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FRIDAY, JULY 24
Benefit from the 1957 movie Desk Set, directed by Walter Lang, which stars Katharine Hepburn and Spencer Tracy, who try and navigate a brand new, shaky actuality.
Richard Sumner (Tracy) is an effectivity skilled who needs to switch human employees of a reference library at a broadcasting community with an digital mind – very like how jobs in the present day are in danger with the rise of AI.
Guess who’s the girl who leads the employees on the opposite aspect of that fence?
Written by Phoebe and Henry Ephron, it is a extremely pleasurable basic that’s nonetheless fairly related.
6:30 p.m. NIS 43. Jerusalem Cinematheque, 11 Hebron Rd. In English. Name (02) 565-4333 to e-book.
SATURDAY, JULY 25
Spend a cool night at Mazkeka and revel in Actual Time Composition. A trio of established music academics, Stephen Hornestein (sax), Steve Peskoff (guitar), and Jean Claude Jones (keyboard) will present you a grand ol’ time.
9 p.m. 3 Shoshan St. NIS 60. Name (02) 582-2090 to e-book.
SUNDAY, JULY 26
Step into the Bible Lands Museum to benefit from the opening live performance of the Lyric Opera competition. Impressed by historic Mediterranean cultures, this system consists of arias from Giulio Cesare in Egitto (Julius Caesar in Egypt) by Handel, Orpheus by Telemann, and Semele by Handel.
The singers, amongst them Karin Faingold and Noy Shilo, will carry out after patrons get pleasure from a guided Hebrew tour of the museum. The tour will give attention to how the exhibitions depict mythology and reminiscence.
11 a.m., 21 Shmuel Stefan Clever St., NIS 70. Name (02) 595-5337 to e-book. The competition will conclude on Thursday, July 30. For extra data, go to blmj.org/en/Occasion.
✱ WATCH Blue Solar, created by choreographer Amir Kolben, a efficiency that explores how the human physique responds to our age of other information and means that, in motion, a measure of honesty and fact will all the time stay.
8:30 p.m. 11 Bezalel St. NIS 119 to NIS 149. Go to kolbendance.co.il/home-en/ to e-book.
MONDAY, JULY 27
Jerusalem could not have sea entry, however at Fishenchips, in Mahaneh Yehuda, you possibly can get pleasure from a hearty style of choices contemporary from the fisherman’s web. The menu consists of crimson tuna with crisps (NIS 47), a fish burger with fries (NIS 47), and contemporary salad (NIS 17).
12 Ha’egoz St. Common enterprise hours. Kosher. Name (02) 624-9503 for extra.
TUESDAY, JULY 28
Go to the Valley of Hinnom to get pleasure from an open-air efficiency that kicks off the Israel Competition, Jerusalem.
Held by a String is a nod to the previous, when French high-wire artist Philippe Petit walked from east to west on a rope over the wadi in 1987.
Patrons can come early, get pleasure from a recreation of backgammon, and participate in a music circle. The principle occasion of the night is a efficiency by the Jerusalem Orchestra East and West.
Doorways open at 4:30 p.m. Important present at 6 p.m. Free. Patrons can deliver a mat and are inspired to deliver heat garments for the night. For extra, go to israel-festival.org/en/2026.
WEDNESDAY, JULY 29
Rejoice an evening set by DJ Yaara Haim on the Yad Ben-Zvi courtyard, as a part of Tazrif, a brand new Jerusalem tradition competition.
9:45 p.m. to 11 p.m. 14 Ibn Gabirol St. Free. The competition concludes on Friday, July 31. For extra, go to competition.ybz.org.il.
THURSDAY, JULY 30
Go to the Jerusalem Theatre for the efficiency Hear My Voice – A Live performance of Liturgical Music. The inventive program consists of Jewish piyutim (liturgical poems), spirituals, and canticles.
Conductor Assaf Benraf will lead bass Dmitrii Negrimovskii, soprano Rinatya Nissim, and mezzo-soprano Maya Amir on this memorable night.
7:30 p.m. 20 David Marcus St. NIS 130 to NIS 160. About 1.5 hours. Name (02) 565-5755 to e-book.
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