Today on Weekend Edition:
EVENT OF THE WEEK: Moti Schwartz, the director of the International Writers Festival in Jerusalem, talks about the art of bringing together storytellers.
PERSON OF THE WEEK: Jon Samuel Nelson of Eden Mi Qedem plays in the TLV1 studios and explains his musical and spiritual journey to the profound places where Hebrew and Arabic meet.
ILENE IN: Ilene leans in on the sentencing of Ehud Olmert and her memories of the cigars he used to give out to reporters.
LET’S GET LIT: Xu Xi, a celebrated novelist and short story writer from Hong Kong, visited Israel as a guest of the International Writing Conference at Bar-Ilan University. She reads from her story “All About Skin” and tell us why it’s sometimes easier to write about China when she’s elsewhere.
BEHIND THE LENS: Axel Saxe, a French photographer who recently published a photo book called “Israelis,” talks about capturing images of an Israel that is fading from the country’s modernizing landscape.
OFF THE BEATEN TRACK: Tour guide and TLV1 radio host Alex Stein speaks about visting Beit She’arim National Park in the Galilee.
STORY OF THE WEEK: Ruth Eglash, a correspondent from the Washington Post, says the international media is riveted by the conviction of former Prime Minister Ehud Olmert.
SOCIAL INITIATIVE: Yali Kelrich, from the Israeli office of IDAHO (the International Day Against Homophobia and Transphobia), talks about the battle against discrimination towards the LGBT community.
Songs :
Host: Ilene Prusher
Producer: Nitzan Pincu