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Israel
Coordinates: 31°N 35°E / 31°N 35°E / 31; 35
Israel, officially the State of Israel ( /ˈɪzriːəl/ or /ˈɪzreɪəl/; Hebrew: מְדִינַת יִשְׂרָאֵל‎, Medīnat Yisrā'el, IPA: [me̞diˈnät jisʁäˈʔe̞l] ( listen); Arabic: دَوْلَة إِسْرَائِيل‎, Dawlat Isrāʼīl, IPA: [dawlat ʔisraːˈʔiːl]), is a parliamentary republic in the Middle East, along the eastern shore of the Mediterranean Sea. It borders Lebanon in the north, Syria in the northeast, Jordan and the West Bank in the east, Egypt and the Gaza Strip on the southwest, and the Gulf of Aqaba in the Red Sea to the south, and it contains geographically diverse features within its relatively small area. Israel is defined as a Jewish and Democratic State in its Basic Laws and is the world's only Jewish-majority state.
Following the adoption of a resolution by the General Assembly of the United Nations on 29 November 1947 recommending the adoption and implementation of the United Nations plan to partition Palestine, on 14 May 1948 David Ben-Gurion, the Executive Head of the World Zionist Organization and president of the Jewish Agency for Palestine, declared the establishment of a Jewish state in Eretz Israel, to be known as the State of Israel, a state independent from the British Mandate for Palestine. Neighboring Arab states invaded the next day in support of the Palestinian Arabs. Israel has since fought several wars with neighboring Arab states, in the course of which it has occupied the West Bank, Sinai Peninsula, Gaza Strip and the Golan Heights. Portions of these territories, including east Jerusalem, have been annexed by Israel, but the border with the neighboring West Bank has not yet been permanently defined.^{[neutrality is disputed]} Israel has signed peace treaties with Egypt and Jordan, but efforts to resolve the Israeli–Palestinian conflict have so far not resulted in peace.

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Tel Aviv
Tel Aviv, officially Tel Aviv-Yafo (Hebrew: תֵּל־אָבִיב-יָפוֹ‎‎; Arabic: تل أبيب‎), is the second most populous city in Israel. It has a population of 404,400 within city limits, on a land area of 52 km² (20 sq mi). The city is located on the Israeli Mediterranean coastline in central-west Israel. In 2010, it was the largest and most populous city in the Tel Aviv Metropolitan Area of 3,325,700 residents, known as Gush Dan. The city is governed by the Tel Aviv-Yafo municipality, headed by Ron Huldai. Residents of Tel Aviv are referred to as Tel Avivim.
Tel Aviv was founded in 1909 by the Jewish Community of Jaffa (Hebrew: יָפוֹ‎‎ Yafo; Arabic: يافا‎ Yāfā), on the outskirts of the ancient port city. The growth of Tel Aviv soon outpaced Jaffa, which had a majority Arab population at the time. Tel Aviv and Jaffa were merged into a single municipality in 1950, two years after the establishment of the State of Israel. Tel Aviv's White City, designated a UNESCO World Heritage Site in 2003, comprises the world's largest concentration of Bauhaus buildings.

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Aviv Geffen
Aviv Geffen (אביב גפן, born May 10, 1973) is an Israeli rock musician, singer, songwriter, producer, keyboardist and guitarist. He is the son of writer and poet Yehonatan Geffen and Nurit Makover, brother of actress Shira Geffen, and an alumnus of Rimon School of Jazz and Contemporary Music.
Geffen was and is extremely popular among Israeli youth, who were known during the 1990s as the "Moonlight Children". Politically, he associates with the Israeli left. His music deals with subjects such as love, peace, death, suicide, politics, the army in general and the IDF specifically. He is often criticized for not serving in the IDF, though, officially, he was discharged for medical reasons.
In 2005, he was voted the 59th greatest Israeli of all time, in a poll by the Israeli news website Ynet to determine whom the general public considered the 200 Greatest Israelis.
Geffen was born and raised in Ramat Gan. Geffen's first public performance was in 1984, in the Israeli youth program "Sminiyot BaAvir" on the Israeli Channel 1, in which he sang the song "You're only 40 years old" which his sister wrote and which he composed by himself. In 1987 Geffen participated in the amateur film "Hamitpahat", for which he wrote and sang the song "Ima".

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Bo'az Ma'uda
Boaz Mauda (Hebrew: בועז מעודה‎, born April 23, 1987) is an Israeli singer and songwriter. He won the fifth season of Kokhav Nolad, the Israeli version of Pop Idol, and represented Israel in the Eurovision Song Contest 2008, finishing in 9th place.
His voice has been described as somewhere between David D'Or and Dana International.
Boaz was born and raised in moshav Elyakim, where he still lives. He is the youngest son of his mother, who became disabled from complications of his birth. He is of Yemenite Jewish descent.
Without any history in the music industry, and unknown to Boaz, he was signed up by a friend for the auditions of the fifth season of Kochav Nolad. During the show, Boaz sang many Mizrahi and acoustic songs. His voice was loved by the audience and judges.
At the finals on August 29, 2007, Boaz competed against Marina Maximillian Blumin and Shlomi Bar'el. On that evening he performed two songs: "Señorita" with the experienced Israeli singer David Broza, and then Avner Gadassi's "Menagen veshar" ("Playing and Singing"). He won Kochav Nolad 2007 with 50% of the votes. In addition, he won a contract with the label Hed Artzi.

