Culture in Tel Aviv

International LGBT film festival sets screenings at Tel Aviv Cinematheque

Audiences can also look forward to Adam Shankman’s camp comedy Stop! That! Train! featuring RuPaul, alongside major festival favorites from Cannes and Montreal’s Fantasia.

 People participate in the first Gay Pride Parade in Mitzpe Ramon, on July 2, 2021.
RISA BROOKE OZE at ‘Kat World.’ With ‘Meow York Times Mourns the Demise of Khatmeini’ illustrating propaganda’s strange glamour.

'Kat World:' Artist Risa Brooke Oze turns wartime life in Israel into whiskered, cat-themed satire

Meital Covo's 'Audio Walk' offers a contemplative curative experience for all.

Can sound heal? Inside Overtones, the Israel Museum exhibition turning sound into an art form

CARTOON ANIMALS by lifetime achievement award winner Dovi Keich.

Tel Aviv's Animix festival combines political satire, cartoons with tributes, memorials, lectures


Between trolls and men, Ibsen's 'Peer Gynt' returns - review

With its wealth of characters, locations, plots, and ideas, Peer Gynt is a grand kaleidoscope.

PEER GYNT returns to Norway from Egypt.

Israel Philharmonic to open 2023-24 season in the shadow of war

The updated program will be Prelude in the Afternoon of Faun by Debussy, the Clarinet Concerto No. 1 by Crussel, and Symphony No. 2 by Johannes Brahms.

 Clarinetist Sharon Kam will join the IPO.

Bruno Mars faces pressure to cancel Tel Aviv concert

Pressure mounts on the pop star to take a stand on Palestinian rights.

 Grammy-winning musician Bruno Mars will be performing in Tel Aviv in October 2023.

A Night at the Opera (House): ‘We Will Rock You’ rocks Tel Aviv

We Will Rock You • The Opera House, Tel Aviv • August 31

The performance of "We Will Rock You" at Tel Aviv's Opera House.

Imagine Dragons enthrall crowd in Tel Aviv concert

Highlights of the show included the songs “Follow you” and “Next to me” that have especially meaningful lyrics.

 IMAGINE DRAGONS’ lead singer Dan Reynolds enthralls the crowd in Tel Aviv Tuesday night.

Puccini’s Madama Butterfly soars at HaYarkon Park

A 20-year annual tradition of Opera in the Park reached a high point, with this year’s deeply performance of Puccini’s Madama Butterfly.

 MADAM BUTTERFLY at HaYarkon Park.

Chinese artists bring their work to Tel Aviv

Nassima Landau Art Foundation crosses frontiers with contemporary art.

Hou Zichou next to his work.

Made for the mandolin: Avi Avital returns to his homeland

An Israeli musician spreads the instrumental word far and wide


RetroAct - a young band looking retro

With a new album in the works, an assortment of shows planned and a more official tour slated for later this year, RetroAct’s trajectory is heading skywards.

 RETROACT with Elisha Ledgely, left.

The Taiko Life Israel troupe brings Far Eastern flavors and beats

The Taiko Life concert at the Felicja Blumental Festival will demonstrate the traditional drumming art form, seasoned here and there with some Western and other colors.

 THE ANCIENT Art of taiko drumming.