Culture in Israel

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.

|ByHANNAH BROWN
CARTOON ANIMALS by lifetime achievement award winner Dovi Keich.
Israeli musician Hemi Rudner, performs in Bat-Hefer on March 13, 2024. Rudner is an Israeli singer-songwriter and the lead singer of the Israeli alternative rock band Eifo Hayeled.

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.

|BySAGI BEN NUN
Dancing to Hayati with cast in a lantern shop in Shuk Hapishpishim.

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.

|BySHANNA FULD
Leo Ray in his south Tel Aviv studio.

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. 

|ByBASIA MONKA

Ink and irony: A closer look at the cartoonist who chronicled Israel’s formative years

From a discarded book at the National Library to iconic sketches of Arieh Navon, a personal journey through the satirical heart of early statehood reveals the humor and grit of our founding years.

APRIL 25, 2026ByDAVID GEFFEN
THE CHIZBATRON, (1948) by Arieh Navon

Laughing through it: Israeli comedy films to celebrate Independence Day

Comedy has always been an important part of Israeli cinema. From well-known classics to newer releases, these films continue to attract audiences across generations.

APRIL 25, 2026ByHANNAH BROWN
THE TROUPE

Independence is a dance between freedom and responsibility, Renana Raz tells 'Post'

Raz, one of Israel’s most prominent multidisciplinary artists, says independence offers freedom, but it also demands that the artist carry the full weight of what unfolds.

APRIL 25, 2026ByORI J. LENKINSKI
RENANA RAZ defines her independent status through a constant tension between freedom and responsibility

Music to our ears, and hearts: How music shaped Israel’s identity over 78 years

The 1967 Six Day War changed everything, as this then-fledgling country, bursting with self-confidence, began to open up to the Western world.

APRIL 25, 2026ByBARRY DAVIS
YOAV KUTNER has charted much of the evolution of Israeli music.

Grapevine, April 24, 2026: Israel loves Milei!

Movers and shakers in Israeli society.

APRIL 24, 2026ByGREER FAY CASHMAN
Alon Ohel (right) accompanied by his brother, Ron.

Jerusalem highlights: April 10 – April 16

What's new to do in Israel's capital?

APRIL 10, 2026ByHAGAY HACOHEN
Bitul Torah playing cards (see Friday)

Miriam on screen: Great films depicting biblical trailblazers to watch during Passover

Miriam’s legacy as a defiant artist is rarely center stage in the great biblical epics, but her spirit lives on in cinema’s most modern heroines.

APRIL 8, 2026ByHANNAH BROWN
EXODUS: GODS AND KINGS (2014) Pictured: Christian Bale as Moses.

Voices Israel anthology 2025: Celebrating English poetry shaped by war, love, and memory

War, love and memory intertwine in Voices Israel’s 2025 anthology, a powerful collection of global poetry shaped by Oct. 7 and beyond.

APRIL 4, 2026ByNEVILLE TELLER
Typewriter.

Passover 2026: Great films to watch dur­ing the hol­i­day

TV Time: From biblical epics to new streaming hits, here’s what to watch this Passover week.

APRIL 3, 2026ByHANNAH BROWN
A SCENE from 'The Prince of Egypt'

From Euphoria to Red Hot Chili Peppers: What to watch in Israel this week

TV Time: A new Red Hot Chili Peppers documentary, Euphoria’s return, and a comedy classic lead this week’s picks.

MARCH 31, 2026ByHANNAH BROWN
ZENDAYA is in the third season of ‘Euphoria.’