Ilana Goor Museum

The Museum building stands on a hill in Old Jaffa and constitutes an architectural pearl and a work of art in itself with its unique view of the Mediterranean Sea.

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An immersive jazz series featuring top local artists, blending music and art in a unique museum setting.

Thursday | 9 July 2026

All-Time Jazz

The trio will perform jazz from different periods, featuring works by composers and artists such as Miles Davis and Charlie Parker, along with swing, bossa nova, and other rhythms in an enjoyable and danceable performance.

Drummer Shay Zelman is considered one of the prominent figures in the Israeli jazz scene. Since the 1980s, he has performed in Israel and abroad, collaborated with leading jazz artists, and devoted many years to teaching and mentoring generations of young musicians.

Line-up: Shay Zelman – drums, Itamar Dorman – keyboards, Tal Varon – saxophone

19:00  Doors open and guided tours
20:00  Performance on the museum rooftop

Lecture | Tuesday | 21.7 | 19:00

A single photograph of Ilya Gefter’s great-grandfather, shown among Soviet soldiers in the ruins of Berlin after Nazi Germany’s surrender, served as the starting point for a body of work that moves between personal narrative and collective history.

In recent years, Gefter has been working on “The Front,” a series of paintings addressing war, memory, and the way past events continue to echo in the present.

During the lecture, Gefter will share the sources of inspiration behind his work, his creative process, and the intersection between life, history, and painting.

Recently, two paintings from “The Front” series were added to the museum’s collection.

An innovative Israeli trio that blends jazz, classical music, Israeli folk, rock, and pop from a fresh and diverse perspective.

The trio members — Yonatan Nizan (piano), Oz Yechieli (double bass), and David Dagmi (drums) — released an album together in 2020 and continue to attract growing interest from audiences in Israel and abroad.

The trio is led by Yonatan Nizan — an innovative and creative pianist with a classical education and a strong connection to the roots of jazz and Israeli tradition. His style draws inspiration from traditional melodies, oriental sounds with Balkan and Irish influences, progressive rock, and the classical piano repertoire.

19:00 Doors open and guided tours
20:00 Concert on the museum rooftop

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