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Beer Sheva Fringe Festival in Beer Sheva
First held as the single-street Smilansky Street Festival in July 2005, this event grew within five years into the International Fringe Festival, now southern Israel's largest cultural gathering. Each July, Beer Sheva's Old City fills with theatre, dance, music, street art and visual-art installations from Israeli and international performers.
A single-street event called the Smilansky Street Festival, first held in Beer Sheva in July 2005, grew within five years into the International Fringe Festival, now the largest cultural gathering in southern Israel and one of the country's leading multidisciplinary festivals.