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Chen Aharoni
Chen Aharoni (in Hebrew חן אהרוני ) (also transliterated as Hen Aharoni) (born in Holon, Tel Aviv, Israel on 12 April 1990) is an Israeli singer.
He came into fame after taking part in 2007 in season 5 of Kokhav Nolad (in Hebrew כוכב נולד meaning A Star Is Born) structured on the international Idol series. He was eliminated after a showdown with Shlomi Bar'el before the finals. Aharoni finished 4th overall, with Bar'el ending up third. The 2007 title was won by Bo'az Ma'uda with Marina Maximilian Blumin as runner-up.
In 2009, Aharoni also took part in MelodyVision 8 with his single "BaRehov" ("ברחוב").
On 8 March 2011, Chen Aharoni took part in the Kdam Eurovision selection contest finals for the Israeli entry to the Eurovision Song Contest 2011 Düsseldorf, Germany with the Irish Celtic-influenced song "Or" (in Hebrew אור meaning Light) written by Sahar Hagai and Nitzan Kaykov finishing fourth with 142 points, with Dana International winning the contest with 270 points with "Ding Dong".
After Kokhav Nolad, Chen Aharoni went on to sign a deal with the Israeli record label NMC Music and gaining popularity.

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Dana International
Sharon Cohen (Hebrew: שרון כהן‎), professionally known as Dana International (דנה אינטרנשיונל; born Yaron Cohen ירון כהן; February 2, 1972) is an Israeli pop singer of Yemenite Jewish ancestry. She has released eight albums and three additional compilation albums, positioning herself as one of Israel's most successful musical acts ever. She is most famous for having won the Eurovision Song Contest 1998 in Birmingham with the song "Diva".
Born male, Dana discovered that she was transsexual at an early age, coming out when she was 13. Undergoing sex reassignment surgery in 1993, it was that year that she released her first album, Danna International, upon which she based her stage name. Consolidating her initial commercial success with the albums Umpatampa (1994) and Maganuna (1996), in 1998 she was selected to represent Israel in the Eurovision Song Contest with her song "Diva"; subsequently winning the international competition, Dana came to public attention throughout Europe.
Following this up with the albums Free (1999), Yoter VeYoter (2001), HaHalom HaEfshari (2002) and Hakol Ze Letova (2008), in 2011 she once more represented Israel in Eurovision, this time with the song "Ding Dong", although failed to make it into the final. That same year she also became a judge on the Israeli television music talent contest Kokhav Nolad.

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Eli Finish
Eli Finish (Hebrew: אלי פיניש‎, born 17 July 1975) is an Israeli actor and comedian. He is well known for acting in the popular TV show Eretz Nehederet.
After his release from the IDF in 1996, Finish studied acting in the art school HaBustan in Netanya. He also appeared in Dudu Topaz's stand-up comedy show called The First in Entertainment with Mariano Idelman in the same year, and signed a 2-year contract with the show.
Finish and Idelman continued working together with a stand-up act called Ovrim Al HaTzhok (a word play on Ovrim Al HaHok, Hebrew for "breaking the law"), and in 2001 created their own show named Ahla Seret ("A Great Movie"). In 2002 they released a 'best moments' DVD. In the same year, they appeared in a show on Bip called Lo Nafsik Litzhok ("(We) Won't Stop Laughing") along with Tal Friedman, Asi Cohen and Rotem Abuhav. The first two continued with Finish and Idelman to Eretz Nehederet in 2003.
In 2005, Finish played his first non-comic character in the TV series Heder Milhama ("War Room"), and continued as an actor in the show Lo Hivtahti Lakh ("I Didn't Promise You") in 2006.

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Elliott Smith
Steven Paul "Elliott" Smith (August 6, 1969 – October 21, 2003) was an American singer-songwriter and musician. Smith was born in Omaha, Nebraska, raised primarily in Texas, and resided for a significant portion of his life in Portland, Oregon, where he first gained popularity. His primary instrument was the guitar, but he was also proficient at piano, clarinet, bass guitar, drums, and harmonica. Smith had a distinctive vocal style characterized by his "whispery, spiderweb-thin delivery" and use of multi-tracking to create vocal layers, textures, and harmonies.
After playing in the rock band Heatmiser for several years, Smith began his solo career in 1994 with releases on the independent record labels Cavity Search and Kill Rock Stars. In 1997 he signed a contract with DreamWorks Records, for which he recorded two albums. Smith rose to mainstream prominence when his song "Miss Misery"—included in the soundtrack for the film Good Will Hunting—was nominated for an Oscar in the Best Original Song category in 1998.

