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Shlomo Artzi
Shlomo Artzi ( he, שלמה ארצי) is an Israeli folk rock musician, composer, music producer, radio broadcaster columnist and singer-songwriter. He was born on November 26, 1949, in Moshav Alonei Abba. In the course of his career, he has sold over 1.5 million albums, making him one of Israel's most successful male singers. Early life Artzi's parents were Holocaust survivors and their memories deeply influenced him and his sister Nava Semel, a playwright. His father, Yitzhak Artzi, a Zionist activist in Bukovina, Romania in his youth, was later a member of the Knesset. His maternal grandmother was the sister of Rabbi Meir Shapiro. When Artzi was eight years old, his family moved to northern Tel Aviv. Artzi's schoolmates thought he would become an actor, not a musician, as he was known for his acting skills at elementary school. However, at the age of twelve, he started playing the guitar and singing in a boy scouts group and at friends' parties. Musical career 1960s ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Alonei Abba
Alonei Abba ( he, אַלּוֹנֵי אַבָּא, ''lit.'' Abba's Oaks) is a moshav shitufi, or semi-cooperative village, in northern Israel. It was founded in 1948 on the site of the historical Palestinian village of Umm el Amad, later the German Templer Colonies in Palestine, German Protestant Colony of Waldheim. It is located in the Lower Galilee near Bethlehem of Galilee and Alonim, in the hills east of Kiryat Tivon. Alonei Abba falls under the jurisdiction of the Jezreel Valley Regional Council. In it had a population of . History Archaeological investigations indicate that this was an industrial agricultural processing area in the Hellenistic period, Hellenistic and Roman Empire, Roman periods. Among the remains found are Roman-period industrial oil press and a winepress, in addition to a paved path from the same era. Ottoman era Umm al-Amed ''Umm al-'Amad'' was mentioned in the Ottoman Empire, Ottoman defter for the year 1555–6, as ''Mezraa'' land, (that is, cultiva ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Dov Glickman
Dov "Dovaleh" Glickman ( he, דב "דבל'ה" גליקמן; born December 22, 1949) is an Israeli film, television and theatre actor. Biography Dov Glickman was born in Tel Aviv, Israel, to a secular Jewish family. His Russian Jewish parents Shlomo and Dvora immigrated to the Land of Israel in the 1920s. He began his career at the Israel Defense Forces's Naval Entertainment troupe. During the early 1970s he was a member of the Haifa Theatre company, where he played a variety of roles. Acting career In 1977, he made his first film appearance in Judd Ne'eman's ''Paratroopers''. For a period of twenty years between 1978 - 1998, Glickman starred, alongside Moni Moshonov, Shlomo Baraba and Gidi Gov in Israel's longest running television show, the weekly satirical show ''Zehu Ze!''. In 1995, he starred in Ephraim Kishon's TV comedy '' Sipurey Efraim''. In 2013, he played in the internationally acclaimed film ''Big Bad Wolves'' for which he won the Best Actor award at the Fantasporto f ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Rita Kleinstein
Rita may refer to: People * Rita (given name) * Rita (Indian singer) (born 1984) * Rita (Israeli singer) (born 1962) * Rita (Japanese singer) * Eliza Humphreys (1850–1938), wrote under the pseudonym Rita Places * Djarrit, also known as Rita, a community in the Marshall Islands * 1180 Rita, an asteroid * Rita, West Virginia * Santa Rita, California (other), several places Film, television, and theater * ''Rita'' (1959 film), a 1959 Australian television play * ''Rita'' (2009 Italian film), a 2009 Italian film * ''Rita'' (2009 Indian film), a 2009 Marathi film directed by Renuka Shahane * ''Rita'' (TV series), a Danish television show * RITA Award, an award for romantic fiction * ''Educating Rita'', a 1980 stage play by Willy Russel ** ''Educating Rita'' (film), a 1983 British film based on that play *Rita Santos, an adult mermaid on the TV series ''Mako Mermaids'' Music * ''Rita'' (opera), an 1841 opera by Gaetano Donizetti Albums * ''Rita'' (Rita Yahan-Farouz ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Miki Gavrielov
