Emanuel Halperin
Encyclopedia
Emanuel Halperin is an Israel
i journalist, Television Presenter
, and editor
. Likewise, a Lecturer
, and a Theatre
and Television
Actor
. Halperin is best known in Israel for his role as one of the main presenters of the nightly News program MeHayom LeMahar
, earning the reputation of a news and culture analyst legend, and a culture icon.
to a Jewish immigrants parents from Poland
. He grew up in France
, and made Aliyah
to Israel
when he was 19. During his Conscription
in Israel, he served as a Military Censor
. Halperin earned two academic degrees in Law, Literature
, and Theatre. As a university student he played in French-plays theatre shows, in an "amateur" theatre called "Bacchus
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) in Jerusalem.
From 1964, after he completed his Conscription, he started working as a reporter and news presenter in Israel Broadcasting Authority
(IBA) Television, and its Kol Yisrael
radio. He remained there for over 40 years, consecutively, and became known as one of IBA's veterans. Initially, he began as a IBA's radio reporter in France, and then became a news editor in IBA's French department. Throughout his years in IBA's radio, he served in many positions, among them, foreign news editor, editorial board coordinator, and head of the news division. In addition to his roles in IBA's radio "Kol Yisrael", he later became the foreign news editor in IBA's public Television Channel 1
, as well as one of their political reporters. Halperin is mainly known in Israel for his later role as one of the main presenters of the nightly Television News program MeHayom LeMahar
, earning him the reputation of a news and culture analyst legend, and making him a culture icon, as well as his presentation of the Saturday night foreign news and culture magazine show of "Ro'im Olam" (Seeing the World).
In late 2003, Halperin retired form IBA, but returned after just few months, for the purpose of hosting a weekly interview show. In addition, from 2006, he began hosting an interview show called "Cafe' Hafuch" (cafe au lait), on the Knesset Channel, conducting interviews from a coffee shop. In 2007, he hosted a quiz show on History, called "Hatzofen" (The Code), on IBA's public channel 1.
In recent years, concurrently to his roles on television, he returned to his acting career. In 2003, he played the role of Socrates
in a play called, "Crito
", running on "Hachan
" theatre. In 2008, he had a role in the Israeli daily soap opera, "Hasufim" (exposed), on Hot
TV provider, playing a former Mossad
agent, Transportation Minister of Israel, and the father of the show's star Yael Bar Zohar
.
Halperin is known as a Francophile
, and frequently lectures on France's culture and current affairs, both in academy debates and on Television. In 2006, he ran a musical chanson
s show called "Daber elay Be'Ahava" (Talk to me with Love), with the Israeli chanson
singer Brigitte Haviv. In 2008, he ran, along with another media personality, Alex Ansky, a theatrical-musical show called "Ha'arye Ha'meohav" (The Lion is in love), which constitutes a theatre Arrangement
of Jean de La Fontaine
's proverbs. In the aforementioned show, he played the role of Louis XIV of France
.
On his known nightly news show MeHayom LeMahar
, he hosted a regular segment on France's culture and current affairs, via satellite, interviewing IBA's reporter in France, Yaov Talker, on the daily political and culture events there, a segment that coined the pharse: "כאן יואב טוקר, מפריז " ("This is Yoav Talker, Paris"), with a French accent in Hebrew.
Halperin also frequently lectures on media, news and current affairs, the Americanization
of the Israeli culture, French literature
, and Cinema of France
.
In 2004, he received the Sokolov Award
for Journalists, for his television role and life work.
Halperin is also the nephew of former Prime Minister of Israel
, Menachem Begin
. When PM Begin instructed on the bombing of the Iraq
i nuclear reactor (Operation Opera
), he sent a press release to Israel Broadcasting Authority (IBA), which is subordinated to the Prime Ministers office, in order for the news flash to be aired on the appropriate time. The editor on duty, who thought it was a prank message, threw the paper to the garbage, but when he bumped into Halperin, he showed him the message, and Halperin managed to contact and confirm the news item with his uncle, and thus the news item was broadcasted.
Halperin is a widow. His wife was a musical editor in IBA's Kol Ha Musica radio channel. He resides on Jerusalem, in Beit HaKerem neighborhood.