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Gary Lucas
Gary Lucas is an American guitarist, a Grammy-nominated songwriter, a soundtrack composer for film and television, and an international recording artist with over a twenty solo albums to date. He has been described as "one of the best and most original guitarists in America" (David Fricke, 16 Nov. 2006, Rolling Stone); a "legendary leftfield guitarist" (The Guardian, 24 Dec. 2005); "the thinking man's guitar hero" (The New Yorker, 8 Jan. 2007), "perhaps the greatest living electric guitar player" (Daniel Levitin) and one of "the most innovative and challenging guitarists playing today" (fRoots, March 2002). Lucas is also associated with vocalist Jeff Buckley, who performed for a year in Lucas' band, Gods and Monsters, early in his career.
Lucas tours the world solo, as well as with several different ensembles including his longtime band NYC-based group, Gods and Monsters, a psychedelic rock band based around Lucas's guitar playing and songwriting. Other regular members of the band include Ernie Brooks, Jason Candler, and Billy Ficca. Lucas also lectures on guitar and the music business in general. As of 2007, he has performed in more than 40 countries, including Russia (Moscow, St. Petersburg) and the Netherlands, India, China, Cuba, Latin America, and the Canary Islands.

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Gidi Gov
Gidi Gov (Hebrew: גידי גוב‎) (born August 4, 1950), is an Israeli singer, TV host, entertainer and actor.
Gov is married to playwright Anat Gov, with whom he has three children.
Gideon (Gidi) Gov was born in Rehovot in 1950 to Daniel and Tzipora Gov. As a child Gov suffered from the asthma. Gov's father died when he was very young, which made his mother move with him from place to place, including Tel Aviv and Eilat.
Growing up Gov never dreamed of becoming a singer, only when he enlisted to the IDF in 1969, Yair Rosenblum recommended that Gov would be auditioned for the Nahal entertainment troupe. Gov passed the auditions and joined the Nahal entertainment troupe. There Gov actually began his acting and singing career.
Gov's first major breakthrough occurred when Gov sang in the 1973 Israeli "Song and chorus Festival" (פסטיבל הזמר והפזמון) the song "Rise up and arrive" (יעלה ויבוא). The song reached only number eight, but become one of the songs most identified with the competition.
During the same year Gov established along with some of the former Nahal troupe members (Efraim Shamir, Danny Sanderson and Alon Olearchik) and two others (Yoni Rechter and Isaac Klepter) the band Kaveret. The band became one of the most popular Israeli bands in the 1970s and is still considered today as one of the most successful Israeli bands in the history of popular music and entertainment in Israel. The band released three albums, represented Israel in the 1974 Eurovision Song Contest with the song "Natati La Khayay" and won the title "Band of the Year" four times in succession in the Israeli annual Hebrew song chart of Kol Yisrael. The band was eventually disbanded in 1976.

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Inbal Perlmutter
Inbal Perlmuter (Hebrew: ענבל פרלמטר‎, born in Rehovot, January 15, 1971 - died October 1, 1997) was an Israeli composer, musician, singer and lyricist, and a founding member of the band Ha-Mechashefot ("The Witches").
Perlmuter's music was influential to the Israeli music of the 1990s. She began her musical career in 1992 when she founded, along with Ifat Netz and Yael Cohen, the band Ha-Mechashefot. She continued producing solo works and numerous collaborations, both in Israel and abroad.
Perlmuter died in a car accident at the age of 26.
The band began to perform in clubs around Israel, and got public notice on a TV show called "Songs of the Sea of Galilee", hosted by Naomi Shemer. Ha-Mechashefot performed a sensual version of Shemer's song Kesem 'Al Yam Kinneret ("Magic on the Sea of Galilee") which astounded both the audience and the host. This version was recorded in April 1993, and was released as a DJ record with cover art by Perlmuter. Shemer was delighted, exclaiming: "Shall a Negro turn his skin inside out? He certainly shall!" (This being a Hebrew expression meaning that someone or something has drastically changed).

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Israel Bar-On
Israel Bar-On (Hebrew: ישראל בר-און‎; born January 31, 1989) is an Israeli singer, who won Israel's "A Star is Born" song contest in 2008.
Bar-On was born in Beersheba to a religious family. He won the final of Kokhav Nolad 6 contest on August 26, 2008, with 56% of the votes. For the show's finale, he performed an autobiographical song about his new life without parents and religion.
Bar-On did not serve in the Israel Defense Forces. After winning the contest it was rumored that the show's producers would attempt to arrange his enlistment.

