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ISRAEL AT WAR - DAY 622

Israel Museum

A musical interlude at the Israel Museum on June 12, 2025, celebrating the 60th anniversary of the museum, hours before Israel attacked Iran. (Photo by Yonatan Sindel/Flash90 )
June 18, 2025, 8:52 am
Iranian missiles force museums to move valuables to safe areas
Institutions transfer works and artifacts into safekeeping, after taking similar precautions following Oct. 7 and during previous Iranian attack
By Jessica Steinberg
At 'One Night,' the Israel Museum's launch of its sixtieth year celebrations on June 12, 2025, installations, artistry and performances will fill the galleries of the museum (Courtesy)
June 6, 2025, 8:54 am
Israel Museum launches 60th year with live ‘One Night’ event
Artistry of all kinds will fill the galleries of the Jerusalem institution to mark the anniversary
By Jessica Steinberg
From 'Chris Marker: The Lost Photographs of Israel,' at the Israel Museum through October 2025 (Courtesy)
May 3, 2025, 7:05 am
Israel of yore seen in Jerusalem exhibit of French photographer’s works
Stills from New Wave director Chris Marker’s award-winning 1961 film, missing until now, are currently exhibited at the Israel Museum in ‘Chris Marker: The Lost Photographs of Israel’
By Jessica Steinberg
Some of the artworks shown in the 'Lucid Dreams' exhibit at the Israel Museum that opened December 17, 2024 (Credit Zohar Shemesh)
January 2, 2025, 9:22 am
What dreams may come: Surrealistic exhibits mark start of Israel Museum’s 60th year
After international institutions shunned them amid war, the curators of ‘Lucid Dreams’ and ‘Alma Mater’ turned inward, assembling over 180 local works
By Jessica Steinberg
'West to East,' by Gaston Zvi Ickowicz, part of the 'Field' exhibit at the Israel Museum, a post-October 7 work, opened September 29, 2024. (Courtesy: Gaston Zvi Ickowicz)
October 17, 2024, 7:13 am
The quiet after the bloodshed: Photographer captures nature in the aftermath of Oct. 7
Gaston Zvi Ickowicz brings his views and angles of the devastated Gaza border area landscape to ‘Field,’ his solo exhibit at Jerusalem’s Israel Museum
By Jessica Steinberg
A 9,000-year-old stone mask discovered in the South Hebron Hills area of the West Bank in early 2018. (Clara Amit, Israel Antiquities Authority)
June 6, 2024, 1:12 pm
9,000-year-old stone mask from Hebron Hills on display at Israel Museum
On public view for the first time, the mask is part of the ‘Common Ground: Israeli Art Meets Archaeology’ exhibit, which juxtaposes contemporary art with ancient artifacts
By Gavriel Fiske
Israeli firefighters try to extinguish a fire which broke out near the Israel Museum in Jerusalem, June 2, 2024. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)
June 3, 2024, 2:46 pm
Jerusalem fire that damaged Israel Museum building being investigated as arson
Authorities locate three separate places from where fire is believed to have been started in Valley of the Cross
By ToI Staff
Firefighters work to extinguish a fire that broke out near the Israel Museum in Jerusalem, June 2, 2024. (Chaim Goldberg/Flash90)
June 2, 2024, 5:11 pm
Jerusalem fire forces evacuation of Israel Museum, damages youth wing’s roof
Museum says none of its collection at risk as firefighters bring blaze in Valley of the Cross under control after several hours
By ToI Staff
The Letters of Light Sculpture Garden at the new Israel National Library. (Shmuel Bar-Am)
May 18, 2024, 7:32 am
See Jerusalem’s beautiful art parks, where (almost) no graven images can be found
The Holy City has long had a de facto ban on statues in the human form, as per the second of the Ten Commandments, but that doesn’t mean sculptures are completely off the menu
By Aviva and Shmuel Bar-Am
The Israel Museum's 'The Dawn of Darkness: Elegy in Contemporary Art' exhibit commemorating the Hamas attacks of October 7, opened March 15, 2024 (Courtesy Israel Museum)
March 31, 2024, 10:44 am
Israel Museum opens new exhibit, an elegy for October 7
Using contemporary works from its extensive archives, the country’s largest art institution reflects the national mood in ‘The Dawn of Darkness: Elegy in Contemporary Art’
By Jessica Steinberg
Artist Ziva Jelin with her painting, 'Curving Road,' damaged in the October 7, 2023, attack by Hamas terrorists at Kibbutz Be'eri, that was temporarily hung in the Israel Museum, November 2023 (Courtesy Zohar Shemesh)
November 13, 2023, 8:12 pm
Israel Museum hangs painting by Kibbutz Be’eri artist Ziva Jelin
Familiar landscape ‘Curving Road’ was slightly damaged in October 7 attack, during which over 100 kibbutz residents were massacred
By Jessica Steinberg
Rotem Sapir from Kfar Maimon celebrated her bat mitzvah at the Tower of David Museum, with a free photo shoot offered for evacuees from the October 7, 2023, Hamas attacks; her mother, Liat Sapir, commented, 'When we put our story in the perspective of 2,000-plus years, how much hope it gives' (Courtesy Tower of David Museum/Sharon Marks Atshul)
October 26, 2023, 1:36 pm
Museums rush to offer welcome activities online and, where possible, in person
Cultural institutions in most places remain shuttered, while those in Jerusalem can reopen; all are providing online distractions geared especially to displaced Israeli families
By Jessica Steinberg
The Israel Museum, October 2023. (Courtesy: Eli Posner)
October 24, 2023, 9:49 pm
After shock letter, Israel museum directors call on international colleagues to denounce Hamas
Leaders of local cultural institutions were shocked by open letter that called for support of Gaza without mentioning the Hamas massacres and atrocities of October 7
By Jessica Steinberg
Damage seen to statues inside the Israel Museum in Jerusalem on October 5, 2023. (Israel Museum)
October 6, 2023, 1:10 pm
US tourist who smashed ancient statues may have ‘Jerusalem syndrome’ — lawyer
At suspect’s remand hearing, attorney says police and the man have agreed to a psychiatric examination after he caused serious damage to Roman-era sculptures at Israel Museum
By ToI Staff
Damage seen to statues inside the Israel Museum in Jerusalem on October 5, 2023. (Israel Museum)
October 5, 2023, 10:20 pm
US tourist arrested for smashing Roman-era statues at Israel Museum
Museum says artifacts damaged by 40-year-old visitor date back to 2nd century CE; police say suspect thought statues ‘go against Torah’
By Amy Spiro
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