Israel festival

Getting to know Etty Hillesum, the Holocaust diarist starring at the Israel Festival

Hillesum was 27 when she started putting pen to paper, much older than Frank and, hence, her writing relates to a more advanced stage of life and state of consciousness and awareness.

Neta Shpigelman identifies fully with Etty Hillesum, the Holocaust victim heroine of 'The Thinking Heart'
Blue Sun (see Sunday).

Jerusalem highlights: July 24-30

‘DONALD AND ABDUL’ and Attention, Sergeant Major! will be two of the performances at the Israeli Comedy Festival.

Israeli Comedy Festival returns for its fourth year to bring laughs for everyone

 AVISHAI COHEN: I’m not sure this is my most personal record, but I think it’s my best!

Jazz trumpeter Avishai Cohen to unload post-October 7 angst at Israel Festival


Israel Festival project promises rejuvenating grassroots connections

The project’s background bumf puts the philosophy into neat evocative parlance. “One man’s junk is everyone’s treasure,” whatever that treasure may be.

 MULTIDISCIPLINARY ARTIST Itamar Shimshony breathes new life into discarded playthings.

'Short Term' gets us on board the memory train at the Israel Festival

Alexandrovsky hopes Short Term will have a lasting, positive, and enlightening effect on his audiences. 

 SEMYON ALEXANDROVSKY: A bittersweet lament for parents, children, and the time that binds them

Israel Festival's Art/Battle uses martial arts for peace

The secret and beauty of such exercises as tai chi, el halev, or krav maga is the fact that they use military language to effect a peaceful resolution.

 ‘Lavagem’ by Alice Ripoll.

2023 Israel Festival features creative, thought-provoking art

The festival is set to run August 1-11 at three locations around the capital – Independence Park, the Jerusalem Theatre, and the Jerusalem Arts Campus.

 BRAZILIAN HIGH-ENERGY dance production ‘Lavagem’ takes a look at the absurdity of living in an unsullied world.

2023 Israel Festival focuses on the Jewish state's somber reality

The ongoing political unrest throughout the country infuses the program of the 2023 Israel Festival, taking place August 1-11.

 IRA GLASS: One of the performers at the 2023 Israel Festival.

The Red Sea Guitar Festival lines up Haim Romano and other Rock icons

Romano, Shalom Hanoch and Mati Caspi, Hemi Rudner, Yael Deckelbaum, Beri Sacharoff and Evyatar Banai are among those performing in the three-day lineup

 HAIM ROMANO, one of the pioneers of Israeli rock

Bach festival comes to Nazareth in their 7th year

The seventh edition of the annual Bach Festival spreads its wings

  IRISH CONDUCTOR Peter Whelan.

Nazareth Liturgical Festival to host over 100 musicians from around the world

More than 100 musicians from around the world will perform six concerts representing various cultures and traditions in the Liturgical Festival in Nazareth.

 The German choir Collegium Vocale Hannover

Music is music at this year's Tzlilei Stav music festival

Tzlilei Stav started out at Tefen in 2016, moving on to Ein Kerem for a couple of years before ending up in Abu Gosh.

 SOPRANO NOUR Darwish will be featured at the Tzlilei Stav (Fall Sounds) Festival.

14 Days: UN Speech

Israeli news highlights from the past two weeks.

 Israeli Prime Minister Yair Lapid speaks at the UN General Assembly in 2022.