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Rachel Shapira
Rachel Shapira ( he, רחל שפירא, born July 25 1945) is an Israeli songwriter and poet. She rose to prominence after the Six-Day War with her anti-war song "''Mah Avarekh''" ("With What Shall I Bless?"), set to music by Yair Rosenblum, and went on to write some of the "greatest classics" of Hebrew song. Her songs have been set to music by leading Israeli composers and performed by top Israeli artists. Early life Shapira was born in 1945 on Kibbutz Shefayim in central Israel. She began writing songs at age 12, putting her own lyrics on Hebrew and secular melodies. At the time, she did not have any aspirations to be a songwriter or poet, but she did send her songs to popular children's magazines to be published under a pseudonym. On her kibbutz, she worked as a special education teacher, specializing in reading problems and dyslexia. Songwriting career Shapira rose to national prominence with her 1967 anti-war song "''Mah Avarekh''" ("With What Shall I Bless?"), written in the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Shefayim
Shefayim ( he, שְׁפָיִים, ''lit.'' High Hills) is a kibbutz in central Israel located 2.5 miles north of Herzliya along the Mediterranean coast. Shefayim falls under the jurisdiction of Hof HaSharon Regional Council. In it had a population of . History Kibbutz Shefayim was established in 1935 by Jewish immigrants from Poland. The name is taken from the Book of Isaiah: "I will open rivers in high hills." (). During the British Mandate for Palestine, Shefayim was a base for clandestine immigration. In the 1948 Arab–Israeli War, it absorbed refugees from the abandoned kibbutz Beit HaArava near the Dead Sea. In the early 1970s, the kibbutz established Polycad, a plastics factory. In the early 1980s, it established the Shafit biotechnology plant. In the mid-1990s, it acquired the Zirei Israel plant, which has become a leader in the Israeli cotton-ginning industry. In 2012 IBM acquired New York- and Shefayim-based mobile application developer Worklight Ltd., f ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Festigal
Festigal ( he, פסטיגל) is an annual Israeli song and dance musical show for children. Festigal is held every year at Hanukkah time, during the school vacation. It began as a song contest but the format gradually changed to include performances by well-known Israeli singers and actors. Each year's event is built around a particular theme or story. History The first Festigal took place in the city of Haifa in 1981 and was the brainchild of impresario Miki Peled (later to be joined by his son, Yaron Peled). Since then, it has been held in venues nationwide. It is among the largest events during Hanukkah. For example, in 2006, about NIS 18 million NIS were allocated for the concerts."The Festigal audience never gets older" '' |
Ballad
A ballad is a form of verse, often a narrative set to music. Ballads derive from the medieval French ''chanson balladée'' or ''ballade'', which were originally "dance songs". Ballads were particularly characteristic of the popular poetry and song of Britain and Ireland from the Late Middle Ages until the 19th century. They were widely used across Europe, and later in Australia, North Africa, North America and South America. Ballads are often 13 lines with an ABABBCBC form, consisting of couplets (two lines) of rhymed verse, each of 14 syllables. Another common form is ABAB or ABCB repeated, in alternating eight and six syllable lines. Many ballads were written and sold as single sheet broadsides. The form was often used by poets and composers from the 18th century onwards to produce lyrical ballads. In the later 19th century, the term took on the meaning of a slow form of popular love song and is often used for any love song, particularly the sentimental ballad of pop or roc ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Duo Datz
