Jerusalem’s top events for the week of April 4th

Passover and Easter are history and it’s back to life, back to reality
in (for a short time, anyway) in Jerusalem. While the weather is still
somewhat indecisive, spring fever is definitely in the air and you can
count on another full week of shows, dance, music, lectures and kids
events ahead.

• The International Ice Festival at the Old Train Station
  is going strong and the holiday crowds are history! A visit to this
  year’s ice festival is a excitement-filled challenge from start to
  finish with slides, mazes and tunnels on a journey that begins in
  Jerusalem and ends in the Far East. Also new this year is a daily ice
  dance performance. Click here to get your tickets now!

• The elephants are coming! Well, not quite, but the Circus really is: the Jerusalem Mall (Malcha) presents circus performances from all over the world that the whole family will enjoy, every Thursday in April. This week it’s the African Circus with stunning, energetic acrobatics and everyone is invited.
• The Museum of Islamic Art’s Sping Friday series hosts Channel 2’s Ohad Chamu this week with a fascinating lecture “The Road to Hamastan,”
  focusing on his personal experiences including meetings with Hamas
  leaders which give us a behind-the-scenes look into the dangerous,
  foreign world of the Hamas and recent events. In Hebrew.

• With so much going on at Beit Shmuel this weekend, why not just book a room at the guesthouse and stick around for it all? First, the Holy City gets a musical of its own with “Ah Jerusalem” on Thursday (in English). On Saturday morning, kids to learn about Independence Day in a hands-on workshop, followed by a spectacular ballet performance on Saturday night.
• Two of Miro’s works from the Israel Museum’s
  collection, Painting (Spanish Dancer), 1927, and the drawing Spanish
  Dancer, 1924, are at the focus of “Joan Miro