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Ivri Lider
Ivri Lider (Hebrew: עברי לידר‎, born 10 February 1974) is an Israeli pop star and one half of the duo TYP. He is one of the biggest-selling contemporary artists in Israeli music, and has won the Male Singer of the Year honor from Israeli national and local radio stations since entering the Israeli music scene in the late 1990s. He has sold more than 200,000 records.^{[citation needed]}
While still in high school, Lider joined the group, Kach Ossot Kullan ("Everyone Does It This Way"), who performed at the Roxanne club in Tel Aviv.^{[citation needed]}
A commission to compose music for Kisses and October for Anat Danieli's dance ensemble was followed by an invitation from Ohad Naharin to compose the music for Kaamos, which Naharin choreographed for Nederlands Dans Theater (NDT), a Dutch dance company. Lider subsequently composed the music for "Z\NA", for the Batsheva Dance Company. At the same time, he signed a recording contract with Helicon Records and began work on his first album.
His self-penned debut album, Melattef Umeshakker (Caressing And Lying), produced by Yo'ad Nevo, was released in 1997. The singles "Leonardo" and "Tamid Ahava" (Always Love) were chart toppers, and the album went platinum, selling over 40,000 copies in Israel.

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Jacko Eisenberg
Jacko Eisenberg (Hebrew: ג'קו אייזנברג‎; born November 30, 1980) is an Israeli singer who won the fourth season of Kochav Nolad, the Israeli version of Pop Idol.
Eisenberg was born and raised in Netanya, Israel, to Miriam and Robert Eisenberg. When he was 10 years old, his father died of a heart attack. At the age of 13, he started performing at school ceremonies. He graduated from Eldad High School in Netanya and began to play the piano, guitar, drums and bass. He started touring with Jamus, his Hip Hop band with Guy Eliahu. He was also supporting himself as a waiter and a wedding singer. In 2003, he released the album "Sim Tarosh Batsad" (Lay Your Head Down) with Jamus.
Eisenberg declined to serve in the Israeli army, declaring himself a pacifist.^{[citation needed]}
In May 2006, his roommate signed him onto Kochav Nolad, where he won top prize on September 7, besting Maya Rotman and Refael Mirila, singing "Ani Meabed Otakh" (Losing You) and "Nirdam Al Hakholot" (Falling Asleep on the Dunes) with Ninet Tayeb.

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Kabra Kasai
Kabra Kasai (Hebrew: כברה קסאי‎; born August 3, 1982) is an Israeli singer, best known for her work alongside Idan Raichel in the Idan Raichel Project (Hebrew: הפרוייקט של עידן רייכל). She is also known for her participation in the first season of the Israeli version of American Idol, Kochav Nolad, where she reached the top 8. Her most famous song is called Habaytah, Haloch Chazor, which means "Home, Back and Forth".
She was born in a Sudanese refugee camp, to Ethiopian Jewish parents on their way to Israel, in what was called Operation Moses. She arrived in Israel when she was one year old, in 1984. At 18, as mandatory in Israel, she began her military service, where she met Idan Raichel. Together, they performed in many military camps and facilities. When they left the army, the Idan Raichel project was acclaimed as a success, and they performed all over Israel and even went on some offshore tours.

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Margalit Tzan'ani
Margalit Tzan'ani (Hebrew: מרגלית צנעני‎, born December 19, 1948), also known as Margol, 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, pop and Arab music.
Margalit was born in Netanya to a religious Yemenite Jewish family. She was the eldest of seven children. Her father, Shalom, was a diamond industry worker, and her mother, Lola, was a housewife. She married Mordy Lavie in 1977 and has one son, Assaf. She divorced in 1985. For many years she performed at weddings and private events. She also worked at a stall in the Jaffa flea market and as a salesgirl at Hamashbir Latzarchan department store. Today she lives in Azor, a village on the outskirts of Tel Aviv, with her son, who writes some of her songs.
Tzan'ani started her career at the age of 19 in the Israeli production of "Hair", where she performed alongside Zvika Pick and Tzedi Tzarfati. For the audition, she sang Rak al atzmi lesaper yadati, based on a poem by the poetess Rachel.

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Maya Bouskilla
Maya Bouskilla (also Maya Buskila) (Hebrew: מאיה בוסקילה‎; born November 9, 1977) is an Israeli pop singer.
Maya Bouskilla was born to a religious Moroccan-Jewish family in Netanya, Israel. She was discovered by a scout for Helicon Records, one of Israel's best known record companies, who heard her singing in a karaoke bar. Later, Roberto Ben-Shushan and Eyal Malul became her managers. Bouskilla claimed to be religious when she was called up by the army at the age of 18 and received a deferment. In April 2008, after criticism of her draft-dodging, she enlisted for a short period, reportedly to educate women about the importance of serving. Her enlistment at the age of thirty made her one of the oldest new recruits ever to join the Israel Defense Forces.
In 2004, Bouskilla's debut album, Sold Out Story, sold 20,000 copies in the first three weeks. In February 2005, Maya was voted Artist of the Year and New Artist of the Year. Bouskilla was also named Singer of the Year in 2005 by the Israeli Music Channel.

