Thousands of revelers came out to Tel Aviv last night in celebration of the city’s annual “White Night.” This year’s event was extra-special given the city’s centennial this year and many of the events and exhibits highlighted this anniversary.

Life can be tough for people with Parkinson’s disease. It’s a degenerative condition characterized by tremors and impaired balance, among other symptoms. As reported by Haaretz and Israel21C, Israeli therapist and martial arts expert Alex Kerten has developed a method to help Parkinson’s patients live a better and more fulfilling life. You can learn about [...]

Photo: Sambach on Wikimedia Commons. Used under Creative Commons License. For nearly its entire history (100 years next week), Tel Aviv has been a great place for architecture and art. First it was the international school of architects creating the White City. In recent years, the city has become home to many Israeli artists and [...]

Photo: Getty Images What’s the deal with hypnosis? Do we have any scientific idea how it works? And what does it do to the human mind? Those are just some of the questions McGill University professor and former magician Amir Raz has been trying to understand. This Sunday, as part of the Brainwaves series at [...]

Monger, a new piece by Barak Marshall Last week, the Suzanne Dellal Center for Dance and Theater hosted the annual “International Exposure” event to showcase the best in modern Israeli dance. The festivities attracted notable figures from around the world, including Martin Wechsler from the Joyce Theater in New York. His impressions were covered in [...]

Photo: Clara Amit, Israel Antiquities Authority The ongoing excavations in the City of David continue to provide a wealth of treasures. We told you last month about a cache of gold coins found in Jerusalem. Now the same site has brought forth another find: A marble bust of a bearded man, believed the be the [...]

We’ve blogged a bit about the dance scene in Israel (click here for a list of our previous posts) and we think it’s one of Israel’s great exports to the world of the arts.  Now, we’ve been made aware of a dance insider who’s blogging about the scene herself on the Dance in Israel blog. [...]

Photo: Sony Pictures Classics, used with permission Waltz With Bashir, the new Israeli movie by Ari Folman, will be opening in New York next week. In its list of the year’s ten best movies, New York Magazine, noted that the movie’s “fluid boundary between the real and surreal lifts it into the realm of myth” [...]

Photo: Israel Ministry of Tourism We’ve been hearing a lot lately about Tel Aviv as a travel destination (read our posts if you don’t believe it). Ynet today picks up on the trend as well. Here’s an excerpt for consideration. It is somewhat out of the ordinary for the New York Times Travel section to [...]

Photo: Israel Ministry of Tourism This week’s New York Times Travel Magazine features a behind-the-scenes look at the world of art in Tel Aviv–not only who is creating what, but how. There are several sources of inspiration, from the political to the social movements that color Israel. Still others feel an attachment to the city’s [...]