So What to Do on Chanukah? Hanukkah 2017 Events for the Observant
Events for Chanukah: Wondering what to do with the kids? How to fill the long days of Chanukah? Here is the complete list of Chanukah events all over the country. If you know of an event not mentioned in the list, feel free to comment. Note, the list is being updated.
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Wednesday, 25th Kislev
Modi'in Illit
Show: "Shroolie for the Kids". Audience: Fathers and sons. Cost: 10 ILS. Location: Community Center Yehuda HaNasi Street 1. Time: 18:30.
Bnei Brak
Esty Biderman and Lena Weiss present: "Reserved Seats". For school girls. Time: 19:00. Venue: Neve Achiezer Community Center. Price: 10 ILS.
Elad
Wheels Circus and Fire Show (two performances on one ticket). Time: 18:00. Cost: 10 ILS. Location: City Sports Hall, Avtalyon Street 3
Thursday, 26th Kislev
Beitar Illit
- Maron Puppet Theater. Location: Sasson Hall. Time: 10:30. Audience: Children. Price: 5 ILS
- Kadachka Show. Time: 12:00. Location: Auditorium. Audience: Girls. Price: 5 ILS
- "Here I Am" Show. Time: 20:30. Location: Auditorium. Audience: Women and girls. Price: 10 ILS
- Juggling Show. Time: 14:00. Location: Freiman Community Center. Audience: Boys. Cost: 5 ILS
Afula
Rivky Raab's show "Miniature" at 10:30 AM. Location: Beit Eshkol Hall. Cost: 15 ILS
Modi'in Illit
- * "Balm Kol" Show. Location: Community Center Yehuda HaNasi Street 1. Audience: Elementary school girls. Time: 12:00. Cost: 10 ILS
- * D. Perlstein presents "On Top of the World". For women and girls. Time: 20:30. Cost: 25 ILS. Location: Community Center Yehuda HaNasi 1.
Bnei Brak
- The Theatret presents: "Where Did the Dreidel Go". For boys. Time: 18:30. Neve Achiezer Community Center. Price: 7 ILS.
- Chai Hager children's show: "The Story of the Balloon". For mothers and children. Show A at 10:30, Show B at 12:30. Neve Achiezer Community Center. Price: 5 ILS.
Elad
Show: "Giving Strength to the Weary". Time: 20:30. Price: 20 ILS. For women and girls. Location: Municipal Sports Hall Avtalyon Street 1
Friday, 27th Kislev
Beitar Illit
Sand Show. Location: Gvanim. Audience: Boys. Cost: 5 ILS
Elad
Hanukkiot Exhibition and Show. Time: 10:00. Free. Audience: Children. Location: Municipal Sports Hall Avtalyon Street 1.
Motzei Shabbat, 28th Kislev
Elad
Show "Warm Istahar". Time: 20:30. Cost: 10 ILS for women and girls
Modi'in Illit
- Cognitive and Memory Activity - Special Programs for Fathers and Sons with Maggid Rabbi Yitzchak Galer. Audience: Fathers and sons from age 13. Cost: 10 ILS. Time: 20:30
- R. Elias in production: "Tears of Sand". Location: Community Center Yehuda HaNasi 1, Audience: Women and girls. Time: 20:30. Cost: 15 ILS
Sunday, 29th Kislev
Beitar Illit
- Art Workshops. Time: 10:00. Location: Gvanim. Audience: Girls. Cost: 5 ILS
- Theater "Market Day". Time: 13:00. Location: Freiman Community Center. Audience: Girls. Cost: 5 ILS
- Theater "Market Day". Time: 14:30. Location: Freiman Community Center. Audience: Boys. Cost: 5 ILS
Afula
For fathers and sons: Juggler Aharon Klein. Location: Beit Poznak. Cost: 10 ILS. Time: 15:00
Modi'in Illit
- Main Program for Talmud Torah children, diligent students, and fathers and sons. Between 10:00-13:00. At the new community center on Minchat Shlomo Street 3. Program: special educational performance with R' Shraggi the Shaliach. Hanukkiot exhibition prepared by the city's children. Cost: 5 ILS
- M. Shidolovsky presents: "A New Light in the Temple". Musical movement show. Audience: Mothers and daughters. Time: 10:30 and 12:00. Cost: 5 ILS. Location: Community Center, Yehuda HaNasi Street 1.
- Exclusive screening for teenage girls by R. Klein and Y. Halberstam: "Say or Not". Location: Yehuda HaNasi Street 1, Audience: Teenage girls. Time: 13:30. Cost: 10 ILS
- Dorit Erlich empowers "Netativ". Community Center Yehuda HaNasi 1, Audience: Women and girls. Time: 20:30. Cost: 20 ILS.
Bnei Brak
Attraction Fair Seminar Rabbi Wolf. Rabbi Hirsh Street 27. Between 10:00-14:30 and 18:00-20:30
Elad
- Magic Show Kol Berama. Time: 18:00. Cost: 10 ILS. Audience: Children and youth
- Living Garden Event. Times: 10:00-12:00. Free. Boys show and girls show.
Monday, 30th Kislev
Beitar Illit
Fun Day and Adventure Excitement Fair. Time: 10:00-13:00 Girls. 13:30-16:00 Boys. Location: Freiman Community Center. Audience: Boys and girls according to hours. Cost: 10 ILS
Afula
Gymboree - Fun activity for children. Special attraction at the end of the event. Location: Sports Hall Beit Poznak. Cost: 5 ILS. Time: 10:00 AM.
