Jerusalem Wine Festival 2013
The Jerusalem Wine Festival will return to Jerusalem’s summer calendar in August 2013 for the tenth time. The largest Israel wine festival, the Jerusalem Wine Festival features an amazing selection of the best Israeli wines, as well as food stalls, live performances, and more, drawing wine lovers and those who are just interested from Jerusalem and far beyond! The Jerusalem Wine Festival will take place every evening between August 5-8, 2013 between 7pm and 11pm at the Billy Rose Art Garden in the Israel Museum, Jerusalem.
Set in the beautifully illuminated Billy Rose sculpture garden at the Israel Museum, Jerusalem over four cool Jerusalem nights, to the sound of soft jazz, the Jerusalem Wine Festival is an event not to be missed. Israel’s largest wine festival, the Jerusalem Wine Festival draws wine-loves and those who are just interested from Jerusalem, across Israel, and tourists from beyond! With Israel’s wine industry growing in size and reputation at an unprecedented rate, the festival offers a unique opportunity to savor the beautiful creations and learn more about some very special vineyards – from boutiques to larger commercial operations.
All guests attending the wine festival pay 85 NIS to enter and receive a free wine-glass which can be re-filled for free throughout the evening. If (or more likely, when!) you fall in love with a wine, the shop will be selling the festival wines at discounted prices.
Herod the Great Exhibition
Visitors to the Israel Museum February through September can stroll through reconstructed halls of King Herod’s palace and catch a glimpse of the burial chamber of this controversial figure in ancient Israeli history.
Exhibited to the public for the very first time, visitors to this ground-breaking exhibition will have the opportunity to view some of the most recent artifacts and finds from Herod’s palaces in Herodium, Jericho, and other sites that are on display in this exhibition.
Herod the Great was one of Israel’s greatest builders, known for his colossal building projects in Jerusalem and elsewhere, including his expansion of the Second Temple in Jerusalem (sometimes referred to as Herod’s Temple). The findings featured in this exhibit shed new light on the political, architectural, and aesthetic influence of Herod’s rule (37–4 BCE).
Jerusalem Sacred Music Festival
The Jerusalem Sacred Music Festival is one-of-a-kind. It is the only festival that connects music from a diverse range of countries and religions with the holiest city in the world—a city in which holy sounds have been intrinsic parts of its soundtrack for thousands of years.
This summer, the Jerusalem Sacred Music Festival will be extended to four days, with an even more exciting lineup of dozens of local and international performances, placing it in the top tier of the world’s sacred music festivals.
The festival will also include a number of original productions, as well as a unique mix of concerts, performances with audience participation, ceremonies, meditative experiences and more.
Hutzot HaYotzer International Arts and Crafts Fair – Adjacent to the Old City
The annual outdoor International Jerusalem Arts and Crafts Fair, commonly known as “Hutzot HaYotzer” (otherwise spelled Khutsot HaYotser), is certainly one of Jerusalem’s highlights of the summer if not the entire year. Hutzot HaYotzer can be translated as “The Creator Steps Out”, which is precisely what happens. The venue is perfect – just at the foot of the Old City, in the Sultan’s Pool valley and surrounding areas. Visitors stroll from stand to stand, taking in local and international artisans’ work from watches to lampshades to hammocks to fresh paintings, and much much more. From the depths of the Sultan’s Pool valley, entrenched in the earth’s Jerusalem stone, with the Old City lit up in the background and the stars above, the romantic artistic ambience envelops the attendees.
As such, you’ll likely be inspired for just the gifts or interior design you’re looking for. Here’s a tip: Unless you’re certain about what you’d like, do a full round before deciding what to purchase.
The fair includes live music nightly from popular Israeli bands, as well as eatery stands and workshops scheduled throughout.