The budgets are bare-bones and the talent pool is limited, but Israel has emerged as a surprising powerhouse in the foreign film industry. The Israeli film "Footnote," up for an Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film this year, is Israel 's fourth such nomination in the past five years, giving Israel more nominations during that period than any other country.

I was neither born nor raised in Israel. My Israeli parents moved to the States in the late 70s and I grew up in Los Angeles, where I never really felt very American.

Slava Pogorelsky, 24, is originally from Russia, but moved to Israel with his family at the age of 12. His father introduced him to music at an early age, yet it was only after her came to Israel that he really discovered his passion...

BPM (Beats Per Minute) College of Tel Aviv has just released it’s third annual CD, “The Future Sound of Israel,” featuring a collection of work from the school’s best students...