Portuguese national airline TAP are expected to launch direct flights between Lisbon and Tel Aviv’s Ben Gurion Airport towards the end of the year greatly improving connections between Israel and Portugal and South America.

Elton John has announced that he is coming to Israel in June to give a concert in the Ramat Gan Stadium near Tel Aviv.

Any film festival that brings together homages to Francis Bacon and Merce Cunningham, hosts a descendant of Felix Mendelssohn and presents a master class by self-confessed art geek Ben Lewis deserves to be called eclectic – or EPOS, the first International Art Film Festival, which will take place October 29-31 at the Tel Aviv Cinemateque.

New York has come to Tel Aviv Port with a live video link up with Times Square in the Big Apple.

Quentin Tarantino says the most important part of his first-ever visit to Israel is to gauge the Jewish audience’s reaction to his latest boundary-breaking film.
“Inglourious Basterds” tells the fictional story of a band of World War II-era Jewish-American soldiers turned vigilantes, who slaughter and scalp Nazi soldiers as retribution for the Holocaust.
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Israeli wine has long stirred up associations with the syrupy libations of religious rituals, but modern techniques imported from top winemaking nations are now helping it find space on shelves from Paris to New York.

The likes of the Kaiser Chiefs, Simple Plan and Lady Gaga are coming to Tel Aviv this week for the Musix Festival.

Israel might be the Holy Land, famed for its Biblical miracles but those stories generally took place thousands of years ago. Now, however, sightings of a mermaid is causing a stirr in the Bay of Haifa and there is a $1 million prize to anyone who proves they’ve seen it…

Beer from premium breweries, boutique breweries and home made beers will be featured in a variety of flavors, including herb beers. For one night Independence Park in Jerusalem will be converted into a giant bar with additional entertainment such as great music with live entertainment by various artists, street events and cultural activities.

The Hiriya is a 60 meter high mound of waste. It is the first sight, and smell, many tourists have upon entering Israel, being next to Ben Gurion Airport. Thankfully, the landfill is now closed, and the mound is being converted into the centerpiece of the new Ariel Sharon Park, set to be the largest new urban park built in the last century in the world. Bigger than Central Park in New York, the Ariel Sharon Park is currently open in a limited format, and will be opened in stages until its completion in 2020.