many more years of essential, quality filmmaking.
The Israel Film Council was established in the year 2000 as part of the 1999 Film Act. It is the acting body in charge of the law’s implementation. The council’s role is to devise policy and a list of criteria that would facilitate a practical, equal disbursement of funds coming from parliament’s film support budget. Highlights of the council’s roles include: fostering an original and authentic Israeli cultural identity, whilst simultaneously showcasing and representing Israeli society’s cultural diversity and its people’s range of opinions and worldviews; promoting and championing the creation, production, and distribution of Israeli films; spearheading and facilitating international filmmaking collaborations; encouraging and promoting the marketing of original Israeli content overseas; supporting festivals and backing preservation schemes of Israeli films. The Ministry of Culture and Sport has provided the Jerusalem Cinematheque’s Israeli Film Archive with extensive support. The ministry’s backing and funding enable the ongoing compiling and preservation of Israeli film heritage for generations to come.
The Ministry of Culture and Sport and the Israel Film Council congratulate the Jerusalem Cinematheque for the launch of the film archive’s website, and commend both cinematheque and archive staff for their tireless researching, compiling, documenting, restoring, and preserving efforts over the last few years towards expanding and upgrading the archive that was founded by the late Mrs. Lia van Leer.
It is an asset of the most profound, national significance and is home to a historical collection of cultural gems, invaluable to the Israeli public. In order to carry on building the Israeli Film Archive’s precious catalogue, and to further expand its collections considerably, the Ministry of Culture and Sport and the Israel Film Archive have announced that from now on, all Israeli filmmakers will have to deposit a copy of the films they have made at the archives, for future generations. What is more, the Jerusalem Cinematheque’s Film Archive has been recognised by all Israeli filmmakers as an institution whose job it is to preserve and protect Israeli films – be they old or new.
The Ministry of Culture and Sport wishes the archive the best of luck en route to fully realising its mission – promoting Israeli film culture, locally and internationally by creating restored digital screener copies for cinematheques and festivals, alongside a viewing platform for heritage and cultural assets, for the benefit of the general public and scholars alike.
The Ministry of Jerusalem and Heritage is the government department in charge of cultivating the Israeli capital and preserving the country’s national heritage across Israel. The department’s Heritage wing endeavours to restore and amplify Israel’s national heritage in a myriad of ways, including curating content of national, historical significance and making it available to the general public in a range of media and formats, including digital. As part of these efforts that have seen an acknowledgment of Israeli cinema’s importance to the national heritage, the Israeli Film Archive’s digitizing scheme was shortlisted for the second phase of the Heritage Programme, thereby securing its government investment and funding as part of the ministry’s portfolio.
The Van Leer Group Foundation is a privately endowed charitable organisation. The organisation was established in 1979 by Oscar van Leer, the younger brother of Wim van Leer. The foundation manages the van Leer family’s range of philanthropic ventures and is also in charge of its investment portfolio and all philanthropic schemes. These charitable activities are presently embodied in the Van Leer Group Foundation in Amstelveen, the Bernard Van Leer Foundation in The Hague, the Van Leer Jerusalem Institute, and the Jerusalem Cinematheque.
The foundation has full ownership of Crecor B.V. – an Israeli risk management company that operates via its Israeli, Tel Aviv-based subsidiary, Docor International Management. One of the foundation’s main objectives is to aid and assist in the development and strengthening of Israel as a Jewish, democratic country that is committed to the creation and sustaining of a free, just, and equitable society for all its citizens, and to contribute to any and all efforts towards securing peace in the region; all to the benefit and bettering of Israeli society, culture, and individual life.
What is more, the foundation has taken it upon itself to create a range of positive opportunities for children around the world who are at a social, financial, and educational disadvantage. The foundation provides regular financial support to the Jerusalem Cinematheque, as well as funding for a range of awards that promote Israeli filmmaking, with an emphasis on young creators.
The Jerusalem Foundation, Israel’s largest of its kind, was founded in 1966 by Jerusalem’s then-mayor, Teddy Kollek, who viewed it as a potential fundraising engine towards developing the city, championing the community, and shaping it as a free, tolerant, and pluralist society.
The Jerusalem Foundation seeks out donations from Jerusalem lovers in Israel and all over the world. Funds raised are then invested into thousands of schemes and ventures that create opportunities for all Jerusalemites, regardless of faith, race, or nationality. Over the years, the fund has raised well over 1.5bn USD, and for many local councils and authorities around the country, it has been a role model and source of emulation.
The Jerusalem Foundation’s focus is on socio-cultural entrepreneurship that is geared towards Jerusalemites’ agendas and unique needs. As such, it remains successfully invested in a range of physical and content schemes promoting education, culture, financial, community, and welfare growth, and co-existence.
The Jerusalem Foundation is one of the cinematheque’s founders and considers it one of the city’s most fundamental cultural anchors. It is above and beyond proud to support its work and various endeavours all year round.
George Ostrovsky (1901-1980), a Pinsk-born businessman and philanthropist who lived in Rio de Janeiro, was the brains and driving force behind the building of the Jerusalem Cinematheque and the Israeli Film Archive in 1973. Ostrovsky was involved in the planning and design stages of the cinematheque’s building site on Hebron Rd. but never got to witness the completion of the Jerusalem Film Centre (JFC) that opened in 1981.
For the past 30 years, the Ostrovsky Family Fund (OFF) has been at the forefront of the JFC’s support and ongoing operations, providing annual donations and allocated funds towards the acquisition of films, programmes, festivals, equipment, staff training, and development consultants.
OFF was even the driving force behind the refurbishing and expanding of the JFC complex, which it funded in full. When the project was completed in 2008, the Fund then allocated additional funds towards upgrading the film archive and dedicating it to the memory of Wim and Lia van Leer; Ostrovsky’s partners on this project.
To date, the JFC and New York City’s Film Forum have been OFF’s primary beneficiaries. The fund’s patronage also extends to a host of international cultural and human rights schemes in Brazil, the US, and Israel.
The Jaglom family’s Diamond Charity Foundation supports social, cultural, medical, and educational projects in Israel. This specific project to help build a digital film archive in Israel was spearheaded by Daphna Jaglom. After finishing her Masters at NYU-Tisch Cinema Studies in 2012, Daphna became an avid supporter of moving image archives and preservation, and saw the risk that Israel might lose vital memories without a state-of-the-art digital film archive. The various recorded moving image media disintegrate over time, their content forgotten as if it had never existed. Even digital archiving requires great care to ensure that the format will remain usable for future generations. With all this in mind, Daphna made it her mission to work with the highly motivated staff of the Jerusalem Cinematheque to create the archive they needed, with the technology required. The dedicated and detailed work of these archivists now means that future generations will be able to enjoy these films; a publicly available treasure trove for the general public and researchers alike
The Beracha Foundation, established in 1971 supports three main areas of activity in Israel: education, culture, and the environment. In the field of education, the foundation’s focus is on promoting entrepreneurship amongst educators in schools, and training education and care professionals for day cares and nurseries. In terms of the environment, the foundation has been championing urban sustainability, alongside the active role it has played in environmental legislation and policy-making. The foundation’s cultural support extends to bodies and institutions that promote original Israeli content, whilst also advocating for culture-centric policies, and lending its support to local content creators.
The foundation has been supporting and shadowing the development and thought process at the heart of the Israeli Film Archive since its inception, as part of its global patronage of original Israeli content. This support is the product of a realisation that the country’s precious pool of Israeli films are part and parcel of the local narrative. The prospect of preserving the films that were made here over generations, and making them accessible will offer profound insights into the ways in which Israeli society has changed and evolved over the years, whilst also providing a unique and important perspective on life, relationships, and the multilayered intricacy of the land and State of Israel.
Israel’s National Lottery (‘Mifal HaPayis’) was founded to provide support and assistance to members of the Israeli general public from all walks of life. As such, the National Lottery’s aid targets and goals are dynamic, as per society’s and various communities’ ever-changing needs. In the year 2000, the National Lottery began allocating considerable resources towards the development of Israeli culture and art, with the aim of investing every bit as much in the community’s soul and spirit.
The Israeli National Lottery Council for Culture and the Arts is proud to aid and support both art and artists in a variety of geographical regions, as well as diverse demographics and sectors who, otherwise would not benefit from the support of traditional institutions. Funneling resources in those directions is meant to benefit and sustain the rich and diverse range of Israeli artistic productivity and creativity, with an emphasis on quality and accessibility for target demographics who do not live in the heart of the country.
The National Lottery Council’s support of the Israeli Film Archive is directly tied to one of the targets it has set for itself: the commemorating and enshrining of tradition by means of digital preservation and documentation of films which, over the years have become building blocks of Israeli culture. The archive will be available to Israeli and international users alike, thereby making Israel’s cultural heritage readily available to anyone looking to explore it from the comfort of their own computer; be they academics, film industry professionals, and new generations of industrious filmmakers and creators. We wish you all a pleasant viewing experience, a fascinating and productive learning journey, and many more years of essential, quality filmmaking.
The Israel Film Council was established in the year 2000 as part of the 1999 Film Act. It is the acting body in charge of the law’s implementation. The council’s role is to devise policy and a list of criteria that would facilitate a practical, equal disbursement of funds coming from parliament’s film support budget. Highlights of the council’s roles include: fostering an original and authentic Israeli cultural identity, whilst simultaneously showcasing and representing Israeli society’s cultural diversity and its people’s range of opinions and worldviews; promoting and championing the creation, production, and distribution of Israeli films; spearheading and facilitating international filmmaking collaborations; encouraging and promoting the marketing of original Israeli content overseas; supporting festivals and backing preservation schemes of Israeli films. The Ministry of Culture and Sport has provided the Jerusalem Cinematheque’s Israeli Film Archive with extensive support. The ministry’s backing and funding enable the ongoing compiling and preservation of Israeli film heritage for generations to come.
The Ministry of Culture and Sport and the Israel Film Council congratulate the Jerusalem Cinematheque for the launch of the film archive’s website, and commend both cinematheque and archive staff for their tireless researching, compiling, documenting, restoring, and preserving efforts over the last few years towards expanding and upgrading the archive that was founded by the late Mrs. Lia van Leer.
It is an asset of the most profound, national significance and is home to a historical collection of cultural gems, invaluable to the Israeli public. In order to carry on building the Israeli Film Archive’s precious catalogue, and to further expand its collections considerably, the Ministry of Culture and Sport and the Israel Film Archive have announced that from now on, all Israeli filmmakers will have to deposit a copy of the films they have made at the archives, for future generations. What is more, the Jerusalem Cinematheque’s Film Archive has been recognised by all Israeli filmmakers as an institution whose job it is to preserve and protect Israeli films – be they old or new.
The Ministry of Culture and Sport wishes the archive the best of luck en route to fully realising its mission – promoting Israeli film culture, locally and internationally by creating restored digital screener copies for cinematheques and festivals, alongside a viewing platform for heritage and cultural assets, for the benefit of the general public and scholars alike.
The Ministry of Jerusalem and Heritage is the government department in charge of cultivating the Israeli capital and preserving the country’s national heritage across Israel. The department’s Heritage wing endeavours to restore and amplify Israel’s national heritage in a myriad of ways, including curating content of national, historical significance and making it available to the general public in a range of media and formats, including digital. As part of these efforts that have seen an acknowledgment of Israeli cinema’s importance to the national heritage, the Israeli Film Archive’s digitizing scheme was shortlisted for the second phase of the Heritage Programme, thereby securing its government investment and funding as part of the ministry’s portfolio.
The Van Leer Group Foundation is a privately endowed charitable organisation. The organisation was established in 1979 by Oscar van Leer, the younger brother of Wim van Leer. The foundation manages the van Leer family’s range of philanthropic ventures and is also in charge of its investment portfolio and all philanthropic schemes. These charitable activities are presently embodied in the Van Leer Group Foundation in Amstelveen, the Bernard Van Leer Foundation in The Hague, the Van Leer Jerusalem Institute, and the Jerusalem Cinematheque.
The foundation has full ownership of Crecor B.V. – an Israeli risk management company that operates via its Israeli, Tel Aviv-based subsidiary, Docor International Management. One of the foundation’s main objectives is to aid and assist in the development and strengthening of Israel as a Jewish, democratic country that is committed to the creation and sustaining of a free, just, and equitable society for all its citizens, and to contribute to any and all efforts towards securing peace in the region; all to the benefit and bettering of Israeli society, culture, and individual life.
What is more, the foundation has taken it upon itself to create a range of positive opportunities for children around the world who are at a social, financial, and educational disadvantage. The foundation provides regular financial support to the Jerusalem Cinematheque, as well as funding for a range of awards that promote Israeli filmmaking, with an emphasis on young creators.
The Jerusalem Foundation, Israel’s largest of its kind, was founded in 1966 by Jerusalem’s then-mayor, Teddy Kollek, who viewed it as a potential fundraising engine towards developing the city, championing the community, and shaping it as a free, tolerant, and pluralist society.
The Jerusalem Foundation seeks out donations from Jerusalem lovers in Israel and all over the world. Funds raised are then invested into thousands of schemes and ventures that create opportunities for all Jerusalemites, regardless of faith, race, or nationality. Over the years, the fund has raised well over 1.5bn USD, and for many local councils and authorities around the country, it has been a role model and source of emulation.
The Jerusalem Foundation’s focus is on socio-cultural entrepreneurship that is geared towards Jerusalemites’ agendas and unique needs. As such, it remains successfully invested in a range of physical and content schemes promoting education, culture, financial, community, and welfare growth, and co-existence.
The Jerusalem Foundation is one of the cinematheque’s founders and considers it one of the city’s most fundamental cultural anchors. It is above and beyond proud to support its work and various endeavours all year round.
George Ostrovsky (1901-1980), a Pinsk-born businessman and philanthropist who lived in Rio de Janeiro, was the brains and driving force behind the building of the Jerusalem Cinematheque and the Israeli Film Archive in 1973. Ostrovsky was involved in the planning and design stages of the cinematheque’s building site on Hebron Rd. but never got to witness the completion of the Jerusalem Film Centre (JFC) that opened in 1981.
