"Voices Shaping Tolerance" Launches with a Festive Weekend Marking 30 Years of Hadag Nahash

The Museum of Tolerance Jerusalem launched its new flagship series, "Voices Shaping Tolerance: Icons of Tolerance," with a celebratory weekend marking 30 years of Hadag Nahash, three decades of an unmistakable Israeli soundtrack shaped by groove, social commentary, and a powerful cultural voice.

From June 25 to 27, 2026, the Museum turned into a lively space of music, conversation, and shared experience. Across the weekend, performances and talks explored the meeting point of culture, society, and tolerance, inspired by the idea of Abraham’s Tent, a space built on openness, listening, and shared language.

The weekend opened with a special performance by Hadag Nahash, one of Israel’s most influential and loved bands. Over the past three decades, the group has become a defining voice in Israeli culture. Their music blends humor, protest, deep grooves, and sharp reflections on Israeli life, and has become part of the country’s cultural soundtrack across generations.

Alongside the performances and conversations, the weekend also featured musician SAZ and broadcaster Assaf Liberman, who helped broaden the conversation between music, society, and contemporary Israeli life.

For the Museum of Tolerance Jerusalem, opening the series with Hadag Nahash reflects a desire to highlight cultural creation as a space for dialogue about identity, responsibility, listening, and shared society.

“I think tolerance is each of us making space within ourselves for narratives that are not our own,” said Shaanan Streett, lead singer of Hadag Nahash, during the opening events.

The “Voices Shaping Tolerance” series aims to highlight artists, works, and voices that have helped shape Israeli culture and society, and to create space for dialogue, reflection, and shared creativity around them.

Over the coming year, the series will continue with additional events featuring leading cultural figures and voices at the center of Israel’s ongoing social and cultural conversation.

The Museum of Tolerance Jerusalem thanks everyone who came, listened, danced, and helped make the opening weekend such a meaningful start.

More events will be announced soon.