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Icon - Science Fiction And Fantasy Festival

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When: Annually in Sukot holiday Sep - Oct (2012 TBA)

Where: Eshkol Pais site, Tel-Aviv, Israel

Icon – Science Fiction and Fantasy Festival is held every year in Sukkoth (September/October various dates). It is aimed for lovers of science fiction and fantasy in literature, comics, television and movies.

The three days of the festival include original productions, legend beer site, funny games with the participation of the audience, science and academic lectures, exciting lectures and reading club.

In addition, the festival holds great variety of activities as: writing workshops, screening movies and series, activities on subjects as Tolkin, Harry Potter, Buffy the Vampire Slayer, comics, Anima, fair, shirt competition and various surprises.

The festival is produced by the Israeli association of science fiction and fantasy with the help of the Israeli Tolkin association and more. The festival provides accommodation for guests at "Ironi A." school near by.

The festival management emphasizes that this is one of the few festivals in Tel - Aviv that provides visitors accommodation (free!).

The festival's program, lineup information and the admission fee cost are present in the festival's website.

IMPORTANT:
Please note that the details of the event are subject to change. We strongly recommended that you check with the organizers before making any travel arrangements.

Event related information:

Links:

Icon festival Website

Contact:

Marketing@iconfestival.org.il

Icon festival
Eshkol Pais site
4 Shprintzak ST.
Tel-Aviv
Phone: +972 (0) 547444340
Tickets@iconfestival.org.il

Admission fee:

Various

Israel - background and overview:

Following World War II, the British withdrew from their mandate of Palestine, and the UN partitioned the area into Arab and Jewish states, an arrangement rejected by the Arabs. Subsequently, the Israelis defeated the Arabs in a series of wars without ending the deep tensions between the two sides. The territories occupied by Israel since the 1967 war are not included in the Israel country profile, unless otherwise noted. On 25 April 1982, Israel withdrew from the Sinai pursuant to the 1979 Israel-Egypt Peace Treaty. Israel and Palestinian officials signed on 13 September 1993 a Declaration of Principles (also known as the "Oslo Accords") guiding an interim period of Palestinian self-rule. Outstanding territorial and other disputes with Jordan were resolved in the 26 October 1994 Israel-Jordan Treaty of Peace. In addition, on 25 May 2000, Israel withdrew unilaterally from southern Lebanon, which it had occupied since 1982. In keeping with the framework established at the Madrid Conference in October 1991, bilateral negotiations were conducted between Israel and Palestinian representatives and Syria to achieve a permanent settlement. In April 2003, US President BUSH, working in conjunction with the EU, UN, and Russia - the "Quartet" - took the lead in laying out a roadmap to a final settlement of the conflict by 2005, based on reciprocal steps by the two parties leading to two states, Israel and a democratic Palestine. However, progress toward a permanent status agreement was undermined by Palestinian-Israeli violence between September 2000 and February 2005. An agreement reached at Sharm al-Sheikh in February 2005 significantly reduced the violence. The election in January 2005 of Mahmud ABBAS as the new Palestinian leader following the November 2004 death of Yasir ARAFAT, the formation of a Likud-Labor-United Torah Judaism coalition government in January 2005, and the successful Israeli disengagement from the Gaza Strip (August-September 2005), presented an opportunity for a renewed peace effort. However, internal Israeli political events between October and December 2005 have destabilized the political situation and forced early elections, scheduled for March 2006.

[Courtesy of The World Factbook]

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