For the past 30 years, the Ostrovsky Family Fund (OFF) has been at the forefront of the JFC’s support and ongoing operations, providing annual donations and allocated funds towards the acquisition of films, programmes, festivals, equipment, staff training, and development consultants.
OFF was even the driving force behind the refurbishing and expanding of the JFC complex, which it funded in full. When the project was completed in 2008, the Fund then allocated additional funds towards upgrading the film archive and dedicating it to the memory of Wim and Lia van Leer; Ostrovsky’s partners on this project.
To date, the JFC and New York City’s Film Forum have been OFF’s primary beneficiaries. The fund’s patronage also extends to a host of international cultural and human rights schemes in Brazil, the US, and Israel.
The Jaglom family’s Diamond Charity Foundation supports social, cultural, medical, and educational projects in Israel. This specific project to help build a digital film archive in Israel was spearheaded by Daphna Jaglom. After finishing her Masters at NYU-Tisch Cinema Studies in 2012, Daphna became an avid supporter of moving image archives and preservation, and saw the risk that Israel might lose vital memories without a state-of-the-art digital film archive. The various recorded moving image media disintegrate over time, their content forgotten as if it had never existed. Even digital archiving requires great care to ensure that the format will remain usable for future generations. With all this in mind, Daphna made it her mission to work with the highly motivated staff of the Jerusalem Cinematheque to create the archive they needed, with the technology required. The dedicated and detailed work of these archivists now means that future generations will be able to enjoy these films; a publicly available treasure trove for the general public and researchers alike
The Beracha Foundation, established in 1971 supports three main areas of activity in Israel: education, culture, and the environment. In the field of education, the foundation’s focus is on promoting entrepreneurship amongst educators in schools, and training education and care professionals for day cares and nurseries. In terms of the environment, the foundation has been championing urban sustainability, alongside the active role it has played in environmental legislation and policy-making. The foundation’s cultural support extends to bodies and institutions that promote original Israeli content, whilst also advocating for culture-centric policies, and lending its support to local content creators.
The foundation has been supporting and shadowing the development and thought process at the heart of the Israeli Film Archive since its inception, as part of its global patronage of original Israeli content. This support is the product of a realisation that the country’s precious pool of Israeli films are part and parcel of the local narrative. The prospect of preserving the films that were made here over generations, and making them accessible will offer profound insights into the ways in which Israeli society has changed and evolved over the years, whilst also providing a unique and important perspective on life, relationships, and the multilayered intricacy of the land and State of Israel.
Israel’s National Lottery (‘Mifal HaPayis’) was founded to provide support and assistance to members of the Israeli general public from all walks of life. As such, the National Lottery’s aid targets and goals are dynamic, as per society’s and various communities’ ever-changing needs. In the year 2000, the National Lottery began allocating considerable resources towards the development of Israeli culture and art, with the aim of investing every bit as much in the community’s soul and spirit.
The Israeli National Lottery Council for Culture and the Arts is proud to aid and support both art and artists in a variety of geographical regions, as well as diverse demographics and sectors who, otherwise would not benefit from the support of traditional institutions. Funneling resources in those directions is meant to benefit and sustain the rich and diverse range of Israeli artistic productivity and creativity, with an emphasis on quality and accessibility for target demographics who do not live in the heart of the country.
The National Lottery Council’s support of the Israeli Film Archive is directly tied to one of the targets it has set for itself: the commemorating and enshrining of tradition by means of digital preservation and documentation of films which, over the years have become building blocks of Israeli culture. The archive will be available to Israeli and international users alike, thereby making Israel’s cultural heritage readily available to anyone looking to explore it from the comfort of their own computer; be they academics, film industry professionals, and new generations of industrious filmmakers and creators. We wish you all a pleasant viewing experience, a fascinating and productive learning journey, and many more years of essential, quality filmmaking.
The Israel Film Council was established in the year 2000 as part of the 1999 Film Act. It is the acting body in charge of the law’s implementation. The council’s role is to devise policy and a list of criteria that would facilitate a practical, equal disbursement of funds coming from parliament’s film support budget. Highlights of the council’s roles include: fostering an original and authentic Israeli cultural identity, whilst simultaneously showcasing and representing Israeli society’s cultural diversity and its people’s range of opinions and worldviews; promoting and championing the creation, production, and distribution of Israeli films; spearheading and facilitating international filmmaking collaborations; encouraging and promoting the marketing of original Israeli content overseas; supporting festivals and backing preservation schemes of Israeli films. The Ministry of Culture and Sport has provided the Jerusalem Cinematheque’s Israeli Film Archive with extensive support. The ministry’s backing and funding enable the ongoing compiling and preservation of Israeli film heritage for generations to come.
The Ministry of Culture and Sport and the Israel Film Council congratulate the Jerusalem Cinematheque for the launch of the film archive’s website, and commend both cinematheque and archive staff for their tireless researching, compiling, documenting, restoring, and preserving efforts over the last few years towards expanding and upgrading the archive that was founded by the late Mrs. Lia van Leer.
It is an asset of the most profound, national significance and is home to a historical collection of cultural gems, invaluable to the Israeli public. In order to carry on building the Israeli Film Archive’s precious catalogue, and to further expand its collections considerably, the Ministry of Culture and Sport and the Israel Film Archive have announced that from now on, all Israeli filmmakers will have to deposit a copy of the films they have made at the archives, for future generations. What is more, the Jerusalem Cinematheque’s Film Archive has been recognised by all Israeli filmmakers as an institution whose job it is to preserve and protect Israeli films – be they old or new.
The Ministry of Culture and Sport wishes the archive the best of luck en route to fully realising its mission – promoting Israeli film culture, locally and internationally by creating restored digital screener copies for cinematheques and festivals, alongside a viewing platform for heritage and cultural assets, for the benefit of the general public and scholars alike.
The Ministry of Jerusalem and Heritage is the government department in charge of cultivating the Israeli capital and preserving the country’s national heritage across Israel. The department’s Heritage wing endeavours to restore and amplify Israel’s national heritage in a myriad of ways, including curating content of national, historical significance and making it available to the general public in a range of media and formats, including digital. As part of these efforts that have seen an acknowledgment of Israeli cinema’s importance to the national heritage, the Israeli Film Archive’s digitizing scheme was shortlisted for the second phase of the Heritage Programme, thereby securing its government investment and funding as part of the ministry’s portfolio.
The Van Leer Group Foundation is a privately endowed charitable organisation. The organisation was established in 1979 by Oscar van Leer, the younger brother of Wim van Leer. The foundation manages the van Leer family’s range of philanthropic ventures and is also in charge of its investment portfolio and all philanthropic schemes. These charitable activities are presently embodied in the Van Leer Group Foundation in Amstelveen, the Bernard Van Leer Foundation in The Hague, the Van Leer Jerusalem Institute, and the Jerusalem Cinematheque.
The foundation has full ownership of Crecor B.V. – an Israeli risk management company that operates via its Israeli, Tel Aviv-based subsidiary, Docor International Management. One of the foundation’s main objectives is to aid and assist in the development and strengthening of Israel as a Jewish, democratic country that is committed to the creation and sustaining of a free, just, and equitable society for all its citizens, and to contribute to any and all efforts towards securing peace in the region; all to the benefit and bettering of Israeli society, culture, and individual life.
What is more, the foundation has taken it upon itself to create a range of positive opportunities for children around the world who are at a social, financial, and educational disadvantage. The foundation provides regular financial support to the Jerusalem Cinematheque, as well as funding for a range of awards that promote Israeli filmmaking, with an emphasis on young creators.
The Jerusalem Foundation, Israel’s largest of its kind, was founded in 1966 by Jerusalem’s then-mayor, Teddy Kollek, who viewed it as a potential fundraising engine towards developing the city, championing the community, and shaping it as a free, tolerant, and pluralist society.
The Jerusalem Foundation seeks out donations from Jerusalem lovers in Israel and all over the world. Funds raised are then invested into thousands of schemes and ventures that create opportunities for all Jerusalemites, regardless of faith, race, or nationality. Over the years, the fund has raised well over 1.5bn USD, and for many local councils and authorities around the country, it has been a role model and source of emulation.
The Jerusalem Foundation’s focus is on socio-cultural entrepreneurship that is geared towards Jerusalemites’ agendas and unique needs. As such, it remains successfully invested in a range of physical and content schemes promoting education, culture, financial, community, and welfare growth, and co-existence.
The Jerusalem Foundation is one of the cinematheque’s founders and considers it one of the city’s most fundamental cultural anchors. It is above and beyond proud to support its work and various endeavours all year round.
George Ostrovsky (1901-1980), a Pinsk-born businessman and philanthropist who lived in Rio de Janeiro, was the brains and driving force behind the building of the Jerusalem Cinematheque and the Israeli Film Archive in 1973. Ostrovsky was involved in the planning and design stages of the cinematheque’s building site on Hebron Rd. but never got to witness the completion of the Jerusalem Film Centre (JFC) that opened in 1981.
For the past 30 years, the Ostrovsky Family Fund (OFF) has been at the forefront of the JFC’s support and ongoing operations, providing annual donations and allocated funds towards the acquisition of films, programmes, festivals, equipment, staff training, and development consultants.
OFF was even the driving force behind the refurbishing and expanding of the JFC complex, which it funded in full. When the project was completed in 2008, the Fund then allocated additional funds towards upgrading the film archive and dedicating it to the memory of Wim and Lia van Leer; Ostrovsky’s partners on this project.
To date, the JFC and New York City’s Film Forum have been OFF’s primary beneficiaries. The fund’s patronage also extends to a host of international cultural and human rights schemes in Brazil, the US, and Israel.
The Jaglom family’s Diamond Charity Foundation supports social, cultural, medical, and educational projects in Israel. This specific project to help build a digital film archive in Israel was spearheaded by Daphna Jaglom. After finishing her Masters at NYU-Tisch Cinema Studies in 2012, Daphna became an avid supporter of moving image archives and preservation, and saw the risk that Israel might lose vital memories without a state-of-the-art digital film archive. The various recorded moving image media disintegrate over time, their content forgotten as if it had never existed. Even digital archiving requires great care to ensure that the format will remain usable for future generations. With all this in mind, Daphna made it her mission to work with the highly motivated staff of the Jerusalem Cinematheque to create the archive they needed, with the technology required. The dedicated and detailed work of these archivists now means that future generations will be able to enjoy these films; a publicly available treasure trove for the general public and researchers alike
The Beracha Foundation, established in 1971 supports three main areas of activity in Israel: education, culture, and the environment. In the field of education, the foundation’s focus is on promoting entrepreneurship amongst educators in schools, and training education and care professionals for day cares and nurseries. In terms of the environment, the foundation has been championing urban sustainability, alongside the active role it has played in environmental legislation and policy-making. The foundation’s cultural support extends to bodies and institutions that promote original Israeli content, whilst also advocating for culture-centric policies, and lending its support to local content creators.
The foundation has been supporting and shadowing the development and thought process at the heart of the Israeli Film Archive since its inception, as part of its global patronage of original Israeli content. This support is the product of a realisation that the country’s precious pool of Israeli films are part and parcel of the local narrative. The prospect of preserving the films that were made here over generations, and making them accessible will offer profound insights into the ways in which Israeli society has changed and evolved over the years, whilst also providing a unique and important perspective on life, relationships, and the multilayered intricacy of the land and State of Israel.
Israel’s National Lottery (‘Mifal HaPayis’) was founded to provide support and assistance to members of the Israeli general public from all walks of life. As such, the National Lottery’s aid targets and goals are dynamic, as per society’s and various communities’ ever-changing needs. In the year 2000, the National Lottery began allocating considerable resources towards the development of Israeli culture and art, with the aim of investing every bit as much in the community’s soul and spirit.
The Israeli National Lottery Council for Culture and the Arts is proud to aid and support both art and artists in a variety of geographical regions, as well as diverse demographics and sectors who, otherwise would not benefit from the support of traditional institutions. Funneling resources in those directions is meant to benefit and sustain the rich and diverse range of Israeli artistic productivity and creativity, with an emphasis on quality and accessibility for target demographics who do not live in the heart of the country.
The National Lottery Council’s support of the Israeli Film Archive is directly tied to one of the targets it has set for itself: the commemorating and enshrining of tradition by means of digital preservation and documentation of films which, over the years have become building blocks of Israeli culture. The archive will be available to Israeli and international users alike, thereby making Israel’s cultural heritage readily available to anyone looking to explore it from the comfort of their own computer; be they academics, film industry professionals, and new generations of industrious filmmakers and creators. We wish you all a pleasant viewing experience, a fascinating and productive learning journey, and many more years of essential, quality filmmaking.
The Israel Film Council was established in the year 2000 as part of the 1999 Film Act. It is the acting body in charge of the law’s implementation. The council’s role is to devise policy and a list of criteria that would facilitate a practical, equal disbursement of funds coming from parliament’s film support budget. Highlights of the council’s roles include: fostering an original and authentic Israeli cultural identity, whilst simultaneously showcasing and representing Israeli society’s cultural diversity and its people’s range of opinions and worldviews; promoting and championing the creation, production, and distribution of Israeli films; spearheading and facilitating international filmmaking collaborations; encouraging and promoting the marketing of original Israeli content overseas; supporting festivals and backing preservation schemes of Israeli films. The Ministry of Culture and Sport has provided the Jerusalem Cinematheque’s Israeli Film Archive with extensive support. The ministry’s backing and funding enable the ongoing compiling and preservation of Israeli film heritage for generations to come.
The Ministry of Culture and Sport and the Israel Film Council congratulate the Jerusalem Cinematheque for the launch of the film archive’s website, and commend both cinematheque and archive staff for their tireless researching, compiling, documenting, restoring, and preserving efforts over the last few years towards expanding and upgrading the archive that was founded by the late Mrs. Lia van Leer.
