Raz Samira News Today

Some of the strides taken by our repositories of artworks and other important artifacts will be accessible – and free of charge – on May 9, when this year’s Museum Day event takes place.

Movers and shakers in Israeli society.

A letter published by ICOM Israel calls on the museum group ICOM to take a strong public stance against Hamas.

Leaders of local cultural institutions were shocked by open letter that called for support of Gaza without mentioning the Hamas massacres and atrocities of October 7

Representatives of museums including the Israel Museum and the Tel Aviv Museum of Art also call for the organisation to recognise Hamas as a terrorist organisation comparable to the so-called Islamic State

The exhibition is a first-time collaboration between Google Arts and Culture and the Tel Aviv Museum of Art and was compiled by the former curator of photography at the museum, Raz Samira.

Vera Vladimirskys (b. 1984, Ukraine) exhibition brings four photographic series together. In these works, Vladimirsky, who immigrated to Israel at th

Museums in Israel will open their gates for free and invite you to enjoy an abundance of tours, creative activities, workshops and lectures.

The Heliodorus Stele, a looted artifact at the Israel Museum, tells a story about Michael Steinhardt’s complicated legacy of giving and taking.

Prosecutors in New York have condemned Steinhardt’s “rapacious appetite for plundered artifacts,” banning him last month from trading in antiquities amid charges he collected stolen artifacts.