Culture in Israel

Israel’s Jewish humor show offers a serious message for a dark time: We will survive

Nearly every sketch in the show satirizes an event from millennia’s worth of Jewish and Israeli religious texts and history. Its guiding principle is irreverence. 

Israeli Academy presents TV awards, with 'Unsilenced' and 'Six Zeros' winning big

Despite the war scaling back the festivities, the Israeli Academy of Film and Television presented a modest event that honored the best of Israel's entertainment industry.

New series focuses on issue of sexual assault - TV time

This storyline illustrates the complex psychological repercussions that sexual assault can have, not only for the victim but for others in her life.

Varda Breger:  ‘The painter who cares’

Varda Breger is an award-winning Israeli artist with an ecological and social message.

By NURIT TAL-TENNE
13/05/2024

Looking back on 2004, a breakthrough for Israeli cinema

It takes a few years to make a movie, and the films made with the funding provided by the Cinema Law flooded movie theaters with great films for the first time in 2004.

Museum Day offers free admission to over 100 institutions

Some of the strides taken by our repositories of artworks and other important artifacts will be accessible – and free of charge – on May 9, when this year’s Museum Day event takes place.

06/05/2024

Screenings of Israeli film 'The City' cancelled by Beijing film festival

The team that had been preparing to attend the festival with The City, was supposed to fly to Beijing on April 21.

Maccabi tips off against Baskonia in Play In

After 16th straight triumph in Israel, yellow-and-blue heads to Belgrade for key Euroleague tilt

By JOSHUA HALICKMAN
15/04/2024

A timely revival of Hanoch Levin’s ‘Krum’

Revived by Yoram Loewenstein Studio actors, director Ido Kolton recast this iconic work as taking place in a dance club.

PechaKucha event returns to Tel Aviv with eclectic array of artists

PechaKuchanin event is the ideal vehicle for providing audiences with entertainment that is distilled and free of lightweight filling material.

05/04/2024
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