It is an asset of the most profound, national significance and is home to a historical collection of cultural gems, invaluable to the Israeli public. In order to carry on building the Israeli Film Archive’s precious catalogue, and to further expand its collections considerably, the Ministry of Culture and Sport and the Israel Film Archive have announced that from now on, all Israeli filmmakers will have to deposit a copy of the films they have made at the archives, for future generations. What is more, the Jerusalem Cinematheque’s Film Archive has been recognised by all Israeli filmmakers as an institution whose job it is to preserve and protect Israeli films – be they old or new.
The Ministry of Culture and Sport wishes the archive the best of luck en route to fully realising its mission – promoting Israeli film culture, locally and internationally by creating restored digital screener copies for cinematheques and festivals, alongside a viewing platform for heritage and cultural assets, for the benefit of the general public and scholars alike.
The Ministry of Jerusalem and Heritage is the government department in charge of cultivating the Israeli capital and preserving the country’s national heritage across Israel. The department’s Heritage wing endeavours to restore and amplify Israel’s national heritage in a myriad of ways, including curating content of national, historical significance and making it available to the general public in a range of media and formats, including digital. As part of these efforts that have seen an acknowledgment of Israeli cinema’s importance to the national heritage, the Israeli Film Archive’s digitizing scheme was shortlisted for the second phase of the Heritage Programme, thereby securing its government investment and funding as part of the ministry’s portfolio.
The Van Leer Group Foundation is a privately endowed charitable organisation. The organisation was established in 1979 by Oscar van Leer, the younger brother of Wim van Leer. The foundation manages the van Leer family’s range of philanthropic ventures and is also in charge of its investment portfolio and all philanthropic schemes. These charitable activities are presently embodied in the Van Leer Group Foundation in Amstelveen, the Bernard Van Leer Foundation in The Hague, the Van Leer Jerusalem Institute, and the Jerusalem Cinematheque.
The foundation has full ownership of Crecor B.V. – an Israeli risk management company that operates via its Israeli, Tel Aviv-based subsidiary, Docor International Management. One of the foundation’s main objectives is to aid and assist in the development and strengthening of Israel as a Jewish, democratic country that is committed to the creation and sustaining of a free, just, and equitable society for all its citizens, and to contribute to any and all efforts towards securing peace in the region; all to the benefit and bettering of Israeli society, culture, and individual life.
What is more, the foundation has taken it upon itself to create a range of positive opportunities for children around the world who are at a social, financial, and educational disadvantage. The foundation provides regular financial support to the Jerusalem Cinematheque, as well as funding for a range of awards that promote Israeli filmmaking, with an emphasis on young creators.
The Jerusalem Foundation, Israel’s largest of its kind, was founded in 1966 by Jerusalem’s then-mayor, Teddy Kollek, who viewed it as a potential fundraising engine towards developing the city, championing the community, and shaping it as a free, tolerant, and pluralist society.
The Jerusalem Foundation seeks out donations from Jerusalem lovers in Israel and all over the world. Funds raised are then invested into thousands of schemes and ventures that create opportunities for all Jerusalemites, regardless of faith, race, or nationality. Over the years, the fund has raised well over 1.5bn USD, and for many local councils and authorities around the country, it has been a role model and source of emulation.
The Jerusalem Foundation’s focus is on socio-cultural entrepreneurship that is geared towards Jerusalemites’ agendas and unique needs. As such, it remains successfully invested in a range of physical and content schemes promoting education, culture, financial, community, and welfare growth, and co-existence.
The Jerusalem Foundation is one of the cinematheque’s founders and considers it one of the city’s most fundamental cultural anchors. It is above and beyond proud to support its work and various endeavours all year round.
George Ostrovsky (1901-1980), a Pinsk-born businessman and philanthropist who lived in Rio de Janeiro, was the brains and driving force behind the building of the Jerusalem Cinematheque and the Israeli Film Archive in 1973. Ostrovsky was involved in the planning and design stages of the cinematheque’s building site on Hebron Rd. but never got to witness the completion of the Jerusalem Film Centre (JFC) that opened in 1981.
For the past 30 years, the Ostrovsky Family Fund (OFF) has been at the forefront of the JFC’s support and ongoing operations, providing annual donations and allocated funds towards the acquisition of films, programmes, festivals, equipment, staff training, and development consultants.
OFF was even the driving force behind the refurbishing and expanding of the JFC complex, which it funded in full. When the project was completed in 2008, the Fund then allocated additional funds towards upgrading the film archive and dedicating it to the memory of Wim and Lia van Leer; Ostrovsky’s partners on this project.
To date, the JFC and New York City’s Film Forum have been OFF’s primary beneficiaries. The fund’s patronage also extends to a host of international cultural and human rights schemes in Brazil, the US, and Israel.
The Jaglom family’s Diamond Charity Foundation supports social, cultural, medical, and educational projects in Israel. This specific project to help build a digital film archive in Israel was spearheaded by Daphna Jaglom. After finishing her Masters at NYU-Tisch Cinema Studies in 2012, Daphna became an avid supporter of moving image archives and preservation, and saw the risk that Israel might lose vital memories without a state-of-the-art digital film archive. The various recorded moving image media disintegrate over time, their content forgotten as if it had never existed. Even digital archiving requires great care to ensure that the format will remain usable for future generations. With all this in mind, Daphna made it her mission to work with the highly motivated staff of the Jerusalem Cinematheque to create the archive they needed, with the technology required. The dedicated and detailed work of these archivists now means that future generations will be able to enjoy these films; a publicly available treasure trove for the general public and researchers alike
The Beracha Foundation, established in 1971 supports three main areas of activity in Israel: education, culture, and the environment. In the field of education, the foundation’s focus is on promoting entrepreneurship amongst educators in schools, and training education and care professionals for day cares and nurseries. In terms of the environment, the foundation has been championing urban sustainability, alongside the active role it has played in environmental legislation and policy-making. The foundation’s cultural support extends to bodies and institutions that promote original Israeli content, whilst also advocating for culture-centric policies, and lending its support to local content creators.
The foundation has been supporting and shadowing the development and thought process at the heart of the Israeli Film Archive since its inception, as part of its global patronage of original Israeli content. This support is the product of a realisation that the country’s precious pool of Israeli films are part and parcel of the local narrative. The prospect of preserving the films that were made here over generations, and making them accessible will offer profound insights into the ways in which Israeli society has changed and evolved over the years, whilst also providing a unique and important perspective on life, relationships, and the multilayered intricacy of the land and State of Israel.
Israel’s National Lottery (‘Mifal HaPayis’) was founded to provide support and assistance to members of the Israeli general public from all walks of life. As such, the National Lottery’s aid targets and goals are dynamic, as per society’s and various communities’ ever-changing needs. In the year 2000, the National Lottery began allocating considerable resources towards the development of Israeli culture and art, with the aim of investing every bit as much in the community’s soul and spirit.
The Israeli National Lottery Council for Culture and the Arts is proud to aid and support both art and artists in a variety of geographical regions, as well as diverse demographics and sectors who, otherwise would not benefit from the support of traditional institutions. Funneling resources in those directions is meant to benefit and sustain the rich and diverse range of Israeli artistic productivity and creativity, with an emphasis on quality and accessibility for target demographics who do not live in the heart of the country.
The National Lottery Council’s support of the Israeli Film Archive is directly tied to one of the targets it has set for itself: the commemorating and enshrining of tradition by means of digital preservation and documentation of films which, over the years have become building blocks of Israeli culture. The archive will be available to Israeli and international users alike, thereby making Israel’s cultural heritage readily available to anyone looking to explore it from the comfort of their own computer; be they academics, film industry professionals, and new generations of industrious filmmakers and creators. We wish you all a pleasant viewing experience, a fascinating and productive learning journey, and many more years of essential, quality filmmaking.
The Israel Film Council was established in the year 2000 as part of the 1999 Film Act. It is the acting body in charge of the law’s implementation. The council’s role is to devise policy and a list of criteria that would facilitate a practical, equal disbursement of funds coming from parliament’s film support budget. Highlights of the council’s roles include: fostering an original and authentic Israeli cultural identity, whilst simultaneously showcasing and representing Israeli society’s cultural diversity and its people’s range of opinions and worldviews; promoting and championing the creation, production, and distribution of Israeli films; spearheading and facilitating international filmmaking collaborations; encouraging and promoting the marketing of original Israeli content overseas; supporting festivals and backing preservation schemes of Israeli films. The Ministry of Culture and Sport has provided the Jerusalem Cinematheque’s Israeli Film Archive with extensive support. The ministry’s backing and funding enable the ongoing compiling and preservation of Israeli film heritage for generations to come.
The Ministry of Culture and Sport and the Israel Film Council congratulate the Jerusalem Cinematheque for the launch of the film archive’s website, and commend both cinematheque and archive staff for their tireless researching, compiling, documenting, restoring, and preserving efforts over the last few years towards expanding and upgrading the archive that was founded by the late Mrs. Lia van Leer.
It is an asset of the most profound, national significance and is home to a historical collection of cultural gems, invaluable to the Israeli public. In order to carry on building the Israeli Film Archive’s precious catalogue, and to further expand its collections considerably, the Ministry of Culture and Sport and the Israel Film Archive have announced that from now on, all Israeli filmmakers will have to deposit a copy of the films they have made at the archives, for future generations. What is more, the Jerusalem Cinematheque’s Film Archive has been recognised by all Israeli filmmakers as an institution whose job it is to preserve and protect Israeli films – be they old or new.
The Ministry of Culture and Sport wishes the archive the best of luck en route to fully realising its mission – promoting Israeli film culture, locally and internationally by creating restored digital screener copies for cinematheques and festivals, alongside a viewing platform for heritage and cultural assets, for the benefit of the general public and scholars alike.
The Ministry of Jerusalem and Heritage is the government department in charge of cultivating the Israeli capital and preserving the country’s national heritage across Israel. The department’s Heritage wing endeavours to restore and amplify Israel’s national heritage in a myriad of ways, including curating content of national, historical significance and making it available to the general public in a range of media and formats, including digital. As part of these efforts that have seen an acknowledgment of Israeli cinema’s importance to the national heritage, the Israeli Film Archive’s digitizing scheme was shortlisted for the second phase of the Heritage Programme, thereby securing its government investment and funding as part of the ministry’s portfolio.
The Van Leer Group Foundation is a privately endowed charitable organisation. The organisation was established in 1979 by Oscar van Leer, the younger brother of Wim van Leer. The foundation manages the van Leer family’s range of philanthropic ventures and is also in charge of its investment portfolio and all philanthropic schemes. These charitable activities are presently embodied in the Van Leer Group Foundation in Amstelveen, the Bernard Van Leer Foundation in The Hague, the Van Leer Jerusalem Institute, and the Jerusalem Cinematheque.
The foundation has full ownership of Crecor B.V. – an Israeli risk management company that operates via its Israeli, Tel Aviv-based subsidiary, Docor International Management. One of the foundation’s main objectives is to aid and assist in the development and strengthening of Israel as a Jewish, democratic country that is committed to the creation and sustaining of a free, just, and equitable society for all its citizens, and to contribute to any and all efforts towards securing peace in the region; all to the benefit and bettering of Israeli society, culture, and individual life.
What is more, the foundation has taken it upon itself to create a range of positive opportunities for children around the world who are at a social, financial, and educational disadvantage. The foundation provides regular financial support to the Jerusalem Cinematheque, as well as funding for a range of awards that promote Israeli filmmaking, with an emphasis on young creators.
The Jerusalem Foundation, Israel’s largest of its kind, was founded in 1966 by Jerusalem’s then-mayor, Teddy Kollek, who viewed it as a potential fundraising engine towards developing the city, championing the community, and shaping it as a free, tolerant, and pluralist society.
The Jerusalem Foundation seeks out donations from Jerusalem lovers in Israel and all over the world. Funds raised are then invested into thousands of schemes and ventures that create opportunities for all Jerusalemites, regardless of faith, race, or nationality. Over the years, the fund has raised well over 1.5bn USD, and for many local councils and authorities around the country, it has been a role model and source of emulation.
The Jerusalem Foundation’s focus is on socio-cultural entrepreneurship that is geared towards Jerusalemites’ agendas and unique needs. As such, it remains successfully invested in a range of physical and content schemes promoting education, culture, financial, community, and welfare growth, and co-existence.
The Jerusalem Foundation is one of the cinematheque’s founders and considers it one of the city’s most fundamental cultural anchors. It is above and beyond proud to support its work and various endeavours all year round.
George Ostrovsky (1901-1980), a Pinsk-born businessman and philanthropist who lived in Rio de Janeiro, was the brains and driving force behind the building of the Jerusalem Cinematheque and the Israeli Film Archive in 1973. Ostrovsky was involved in the planning and design stages of the cinematheque’s building site on Hebron Rd. but never got to witness the completion of the Jerusalem Film Centre (JFC) that opened in 1981.
For the past 30 years, the Ostrovsky Family Fund (OFF) has been at the forefront of the JFC’s support and ongoing operations, providing annual donations and allocated funds towards the acquisition of films, programmes, festivals, equipment, staff training, and development consultants.
OFF was even the driving force behind the refurbishing and expanding of the JFC complex, which it funded in full. When the project was completed in 2008, the Fund then allocated additional funds towards upgrading the film archive and dedicating it to the memory of Wim and Lia van Leer; Ostrovsky’s partners on this project.
To date, the JFC and New York City’s Film Forum have been OFF’s primary beneficiaries. The fund’s patronage also extends to a host of international cultural and human rights schemes in Brazil, the US, and Israel.
The Jaglom family’s Diamond Charity Foundation supports social, cultural, medical, and educational projects in Israel. This specific project to help build a digital film archive in Israel was spearheaded by Daphna Jaglom. After finishing her Masters at NYU-Tisch Cinema Studies in 2012, Daphna became an avid supporter of moving image archives and preservation, and saw the risk that Israel might lose vital memories without a state-of-the-art digital film archive. The various recorded moving image media disintegrate over time, their content forgotten as if it had never existed. Even digital archiving requires great care to ensure that the format will remain usable for future generations. With all this in mind, Daphna made it her mission to work with the highly motivated staff of the Jerusalem Cinematheque to create the archive they needed, with the technology required. The dedicated and detailed work of these archivists now means that future generations will be able to enjoy these films; a publicly available treasure trove for the general public and researchers alike
The Beracha Foundation, established in 1971 supports three main areas of activity in Israel: education, culture, and the environment. In the field of education, the foundation’s focus is on promoting entrepreneurship amongst educators in schools, and training education and care professionals for day cares and nurseries. In terms of the environment, the foundation has been championing urban sustainability, alongside the active role it has played in environmental legislation and policy-making. The foundation’s cultural support extends to bodies and institutions that promote original Israeli content, whilst also advocating for culture-centric policies, and lending its support to local content creators.
