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


The Chainsmokers returning for another Israel show

“We've wanted to come to Israel for so freaking long,” they said during their 2017 show, also at the Rishon Lezion Live Park.

chainsmokers May 23, 2018

Pat Boone’s gift to Israel

“I have been to the Holy Land more than a dozen times, and the timing couldn’t be better in a world where peace, brotherly love, respect and reaching out couldn’t be more important.”

Pat Boone

'Avi Does the Holy Land:' Borat meets Broad City meets Tel Aviv

Aviva Zimmerman's satirical webseries is back for a second season.

Avi, from satirical web series 'Avi Does The Holy Land'

Israel’s Netta advances to Eurovision finals

Barzilai will aim for the title on Saturday night, but the betting charts now put their money on Cyprus.

CYPRUS’S ELENI FOUREIRA and Israel’s Netta react after the semi-finals for the Eurovision Song Contest 2018 in Lisbon, Portugal, Tuesday.

Cigarettes After Sex bring their musical snapshots to Tel Aviv

I find myself wondering how a smalltown El Paso boy ends up in Brooklyn with a hit album (2017’s Cigarettes After Sex), a spotlight on hit TV series The Handmaid’s Tale and massive world tours.

CIGARETTES AFTER SEX: These are all true stories

American rappers Tyga, Fat Joe to headline Shaka Festival

Local hip hop acts to join them in Rishon Lezion on August 9

American rapper Tyga

Eurovision: Next year in Jerusalem?

Netta Barzilai will take the stage - and if you believe the oddsmakers, the prize - in Lisbon next week.

Netta Barzilai rehearses for the Eurovision competition in Lisbon, Portugal

80s band Foreigner to play Tel Aviv show

He's been waiting for a show like this.

Foreigner

Dystopia, 'Annihilation,' and 'Americans'

Watching television (Illustrative)

Top 10 things to do: Brits to the Core

Finding fun across the country.

A scene from the new film 'The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society'