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Mei Finegold
Mei Finegold (born December 16th, 1982 in Rishon LeZion) is an Israeli singer. Recently, Finegold Participated in Kokhav Nolad 7, Israel's version of American Idol. Though considered to be the winner from the season premier, she finished only in the 3rd place.
Mei was born in 1982 in Rishon LeZion (born as Meital), where she lives until today. Her musical career started in school ceremonies, and she continued by taking singing lessons with majority of classic opera. Since her childhood, Mei used to throw lots of shows, including night clubs and bars. Since then, Mei leads a band called Disiac. The band even participated in Hebrew Labor, a special CD containing covers to old Israeli songs.
Mei's place in the show was promised since her first audition. The judges were charmed by her and not even a single negative criticism was appointed.
During the show Mei kept on the rock line, covering songs mainly from Israel's mid-80s. She was awarded as the performance of the week for 5 times, 2 of them in a row. Mei's performances were as follow:

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Meir Ariel
Meir Ariel (Hebrew: מאיר אריאל‎) (March 2, 1942 – July 18, 1999) was an Israeli singer-songwriter.
He was known as a "man of words" for his poetic use of the Hebrew language in his lyrics. His influences included Hebrew poets such as Natan Alterman, S. Y. Agnon and Hayim Nahman Bialik, and American singer-songwriters such as Bob Dylan.
Ariel was born on the Fast of Esther in 1942 and grew up in Kibbutz Mishmarot. He and Israeli rock singer Shalom Hanoch were friends from childhood. He served in the Paratroopers Brigade and was one of the soldiers who took Jerusalem at the beginning of the Six-Day War. This inspired him to write the song "Yerushalayim Shel Barzel" ("Jerusalem of Iron"). The song was based on Naomi Shemer's hit song "Jerusalem of Gold", and borrowed its tune. It was represented as a cynical reaction to the over-patriotism of the Israeli public and media of that time. Ariel was referred to in the media as "The Singing Paratrooper" because of the "Yerushalayim Shel Barzel" mini-album cover that represented him in his military uniform.

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Mizrahi
Mizrahi Jews or Mizrahim (Hebrew: מזרחים‎), also referred to as Adot HaMizrach (עֲדוֹת-הַמִּזְרָח) (Communities of the East; Mizrahi Hebrew: ʿAdot(h) Ha(m)Mizraḥ) are Jews descended from the Jewish communities of the Middle East, North Africa and the Caucasus. The term Mizrahi is used in Israel in the language of politics, media and some social scientists for Jews from mostly Arab-ruled geographies and adjacent, primarily Muslim-majority countries. This includes Jews from Iraq, Syria, Lebanon, Yemen, Azerbaijan, Iran/Persia, Afghanistan, Uzbekistan, Kurdish areas, Northern and Eastern Sudan, as well as Ethiopia, and within and nearby Israel. Sometimes, Sephardi Jews such as Jews from Morocco, Algeria, or Turkey are erroneously grouped into the Mizrahi category for some historical reasons.
Despite their heterogeneous origins, Mizrahi Jews generally practice rites identical or similar to traditional Sephardic Judaism, although with some differences among the minhagim of the particular communities. This has resulted in a conflation of terms, particularly in Israel, and in religious usage, where "Sephardi" is used in a broad sense to include Mizrahi Jews as well as Sephardim proper. Indeed, from the point of view of the official Israeli rabbinate, the Mizrahi rabbis in Israel are under the jurisdiction of the Sephardi Chief Rabbi of Israel who, in most cases, is a Mizrahi Jew. Today they make up more than half of Israel's Jewish population, but before the mass immigration of 1,000,000 mostly Ashkenazi immigrants from the former Soviet Union in the 1990s they made up over 70% of Israel's Jewish population.

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Moshe Peretz
Moshe Peretz (Hebrew: משה פרץ‎) is an Israeli Mizrahi Pop singer-songwriter and composer. He was born on May 10, 1983 in Tiberias.
Born in Tiberias To a Moroccan-Iraqi Jewish family. Peretz started singing as a poet in a synagogue in his home town of Tiberias at the age of 13 and started writing songs and to compose. At the age of 18 Peretz was inducted into the Israel Defense Forces and served at Military band.

