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A new exhibition at the Beit Hagefen Art Gallery in Haifa,the Haifa Fringe Dance Festival and more.

By BARRY DAVIS
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Yesterday with The Carpenters
Karen and Richard Carpenter produced some of the most memorable pop numbers of the 1970s, with hits such as “Close to You,” “Yesterday Once More,” “Top of the World” and “Superstar.” The sibling pair’s mega-selling output will be celebrated in a concert at the Latrun Monastery next Saturday, May 31, at noon.
Lilach Shir will front an instrumental trio consisting of keyboardist Arnon Ziv, bass player Nir Koplowitz and drummer Oren Ben-Artzi, with Shir also playing harmonica and various percussion instruments.
Shir originally trained as an opera singer but later turned to the more contemporary commercial areas of the music sector.
She has released two albums to date, which include Hebrew covers of American rock ’n’ roll hits, as well as country-rock material.
For tickets and more information: (02) 535-6954
Strangers among us
A new exhibition at the Beit Hagefen Art Gallery in Haifa focuses on the declining social standing of Palestinian workers following the mass influx of cheap labor to Israel, which began in the 1990s after the first intifada.
The “Foreigners Among Us” exhibition, which opened earlier this month and runs until August 16, considers various ramifications of the employment transition, including national, political, social, ethnic, religious and aesthetic elements.
The exhibition incorporates works by a wide range of artists from here and around the world, including multidisciplinary Israeli artist Michal Heiman, who works in painting, photography, video and installation presentations; Brazil- based Mexican artist Hector Zamora, whose large-scale works feed off urban or architectural environments; and Egyptian- born, British-based potter Ashraf Hanna.
For more information: (04) 852- 5252
Belfer’s salute to Korczak
The heroic endeavor of doctor, educator and philosopher Janusz Korczak is the subject of an exhibition at the Enav Center in Tel Aviv featuring works by 91-year-old artist Yitzhak Belfer. The show, curated by Isi Vinter-Abekasis, opened Thursday under the title “A White House in A Gray City.” The event also featured the launch of a book by the same name, which includes pictures and stories by Belfer.
The tales in the book hark back to the artist’s time as a resident of the orphanage for Jewish children that Korczak established in Warsaw in 1912 and that operated until 1940, when it was moved to the Warsaw Ghetto.
Belfer was the only member of his family to survive the Holocaust, and when the British thwarted his first attempt to make aliya, he found himself in a DP camp in Cyprus under the tutelage of renowned sculptor Zeev Ben-Zvi. The new book includes reproductions of paintings and sculptures that address Korczak and his work.
The exhibition closes on June 21. Admission is free.
For more information: (03) 521- 7763
Haifa fringe
The first Fringe Dance Festival will take place in Haifa on May 25 and 26. The program includes a host of shows at venues around the city, screenings of dance documentaries at the Haifa Cinematheque, and a workshop about the gaga dance technique created by Ohad Naharin.
The festival was devised by the Ethos company, which oversees cultural activities in Haifa, and addresses a wide range of thematic material and stylistic approaches. Veteran dancer-choreographer Id Tadmor will present two duets that tell the tale of relationships that have deteriorated over time, while Orly Portal’s dance troupe will perform Rabia, a piece inspired by eighth-century Sufi mystic Rabia al-Adawiyya.
Hillel Kogan will present Loving Arabs, which addresses coexistence. Other shows include Dafi Altabeb’s Even So and a duet spot taken from the Mozart 10 work by the Kamea dance company.
The on-screen entertainment will include Tomer Heiman’s Out of Focus, about the work of Naharin, and Bolero by French documentarist Maurice Bejart.
For tickets and more information: (04) 833-8888 or www.ethoces.co.il