“Behirot Shel Amanut,” meaning “Choices in Art,” brings together 36 artists at the Amiad Center, 12 Amiad Street in Jaffa, from October 27 to November 22, 2026. Admission to the exhibition is free. Accompanying events require advance registration, and some have a participation fee.
Curated by Iris Elhanani and Yael Nitzan and produced by ChooseArt, the exhibition brings together painting, photography, collage, paper works and sculpture. Its subjects include women, memory, identity and social and political realities. Participating artists include Dan Chamizer, Dov Heller, Harold Rubin, Ella Okev and Veronica Elron.
Program highlights: Iris Elhanani will lead a guided tour on Thursday, November 5, at 6pm. Yael Nitzan leads another on Monday, November 16, at 4pm. Each tour costs NIS 25 per person.
On Tuesday, November 10, at 6:30pm, the Pink Lionesses will discuss choosing life after breast cancer and their dragon-boat rowing on the Yarkon. The event is free, with an optional NIS 25 donation. On Thursday, November 12, at 6:30pm, Bonot Alternativa CEO Omer Shteimetz Haskel will speak about protest art, accompanied by a protest-photography exhibition. Admission is NIS 25.
A free gallery talk with the artists and curators takes place on Saturday, November 14, at noon. On Tuesday, November 17, at 6:30pm, Anat Kotzer will moderate a panel on women’s presence in art with Vivi Gan Mor, Ella Okev, Yael Nitzan, Sheila Oringer and Veronica Elron. It will introduce a project making art accessible through touch for blind people and plans for a women’s museum. Participation requires a NIS 25 donation. A benefit sale of “Plates of Hope,” works by 50 women artists, will support the museum initiative.
On Thursday, November 19, at 6:30pm, artist and writer Yafit Saranga will discuss food habits, personal choices and treatment of animals in a NIS 25 event. The closing dance performance, “Two Worlds,” pairs Jill and Amnon Damti, a hearing artist and a deaf artist, on Saturday, November 21, at 7pm. Tickets cost NIS 85.
Program and event registration, in Hebrew. Further information: 050-9345829.
