Culture in Tel Aviv

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.

CARTOON ANIMALS by lifetime achievement award winner Dovi Keich.
REUNITED AND IT FEELS so red (from L): Emily Blunt (Emily Charlton); Anne Hathaway (Andy Sachs); and Stanley Tucci (Nigel Kipling) attend ‘The Devil Wears Prada 2’ world premiere at New York City’s Lincoln Center, April 20.

‘The Devil Wears Prada 2’: Israel rolls out red carpet as Tel Aviv hosts early premiere

Ariel Hacohen

Three artists, three questions: Recurring motifs through chaos and order

Two exhibitions of Judy Chicago's work were staged in Tel Aviv in 2025.

Judy Chicago’s feminist art lands in Tel Aviv, igniting boycott call, hard questions about Israel


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.

The new opera ‘Theodor’ shows Herzl's struggles to find solutions

The life of one of Zionism’s greatest champions has been adapted into an opera, showing his hardships as he sought a solution to the plight of Jews.

 ‘THEODOR,’ A new Hebrew-language production at the Israeli Opera.

New TAMA art exhibit offers glimpse into the mind of Alberto Giacometti

The new exhibit will bring together 130 works, spanning the four decades of Giacometti’s career, from the early 1920s to the artist’s death in 1966.

 Alberto Giacometti, Le Chien (Der Hund), 1951.

A dinner in hell: 18th century opera set to appear on Israeli stage

Mozart’s ‘Don Giovanni’ beckons at the Israeli Opera

 MOZART ALLOWS Don Giovanni’s entry into many lives.