{"id":12308,"date":"2017-01-25T10:13:27","date_gmt":"2017-01-25T02:13:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/primer.com.ph\/blog\/?p=12308"},"modified":"2017-01-24T10:31:53","modified_gmt":"2017-01-24T02:31:53","slug":"ph-film-on-providing-refuge-to-jews-to-premiere-in-israel","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/primer.com.ph\/blog\/2017\/01\/25\/ph-film-on-providing-refuge-to-jews-to-premiere-in-israel\/","title":{"rendered":"PH film on providing refuge to Jews to premiere in Israel"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: left\">To kick off the 60<sup>th<\/sup> anniversary of the diplomatic ties between Israel and the Philippines, \u201cAn Open Door: Holocaust Haven in the Philippines\u201d\u00a0 by Noel Izon will be shown at the Cinematheque, Tel Aviv on January 25.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\">\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-12309\" src=\"https:\/\/primer.com.ph\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/14\/2017\/01\/Capture-1.jpg\" alt=\"Capture\" width=\"355\" height=\"553\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><em>AN OPEN DOOR PH DOCU TO PREMIERE IN TEL AVIV. Image grabbed from\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/dfa.gov.ph\/newsroom\/phl-embassies-and-consulates-news\/11528-new-film-on-philippine-sanctuary-for-jewish-refugees-to-premiere-in-israel\">dfa.gov.ph<\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>The one-hour documentary is about the Philippines, under President Manuel Quezon who welcomed and provided refuge to some 1,200 Jews fleeing from the holocaust.<\/p>\n<p>According to the Philippine Ambassador to Israel Neal Imperial, President Quezon has worked with Jewish networks in Manila from the 1930-1941 to provide visas and shelter to European refugees.<\/p>\n<p>This open-door policy of President Manuel Quezon provided a significant aspect of Philippine-Israel relations, and this story is noted in Holocaust History as the Filipino act of compassion.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAn Open Door\u201d has been screened at Cinemalaya Philippines in August 2016, the Berlin International Filmmakers Festival in 2016, and the International Filmmaker Festival of World Cinema Milan in December 2016.<\/p>\n<p><em>Sources: <a href=\"https:\/\/entertainment.inquirer.net\/213265\/docu-ph-rescue-jews-debuts-israel\">Inquirer.net<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/dfa.gov.ph\/newsroom\/phl-embassies-and-consulates-news\/11528-new-film-on-philippine-sanctuary-for-jewish-refugees-to-premiere-in-israel\">dfa.gov.ph<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>To kick off the commemoration of the 60th anniversary of the diplomatic ties between Israel and the Philippines, \u201cAn Open Door: Holocaust Haven in the Philippines\u201d  by Noel Izon will be shown at the Cinematheque, Tel Aviv on January 25<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":12309,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[95],"tags":[2158,2159,2155,2157,2156],"class_list":["post-12308","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-feature-story","tag-an-open-door","tag-an-open-door-holocaust-haven-in-the-philippines","tag-ph-film","tag-president-manuel-quezon","tag-tel-aviv"],"acf":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/primer.com.ph\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/14\/2017\/01\/Capture-1-e1485224856947.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/primer.com.ph\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12308","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/primer.com.ph\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/primer.com.ph\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/primer.com.ph\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/primer.com.ph\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12308"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/primer.com.ph\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12308\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12312,"href":"https:\/\/primer.com.ph\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12308\/revisions\/12312"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/primer.com.ph\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/12309"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/primer.com.ph\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12308"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/primer.com.ph\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12308"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/primer.com.ph\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12308"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}