Festival Staff

Festival Director: Moti Schwartz

Artistic Director: Liran Golod

Management and Production: Mishkenot Sha’ananim, Jerusalem

Producer: Keren Zefania

Production Team: Orly Abuloff, Michal Barkai, Shachar Livne, Tzlil Niv, Naomi Cohen, Kathrine Tschemerinsky

Technical Production: Gidi Lis Productions – Gidi Lis, Dorit Assayag, Dikla Oz

Marketing and Digital: Kiss Marketing – Tal Plosker, Lior Levi

Graphic Design: David Haliva Visionary Design – David Haliva, Keren Friedland

Public Relations: Hadas Shapira, Anat Golan

Copyediting: Asaf Schurr

Translation to English: Maya Shimony

Stills Photography: Naama Noach

Video Photography: Udi Alfasy

Lighting and Sound: Gidi Lis Productions

Bimot Ticket Office:  Avi Melamed, Arie Bar-Sheshet, Eli Bareli, Eli Azar

Interpreter to Mai Jia: Ohad Nevo

Mishkenot Sha’ananim

Director General: Moti Schwartz

Assistant General Director and Gallery Director: Hana Lifshitz

Guesthouse and Conference Center Director: Rita Kramer

Director of Finances and Human Resources: Barak Ducas

Board of Directors: Ruth Cheshin, chair; Adv. Zvi Agmon; Avraham Asheri; Yitzhak Becker; Dan Halperin; Prof. Meir Heth; Naava Mashiah; Harry Sapir; Adv. Ilan Shavit; Michael Shiloh; Daniel Mimran; Adv. Hedva Foguel

Special thanks to the Mishkenot Sha’ananim staff: Silvi Amar, Riki Canfi, Benny Goren, Jonathan Joaquin, Mor Keysar, Kandice Nahum, Yousef Rwaidah, Orit Sirkin-Silverman

Partners

The Israel Museum, Jerusalem: Zach Granit, deputy director; Neta Cohen, head of Productions and Events Department; Mira Lapidot, chief curator, Fine Arts Wing; Shua Ben-Ari, assistant to the chief curator, Fine Arts Wing

“Hamegera”, Kinneret-Zmora-Dvir Creative Writing School: Itamar Rose, director; Tamar Bialik

JPC – The Jerusalem Press Club: Uri Dromi, CEO; Linda Rivkind; Vanessa Gabbay; Raya Koval-Umansky

Tzomet Sfarim: Yossi Gil, deputy director; Idit Golani, VP of marketing

The Jerusalem Bird Observatory: Alan Cassell

The Hottest Place in Hell: Einat Fishbain, Keren Shemesh

Generation 1.5: Alex Rif

Tmol Shilshom: David Ehrlich

Thanks

The Jerusalem Foundation: Yohanna Arbib-Perugia, president; Daniel Mimran, CEO; Atcha Bar, director of arts and culture; Liat Rosner, spokesperson

Ministry of Culture and Sport: Miri Regev, Minister of Culture and Sport; Yossi Sharabi, director general; Galit Wahaba Shasho, head of Culture Administration; Uri Ellis, director of Literature Department

Sir Naim Dangoor Center for UK/Israel Relation: David Dangoor

Genesis Philanthropy Group: Ilia Salita, Sana Britavsky, Anna Perelman, Regina Lash-Reznikov, Arik Elman

Beracha Foundation: Dr. Tali Yariv-Mashal; CEO; Adi Brill; Naomi Dror

Ministry of Foreign Affairs: Rafi Gamzu, deputy director general; Pnina El-Al, head of Cultural and Scientific Cooperation Department; Dalia Grad-Efrat, head of Literature Section; Yaffa Mendel, budget officer

Konrad-Adenauer-Stiftung Israel: Dr. Michael Borchard, director; Palina Kedem, projects manager

Embassy of the United States in Israel: Daniel B. Shapiro, Ambassador, and Mrs. Julie Fisher; Thomas R. Genton; Sarah Gonzales, cultural attaché

The American Center: Bill Murad, Linda Slotsky, Jackie Stein

Embassy of Colombia in Israel: Fernando Alzate Donoso, Ambassador; Gili Kahn-Golan, cultural attaché

Embassy of Spain in Israel: Fernando Carderera Soler, Ambassador

Cervantes Institute: Carmen Alvarez Rodriguez, director; Einat Talmon, manager of the Culture Department

Embassy of Ireland in Israel: Alison Kelly, Ambassador; Tim Reilly, cultural attaché

Embassy of the People’s Republic of China in Israel: Zhan Yongxin, Ambassador; Wan Ting, cultural attaché

Embassy of India in Israel: Pavan Kapoor, Ambassador; Debashish Biswas, cultural attaché

Confucius Institute: Dr. Lihi Yariv-Laor, chair; Wang Yu, chair; Cnaan Ben-Hur

Thank you to the publishing houses

Am Oved; Kineret Zmora Beitan; Keter; Locus; Achuzat Bayit, Yediot Aharonot; Penn; Simanim; Books in the Attic; HaKibbutz HaMehuchad

Adv. Zvi Agmon

Deborah Harris, The Deborah Harris Agency

Alan Freeman

Prof. Evan Fallenberg

With many thanks for their support in the festival

Bill Slaughter and the Horace W. Goldsmith Foundation

Sir Naim Dangoor Center for UK/Israel Relations

The Maurice M. Dwek Guest House, Mishkenot Sha’ananim

Konrad Adenauer Conference Center, Mishkenot Sha›ananim