[14] The Economist credited Jacobovici's documentary as one of the factors leading to the 1984–85 Israeli airlift of Ethiopian Jews to Israel.

It was released in conjunction with a book on the same subject, The Jesus Family Tomb, issued in late February 2007 and co-authored by Jacobovici and Charles R.

[2] This conclusion, while weakly supported by a statistical analysis of the names involved,[25][26] is rejected by the overwhelming majority of archaeologists, Christian theologians, linguists, and biblical scholars.

[2][3][25][27] Jacobovici was involved as executive producer[28] in the production of a documentary, Finding Atlantis, that was shown in March 2010 on the National Geographic Channel.

[29] In 2016, Jacobovici directed Atlantis Rising for the National Geographic Channel; its executive producer was James Cameron.

[38] Enslaved was also honored for Outstanding Achievement by the Impact Doc Awards[39] and was named Best Documentary at the International Filmmaker Festival in London.

[42] Paris Match has called Enslaved "One small step for man…One giant leap for civil rights!

"[43] Jacobovici's 2022 book, Enslaved: The Sunken History of the Transatlantic Slave Trade, written with Sean Kingsley, with a preface by Brenda Jones, was published by Pegasus in New York and distributed by Simon & Schuster.

[citation needed] James, Brother of Jesus highlighted an ossuary in the private collection of an Israeli antiquities collector, Oded Golan.

Jacobovici and Hershel Shanks (founding editor of Biblical Archaeology Review), stood by their story.

[64] In 2012, Jacobovici investigated a Second Temple-era burial cave in Armon Hanatziv with a camera mounted on a robotic arm.

[65][66] Jacobovici hosted three seasons of The Naked Archaeologist on VisionTV in Canada[67][68] and The History Channel in the United States.

[80] Jacobovici is also the co-author of two e-books; "Michelangelo's Angels and Demons"[81] and "The James Revelation",[82] published by Zoomerbooks, as a companion to his television series "Biblical Conspiracies".