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March 13, 2012

Israel’s Foreign Minister, Shimon Peres, said Saturday that a series of performances in Jerusalem by a Soviet Gypsy musical troupe “is an expression of a change in our relations with the Soviet Union.”

March 23, 1987

The Soviet Union has sent a group of performers on a tour of Israel for the first time since the Kremlin broke relations with Israel 20 years ago, an Israeli Foreign Ministry official said Wednesday.

March 19, 1987

Pope Francis made an unprecedented bid for peace in the Holy Land on Sunday by hosting a prayer meeting at the Vatican with the presidents of Israel and Palestine Authority.

June 8, 2014

For Israeli composer Shimon Cohen, “Jerusalem is the inner sanctum of the whole world.”

Aug. 16, 1989

The Israel Film Festival opens at the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences in Beverly Hills on Oct. 5 with a gala premiere of Orna Ben-Dor Niv’s “Newland,” a post-Holocaust drama about a brother and sister searching for their mother in the new state of Israel.

Aug. 31, 1994

Israeli Foreign Minister Shimon Peres, in an unprecedented appearance before a group of recording industry executives, personal managers, agents and lawyers, told them that rock music was “like praying” to some Israeli youth and exhorted them to “come ‘pray’ with our young people, so they will celebrate our 40th anniversary” in 1988.

Sept. 29, 1987

For its local debut, Wednesday at the Wilshire Ebell Theatre, the Daniel String Quartet offered three works that revealed its strengths and weaknesses--and in the most unlikely places.

Nov. 7, 1986

Jollity and irrepressibility may be qualities the Netherlands-based Daniel String Quartet are capable of invoking and projecting, but one couldn’t have known that from the ensemble’s visit to Beckman Auditorium in Pasadena Sunday, when its program offered a melancholy first half and a stoic post-intermission.

March 5, 1996

* Yes, many people have killed their old gods for new-model idols.

Sept. 9, 1994