Israel
The State of Israel is a parliamentary republic located in the Middle East, along the eastern shore of the Mediterranean Sea...
i journalist, Television Presenter
Presenter
A presenter, or host , is a person or organization responsible for running an event. A museum or university, for example, may be the presenter or host of an exhibit. Likewise, a master of ceremonies is a person that hosts or presents a show...
, and editor
Contributing editor
A contributing editor is a magazine job title that varies in responsibilities. Most often, a contributing editor is a freelancer who has proven ability and readership draw. The contributing editor regularly contributes articles to the publication but does not actually edit articles, and the title...
. Likewise, a Lecturer
Lecturer
Lecturer is an academic rank. In the United Kingdom, lecturer is a position at a university or similar institution, often held by academics in their early career stages, who lead research groups and supervise research students, as well as teach...
, and a Theatre
Theatre
Theatre is a collaborative form of fine art that uses live performers to present the experience of a real or imagined event before a live audience in a specific place. The performers may communicate this experience to the audience through combinations of gesture, speech, song, music or dance...
and Television
Television
Television is a telecommunication medium for transmitting and receiving moving images that can be monochrome or colored, with accompanying sound...
Actor
Actor
An actor is a person who acts in a dramatic production and who works in film, television, theatre, or radio in that capacity...
. Halperin is best known in Israel for his role as one of the main presenters of the nightly News program MeHayom LeMahar
MeHayom LeMahar
MeHayom LeMahar is an Israeli current affairs news show, broadcast since 1994 on Channel 1, half an hour before midnight.The show presents the daily news and current affairs from varied point of views and in a serene form...
, earning the reputation of a news and culture analyst legend, and a culture icon.
Biography
Halperin was born in UzbekistanUzbekistan
Uzbekistan , officially the Republic of Uzbekistan is a doubly landlocked country in Central Asia and one of the six independent Turkic states. It shares borders with Kazakhstan to the west and to the north, Kyrgyzstan and Tajikistan to the east, and Afghanistan and Turkmenistan to the south....
to a Jewish immigrants parents from Poland
Poland
Poland , officially the Republic of Poland , is a country in Central Europe bordered by Germany to the west; the Czech Republic and Slovakia to the south; Ukraine, Belarus and Lithuania to the east; and the Baltic Sea and Kaliningrad Oblast, a Russian exclave, to the north...
. He grew up in France
France
The French Republic , The French Republic , The French Republic , (commonly known as France , is a unitary semi-presidential republic in Western Europe with several overseas territories and islands located on other continents and in the Indian, Pacific, and Atlantic oceans. Metropolitan France...
, and made Aliyah
Aliyah
Aliyah is the immigration of Jews to the Land of Israel . It is a basic tenet of Zionist ideology. The opposite action, emigration from Israel, is referred to as yerida . The return to the Holy Land has been a Jewish aspiration since the Babylonian exile...
to Israel
Israel
The State of Israel is a parliamentary republic located in the Middle East, along the eastern shore of the Mediterranean Sea...
when he was 19. During his Conscription
Conscription
Conscription is the compulsory enlistment of people in some sort of national service, most often military service. Conscription dates back to antiquity and continues in some countries to the present day under various names...
in Israel, he served as a Military Censor
Israeli Military Censor
The Israeli Military Censor is a unit in the IDF Directorate of Military Intelligence which watches over the publication of information regarding the military network, and generally, the security of Israel. The Military Censor, as part of its duty, has authority to suppress information it deems...
. Halperin earned two academic degrees in Law, Literature
Literature
Literature is the art of written works, and is not bound to published sources...
, and Theatre. As a university student he played in French-plays theatre shows, in an "amateur" theatre called "Bacchus
Dionysus
Dionysus was the god of the grape harvest, winemaking and wine, of ritual madness and ecstasy in Greek mythology. His name in Linear B tablets shows he was worshipped from c. 1500—1100 BC by Mycenean Greeks: other traces of Dionysian-type cult have been found in ancient Minoan Crete...
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Classical mythology
Classical mythology or Greco-Roman mythology is the cultural reception of myths from the ancient Greeks and Romans. Along with philosophy and political thought, mythology represents one of the major survivals of classical antiquity throughout later Western culture.Classical mythology has provided...
) in Jerusalem.
From 1964, after he completed his Conscription, he started working as a reporter and news presenter in Israel Broadcasting Authority
Israel Broadcasting Authority
Israel Broadcasting Authority is Israel's state broadcasting network.It grew out of the radio station Kol Yisrael, which made its first broadcast as an independent station on . The name of the organisation operating Kol Yisrael was changed to Israel Broadcasting Service in 1951...
