The "Iron Dome" anti-missile system was undoubtedly the hero of the recent Gaza conflict. This is what happens when you take the camera that was focused on it the whole time and turn it 180 degrees.

"Four:minutes" is a recurring format in the Israeli investigative reporting program "UVDA" (The Fact). A short documentary portrait of a person.

DIRECTOR: Ben Shani

AIR DATE: 19/11/2012 (Channel 2, "Uvda")

During The IDF Gaza operation "Cast Lead" (2009) a Palestinian women is stranded in an Israeli Hospital along with her one-year old son and new-born baby girl, whilst her husband and 3 other kids are stuck in Gaza.

This human interest piece, filmed in Gaza and Israel respectively, aired on Israeli Television during the war sparking controversy. It provides a rare look into the affects of the Israeli/Palestinian conflict on the civilians caught in the midst of its absurd horror.

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DIRECTOR: Yigal Mosko

AIR DATE: 13/1/2009 (Channel 2, "Uvda")

The future status of the Golan Heights has long been a controversial issue in Israeli politics and public opinion, but apparently not so much to its actual residents.

This piece was broadcast as part of the 2009 Israeli election special profiling issues of concern to the electoral agenda.

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DIRECTOR: Itay Anghel

AIR DATE: 9/2/2009 (Channel 2, "Uvda")

A short profile piece about the former coach of the Israeli national football team, Luis Fernandez, a French national who was brought in to advance the Israeli team to an international level.

His tenure as coach was marred by the local media’s constant scrutiny about his performance as well as his nationality. This profile piece was broadcast before his dismissal due to the team’s failure to qualify for the UEFA European cup tournament.

DIRECTOR: Ben Shani

AIR DATE: 28/4/2011 (Channel 2, "Uvda")

Amos Biderman, Ha'aretez newspaper political caricaturist faces the same challenge every week: illustrating the caricature for the weekend's leading political article. His work is notorious for infuriating his subjects and readers, especially those of a right-wing or religious persuasion.

The following piece was produced as part of an online pilot to re-brand video for Ha'aretz web edition (www.haaretz.com), creating a regular digital "behind the scenes" column of different sections of the paper.

PRODUCER: Yael Lavie

January 2012

Ishaq-Muhammad-Sayid made it out of Darfur all the way to Tel Aviv's Levinsky Park, but as long as the state uses scare tactics to make sure he can't find work, he'll have to continue sleeping under a slide and begging for food.

This piece was produced as part of an online pilot to re-brand video for Ha'aretz web edition (www.haaretz.com), creating a digital op-ed article with one of the paper's most prominent writers.

PRODUCER: Yael Lavie

January 2012

For the past decade Oded Toury has been a professional editor, well-crafted in the art of storytelling through editing. His scope of expertise ranges from investigative documentary to prime time reality, comedy and news specials.

After graduating cum laude from Tel Aviv University Film and Television department in 2003, he began his career in Israeli commercial television as an online editor specializing in Avid Symphony color grading, he was quickly promoted to offline editing of full length projects.

From staff editor on “Erev Adir”, an Israeli Primetime sketch show on the nation’s leading commercial channel he commenced to editing several high profile investigative news specials looking into the nation’s defense industry and the Israeli government financial policy. In 2009 he conceptualized, formatted, edited and wrote “The Link” – a daily cable show examining the web as a tool analyzing modern day social behavior.

By 2010 Toury was hired as a Staff editor on “Uvda” (“The Fact”) – Israel’s most prominent weekly investigative Television program (frequently dubbed as the equivalent of the American “60 minutes”). During his 4 year tenure on “Uvda” he has worked on numerous long form pieces and exclusive national and international reports covering Israeli politics, Iraq, Afghanistan, the Gaza 2009 operation, Egypt soccer feuds, Israeli defense forces undercover investigations and more.

A former intelligence officer in the Israeli Army Oded Toury is fluent in Hebrew and English and proficient in conversational Arabic. He is both an Israeli and German citizen with an American Green card, eligible to work in the EU as well as the US.