The foundation has been supporting and shadowing the development and thought process at the heart of the Israeli Film Archive since its inception, as part of its global patronage of original Israeli content. This support is the product of a realisation that the country’s precious pool of Israeli films are part and parcel of the local narrative. The prospect of preserving the films that were made here over generations, and making them accessible will offer profound insights into the ways in which Israeli society has changed and evolved over the years, whilst also providing a unique and important perspective on life, relationships, and the multilayered intricacy of the land and State of Israel.
Israel’s National Lottery (‘Mifal HaPayis’) was founded to provide support and assistance to members of the Israeli general public from all walks of life. As such, the National Lottery’s aid targets and goals are dynamic, as per society’s and various communities’ ever-changing needs. In the year 2000, the National Lottery began allocating considerable resources towards the development of Israeli culture and art, with the aim of investing every bit as much in the community’s soul and spirit.
The Israeli National Lottery Council for Culture and the Arts is proud to aid and support both art and artists in a variety of geographical regions, as well as diverse demographics and sectors who, otherwise would not benefit from the support of traditional institutions. Funneling resources in those directions is meant to benefit and sustain the rich and diverse range of Israeli artistic productivity and creativity, with an emphasis on quality and accessibility for target demographics who do not live in the heart of the country.
The National Lottery Council’s support of the Israeli Film Archive is directly tied to one of the targets it has set for itself: the commemorating and enshrining of tradition by means of digital preservation and documentation of films which, over the years have become building blocks of Israeli culture. The archive will be available to Israeli and international users alike, thereby making Israel’s cultural heritage readily available to anyone looking to explore it from the comfort of their own computer; be they academics, film industry professionals, and new generations of industrious filmmakers and creators. We wish you all a pleasant viewing experience, a fascinating and productive learning journey, and many more years of essential, quality filmmaking.
The Israel Film Council was established in the year 2000 as part of the 1999 Film Act. It is the acting body in charge of the law’s implementation. The council’s role is to devise policy and a list of criteria that would facilitate a practical, equal disbursement of funds coming from parliament’s film support budget. Highlights of the council’s roles include: fostering an original and authentic Israeli cultural identity, whilst simultaneously showcasing and representing Israeli society’s cultural diversity and its people’s range of opinions and worldviews; promoting and championing the creation, production, and distribution of Israeli films; spearheading and facilitating international filmmaking collaborations; encouraging and promoting the marketing of original Israeli content overseas; supporting festivals and backing preservation schemes of Israeli films. The Ministry of Culture and Sport has provided the Jerusalem Cinematheque’s Israeli Film Archive with extensive support. The ministry’s backing and funding enable the ongoing compiling and preservation of Israeli film heritage for generations to come.
The Ministry of Culture and Sport and the Israel Film Council congratulate the Jerusalem Cinematheque for the launch of the film archive’s website, and commend both cinematheque and archive staff for their tireless researching, compiling, documenting, restoring, and preserving efforts over the last few years towards expanding and upgrading the archive that was founded by the late Mrs. Lia van Leer.
It is an asset of the most profound, national significance and is home to a historical collection of cultural gems, invaluable to the Israeli public. In order to carry on building the Israeli Film Archive’s precious catalogue, and to further expand its collections considerably, the Ministry of Culture and Sport and the Israel Film Archive have announced that from now on, all Israeli filmmakers will have to deposit a copy of the films they have made at the archives, for future generations. What is more, the Jerusalem Cinematheque’s Film Archive has been recognised by all Israeli filmmakers as an institution whose job it is to preserve and protect Israeli films – be they old or new.
The Ministry of Culture and Sport wishes the archive the best of luck en route to fully realising its mission – promoting Israeli film culture, locally and internationally by creating restored digital screener copies for cinematheques and festivals, alongside a viewing platform for heritage and cultural assets, for the benefit of the general public and scholars alike.
The Ministry of Jerusalem and Heritage is the government department in charge of cultivating the Israeli capital and preserving the country’s national heritage across Israel. The department’s Heritage wing endeavours to restore and amplify Israel’s national heritage in a myriad of ways, including curating content of national, historical significance and making it available to the general public in a range of media and formats, including digital. As part of these efforts that have seen an acknowledgment of Israeli cinema’s importance to the national heritage, the Israeli Film Archive’s digitizing scheme was shortlisted for the second phase of the Heritage Programme, thereby securing its government investment and funding as part of the ministry’s portfolio.
The Van Leer Group Foundation is a privately endowed charitable organisation. The organisation was established in 1979 by Oscar van Leer, the younger brother of Wim van Leer. The foundation manages the van Leer family’s range of philanthropic ventures and is also in charge of its investment portfolio and all philanthropic schemes. These charitable activities are presently embodied in the Van Leer Group Foundation in Amstelveen, the Bernard Van Leer Foundation in The Hague, the Van Leer Jerusalem Institute, and the Jerusalem Cinematheque.
The foundation has full ownership of Crecor B.V. – an Israeli risk management company that operates via its Israeli, Tel Aviv-based subsidiary, Docor International Management. One of the foundation’s main objectives is to aid and assist in the development and strengthening of Israel as a Jewish, democratic country that is committed to the creation and sustaining of a free, just, and equitable society for all its citizens, and to contribute to any and all efforts towards securing peace in the region; all to the benefit and bettering of Israeli society, culture, and individual life.
What is more, the foundation has taken it upon itself to create a range of positive opportunities for children around the world who are at a social, financial, and educational disadvantage. The foundation provides regular financial support to the Jerusalem Cinematheque, as well as funding for a range of awards that promote Israeli filmmaking, with an emphasis on young creators.
The Jerusalem Foundation, Israel’s largest of its kind, was founded in 1966 by Jerusalem’s then-mayor, Teddy Kollek, who viewed it as a potential fundraising engine towards developing the city, championing the community, and shaping it as a free, tolerant, and pluralist society.
The Jerusalem Foundation seeks out donations from Jerusalem lovers in Israel and all over the world. Funds raised are then invested into thousands of schemes and ventures that create opportunities for all Jerusalemites, regardless of faith, race, or nationality. Over the years, the fund has raised well over 1.5bn USD, and for many local councils and authorities around the country, it has been a role model and source of emulation.
The Jerusalem Foundation’s focus is on socio-cultural entrepreneurship that is geared towards Jerusalemites’ agendas and unique needs. As such, it remains successfully invested in a range of physical and content schemes promoting education, culture, financial, community, and welfare growth, and co-existence.
The Jerusalem Foundation is one of the cinematheque’s founders and considers it one of the city’s most fundamental cultural anchors. It is above and beyond proud to support its work and various endeavours all year round.
George Ostrovsky (1901-1980), a Pinsk-born businessman and philanthropist who lived in Rio de Janeiro, was the brains and driving force behind the building of the Jerusalem Cinematheque and the Israeli Film Archive in 1973. Ostrovsky was involved in the planning and design stages of the cinematheque’s building site on Hebron Rd. but never got to witness the completion of the Jerusalem Film Centre (JFC) that opened in 1981.
For the past 30 years, the Ostrovsky Family Fund (OFF) has been at the forefront of the JFC’s support and ongoing operations, providing annual donations and allocated funds towards the acquisition of films, programmes, festivals, equipment, staff training, and development consultants.
OFF was even the driving force behind the refurbishing and expanding of the JFC complex, which it funded in full. When the project was completed in 2008, the Fund then allocated additional funds towards upgrading the film archive and dedicating it to the memory of Wim and Lia van Leer; Ostrovsky’s partners on this project.
To date, the JFC and New York City’s Film Forum have been OFF’s primary beneficiaries. The fund’s patronage also extends to a host of international cultural and human rights schemes in Brazil, the US, and Israel.
The Jaglom family’s Diamond Charity Foundation supports social, cultural, medical, and educational projects in Israel. This specific project to help build a digital film archive in Israel was spearheaded by Daphna Jaglom. After finishing her Masters at NYU-Tisch Cinema Studies in 2012, Daphna became an avid supporter of moving image archives and preservation, and saw the risk that Israel might lose vital memories without a state-of-the-art digital film archive. The various recorded moving image media disintegrate over time, their content forgotten as if it had never existed. Even digital archiving requires great care to ensure that the format will remain usable for future generations. With all this in mind, Daphna made it her mission to work with the highly motivated staff of the Jerusalem Cinematheque to create the archive they needed, with the technology required. The dedicated and detailed work of these archivists now means that future generations will be able to enjoy these films; a publicly available treasure trove for the general public and researchers alike
The Beracha Foundation, established in 1971 supports three main areas of activity in Israel: education, culture, and the environment. In the field of education, the foundation’s focus is on promoting entrepreneurship amongst educators in schools, and training education and care professionals for day cares and nurseries. In terms of the environment, the foundation has been championing urban sustainability, alongside the active role it has played in environmental legislation and policy-making. The foundation’s cultural support extends to bodies and institutions that promote original Israeli content, whilst also advocating for culture-centric policies, and lending its support to local content creators.
The foundation has been supporting and shadowing the development and thought process at the heart of the Israeli Film Archive since its inception, as part of its global patronage of original Israeli content. This support is the product of a realisation that the country’s precious pool of Israeli films are part and parcel of the local narrative. The prospect of preserving the films that were made here over generations, and making them accessible will offer profound insights into the ways in which Israeli society has changed and evolved over the years, whilst also providing a unique and important perspective on life, relationships, and the multilayered intricacy of the land and State of Israel.
Israel’s National Lottery (‘Mifal HaPayis’) was founded to provide support and assistance to members of the Israeli general public from all walks of life. As such, the National Lottery’s aid targets and goals are dynamic, as per society’s and various communities’ ever-changing needs. In the year 2000, the National Lottery began allocating considerable resources towards the development of Israeli culture and art, with the aim of investing every bit as much in the community’s soul and spirit.
The Israeli National Lottery Council for Culture and the Arts is proud to aid and support both art and artists in a variety of geographical regions, as well as diverse demographics and sectors who, otherwise would not benefit from the support of traditional institutions. Funneling resources in those directions is meant to benefit and sustain the rich and diverse range of Israeli artistic productivity and creativity, with an emphasis on quality and accessibility for target demographics who do not live in the heart of the country.
The National Lottery Council’s support of the Israeli Film Archive is directly tied to one of the targets it has set for itself: the commemorating and enshrining of tradition by means of digital preservation and documentation of films which, over the years have become building blocks of Israeli culture. The archive will be available to Israeli and international users alike, thereby making Israel’s cultural heritage readily available to anyone looking to explore it from the comfort of their own computer; be they academics, film industry professionals, and new generations of industrious filmmakers and creators. We wish you all a pleasant viewing experience, a fascinating and productive learning journey, and many more years of essential, quality filmmaking.
The Israel Film Council was established in the year 2000 as part of the 1999 Film Act. It is the acting body in charge of the law’s implementation. The council’s role is to devise policy and a list of criteria that would facilitate a practical, equal disbursement of funds coming from parliament’s film support budget. Highlights of the council’s roles include: fostering an original and authentic Israeli cultural identity, whilst simultaneously showcasing and representing Israeli society’s cultural diversity and its people’s range of opinions and worldviews; promoting and championing the creation, production, and distribution of Israeli films; spearheading and facilitating international filmmaking collaborations; encouraging and promoting the marketing of original Israeli content overseas; supporting festivals and backing preservation schemes of Israeli films. The Ministry of Culture and Sport has provided the Jerusalem Cinematheque’s Israeli Film Archive with extensive support. The ministry’s backing and funding enable the ongoing compiling and preservation of Israeli film heritage for generations to come.
The Ministry of Culture and Sport and the Israel Film Council congratulate the Jerusalem Cinematheque for the launch of the film archive’s website, and commend both cinematheque and archive staff for their tireless researching, compiling, documenting, restoring, and preserving efforts over the last few years towards expanding and upgrading the archive that was founded by the late Mrs. Lia van Leer.
It is an asset of the most profound, national significance and is home to a historical collection of cultural gems, invaluable to the Israeli public. In order to carry on building the Israeli Film Archive’s precious catalogue, and to further expand its collections considerably, the Ministry of Culture and Sport and the Israel Film Archive have announced that from now on, all Israeli filmmakers will have to deposit a copy of the films they have made at the archives, for future generations. What is more, the Jerusalem Cinematheque’s Film Archive has been recognised by all Israeli filmmakers as an institution whose job it is to preserve and protect Israeli films – be they old or new.
The Ministry of Culture and Sport wishes the archive the best of luck en route to fully realising its mission – promoting Israeli film culture, locally and internationally by creating restored digital screener copies for cinematheques and festivals, alongside a viewing platform for heritage and cultural assets, for the benefit of the general public and scholars alike.
The Ministry of Jerusalem and Heritage is the government department in charge of cultivating the Israeli capital and preserving the country’s national heritage across Israel. The department’s Heritage wing endeavours to restore and amplify Israel’s national heritage in a myriad of ways, including curating content of national, historical significance and making it available to the general public in a range of media and formats, including digital. As part of these efforts that have seen an acknowledgment of Israeli cinema’s importance to the national heritage, the Israeli Film Archive’s digitizing scheme was shortlisted for the second phase of the Heritage Programme, thereby securing its government investment and funding as part of the ministry’s portfolio.
The Van Leer Group Foundation is a privately endowed charitable organisation. The organisation was established in 1979 by Oscar van Leer, the younger brother of Wim van Leer. The foundation manages the van Leer family’s range of philanthropic ventures and is also in charge of its investment portfolio and all philanthropic schemes. These charitable activities are presently embodied in the Van Leer Group Foundation in Amstelveen, the Bernard Van Leer Foundation in The Hague, the Van Leer Jerusalem Institute, and the Jerusalem Cinematheque.
