There are no precise statistics on the number of Bulgarians living in Israel. It is estimated that the Bulgarian Jews who moved there from Bulgaria are about 50,000. Regardless of their number, as in other countries around the world, some of our compatriots are part of an extremely united community, which is helped by numerous cultural initiatives. Among the people with significant merits in this direction is Vesela Raytchinova who chose Israel for her new home in the late 1990s. In addition to being a journalist and teacher, Vesela is the producer of two exciting festivals of a different nature.
For several years, first due to the pandemic and then due to the instability in the region, the festival has been held exclusively in an online format. "When a person loves what they do, one has the opportunity to be a unifier - the festival "Bulgarian Soul in the Holy Land" became a creative terminal and people, coming to our events, got to know each other," Vesela Raytchinova says with a feeling of reward.
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Photos: BNR, Bulgarian Soul in the Holy Land (archive), Milen Dobrev, Dimcho Debelyanov Primary School in Ihtiman
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