Miki Gavrielov (מיקי גבריאלוב ; born 1949) is an Israeli composer and performer of folk/rock music. His career spans many decades, beginning with being a member of rock group The Churchills. Many of the most popular songs sung by Arik Einstein were ones for which Miki Gavrielov wrote the music. Writing his own songs and performing on his own, Miki Gavrielov brought in influences from other Mediterranean countries, notably Turkey Turkey ( tr, Türkiye ), officially the Republic of Türkiye ( tr, Türkiye Cumhuriyeti, links=no ), is a list of transcontinental countries, transcontinental country located mainly on the Anatolia, Anatolian Peninsula in Western Asia, with ..., from which some of his ancestors immigrated to Israel. Gavrielov has released at least 17 studio albums. Selected discography *ספור של חורף 2000 "Winter Story" References 1949 births Living people Israeli people of Turkish-Jewish descent Israeli people of Armenian-Jewish d ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Arik Einstein
Arieh Lieb "Arik" Einstein ( he, אָרִיק אַייְנְשְׁטֵייְן, ; 3 January 1939 – 26 November 2013) was an Israeli singer, actor, comedian and screenwriter. He was a pioneer of Israeli rock music and was named "the voice of Israel". Through both high public and critical acclamation, Einstein is regarded as the greatest, most popular, and the most influential Israeli artist of all time. An illustrious musical career that spanned over 50 years saw Einstein recording over 500 songs and releasing, collaborating, and featuring in 34 albums, far more than any other Israeli musician. Through the years he collaborated with many well-known Israeli singers and songwriters, including Shalom Hanoch Miki Gavrielov, Yoni Rechter, and Shmulik Kraus. Einstein wrote many of his own songs and was a vocalist with The Churchills, Batzal Yarok and The High Windows. Einstein was also part of, and wrote songs for the Hashomer Hatzair youth movement. Early life Arieh Lieb Einstein ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Yitzhak Rabin
Yitzhak Rabin (; he, יִצְחָק רַבִּין, ; 1 March 1922 – 4 November 1995) was an Israeli politician, statesman and general. He was the fifth Prime Minister of Israel, serving two terms in office, 1974–77, and from 1992 until his assassination in 1995. Rabin was born in Jerusalem to Jewish immigrants from Eastern Europe and was raised in a Labor Zionist household. He learned agriculture in school and excelled as a student. He led a 27-year career as a soldier and ultimately attained the rank of Rav Aluf. As a teenager he joined the Palmach, the commando force of the Yishuv. He eventually rose through its ranks to become its chief of operations during the 1948 Arab–Israeli War. He joined the newly formed Israel Defense Forces in late 1948 and continued to rise as a promising officer. He helped shape the training doctrine of the IDF in the early 1950s, and led the IDF's Operations Directorate from 1959 to 1963. He was appointed Chief of the General Staff in 196 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Israel Defense Forces
The Israel Defense Forces (IDF; he, צְבָא הַהֲגָנָה לְיִשְׂרָאֵל , ), alternatively referred to by the Hebrew-language acronym (), is the national military of the Israel, State of Israel. It consists of three service branches: the Israeli Ground Forces, the Israeli Air Force, and the Israeli Navy. It is the sole military wing of the Israeli security forces, Israeli security apparatus, and has no civilian jurisdiction within Israel. The IDF is headed by the Chief of the General Staff (Israel), Chief of the General Staff, who is subordinate to the Ministry of Defense (Israel), Israeli Defense Minister. On the orders of David Ben-Gurion, the IDF was formed on 26 May 1948 and began to operate as a Conscription in Israel, conscript military, drawing its initial recruits from the already-existing paramilitaries of the Yishuv—namely Haganah, the Irgun, and Lehi (militant group), Lehi. Since its formation shortly after the Israeli Declaration of Independen ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ehud Manor
