Lights, Camera, Zionism. That’s the way to get Israel’s message out to the world, says Nati Dinnar, president of the Israel Entertainment Fund and founder and CEO of IZZY TV, an Israeli entertainment streaming library.

And it’s also being used as a tool to drive economic growth in Israel’s south, creating a Van Nuys in the Negev.

Dinnar was among those in the Israeli entertainment field who gathered at last month’s Jewish National Fund-USA’s Global Conference for Israel in Hollywood, Fla. The impetus was the screening of the world premiere of “ Red Alert ” (Israeli title: “First Light”), a four-part television series depicting Israeli civilian heroes during Hamas’s Oct. 7, 2023, massacre in southern Israel.

But, the larger message was that while Israel is losing the public relations b

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