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Hollywood star Andie MacDowell doesn’t lose her fabulous head of perfectly graying curls in “My Happy Ending,” a story of cancer and friendship,...
UK pop star Robbie Williams will fulfill his wish to perform with indie Israeli singer Noga Erez Thursday night at Tel Aviv’s Yarkon Park. Williams,...
After the Backstreet Boys canceled their planned May 13 performance in Israel due to the military conflict with the Gaza Strip and the threat of...
Humorist Dudi Shamai is known for his political caricatures and children’s book illustrations, as well as his series of fish — the more fins and...
Take a stroll down Ben Gurion Boulevard in Haifa’s German Colony this spring and stop at one of the video screens placed outdoors. There’s one at...
It’s taken six years to fully renovate Jerusalem’s Tower of David Museum, an ancient citadel adjacent to the Old City’s Jaffa Gate that dates...
It’s been one year since Swiss-born Israel Museum director Denis Weil started his new job, moving to Israel from Chicago to head one of Israel’s...
There are more than a few similarities between the two recipients of this year’s Rappaport Prize for Israeli Artists, awarded to an established...
“Writers are agents of ambiguity,” Etgar Keret told a room full of children’s book authors, as they nodded in agreement. The proclaimed Israeli...
Tel Aviv’s 25th Docaviv Festival opened Thursday, May 11 for 10 days of international and local documentaries covering a myriad of subjects, from...
Pulitzer Prize-winning author Jennifer Egan is a self-professed technophobe who writes her fiction in longhand. And yet, in her most recent book,...
Israel is marking International Museum Day on Tuesday, with free entry throughout the day to dozens of museums. It’s a good day to offer free entry,...
Margaret Atwood, the Canadian author of the dystopian novel-turned-TV show “The Handmaid’s Tale” isn’t surprised that hundreds of Israeli...
“Theodor,” an original Israeli Opera production about two periods in the life of founder of modern Zionism Theodor Herzl, will be music to the...
There are two chunks of history to consider at the Tel Aviv Museum of Art’s retrospective of Swiss sculptor Alberto Giacometti, hosted at the...
In honor of the tenth anniversary of the Sam Spiegel international film lab, the Jerusalem-based school spent two days screening its graduates’...
Art imitates nature and vice versa at Yaar, a new gallery in Jerusalem’s Botanical Gardens, just outside the tropical conservatory. Nothing appears...
Exhibit of 12 neo-pointillist portraits of prime ministers offer fresh perspectives for Israel’s 75th, at Jerusalem Biennale Gallery in old...
The National Library of Israel is gathering diaries and personal written accounts from the period of the establishment of the State of Israel, part of...
Jerusalem Cinematheque’s Israeli Film Archive is marking the country’s 75th Independence Day by streaming 75 classic Israeli films. The films are...
Crumbling, abandoned Jordanian army barracks on the banks of the Dead Sea were reinvented as vast concrete canvases by 10 visiting muralists in time...
Gal Gadot hosted a Zikaron Basalon event, an intimate gathering to hear the testimony of a Holocaust survivor, at her Los Angeles home on Holocaust...
When Tar player and composer Piris Eliyahu performs in Jerusalem on Thursday night, he and his new quartet will break new ground, connecting East and...
Writer and lyricist Yehonatan Geffen died Wednesday at age 76. Geffen was known for his left-wing leanings, his writing — particularly books, songs...
There are many ways the Preiss family remembers the Holocaust-era escape of Ralph Preiss and his parents from Nazi Germany to the Philippines, where...
Ofra Haza died 23 years ago and Zohar Argov has been dead for 36 years. Now the two singers, beloved voices in the Israeli musical pantheon, are being...
Israeli artists have long written songs about the Holocaust, including Ehud Manor and Avi Toledano, whose “Chai” was sung by Ofra Haza for...
It was four years ago that Shira Israeli, then a ninth-grader from Shoham studying at Atid School for Science in Lod, was assigned to create a film...
Renowned Israeli author Meir Shalev whose works melded the power of biblical narratives with the complicated lives of modern Israelis died Tuesday...
Food blogger and cookbook author Chanie Apfelbaum spent many Passovers avoiding eating gebrochts — anything made with matzah that has absorbed...
For the last 13 weeks, a crowd of thousands gathers Saturday nights outside the President’s Residence in Jerusalem, shouting “De-mo-cra-cy” and...
When Ukrainian Jews sit around the Seder table this week, celebrating Passover very differently than in the past, they’ll be able to use the first...
It was a clever idea to host the first Autonomous Art Biennale, a sprawling art exhibition, at the Gymnasia Herzliya high school in Tel Aviv, given...
The Tel Aviv Museum of Art ranked 48th on The Art Magazine’s recently released list of the 100 most popular museums in the world, with over one...
English singer and songwriter Morrissey is returning to Israel after a seven-year hiatus prolonged by several canceled shows due to the COVID-19...
Alina Tirnovienko always ate matzah on Passover back in Odesa, usually celebrating the seder at the local Chabad. Now she is one of the workers making...
Dozens of writers and poets were set to gather Tuesday to read the Book of Lamentations (Eicha), written in 586 BCE for the destruction of Jerusalem....
It was while she still lived in Moscow that artist Natalia Zourabova began dreaming of Israel’s desert landscapes, the great expanses, warmth and...
Acclaimed Israeli director Hagai Levi lashed the new government and its judicial overhaul after being arrested while filming police at a protest on...
House of Jaffa designers Golan Frydman and Eddie Gavrillidis brought their brand of casual streetwear to Tel Aviv’s Hangar 11 runway on Wednesday...
The Codex Sassoon, the oldest-known and the most complete Hebrew Bible manuscript, will go on display for the first time in Israel on Thursday at Tel...
The Tel Aviv Museum of Art is joining the countrywide judicial overhaul protests planned for Thursday, March 23, and will darken the halls and...
Designer David Weksler took protests against the coalition’s divisive judicial overhaul on to the fashion runway on Sunday at the opening of Kornit...
Yael Robin believes in the power of art. It says as much on her bio page on the Israel Museum’s website, and this lifelong art teacher has lived...
It won’t be hard to pick out runner Rom Carmi during Friday’s Jerusalem Marathon. He’ll be the one running barefoot, his long mane of wavy brown...
US actor Rob Lowe is visiting Israel this week, staying in Jerusalem’s King David Hotel for what he told another guest was a “guys’ trip.” The...
Hundreds of Israeli writers, artists, and intellectuals on Tuesday called on Germany and Britain to cancel upcoming visits by Prime Minister Benjamin...
First it was local wines, now it’s olive oil. Local growers want Israelis to up their olive oil game, swapping out lower quality supermarket imports...
There’s a powerful sense of the spiritual and sacred in the songs of “Kapelya,” a new full-length album of Hasidic melodies. There’s also a...
Welcome to What Matters Now, a new weekly podcast exploration into one key issue shaping Israel and the Jewish World — right now. As Israel...