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Ninet Tayeb
Ninet Tayeb (Hebrew: נינט טייב‎, also known as Ninette or Nina) (born October 21, 1983, in Kiryat Gat, Israel) is an Israeli-pop rock singer and actress who became widely known as the first winner of Kochav Nolad (the Israeli version of Pop Idol).
She is currently performing after the release of her second album, and stars in the Israeli version of Spring Awakening.
Tayeb is of Moroccan Sephardic Jewish descent, the third of five children to her parents. She was raised in Kiryat Gat, where she started to sing in the local youth center. She was nicknamed Nina by her friends and family.
During her IDF service, Tayeb auditioned for the first season of "Lo Nafsik Lashir – Kokhav Nolad, then a format under development. The Israeli media embraced her as a Cinderella story and named her the star, and she was in the lead all throughout the season. In the semifinal, she sang a song by Hayehudim, bringing mainstream attention to the veteran band. In the final, she performed Zohar Argov's classic Mizrahi song "Yam Shel Dma'ot" (A Sea of Tears), and won with almost half of the votes. She is the contestant with the longest-lasting and largest popularity after the show.

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Ofra Haza
Ofra Haza (Hebrew: עפרה חזה, Arabic: عفرة حزة; born Bat-Sheva Ofrah Hazah 19 November 1957 –– 23 February 2000) was an Israeli singer of Yemenite Jewish origin, an actress and international recording artist.
Her voice has been described as mezzo-soprano, of near-flawless tonal quality, capable of lending itself to a variety of musical styles with apparent ease.^{[citation needed]}
Inspired by a love of her Yemenite Jewish culture, the appeal of her musical art quickly spread to a wider Middle Eastern audience, somehow bridging the divide between Israel and the Arab countries. As her career progressed, Haza was able to switch between traditional and more commercial singing styles without jeopardizing her credibility. Her music fused elements of Eastern and Western instrumentation, orchestration and dance-beat. She became successful in Europe and the Americas; during her singing career, she earned many platinum and gold discs.
Haza was born the youngest of nine children, to a Yemenite Jewish family, in the poor Tel Aviv neighborhood of Hatikvah. Her first home was at 39 Boaz Street.

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Roni Dalumi
Roni Daloomi (Hebrew: רוני דלומי‎, born September 15, 1991) is an Israeli singer. She won the final of Kochav Nolad 7 contest in August 2009.
Roni Daloomi was born and raised in Omer, Israel. She started singing at the age of twelve after seven years of dancing with the Bat Dor Dance Company^{[dubious – discuss]} in Beer Sheva. She participated in "Shir Nolad", a children's song festival, in 2006. In April 2010 Dalumi was drafted into in the Israeli Defense Forces as a singer in a military entertainment troupe.
Daloomi was the judges' least favorite contestant after being ranked last by most of them throughout the season, especially by Gal Uchovsky. Despite this, Daloomi was saved by the audience every time and made it to the final in Eilat where she won the competition with 61% of the votes (after being ranked last by the judges once again). Daloomi is the youngest winner of the show to date, being only 17 years old at the time, and the first female to win since first season's winner Ninet Tayeb.

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Roni Duani
Roni Duani (Hebrew: רוני דואני‎; born Liron Duani on March 10, 1986 in Rishon LeZion, Israel) is a pop singer. Although she is best known for her music career, she has also been a television actress, children's television show host, and fashion model. She is often compared to the American recording artist Britney Spears.

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Sephardic Jewish
Sephardi Jews (Hebrew: סְפָרַדִּי, Modern Sfaraddi Tiberian Səp̄āraddî) is a general term referring to the descendants of the Jews who lived in the Iberian Peninsula before their expulsion in the Spanish Inquisition. It can also refer to those who use a Sephardic style of liturgy or would otherwise define themselves in terms of the Jewish customs and traditions which originated in the Iberian Peninsula. Accordingly, the term Sephardic Jew refers to the Jews following the Sephardic Halakha.
The term essentially means "Spanish". It comes from Sepharad (Hebrew: סְפָרַד, Modern Sfarád Tiberian Səp̄āráḏ), a Biblical location. This location is disputed, but "Sepharad" was identified by later Jews as the Iberian Peninsula, and still means "Spain" in modern Hebrew.^{[citation needed]}
In other languages and scripts, "Sephardi" translates as plural Hebrew: סְפָרַדִּים, Modern Sfaraddim Tiberian Səp̄āraddîm; Spanish: Sefardíes; Portuguese: Sefarditas; Catalan: Sefardites; Basque: Sefardiak; Galician: Sefardís; Italian: Sefarditi; Greek: Σεφαρδίτες Sefardites; Bulgarian: Сефаради Sefaradi; Bosnian: Sefardi; Serbian: Сефарди Sefardi; Turkish: Sefarad, Judaeo-Spanish: Sefaradies/Sefaradim; and Arabic: سفارديون‎ Safārdīyyūn‎.

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Shai Gabso
Shai Gabso (Hebrew: שי גבסו‎) is an Israeli singer. He won third place in the first season of Kokhav Nolad ("A Star is Born").
Shai Gabso was born on July 20, 1984 in Rishon Lezion. He became religiously observant at the age of twelve. Gabso's single Arim Roshi (I Will Lift My Head) has been hailed as a patriotic anthem. He collaborates with Nefesh Yehudi, a Jewish outreach organization that exposes secular college-age students in Israel and Europe to Judaism.