The foundation has full ownership of Crecor B.V. – an Israeli risk management company that operates via its Israeli, Tel Aviv-based subsidiary, Docor International Management. One of the foundation’s main objectives is to aid and assist in the development and strengthening of Israel as a Jewish, democratic country that is committed to the creation and sustaining of a free, just, and equitable society for all its citizens, and to contribute to any and all efforts towards securing peace in the region; all to the benefit and bettering of Israeli society, culture, and individual life.
What is more, the foundation has taken it upon itself to create a range of positive opportunities for children around the world who are at a social, financial, and educational disadvantage. The foundation provides regular financial support to the Jerusalem Cinematheque, as well as funding for a range of awards that promote Israeli filmmaking, with an emphasis on young creators.
The Jerusalem Foundation, Israel’s largest of its kind, was founded in 1966 by Jerusalem’s then-mayor, Teddy Kollek, who viewed it as a potential fundraising engine towards developing the city, championing the community, and shaping it as a free, tolerant, and pluralist society.
The Jerusalem Foundation seeks out donations from Jerusalem lovers in Israel and all over the world. Funds raised are then invested into thousands of schemes and ventures that create opportunities for all Jerusalemites, regardless of faith, race, or nationality. Over the years, the fund has raised well over 1.5bn USD, and for many local councils and authorities around the country, it has been a role model and source of emulation.
The Jerusalem Foundation’s focus is on socio-cultural entrepreneurship that is geared towards Jerusalemites’ agendas and unique needs. As such, it remains successfully invested in a range of physical and content schemes promoting education, culture, financial, community, and welfare growth, and co-existence.
The Jerusalem Foundation is one of the cinematheque’s founders and considers it one of the city’s most fundamental cultural anchors. It is above and beyond proud to support its work and various endeavours all year round.
George Ostrovsky (1901-1980), a Pinsk-born businessman and philanthropist who lived in Rio de Janeiro, was the brains and driving force behind the building of the Jerusalem Cinematheque and the Israeli Film Archive in 1973. Ostrovsky was involved in the planning and design stages of the cinematheque’s building site on Hebron Rd. but never got to witness the completion of the Jerusalem Film Centre (JFC) that opened in 1981.
For the past 30 years, the Ostrovsky Family Fund (OFF) has been at the forefront of the JFC’s support and ongoing operations, providing annual donations and allocated funds towards the acquisition of films, programmes, festivals, equipment, staff training, and development consultants.
OFF was even the driving force behind the refurbishing and expanding of the JFC complex, which it funded in full. When the project was completed in 2008, the Fund then allocated additional funds towards upgrading the film archive and dedicating it to the memory of Wim and Lia van Leer; Ostrovsky’s partners on this project.
To date, the JFC and New York City’s Film Forum have been OFF’s primary beneficiaries. The fund’s patronage also extends to a host of international cultural and human rights schemes in Brazil, the US, and Israel.
The Jaglom family’s Diamond Charity Foundation supports social, cultural, medical, and educational projects in Israel. This specific project to help build a digital film archive in Israel was spearheaded by Daphna Jaglom. After finishing her Masters at NYU-Tisch Cinema Studies in 2012, Daphna became an avid supporter of moving image archives and preservation, and saw the risk that Israel might lose vital memories without a state-of-the-art digital film archive. The various recorded moving image media disintegrate over time, their content forgotten as if it had never existed. Even digital archiving requires great care to ensure that the format will remain usable for future generations. With all this in mind, Daphna made it her mission to work with the highly motivated staff of the Jerusalem Cinematheque to create the archive they needed, with the technology required. The dedicated and detailed work of these archivists now means that future generations will be able to enjoy these films; a publicly available treasure trove for the general public and researchers alike
The Beracha Foundation, established in 1971 supports three main areas of activity in Israel: education, culture, and the environment. In the field of education, the foundation’s focus is on promoting entrepreneurship amongst educators in schools, and training education and care professionals for day cares and nurseries. In terms of the environment, the foundation has been championing urban sustainability, alongside the active role it has played in environmental legislation and policy-making. The foundation’s cultural support extends to bodies and institutions that promote original Israeli content, whilst also advocating for culture-centric policies, and lending its support to local content creators.
The foundation has been supporting and shadowing the development and thought process at the heart of the Israeli Film Archive since its inception, as part of its global patronage of original Israeli content. This support is the product of a realisation that the country’s precious pool of Israeli films are part and parcel of the local narrative. The prospect of preserving the films that were made here over generations, and making them accessible will offer profound insights into the ways in which Israeli society has changed and evolved over the years, whilst also providing a unique and important perspective on life, relationships, and the multilayered intricacy of the land and State of Israel.
Israel’s National Lottery (‘Mifal HaPayis’) was founded to provide support and assistance to members of the Israeli general public from all walks of life. As such, the National Lottery’s aid targets and goals are dynamic, as per society’s and various communities’ ever-changing needs. In the year 2000, the National Lottery began allocating considerable resources towards the development of Israeli culture and art, with the aim of investing every bit as much in the community’s soul and spirit.
The Israeli National Lottery Council for Culture and the Arts is proud to aid and support both art and artists in a variety of geographical regions, as well as diverse demographics and sectors who, otherwise would not benefit from the support of traditional institutions. Funneling resources in those directions is meant to benefit and sustain the rich and diverse range of Israeli artistic productivity and creativity, with an emphasis on quality and accessibility for target demographics who do not live in the heart of the country.
The National Lottery Council’s support of the Israeli Film Archive is directly tied to one of the targets it has set for itself: the commemorating and enshrining of tradition by means of digital preservation and documentation of films which, over the years have become building blocks of Israeli culture. The archive will be available to Israeli and international users alike, thereby making Israel’s cultural heritage readily available to anyone looking to explore it from the comfort of their own computer; be they academics, film industry professionals, and new generations of industrious filmmakers and creators. We wish you all a pleasant viewing experience, a fascinating and productive learning journey, and many more years of essential, quality filmmaking.
The Israel Film Council was established in the year 2000 as part of the 1999 Film Act. It is the acting body in charge of the law’s implementation. The council’s role is to devise policy and a list of criteria that would facilitate a practical, equal disbursement of funds coming from parliament’s film support budget. Highlights of the council’s roles include: fostering an original and authentic Israeli cultural identity, whilst simultaneously showcasing and representing Israeli society’s cultural diversity and its people’s range of opinions and worldviews; promoting and championing the creation, production, and distribution of Israeli films; spearheading and facilitating international filmmaking collaborations; encouraging and promoting the marketing of original Israeli content overseas; supporting festivals and backing preservation schemes of Israeli films. The Ministry of Culture and Sport has provided the Jerusalem Cinematheque’s Israeli Film Archive with extensive support. The ministry’s backing and funding enable the ongoing compiling and preservation of Israeli film heritage for generations to come.
The Ministry of Culture and Sport and the Israel Film Council congratulate the Jerusalem Cinematheque for the launch of the film archive’s website, and commend both cinematheque and archive staff for their tireless researching, compiling, documenting, restoring, and preserving efforts over the last few years towards expanding and upgrading the archive that was founded by the late Mrs. Lia van Leer.
It is an asset of the most profound, national significance and is home to a historical collection of cultural gems, invaluable to the Israeli public. In order to carry on building the Israeli Film Archive’s precious catalogue, and to further expand its collections considerably, the Ministry of Culture and Sport and the Israel Film Archive have announced that from now on, all Israeli filmmakers will have to deposit a copy of the films they have made at the archives, for future generations. What is more, the Jerusalem Cinematheque’s Film Archive has been recognised by all Israeli filmmakers as an institution whose job it is to preserve and protect Israeli films – be they old or new.
The Ministry of Culture and Sport wishes the archive the best of luck en route to fully realising its mission – promoting Israeli film culture, locally and internationally by creating restored digital screener copies for cinematheques and festivals, alongside a viewing platform for heritage and cultural assets, for the benefit of the general public and scholars alike.
The Ministry of Jerusalem and Heritage is the government department in charge of cultivating the Israeli capital and preserving the country’s national heritage across Israel. The department’s Heritage wing endeavours to restore and amplify Israel’s national heritage in a myriad of ways, including curating content of national, historical significance and making it available to the general public in a range of media and formats, including digital. As part of these efforts that have seen an acknowledgment of Israeli cinema’s importance to the national heritage, the Israeli Film Archive’s digitizing scheme was shortlisted for the second phase of the Heritage Programme, thereby securing its government investment and funding as part of the ministry’s portfolio.
The Van Leer Group Foundation is a privately endowed charitable organisation. The organisation was established in 1979 by Oscar van Leer, the younger brother of Wim van Leer. The foundation manages the van Leer family’s range of philanthropic ventures and is also in charge of its investment portfolio and all philanthropic schemes. These charitable activities are presently embodied in the Van Leer Group Foundation in Amstelveen, the Bernard Van Leer Foundation in The Hague, the Van Leer Jerusalem Institute, and the Jerusalem Cinematheque.
The foundation has full ownership of Crecor B.V. – an Israeli risk management company that operates via its Israeli, Tel Aviv-based subsidiary, Docor International Management. One of the foundation’s main objectives is to aid and assist in the development and strengthening of Israel as a Jewish, democratic country that is committed to the creation and sustaining of a free, just, and equitable society for all its citizens, and to contribute to any and all efforts towards securing peace in the region; all to the benefit and bettering of Israeli society, culture, and individual life.
What is more, the foundation has taken it upon itself to create a range of positive opportunities for children around the world who are at a social, financial, and educational disadvantage. The foundation provides regular financial support to the Jerusalem Cinematheque, as well as funding for a range of awards that promote Israeli filmmaking, with an emphasis on young creators.
The Jerusalem Foundation, Israel’s largest of its kind, was founded in 1966 by Jerusalem’s then-mayor, Teddy Kollek, who viewed it as a potential fundraising engine towards developing the city, championing the community, and shaping it as a free, tolerant, and pluralist society.
The Jerusalem Foundation seeks out donations from Jerusalem lovers in Israel and all over the world. Funds raised are then invested into thousands of schemes and ventures that create opportunities for all Jerusalemites, regardless of faith, race, or nationality. Over the years, the fund has raised well over 1.5bn USD, and for many local councils and authorities around the country, it has been a role model and source of emulation.
The Jerusalem Foundation’s focus is on socio-cultural entrepreneurship that is geared towards Jerusalemites’ agendas and unique needs. As such, it remains successfully invested in a range of physical and content schemes promoting education, culture, financial, community, and welfare growth, and co-existence.
The Jerusalem Foundation is one of the cinematheque’s founders and considers it one of the city’s most fundamental cultural anchors. It is above and beyond proud to support its work and various endeavours all year round.
George Ostrovsky (1901-1980), a Pinsk-born businessman and philanthropist who lived in Rio de Janeiro, was the brains and driving force behind the building of the Jerusalem Cinematheque and the Israeli Film Archive in 1973. Ostrovsky was involved in the planning and design stages of the cinematheque’s building site on Hebron Rd. but never got to witness the completion of the Jerusalem Film Centre (JFC) that opened in 1981.
For the past 30 years, the Ostrovsky Family Fund (OFF) has been at the forefront of the JFC’s support and ongoing operations, providing annual donations and allocated funds towards the acquisition of films, programmes, festivals, equipment, staff training, and development consultants.
OFF was even the driving force behind the refurbishing and expanding of the JFC complex, which it funded in full. When the project was completed in 2008, the Fund then allocated additional funds towards upgrading the film archive and dedicating it to the memory of Wim and Lia van Leer; Ostrovsky’s partners on this project.
To date, the JFC and New York City’s Film Forum have been OFF’s primary beneficiaries. The fund’s patronage also extends to a host of international cultural and human rights schemes in Brazil, the US, and Israel.
The Jaglom family’s Diamond Charity Foundation supports social, cultural, medical, and educational projects in Israel. This specific project to help build a digital film archive in Israel was spearheaded by Daphna Jaglom. After finishing her Masters at NYU-Tisch Cinema Studies in 2012, Daphna became an avid supporter of moving image archives and preservation, and saw the risk that Israel might lose vital memories without a state-of-the-art digital film archive. The various recorded moving image media disintegrate over time, their content forgotten as if it had never existed. Even digital archiving requires great care to ensure that the format will remain usable for future generations. With all this in mind, Daphna made it her mission to work with the highly motivated staff of the Jerusalem Cinematheque to create the archive they needed, with the technology required. The dedicated and detailed work of these archivists now means that future generations will be able to enjoy these films; a publicly available treasure trove for the general public and researchers alike
The Beracha Foundation, established in 1971 supports three main areas of activity in Israel: education, culture, and the environment. In the field of education, the foundation’s focus is on promoting entrepreneurship amongst educators in schools, and training education and care professionals for day cares and nurseries. In terms of the environment, the foundation has been championing urban sustainability, alongside the active role it has played in environmental legislation and policy-making. The foundation’s cultural support extends to bodies and institutions that promote original Israeli content, whilst also advocating for culture-centric policies, and lending its support to local content creators.
The foundation has been supporting and shadowing the development and thought process at the heart of the Israeli Film Archive since its inception, as part of its global patronage of original Israeli content. This support is the product of a realisation that the country’s precious pool of Israeli films are part and parcel of the local narrative. The prospect of preserving the films that were made here over generations, and making them accessible will offer profound insights into the ways in which Israeli society has changed and evolved over the years, whilst also providing a unique and important perspective on life, relationships, and the multilayered intricacy of the land and State of Israel.
Israel’s National Lottery (‘Mifal HaPayis’) was founded to provide support and assistance to members of the Israeli general public from all walks of life. As such, the National Lottery’s aid targets and goals are dynamic, as per society’s and various communities’ ever-changing needs. In the year 2000, the National Lottery began allocating considerable resources towards the development of Israeli culture and art, with the aim of investing every bit as much in the community’s soul and spirit.
