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Rachel and Dov Gottesman to Receive King Solomon Award CAmerica-Israel Cultural Foundation FOCUS Summer 2005 AICFS 66TH ANNUAL GALA Youre Invited! AMERICA-ISRAEL CULTURAL FOUNDATION is celebrating its 66th anniversary! ± Annual Gala Concert at Frederick P. Rose Hall Home of Jazz at Lincoln Center Broadway @ 60th Street New York City ± Rachel and Dov Gottesman to Sunday November 20, 2005 3:00 p.m. Receive King Solomon Award ± Rachel and Dov Gottesman are dedicated citizens of Israel, and patrons of Master of Ceremonies Israeli arts and culture, whose interests extend worldwide from Tel Aviv, to Jonathan Light Geneva, to London and to New York. Emigrating with his family from Vienna to Palestine in 1932, Dov fought for Israel in the Palmach and the War of Independence and served in the Israeli Defense Forces until 1955. Aviv Award His wife of over 50 years, Rachel, was born in Israel and trained as a teacher. Together, they have become highly respected leaders in Israeli cultural life. Astute collectors of Israeli and international art, Rachel and Dov have been in the vanguard of philanthropic support for the creative arts in Israel, devoting themselves to the encouragement of Israeli artists. Since June 2001, Dov has served as president of the Israel Museum. Both in the museum and in many other cultural endeavors in Israel, Dovs efforts are enhanced immeasurably by Rachels graciousness, quiet elegance, and keen aesthetic sense. Rachel and Dov became closely involved with the America-Israel Cultural Foundation at the 2003 Aviv Competitions for young Israeli musi- cians. Since then, they have become loyal followers and supporters of the competitions and the competitors. Their devotion to the activities of AICF is ~ Amos Gitai ~ exemplary. In recognition of their outstanding efforts on behalf of Israeli art and Israeli Filmmaker Israeli artists, and their role in elevating the international status of Israeli art, and their generous support of the America-Israel Cultural Foundation, the America-Israel Cultural Foundation has selected Rachel and Dov Gottesman to receive its King Solomon Award. FROM THE PRESIDENT AMERICA-ISRAEL CULTURAL FOUNDATION, INC. C HAIR OF THE BOARD Vera Stern O FFICERS Bill William A. Schwartz, President Schwartz Margalit Meidar, Vice President Ronnie Ackman, Secretary Harvey E. Rothenberg, Treasurer Ronald M. Appel, Esq., Assistant Secretary and Counsel How would you like an opportunity to touch a life? What can be more B OARD OF DIRECTORS satisfying than helping Israel Ronnie Ackman Diane Belfer Ann Bialkin Shelly Blondes Marshall S. Brozost perpetuate the arts from generation Renee Cherniak Lonny Darwin Debby Edelsohn Carl Glick Charlotte S. to generation. The abundance of Hattenbach Joseph E. Hollander Jane Stern Lebell Bradley Lubin Marguerite gifted young people in this wonder- Perkins-Mautner Margalit Meidar Toby A. Nussbaum Paula Sarnoff Oreck David A. Oestreich Helen Sax Potaznik Harvey Rothenberg Tamar Rudich ful country is impressive. More Linda Schonfeld Renee Schreiber William A. Schwartz Romie Shapiro than two thousand musicians, Jeannette R. Solomon Vera Stern Ralph Tornberg Guri Yavnieli dancers, artists, filmmakers and architects are competing this year AST RESIDENTS P P for AICF scholarships. Each Carl Glick Frederick R. Mann William Mazer Samuel Rubin Vera Stern applicant is given an opportunity to P AST BOARD CHAIRS present his or her work before a George M. Jaffin Raphael Recanati panel of qualified jurors. The H ONORARY EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR excitement and intensity of these Stanley Grayson students is palpable. For many years AICF has H ONORARY DIRECTORS helped Israel maintain its standing Joan Arnow Walter Artzt Sidney Bernstein Stanley Bogen Alan A. Fischer as a world leader in the performing Janice Levin Isidore Morgenstein and visual arts. I invite you to C HAPTER PRESIDENTS participate in this project. By Charlotte S. Hattenbach, Cincinnati providing scholarships for study in Renee Cherniak, Debby Edelsohn, Marguerite Perkins-Mautner, Los Angeles Israel and abroad, each one of Carol Starley, Washington, DC AICFs supporters has the opportu- Guri Yavnieli, Miami nity to nourish a great talent. A RTS ADVISORY COMMITTEE The Aviv Competition, which Jacques dAmboise Milton Babbitt Eugene Istomin Menashe Kadishman furthers young performing musi- Joseph Kalichstein Pearl Lang Zubin Mehta Henry W. Meyer Itzhak Perlman cians who are ready for a profes- Dina Recanati Mstislav Rostropovitch John Rubinstein Robert Sherman Joan sional career, will be held in Tel Miklin Silver Neil Simon Stephen Sondheim Frances Sternhagen Eugenia Aviv from December 24, 2005 until Zukerman Pinchas Zukerman January 5, 2006. This contest In Memoriam showcases the finest talent that Israel has to offer. I urge all of you S TAFF NEW YORK S TAFF TEL AVIV to visit Israel, and to join me at any Barbara A. Simon, Administrative Director Gideon Paz, Executive Director or all of the Aviv events. Tickets Gary S. Eisenkraft, CPA, Director of Finance Meira Geyra, Artistic Director will be made available to those who Alexander London, Executive Administrator Netta Pnini, Scholarships Coordinator would like to attend as guests of Carlos Asencios Benny Briskin, , Information Specialist Director of Finance AICF. Please contact our office for details. America- Israel Cultural Foundation Come to Israel this winter. 