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The one man who will definitely reap the benefits from the Knesset's dissolution Israeli parties are heading for elections on the wrong foot, but for a certain gambling mogul and tabloid owner, the political upheaval is the best remedy for last month's slap in the face. By  Yossi Verter |  Dec. 4, 2014 | 8:15 PM Tweet Sheldon Adelson.   Photo by Reuters   RELATED TAGS Benjamin Netanyahu Sheldon Adelson Israeli politics Let the fighting begin   Photo by Amos Biderman RELATED ARTICLES Four myths about the Israeli elections By Gershom Gorenberg |  Dec. 4, 2014 | 1:45 PM Israeli elections 2015: It's everyone vs. Netanyahu By Yossi Verter |  Dec. 3, 2014 | 4:14 AM  |   1 Ex-Minister Kahlon's faces funding threat as MKs rush to pass new law By Zvi Zrahiya |  Dec. 5, 2014 | 1:28 AM Election looms but Netanyahu can still avoid it By Haaretz |  Dec. 5, 2014 | 12:54 PM Livni: Hat

Sinn Féin leader, Gerry Adams, prepares to lay a wreath on the tomb of Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat in  Ramallah. Photograph: Abbas Momani/AFP/Getty Images Israel bars Gerry Adams from Gaza Sinn Féin leader refused entry to Gaza Strip because of his support for Palestinians and plans to meet Hamas Associated Press in Jerusalem The Guardian ,  Friday 5 December 2014 18.05 GMT Sinn Féin leader, Gerry Adams, prepares to lay a wreath on the tomb of Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat in  Ramallah. Photograph: Abbas Momani/AFP/Getty Images Sinn Féin leader Gerry Adams said on Friday that Israel had barred him from making a planned visit to the Gaza Strip during a three-day tour of the region. Adams says he was not given a reason for the Israeli decision to prevent the trip. “I am not surprised by the decision but I am disappointed by it,” he said. A spokesman for Israel’s foreign ministry, Emmanuel Nahshon, said that in consultation with defence officials

Open Bethlehem review – heartfelt plea against incarceration of a city 4 / 5 stars Leila Sansour’s documentary about her campaign to open up Jesus’s birthplace once again is admirable – even if you don’t rate its chances too highly  First step … Open Bethlehem Peter Bradshaw Thursday 4 December 2014   22.50 GMT ·          Share on Facebook P alestinian director Leila Sansour has made a fierce, poignant film about her family and her hometown of Bethlehem, now in Palestinian territory but progressively stifled by the Israeli government’s anti-terrorist barrier; that huge, ugly wall with which President Benjamin Netanyahu apparently wishes to be remembered as the Erich Honecker of the Middle East. At the moment, tourists can only visit Bethlehem for brief periods by means of an intensely policed system of state-approved minibuses. This film shows how Sansour comes to Bethlehem with her husband, novelist Nicholas Blincoe, with a bold, imaginative plan

 Nelly Tagar as Daffi (left) and Dana Ivgy as Zohar Photograph: Zeitgeist Films Zero Motivation review – an off-kilter look at female soldiers in the IDF 4 / 5 stars Writer-director Talya Lavie was inspired by her own time in the Israeli Defense Force and paints a picture of day-dreaming, gender politics and high heels  Nelly Tagar as Daffi (left) and Dana Ivgy as Zohar Photograph: Zeitgeist Films Jordan Hoffman Friday 5 December 2014   16.32 GMT If you show a staple gun in the first act it has to go off in the third. But that’s about the only dramatic principle to which the characters in Zero Motivation adhere. Normally that would be a problem, seeing as how this film is set in the army, but it’s not like we’re on the battle lines. Writer-director Talya Lavie drew from her own personal experience in the Israeli Defense Forces, setting her first feature in the dullest administrative office in a remote desert base. The elevator pitch “Girls mee

Is there ever a good time to release a film with 'Arabs' in the title? Probably not, which is why Eran Riklis thinks people need to see his new film, 'Dancing Arabs.' By Hilla Regev Dec. 5, 2014 | 12:16 PM Tweet A scene from 'Dancing Arabs.'   Photo by Eitan Riklis RELATED TAGS Israeli Arabs RELATED ARTICLES 'Someone has to keep Israeli Arabs on the map' By Shuki Sadeh |  Dec. 27, 2013 | 8:00 AM  |   6 Jerusalem in Israeli cinema is one big bluff By Uri Klein |  Nov. 21, 2014 | 1:48 AM 'Dancing Arabs’ to launch Jerusalem Film Festival By Nirit Anderman |  Jul. 6, 2014 | 3:37 AM Eran Riklis and I had a minor problem of timing. For a week, we tried to set a time for a phone interview ahead of the long-anticipated Israeli release of his new film, “Dancing Arabs.” The problem was that he was on a coast-to-coast speaking tour in the United States, and our time