[Sample summary — replace with the licensed article text.] At 75, the festival’s founder still runs it almost single-handedly: curating, fundraising, promoting and presenting Israeli films to American audiences, flying in from Tel Aviv several times a year.
The profile traces his path from drummer in Kaveret, one of Israel’s most beloved bands, to a music student in Boston who was asked to bring two Israeli films to campus, and ended up launching a festival instead.