The Israeli National Lottery Council for Culture and the Arts is proud to aid and support both art and artists in a variety of geographical regions, as well as diverse demographics and sectors who, otherwise would not benefit from the support of traditional institutions. Funneling resources in those directions is meant to benefit and sustain the rich and diverse range of Israeli artistic productivity and creativity, with an emphasis on quality and accessibility for target demographics who do not live in the heart of the country.
The National Lottery Council’s support of the Israeli Film Archive is directly tied to one of the targets it has set for itself: the commemorating and enshrining of tradition by means of digital preservation and documentation of films which, over the years have become building blocks of Israeli culture. The archive will be available to Israeli and international users alike, thereby making Israel’s cultural heritage readily available to anyone looking to explore it from the comfort of their own computer; be they academics, film industry professionals, and new generations of industrious filmmakers and creators. We wish you all a pleasant viewing experience, a fascinating and productive learning journey, and many more years of essential, quality filmmaking.
The Israel Film Council was established in the year 2000 as part of the 1999 Film Act. It is the acting body in charge of the law’s implementation. The council’s role is to devise policy and a list of criteria that would facilitate a practical, equal disbursement of funds coming from parliament’s film support budget. Highlights of the council’s roles include: fostering an original and authentic Israeli cultural identity, whilst simultaneously showcasing and representing Israeli society’s cultural diversity and its people’s range of opinions and worldviews; promoting and championing the creation, production, and distribution of Israeli films; spearheading and facilitating international filmmaking collaborations; encouraging and promoting the marketing of original Israeli content overseas; supporting festivals and backing preservation schemes of Israeli films. The Ministry of Culture and Sport has provided the Jerusalem Cinematheque’s Israeli Film Archive with extensive support. The ministry’s backing and funding enable the ongoing compiling and preservation of Israeli film heritage for generations to come.
The Ministry of Culture and Sport and the Israel Film Council congratulate the Jerusalem Cinematheque for the launch of the film archive’s website, and commend both cinematheque and archive staff for their tireless researching, compiling, documenting, restoring, and preserving efforts over the last few years towards expanding and upgrading the archive that was founded by the late Mrs. Lia van Leer.
It is an asset of the most profound, national significance and is home to a historical collection of cultural gems, invaluable to the Israeli public. In order to carry on building the Israeli Film Archive’s precious catalogue, and to further expand its collections considerably, the Ministry of Culture and Sport and the Israel Film Archive have announced that from now on, all Israeli filmmakers will have to deposit a copy of the films they have made at the archives, for future generations. What is more, the Jerusalem Cinematheque’s Film Archive has been recognised by all Israeli filmmakers as an institution whose job it is to preserve and protect Israeli films – be they old or new.
The Ministry of Culture and Sport wishes the archive the best of luck en route to fully realising its mission – promoting Israeli film culture, locally and internationally by creating restored digital screener copies for cinematheques and festivals, alongside a viewing platform for heritage and cultural assets, for the benefit of the general public and scholars alike.
The Ministry of Jerusalem and Heritage is the government department in charge of cultivating the Israeli capital and preserving the country’s national heritage across Israel. The department’s Heritage wing endeavours to restore and amplify Israel’s national heritage in a myriad of ways, including curating content of national, historical significance and making it available to the general public in a range of media and formats, including digital. As part of these efforts that have seen an acknowledgment of Israeli cinema’s importance to the national heritage, the Israeli Film Archive’s digitizing scheme was shortlisted for the second phase of the Heritage Programme, thereby securing its government investment and funding as part of the ministry’s portfolio.
The Van Leer Group Foundation is a privately endowed charitable organisation. The organisation was established in 1979 by Oscar van Leer, the younger brother of Wim van Leer. The foundation manages the van Leer family’s range of philanthropic ventures and is also in charge of its investment portfolio and all philanthropic schemes. These charitable activities are presently embodied in the Van Leer Group Foundation in Amstelveen, the Bernard Van Leer Foundation in The Hague, the Van Leer Jerusalem Institute, and the Jerusalem Cinematheque.
The foundation has full ownership of Crecor B.V. – an Israeli risk management company that operates via its Israeli, Tel Aviv-based subsidiary, Docor International Management. One of the foundation’s main objectives is to aid and assist in the development and strengthening of Israel as a Jewish, democratic country that is committed to the creation and sustaining of a free, just, and equitable society for all its citizens, and to contribute to any and all efforts towards securing peace in the region; all to the benefit and bettering of Israeli society, culture, and individual life.
What is more, the foundation has taken it upon itself to create a range of positive opportunities for children around the world who are at a social, financial, and educational disadvantage. The foundation provides regular financial support to the Jerusalem Cinematheque, as well as funding for a range of awards that promote Israeli filmmaking, with an emphasis on young creators.
The Jerusalem Foundation, Israel’s largest of its kind, was founded in 1966 by Jerusalem’s then-mayor, Teddy Kollek, who viewed it as a potential fundraising engine towards developing the city, championing the community, and shaping it as a free, tolerant, and pluralist society.
The Jerusalem Foundation seeks out donations from Jerusalem lovers in Israel and all over the world. Funds raised are then invested into thousands of schemes and ventures that create opportunities for all Jerusalemites, regardless of faith, race, or nationality. Over the years, the fund has raised well over 1.5bn USD, and for many local councils and authorities around the country, it has been a role model and source of emulation.
The Jerusalem Foundation’s focus is on socio-cultural entrepreneurship that is geared towards Jerusalemites’ agendas and unique needs. As such, it remains successfully invested in a range of physical and content schemes promoting education, culture, financial, community, and welfare growth, and co-existence.
The Jerusalem Foundation is one of the cinematheque’s founders and considers it one of the city’s most fundamental cultural anchors. It is above and beyond proud to support its work and various endeavours all year round.
George Ostrovsky (1901-1980), a Pinsk-born businessman and philanthropist who lived in Rio de Janeiro, was the brains and driving force behind the building of the Jerusalem Cinematheque and the Israeli Film Archive in 1973. Ostrovsky was involved in the planning and design stages of the cinematheque’s building site on Hebron Rd. but never got to witness the completion of the Jerusalem Film Centre (JFC) that opened in 1981.
For the past 30 years, the Ostrovsky Family Fund (OFF) has been at the forefront of the JFC’s support and ongoing operations, providing annual donations and allocated funds towards the acquisition of films, programmes, festivals, equipment, staff training, and development consultants.
OFF was even the driving force behind the refurbishing and expanding of the JFC complex, which it funded in full. When the project was completed in 2008, the Fund then allocated additional funds towards upgrading the film archive and dedicating it to the memory of Wim and Lia van Leer; Ostrovsky’s partners on this project.
To date, the JFC and New York City’s Film Forum have been OFF’s primary beneficiaries. The fund’s patronage also extends to a host of international cultural and human rights schemes in Brazil, the US, and Israel.
The Jaglom family’s Diamond Charity Foundation supports social, cultural, medical, and educational projects in Israel. This specific project to help build a digital film archive in Israel was spearheaded by Daphna Jaglom. After finishing her Masters at NYU-Tisch Cinema Studies in 2012, Daphna became an avid supporter of moving image archives and preservation, and saw the risk that Israel might lose vital memories without a state-of-the-art digital film archive. The various recorded moving image media disintegrate over time, their content forgotten as if it had never existed. Even digital archiving requires great care to ensure that the format will remain usable for future generations. With all this in mind, Daphna made it her mission to work with the highly motivated staff of the Jerusalem Cinematheque to create the archive they needed, with the technology required. The dedicated and detailed work of these archivists now means that future generations will be able to enjoy these films; a publicly available treasure trove for the general public and researchers alike
The Beracha Foundation, established in 1971 supports three main areas of activity in Israel: education, culture, and the environment. In the field of education, the foundation’s focus is on promoting entrepreneurship amongst educators in schools, and training education and care professionals for day cares and nurseries. In terms of the environment, the foundation has been championing urban sustainability, alongside the active role it has played in environmental legislation and policy-making. The foundation’s cultural support extends to bodies and institutions that promote original Israeli content, whilst also advocating for culture-centric policies, and lending its support to local content creators.
The foundation has been supporting and shadowing the development and thought process at the heart of the Israeli Film Archive since its inception, as part of its global patronage of original Israeli content. This support is the product of a realisation that the country’s precious pool of Israeli films are part and parcel of the local narrative. The prospect of preserving the films that were made here over generations, and making them accessible will offer profound insights into the ways in which Israeli society has changed and evolved over the years, whilst also providing a unique and important perspective on life, relationships, and the multilayered intricacy of the land and State of Israel.
Israel’s National Lottery (‘Mifal HaPayis’) was founded to provide support and assistance to members of the Israeli general public from all walks of life. As such, the National Lottery’s aid targets and goals are dynamic, as per society’s and various communities’ ever-changing needs. In the year 2000, the National Lottery began allocating considerable resources towards the development of Israeli culture and art, with the aim of investing every bit as much in the community’s soul and spirit.
The Israeli National Lottery Council for Culture and the Arts is proud to aid and support both art and artists in a variety of geographical regions, as well as diverse demographics and sectors who, otherwise would not benefit from the support of traditional institutions. Funneling resources in those directions is meant to benefit and sustain the rich and diverse range of Israeli artistic productivity and creativity, with an emphasis on quality and accessibility for target demographics who do not live in the heart of the country.
The National Lottery Council’s support of the Israeli Film Archive is directly tied to one of the targets it has set for itself: the commemorating and enshrining of tradition by means of digital preservation and documentation of films which, over the years have become building blocks of Israeli culture. The archive will be available to Israeli and international users alike, thereby making Israel’s cultural heritage readily available to anyone looking to explore it from the comfort of their own computer; be they academics, film industry professionals, and new generations of industrious filmmakers and creators. We wish you all a pleasant viewing experience, a fascinating and productive learning journey, and many more years of essential, quality filmmaking.
The Israel Film Council was established in the year 2000 as part of the 1999 Film Act. It is the acting body in charge of the law’s implementation. The council’s role is to devise policy and a list of criteria that would facilitate a practical, equal disbursement of funds coming from parliament’s film support budget. Highlights of the council’s roles include: fostering an original and authentic Israeli cultural identity, whilst simultaneously showcasing and representing Israeli society’s cultural diversity and its people’s range of opinions and worldviews; promoting and championing the creation, production, and distribution of Israeli films; spearheading and facilitating international filmmaking collaborations; encouraging and promoting the marketing of original Israeli content overseas; supporting festivals and backing preservation schemes of Israeli films. The Ministry of Culture and Sport has provided the Jerusalem Cinematheque’s Israeli Film Archive with extensive support. The ministry’s backing and funding enable the ongoing compiling and preservation of Israeli film heritage for generations to come.
The Ministry of Culture and Sport and the Israel Film Council congratulate the Jerusalem Cinematheque for the launch of the film archive’s website, and commend both cinematheque and archive staff for their tireless researching, compiling, documenting, restoring, and preserving efforts over the last few years towards expanding and upgrading the archive that was founded by the late Mrs. Lia van Leer.
It is an asset of the most profound, national significance and is home to a historical collection of cultural gems, invaluable to the Israeli public. In order to carry on building the Israeli Film Archive’s precious catalogue, and to further expand its collections considerably, the Ministry of Culture and Sport and the Israel Film Archive have announced that from now on, all Israeli filmmakers will have to deposit a copy of the films they have made at the archives, for future generations. What is more, the Jerusalem Cinematheque’s Film Archive has been recognised by all Israeli filmmakers as an institution whose job it is to preserve and protect Israeli films – be they old or new.
The Ministry of Culture and Sport wishes the archive the best of luck en route to fully realising its mission – promoting Israeli film culture, locally and internationally by creating restored digital screener copies for cinematheques and festivals, alongside a viewing platform for heritage and cultural assets, for the benefit of the general public and scholars alike.
The Ministry of Jerusalem and Heritage is the government department in charge of cultivating the Israeli capital and preserving the country’s national heritage across Israel. The department’s Heritage wing endeavours to restore and amplify Israel’s national heritage in a myriad of ways, including curating content of national, historical significance and making it available to the general public in a range of media and formats, including digital. As part of these efforts that have seen an acknowledgment of Israeli cinema’s importance to the national heritage, the Israeli Film Archive’s digitizing scheme was shortlisted for the second phase of the Heritage Programme, thereby securing its government investment and funding as part of the ministry’s portfolio.
The Van Leer Group Foundation is a privately endowed charitable organisation. The organisation was established in 1979 by Oscar van Leer, the younger brother of Wim van Leer. The foundation manages the van Leer family’s range of philanthropic ventures and is also in charge of its investment portfolio and all philanthropic schemes. These charitable activities are presently embodied in the Van Leer Group Foundation in Amstelveen, the Bernard Van Leer Foundation in The Hague, the Van Leer Jerusalem Institute, and the Jerusalem Cinematheque.
The foundation has full ownership of Crecor B.V. – an Israeli risk management company that operates via its Israeli, Tel Aviv-based subsidiary, Docor International Management. One of the foundation’s main objectives is to aid and assist in the development and strengthening of Israel as a Jewish, democratic country that is committed to the creation and sustaining of a free, just, and equitable society for all its citizens, and to contribute to any and all efforts towards securing peace in the region; all to the benefit and bettering of Israeli society, culture, and individual life.
What is more, the foundation has taken it upon itself to create a range of positive opportunities for children around the world who are at a social, financial, and educational disadvantage. The foundation provides regular financial support to the Jerusalem Cinematheque, as well as funding for a range of awards that promote Israeli filmmaking, with an emphasis on young creators.
The Jerusalem Foundation, Israel’s largest of its kind, was founded in 1966 by Jerusalem’s then-mayor, Teddy Kollek, who viewed it as a potential fundraising engine towards developing the city, championing the community, and shaping it as a free, tolerant, and pluralist society.
The Jerusalem Foundation seeks out donations from Jerusalem lovers in Israel and all over the world. Funds raised are then invested into thousands of schemes and ventures that create opportunities for all Jerusalemites, regardless of faith, race, or nationality. Over the years, the fund has raised well over 1.5bn USD, and for many local councils and authorities around the country, it has been a role model and source of emulation.