51 East 42nd Street, Suite 400 Dont just go to see the country. New York, New York 10017 Feel it, touch it with your mind and Tel: 212-557-1600 Fax: 212-557-1611 soul, and understand the vitality [email protected] www.aicf.org and inspirational force that is Israel. AICFs History of Artistic Encouragement AICF was established in 1939 by Edward Norman of Chicago, its original mandate being the rescue and resettlement of musicians from Germany in what was then Pales- tine (among these musicians were many early members of the Pales- tine Symphony, which is today the Israel Philharmonic Orchestra). In the years immediately before and after Israels statehood, AICF was providing seed money for the burgeoning cultural institutions of ROM THE HAIR this new country the art muse- F C ums, dance schools, art academies and music conservatories that Dear AICF Friends: flourish today. In the 1950s, AICF began its It has become an annual tradition to welcome you at our Gala concerts-The Sharett Scholarship Program, now 2005 one being planned and I hope that you will join us again- the jewel in the crown of our I strongly believe to go back to the source, Israel, where all our talented activities. In 2001 alone, we students have and still are studying The Aviv Competition that takes place th th awarded over 800 scholarships to from December 24 to January 5 will give us a chance to hear and appreci- talented young people in art, dance ate the tremendous wealth of talent. You can spend as little or as much time film, music and theater. Many of during that period This visit will also give you the opportunity to make this our past winners have gone onto trip a personal one, arrive earlier and leave later- distinguished careers in the arts, I look forward to sharing with you exciting concerts, meeting artists mem- among them the violinists Itzhak bers of Israels cultural circles Perlman, Pinchas Zukerman, Shlomo Mintz and Gil Shaham; With best wishes, the pianists Yefim Bronfman and Joseph Kalichstein; pianist/ Vera Stern conductor Daniel Barenboim, Chair of the Board Pulitzer Prize-winning composer Shulamit Ran and visual artist Menashe Kadishman. iting their artwork in galleries and are 55 former scholarship recipients But these are just the world- museums around the world, gaining of our Foundation. Others are at famous names. Countless others recognition for Israel as an impor- the threshold of important careers are teaching in the educational tant center for visual and plastic in the arts: a retrospective of institutions of Israel, helping to arts. AICF scholarship winners photographer Michal Rovner is in guide the next generation; perform- form the nucleus of Israels many the planning stages at the Whitney ing nightly on the stages of Israelis symphony and chamber orches- Museum, film-makerDover theaters; winning international trasamong the 100 members of Kosahvilli (Late Wedding)are distinctions at film festivals; exhib- the Israel Philharmonic Orchestra among some the names to watch. Many Thanks to the AICF 66th Anniversary Gala Committee! Margalit & Moshe Meidar (chairs) Ronnie & Larry Ackman David Oestreich Paula Sarnoff Oreck Linda & Myron Schonfeld AICFS 66TH ANNUAL GALA Israeli Filmmaker Amos Gitai to Receive Aviv Award Amos Gitai was born in Israel in based for most of the following 1950, just two years after the decade. There, he continued establishment of the modern state directing documentaries. Some of of Israel. After military service those documentaries focused on Gitai, following in his fathers international journeys, such as footsteps, studied architecture at Pineapple, a humorous odyssey the Technion in Haifa, and then at about the growing and marketing the University of California- of pineapples. Other of his docu- Berkeley. His studies were dis- mentaries dealt with the resurgence rupted by the 1973 Yom Kippur of fascism in Europe, including In War, an event that profoundly the Valley of the Wupper, set shaped his life and work. around a Neo-Nazi incident in A helicopter, in which he was Germany. serving on a search and rescue While in Paris, Gitai also mission, was shot down, killing began directing fiction/history people who were very close to him features about the experience of tine, which won the critics prize at and nearly ending his own life. exile. Among these films were: a the Venice Film Festival; as well as After this, Gitai gradually turned stunning adaptation of the Biblical three films related to the Jewish toward filmmaking, using a Super 8 Book of Esther, which was legend of the Golem, including camera his mother had given him presented in the Cannes Film Birth of a Golem, Golem: The for his birthday.
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