Music

Jerusalem highlights: July 10-16

What's new to do in Israel's capital?

Victory of the Rising Sun (see Friday).
 Bonnie Tyler performs during Philipp Plein Oscars Night 2024 Runway Show at Chateau Falconview on March 09, 2024 in Bel Air, California.

Bonnie Tyler, Welsh singer of 'Total Eclipse of the Heart', dead at 75

 TUNISIA-CARTHAGE-FESTIVAL-FADHEL CHAKER Lebanese singer Fadel Shaker performs during the International Carthage festival, August 15, 2007.

Lebanon grants bail to famed singer, militant after decade-long fugitive run

Nir Krigel

Not a plane, not a bird: This is a lawsuit from the "UAV kid"


'The first woman E Streeter': Springsteen band drummer remembers Suki Lahav, Jewish violinist

“Suki and Louie were quite literally the first people associated with Bruce and the band that I came to know, respect, admire, and yes, love,” he wrote to The Jerusalem Post from Portland, Oregon.

TZRUYA ‘SUKI’ Lahav‎ in 2008.

Israeli lyricist Tzruya Lahav dies at 74 after cancer battle

Lahav played a major role in shaping popular Israeli music across generations and wrote the lyrics for many songs that have become embedded in the country’s canon.

Portrait of the Israeli Writer and poet Tsruya Lahav in Jerusalem. July 31, 2008.

Paul Ben-Haim’s war symphonies get just deserts

Performed at Carnegie Hall in the aftermath of the October 7 massacre, Ben-Haim’s two symphonies are foundational works within the Israeli art music tradition.

CONDUCTOR LAHAV SHANI with the Israel Philharmonic Orchestra.

AI is already coming for your jobs, your Passover song parodies may be next

Earlier this year, a contestant in Kveller’s Passover Song Parody Contest explained that her son wrote a first draft of their entry using AI, but that she helped polish the result. 

AI is already coming for your jobs. Your Passover song parodies may be next.

The memory that turned into a song

A childhood memory of growing up in a crowded Ukrainian apartment, surrounded by family and unconditional love - suddenly became the inspiration for a song written in just half an hour.

Eduard Shyfrin- UNCONDITIONAL

Jerusalem highlights: March 27-April 2

What's new to do in Israel's capital?

‘A Ma’apilim Ship,’ painting  by Marcel Janco (see Friday).

Eurovision Song Contest oddsmakers predict Israel will win televoting again this year

The Eurovision World website presented the oddsmakers who predict the televoting results separately from the overall results, and according to them, Israel has a 26% chance of topping the televoting.

People cheer as they watch the 2025 Eurovision Song Contest finals being screened at a community center in Tel Aviv, Israel, on May 17, 2025.

Song about enemy drones written by 11-year-old becomes unofficial anthem of Israel-Iran war

Krigel, who is from Moshav Zvi in the Gilboa region, wrote and sang the hip-hop song, and a video of him performing it with his sister, Adi, quickly went viral when she uploaded it to TikTok.

Screenshot from music video of “Catbam," song written by an 11-year-old Israeli boy named Nir Krigel, March 22, 2026.

Jerusalem highlights: March 20 – March 26

What's new to do in Israel's capital?

Ron Mueck, ‘Boy,’ 1999, shown at a past Venice Biennale (see Tues day).

Israeli artist Idan Raichel blends music, art and desert magic in 'Fata Morgana'

Idan Raichel’s desert festival “Fata Morgana” blends music, art and resilience amid a time of war and uncertainty.

Idan Raichel: Taking it all in stride.