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Yu Jingyi, the founder of the China-Israel Culture and Art Foundation, speaks about her father who wanted to give her away, insists that Chinese censorship doesn’t hurt the arts, and says that 'there really isn’t equality between men and women, not here and not in China'

'Regarding Goddesses' event on stage and street tells two tales, of wild woman and earth mother, led by a recent immigrant to Israel from Moscow

Minnelli was named after a song by George and Ira Gershwin and played Anne Frank when she was in high school.

Apr. 16, 2021 9:31 AM Gabriel Grossman, 26; lives in Tel Aviv, arriving from Geneva Hi Gabriel, where are you flying in from? I was in France. My whole family lives in Lyon, so I went there for the holidays. What’s the situation in France now? Life is very hard. Everything is closed, there’s a nighttime curfew. When I tell relatives that in Israel everything is back to routine, they don’t want to hear about it. They are very envious. How long had it been since you last saw your family? Ei...

Follow Mar. 3, 2021 After a decade of renovations at a cost of 72 million shekels ($22 million), the Beit Ariela Public Library and Cultural Center, which covers an area of 10,000 square meters in the heart of Tel Aviv, was rededicated last month. It was supposed to open earlier this year, but the coronavirus lockdown caused a delay. Public buildings constructed in Israel in the 60s, 70s and 80s were often built in the Brutalistic style, which is characterized by massive walls with small windo...

Follow Feb. 3, 2021 Israeli actress Haya Harareet, who became a star around the world in 1959 after portraying Esther, the hero’s love interest in the blockbuster masterpiece “Ben-Hur,” died Wednesday at her home in Buckinghamshire, England. She was 89. Harareet was one of the first Israeli actors to break into Hollywood, but she couldn’t sustain her success and retired in the ‘60s. Her niece Tamar Tessler, who lives in Israel, said Harareet died overnight in her sleep. Her ashes will...

Jessica Steinberg covers the Sabra scene from south to north and back to the center. Illustrative: An Israeli couple wait for a play to begin in Tel Aviv on June 5, 2013. (Zuzana Janku/Flash 90) A spate of new plays commissioned from young Tel Aviv playwrights may be one way the beleaguered culture industry is fighting back against the strangling effects of the coronavirus pandemic. Over half a million shekels is being invested by the Tel Aviv municipality and the city’s four most established...

Follow Dec. 16, 2020 Yaakov Agmon, a cornerstone of Israeli theater, died on Wednesday at the age of 91. Agmon was the head of the Cameri and Habima theaters and a founder of the Beit Lessin Theater, which originally belonged to the Histadrut labor federation. Among his best known productions were “House of Dolls,” Kinneret, Kinneret” and “Twelfth Night” for the Cameri Theater, and “Waiting for Godot,” Death of a Salesman,” “Tango” and “Black Box” for Habima. “Habima N...