Israeli art

The young bridge between the foremost Israeli and global Jewish business titans

The 20-year-old entrepreneur behind Worlds Meet: How Yinon Gal-On's initiative has quietly and under the radar become the platform connecting the top tier of the Israeli economy from within.

Yinon Gal-On, founder of Worlds Meet, which connects Israeli business leaders with Jewish counterparts abroad.
‘INCIDENT PAINTINGS’ by Matan Ben Cnaan: ‘Shitty Day,’ 2024.

Where life happens: New exhibit showcases everyday moments when something goes wrong

MENASHE KADISHMAN: Portrait, unidentified figure.

New Tel Aviv exhibition shows never-before-seen private work from six Israeli artists

Star of Love (1983): Agam's signature technique uses ridged, sculptural surfaces so a single work reads differently depending on the viewer’s angle, with the image only fully resolving as the viewer moves past it.

From Eastern Europe to Tel Aviv: Bruno Art Group’s century-long rise to the global art market


'Mother Opium’ traces the root of addiction’s pain

 THREE YEARS of research are reflected in the exhibition ‘Mother Opium.’

My Word: A spiritual spa in Safed

The green Galilean mountains have a certain timelessness to them. There is a natural rhythm, like the time for prayers, dictated in terms of sunrise and sunset.

 The exterior of the Ashkenazi Ha’Ari Synagogue in Safed, where the custom of ‘kabbalat Shabbat’ began.

The need for the constant duality

Ben-David lives and works in London and over the past decade lived in Portugal as well. He represented Israel at the Venice Biennale in 1988.

ZADOK BEN-DAVID at the opening of ‘People I Saw but Never Met,’ Tel Aviv Museum of Art.

Israeli filmmaker takes seething swipe at identity in Cannes festival

His film for Cannes Film Festival expresses outrage as well as intimacy for Israel.

THE REFILM Festival offers movie-goers an unusual chance to see restored vintage reels of film classics.

Artist memorializes Jewish lives lost in Holocaust by restoring violins

A somber photograph of an opened violin reveals a hidden pencil carving of a swastika with the words ‘Heil Hitler 1936’ written in cursive above it.

AMNON WEINSTEIN restores a Holocaust violin at his workbench.

Jerusalem highlights June 25 - July 1: What's new in Israel's capital?

If possible, why not enjoy two exhibitions as the week begins?

DESPITE THE evil brand-recognition the title has, few people have read  ‘Mein Kampf.’ Dr. Oded Heilbroner will discuss it on July 1 at Holtzer Books.

Footprints in the sand: This Ethiopian theater evokes a range of emotions

Members of the Ethiopian community, including those born here, have had to tussle with that on a day to day basis since their get-go.

‘SAND STORIES’ evokes a range of emotions across a diverse cultural storyboard.

Carmel Ilan's new exhibition 'Here and Now' features local art

The gallery features a café, and the works on display are for sale, with a portion of the proceeds going to support local art

Meir Sheetrit and Carmel Ilan.

'sTand still' celebrates the people of the beach

A new exhibition, sTand still, is a traveling one-artist show forever intertwined with the beaches of Israel.

sTand still outdoor exhibit

Keeping Safed art alive - comment

All in all, as always, a pleasure to come to the old city of Safed amid a number of galleries and signs of artistic life.

So many synagogues –  Safed