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Chapters: Natasha Mozgovaya, Mili Avital, Eytan Schwartz, Ido Mosseri, Yehezkel Lazarov, Uri Adelman, Michal Yannai. Source: Wikipedia. Pages: 26. Not illustrated. Free updates online. Purchase includes a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Excerpt: Natasha Mozgovaya (born 1979) is an Israeli journalist, currently Chief US Correspondent for the national daily newspaper Haaretz. Mozgovaya was born in the Soviet Union in 1979 into a family of two Russian Jewish journalists and immigrated to Israel in 1990. At the age of 11, she published her first piece in a Russian newspaper. At 14, she was writing a weekly satiric column for the Russian-Israeli newspaper "Vesti" (the Russian edition of Yedioth Ahronoth). In time she advanced to become editor for two supplement magazines at the newspaper and translated several books from Russian to Hebrew. In 2000, Mozgovaya left "Vesti" and became a correspondent for Yediot Ahronoth newspaper, covering a broad spectrum of issues in Israel and all over the world, including the Disengagement from Gaza and the Second Lebanese War; immigration and human trafficking; hostage crises in the Former Soviet Union and North Caucasus conflicts; the Orange Revolution in Ukraine, including interviews with President Victor Yushenko and his partner-rival Yulia Timoshenko; in-depth reports dedicated to the Russian Mafia and Russian oligarchs; features from Chernobyl and Africa, from the post-election riots in Kenya to the AIDS situation in Malawi; Lost Tribes stories from North-Eastern India; the PKK in Kurdistan, etc. During the reign of Vladimir Putin, Mozgovaya did not just give a voice to regime's official representatives and symbolic figure as Mikhail Gorbachev and Mikhail Kalashnikov; but contributed extensive coverage of the Russian opposition. She published one of the last interviews with the assassinated Russian jou...More: http://booksllc.net/?id=20248430 ... Read more

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Purchase includes free access to book updates online and a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Not illustrated. Excerpt: Asaf "Assi" Dayan (born November 23, 1945) is an Israeli film director, actor, screenwriter and producer. Assi Dayan was born in Nahalal, the son of Israeli general Moshe Dayan and his wife, Ruth. In February 1970, Dayan was traveling on the London-bound El Al plane hijacked by Arab terrorists in Munich. In March 2009, Dayan was indicted on suspicion of drug use and beating his girlfriend. In the wake of an earlier conviction for possession of drugs, he received a suspended sentence and 200 hours of community work as part of a plea bargain. Dayan admitted at the time that he was in possession of cocaine for personal use. In November 2009, Dayan suffered a massive heart attack and underwent angioplasty at Tel Aviv's Ichilov hospital. Dayan's sister is Yael Dayan. He was married three times and has four children. His daughter Amalia, born to Dayan and Aharona Melkind, was named one of the world's top art collectors. Lior Dayan, born to Dayan and British actress Caroline Langford, is a writer and journalist. Lior is Dayan's youngest child.In 1999, his wife, Vered Tandler-Dayan, made a documentary film about him, Living Period. In 1967, Dayan established himself as a film actor and Israeli icon in He Walked Through the Fields, Yossi Milo's adaptation of Moshe Shamir's novel and play by that name.That year, he appeared in Micha Shagrir's Scouting Patrol, about elite fighters on a mission to capture the commander of a fedayeen squad. In 1969, Dayan starred in the American movie A Walk with Love and Death, directed by John Huston, in which he plays alongside Huston's daughter, Angelica. He portrayed Giora Geter, owner of a Tel Aviv pub whose life falls apart, in Eitan Green's Into the Night.In 1984, Dayan had a supporting role as a... More: http://booksllc.net/?id=6274030 ... Read more