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11 . . . . . . . . . . . . . ATMOSPHERE NOVEMBER 2026 Music and Performance Art The Tel Aviv Festival | . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . The Tel Aviv Museum of Art More than 80 artists and creators will be taking part in this year’s Tel Aviv Festival, which will once again be transforming the Tel Aviv Museum of Art into a living, breathing multi stage concert hall with cross-genre performances celebrating the spirit of creativity and artistic curiosity. The festival’s artistic director, singer-songwriter Shlomi Shaban, has created a program that fosters interdisciplinary encounters between music, theater, literature, dance, and performance art, bridging tradition with innovation. The festival has created a “Night Pass” ticket that allows visitors to walk around freely, for one whole evening, between the galleries and various museum spaces. November 1–8, telavivfestival.co.il Photo: Hanani Horovitz Jewish Heritage The Jewish-Israeli Festival of Performing Arts | Beit Mazia, Jerusalem The Jewish-Israeli Festival of Performing Arts Festival will offer audiences a diverse program blending plays from the Jewish canon as well as more contemporary works centering around current-day issues such as Jewish identity and roots, the sense of belonging and immigration, resilience and growth, family, and the role of women in society. There’ll be premieres, performance art, live music, movie screenings, tribute shows, and more, notably “Hindik”, a dance performance depicting a Hasidic “tish” by the “Bein Shamayim La’Aretz” ensemble and inspired by Rabbi Nachman of Breslov, and “Love at Twenty”, a tribute to Yossi Banai, marking the 20th anniversary of his passing. November 22–26, tcj.org.il Exhibition City on Troubled Waters | The Tel Aviv-Yafo City Museum A group exhibition that explores Tel Aviv through its moments of transformation, with the participation of 23 artists from the realms of architecture, photography, and video. The exhibition looks at the city as a place that is constantly erasing, remembering, forgetting, transforming, destroying, and rebuilding, through its architecture and infrastructure, observing it as if it were material being examined under a microscope in a laboratory of memory. Through the artworks on show, the city’s past and present reconnect, allowing visitors to observe the city through its many layers of material and immaterial history. From November 13th, taycm.org.il Music The Meitarim Festival | Tzavta, Tel Aviv The Meitarim Festival is back with seven days of live music centering around string instruments and arrangements, with artists from the world of Israeli music, jazz, pop, opera, and classical music. Under the artistic direction of composer, pianist, and conductor Gil Shohat, dozens of leading artists from Israel and abroad will be participating, with program highlights that include an evening with Arik Sinai and Yifat Ta’aseh, a concert inspired by Italian music with Gil Shohat and Doron Mazar, a Tzvika Pick tribute show by Niki Goldstein, Daniel Salomon and his string quartet, an evening with Dafna Armoni celebrating her 50-year career, an Elton John tribute concert with Michael Harpaz, and more. November 1–7, tzavta.co.il Kristina Reiko Cooper Photo: Alon Shapranski Ayelet Carmi and Meirav Heiman - The Sirens of Bialik Square, 2026

Shlomi Shaban

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