Duo Datz (Hebrew: אורנה ומשה דץ, ''Orna U-Moshe Datz''; commonly referred in Hebrew as דץ ודצה ''Datz Ve-Datza'') is the common English name for the duo made up of Orna and Moshe Datz. The popular artists are best known in Europe for performing for Israel at the 1991 Eurovision Song Contest. Their song '' Kan'' (Hebrew for ''Here''; The English version of the song is called: ''Come Along'') came third with 139 points, behind Sweden and France, who both scored 146 points. They had previously entered in the Kdam KDAM (94.3 FM) is a hot adult contemporary radio station serving Yankton, South Dakota, Yankton and Vermillion, South Dakota area that is city of license, licensed to Hartington, Nebraska. KDAM is owned and operated by Riverfront Broadcasting LL ... contest in 1987 with ''Kupidon'' (''Cupid''), coming fourth with 63 points. In Israel they are known for the middle of the road type of music and their series of children's DVDs. On 22 December 2006 the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Hakol Over Habibi
Hakol Over Habibi (Hebrew: הכל עובר חביבי, lit. "Everything goes by, my love"; also known in English as Habibi Group) was an Israeli musical band which represented their country in Eurovision Song Contest 1981 with the song "Halayla". The band consisted of: Shlomit Aharon, Kiki Rothstein, Yuval Dor and Ami Mandelman. They had originally been offered the song "Hallelujah" as a potential Eurovision entry in 1978 but turned it down. The song went on to represent Israel in 1979 Events January * January 1 ** United Nations Secretary-General Kurt Waldheim heralds the start of the ''International Year of the Child''. Many musicians donate to the ''Music for UNICEF Concert'' fund, among them ABBA, who write the song ... but was performed by Milk and Honey winning that year's contest. History The band was formed in 1975, when Amnon Branson produced a performance of songs from the 1950s, directed by Tzadi Tzarfati and under the musical direction of Eldad Sharim . ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Maariv (newspaper)
''Maariv'' () is a Hebrew-language daily newspaper published in Israel. From Sunday to Thursday, it is printed under the ''Ma'ariv Hashavu'a'' () brand, while the weekend edition that is out on Friday is called ''Ma'ariv SofHashavu'a'' (). A daily, abridged version of the newspaper, called ''Ma'ariv Haboker'' (), is distributed for free every morning during the week. ''Ma'ariv Haboker'' is the fourth Israeli newspaper in readership (after '' Israel HaYom'', ''Yedioth Ahronoth'' and ''Haaretz''). Since May 2014, ''Maariv''s co-editors in chief are Doron Cohen and Golan Bar-Yosef. Apart from the daily newspaper and its supplements, ''Maariv'' has a chain of local newspapers with a national scale distribution and magazines division. History ''Maariv'' was founded in 1948 by former ''Yediot Aharonot'' journalists led by Dr. Ezriel Carlebach, who became Maariv's first editor-in-chief. It was the most widely read newspaper in Israel in its first twenty years. For many years, the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Dani Litani
Dani Litani ( he, דני ליטני; born June 30, 1943) is an Israeli musician, singer, actor and voice actor. Biography Early life Born in Haifa, Litani learned to play the piano at age six and at age nine, he and his family moved to Jerusalem. He also spent some of his childhood in Ein HaShofet and Sha'ar HaAmakim where he improved on playing the guitar and the accordion. At age 17, Litani returned to Haifa and took an interest in blues and soul music, then he later founded a band with several friends. After completing his military service, Litani founded another band which rose to fame since The Six-Day War. The band remained active throughout the 1960s. Music career In 1970, Litani ventured out into a solo career. Since then, he moved to Tel Aviv and abandoned his birth name. While in Tel Aviv, he met fellow musician Drora Havkin and made several collaborations with her. While performing, Litani often accompanies himself on the guitar and the harmonica and is heavily influ ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Margalit Tzan'ani
Margalit "Margol" Tzan'ani ( he, מרגלית "מרגול" צנעני; born December 19, 1948) is an Israeli singer and television personality. Tzan'ani is famous for her repertoire of Israeli oriental music style with soul influences, as well as jazz, blues, rock, and pop. Biography Tzan'ani was born in Aden, to a religious Jewish family originally from Sana'a, Yemen. When she was one year old, the family immigrated to Israel with her, and resided in Netanya city. She was the eldest of seven children. Her father, Shalom, was a diamond industry worker, and her mother, Lola, was a housewife.Don't mess around with me She married Mordi Lavi in 1977 and has one son, Asaf. She divorced in 1985. For ma ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Riki Gal
