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LGBT film festival celebrates 21st anniversary with award winners, dramas, and classics - preview

Special events this year will include a 35-mm. screening of "Bound" and a screening of the beloved cult classic "The Rocky Horror Picture Show."

IN ‘THE WRONG GIRLS,’ best friends become entangled with an experimental substance that gives them telepathic powers.
Yali Sobol.

Weekend festival brings top authors and musicians to the Western Negev

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

Ashkenaz Festival, 2022 edition. Ilustrative.

Pro-Palestinian protesters disrupt the Ashkenaz Jewish music and culture festival in Toronto


The best end-of-summer events across Israel

With one week left of summer break, explore the best free and budget-friendly events, parks, and outdoor screenings across Israel for the final stretch.

A Summer Camp for One Family.

Metula's Israeli Poets’ Festival returns to Jerusalem with all disciplinary guns blazing

If your idea of poetry is a neatly rhyming ditty, attending the festival should thoroughly disabuse you of that constricted notion and open up broad new vistas for your literary epiphany enjoyment.

Late poet Amir Gilboa’s rich oeuvre is celebrated at the festival.

August with the kids: When the desert comes alive after the sun disappears

This month, the High Negev's Cool Summer Nights festival offers moonlit hikes, night photography, farm and khan stays, and meetings with local desert residents.

The price for a night in a pipe ranges from NIS 490 to NIS 590. Naot Farm

North awakens: 7,000 attend opening of Summer Festival in the Galilee

Osher Cohen and Noam Kleinstein opened the northern festival as Itay Levi performed in Merom Hagalil. Dozens of events will take place over 3 weeks.

Yalla Galil Festival.

Jerusalem’s Food Truck Festival: Good food with better prices

From salted butter cheesecake to an enormous veal hot dog, Jerusalem’s Auto Ochel offers affordable bites and a welcome taste of normal after more than 1,000 days of war.

Crave food truck – a classic for Anglos in the city.

After two difficult years: The festival bringing life back to the Western Galilee

The July Art festival in the Western Galilee celebrates its ninth year with dozens of artists, galleries, and small businesses inviting visitors to rediscover this beautiful, recovering region.

The Western Galilee.

Jerusalem highlights: July 17-23

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

Palestinians are standing in queues in front of Damascus Gate on Eid Al-Fitr on March 20, 2026 in Jerusalem.

United in art: Jerusalem's Manofim Festival returns with art, music, and performance

The 18th edition of the Manofim arts festival maintains its inclusive take on local life.

The Manofim program includes a plethora of live entertainment.

Hot Air Balloon Festival returns to the Negev after three-year hiatus

Night Glow, sunrise balloon flights, fire and light shows, circus acts, camping and family activities take place Aug 13–14 at Eshkol Park in the Negev as the event returns after a break.

Hot air balloon festival.

Idan Amedi to perform near Gaza border after wartime injury

Fauda star and singer Idan Amedi will headline the Sderot Beer Festival, returning to the Gaza border region after his wartime injury.

Israeli musician, Idan Amedi.