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.

DECEMBER 31, 2025|BySHIR PERETS

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

Jerusalemite of the Week: Geek Space has been a place where nerdy teenagers can get together and find the community they need.

DECEMBER 28, 2025|ByAARON REICH

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

Lorde and over 1000 music industry professionals are geo-blocking their music, making it inaccessible for Israeli listeners.

OCTOBER 4, 2025|ByJERUSALEM POST STAFF

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

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

Israel’s Independence and Remembrance Days get a thoughtful TV treatment in 2025.

APRIL 30, 2025|ByHANNAH BROWN

60 years with the queen of pop: Madonna's colorful Jewish culture

A look back on 60 years of Madonna's dabbling in Jewish culture, Kabbalah, and a love for Israel.

AUGUST 16, 2018ByTAMAR URIEL-BEERI

Madonna arrives at the 56th annual Grammy Awards in Los Angeles, California January 26, 2014

Clean Bandit wouldn't 'Rather Be' anywhere but Israel

British electropop band gave local fans a dance party - and even a marriage proposal.

JULY 28, 2018ByAMY SPIRO

Viewpoint: Don't underestimate the value of Netta Barzilai

How Netta Barzilai saved the Israel Broadcasting Corporation.

JULY 25, 2018ByGREER FAY CASHMAN

Netta Barzilai wows some 6,000 participants in a Taglit-Birthright Israel Mega Event at Jerusalem’s Sultan Pool on June 27, 2018

A taste of Las Vegas in Eilat

After Israeli director Hanoch Rosenn sold one of his shows to Vegas, he was inspired to create a Sin City-themed ‘WOW’ production in Israel.

JULY 12, 2018ByAMY SPIRO

The WOW show, exploring American dance and music

The twin Jewish belly dancers who took Cairo, and the world, by storm

Very few people knew that the talented Jamal sisters were, in reality, Helena and Bertha Fishel.

JULY 11, 2018ByHAGAY HACOHEN

The Jamal sisters (Helena and Bertha Fishel)

'Spider-Man' co-creator Steve Ditko dead at 90, mourned by fans

Ditko, who was a first-generation American, created Spider-man and Doctor Strange. He left a huge mark on the visual medium.

JULY 7, 2018ByHAGAY HACOHEN

Comic book art by Steve Ditko. Spiderman and Daredevil.

Concert Review: A-ha takes on Ra’anana with Electric Summer tour

It was always a regret of mine that I missed A-ha perform in South Africa in 1994, however that changed on Thursday night at the Ra’anana Amphipark.

JUNE 22, 2018BySHAWN RODGERS

A-ha lead singer Morten Harket during a concert in Israel June 2018

a-ha: We come here to play to people

Ahead of their show at the Ra’anana Park Amphitheater on Thursday, the trio gathered to answer questions at a press conference at the Sheraton Hotel in Tel Aviv.

JUNE 19, 2018ByNAOMI GRANT