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Norway Cup is the world’s largest football tournament for youth and children, and is being held this year for the 34rd time. The tournament will be taking place from July 29 to August 4. Read more

Karl Seglem, musician, composer and poet, plays the tenor saxophone and the goat horn (the Jewish traditional Shofar). His original tunes derive from the abandunt traditional Norwegian folk music carrying the scents of breathtaking landscapes and turquoise fiords. Seglem (40) creates musical worlds that equally emphasize composition and improvisation. He presents a combination of jazz with the... Read more

The musical ‘Bridges’, an international music and art project, will be performed by pupils of the Jerusalem bilingual Jewish-Arab Rayne-School, run by ‘Hand in Hand - Center for Jewish-Arab Education in Israel’, together with students from the Norwegian lower secondary high school ‘Fjære Ungdomsskole’ in Grimstad and Swiss students from Zug, Hochdorf and Huneberg. Read more

Norwegian films became the big winner at Europe's largest film festival of Nordic Cinema taking place in Lübeck. Marius Holst's King of Devil's Island about a rebellion on a prison island in the Oslofjord in 1915, starring Stellan Skarsgård, won both the renowned NDR Award for Best Feature Film and the much coveted Lübecker Nachrichten Audience Award. Coming Home by Anders Øvergård received the... Read more

Anna’s House, a book about the American Colony Hotel through the eyes of its founder Anna Spafford, has recently been published into English. Read more

Motsol will perform at ‘Uganda’ in Jerusalem on Monday 7 November at 21:00, ‘Tichon Awsat’ in Haifa on Wednesday 9 November at 21:00, and at ‘Levontin 7’ in Tel Aviv on Thursday 10 November at 20:30. Daniel Sarid and Harold Rubin will be guest performers at the last part of the concert in Tel Aviv. Read more

The Norwegian national rugby team will play the Israel national team in the European nation's cup (ENC) Saturday 29 October at 13:30 at the Wingate sports institute.   Read more

Three Norwegian films, ‘Twigson Ties the Knot’, ‘Rafiki’ and ‘The Liverpool Goalie’ will be screened during the Tel Aviv 7th International Film Festival 26-29 October 2011 at the Tel Aviv Cinematheque. The festival is dedicated to quality cinema for children and teens and will present movies from Israel and abroad. Read more

The Norwegian Verdensteatret preforms “And All the questionmarks started to sing” at the Herzliya Contemporary Art Biennial in Herzliya 13 – 18 October 2011. The work will be both exhibited as an electromechanical installation and played as a live performance/concert. Read more

Herzliya Contemporary Art Biennial, Herzliya 10 - 13 October 2011 Read more

The semi-final matches for group 3 in the Velux EHF Champion League Qualifying Tournament, will take place in Rishon Lezion, Maccabi Handball House 3-4 September 2011. Read more

The Norwegian band The Hungry Hearts Pin-Up Performance Band performs at TLV Fest 2011, at the LGBT Community Center in Tel Aviv 13 June, at 20:00. The band will present short films, perform old and new songs, create live art and talk about everything from art to politics. Read more

Norwegian author Kjell Askildsen’s short story collection “Thomas F’s Last Notes to the Public” has recently been translated into Hebrew. Askildsen’s minimalism and irony has been praised by Israeli media, and translator Dana Caspi has received the Minister of Culture Award for her translation. Read more

Norwegian director Arild Andresen’s feature debut, The Liverpool Goalie (Keeper’n til Liverpool), was awarded the top prize – the Crystal Bear – for Best Feature in the Generation Kplus programme at the Berlin International Film Festival. Read more

Adraba Bookshop in Jerusalem will host a special event with Norwegian Author Lars Saabye Christensen on 24 February at 20.00. Read more

Norwegian author Lars Saabye Christensen meets Israeli author and journalist Amichai Shalev at the Literary Café on 22 February 2011 at 16.00. The event is open to the public. After his appearance in the Literary Café Mr. Saabye Christensen will be available for book signing at the Tzomet Sfarim stand. Read more

Norwegian director Anne Sewitsky’s feature debut, Happy, Happy (Sykt lykkelig), was 29 January awarded the World Cinema Grand Jury Prize at the Sundance Film Festival in Park City, Utah (USA). Read more

The International Ibsen Scholarships were initiated by the Norwegian government and will be handed out for the 4th time in 2011. Read more

Soloist Marianne Beate Kielland will perform Mahler’s "Rückert-Lieder" with The Israel Symphony Orchestra and conductor Shalev Ad-El in Tel Aviv and Rishon-LeZion in February 2011. Read more