Israel festival

Israeli Comedy Festival returns for its fourth year to bring laughs for everyone

From August 17 to 21, the Israeli Comedy Festival is back for its fourth year, featuring a mix of stand-up, improv, and five brand-new theater shows.

‘DONALD AND ABDUL’ and Attention, Sergeant Major! will be two of the performances at the Israeli Comedy Festival.
 AVISHAI COHEN: I’m not sure this is my most personal record, but I think it’s my best!

Jazz trumpeter Avishai Cohen to unload post-October 7 angst at Israel Festival

 Folk Trio & The Gang.

Summer’s here! A snapshot of Jerusalem's warm-weather activities to enjoy

 ‘COMING HOME’ and ‘Brothers’ are two of the featured performances of this year’s Israel Festival.

A dream of recovery, amid reality of war: Israel Festival goes to the periphery


Sounds good – and looks good, too

“Music is a living medium formed between people at a given moment, in a unique form. It comes into being at a particular time and in a spontaneous manner.”

THE COMBINATION of pianos and percussion instruments infuses new textural life into 'The Planets.'

Crowds, power and performance

Brazilian choreographer Marcelo Evelin brings ‘Suddenly Everywhere is Black with People’ to the Israel Festival

‘Suddenly Everywhere is Black with People’

Pop-up performance party

FestiVan will take music, dance and poetry to Jerusalem’s streets.

KAMA KAMILA.

Israel Festival 2019: From the directors’ desks

In the 1980s, mayor Teddy Kollek managed to move the Festival to Jerusalem, and already then it began to enlarge the scope to include other arts, such as theater and dance.

EYAL SHER (left), the festival’s general director, with artistic director Itzik Jolly.

A slice of life

“Somehow, how I look at the world comes out of being Jewish, first-generation South African, and being involved in the breaking down of apartheid. It is my point of reference," Orlin said.

ALBERT KHOZA

Is this dance?

“I think that dance can fight for more freedom and stretch the borders of what this art form is. We can go beyond the borders of technique and find what dance can say.”

FIGURE A SEA