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There are still plenty of events and tours to enjoy in Israel during the summer holidays. For example, visit some of the new and updated sites in Beer Sheva (TY Sharon – ).

Visitors to a new exhibit on Operation Entebbe, at the Yitzhak Rabin Center in Tel Aviv, will be able to view photographs, documents and items from the daring hostage rescue that until now were shut away in the halls of Mossad headquarters.

My wife recently met a US intern working with the Israel Premier Lacrosse League (IPLL). He had been coaching children at an Israeli summer camp. El Al sponsored a Taglit-Birthright trip for more than 40 US lacrosse athletes who have donated equipment and are teaching Israelis to play.

Rock & Port is a series of outdoor concerts with top Israeli musicians and bands at the Port of Tel Aviv – all free! The sandbox on the north deck will turn into an outdoor concert venue during July and August. E.g. Aug 23 - Avraham Tal, Tuesday, August 25 - Hadag Nachash

Tourists walking in Jerusalem’s pedestrianized Yoel Moshe Solomon Street will be able to get a little shade this summer thanks to 1000 colored umbrellas suspended across the artsy lane. The Umbrellas Street Project has free shows by local street artists and musicians until 5th Oct. And TY Size Doesn’t Matter and The Culture Trip for 5 other ways to cool down in Jerusalem.

Launched in June 2014, the English National Theatre of Israel produces, promotes and provides a platform for professional theatre and musicals in English. They have just finished staging five performances of "You won't succeed on Broadway, if you don't have any Jews".

The United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization has declared a 2nd century CE Jewish burial complex at Beit She’arim in northern Israel a World Heritage Site. The necropolis contains the tomb of Judah the Prince, who documented the Mishna, the Jewish Oral Law.

On July 17 and 31, from 1pm to 6pm Poleg beach, Netanya is hosting the Israel Beach Soccer Games.

Israel is hosting the European Women’s Under-19 Championships starting on 15th July.

38-year-old Israeli Jonathan Ehrlich and his German tennis doubles partner Phillipp Petzschner won through from the UK Wimbledon tennis championships qualifying competition to the semi-finals before eventually being beaten by the 13th seeds Jamie Murray and John Peers.