Pop culture

Taylor Swift leads charts as Israel's favorite artist, album, song of 2025

The top 20 songs featured artists such as Sabrina Carpenter, Lady Gaga, K-Pop Demon Hunters, and Olivia Dean, who was also voted by Israelis as the breakout artist of 2025.

A general view of a Nashville area Starbucks that has been transformed into a Starbies pop up celebrating the release of Taylor Swift's new album "The Life Of A Showgirl" on October 03, 2025 in Nashville, Tennessee.
Tiferet Sigala (L) and Yarden Cohen.

Tiferet Sigala, Yarden Cohen: Giving space, community for Jerusalem’s teen geeks

Singer Lorde attends Variety's 2021 Power of Women event at the Wallis Annenberg Center in Beverly Hills, California, U.S. September 30, 2021

Lorde to join 'no music for genocide' anti-Israel boycott

 DANIEL GAD (left) and Michael Aloni in ‘The Stronghold.’

From Yom Kippur War to Eurovision: Israeli Special TV for the holidays


Norwegian pop star Aurora ventures to Israel

Her songs have been featured in television shows including HBO series Girls, and she’s appeared at the Coachella and in the late night talk show circuit.

Aurora Stavernfestivalen 2018

Paula Abdul stuns crowd with performance in memory of her Jewish father

“I’m doing it for my mom and my dad!” Abdul said.

2019 Billboard Music Awards- Show - Las Vegas, Nevada, U.S., May 1, 2019 - Paula Abdul leaps as she performs

Excelsior! Free Comic Book Day returns Saturday

This year, a total of 51 free comics have been slated for release on Free Comic Book Day from a variety of publishers.

Feb 10, 2019; Dallas, TX, USA; Dallas Mavericks fan poses with comic book characters on superhero day before the game against the Portland Trail Blazers at American Airlines Center.

Sex, lies and video: K-pop world rocked by sex scandals

KCON Korean popular culture convention with K-pop fans in Los Angeles

The Shtisel effect

They may be entertainment shows, but the characters and storylines can become part of daily discussions, and help foster pride in one’s new country’s talented artists and cultural success.

Shtisel

Megan Barton Hanson heads to Israel to enlist Uri Geller against smoking

The British celebrity will fight her smoking habit alongside personal trainer Matt Fiddes, who used to be Michael Jackson's personal bodyguard.

British model Megan Barton Hanson

Tel Aviv receives 'keys' to Eurovision in handover ceremony

Mayor Ron Huldai says he hopes Israel will win the contest again this year, so we can have the show 'next year in Jerusalem.'

from left to right: Lisbon Deputy Mayor Duarte Cordeiro, Tel Aviv Mayor Ron Huldai and hosts Assi Azar and Lucy Ayoub

The newest smash-hit song in Israel

Dreaming of partying in Greece

Static and Ben El

Much to take away from ‘Shoplifters’

Hirokazu Koreeda’s film, which won the Palme d’Or at Cannes, examines what life is like for people who have been thrown away by society.

'Shoplifters', which won the Palme d’Or at Cannes, examines what life is like for people who have been thrown away by society

Living in the present with Ian Anderson

Jethro Tull marks 50 years with four shows in Israel as its founder ponders its legacy.

JETHRO TULL, with Ian Anderson in the center.