WELCOME TO THE JERUSALEM INTERNATIONAL BOOK FORUM
Welcome to the

Jerusalem
International

Book Forum

May 18-20, 2025

Click Here to See the 2025 Program

In collaboration with the International Writers Festival, Mishkenot Sha’ananim.

The International Writers Festival
  • The Forum

    The JIBF is a project of the Municipality of Jerusalem, produced by the Ariel Municipal Company.

    Since its inception in 1963, the JIBF – originally established as the Jerusalem International Book Fair, renamed and restructured in 2019 as the Jerusalem International Book Forum –has been bringing together members of the international publishing community for a week of professional and intellectual as well as informal gatherings.

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  • The Zev Birger Editorial Fellowship Program

    The Zev Birger Editorial Fellowship program, sponsored by the George von Holtzbrinck Publishing Group since its inception in 1985, is a week-long professional seminar bringing together leading editors agents and scouts from around the world to discuss significant issues of interest to the international publishing community.

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The 2025 JIBF presents a special edition in Jerusalem. Registration has begun.

  • The 2025 Jerusalem Prize recipient

  • French Author Michel Houellebecq
  • French Author Michel Houellebecq

    The Jerusalem Prize will be awarded this coming May (2025) to French Author Michel Houellebecq. Michel Houellebecq, author, poet, essayist, and filmmaker, is the author of over a dozen books….

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  • Sponsored by
  • The Georg von Holtzbrinck Publishing Group
  • Penguin Random House
  • Jerusalem Municipality
  • Ariel Municipal Company
  • Ministry of Culture and Sport
  • Mishkenot Sha'ananim
  • YMCA