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During the Covid-19 pandemic me and Dorit Silverman hosted and organized with Portuguese Embassy in Tel Aviv, the Hebrew Writers Association and the Camões Institute a unique event called "Un-Locking, from physical and social lockdown to psychological and cultural lockdown" and hear the leading contemporary Portuguese and Israeli literary authors discuss how it is to write on the aftermath of the pandemic crisis. There will never be a time like the lock down and it opened the World to a new dangerous world. This is a look at the moment when it all changed. Portuguese Writers - Jose Luis Peixoto, Ana Margarida Carvalho, Matilde Campilho Israeli Writers - Shifra Horn, Sami Berdugo, Galit Dahan Carlibach Opening remarks by Tsvika Nir, Chairman of the Hebrew Writers Association        

 I grew up admiring Alvaro Siza Vieira’s work. The Chiado reconstruction in Lisbon the city where I was born, the pools in Matosinhos, the “Bonjour Tristesse” building in Berlin, and more recently the Iberê Camargo Foundation, and the floating office building in China. These are more than just buildings they are amazing works of art, triumphs of ingenuity and creativity, true gifts to the cities and countries where they are built.   I moved to Tel Aviv 5 years ago to start a new life and I have been living among some of the most beautiful Bauhaus buildings in the world. I am now writing my first novel about that. That’s why I’m so honored to be able to make this all come true: bringing the genius of Alvaro Siza, the last great modernist architect to an Israeli audience.   The pace of the voice, the fascinating stories that come out with slow pace, wisdom on the tip of a cigarette. Organizing and hosting this event with Alvaro Siza Vieira, one of the world's greatest l...

  Monday  May the 16 th  Marta Pereira da Costa, a Portuguese guitar player came to Israel to do a unique fado concert. This was a rare occasion to hear this kind of music. Fado is the Portuguese national song that draws its origins from gypsy, Sephardic, and North African musical traditions adding to them a strong nostalgic imprint. In the beginning, Marta Pereira da Costa performed with her Portuguese guitar on the ensembles of two of fado’s biggest names, who played several times in Israel, Mariza and Camané. But by 2012, she decided to abandon her work as a civil engineer in order to pursue a professional career in music as a Portuguese guitar player giving her first solo concert in Toronto and becoming the first woman to do so. Since then, she has been accumulating awards, successful albums, and concerts in some of the world’s top festivals.   The Israeli concert was part of the celebrations of the Portuguese Langu...

Portugal fez-se representar no maior festival de cinema do Médio Oriente com o documentário, “Cesária Évora”, de Ana Sofia Fonseca, uma sentida homenagem à diva dos pés descalços.            Telavive está na moda. A maior parada gay do mundo decorrerá no dia 10 de Junho e as ruas do pós-Covid fervilham de turistas e vida. Durante dez dias, de quinta feira, 26 de maio, a domingo, 5 de junho, a cidade recebe o DocAviv, o maior festival de cinema documental do Médio Oriente, com a presença de realizadores e produtores de todo o mundo e 122 filmes que a dinâmica cinemateca da cidade exibe nas suas quatro salas de cinema. Nestes dias é fácil encontrar nos cafés, Shaunak Sen, o vencedor do melhor documentário no festival de Cannes com o sublime documentário, “All That Breathes”, ou Katherina Wartena, a editora do perturbante, “Three Minutes: A Lengthening”, o vencedor do prémio Yad Vashem para preservação da memória do Holocausto.  Portugal esteve repres...