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ISRAEL AT WAR - DAY 618

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The opening of a new exhibit at Haifa's Tikotin Museum on December 31, 2024 (Courtesy Keren Avni)
January 9, 2025, 1:33 pm
With Hezbollah rockets halted, Haifa’s cultural scene experiences post-ceasefire boom
Long-delayed Haifa Film Festival finally marks 40th year, as Tikotin Museum celebrates iconic Japanese wave print and Haifa City Museum waxes nostalgic about Israel’s homegrown car
By Jessica Steinberg
Pro-Palestinian, anti-Israel students and demonstrators shout slogans at the campus of SOAS University of London as students occupy parts of university campus in London, Wednesday, May 8, 2024. (AP Photo/Kin Cheung)
November 30, 2024, 2:51 pm
UK Jewish philanthropist quits volunteer art work over ‘alarming rise of antisemitism”
Candida Gertler announces move to protest ‘normalization of hate’ as London museum severs its ties with her amid calls to boycott her for Israel advocacy, friendship with Netanyahu
By ToI Staff
"Fruits et pot de gingembre" (1890-1893), by French Impressionist artist Paul Cezanne, is on exhibition at Museum Langmatt in the town of Baden, near Zurich. (Museum Langmatt)
November 29, 2024, 1:40 am
Swiss museum settles with descendants of owners of 2 possibly Nazi-looted paintings
Settlements made after probe finds ‘problematic’ heritage; artworks by 19th-century French Impressionists can now remain on exhibition at Museum Langmatt in Baden, near Zurich
By AFP
A view of the Contemporary Jewish Museum in San Francisco. (Gary Sexton Photography via JTA)
November 15, 2024, 7:58 am
San Francisco’s Jewish museum to take ‘sabbatical’ amid financial struggles
Hit by fall in visits and donations, museum says it will lay off two-thirds of its staff and attempt a rethink and revamp
By Asaf Elia-Shalev
Said Abu Shakra in the Umm al-Fahm Art Gallery, July, 2024. (Gali Kedar)
July 18, 2024, 4:35 pm
Aiming to share Palestinian art, Umm al-Fahm gallery becomes Israel’s first Arab museum
Director Said Abu Shakra frankly discusses art, his dual Israeli-Palestinian identity and family as the almost 30-year-old gallery finally gets the recognition he has dreamt of
By Tamar Mor Sela
A view of the National Museum of American Jewish History in Philadelphia, March 17, 2020. (Gilbert Carrasquillo/Getty Images via JTA)
March 21, 2024, 10:27 pm
US Jewish history museum may join Smithsonian, 4 years after bankruptcy
Lawmakers introduce legislation to consider adding Weitzman National Museum of American Jewish History in Philadelphia to iconic trust amid spike in antisemitism
By Ron Kampeas
This September 19, 2014 file photo shows chairman and CEO of Victoria’s Secret parent L Brands Les Wexner touring an exhibit at the Wexner Center for the Arts in Columbus, Ohio (AP Photo/Jay LaPrete, File)
November 2, 2023, 6:45 pm
Wexner museum to keep exhibit by Palestinian artist who appeared to celebrate Hamas
Decision not to cancel Jumana Manna’s display over social media posts comes as Wexner’s foundation is penalizing Harvard University for not being more assertively pro-Israel
By Andrew Lapin
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
Natan Slifkin, director of the Biblical Museum of Natural History, with one of the many shofars from the museum collection ahead of Rosh Hashanah 2023 (Courtesy PR)
September 15, 2023, 11:47 am
At biblical fauna museum, a blow-by-blow of all things shofar, and more horns to toot
Beit Shemesh Biblical Museum of Natural History director Natan Slifkin’s collection features everything from rams to kudus to African buffalo and even a unicorn
By Jessica Steinberg
Women carrying baskets of excavated earth to the dump pile at Tell en-Naṣbeh in 1935 while others pick pottery sherds out of the dirt mound. (Courtesy of the Badè Museum/Pacific School of Religion)
August 8, 2023, 4:19 am
Exhibit uncovers forgotten laborers behind British Mandate’s archaeological exploits
Part of a reckoning over the history of archaeology, the Badè Museum launches an exploration into the diggers, haulers, and local staff who worked a dig near Ramallah in the 1920s
By Melanie Lidman
Mohammed El-Khatib, a docent at the Museum of the Palestinian People, leads a group of Jewish Agency emissaries through the museum in Washington, D.C., March 22, 2023. (Ron Kampeas/ via JTA)
April 9, 2023, 2:59 am
Israeli emissaries tour a Palestinian museum in DC, come away with questions
One-room Museum of Palestinian People hosts first-ever tour for group of young Israelis, brought by Jewish Agency, many of whom have had few direct encounters with Arabs in Israel
By Ron Kampeas
Former Israeli basketball player US-born Tal Brody, sculpted in wax and fiberglass at Israel's first Wax Museum, opened October 2022 (Jessica Steinberg/Times of Israel)
October 27, 2022, 4:16 pm
Israel’s ‘Select Few’ carved in wax in 1st local exhibit of its kind
A three-year process to create a wax museum of Israeli celebs, entertainers and A-listers produces an eerie collection of replicas
By Jessica Steinberg
Undated photo shows famed physicist Albert Einstein. (AP Photo, File)
October 23, 2022, 9:44 pm
Israel allocates millions for Einstein museum, set to be world’s largest of its kind
Physicist bequeathed his archives to the Hebrew University, and curator Roni Grosz says its 85,000 items make it the world’s most extensive collection
By AFP and ToI Staff
Phil Sklar, co-founder and CEO of the National Bobblehead Hall of Fame and Museum in Milwaukee. (Courtesy of the Bobblehead Museum)
November 12, 2021, 11:29 pm
Meet the founder of the world’s only bobblehead museum, and his Hanukkah bobbles
Phil Sklar talks about how a unique collection turned into a one-of-a-kind museum, using bobbleheads for a good cause, and which famous Jews have their own bobbleheads
By jacob gurvis
Written in Hebrew at the Anna Szenes House in Kibbutz Sdot Yam are the words of the young Senesh's poem, 'A voice called, and I went.' (Shmuel Bar-Am)
September 21, 2021, 8:31 am
Discover a fallen poet and WWII heroine at the Hannah Senesh House near Caesarea
Recently opened to visitors, a newly renovated museum honors the Hungarian-born writer and paratrooper killed when she returned to Europe from the Holy Land to save her fellow Jews
By Aviva and Shmuel Bar-Am
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