Arts

'Tell Me Everything' wins Best Picture at Ophir Awards, earns Israel’s Oscar submission

Tell Me Everything won Best Picture and 9 other awards at the Ophir Awards and will go on to be considered for the Best International Feature Academy Award.

Picture of Tell Me Everything/ courtesy of United King Films
Rabbi Shmuel Eliyahu and his students hold the Four Species as they attend a morning prayer during the Jewish holiday of Sukkot, in Katzrin, northern Israel, on October 12, 2025.

Two three-day cultural festivals to mark Sukkot with poetry, dance, and eco-tours

Hannan Abu  Hussein, and a work from new exhibition, ‘When Is Enough?’

Jerusalem highlights: August 28 - September 3

‘THE SIXTEENTH SHEEP’ reunion shows (from left) Yoni Rechter, Gidi Gov, Yehudit Ravitz, and David Broza.

DocuText returns to Jerusalem with documentaries on October 7, Israeli culture, and Jewish identity


In ‘Here There are Blueberries,’ playwright Moisés Kaufman focuses on perpetrators of the Holocaust

The Venezuelan-born Kaufman, best known for “The Laramie Project,” a play and HBO film about the murder of the gay student Matthew Shepard, had found his latest subject.

 Elizabeth Stahlmann plays a Holocaust museum archivist in "Here There Are Strawberries."

‘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.

Movie by Israeli director Tom Nesher to be shown at Tribeca Festival

The movie stars newcomers Lia Elalouf and Daria Rosen in the lead roles, and the rest of the cast includes Ido Tako, Yaakov Zada-Daniel, and Neta Garty.

 Still from Come Closer

Director Mohammad Rasoulof flees Iran ahead of Cannes premier

Rasoulof said he made the decision after he learned about a month ago that his sentence had been confirmed.

 Caption: AERIAL VIEW from a 6-meter mast. Actors posing for photographers on the red carpet before going up the famous 24 steps. Cannes Film Festival, France.

From Ethiopia with love and joy: A recent arrival to the shores unfurls his vocal talents

Abate Berihun blazed a trail for many Israelis with Ethiopian roots, being one of Ethiopia’s leading jazz artists before making aliyah 25 years ago.

 ABATE WILL bring his Tesfa sextet to Jerusalem this week.

Darya Mosenzon – from classical piano to Morocco

How the pianist Darya Mosenzon came to specialise in Moroccan music.

 Darya Mosenzon

Theater review: A Nobel winner revived

This examination of Agnon, the only Hebrew author to win a Nobel Prize, is in step with the trope’s commitment to explore the larger themes of Jewish existence.

 OLEG RODOVILSKI in ‘My Bird.’

An Austrian-based Israeli pianist brings a taste of Viennese gaiety

Lior Kretzer will be joined on the venture by a couple of young local vocalists, Mika Cohen and Ezekiel Assia, who are currently progressing through the academic stages of their artistic continuum.

 LIOR KRETZER will be joined by a couple of young local vocalists Mika Cohen and Ezekiel Assia.

A hundred years of art in Israel: Phoenix Group collection

On view for the first time outside of Israel through 1 March 2024.

 RAFFI LAVIE (1937-2007) Untitled oil and pencil on plywood board 25 1/2 x 16 in. (61 x 41 cm.) Executed in 1963

Rusalka at Israeli Opera: Water spirits and Czeck magic

Will the prince be able to repair the damage and keep his love human, or will she morph into a murderous spirit?

 DAN ETTINGER