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Esther Rada
Ester Rada ( he, אסתר רָדָא, born March 7, 1985) is an Israeli actress and singer. Biography Rada was born in Kiryat Arba, Israel, to a religious Ethiopian-Jewish family. Her parents, originally from a village near Gondar, were rescued by Israel from a refugee camp in Sudan during Operation Moses, in 1984. She grew up speaking Amharic at home and Hebrew in school. Her father was known as a cantor in the Ethiopian community in Kiryat Arba. Her parents divorced when she was a child and later on, she moved with her mother and older brother to Netanya in 1996, when Rada was 11 years old, which she considers a turning point in her life, since the family moved to a less observant neighbourhood where the majority were Ethiopian Jews, and also started to interact with French '' olim'', who were familiar with funk and rap, something unheard of in a religious Jewish settlement like Kiryat Arba. She began working on her second album, after releasing her acclaimed first s ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kiryat Arba
:''This article is mainly about the modern Israeli settlement, not the biblical town'' Kiryat Arba or Qiryat Arba ( he, קִרְיַת־אַרְבַּע, , Town of the Four) is an urban Israeli settlement on the outskirts of Hebron, in the southern West Bank. Founded in 1968, in it had a population of . The international community considers Israeli settlements illegal under international law, but the Israeli government disputes this. Biblical town: etymology and location In the Hebrew Bible Kiryat Arba is mentioned in the Hebrew Bible as the former name of Hebron and as the place where Abraham's wife, Sarah, has died: "And Sarah died at Kiriath-arba (that is, Hebron)" (). The Book of Joshua says: "Now the name of Hebron formerly was Kiriath-arba; this Arba was the greatest man among the Anakim." (). It is also a place listed as Nehemiah as where some of the people of Judah are living. There is no reference to Hebron in Nehemiah. Identification Some researchers identify Tel R ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
