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Local Testimony 2025: Powerful images of conflict, life, and hope at Eretz Israel Museum

The Eretz Israel Museum hosts Local Testimony 2025, a moving exhibition of photography documenting war, life, and hope.

Avishai Shaar-Yashuv  documented the first few  months of Emily Damari’s life  following her return from  captivity in Gaza, for ‘The New  York Times.’
‘Memento Mori’ by Adi Harush and Ben Tzur references Victorian mourning jewelry and the arc between heritage and contemporary works.

Melting Point at the Museum for Islamic Art shows what jewellery can be

ANSELM KIEFER’S monumental sculpture ‘Die Erdzeitalter (Ages of the World).’

Anselm Kiefer’s ‘Ages of the World’ sculpture now on view at the Israel Museum

 The Israel Museum, Jerusalem

Israeli delegation brings museum innovation to first ICOM summit in Arab region


The unique and fascinating history of Jerusalem's Ticho House - explainer

Ticho House is celebrating 40 years as a contemporary art annex of the Israel Museum.

 Jerusalem’s Ticho House

The Jerusalem Jazz Festival marks its first decade

The jazz muses return to the Israel Museum for the Jerusalem Jazz Festival.

JERUSALEM STREET band Marsh Dondurma.

Check out the new photography exhibit at Jerusalem's Ticho House

The Hebrew title, “Asufat Or,” which translates as “collection of light,” references that basic factor in the photographic process, while the English name “Recollection” doesn’t.

 Gustave Le Gray overcame technical challenges to produce a stunning seascape taken in 1857.

Fire erupts near Knesset, Israel Museum in Jerusalem

The Fire and Rescue Authority stated that 14 fire crews, with the help of four firefighting aircraft, were working to extinguish the fire that had erupted at the Valley of the Cross in Jerusalem. 

 A building of the Israel Museum catches fire. June 2, 2024.

Sixth Israeli New Orleans Jazz Festival pumps out the feelgood vibes

The festival will feature a lineup of early jazz styles, from ragtime to Dixieland, with some blues and more contemporary sounds thrown in for good measure.

 VOCALIST-DANCER-actress Nicolle Rochelle

‘Dies Irae’ - A short story

THE LAST time I remember taking him to the museum was during the summer he turned 18, one of our hardest times.

 I LIKE going to museums at night.

An intriguing Israel Museum exhibition looks at art, new and old, and how they bond

The exhibition is an inclusive, collaborative project with works of vastly differing dimensions and timelines, stylistic approaches, and disciplines.

 Netta Lieber Sheffer’s gargantuan ‘Order of Priorities’ sets the scene for the art-meets-archaeology exhibition.

Bank Hapoalim's Passover project opens heritage sites and museums free of charge

The sites included in the initiative include the Israel Museum, Park Timna, Tel Aviv Museum of Art, and Design Museum Holon.


Bouncing Bach: The eighth edition of Bach Festival celebrates the composer's work - review

This year's Bach Festival, already in its eighth edition, will see the Jerusalem Baroque Orchestra perform the storied musician's pieces.

 GERMAN TENOR Richard Resch: Baroque poetry has a different vocabulary.

Rare stone box from the Second Temple period discovered in the City of David

The discovery is now on exhibit at the Israel Museum, and it shows evidence of the destruction of Jerusalem 2,000 years ago.

 The box on display at the Israel Museum archaeology gallery.