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Shiri Maimon
Shiri Maimon (Hebrew: שירי מימון; born 17 May 1981) is an Israeli pop/R&B singer, TV show host and actress, who rose to fame as the runner-up in the TV show Kokhav Nolad. She represented Israel in the Eurovision Song Contest 2005.
Maimon was born in Haifa, Israel, and raised in Kiryat Haim. She is of Sephardi Jewish descent and was born to a father of Tunisian and Greek origin and a Moroccan mother; both parents are Jewish refugees from Arab countries. She made her debut at the age of ten, at a children's song festival. She joined the Israel Defense Forces, where she sang with the Israeli Air Force entertainment troupe. In 2001, she featured on a music video by the band Teapacks. Later, she worked a year and a half as a singer and bartender in Eilat. In 2003, she auditioned for Kokhav Nolad and ended up the first runner-up.
She released her first single, "Until You Understand Me" in 2004. While working on her debut album, she was a presenter on a popular daily youth TV program in Israel, EXIT. In 2005, Maimon took part in the Kdam Eurovision, the pre-Eurovision song contest at which Israel's national entry is selected, and was not the favorite to win. She won first place for her performance of HaSheket SheNish'ar (The Silence that Remains). Thus she became Israel's representative at the 2005 Eurovision Song Contest in Kiev. She initially rebuffed suggestions that parts of the song should be performed in English. In the end, considering that foreign language songs had not been successful in the past, she agreed to sing half in Hebrew and half in English. She was placed fourth in the contest, winning 154 points.

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Svika Pick
Svika Pick (born October 3, 1949) (also Tzvika Pik, Tsvika Pick) (Hebrew: צביקה פיק‎) is an Israeli pop singer and composer.
Henrik Zvi Pick (later Svika Pick) was born in Wrocław, Poland. He studied music at the Conservatory of Ramat Gan and started to perform at the age of 15.
Pick was married to Israeli songwriter Mirit Shem-Or. Shem-Or wrote the lyrics for many of Pick's hits, including Mary Lou, which was about herself. They are now divorced but the couple still collaborates artistically. They have three children. Two of Pick's daughters have performed duos as the Pick Sisters.
Pick was one of Israel's leading pop singers in the 1970s, when he was voted "Israeli male singer of the Year." He played a lead part in the Hebrew version of the musical Hair in the early 1970s.
In 1998 Pick wrote the song Diva performed by Dana International, which won the Eurovision Song Contest. He also wrote songs for several other Eurovision contestants. In 2002 he composed the Light a candle for Sarit Hadad, who represented Israel in Eurovision 2002. That year, Habima Theater staged a musical called Mary Lou based on Pick's old hits. In 2003 he composed the song Hasta la vista for Oleksandr Ponomaryov, Ukrainian entrant in Eurovision 2003. He also wrote a song for the Belarusian contestant of Eurovision 2005 Angelica Agurbash, but she later decided on a different one, acknowledging Pick for his effort. Pick himself competed seven times in the Israeli preselection for the Eurovision Song Contest. In 2010, he composed an entry for Harel Skaat for Israel, and for Sopho Nizharadze for Georgia.

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Yair Nitzani
Yair Nitzani (born 1958) is an Israeli musician, songwriter, TV host and comedian.
Yair Nitzani was born in Beersheba in 1958. After serving in the Israel Defense Forces as a broadcaster on Galei Zahal in the 1980s, he joined the rock group T-Slam as a keyboardist and vocalist. Nitzani wrote some of the band's most famous songs, among them "Radio Chazak" (Loud Radio), "Partzufa Shel HaMdina" (The Country's Face), "Tnu Li Rokenrol" (Give Me Rock n' Roll) "Od Pgisha" (Another Date) "Chatzavim Porchim'" (The Sea Squills are Blooming) and Boker Shel Kef (A Great Morning). His identifying mark in the band was a faucet glued to his forehead.
After T-Slam disbanded, he joined Erez Tal and Avri Gilad on the show Ma Yesh (What's Up) in the Israeli Army Radio, and HaOlam HaErev (The World Tonight) on Israeli Channel 2. As CEO of the Hed Artzi recording company, he discovered new musical talent in Israel, such as the band Friends of Natasha and the singer Adam.It was Nitzani's idea to mix Ofra Haza's Yemenite songs with Modern Beat. He persuaded Izhar Ashdot to produce Galbi and Im Ninalu.

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Yehuda Levi
Yehuda Levi (Hebrew: יהודה לוי‎; born June 29, 1979) is an Israeli actor and male model. He was born and now lives in Tel Aviv, but spent much of his childhood in South Africa. He attended the "Thelma Yellin" High school, and graduated with excellence. His noticeable breakthrough was in the TV series "Lechayey Ha'ahava" (Here's To Love) (2001).
He is an established actor, but most of his work is done in Israeli soap operas. In May 2006, HaAlufa (The Champion), a soap opera centered around a soccer team, premiered starring Levi.
His film roles include Jagger in Yossi & Jagger. Levi Is in a relationship with singer Ninet Tayeb.

