The music has been composed by Dr. Boaz Ben-Moshe, who completed his doctoral studies in composition at the University of Pennsylvania with honours.  A young and promising composer, he is interested in the Israeli art experience and with Jewish identity as expressed in art. The son of an Israeli family of musicians, he combines Western concert music with Jewish popular music.  His musical combination of East and West is a social and artistic statement, a bridge between artistic cultures and streams, 
and an allegory of the Israeli social tapestry in which “East and West have to come together.”

The theme of the evening is provided by a series of stories written by Yossi Alfi, Israel’s number-one storyteller.  

Yossi is a man of the theater, a writer and a poet, and a radio personality whose program “A Storytellers’ Marathon with Yossi Alfi” has been broadcast on Israel Radio for many years. He produced “The Storytellers’ Festival” (excerpts broadcast on Channel 2).

He has directed productions at the Habima, Cameri, and Beit Lessin theaters and is a writer of stories, plays and screenplays.

The Israel Chamber Orchestra, now opening its 31st season, has set as its goal approaching new audiences.  In its concert series, the Orchestra combines a familiar and well-loved repertoire with unconventional and unique works of art, in special and unusual concerts such as “Spanish Rhapsody” featuring a flamenco dance company; the series “Multimedia” in which an attempt is made to combine sound, movement, and the spoken word; and the Israeli composers’ competition, which is very popular with audiences and which the Orchestra is holding this year. The Orchestra tries to attract a new and curious audience to the concert hall -- an audience willing to experience a variety of new musical experiences in a chamber music atmosphere.

Kahal Theater, which has an extensive background in social theater, is now taking a new direction with an emphasis on audience involvement in the fields of music and narrative in an innovative and creative style. 

Doron Salomon specializes in conducting, composition and guitar. He has twice received the Adrian Bollet Prize for Conductors and the Theodore Steer Prize. He won first prize at the Jerusalem Symphony Orchestra Conducting Competition and first prize in the International Prize for Conductors at Besançon, France. Maestro Salomon is Musical Advisor and Chief Conductor of the Gullberg Symphony Orchestra in Sweden, Music Director of the Kibbutz Chamber Orchestra and, since 1994, the Chief Conductor of the Macedonian Philharmonic Orchestra. 

Yair Dalal, an oud and violin player, has a broad musical background in classical, jazz and Arabic music. He has performed in Israel and abroad as soloist for his Elool Ensemble, and lectures in Institutions for Further Education. 

The Jubilee of the State of Israel provides the catalyst for two artists who are presenting their works to serve as a bridge of thought and contemplation of Israeli society, which has built itself from social, artistic, and value “materials” gathered from all over the world, creating what has been called “the New Israeli World.”