The Jerusalem Foundation’s focus is on socio-cultural entrepreneurship that is geared towards Jerusalemites’ agendas and unique needs. As such, it remains successfully invested in a range of physical and content schemes promoting education, culture, financial, community, and welfare growth, and co-existence.
The Jerusalem Foundation is one of the cinematheque’s founders and considers it one of the city’s most fundamental cultural anchors. It is above and beyond proud to support its work and various endeavours all year round.
George Ostrovsky (1901-1980), a Pinsk-born businessman and philanthropist who lived in Rio de Janeiro, was the brains and driving force behind the building of the Jerusalem Cinematheque and the Israeli Film Archive in 1973. Ostrovsky was involved in the planning and design stages of the cinematheque’s building site on Hebron Rd. but never got to witness the completion of the Jerusalem Film Centre (JFC) that opened in 1981.
For the past 30 years, the Ostrovsky Family Fund (OFF) has been at the forefront of the JFC’s support and ongoing operations, providing annual donations and allocated funds towards the acquisition of films, programmes, festivals, equipment, staff training, and development consultants.
OFF was even the driving force behind the refurbishing and expanding of the JFC complex, which it funded in full. When the project was completed in 2008, the Fund then allocated additional funds towards upgrading the film archive and dedicating it to the memory of Wim and Lia van Leer; Ostrovsky’s partners on this project.
To date, the JFC and New York City’s Film Forum have been OFF’s primary beneficiaries. The fund’s patronage also extends to a host of international cultural and human rights schemes in Brazil, the US, and Israel.
The Jaglom family’s Diamond Charity Foundation supports social, cultural, medical, and educational projects in Israel. This specific project to help build a digital film archive in Israel was spearheaded by Daphna Jaglom. After finishing her Masters at NYU-Tisch Cinema Studies in 2012, Daphna became an avid supporter of moving image archives and preservation, and saw the risk that Israel might lose vital memories without a state-of-the-art digital film archive. The various recorded moving image media disintegrate over time, their content forgotten as if it had never existed. Even digital archiving requires great care to ensure that the format will remain usable for future generations. With all this in mind, Daphna made it her mission to work with the highly motivated staff of the Jerusalem Cinematheque to create the archive they needed, with the technology required. The dedicated and detailed work of these archivists now means that future generations will be able to enjoy these films; a publicly available treasure trove for the general public and researchers alike
The Beracha Foundation, established in 1971 supports three main areas of activity in Israel: education, culture, and the environment. In the field of education, the foundation’s focus is on promoting entrepreneurship amongst educators in schools, and training education and care professionals for day cares and nurseries. In terms of the environment, the foundation has been championing urban sustainability, alongside the active role it has played in environmental legislation and policy-making. The foundation’s cultural support extends to bodies and institutions that promote original Israeli content, whilst also advocating for culture-centric policies, and lending its support to local content creators.
The foundation has been supporting and shadowing the development and thought process at the heart of the Israeli Film Archive since its inception, as part of its global patronage of original Israeli content. This support is the product of a realisation that the country’s precious pool of Israeli films are part and parcel of the local narrative. The prospect of preserving the films that were made here over generations, and making them accessible will offer profound insights into the ways in which Israeli society has changed and evolved over the years, whilst also providing a unique and important perspective on life, relationships, and the multilayered intricacy of the land and State of Israel.
Israel’s National Lottery (‘Mifal HaPayis’) was founded to provide support and assistance to members of the Israeli general public from all walks of life. As such, the National Lottery’s aid targets and goals are dynamic, as per society’s and various communities’ ever-changing needs. In the year 2000, the National Lottery began allocating considerable resources towards the development of Israeli culture and art, with the aim of investing every bit as much in the community’s soul and spirit.
The Israeli National Lottery Council for Culture and the Arts is proud to aid and support both art and artists in a variety of geographical regions, as well as diverse demographics and sectors who, otherwise would not benefit from the support of traditional institutions. Funneling resources in those directions is meant to benefit and sustain the rich and diverse range of Israeli artistic productivity and creativity, with an emphasis on quality and accessibility for target demographics who do not live in the heart of the country.
The National Lottery Council’s support of the Israeli Film Archive is directly tied to one of the targets it has set for itself: the commemorating and enshrining of tradition by means of digital preservation and documentation of films which, over the years have become building blocks of Israeli culture. The archive will be available to Israeli and international users alike, thereby making Israel’s cultural heritage readily available to anyone looking to explore it from the comfort of their own computer; be they academics, film industry professionals, and new generations of industrious filmmakers and creators. We wish you all a pleasant viewing experience, a fascinating and productive learning journey, and many more years of essential, quality filmmaking.
The Israel Film Council was established in the year 2000 as part of the 1999 Film Act. It is the acting body in charge of the law’s implementation. The council’s role is to devise policy and a list of criteria that would facilitate a practical, equal disbursement of funds coming from parliament’s film support budget. Highlights of the council’s roles include: fostering an original and authentic Israeli cultural identity, whilst simultaneously showcasing and representing Israeli society’s cultural diversity and its people’s range of opinions and worldviews; promoting and championing the creation, production, and distribution of Israeli films; spearheading and facilitating international filmmaking collaborations; encouraging and promoting the marketing of original Israeli content overseas; supporting festivals and backing preservation schemes of Israeli films. The Ministry of Culture and Sport has provided the Jerusalem Cinematheque’s Israeli Film Archive with extensive support. The ministry’s backing and funding enable the ongoing compiling and preservation of Israeli film heritage for generations to come.
The Ministry of Culture and Sport and the Israel Film Council congratulate the Jerusalem Cinematheque for the launch of the film archive’s website, and commend both cinematheque and archive staff for their tireless researching, compiling, documenting, restoring, and preserving efforts over the last few years towards expanding and upgrading the archive that was founded by the late Mrs. Lia van Leer.
It is an asset of the most profound, national significance and is home to a historical collection of cultural gems, invaluable to the Israeli public. In order to carry on building the Israeli Film Archive’s precious catalogue, and to further expand its collections considerably, the Ministry of Culture and Sport and the Israel Film Archive have announced that from now on, all Israeli filmmakers will have to deposit a copy of the films they have made at the archives, for future generations. What is more, the Jerusalem Cinematheque’s Film Archive has been recognised by all Israeli filmmakers as an institution whose job it is to preserve and protect Israeli films – be they old or new.
The Ministry of Culture and Sport wishes the archive the best of luck en route to fully realising its mission – promoting Israeli film culture, locally and internationally by creating restored digital screener copies for cinematheques and festivals, alongside a viewing platform for heritage and cultural assets, for the benefit of the general public and scholars alike.
The Ministry of Jerusalem and Heritage is the government department in charge of cultivating the Israeli capital and preserving the country’s national heritage across Israel. The department’s Heritage wing endeavours to restore and amplify Israel’s national heritage in a myriad of ways, including curating content of national, historical significance and making it available to the general public in a range of media and formats, including digital. As part of these efforts that have seen an acknowledgment of Israeli cinema’s importance to the national heritage, the Israeli Film Archive’s digitizing scheme was shortlisted for the second phase of the Heritage Programme, thereby securing its government investment and funding as part of the ministry’s portfolio.
The Van Leer Group Foundation is a privately endowed charitable organisation. The organisation was established in 1979 by Oscar van Leer, the younger brother of Wim van Leer. The foundation manages the van Leer family’s range of philanthropic ventures and is also in charge of its investment portfolio and all philanthropic schemes. These charitable activities are presently embodied in the Van Leer Group Foundation in Amstelveen, the Bernard Van Leer Foundation in The Hague, the Van Leer Jerusalem Institute, and the Jerusalem Cinematheque.
The foundation has full ownership of Crecor B.V. – an Israeli risk management company that operates via its Israeli, Tel Aviv-based subsidiary, Docor International Management. One of the foundation’s main objectives is to aid and assist in the development and strengthening of Israel as a Jewish, democratic country that is committed to the creation and sustaining of a free, just, and equitable society for all its citizens, and to contribute to any and all efforts towards securing peace in the region; all to the benefit and bettering of Israeli society, culture, and individual life.
What is more, the foundation has taken it upon itself to create a range of positive opportunities for children around the world who are at a social, financial, and educational disadvantage. The foundation provides regular financial support to the Jerusalem Cinematheque, as well as funding for a range of awards that promote Israeli filmmaking, with an emphasis on young creators.
The Jerusalem Foundation, Israel’s largest of its kind, was founded in 1966 by Jerusalem’s then-mayor, Teddy Kollek, who viewed it as a potential fundraising engine towards developing the city, championing the community, and shaping it as a free, tolerant, and pluralist society.
The Jerusalem Foundation seeks out donations from Jerusalem lovers in Israel and all over the world. Funds raised are then invested into thousands of schemes and ventures that create opportunities for all Jerusalemites, regardless of faith, race, or nationality. Over the years, the fund has raised well over 1.5bn USD, and for many local councils and authorities around the country, it has been a role model and source of emulation.
The Jerusalem Foundation’s focus is on socio-cultural entrepreneurship that is geared towards Jerusalemites’ agendas and unique needs. As such, it remains successfully invested in a range of physical and content schemes promoting education, culture, financial, community, and welfare growth, and co-existence.
The Jerusalem Foundation is one of the cinematheque’s founders and considers it one of the city’s most fundamental cultural anchors. It is above and beyond proud to support its work and various endeavours all year round.
George Ostrovsky (1901-1980), a Pinsk-born businessman and philanthropist who lived in Rio de Janeiro, was the brains and driving force behind the building of the Jerusalem Cinematheque and the Israeli Film Archive in 1973. Ostrovsky was involved in the planning and design stages of the cinematheque’s building site on Hebron Rd. but never got to witness the completion of the Jerusalem Film Centre (JFC) that opened in 1981.
For the past 30 years, the Ostrovsky Family Fund (OFF) has been at the forefront of the JFC’s support and ongoing operations, providing annual donations and allocated funds towards the acquisition of films, programmes, festivals, equipment, staff training, and development consultants.
OFF was even the driving force behind the refurbishing and expanding of the JFC complex, which it funded in full. When the project was completed in 2008, the Fund then allocated additional funds towards upgrading the film archive and dedicating it to the memory of Wim and Lia van Leer; Ostrovsky’s partners on this project.
To date, the JFC and New York City’s Film Forum have been OFF’s primary beneficiaries. The fund’s patronage also extends to a host of international cultural and human rights schemes in Brazil, the US, and Israel.
The Jaglom family’s Diamond Charity Foundation supports social, cultural, medical, and educational projects in Israel. This specific project to help build a digital film archive in Israel was spearheaded by Daphna Jaglom. After finishing her Masters at NYU-Tisch Cinema Studies in 2012, Daphna became an avid supporter of moving image archives and preservation, and saw the risk that Israel might lose vital memories without a state-of-the-art digital film archive. The various recorded moving image media disintegrate over time, their content forgotten as if it had never existed. Even digital archiving requires great care to ensure that the format will remain usable for future generations. With all this in mind, Daphna made it her mission to work with the highly motivated staff of the Jerusalem Cinematheque to create the archive they needed, with the technology required. The dedicated and detailed work of these archivists now means that future generations will be able to enjoy these films; a publicly available treasure trove for the general public and researchers alike
The Beracha Foundation, established in 1971 supports three main areas of activity in Israel: education, culture, and the environment. In the field of education, the foundation’s focus is on promoting entrepreneurship amongst educators in schools, and training education and care professionals for day cares and nurseries. In terms of the environment, the foundation has been championing urban sustainability, alongside the active role it has played in environmental legislation and policy-making. The foundation’s cultural support extends to bodies and institutions that promote original Israeli content, whilst also advocating for culture-centric policies, and lending its support to local content creators.
The foundation has been supporting and shadowing the development and thought process at the heart of the Israeli Film Archive since its inception, as part of its global patronage of original Israeli content. This support is the product of a realisation that the country’s precious pool of Israeli films are part and parcel of the local narrative. The prospect of preserving the films that were made here over generations, and making them accessible will offer profound insights into the ways in which Israeli society has changed and evolved over the years, whilst also providing a unique and important perspective on life, relationships, and the multilayered intricacy of the land and State of Israel.
Israel’s National Lottery (‘Mifal HaPayis’) was founded to provide support and assistance to members of the Israeli general public from all walks of life. As such, the National Lottery’s aid targets and goals are dynamic, as per society’s and various communities’ ever-changing needs. In the year 2000, the National Lottery began allocating considerable resources towards the development of Israeli culture and art, with the aim of investing every bit as much in the community’s soul and spirit.
The Israeli National Lottery Council for Culture and the Arts is proud to aid and support both art and artists in a variety of geographical regions, as well as diverse demographics and sectors who, otherwise would not benefit from the support of traditional institutions. Funneling resources in those directions is meant to benefit and sustain the rich and diverse range of Israeli artistic productivity and creativity, with an emphasis on quality and accessibility for target demographics who do not live in the heart of the country.
The National Lottery Council’s support of the Israeli Film Archive is directly tied to one of the targets it has set for itself: the commemorating and enshrining of tradition by means of digital preservation and documentation of films which, over the years have become building blocks of Israeli culture. The archive will be available to Israeli and international users alike, thereby making Israel’s cultural heritage readily available to anyone looking to explore it from the comfort of their own computer; be they academics, film industry professionals, and new generations of industrious filmmakers and creators. We wish you all a pleasant viewing experience, a fascinating and productive learning journey, and many more years of essential, quality filmmaking.
The Israel Film Council was established in the year 2000 as part of the 1999 Film Act. It is the acting body in charge of the law’s implementation. The council’s role is to devise policy and a list of criteria that would facilitate a practical, equal disbursement of funds coming from parliament’s film support budget. Highlights of the council’s roles include: fostering an original and authentic Israeli cultural identity, whilst simultaneously showcasing and representing Israeli society’s cultural diversity and its people’s range of opinions and worldviews; promoting and championing the creation, production, and distribution of Israeli films; spearheading and facilitating international filmmaking collaborations; encouraging and promoting the marketing of original Israeli content overseas; supporting festivals and backing preservation schemes of Israeli films. The Ministry of Culture and Sport has provided the Jerusalem Cinematheque’s Israeli Film Archive with extensive support. The ministry’s backing and funding enable the ongoing compiling and preservation of Israeli film heritage for generations to come.
