What do Marylin Monroe and Elvis Presley have in common with Golda Meir, Albert Einstein, and Franz Kafka?

Quentin Tarantino has landed in Israel to attend the premier of his new “Inglourious Basterds.” The film has received rave reviews, and lead actor Christopher Waltz won Best Actor award at the Cannes Film Festival

Israel’s biggest daily newspaper, Yediot Ahronot, has just found its hottest international correspondent — Madonna.

Once in a while, here at isRealli we get exclusive invites to New York City events. Most of the time, we just can’t help ourselves but invite you, too. Tonight, Le Poisson Rouge Art Gallery in New York City is celebrating the opening of its third exhibition by renowned installation artist Itamar Jobani – who [...]

The Tribeca Film Festival is just getting underway in New York today, and Israeli films are represented quite well in the schedule. From now until 02 May, you’ll have the chance to see some exciting new directors and artists in Defamation, Gefilte Fish, A Matter of Size, and Seven Minutes in Heaven. Tickets are available [...]

From 26 February-05 March, New Yorkers will have the exciting opportunity to visit the Israel Non-Stop festival at the JCC in Manhattan, now in its eighth year. This week long festival of cutting edge Israeli music, film, theater, literature, and fine art has already gathered thousands of people from the area ready to immerse themselves [...]

We’re quickly becoming exposed to a whole new set of Israeli artists here, and really proud of all the music they produce. Today’s lesson was about Balkan Beat Box, a group formed by two Israelis but which incorporates music from cultures around the world–Balkan (obviously), North African, and Palestinian among others. JPost has a full [...]

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: Getty Images JPost reports today on Emily Karpel, whose new, funky sound is taking the country by storm. The Montreal-born singer features a pop sound that hearkens back to the best of eighties music, but which is quite different from many of the other popular bands in Israel. Since she hasn’t taken to the [...]

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” [...]