Israel Warning: You are not logged in. Your IP address will be publicly visible if you make any edits. If you log in or create an account, your edits will be attributed to your username, along with other benefits.Anti-spam check. Do not fill this in! ===Music and dance=== {{Main|Music of Israel|Dance in Israel}} [[File:Israel Philharmonic Orchestra.jpg|thumb|upright=1.15|[[Israel Philharmonic Orchestra]] conducted by [[Zubin Mehta]]|alt=Several dozen musicians in formal dress, holding their instruments, behind a conductor]] [[Music of Israel|Israeli music]] includes [[Mizrahi music|Mizrahi]] and [[Sephardic music]], [[Hasidic Judaism|Hasidic]] melodies, [[Greek music in Israel|Greek music]], [[jazz]], and [[pop rock]].{{sfn |Broughton |Ellingham |Trillo |1999 |pp=365β369}}<ref>{{cite web |title=Israel |url=http://worldmusic.nationalgeographic.com/view/page.basic/country/content.country/israel_36 |publisher=National Geographic Society |website=World Music |access-date=20 March 2012 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120210070052/http://worldmusic.nationalgeographic.com/view/page.basic/country/content.country/israel_36 |archive-date=10 February 2012 }}</ref> The [[Israel Philharmonic Orchestra]]{{sfn|Ben-Sasson|1985|p=1095}}<ref>{{cite book |title=Whose Master's Voice?: The Development of Popular Music in Thirteen Cultures |last1=Ewbank |first1=Alison J. |last2=Papageorgiou |first2=Fouli T. |year=1997 |publisher=Greenwood Press |isbn=978-0-313-27772-6 |page=117}}</ref> has been in operation for over seventy years and performs more than two hundred concerts each year.<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.israel21c.org/us-music-lovers-join-the-birthday-fun-for-israels-greatest-classical-ensemble-the-ipo/ |website=ISRAEL21c |title=US music lovers join the birthday fun for Israel's greatest classical ensemble β the IPO |date=4 February 2007 |last=Davis |first=Barry}}</ref> [[Itzhak Perlman]], [[Pinchas Zukerman]] and [[Ofra Haza]] are among the internationally acclaimed musicians born in Israel. [[Israel in the Eurovision Song Contest|Israel has participated]] in the [[Eurovision Song Contest]] nearly every year since 1973, winning the competition four times and hosting it twice.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.eurovision.tv/page/history/by-country/country?country=18 |title=Israel |website=Eurovision Song Contest |publisher=European Broadcasting Union |access-date=31 May 2013}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.eurovision.tv/page/history/year |title=History |website=Eurovision Song Contest |publisher=European Broadcasting Union |access-date=31 May 2013}}</ref> [[Eilat]] has hosted its own international music festival, the [[Red Sea Jazz Festival]], every summer since 1987.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.redseajazzeilat.com/en/about/ |publisher=Red Sea Jazz Festival |title=About the Red Sea Jazz Festival |access-date=20 March 2012 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120312202659/http://www.redseajazzeilat.com/en/about/ |archive-date=12 March 2012 }}</ref> The nation's canonical [[folk music|folk songs]] are known as "Songs of the Land of Israel".<ref>{{cite web |url=http://worldmusic.nationalgeographic.com/view/page.basic/genre/content.genre/israeli_folk_735/en_US |publisher=National Geographic Society |title=Israeli Folk Music |access-date=20 March 2012 |website=World Music |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120103145812/http://worldmusic.nationalgeographic.com/view/page.basic/genre/content.genre/israeli_folk_735/en_US |archive-date=3 January 2012 }}</ref> Summary: Please note that all contributions to Christianpedia may be edited, altered, or removed by other contributors. If you do not want your writing to be edited mercilessly, then do not submit it here. You are also promising us that you wrote this yourself, or copied it from a public domain or similar free resource (see Christianpedia:Copyrights for details). Do not submit copyrighted work without permission! Cancel Editing help (opens in new window) Discuss this page