The Ministry of Culture and Sport and the Israel Film Council congratulate the Jerusalem Cinematheque for the launch of the film archive’s website, and commend both cinematheque and archive staff for their tireless researching, compiling, documenting, restoring, and preserving efforts over the last few years towards expanding and upgrading the archive that was founded by the late Mrs. Lia van Leer.
It is an asset of the most profound, national significance and is home to a historical collection of cultural gems, invaluable to the Israeli public. In order to carry on building the Israeli Film Archive’s precious catalogue, and to further expand its collections considerably, the Ministry of Culture and Sport and the Israel Film Archive have announced that from now on, all Israeli filmmakers will have to deposit a copy of the films they have made at the archives, for future generations. What is more, the Jerusalem Cinematheque’s Film Archive has been recognised by all Israeli filmmakers as an institution whose job it is to preserve and protect Israeli films – be they old or new.
The Ministry of Culture and Sport wishes the archive the best of luck en route to fully realising its mission – promoting Israeli film culture, locally and internationally by creating restored digital screener copies for cinematheques and festivals, alongside a viewing platform for heritage and cultural assets, for the benefit of the general public and scholars alike.
The Ministry of Jerusalem and Heritage is the government department in charge of cultivating the Israeli capital and preserving the country’s national heritage across Israel. The department’s Heritage wing endeavours to restore and amplify Israel’s national heritage in a myriad of ways, including curating content of national, historical significance and making it available to the general public in a range of media and formats, including digital. As part of these efforts that have seen an acknowledgment of Israeli cinema’s importance to the national heritage, the Israeli Film Archive’s digitizing scheme was shortlisted for the second phase of the Heritage Programme, thereby securing its government investment and funding as part of the ministry’s portfolio.
The Van Leer Group Foundation is a privately endowed charitable organisation. The organisation was established in 1979 by Oscar van Leer, the younger brother of Wim van Leer. The foundation manages the van Leer family’s range of philanthropic ventures and is also in charge of its investment portfolio and all philanthropic schemes. These charitable activities are presently embodied in the Van Leer Group Foundation in Amstelveen, the Bernard Van Leer Foundation in The Hague, the Van Leer Jerusalem Institute, and the Jerusalem Cinematheque.
The foundation has full ownership of Crecor B.V. – an Israeli risk management company that operates via its Israeli, Tel Aviv-based subsidiary, Docor International Management. One of the foundation’s main objectives is to aid and assist in the development and strengthening of Israel as a Jewish, democratic country that is committed to the creation and sustaining of a free, just, and equitable society for all its citizens, and to contribute to any and all efforts towards securing peace in the region; all to the benefit and bettering of Israeli society, culture, and individual life.
What is more, the foundation has taken it upon itself to create a range of positive opportunities for children around the world who are at a social, financial, and educational disadvantage. The foundation provides regular financial support to the Jerusalem Cinematheque, as well as funding for a range of awards that promote Israeli filmmaking, with an emphasis on young creators.
The Jerusalem Foundation, Israel’s largest of its kind, was founded in 1966 by Jerusalem’s then-mayor, Teddy Kollek, who viewed it as a potential fundraising engine towards developing the city, championing the community, and shaping it as a free, tolerant, and pluralist society.
The Jerusalem Foundation seeks out donations from Jerusalem lovers in Israel and all over the world. Funds raised are then invested into thousands of schemes and ventures that create opportunities for all Jerusalemites, regardless of faith, race, or nationality. Over the years, the fund has raised well over 1.5bn USD, and for many local councils and authorities around the country, it has been a role model and source of emulation.
The Jerusalem Foundation’s focus is on socio-cultural entrepreneurship that is geared towards Jerusalemites’ agendas and unique needs. As such, it remains successfully invested in a range of physical and content schemes promoting education, culture, financial, community, and welfare growth, and co-existence.
The Jerusalem Foundation is one of the cinematheque’s founders and considers it one of the city’s most fundamental cultural anchors. It is above and beyond proud to support its work and various endeavours all year round.
George Ostrovsky (1901-1980), a Pinsk-born businessman and philanthropist who lived in Rio de Janeiro, was the brains and driving force behind the building of the Jerusalem Cinematheque and the Israeli Film Archive in 1973. Ostrovsky was involved in the planning and design stages of the cinematheque’s building site on Hebron Rd. but never got to witness the completion of the Jerusalem Film Centre (JFC) that opened in 1981.
For the past 30 years, the Ostrovsky Family Fund (OFF) has been at the forefront of the JFC’s support and ongoing operations, providing annual donations and allocated funds towards the acquisition of films, programmes, festivals, equipment, staff training, and development consultants.
OFF was even the driving force behind the refurbishing and expanding of the JFC complex, which it funded in full. When the project was completed in 2008, the Fund then allocated additional funds towards upgrading the film archive and dedicating it to the memory of Wim and Lia van Leer; Ostrovsky’s partners on this project.
To date, the JFC and New York City’s Film Forum have been OFF’s primary beneficiaries. The fund’s patronage also extends to a host of international cultural and human rights schemes in Brazil, the US, and Israel.
The Jaglom family’s Diamond Charity Foundation supports social, cultural, medical, and educational projects in Israel. This specific project to help build a digital film archive in Israel was spearheaded by Daphna Jaglom. After finishing her Masters at NYU-Tisch Cinema Studies in 2012, Daphna became an avid supporter of moving image archives and preservation, and saw the risk that Israel might lose vital memories without a state-of-the-art digital film archive. The various recorded moving image media disintegrate over time, their content forgotten as if it had never existed. Even digital archiving requires great care to ensure that the format will remain usable for future generations. With all this in mind, Daphna made it her mission to work with the highly motivated staff of the Jerusalem Cinematheque to create the archive they needed, with the technology required. The dedicated and detailed work of these archivists now means that future generations will be able to enjoy these films; a publicly available treasure trove for the general public and researchers alike
The Beracha Foundation, established in 1971 supports three main areas of activity in Israel: education, culture, and the environment. In the field of education, the foundation’s focus is on promoting entrepreneurship amongst educators in schools, and training education and care professionals for day cares and nurseries. In terms of the environment, the foundation has been championing urban sustainability, alongside the active role it has played in environmental legislation and policy-making. The foundation’s cultural support extends to bodies and institutions that promote original Israeli content, whilst also advocating for culture-centric policies, and lending its support to local content creators.
The foundation has been supporting and shadowing the development and thought process at the heart of the Israeli Film Archive since its inception, as part of its global patronage of original Israeli content. This support is the product of a realisation that the country’s precious pool of Israeli films are part and parcel of the local narrative. The prospect of preserving the films that were made here over generations, and making them accessible will offer profound insights into the ways in which Israeli society has changed and evolved over the years, whilst also providing a unique and important perspective on life, relationships, and the multilayered intricacy of the land and State of Israel.
Israel’s National Lottery (‘Mifal HaPayis’) was founded to provide support and assistance to members of the Israeli general public from all walks of life. As such, the National Lottery’s aid targets and goals are dynamic, as per society’s and various communities’ ever-changing needs. In the year 2000, the National Lottery began allocating considerable resources towards the development of Israeli culture and art, with the aim of investing every bit as much in the community’s soul and spirit.
The Israeli National Lottery Council for Culture and the Arts is proud to aid and support both art and artists in a variety of geographical regions, as well as diverse demographics and sectors who, otherwise would not benefit from the support of traditional institutions. Funneling resources in those directions is meant to benefit and sustain the rich and diverse range of Israeli artistic productivity and creativity, with an emphasis on quality and accessibility for target demographics who do not live in the heart of the country.
The National Lottery Council’s support of the Israeli Film Archive is directly tied to one of the targets it has set for itself: the commemorating and enshrining of tradition by means of digital preservation and documentation of films which, over the years have become building blocks of Israeli culture. The archive will be available to Israeli and international users alike, thereby making Israel’s cultural heritage readily available to anyone looking to explore it from the comfort of their own computer; be they academics, film industry professionals, and new generations of industrious filmmakers and creators. We wish you all a pleasant viewing experience, a fascinating and productive learning journey, and many more years of essential, quality filmmaking.
The Israel Film Council was established in the year 2000 as part of the 1999 Film Act. It is the acting body in charge of the law’s implementation. The council’s role is to devise policy and a list of criteria that would facilitate a practical, equal disbursement of funds coming from parliament’s film support budget. Highlights of the council’s roles include: fostering an original and authentic Israeli cultural identity, whilst simultaneously showcasing and representing Israeli society’s cultural diversity and its people’s range of opinions and worldviews; promoting and championing the creation, production, and distribution of Israeli films; spearheading and facilitating international filmmaking collaborations; encouraging and promoting the marketing of original Israeli content overseas; supporting festivals and backing preservation schemes of Israeli films. The Ministry of Culture and Sport has provided the Jerusalem Cinematheque’s Israeli Film Archive with extensive support. The ministry’s backing and funding enable the ongoing compiling and preservation of Israeli film heritage for generations to come.
The Ministry of Culture and Sport and the Israel Film Council congratulate the Jerusalem Cinematheque for the launch of the film archive’s website, and commend both cinematheque and archive staff for their tireless researching, compiling, documenting, restoring, and preserving efforts over the last few years towards expanding and upgrading the archive that was founded by the late Mrs. Lia van Leer.
It is an asset of the most profound, national significance and is home to a historical collection of cultural gems, invaluable to the Israeli public. In order to carry on building the Israeli Film Archive’s precious catalogue, and to further expand its collections considerably, the Ministry of Culture and Sport and the Israel Film Archive have announced that from now on, all Israeli filmmakers will have to deposit a copy of the films they have made at the archives, for future generations. What is more, the Jerusalem Cinematheque’s Film Archive has been recognised by all Israeli filmmakers as an institution whose job it is to preserve and protect Israeli films – be they old or new.
The Ministry of Culture and Sport wishes the archive the best of luck en route to fully realising its mission – promoting Israeli film culture, locally and internationally by creating restored digital screener copies for cinematheques and festivals, alongside a viewing platform for heritage and cultural assets, for the benefit of the general public and scholars alike.
The Ministry of Jerusalem and Heritage is the government department in charge of cultivating the Israeli capital and preserving the country’s national heritage across Israel. The department’s Heritage wing endeavours to restore and amplify Israel’s national heritage in a myriad of ways, including curating content of national, historical significance and making it available to the general public in a range of media and formats, including digital. As part of these efforts that have seen an acknowledgment of Israeli cinema’s importance to the national heritage, the Israeli Film Archive’s digitizing scheme was shortlisted for the second phase of the Heritage Programme, thereby securing its government investment and funding as part of the ministry’s portfolio.
The Van Leer Group Foundation is a privately endowed charitable organisation. The organisation was established in 1979 by Oscar van Leer, the younger brother of Wim van Leer. The foundation manages the van Leer family’s range of philanthropic ventures and is also in charge of its investment portfolio and all philanthropic schemes. These charitable activities are presently embodied in the Van Leer Group Foundation in Amstelveen, the Bernard Van Leer Foundation in The Hague, the Van Leer Jerusalem Institute, and the Jerusalem Cinematheque.
The foundation has full ownership of Crecor B.V. – an Israeli risk management company that operates via its Israeli, Tel Aviv-based subsidiary, Docor International Management. One of the foundation’s main objectives is to aid and assist in the development and strengthening of Israel as a Jewish, democratic country that is committed to the creation and sustaining of a free, just, and equitable society for all its citizens, and to contribute to any and all efforts towards securing peace in the region; all to the benefit and bettering of Israeli society, culture, and individual life.
What is more, the foundation has taken it upon itself to create a range of positive opportunities for children around the world who are at a social, financial, and educational disadvantage. The foundation provides regular financial support to the Jerusalem Cinematheque, as well as funding for a range of awards that promote Israeli filmmaking, with an emphasis on young creators.
The Jerusalem Foundation, Israel’s largest of its kind, was founded in 1966 by Jerusalem’s then-mayor, Teddy Kollek, who viewed it as a potential fundraising engine towards developing the city, championing the community, and shaping it as a free, tolerant, and pluralist society.
The Jerusalem Foundation seeks out donations from Jerusalem lovers in Israel and all over the world. Funds raised are then invested into thousands of schemes and ventures that create opportunities for all Jerusalemites, regardless of faith, race, or nationality. Over the years, the fund has raised well over 1.5bn USD, and for many local councils and authorities around the country, it has been a role model and source of emulation.
The Jerusalem Foundation’s focus is on socio-cultural entrepreneurship that is geared towards Jerusalemites’ agendas and unique needs. As such, it remains successfully invested in a range of physical and content schemes promoting education, culture, financial, community, and welfare growth, and co-existence.
The Jerusalem Foundation is one of the cinematheque’s founders and considers it one of the city’s most fundamental cultural anchors. It is above and beyond proud to support its work and various endeavours all year round.
George Ostrovsky (1901-1980), a Pinsk-born businessman and philanthropist who lived in Rio de Janeiro, was the brains and driving force behind the building of the Jerusalem Cinematheque and the Israeli Film Archive in 1973. Ostrovsky was involved in the planning and design stages of the cinematheque’s building site on Hebron Rd. but never got to witness the completion of the Jerusalem Film Centre (JFC) that opened in 1981.
For the past 30 years, the Ostrovsky Family Fund (OFF) has been at the forefront of the JFC’s support and ongoing operations, providing annual donations and allocated funds towards the acquisition of films, programmes, festivals, equipment, staff training, and development consultants.
OFF was even the driving force behind the refurbishing and expanding of the JFC complex, which it funded in full. When the project was completed in 2008, the Fund then allocated additional funds towards upgrading the film archive and dedicating it to the memory of Wim and Lia van Leer; Ostrovsky’s partners on this project.
To date, the JFC and New York City’s Film Forum have been OFF’s primary beneficiaries. The fund’s patronage also extends to a host of international cultural and human rights schemes in Brazil, the US, and Israel.