Jessica Steinberg covers the Sabra scene from south to north and back to the center. An event at the 2019 Jerusalem Writers Festival at Mishkenot Sha'ananim, which was held in person, unlike the 2020 edition, which was online due to the coronavirus pandemic (Courtesy Writers Festival) The annual International Writers Festival returns to Jerusalem’s Mishkenot Shaananim May 3-6, with in-person and digital events for its ninth iteration, organizers said. International writers Salman Rushdie, Jonathan Safran Foer, Harlen Coben, Vanessa Springora, Avni Doshi, Linn Ulman, and Emmanuel Moses are participating in this year’s festival, along with local authors David Grossman, Etgar Keret, Meir Shalev, Zeruya Shalev, Eshkol Nevo, Michal Govrin and others.