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![]() Jessica SteinbergThe Times of Israel |
“The Beauty Queen of Jerusalem,” an ambitious, historical, multigenerational costume drama series distributed by Yes Studios, the Tel Aviv...
The annual International Writers Festival returns to Jerusalem’s Mishkenot Shaananim May 3-6, with in-person and digital events for its ninth...
The blue residue left on the walls of Nazi gas chambers is an unmistakable marker of the horrors that the rooms once witnessed, the bright splotches...
As Israel commemorates Holocaust Remembrance Day, the Tel Aviv Museum of Art is about to complete the restitution of two 17th century Flemish...
The six Holocaust survivors slowly made their way in wheelchairs, or lean on canes or on their children’s or grandchildren’s arms, toward the six...
Jerusalem’s Safra Square is the temporary exhibition space for the Lonka Project, a traveling photograph exhibit documenting Holocaust survivors...
Annabelle Amery wants just one thing for her May 4 wedding in Israel: her parents and sisters present when she marries Sergey Yanchenko at a Caesarea...
It has been nearly four years since the last Mediterranean Biennale was held, and organizers of the show have spent the last two of those years on the...
US service HBO Max started streaming Israeli comedy-drama “On the Spectrum,” on Friday. The release date of the half-hour comedy-drama about three...
Many went into quarantine over the last year thinking they would use the time to finally finish that novel or artistic project they had been putting...
How is this Passover different from last year’s Passover? For Israelis at least, families and friends can gather more easily than they did on...
Tel Aviv’s newest sanitation truck needs a name. The municipality is holding a contest to name its latest garbage truck, a quieter, German-made...
The guitar Leonard Cohen played at his final concert in Israel in 2009, a distinctive lace collar favored by Ruth Bader Ginsburg and a 15th century...
The New Israeli Opera will open its doors again on Thursday night, but don’t expect a grand opera just yet. For now, the Tel Aviv opera house is...
It’s been a creative year for renowned dancer and choreographer Rina Schenfeld. At 83, she has been home alone for much of the pandemic but never...
In previous years, Jerusalem’s Mekudeshet Festival has taken audiences on seven-hour walks, hosted concerts at dawn and explored every nook and...
Parenting is one of toughest challenges out there, particularly during a pandemic that has pinned parents and kids at home for endless rounds of meals...
Artist Amit Shimoni has become intimately familiar with the contours of US Vice President Kamala Harris’s face. He’s just altered it a tiny bit. ...
Twelve years ago, Yotam Ottolenghi and Sami Tamimi took the London culinary world by storm with the publication of their cookbook “Jerusalem,”...
It was the second night of the Jerusalem Cinematheque’s reopening post-lockdown, and Yvonne and Ram Livay were on their way to auditorium 3 for the...
Shtisel fans, rejoice: The long-awaited third season of the beloved series arrives on Netflix on March 25 around the world. In Israel the season...
Ever considered the similarities between the loud intensity of heavy metal music and orchestration and the rhythm of classical music? It’s right...
The story of the friendship between Israeli and Iranian judo world champions Sagi Muki and Saeid Mollaei is being developed for television by...
A collection of more than 1,800 stone artifacts has been returned to Australia from the Israel Museum as part of ongoing efforts to honor Aboriginal...
Some people got through the long lockdown days by fermenting wild yeast and making sourdough. Ze’ev Fuchs and Shelley Griffel took their leavening...
White actor Harry Shearer is stepping back from voicing the Black Dr. Hibbert on “The Simpsons” after more than 30 years. While some fans are...
“Orly, 41, an agunah for 13 years.” “Rivka, 41, an agunah for 17.5 years.” The black posters with images of a woman’s...
Making plans for Purim? Don’t go overboard, as cabinet ministers decided to institute a three-night curfew (Thursday, Friday and Saturday nights,...
Mizrachi pop singer Omer Adam, launched from reality TV anonymity 12 years ago, is dominating the Israeli charts on both Apple Music and Spotify this...
Nearly a year after being shut by the pandemic, cultural institutions are reopening this week, bringing musicians, comedians, actors, and others back...
Erez Drigues, the lead actor and co-creator of the Kan public broadcaster’s dramedy “Rehearsals,” has been accused of repeated instances of...
The lockdown is at least partly over but the city of Jerusalem is playing it safe with the start of the Follow the Lights Festival on February 21,...
It was an archaeological artifact that first stirred Lori Kaufmann’s imagination. About a decade ago, Kaufmann read about research being carried...
Russian-Israeli tennis player Aslan Karatsev extended his extraordinary Australian Open run on Tuesday, becoming the first man to reach a Grand Slam...
The Tel Aviv Museum of Art has appointed Mira Lapidot, chief curator of the arts at the Israel Museum, as its new chief curator. Lapidot spent 22...
Wildflower season has arrived, as Israelis celebrate the partially lifted lockdown by tripping through carpets of red anemones in the Negev and...
Israeli filmmaker Tomer Shushan’s debut short film “White Eye,” about migrant workers in Tel Aviv, has been shortlisted for an Oscar in the 93rd...
Finding one’s soulmate can be something of a challenge, and never more so than during a pandemic, when social distancing has replaced social...
A century-old letter supporting Zionism, from pre-communism Chinese leader Dr. Sun Yat-sen, recently surfaced at the National Library of Israel. ...
Navah Turin traveled from Israel to Dubai on January 24 to visit a friend for one week. Over two weeks later, the single mom remains in the Emirates,...
TEHRAN, Iran — Iran “strongly” condemned the sentencing Thursday of one of its diplomats to 20 years in prison by a Belgian court for plotting a...
Exactly one year to the day after then-health minister Yaakov Litzman toured Sheba Hospital and said “we are prepared to deal with the virus,”...
Keshet Studios has renewed its first-look deal with media and entertainment company Universal Television for the third time. The Israeli production...
Several Israelis will be awarded an Oscar this year, but not for a film. Prof. Meir Feder, Dr. Zvi Reznic, Guy Dorman and Ron Yogev will receive a...
A spate of new plays commissioned from young Tel Aviv playwrights may be one way the beleaguered culture industry is fighting back against the...
Israel’s anemone season waits for no pandemic. This year is the 21st for Darom Adom, or Red South, the annual festival in Israel’s Negev region...
BRUSSELS — The European Union on Friday backtracked on a threat to restrict exports of coronavirus shots to Northern Ireland in its growing row with...
Award-winning chef Michael Solomonov misses his Israel. A lot. Solomonov, a five-time James Beard Foundation award winner and co-owner with longtime...