The Israel Music and Folk Festival opened on Saturday night in the Binyanei Haooma, in the presence of President Yitzhak Navon, Knesset speaker Yitzhak Shamir, and other invited guests. The festival is celebrating Israel’s 30 years of independence with musical works by a variety of Israeli composers and performances by world-known Israeli artists.
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