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ISRAEL AT WAR - DAY 591

Tales of the Times

The quirky, improbable, infuriating and uplifting
File Quentin Tarantino, right, and wife Daniella Pick pose for photographers upon arrival at the awards ceremony during the 76th international film festival, Cannes, southern France, May 27, 2023. (Photo by Vianney Le Caer/Invision/AP)
Location scouting
Quentin Tarantino buys $13.8 million property in Tel Aviv
By Zev Stub
American filmmaker and his Israeli wife plan to build new home on 2,200-square meter lot in Tel Baruch neighborhood
File: Grammy Award-winning American singer Art Garfunkel performs on stage at the Bloomfield Stadium in the Israeli city of Tel Aviv, on June 10, 2015. (Gil Cohen Magen/AFP)
May 16, 2025, 10:33 am
Art Garfunkel to join Aviv Geffen on stage in Israel at end of month
Legendary singer of Simon & Garfunkel to perform four songs at annual ‘Rock Prom’ in Tel Aviv, making him first major international artist to perform in country since start of war
By ToI Staff
Nofar Yacobi, a soloist with the Israeli Opera who will perform at New York's Carnegie Hall on May 30, 2025 (Credit Haim Kimchi)
May 16, 2025, 9:08 am
Israeli opera star who sings about chocolate heads to Carnegie Hall
Nofar Yacobi, whose mother is Italian-born, uses Instagram to put her voice directly in audience’s ears
By Jessica Steinberg
Azealia Banks walks the runway during New York Fashion Week, September 12, 2021 in New York City. (Frazer Harrison/Getty Images North America/Getty Images via AFP)
May 16, 2025, 8:44 am
Azealia Banks goes on social media rant defending Jewish cuisine
Grammy nominee expresses fondness for gefilte fish, chocolate babka and whitefish spread; Banks has made seemingly antisemitic remarks in the past
By Grace Gilson
A 13-year-old private Boeing aircraft that US President Donald Trump toured to check out new hardware and technology features, and highlight the aircraft maker's delay in delivering updated versions of the Air Force One presidential aircraft, takes off from Palm Beach International Airport, February 16, 2025, in West Palm Beach, Florida. (AP Photo/Ben Curtis, File)
May 14, 2025, 9:54 am
MAGA influencers call out Trump for plan to accept jet from Qatar
In rare split with US president, loyalists Ben Shapiro, Laura Loomer and Mark Levin say gift contradicts effort to remove foreign influence from US campuses
By ToI Staff
Actor Charlie Chaplin appears in a scene from his 1925 film 'The Gold Rush.' (AP Photo)
May 14, 2025, 12:45 am
Charlie Chaplin’s ‘Gold Rush’ restored a century after release
Comic star’s grandchildren attend premiere of freshened-up silent masterpiece about Alaska frontier, as part of Cannes Film Festival’s new day-one tradition for restored films
By Jake Coyle
Released hostage Emily Damari celebrates with hundreds of fans outside the soccer stadium of Tottenham Hotspurs in London, May 11, 2025. (Embassy of Israel in the UK/ Pomi Ofir Tal)
May 12, 2025, 11:42 am
Tottenham soccer fans welcome ex-hostage Emily Damari to stadium
Hundreds greet lifelong fan when she arrives to see her team play at London home ground; Emily releases 59 yellow balloons, calls for release of remaining captives from Gaza
By ToI Staff
Andalusian Orchestra Ashdod will host three guest musicians in new concert series, 'From East to West,' playing Israeli venues from May 16-June 19 2025 (Courtesy)
May 10, 2025, 11:14 am
Andalusian Orchestra Ashdod to host jazz pianist, Berber singer and Ethiopian saxophonist
Jazz pianist Omri Mor to tour Israel with fellow musicians in a month-long concert series
By Jessica Steinberg
At the 2024 Fresh Paint art fair, which will be held May 21-26, 2025 (Courtesy)
May 6, 2025, 9:21 pm
Biggest art fair to take place in little-known Israel Electric compound
Fresh Paint, Israel’s largest art event, to brings visitors to Kremnitzky Technical Center, east of Ayalon Highway in Tel Aviv
By Jessica Steinberg
Israeli midfielder Manor Solomon of Leeds United has a shot at goal during the Championship match between Plymouth Argyle and Leeds United on 3rd May 2025, Home Park, Plymouth, Devon. (IMAGO/PPAUK via Reuters Connect)
May 4, 2025, 5:40 pm
Israel’s Solomon seals team’s dream return to England top league
25-year-old from Kfar Saba bangs home a 91st-minute goal, securing the second-tier title for Leeds United and cementing its promotion back to soccer’s Premier League
By ToI Staff
From the 'Eretz Nehederet' remake of Jimbo J's 'White Sail' for the satirical comedy show on May 1, 2025 (Courtesy)
May 4, 2025, 3:31 pm
‘Eretz Nehederet’ makes poignant remake of Israeli rap song
Satirical sketch show borrows Jimbo J’s new work ‘White Sail’ for a litany of all of Israel’s recent troubles
By Jessica Steinberg
Singer-songwriter Idan Raichel on piano with released hostage Sagui Dekel-Chen on April 29. 2025 (Screengrab: YouTube)
May 3, 2025, 11:51 pm
Freed hostage Sagui Dekel-Chen sings with Idan Raichel
Kibbutz Nir Oz resident speaks about sense of hope and loss experienced by his community, during performance of Shalom Hanoch’s song ‘Children of Life’
By Jessica Steinberg
US President Donald Trump seen as the pope in an apparently AI-generated picture posted by the White House, May 3, 2025.
May 3, 2025, 7:17 pm
Trump posts apparent AI image of himself in papal attire
US president’s post, shared by official White House account, comes after he joked about wanting to be the next Catholic pontiff following death of Pope Francis
By AFP
Gal Gadot poses with her new star at a ceremony honoring her on the Hollywood Walk of Fame on March 18, 2025, in Los Angeles. (Jordan Strauss/Invision/AP)
May 3, 2025, 3:31 pm
Gal Gadot set to star as Holocaust survivor seeking revenge
In ‘Ruin,’ Israeli actress to play woman who teams up with a Nazi soldier to exact revenge on members of his former SS squad in post-WWII Germany
By ToI Staff
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu speaks at the International Bible Contest in Jerusalem, May 1, 2025 (GPO)
May 3, 2025, 4:20 am
Netanyahu unable to remember son’s name at Bible contest
PM misnames his youngest during speech, then asks the audience for help in recalling Avner’s name; ‘I was testing you,’ he jokes; slip excised from official YouTube upload
By ToI Staff
From 'The Garden' at the Tel Aviv Museum of Art by Yael Moria Studio MA (Credit Daniel Henoch)
May 1, 2025, 3:53 pm
A (fake) tree grows in Tel Aviv’s Museum of Art
‘The Garden’ juxtaposes fake flora and fauna with real trees and vegetation to explore urban nature
By Jessica Steinberg
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