After Iran fired missiles toward Israel early Monday, forcing schools to close nationwide and hospitals to move underground, cultural institutions and events followed suit, many shuttering doors and postponing events.

Hebrew Book Week, scheduled to mark its 100th anniversary beginning June 9 with book stalls that draw tens of thousands of visitors to the grounds of Tel Aviv’s Sarona Park and Jerusalem’s Safra Square, will not yet open, according to organizers.

Book Week was scheduled to begin June 9 and run through June 18 in Tel Aviv, and June 10 through June 21 in Jerusalem.

Meanwhile, the planned June 8 ceremony at the Habima National Theater for the Tel Aviv–Jaffa Theater Award, a new municipal prize established to recognize theater productions at the city’s four major theaters — Habima, Cameri, Beit Lessin and Gesher — was postponed.

The inaugural ceremony was originally scheduled to take place on March 8, but was delayed at the time because of the US-Israel war with Iran.

According to the Home Front Command, gatherings of up to 200 people outdoors and 500 people indoors are currently permitted, provided that a designated sheltered........

© The Times of Israel