(IBA) Television, and its Kol Yisrael
Kol Yisrael
Kol Yisrael is Israel's public domestic and international radio service, operated as a division of the Israel Broadcasting Authority.-History:...
radio. He remained there for over 40 years, consecutively, and became known as one of IBA's veterans. Initially, he began as a IBA's radio reporter in France, and then became a news editor in IBA's French department. Throughout his years in IBA's radio, he served in many positions, among them, foreign news editor, editorial board coordinator, and head of the news division. In addition to his roles in IBA's radio "Kol Yisrael", he later became the foreign news editor in IBA's public Television Channel 1
Channel 1 (Israel)
Channel 1 is one of the oldest television channels in Israel and one of five terrestrial channels in the country...
, as well as one of their political reporters. Halperin is mainly known in Israel for his later role as one of the main presenters of the nightly Television News program MeHayom LeMahar
MeHayom LeMahar
MeHayom LeMahar is an Israeli current affairs news show, broadcast since 1994 on Channel 1, half an hour before midnight.The show presents the daily news and current affairs from varied point of views and in a serene form...
, earning him the reputation of a news and culture analyst legend, and making him a culture icon, as well as his presentation of the Saturday night foreign news and culture magazine show of "Ro'im Olam" (Seeing the World).
In late 2003, Halperin retired form IBA, but returned after just few months, for the purpose of hosting a weekly interview show. In addition, from 2006, he began hosting an interview show called "Cafe' Hafuch" (cafe au lait), on the Knesset Channel, conducting interviews from a coffee shop. In 2007, he hosted a quiz show on History, called "Hatzofen" (The Code), on IBA's public channel 1.
In recent years, concurrently to his roles on television, he returned to his acting career. In 2003, he played the role of Socrates
Socrates
Socrates was a classical Greek Athenian philosopher. Credited as one of the founders of Western philosophy, he is an enigmatic figure known chiefly through the accounts of later classical writers, especially the writings of his students Plato and Xenophon, and the plays of his contemporary ...
in a play called, "Crito
Crito
Crito is a short but important dialogue by the ancient Greek philosopher Plato. It is a conversation between Socrates and his wealthy friend Crito regarding justice , injustice , and the appropriate response to injustice. Socrates thinks that injustice may not be answered with injustice, and...
", running on "Hachan
Hachan
Hachan is a commune in the Hautes-Pyrénées department in south-western France.-References:*...
" theatre. In 2008, he had a role in the Israeli daily soap opera, "Hasufim" (exposed), on Hot
Hot (Israel)
HOT Telecommunication Systems Ltd. is a company that provides cable television, last-mile Internet access, broadband and telecommunication services in Israel. It also provides various data transmission services and network services at different rates, services to the business sector and other...
TV provider, playing a former Mossad
Mossad
The Mossad , short for HaMossad leModi'in uleTafkidim Meyuchadim , is the national intelligence agency of Israel....
agent, Transportation Minister of Israel, and the father of the show's star Yael Bar Zohar
Yael Bar Zohar
Yael Bar Zohar is an Israeli actress, model and television host.-Biography:Bar Zohar was born in Tel Aviv. She started her modeling career in a bathing suits catalogue and a commercial at the age of 15. She was cast for a role in the popular soap opera Ramat Aviv Gimmel . She then turned to...
.
Halperin is known as a Francophile
Francophile
Is a person with a positive predisposition or interest toward the government, culture, history, or people of France. This could include France itself and its history, the French language, French cuisine, literature, etc...
, and frequently lectures on France's culture and current affairs, both in academy debates and on Television. In 2006, he ran a musical chanson
Chanson
A chanson is in general any lyric-driven French song, usually polyphonic and secular. A singer specialising in chansons is known as a "chanteur" or "chanteuse" ; a collection of chansons, especially from the late Middle Ages and Renaissance, is also known as a chansonnier.-Chanson de geste:The...
s show called "Daber elay Be'Ahava" (Talk to me with Love), with the Israeli chanson
Chanson
A chanson is in general any lyric-driven French song, usually polyphonic and secular. A singer specialising in chansons is known as a "chanteur" or "chanteuse" ; a collection of chansons, especially from the late Middle Ages and Renaissance, is also known as a chansonnier.-Chanson de geste:The...
