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Under artistic directors Zohar Sharon and Roy Oppenheim, the orchestra will collaborate with singer-songwriter Aya Korem on Hineni, a program of Cohen’s songs in her Hebrew translations.

Belfer, who was born in 1989 and grew up in Ramat Hasharon, became famous for her debut role in the 2006 film, Someone to Run With.

The forthcoming festival is officially the third full-blown edition, although it was preceded by a smaller water-testing debut with no thoughts of the future.

To celebrate the launch of the Baka Artists' Community dedicated to olim, Jerusalemites showed their enthusiastic support at the exhibition venue, the Greater Baka Community Center.

“A lot of my work has a sort of Monty Python double edge,” David Breuer-Weil says. “At first, it may be quite amusing, but there’s a deeper thing behind it.”

How a childhood hip-hop fan became one of Israel’s premier extreme vocalists, and why his underground metal band Submasq refuses to play by the industry’s political rules.

Pianist Shai Maestro served as the music producer and artistic director for the album. The Raft will be distributed through the record label owned by bassist Avishai Cohen and his manager.

TV TIME: A forgotten Jewish refugee whose actions preceded Kristallnacht, Jon Hamm's gripping new hostage drama, and a Netflix thriller that struggles to match The White Lotus.

Ja Rule didn’t treat the visit as a statement. He treated it as a gig, and that may be exactly why it landed with his audience.

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