Tag: Music

26Sep 2018

The Mekudeshet Festival 2018~Diversity in Music and Art

Mekudeshet by: Daniel Kobrinski As a city that is central to the world’s three great Abrahamic faiths, at the epicentre of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, has known conflict on and off for thousands of years, and is divided between East and West; it’s easy to forget that Jerusalem is a living, breathing city, with modern urban […]

22Nov 2017

Refusing to ‘Cave’ In

“Good on ya Nick!” No matter the opposing odds and tough terrain, Aussies charge ahead. They did it a 100 years ago in Beersheba in helping to boot the Ottoman Turks out of Palestine and they did it again – this time on a Saturday November night on stage in Tel Aviv Israel – by […]

03Jul 2017

The Times They Are A’Changin’

An exhibition of the iconic 2017 Nobel Laureate at Tel Aviv University For those of us who grew up in South Africa in the sixties, the music of Bob Dylan was prescient. Although Apartheid was being brutally entrenched each day by Word and Boot, the lyrics of this Jewish boy from America was giving encouragement […]

27Jun 2017

Summer of love

“Take me down to the Paradise city, where the grass is green and the girls are pretty, take me home” – sings Guns ‘n Roses front man, Axel Rose, who will be performing in Tel Aviv this summer. Well, the song could literally be about Israel because Tel Aviv is the paradise city where the […]