Scholarship applications for the academic year 2012-2013 should be submitted to the Belgian Embassy until January 31st 2012. The application forms can be downloaded from this website. Click here for more details.
Belgian Prime Minister and Minister of Foreign Affairs reiterate their commitment to fight racism and anti-Semitism
On the occasion of the International Holocaust Remembrance Day which took place on January 27th, Prime Minister Elio Di Rupo and Deputy Prime Minister and Minister for Foreign Affairs Didier Reynders "expressed their solidarity with all the victims of this horror, their relatives and descendants". The ministers reiterated that "Belgium is committed to redoubling its efforts to promote Human Rights and support the fight against all forms of racism and anti-Semitism and to prevent at all costs future genocides". Click here for the full press release issued by the Federal Public Service Foreign Affairs.
Come and join us at a Belgian evening
On the occasion of the opening of the Tel Aviv Accessible Art Fair (February 12-16) , we will be happy to host you at the special Belgian evening on February 12th from 20h00, at the Museum of Antiquities in Yaffo (10 Mifratz Shlomo Street, Yaffo). Paintings of the Belgian artists Gartner and George Brandstatter will be exhibited. A festive cocktail will precede the exhibition. The idea to give the public the opportunity to buy art works at very reasonable prices, while meeting the artists, was first launched by Belgian Stéphanie Attias in Brussels five years ago. The project has met with great success and today such"non elitist" fairs are regularly organized in European cities. This is the second Tel Aviv fair.
Film of Dardenne brothers on screens
The film Le gamin au vélo (the Kid with a Bike) written and directed by the Belgian brothers Jean-Pierre and Luc Dardenne is now on screens. The film tells the story of an 11 year old boy who befriends a young woman and together they set out to find his father who abandoned him. The film received the Grand Prix at the 2011 Cannes Film Festival, which is the festival's second most prestigious award.
A ceremony to mark Belgium's presidency of the "International Task Force for Holocaust Remembrance, Education and Research"
The National Committee of the Jewish Community of Belgium for Restitution and Memory will hold a Solemn Ceremony on January 26th in Mechelen, to emphasize the importance of the Belgian presidency of the "International Task Force for Holocaust Remembrance, Education and Research". Belgium will take up the rotating chairmanship of the ITF on March 2012 until March 2013. The ceremony will be attended by Prime Minister Elio Di Rupo and by Herman Van Rompuy, President of the European Council. The ITF is an inter-governmental organization consisting of 28 Member States, which was created in 1998 and whose aims are to mobilize and coordinate support for Holocaust education, remembrance and research on the national and international levels.
Venus and Adonis - Rubens at the Israel Museum
The painting "Venus lamenting Adonis" (ca. 1614), by Flemish artist Peter Paul Rubens was chosen to inaugurate the "Focus" exhibition at the Israel Museum, which will focus each time on one masterpiece from the Museum's holdings, providing an in-depth exploration of the context - conceptual, literary and visual - in which the work was created. The exhibition "Rubens, Venus and Adonis: Anatomy of a Tragedy (January 10 - May 6, 2012) will examine this monumental masterpiece, analyzing its iconographic sources, its composition, and its place within the development of Ruben's style. Drawings, preparatory oil sketches and paintings by the master will be exhibited, in order to illuminate Ruben's special interest in the subject of Venus and Adonis, the artistic influence of his travels to Italy and the place this painting occupies in his oeuvre.
Belgian designers in "Curious Minds" exhibition at the Israel Museum
Antwerp based design studio "Unfold" is one of the designers participating in the exhibition "Curious Minds", currently running at the Israel Museum until April 30th. Unfold was founded in 2002 by Claire Warnier and Dries Verbruggen, after they graduated from the Design Academy Eindhoven. The duo developed a strong multidisciplinary approach rooted in design, technology and art. They collaborate with a vast network of colleagues worldwide. The exhibition at the Israel Museum presents about 30 international designers from Europe, Asia and the US whose works map out new territories and encourage a new discourse about the role of design in shaping the world of tomorrow.
About Belgium
For many Israelis, Belgium owes its fame to the dynamic Jewish community of Antwerp - one of the world's most important diamond exchange centers - to its capital Brussels and to some of its national products such as chocolate and beer. But Belgium is much more than that.
On the occasion of the opening of the Tel Aviv Accessible Art Fair (February 12-16) , we will be happy to host you at the special Belgian evening on February 12th from 20h00, at the Museum of Antiquities in Yaffo (10 Mifratz Shlomo Street, Yaffo). Paintings of the Belgian artists Gartner and George Brandstatter will be exhibited. A festive cocktail will precede the exhibition. The idea to give the public the opportunity to buy art works at very reasonable prices, while meeting the artists, was first launched by Belgian Stéphanie Attias in Brussels five years ago. The project has met with great success and today such"non elitist" fairs are regularly organized in European cities. This is the second Tel Aviv fair.
The film Le gamin au vélo (the Kid with a Bike) written and directed by the Belgian brothers Jean-Pierre and Luc Dardenne is now on screens. The film tells the story of an 11 year old boy who befriends a young woman and together they set out to find his father who abandoned him. The film received the Grand Prix at the 2011 Cannes Film Festival, which is the festival's second most prestigious award. 
The painting "Venus lamenting Adonis" (ca. 1614), by Flemish artist Peter Paul Rubens was chosen to inaugurate the "Focus" exhibition at the Israel Museum, which will focus each time on one masterpiece from the Museum's holdings, providing an in-depth exploration of the context - conceptual, literary and visual - in which the work was created. The exhibition "Rubens, Venus and Adonis: Anatomy of a Tragedy (January 10 - May 6, 2012) will examine this monumental masterpiece, analyzing its iconographic sources, its composition, and its place within the development of Ruben's style. Drawings, preparatory oil sketches and paintings by the master will be exhibited, in order to illuminate Ruben's special interest in the subject of Venus and Adonis, the artistic influence of his travels to Italy and the place this painting occupies in his oeuvre. 
Antwerp based design studio "Unfold" is one of the designers participating in the exhibition "Curious Minds", currently running at the Israel Museum until April 30th. Unfold was founded in 2002 by Claire Warnier and Dries Verbruggen, after they graduated from the Design Academy Eindhoven. The duo developed a strong multidisciplinary approach rooted in design, technology and art. They collaborate with a vast network of colleagues worldwide. The exhibition at the Israel Museum presents about 30 international designers from Europe, Asia and the US whose works map out new territories and encourage a new discourse about the role of design in shaping the world of tomorrow. 
For many Israelis, Belgium owes its fame to the dynamic Jewish community of Antwerp - one of the world's most important diamond exchange centers - to its capital Brussels and to some of its national products such as chocolate and beer. But Belgium is much more than that.