A Special Relationship
Sarah Stricker
Writer Sarah Stricker has lived in Israel for five years. She finished her first novel there and has just contributed a short story to an anthology of Israeli and German authors.
Sarah Stricker
Through her stay in Israel, Sarah Stricker has learned to love country and its people. She is convinced that Germans and Israelis are growing closer despite the burden of history.
Tom Franz
In 2013, the German Tom Franz won the Israeli television cooking show “MasterChef.” Since then he’s become a celebrity in Israel.
Tom Franz
Tom Franz converted to Judaism eight years ago. He loves to pray in a small synagogue in Jerusalem that his wife’s great-grandfather founded.
Tom Franz
Filming in the kitchen with the Fadidas, a family of chefs for generations. Tom Franz did research here for a book about the food of Jerusalem.
Rilli Willow
The 34-year-old Israeli Rilli Willow wants to establish itself as a singer in Berlin, the city where her great aunt, who was murdered in Auschwitz, was once a successful singer.
Rilli Willow
Rilli Willow with husband Benedikt Bindewald and Israeli friends in a bar in Kreuzberg. Many young Israelis live in this district of Berlin and in the neighboring borough of Neukölln.
Rilli Willow and Shahak Shapira
Israelis Rilli Willow and Shahak Shapira both agree on one thing: Jewish wit and Israeli sarcasm make the history of their people easier to bear.
Shahak Shapira
Ready to report: For his research, 27-year-old Shahak Shapira takes on the role of a journalist and asks passers-by about anti-Semitism and clichés about Jews.
Shahak Shapira
Many visitors to the Holocaust Memorial take self-portraits with their cell phone cameras, so-called “selfies.” Shahak Shapira confronted them with a fictitious “selfie” ban there.