The seats on which you will sit are in ruins. Your clothes are likely to be dirtied by dust...We are not responsible for injury caused to anyone attending the concert.
The warning on the invitations to a concert during Israel's first Music Festival was accuratebut discouraged no one. Armed with cushions and parasols, 1,200 Israelis pushed through two passageways into the ancient, open-air theater amid the ghostly remains of Caesarea, chief port of Rome's eastern colonies, built by Herod the Great ten years before the birth of Christ. Behind the orchestra pit lay cracked columns and stonework that bore witness to...