Art, Music & Culture

The Israelis are a highly-cultured people and the country has a number of world-class museums and galleries. These include the Israel Museum in Jerusalem, which boasts not only the Dead Sea Scrolls but a superb collection of Picassos, Impressionists and contemporary fine art, the city’s Tower of David or Citadel Museum which interprets the city’s 3000 years of troubled history and the extremely moving Holocaust Museum at Yad Vashem.

Tel Aviv has a number of vibrant cultural venues, including the Tel Aviv Museum of Art, with superb collections of Impressionist, post-Impressionist and contemporary works, the Suzanne Dellal Centre, a home for dance and music, and a city opera. Not to be missed is the Diaspora Museum, telling the story of the world’s scattered Jewish populations and their achievements.

Haifa has a number of art, as well as maritime, museums, and many historic sites in the countryside have been brought into play as a backdrop for musical performance. These include the ancient amphitheatre at Caesarea, where acts and orchestras play against the stunning backdrop of the Mediterranean, and the Masada Fortress near the Dead Sea, which has become a seasonal home for opera in recent years.

Highlights of a lively festival circuit include Tel Aviv’s Opera in the Park in July, Eilat’s Red Sea Jazz Festival in August, Haifa’s international film festival in October and the Phazamorgana dance festival which brings dramatic Timna Park in the southern desert to life during November.

Jerusalem seems never to be without a cultural celebration. The Israel Festival electrifies the city with theatre, music and dance performances in June, the film festival arrives in July with screenings beneath the stars, there’s the international puppet theatre in August and the Globus Jazz Festival in November.

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