singer Brigitte Haviv. In 2008, he ran, along with another media personality, Alex Ansky, a theatrical-musical show called "Ha'arye Ha'meohav" (The Lion is in love), which constitutes a theatre Arrangement
Arrangement
The American Federation of Musicians defines arranging as "the art of preparing and adapting an already written composition for presentation in other than its original form. An arrangement may include reharmonization, paraphrasing, and/or development of a composition, so that it fully represents...
of Jean de La Fontaine
Jean de La Fontaine
Jean de La Fontaine was the most famous French fabulist and one of the most widely read French poets of the 17th century. He is known above all for his Fables, which provided a model for subsequent fabulists across Europe and numerous alternative versions in France, and in French regional...
's proverbs. In the aforementioned show, he played the role of Louis XIV of France
Louis XIV of France
Louis XIV , known as Louis the Great or the Sun King , was a Bourbon monarch who ruled as King of France and Navarre. His reign, from 1643 to his death in 1715, began at the age of four and lasted seventy-two years, three months, and eighteen days...
.
On his known nightly news show MeHayom LeMahar
MeHayom LeMahar
MeHayom LeMahar is an Israeli current affairs news show, broadcast since 1994 on Channel 1, half an hour before midnight.The show presents the daily news and current affairs from varied point of views and in a serene form...
, he hosted a regular segment on France's culture and current affairs, via satellite, interviewing IBA's reporter in France, Yaov Talker, on the daily political and culture events there, a segment that coined the pharse: "כאן יואב טוקר, מפריז " ("This is Yoav Talker, Paris"), with a French accent in Hebrew.
Halperin also frequently lectures on media, news and current affairs, the Americanization
Americanization
Americanization is the influence of the United States on the popular culture, technology, business practices, or political techniques of other countries. The term has been used since at least 1907. Inside the U.S...
of the Israeli culture, French literature
French literature
French literature is, generally speaking, literature written in the French language, particularly by citizens of France; it may also refer to literature written by people living in France who speak traditional languages of France other than French. Literature written in French language, by citizens...
, and Cinema of France
Cinema of France
The Cinema of France comprises the art of film and creative movies made within the nation of France or by French filmmakers abroad.France is the birthplace of cinema and was responsible for many of its early significant contributions. Several important cinematic movements, including the Nouvelle...
.
In 2004, he received the Sokolov Award
Sokolov Award
The Sokolov Prize is an Israeli journalism award, awarded by the Tel Aviv municipality, in memory of Nahum Sokolow.The award has been granted since 1956, initially to outstanding print journalists and since 1981 to journalists from the electronic media...
for Journalists, for his television role and life work.
Halperin is also the nephew of former Prime Minister of Israel
Prime Minister of Israel
The Prime Minister of Israel is the head of the Israeli government and the most powerful political figure in Israel . The prime minister is the country's chief executive. The official residence of the prime minister, Beit Rosh Hamemshala is in Jerusalem...
, Menachem Begin
Menachem Begin
' was a politician, founder of Likud and the sixth Prime Minister of the State of Israel. Before independence, he was the leader of the Zionist militant group Irgun, the Revisionist breakaway from the larger Jewish paramilitary organization Haganah. He proclaimed a revolt, on 1 February 1944,...
. When PM Begin instructed on the bombing of the Iraq
Iraq
Iraq ; officially the Republic of Iraq is a country in Western Asia spanning most of the northwestern end of the Zagros mountain range, the eastern part of the Syrian Desert and the northern part of the Arabian Desert....
i nuclear reactor (Operation Opera
Operation Opera
Operation Babylon was a surprise Israeli air strike carried out on June 7, 1981, that destroyed a nuclear reactor under construction 17 kilometers southeast of Baghdad, Iraq....
), he sent a press release to Israel Broadcasting Authority (IBA), which is subordinated to the Prime Ministers office, in order for the news flash to be aired on the appropriate time. The editor on duty, who thought it was a prank message, threw the paper to the garbage, but when he bumped into Halperin, he showed him the message, and Halperin managed to contact and confirm the news item with his uncle, and thus the news item was broadcasted.
Halperin is a widow. His wife was a musical editor in IBA's Kol Ha Musica radio channel. He resides on Jerusalem, in Beit HaKerem neighborhood.