ISRAEL
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Don’t forget Shavuot.

The weekend of June 12 is a holiday weekend in Israel,
and services and businesses may or may not be open. It’s ac-
tually the perfect weekend to get out town (whichever town you’re
in) and visit a kibbutz, where parades and ceremonies are held to
celebrate the agricultural holiday.

If you stay in a city, don’t be surprised if you’re squirted with water,
as residents often take the streets for grown-up water fights. Children
are not left out; there’s a plethora of festivities for all ages that weekend.

Listen up!
Sleep in style.

Conde Nast Traveler named Zichron Ya’akov’s Elma Arts
Complex Luxury Hotel to its 2016 “Hot List” of 60 best new hotels
and resorts in the world. Elma, the magazine said, has reclaimed the
term “design hotel” with its “mesmerizing Brutalist architecture.” It also
boasts its own concert hall with free or discounted tickets to perform-
ances for hotel guests.

Israel has a plethora of similarly lauded luxury accommoda-
tions, from upscale Bedouin-style desert quarters to more fa-
miliar names like Waldorf Astoria and Ritz-Carlton.

Israel is wonderfully musical in the summer months. The
big international tours tend to stop in Tel Aviv, and this sum-
mer is no exception, with a lineup that includes Beyoncé, Elton
John and Bruce Springsteen.

For less bombast, there’s also the famed Tel Aviv Blues Festival (July
13-16); the Jerusalem Opera Festival (June 22-25); the Akko Opera
Festival (July 28-30); the Oasis Dub Reggae Festival in Arad (June 10-
11); the Red Sea Jazz Festival in Eliat (Aug. 27-30); the Sunbeat world
music festival (June 23-25); and so much more.

Brian Wilson will perform the entirety of his classic album Pet
Sounds in Ra’anana on June 8, while indie rock bands like Real Estate
and Tame Impala will likely bring out younger crowds.

The Israel Festival, now in its 55th year, runs from May 24 to
June 11 and features all kinds of musical events, along with art and
dance and theater across the city of Jerusalem.

There’ll be music pretty much wherever you go in Israel this
summer. Keep your ears open.

Be yourself.

There’s something for everyone in Israel this
summer, which is best exemplified by two
big events.

One of them is the Midburn Festival
(June 8-12), Israel’s version of Burning Man, which
takes place in the Negev Desert and draws upward of
8,000 participants. Like Burning Man, Midburn will erect
a temporary city with themed campgrounds and bars and
a dedicated beach — and it will even have its own post office.

People from all over the world are expected to join in the fun.

The other is Tel Aviv Gay Pride (May 25-June 9), which
draws thousands more for days and nights of parties, concerts,
a film fest, and of course, the Tel Aviv Pride parade. This
year’s theme? “Women in the Community.” l
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