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An undying spirit of creativity

For 65 years, the Israel Festival has been an important meeting point between artists, creators and audiences. Based in Jerusalem, the festival now extends to locations in the Western Negev and the Galilee. It offers a rich artistic program with hundreds of artists and cultural creators taking part. “The very existence of the festival is an expression of the sheer commitment of Israeli artists to continue creating, to make art and exchange, even in complex times”, says festival CEO Ori Vaknin. “The program this year focuses on art as a tool for survival and a means to activate the collective imagination”, explain artistic directors Michal Vaknin and Dafna Kron. “It was designed to establish fresh perspectives that enable distance from immediate realities so that the notions of “tomorrow” (a tomorrow through which the present can be studied) “possibility”, and “future”, can exist and call us into action – and not from the idea that everything is never ceased to go on creating. For a whole month, art lovers are invited to discover new works and creations by some of the country’s leading names, across all genres and disciplines / By Dvora Fishman The Israel Festival is a unique annual celebration of Israeli artists and the local artistic community, which even in the most challenging of times have

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