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A cello concert was performed by Umut Sağlam at the Hemdat Israel Synagogue in Kadiköy, Istanbul, in the framework of the 50th Istanbul Music Festival organized by the Istanbul Foundation for Culture and Arts (IKSV).

Organized by the Union of the Jews of Turkey in Israel (IYT - Itahdut Yotsei Turkia), with the support of the Turkey Tourism Promotion and Development Agency (TGA), the comedy that has received the Best Theatre Play Award ´Seninle Evlenir miyim? (Would I Marry You?)´ was performed in Tel Aviv on dates June 16th and 18th.

The tenth annual conference of Sefarad - Society of Sephardic Studies will be held in Belgrade, between the dates June 28th and 30th.

Israel´s travel warnings for its citizens visiting Turkey due to possible attacks by Iran continue. The Israeli Minister of Foreign Affairs Yair Lapid stated that he would be visiting Turkey on Thursday.

The regulation allowing the Minority Foundations to elect their board of directors has been published in the Government Gazette.

Turkey´s Chief Rabbi Isak Haleva, during his interview with The Jerusalem Post newspaper, stated that the Israeli tourists were not under any threat in Turkey and that indeed they were safe here.

During the 32nd convention of the Conference of European Rabbis held in Munich, Rabbi Izak Peres from the Turkish Jewish Community was appointed as a member of the association´s Standing Committee Veida Matmedet.

The ´Yako Taragano Synagogue Chants Choir´ has performed in the context of the ´Capital Culture Road Festival´ organized by the Turkish Ministry of Culture and Tourism.

The book ´Jewish Cuisine of Edirne´, written by Aydemir Ay and Dr. Yilmaz Seçim, and published by the Municipality of Edirne in three different languages, Turkish, English, and Ladino, has been awarded at the Gourmand World Cookbook Awards 2022.

The 2021-2022 Collective Bat Mitzvah Ceremony of the Annette Bat Mitzvah Club, which had been established within the Turkish Jewish Community´s Chief Rabbinate Education Commission (HEGKOM) in 2002, was realized in the Neve Shalom Synagogue on Sunday, May 29th.

The Historical Italian Synagogue Kal de Los Francos housed the traditional Shavuot ceremony on Sunday, May 29th, after the two-and-a-half-year break due to the pandemic.

The famous writer, poet, and artist Josef Habib Gerez lost his life.

The ´Sepharad - Traces of a Multicultural Heritage´ exhibition, organized in the framework of the 530th anniversary of the Sephardic Jews´ coming to the Ottoman lands, is opened in Spain.

The Burgazada Island Summer Camp (Burgazada Tatil Evi), located in Burgazada, one of the beautiful Princes´ Islands of Istanbul, while entertaining the children and young people, has also been serving as a peaceful recreational place for the old people, for years. We asked a few questions to President Morris Kohen and co-President Sandra Yurgaf as to what awaits us at the Burgazada Island Summer Camp this year.

The Norwegian Helsinki Committee Freedom of Belief Initiative has published the Monitoring Report on the Right to Freedom of Religion or Belief in Turkey, 2022. The report titled "An Appeal to Move Forward from Aspirations to Actions" covers the legislative, judicial, and administrative developments on the right to freedom of religion or belief between April 2019 and December 2021 in Turkey.

The renowned pianist, composer, soprano, and music therapist Renan Koen performed a concert at the Turkish Embassy in Washington DC, to commemorate Yom Hashoa - Holocaust Remembrance Day.

The ´Black Frame of the History´ Exhibition which the KaraKare committee has prepared under the leadership of Alef youth, is open for visiting until May 8th, at the Neve Shalom Cultural Center.

Yom HaShoah - Holocaust Remembrance Day, where the lives lost during the Holocaust are commemorated, is on Thursday, April 28th this year.

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Turkish Airlines and AnadoluJet have announced that they will be increasing their flights to Israel. They stated that there would be 89 flights between Israel and Turkey during the summer. Among the cities that there will be flights to and from Israel are Istanbul, Antalya, and Muğla.