Riki Gal ( he, ריקי גל, born July 7, 1950, in Jerusalem) is an Israeli singer. Gal, who reached the height of her career in the 1980s, sings a mix of blues, folk and pop. Biography Rivka Menashe (later Riki Gal) was born in 1950 to an Orthodox family in the poor neighborhood of Mea Shearim in Jerusalem. In her early years, Gal experienced a hard childhood: her parents divorced when she was two years old and she was taken to an institution in Kfar Saba along with her brother Menachem . Her mother was then able to raise the children on her own, but later could not afford the cost of growth, so she handed her children over to the nuns who raised them with strict discipline. In 1968, at the age of seventeen, Gal was drafted into the navy, where she began her music career. After completing her military service in 1971, she married Yisrael Poliakov of the HaGashash HaHiver trio. The couple divorced in 1975. Following the divorce, Gal flew to New York, where she got married the sec ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Anat Atzmon
Anat Atzmon ( he, ענת עצמון, born 27 November 1958) is an Israeli actress and singer. Biography Atzmon was born and raised in Tel Aviv. She is the daughter of the theater actor Shmulik Atzmon. In her childhood her father exposed her to the Yiddish culture. Atzmon studied at the Aleph High School of Arts Tel Aviv (תיכון א' לאמנויות תל אביב). In 1976 Atzmon was drafted and she subsequently served in the IDF theater. After her military service Atzmon learned to act in the Tel Aviv University. Atzmon became widely famous in Israel during 1978, when she played the main character of Nili in Boaz Davidson's cult youth film ''Lemon Popsicle'' (''Eskimo Lemon''). Following the enormous success of ''Lemon Popsicle'' and the publicity given to Atzmon, in 1979 she starred in Avi Nesher's film ''Dizengoff 99''. This film also won a phenomenal success and evidently also become an Israeli cult film. In 1981 Atzmon played in the film '' The Vulture'' and in 1982 s ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Gali Atari
Gali Atari ( he, גלי עטרי; born December 29, 1953) is an Israeli singer and actress. Atari won the Eurovision Song Contest 1979 which was held in Jerusalem, as part of Milk and Honey. Early life Atari was born in Rehovot, Israel, to Jewish parents who immigrated to Israel from Yemen. She is the sister of Yona Atari, a singer and actress, and Shosh Atari, a radio host and TV personality. Her father died when she was four years old, and, after his death, her family moved to live in Tel-Aviv. Career 1970s Atari was introduced to the Israeli musician David Kribushe when she was 15 years old. After an audition for him, he gave her a featured singing part in one of his songs “Half and Half”. In 1970, when she was 17 years old, she recorded two songs. The first song was in English, and it was called “Give Love Away”. The second song was a Hebrew song called “Im yesh lecha shemesh” (If You Have the Sun). The song became a big hit in Israel, and Atari represented Is ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ruhama Raz
Ruhama Raz ( he, רוחמה רז, born 1955, in Jerusalem), is an Israeli singer. Biography Raz was born in Jerusalem as Ruhama Zargari. When she was accepted to a military band she decided to change her last name to Raz. Raz served in the Central Command band (להקת פיקוד מרכז). After she finished her military service Raz participated in the 1977 Song Festival (פסטיבל הזמר והפזמון) in which she won the first place with the song " Rakefet". In 1978 Raz participated in the children's song festival (פסטיבל שירי הילדים) with the song "Yaarit". In 1979, Raz released the album "Dreams" (חלומות). The album included one of Raz's biggest solo hits, "Dreams" (חלומות), written by Rachel Shapiro to a music composed by Yair Klinger. During that time she married a member of Kibbutz Gal On. She moved to the kibbutz, where later the couple had two daughters. Raz choose to put a halt to her musical career in favor of raising her family. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
