MUSEUMS

Tel Aviv
is home to three of Israel's
largest museums, which draw a total of 1.1 million visitors a year. Among them
are:

Tel Aviv
Museum of Art displays modern and
post-modern art. Also on display are works from the 16th-19th
centuries, including the Impressionist period, as well as graphic design and
photography.

Another
fascinating museum is The Eretz Israel Museum. It deals with the history and
culture of the land
of Israel, including
archaeology, anthropology, folklore, ethnography, Judaic, history and more.

ART
GALLARIES

Don't miss the
dozens of fine galleries, primarily located along Gordon Street and in the Old City of
Jaffa, featuring the very latest in contemporary Israeli. We won't say another
word – we'll let the art speak for itself.

THEATER

From its early
days Tel
Aviv was a great theatre center. Even in this cinema and home-video era,
the popularity of Tel Aviv's
theatres has not waned. Not surprisingly, 18 out of Israel's
35 performing arts centers are located in Tel Aviv-Jaffa.
Among the big theater's are:

Habima
Theater

Locates in the
Rotchild Boulevard,
Tel
Aviv most beautiful boulevard, is Habima Theatre. Israel' national theater,
which got its start in Moscow at the beginning of the 20th century,
mounts original Hebrew plays, the classics and musicals before its thousands of
subscribers and eager theatergoers.   

The Cameri
Theater

The Tel Aviv
Performing Arts
Center (TAPAC), the stunning modern
building, is home to the Cameri Theater, which produces both original Hebrew
and translated plays.

Other theaters
in Tel
Aviv include Beit Lessin, Hasimto, Tmuna, Karov, tzavta and the Jewish-Arab
Theater in Jaffa,
Each one has its own, mainly post-modern, repertory.

For information
about shows & performances that provide English subtitles, please check
with the relevant theater.

DANCE

You don't need
to speak Hebrew to be thrilled by Israeli modern dance and breathtaking
percussion performances.

Explore the
avant-garde in Tel Aviv.
Dance around the clock – that's the defining characteristic of Suzanne Dellal
Centre in Neve Tzedek, Israel's
undisputed dance mecca. More than 600 dance performances are mounted each year
at the centre, the most visited tourist site in Tel Aviv.
Much of this is due to the worldwide popularity of Israeli dance, which has
become an important export industry. Every year, Suzanne Dellal Centre hosts
major international dance events such as "Dance Europa", which place
it on the cutting-edge of worldwide culture.

One of the
country's leading companies is Batsheva, which was founded in 1964 by Baroness
Batsheva de Rothschild and the legendary American choreographer Martha Graham,
the high priestess of modern dance. Ohad Naharin, the company's artistic
director since 1990, has imbued Batsheva with the innovation and creative
daring that has won the hearts of dance lovers at the world's most prestigious
venues and festivals. Batsheva, whose home is in the Suzanne Dellal Centre,
performs more than 250 times a year in Israel and abroad.

THE ISRAELI
OPERA

The Tel Aviv
Performing Arts
Center (TAPAC), is bursting with jazz,
opera, dance, theater, you name it.

The stunning
modern building is home to the Cameri Theater, which produces both original
Hebrew and translated plays.

TAPAC is also
home to the New Israeli Opera, a cultural enterprise, born of one man's vision
and passion. In Moscow in 1917, conductor
Mordechai Golinkin envisioned an opera theater in the land of Israel.
Six years later, he mounted a performance of Verdi's La traviata in the young
city that sprang up from the sand dunes, but the opera had no home.

Today, the New
Israeli Opera is flourishing, with more than 18,000 subscripts, and a steadily
growing audience for the eight operas it mounts each year.

THE
PHILHARMONIC ORCHESTRA

It all starts
with a crazy idea and someone passionate enough to make it come true. Thus came
into being the Israel Philharmonic Orchestra.

1936. Jews,
fearing that Europe is going up in flames,
pack their suitcases and flee. The legendary Polish-Jewish violinist Bronislaw
Huberman persuaded musicians from Europe's
greatest orchestras to come to Tel Aviv,
where he founded the Philharmonic Orchestra. So it's no wonder that the great
Arturo Toscanini conducted the orchestra's debut concert, that Zubin Mehta has
been its music director since 1969, that Leonard Bernstein conducted many times
and that Kurt Masur is its honorary guest conductor. This international spirit
has characterized the Israel Philharmonic for more than 70 years: bringing
together top musicians from all over the world, the orchestra has toured five
continents and consistently reaps the highest praise, both at home and abroad.