8:30 PM April 24 Saturday
Special screening for Yom HaZikaron

Israel, 2003, 70 minutes, Hebrew with English subtitles, DVD
Director: Neil Weisbrod for IBA-Channel One

This film follows Ilan Ramon from the beginning of his training until his untimely death when the shuttle Columbia tragically disintegrated over Texas. For more than four years a film crew from Israel's Channel One, documented the long road, which led Ilan, a veteran F-16 pilot in Israel's Air Force to NASA in Houston.


Discussant: Israeli Consul Hillel Newman

Sponsor: Consulate General of Israel to New England , and the American Friends of the Israel National Museum of Science