First held in 1963, the Jerusalem International Book Fair is a unique winter biennial event, is known as a business Fair and a Literary Festival. Admission is free to the public. Many heads of publishing houses, agents, sales personnel, international human rights representatives, editors and authors take part. The Fair’s prestigious Editorial and Agent Fellowship Programs invites a group of young promising and talented editors and agents to attend the Fair providing them with an opportunity to meet their international contemporaries. The Fair aims to promote Israeli literature in international publishing and expose contemporary international literature to the Israeli public with attendance of 600 publishers and authors from over 30 countries, it displays more than 100,000 books.