
Michael Verhoeven (right) receiving the "Avner Shalev Yad Vashem Chairman's Award" at the 2009 Jerusalem International Film Festival. The award was presented to him by Avner Shalev, Chairman of the Yad Vashem Directorate (center) and Liat Benhabib, Director of the Visual Center at Yad Vashem


Michael Verhoeven (right) receiving the "Avner Shalev Yad Vashem Chairman's Award" at the 2009 Jerusalem International Film Festival. The award was presented to him by Avner Shalev, Chairman of the Yad Vashem Directorate (center) and Liat Benhabib, Director of the Visual Center at Yad Vashem.


(L to R): 2008 Avner Shalev Award winner Tal Haim Yoffe, Liat Benhabib, Director of the Visual Center, Dr. Robert Rozett, Director of the Libraries at Yad Vashem, and Mimi Ash and Moriah Gvir, Visual Center staff members


(Front row, L to R): Filmmaker Tal Haim Yoffe, 2008 Avner Shalev Award winner, novelist Amir Guttfreund, Chairman of the Yad Vashem Directorate Avner Shalev, and Dr. Robert Rozett, Director of the Libraries at Yad Vashem, at a special screening of Yoffe’s The Green Dumpster Mystery at Yad Vashem


Chairman of the Yad Vashem Directorate Avner Shalev presents the 2008 Avner Shalev Award to filmmaker Tal HaimYoffe


(L to R): Filmmaker Tal Haim Yoffe and novelist Amir Guttfreund discuss Yoffe’s film The Green Dumpster Mystery at a special screening at Yad Vashem, 27.11.08


Filmmaker Tal Haim Yoffe receives the 2008 Avner Shalev Award at the Jerusalem Film Festival from Liat Benhabib, Director of the Visual Center


(L to R): Filmmaker Michèle Ohayon, 2007 Avner Shalev Award winner for her film Steal a Pencil for Me, Yad Vashem Directorate Chairman Avner Shalev, and Jerusalem Cinematheque Director Lia Van Leer at the 2007 Jerusalem Film Festival


(L to R) Michèle Ohayon receives the 2007 Avner Shalev Award at the Jerusalem Film Festival from Yad Vashem Directorate Chairman Avner Shalev and Jerusalem Cinematheque Director Lia Van Leer


Special screening of Steal a Pencil for Me, 2007 Avner Shalev Award winner, at the Jerusalem Cinematheque, November 2007


Special screening of Steal a Pencil for Me, 2007 Avner Shalev Award winner, at the Jerusalem Cinematheque, November 2007 (first row, third and fourth from left: filmmaker Michèle Ohayon, and Betty Bausch, who appears in the film)


Director General of Yad Vashem Nathan Eitan presents the 2007 Avner Shalev Award to filmmaker Michèle Ohayon for her film Steal a Pencil for Me (In between then: Liat Benhabib)


(L to R): Elisheva Orbach and Betty Bausch, sisters who appear in Michèle Ohayon’s film Steal a Pencil for Me, 2007 Avner Shalev award winner


(L to R): Betty Bausch, Michèle Ohayon and Elisheva Orbach, at a special screening at the Jerusalem Cinematheque of Ohayon’s film Steal a Pencil for Me, 2007 Avner Shalev Award winner


(L to R): Betty Bausch, Michèle Ohayon, Elisheva Orbach, Liat Benhabib, Dr. Robert Rozett, Director of the Yad Vashem Libraries, and Nathan Eitan, Director General of Yad Vashem, at the November 2007 special screening of Steal a Pencil for Me


Nina’s Journey by Lena Einhorn, 2006 Avner Shalev Award winner


Director of the English & Scandinavian Desk David Metzler presents the 2006 Avner Shalev Award to director Lena Einhorn at the residence of the Israeli Ambassador to Sweden


Filmmaker Lena Einhorn (center) receives the 2006 Avner Shalev Award, in the presence of the Israeli Ambassador to Sweden Eviatar Manor (left), and David Metzler


