26 Friday, February 3, 1984 THE DETROIT JEWISH NEWS Israeli Films Now Available in U.S. on Videocassettes By YITZHAK RABI (Copyright 1984, JTA, Inc.) The Israeli film industry has been making inroads in recent years, producing some of its finest films ever and attracting worldwide attention. Israeli film pro- ducers and directors, who have been trying to promote their product in the United States in various ways, are now putting Israeli movies on videocassettes. The films are in Hebrew with English subtitles. "Our goal is to bring the Israeli cinema to the living rooms of Americans," Meir Fenigstein, president of the Israel Video Center, said in a recent interview. 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