Avishai Margalit

On Thursday (8:30 p.m.) 46-year-old Jerusalemite cellist Rali Margalit will play material from her latest album Soosim (Horses) at a concert at…

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■ IT’S HARD to imagine that people would come from Tel Aviv, Herzliya Pituah, Ramat Hasharon, Ramat Gan and Kfar Shmaryahu to Jerusalem for New…

You sometimes have to leave home to appreciate whence you came. Daphna Sadeh is a walking, talking and playing example of that notion. “I have been…

31 FRIDAY MUSIC New Years Eve Party – With Blaze House Rock, the house band, with rock from the’50s – ‘90s. • 10 p.m. at the Blaze Live Rock Bar, 23…

Children of all ages are likely to find “Letters and More” – the exhibition on the development of writing that opened Sunday at the Tower of David…

Fifteen years after former prime minister Yitzhak Rabin was shot by Yigal Amir a number of Knesset members and prominent religious leaders have begun…

President Shimon Peres kicked off Senior Citizens Month on Sunday at Beit Hanassi by hosting nine elderly citizens of different backgrounds,…

US President Barack Obama is deeply committed to peace and wants to enter history as the man to finally end the Arab- Israeli conflict, Nobel…

Rali Margalit is a self-confessed renaissance woman. Over the last two-plus decades the 46 year old Jerusalemite cellist has traversed expansive…

Where is justice?Sir, – Meir Rabin, accused of 18 bribery offenses, has been in custody for 30 days (“Holyland suspect Rabin accused of 18 bribery…

Ten Israel Prize winners and more than 50 other academics and intellectuals wrote to Defense Minister Ehud Barak on Wednesday, asking him to lift the…

Are the supermarket price wars that have raged in Jerusalem over the past few years about to hit the kosher lemehadrin market?In about two months,…

Sixteen prizes for personal or organizational achievement were handed out at the Israel Prize awards ceremony on Tuesday, an Independence Day…

Prof. Avishai Margalit is considered to be the country’s foremost philosopher. In granting him this year’s Israel Prize for Philosophy, the prize…

EVER SINCE the death in 1991 of her husband, famed Jerusalem-born artist Moshe Castel, Bilha Castel had been talking about building a museum that…

Pepe Alalu came onto the local political scene by mistake. Toward the1998 elections, Ornan Yekutieli, then chairman of the local Meretzparty, left…

While Jerusalem Mayor Nir Barkat is still very much embroiled in an internal legal battle at City Hall regarding zoning codes in the east Jerusalem…

We in Israel are in a key position in the development of the customary international law of war because we are on the front lines in the fight…

A few years ago Ohad Naharin, artistic directorof the Batsheva dance company, invented a new step: the ga-ga. "It'smore than a new dance language,"…