Culture in Israel
Maala: The ESG engine quietly rewiring Israeli corporate culture
Maala’s influence is quiet, but structural. It is shaping expectations in boardrooms, guiding investor scrutiny, and setting the standards by which corporate leadership is increasingly judged
Celtic Throne returns to Israel for four-city November tour after 2025 run was cut short
International LGBT film festival sets screenings at Tel Aviv Cinematheque
Israeli television marks three years since October 7 massacre
After losing my son to terror, I started dancing at 70 to learn how to live again
When I landed in the hospital for an operation on my colon, my doctor said, “No more grief. You need to do things that are fun.”
Three artists, three questions: Creating an alternative reality
Exhibitions in Beersheba, Bat Yam, and Tel Aviv show how Israeli artists can turn even the smallest room into an immersive world of emotion and imagination.
Tel Aviv's Animix festival combines political satire, cartoons with tributes, memorials, lectures
Alongside tributes and lectures, five-day event packs in live performances, gaming, and comics fair.
Israeli rock band Eifo Hayeled releases new album written against the backdrop of war
Created over the past three years against the backdrop of the Gaza war, the album moves between personal reflection and national pain.
Finding her own genre: Nicole Raviv blends Hebrew, Arabic, and pop into a new Israeli sound
How international music artist Nicole Raviv stopped choosing between her worlds.
Infinite painting, boundless experience: How Leo Ray finds joy in an increasingly dark world
For over 30 years, up to the pandemic, he taught art at Art School, Ein Vered, and BASIS School of Sculpture, Beit Yanai, where he also headed the painting program from 2006 to 2014.
A trip to the 'boy aquarium': Discovering Israel's thriving hockey scene
I’ll admit, this was the first time I’ve ever watched a sports game of any kind in my adult life, and I could not believe how much fun it was.
Jonty Hurwitz brings mind-bending science, art, and optical illusions to Jerusalem
Jonty Hurwitz’s works are sculptures smaller than atoms and images created by cylindrical mirrors.
War, boycotts, and shrinking budgets push Israeli culture to the brink
How much of a helping hand do our culture purveyors get from the authorities?
'Gangland' director Vincent Grashaw brings Native American story to Jerusalem Film Festival
Director Vincent Grashaw found the screenplay for ‘Gangland’ online, then worked with Native American advisers and actors to bring its fictional reservation to life.