Modi'in Illit
- "Hanukkah Miracle Story" Puppet Theater. For mothers and children. PHEF Board Aveni Nezer 59. Times: 11:00 and 12:30. Cost: 5 ILS
- M. Friedlander and R. Raab present: "Holding You Keys". Community Center Yehuda HaNasi Street 1, elementary school girls. Time: 12:00. Cost: 5 ILS
- "Journey Through Space". Lecture and audiovisual performance. Community Center Yehuda HaNasi Street 1, fathers and sons from age 12. Time: 19:00. Cost: 10 ILS. Note: Show lasts 3 hours
- R. Klein and Y. Halberstam with the program "Sand Puppets". For women and girls. Time: 21:00. Cost: 20 ILS
Bnei Brak
- Attraction Fair Seminar Rabbi Wolf. Rabbi Hirsh Street 27. Times: 10:00-14:30 and 18:00-20:30
- R. Shor and R. Leibowitz present: "Grasp the Wind". For women and girls. Time: 20:00. PHEF Masuot Center. Price: 30 ILS
Elad
- Environmental Quality Activity. Time: 10:00. Audience: Girls. Free. Municipal Sports Hall. Avtalyon Street 3.
- Aaron the Magician. Time: 18:00. Cost: 10 ILS. For children and youth
Ashdod
- * The show: "Treasures", presented by Esty Alter and Lilach Mironsky. Show will be held at the new PHEF auditorium at Shila School. Quarter V. Cost: 30 ILS.
- * Sara Zilberberg presents: "We Are All One Light". Time: 14:00, at the PHEF auditorium at Shila School. Cost: 10 ILS.
Beit Shemesh
Screening for women "Grasp the Wind". Location: Gvanim Community Center Hall, Nahal Dolev Street 16, Ramat Aleph. Double screening: at 19:00 and at 21:00. Price: 30 ILS
Tuesday, 1st Tevet
Beitar Illit
- Movement and Balloon Activity. Time: 10:30. Location: Auditorium. Audience: Children
- "Shevet Achim". Time: 11:00. Location: Sasson Hall. Audience: Women and girls. Cost: 20 ILS
- "R' Shraggi's Show", Time: 14:30, Location: Freiman Community Center. Audience: Boys. Cost: 5 ILS
- "The Silver Cup": Time: 20:00, Location: Freiman Community Center. Audience: Boys and teenagers. Cost: 10 ILS
- "Bravo". Time: 20:30 Location: Auditorium. Audience: Women and girls. Cost: 10 ILS
Afula
- Magnificent Animal Show for children. Mothers and daughters at 13:00. Fathers and sons at 14:30. Location: Beit Eshkol. Cost: 10 ILS
- Screening for women and girls "For You Sent Me" - F. Faksher. Cost: 25 ILS. Location: Beit Eshkol
Modi'in Illit
- Dorit Erlich in a production for teenage girls: "The Little Soloist". Community Center Yehuda HaNasi 1, elementary school girls. Time: 11:00 AM. 10 ILS.
- Performance in English: The Royal maid. Dozens of girls in innovative dances. PHEF Board Aveni Nezer 59, elementary school girls. Time: 10:30. Cost: 10 ILS
- "Grasp the Wind" by R. Shor and R. Leibowitz. New Community PHEF Center Minchat Shlomo Street 3, for women and girls. Time: 20:00. Cost: 25 ILS
Bnei Brak
- * Sara Zilberberg presents: "We Are All One Light". For mothers and daughters. Show A at 10:30. Show B at 12:30. PHEF Ramat Elchanan Center. Price 7 ILS.
- * F. Faksher presents: "Pachuli's Secret Gift" at 10:00. For elementary school girls. PHEF Masuot Center. Additional show at 12:45: "Pachuli's Construction Project". PHEF Masuot Center. Price for single screening: 15 ILS. Price for two screenings: 25 ILS.
Ashdod
- * Show "Desert of Your Life". Actors and dancers combined with a breathtaking film. Held in the PHEF auditorium at Shila School at 11:00. Quarter V. Cost: 30 ILS
- * Live drum show with audience participation - "Tuffa". Cost: 10 ILS. Show takes place at 14:00, at the PHEF auditorium at Shila School, Quarter V.
Wednesday, 2nd Tevet
Beitar Illit
- Renana Ash. Time: 11:30. Location: Auditorium. Audience: Girls. Cost: 5 ILS
- Show "The Shikopitzki Family". Time: 13:00. Location: Gvanim. Audience: Girls. Cost: 5 ILS
- Hanukkah show in Yiddish. Time: 14:00. Location: Freiman Community Center. Audience: Boys. Cost: 5 ILS.
- Show "Air Time". Time: 16:00. Location: Freiman Community Center. Audience: Boys. Cost: 5 ILS
- Show "Grasp the Wind". Time: 20:30. Location: Auditorium. Audience: Women and girls. Cost: 20 ILS
Modi'in Illit
- Stage Sounds Club presents: "Stones on the Way". Community Center Yehuda HaNasi 1. For elementary school girls. Time: 11:30. Cost: 10 ILS
- "For You Sent Me". Performance by HaModia with the story's heroine and author F. Faksher. Community Center Yehuda HaNasi 1, for women and girls. Time: 20:00. Cost: 25 ILS
- Enjoyable Movement. Huge movement area Health and experience. New Community PHEF Center. Minchat Shlomo Street 3. For mothers and children. Morning, afternoon, and evening. Cost: 8 ILS
Elad
Musical "Tuvia and the 366 Gang". Time: 10:30. Cost: 20 ILS. Suitable for the whole family
Bnei Brak
A.Brach last chance: "Not to Fall". For women and girls. Time: 20:00. PHEF Ramat Elchanan Center. Price: 25 ILS.
Beit Shemesh
Renana Ash - Women's Fire World Show. Hall Gvanim Community Center, Nahal Dolev Street 16, Ramat Aleph, Time: 20:00. Price: 10 ILS.