Culture in Israel

Pour Man: Israel grows as winemaker - Chicago Sun Times

Archeology
Israel Digs into its Biblical Past...Literally
http://www.mfa.gov.il/MFA/Facts+About+Israel/Culture/CULTURE-+Archeology.htm

Cinema
Films from the Holy Land Reflect Challenging Times, Win Awards
http://www.mfa.gov.il/MFA/Facts+About+Israel/Culture/CULTURE-+Cinema.htm

Dance
Fine Arts Competitors: Folk Dance and Art Dance Face Off in Israel
http://www.mfa.gov.il/MFA/Facts+About+Israel/Culture/CULTURE-+Dance.htm

Media
Israel Outperforms All Mideast Countries in Freedom of the Press
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Media_of_Israel

Freedom House publishes an annual Map of Press Freedom report on freedom of the press. The report, first published in 1980, rates countries as either "free" (F), "partly free" (PF), or "not free" (NF). The report does not distinguish between territory under Israeli jurisdiction outside of the green line and territory under the jurisdiction of the Palestinian Authority; it refers to these territories, collectively, as "Israel Occupied Territories and Palestinian Authority" or "IOT-PA". The findings of the report, from 1994 to the present, for states which have participated in the Arab-Israeli conflict, appear below.^[10]^[11]^[12]^[13]

Year	Egypt	Iran	Iraq	Israel	Jordan	Lebanon	Libya	Palestinian territories	Saudi Arabia	Syria
1994	NF	NF	NF	F	PF	PF	NF	NF	NF	NF
1995	NF	NF	NF	F	PF	PF	NF	NF	NF	NF
1996	NF	NF	NF	F	PF	PF	NF	PF	NF	NF
1997	NF	NF	NF	F	PF	PF	NF	NF	NF	NF
1998	NF	NF	NF	F	PF	NF	NF	NF	NF	NF
1999	NF	NF	NF	F	NF	NF	NF	NF	NF	NF
2000	NF	NF	NF	F	PF	NF	NF	NF	NF	NF
2001	NF	NF	NF	F	PF	NF	NF	NF	NF	NF
2002	NF	NF	NF	F	NF	NF	NF	NF	NF	NF
2003	NF	NF	NF	F	NF	NF	NF	NF	NF	NF
2004	NF	NF	NF	F	NF	NF	NF	NF	NF	NF
2005	NF	NF	NF	F	NF	PF	NF	NF	NF	NF
2006	NF	NF	NF	F	NF	PF	NF	NF	NF	NF
2007	NF	NF	NF	F	NF	PF	NF	NF	NF	NF
2008	PF	NF	NF	F	NF	PF	NF	NF	NF	NF
2009	PF	NF	NF	PF	NF	PF	NF	NF	NF	NF
2010	PF	NF	NF	F	NF	PF	NF	NF	NF	NF