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Habima Theater

Singer Omer Adam performs at a memorial event in Hostages Square in Tel Aviv, February 20, 2025. (Alon Gilboa/Pro-Democracy Protest Movement)
June 8, 2026, 5:37 pm
Concerts postponed, sports stadiums left empty following renewed conflict with Iran
Friday’s Tel Aviv Pride Parade thrown into limbo for second straight year; basketball players protest decision to move forward with games; book fest, theater awards also pushed off
By ToI Staff
Professor Nurit Yaari in an undated photo (Wikipedia/CC BY-SA 4.0)
November 9, 2025, 11:53 am
Missing professor, found after days without food or water, dies in hospital
Theater researcher Nurit Yaari, 77, remembered as ‘central pillar in understanding the art of theater in Israel’; was hospitalized after being found under Tel Aviv bridge last week
By ToI Staff
The illuminated image of Anne Frank's face projected on the walls of Tel Aviv's Habima Theater on May 1, 2024, ahead of Holocaust Remembrance Day (Courtesy)
May 2, 2024, 5:23 pm
‘Deepfakes’ of Holocaust victims beamed onto Habima for Remembrance Day
‘Resurrected’ project at central Tel Aviv square features visages and voices of six people who perished at hands of Nazis, including Anne Frank, Janusz Korczak
By Jessica Steinberg
Ben Perry (left), Mili Avital (center) and Noga Milstein of 'Next Stop,' Milstein and Avital's play about Israelis in New York, onstage at Habima in March 2023 (Courtesy PR)
February 22, 2023, 6:52 am
Comedy about Israelis trying to make it in NYC finds a ‘Next Stop’ on Tel Aviv stage
Playwright Noga Milstein brings her culture clash shenanigans in English to Habima theater with a storyline that will resonate with new arrivals trying to make it in Israel
By Jessica Steinberg
'Bustan Sephardi' cast seen on stage in Rabat, Morocco, November 2022. (Channel 12)
December 11, 2022, 5:36 pm
Israeli musical plays in Morocco in Hebrew — a first for any Arab country
Production’s arrival underlines warming relations between the countries; Israeli cast welcomed with open arms, Channel 12 says
By Tobias Siegal
The Gratitude Wall, an art installation situated in the middle of Habima Square in Tel Aviv until April 9, 2022, part of (Courtesy Max Marine)
April 9, 2022, 8:46 am
Entrepreneur brings notion of gratitude to Tel Aviv city center
The Gratitude Wall at Habima Square offers bystanders the chance to write, draw or paint about the good things in life
By Jessica Steinberg
Actors from Habima Theater address the crowd after news of a terrorist attack at a nearby Tel Aviv bar on April 7, 2022 (Screencapture/Twitter)
April 8, 2022, 5:36 am
The shows go on: Tel Aviv theaters continue with locked doors amid terror attack
With terrorist still on the loose and people ordered to remain indoors, several shows continue with performances even as sirens wail outside
By ToI Staff
Illustrative: An Israeli couple wait for a play to begin in Tel Aviv on June 5, 2013. (Zuzana Janku/Flash 90)
February 2, 2021, 12:43 pm
Tel Aviv and theaters fund incubators to set stage for new class of dramatists
City and 4 repertory theaters split cost of NIS 640,000 program to develop works by local playwrights under 40, with hopes to bring them to the stage when doors can reopen
By Jessica Steinberg
'Rehearsals' co-creators Noa Koler, left and Erez Drigues, who also play the lead roles on the show (Courtesy Vered Adir)
January 23, 2021, 8:01 am
With theater actors’ legs intact, TV’s ‘Rehearsals’ breaks a heart instead
Actors Erez Drigues and Noa Koler, a one-time real-life couple, bring their fictionalized break-up to Kan for a surprise runaway hit that’s an ode to the shuttered theater world
By Jessica Steinberg
Doron and Danielle, a couple who survived the coronavirus together, will take a ride in a rowboat on the Yarkon River as part of 'Exit Strategies,' a post-coronavirus exhibit taking place May 28-30, 2020 (Courtesy Shai Dror)
May 27, 2020, 4:42 pm
As Tel Aviv awakens, artists moved by lockdown leave mark on the city
A May 28-30 outdoor exhibition, ‘Exit Strategies,’ brings artistic installations to walls, roofs, sidewalks and gardens
By Jessica Steinberg
Theater artists protesting in Tel Aviv, April 12, 2020, demanding the government address their needs during the coronavirus pandemic(Courtesy EVE)
May 17, 2020, 5:16 am
When the stage shuts down, is all the world a screen?
Performers bemoan the lack of live art in the age of the coronavirus, and wonder if audiences will be there when they return
By Jessica Steinberg
Intensive, mostly impromptu discussions that took place at Jerusalem's Zion Square during Tisha B'av 2015 (Courtesy Yerushalmim)
August 6, 2019, 12:01 pm
Tel Aviv to mark Tisha B’av fast with dialogue on social issues
In an effort to help improve unity and facilitate conversations, municipality will co-sponsor discussion groups at Habima Square
By Jessica Steinberg
A giant doll in the form of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, placed at Habima Square in Tel Aviv on April 7, 2019. (Flash90)
April 7, 2019, 2:45 pm
Big ‘Bibi bear’ doll placed in Tel Aviv plaza in protest of Netanyahu
Students from Sderot say the figure is meant to criticize PM for giving a ‘false sense of security,’ like a teddy bear
By ToI Staff
Shiri Maimon (left) and Terra MacLeod as Velma Kelly in the final scene of 'Chicago,' currently touring in Tel Aviv, March 2019 (Courtesy Orit Pnini)
March 11, 2019, 5:25 pm
Tel Aviv hosts ‘Chicago’ as Shiri Maimon fills the house
The Israeli singer and former reality show star brings Broadway to Habima national theater for 16 performances
By Jessica Steinberg
Israelis protest against the Culture Loyalty Bill, proposed by Culture Minister Miri Regev, outside the Knesset in Jerusalem on November 26, 2018. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)
November 26, 2018, 3:14 pm
Culture wars: 6 things to know for November 26
The so-called Culture Loyalty Bill has caused controversy since its introduction by Minister Regev, and now it may create yet another coalition crisis
By Adiv Sterman
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