Festival

The best end-of-summer events across Israel

With one week left of summer break, explore the best free and budget-friendly events, parks, and outdoor screenings across Israel for the final stretch.

A Summer Camp for One Family.
Late poet Amir Gilboa’s rich oeuvre is celebrated at the festival.

Metula's Israeli Poets’ Festival returns to Jerusalem with all disciplinary guns blazing

The price for a night in a pipe ranges from NIS 490 to NIS 590. Naot Farm

August with the kids: When the desert comes alive after the sun disappears

Yalla Galil Festival.

North awakens: 7,000 attend opening of Summer Festival in the Galilee


Arrays of hope: Israel Festival's offerings in a year full of woes

This year’s festival opens in Jerusalem on July 16 under the aegis of returning artistic directors Michal Vaknin and Itay Mautner, and in the Galilee and Western Negev, through to August 1.

 INTERNATIONALLY RENOWNED jazz trumpeter Avishai Cohen teams up with the Jerusalem Symphony Orchestra to assuage some post-Oct. 7 angst.

Jerusalem Food Truck Festival: Finding comfort the Jewish way - in food

The only true downside of eating such great food at these insane prices was that my need for a post-meal nap was simply too much to handle, and I missed the light show.

 The 2025 Jerusalem Food Truck Festival.

Reaching for the sky: Manofim Festival returns to Jerusalem

The leaps-and-bounds trajectory comes across loud and clear from just the briefest of glimpses of this year’s program, which kicks off on July 22 and runs until July 26. 

 Veteran Oriental metal rock band Orphaned Land.

Animax Tel Aviv marks 25 years amid conflict and creativity

The festival’s showcased artists and their works will reflect the darker reality that Israel has faced over the last two years.

 NIRI AND GALI, the dynamic duo whose sharp, sarcastic animated shorts have become a staple of Israeli pop culture.

17 years of the coolest festival in Jerusalem – this year with a new venue

Manofim Festival returns to Jerusalem, July 22–26, with the theme "Extreme Point," launching the new BUSTANA complex, shows by Orphaned Land & TATRAN, exhibitions, and family events.

 Gal De Paz – Drag performance

Idit Mintzer and friends to perform at Manofim Festival

Idit Mintzer and Friends will perform at this month’s Manofim Festival in Jerusalem.

 BRASS LADY Idit Mintzer.

The Galilee comes back to life: The JulyArt Festival opens galleries and secrets

The JulyArt Festival kicks off in the Western Galilee. Everything you need to know about the perfect blend of stunning nature, exciting art, and the people behind it all.

 Boacha Yodfat

A stage for resilience: Israel Festival expands beyond Jerusalem this summer

The Israel Festival’s winding itinerary, from city plazas to kibbutz lawns to a football pitch in Majdal Shams, is a fragile but insistent bridge.

 TRUMPETER AVISHAI COHEN in ‘Ashes to Gold.’

Finding spiritual resilience through prayer and music

The intensive four-day festival offers its participants a variety of master classes, study sessions, collaborative experimentation, and creation.

 Jerusalem’s Fuchsberg Center.

The Gipsy Kings – Gipsy Reyes to headline Meridiano Festival in Ashdod

Known for Spanish flamenco/pop hybrids like “Bambeleo” and its frantic rendition of “Hotel California,” the band is one of the few foreign artists willing to venture to Israel since the war started.

 Gipsy Reyes to headline at Meridiano Festival in Ashdod