Ehud Manor (Hebrew: אהוד מנור; born Ehud Weiner; July 13, 1941 – April 12, 2005) was an Israeli lyricist, translator, poet and radio and TV personality. He is widely considered to have been Israel's most prolific lyricist of all time, having written or translated over 1,000 songs. In 1998, he was awarded the Israel Prize for his exceptional contributions to Israeli music. Biography Ehud Weiner (later Manor) was born in Binyamina. He had two brothers, Ze'ev and Yehuda. He graduated from the Hebrew Reali School in Haifa in 1959. He was married to actress Ofra Fuchs for 40 years; together, they had three children: Gali, Libby and Yehuda (Yadi), who was named after Manor's late brother, a fallen soldier in the War of Attrition in 1968. Ehud's other brother, Ze'ev, committed suicide in 2003 as a result of financial trouble. Ehud Manor, who had been a heavy smoker earlier in his life, was diagnosed with lung cancer in the early 2000s. Although he recovered, the cancer treatme ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Eurovision Song Contest
The Eurovision Song Contest (), sometimes abbreviated to ESC and often known simply as Eurovision, is an international songwriting competition organised annually by the European Broadcasting Union (EBU), featuring participants representing primarily European countries. Each participating country submits an original song to be performed on live television and radio, transmitted to national broadcasters via the EBU's Eurovision and Euroradio networks, with competing countries then casting votes for the other countries' songs to determine a winner. Based on the Sanremo Music Festival held in Italy since 1951, Eurovision has been held annually since 1956 (apart from ), making it the longest-running annual international televised music competition and one of the world's longest-running television programmes. Active members of the EBU, as well as invited associate members, are eligible to compete, and 52 countries have participated at least once. Each participating broadcaster se ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kol Israel
''Kol Yisrael'' or ''Kol Israel'' ( lit. "Voice of Israel", also "Israel Radio") is Israel's public domestic and international radio service. It operated as a division of the Israel Broadcasting Service from 1951 to 1965, the Israel Broadcasting Authority from 1965 to 2017, and is currently administered by the Israeli Broadcasting Corporation. History ''Kol Yisrael'' was originally an underground Haganah radio station that broadcast from Tel Aviv. It started consistently broadcasting in December 1947 under the name ''Telem-Shamir-Boaz'', and was renamed to ''Kol HaHagana'' ("Voice of the Haganah") in March 1948. With Israel's declaration of independence on May 14, 1948, it was transformed into the official station ''Kol Yisrael''. Another station named ''Kol Yisrael'' operated in Haifa, and was renamed ''Kol Tzva HaHagana'' ("Voice of the Defense Force"). The first ''Kol Yisrael'' transmission was a live broadcast from Tel Aviv of David Ben-Gurion reading of the declaration of ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Makor Rishon
''Makor Rishon'' ( he, מָקוֹר רִאשׁוֹן lit. "Firsthand Source") is a semi-major Israeli newspaper associated with Religious Zionism and the conservative right-wing. History ''Makor Rishon'' was founded as a weekly magazine in July 1997 in order to create an independent newspaper with a Jewish religious and nationalistic slant. The paper was the brainchild of its original owner, Rabbi Shmuel Tal. The Listenberg family, a National Religious family in the diamond business based in Belgium and Tel Aviv financed the founding of the newspaper. Journalist Meir Uziel was hired to recruit the staff. Uziel enlisted Michael Ruzulio to find writers. Ruzulio had served as a reporter for ''Yedioth Ahronoth'' as well as for the Second Authority for Television and Radio, and helped create the “Voice of the Red Sea” radio station. The newsroom was established in the “Pirsum Yisrael” offices located in Givat Shaul in Jerusalem and included religious and secular journalist ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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