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Jerusalem Festival of Light is a week-long
The festival, which lasts a week, is sponsored by the
Official Website
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Israel
Israel (; he, יִשְׂרָאֵל, ; ar, إِسْرَائِيل, ), officially the State of Israel ( he, מְדִינַת יִשְׂרָאֵל, label=none, translit=Medīnat Yīsrāʾēl; ), is a country in Western Asia. It is situated ...
i light festival held every summer in Jerusalem
Jerusalem (; he, יְרוּשָׁלַיִם ; ar, القُدس ) (combining the Biblical and common usage Arabic names); grc, Ἱερουσαλήμ/Ἰεροσόλυμα, Hierousalḗm/Hierosóluma; hy, Երուսաղեմ, Erusałēm. i ...
.
History
The Jerusalem Festival of Light was established in 2009. It displays the work of leading international artists who use light as their creative medium."The light shines out in Jerusalem",Hello (magazine)
''Hello!'' is a royalist weekly magazine specializing in celebrity news and human-interest stories, first published in the United Kingdom on May 21, 1988. It is the United Kingdom local edition of ''¡Hola!'', the Spanish weekly magazine.
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http://www.hellomagazine.com/travel/201106155602/jerusalem-festival-of-light/
In 2011, the festival, located in and around Jerusalem's Old City Old City often refers to old town, the historic or original core of a city or town.
Old City may refer to several places:
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drew over 200,000 visitors. In 2012 the show was extended into other neighborhoods of the Old City, including the Rehov Hagay, the commercial street leading from the Damascus Gate
The Damascus Gate is one of the main Gates of the Old City of Jerusalem. It is located in the wall on the city's northwest side and connects to a highway leading out to Nablus, which in the Hebrew Bible was called Shechem or Sichem, and from the ...
."Old City to shine during third annual light festival", Melanie Lidman, 05/26/2011 http://www.jpost.com/NationalNews/Article.aspx?id=222396
The festival, which lasts a week, is sponsored by the Jerusalem Municipality
The Jerusalem Municipality ( he, עיריית ירושלים; Iriyat yerushalayim), the seat of the Israeli municipal administration, consists of a number of buildings located on Jaffa Road in the city of Jerusalem.
History
British Mandate ...
, the Prime Minister’s Office, the semi-public Ariel Company and the Jerusalem Development Authority
The Jerusalem Development Authority (), or JDA, is a joint agency of the Israeli government and the Jerusalem Municipality that works to promote and develop the economy of the city of Jerusalem. The Authority was founded by Uziel Wexler and was es ...
. The cost of 7 million NIS is partly defrayed by commercial sponsors.See also
*Culture of Israel
The roots of the culture of Israel developed long before modern Israel's independence in 1948, and traces back to ancient Israel ( 1000 BCE). It reflects Jewish culture, Jewish history in the diaspora, the ideology of the Zionist movement that de ...
*Israeli art
Visual arts in Israel refers to Plastic arts, plastic art created first in the Palestine region, region of Palestine, from the later part of the 19th century until 1948 and subsequently in Israel and the occupied Palestinian territories by List ...
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