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Yehuda Saado
Yehuda Saado (in Hebrew יהודה סעדו also written Sa'ado) (born in Jerusalem on 29 April 1983) is an Israeli singer and the winner of the third season of the Israeli music competition program Kokhav Nolad.
Yehuda Saado, born in Jerusalem was raised in Kiryat Ekron and learned keyboards at a young age. He served in the Israel Air Force at the Tel Nof Airbase as a technician. After release from the Air Force, he studied music at the Rimon School of Jazz and Contemporary Music at Ramat HaSharon.
In 2005, he took part in the third season of Kokhav Nolad, the Israeli equivalent of the Idol series. In the final held on August 29, 2005 in Tel Aviv, Yehuda Saado won the title with the song "Sadot Shel Irusim" (in Hebrew "שדות של אירוסים") written by Shlomo Artzi getting 918,520 votes. The runner-up Michael Kirkilan received only 370,631 votes, and third-placed Shir Biton 322,288 votes. 1.6 million viewers tuned in to watch the final.
In 2006, he released his debut single "כוכב נולד" written by Barak Feldman and Yoni Bloch. In 2007, he followed that with his debut album עירום באתי with most songs composed by Yehuda Saado himself. In 2009, he released a second single entitled "לבחור בדרך" and a follow up single "בצל דמותה". He also appeared in 2010 with the Ashdod Israeli Andalusian Orchestra.

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Yona Wallach
Yona Wallach (Hebrew: יונה וולך‎; June 10, 1944 – September 29, 1985) was an Israeli poet.
Yona Wallach (1944 - 1985, b. Tel Aviv) was raised in the town of Kiryat Ono (of which her father was a founder). near Tel Aviv. Her father was killed in 1948 Arab-Israeli War when she was a young child. Wallach was active in the "Tel Aviv poets" circle which emerged around the journals Achshav and Siman Kriah in the 1960s, and was a frequent contributor to Israeli literary periodicals. She also wrote for and appeared with an Israeli rock group, and in 1982 her poetry was set to music and a record released. She died in 1985 following a protracted illness. Characterized by "an abundance of nervous energy," Yona Wallach's work combines elements from rock and roll, Jungian psychology and street slang in a body of work known for its break-neck pace and insistent sexuality. Writing in fluid lines, refusing to be limited by any conventional poetic structures, Wallach took upon herself the feminine revolution in Hebrew poetry. Presenting a provocative, blatantly sexual female figure, she became a stylistic model for many women poets.

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Zohar Argov
Zohar Argov (Hebrew: זוהר ארגוב‎, born Zohar Orkabi on July 16, 1955, died November 6, 1987) was a popular Israeli singer and a distinctive voice in the Mizrahi music scene. Argov is widely known in Israel as "The king of Mizrahi music"
The most serious hurdle on his way to stardom was Argov's socioeconomic background. He was born in Rishon LeZion, and grew up in a poor family, the eldest of ten children. In those years, singers often began their careers by serving as entertainment for military troops, but Argov did not serve in the army. His remarkable singing abilities were cultivated at home, through his participation from early childhood in the singing and chanting of the religious Yemenite community.
Argov's debut album Eleanor (1981) featured the title track, "Sod HaMazalot" ("The Zodiac Secret"), and "Mah Lakh, Yaldah?" ("What's With You, Girl?"), a tribute to his ex-wife, Bracha, who remained the love of his life.
While Argov's career was dotted with creative and personal lapses caused by his heroin and crack cocaine addictions, which eventually led to his death at the age of 32. his musical achievements overshadowed his personal problems. His ability to sing heartbreaking versions of his songs in live performances, even under the influence of drugs, allowed a blind eye to be turned to his addictive rampages, which ended up destroying his personal relationships.

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Zvika Hadar
Zvika Hadar (born 7 April 1966) (Hebrew: צביקה הדר‎) is an Israeli actor, comedian and television host.
Zvi (Zvika) Fruchter (later Hadar) was born in Beersheba, Israel, to Romanian Jewish family. As a child, he studied piano. Early in his career, he composed numbers for musicals.
He first appeared on television as "Jojo" in Ha-Comedy Store. He was the host of Kokhav Nolad, the Israeli version of Idol since 2003 for nine consecutive seasons in addition to a number of other shows. He has also acted in a number of Israeli movies including starring in Afula Express.
In 1999, he was nominated for Best Actor award at the Awards of the Israeli Film Academy for his role in Afula Express.
In 2005, he was voted the 37th-greatest Israeli of all time, in a poll by the Israeli news website Ynet to determine whom the general public considered the 200 Greatest Israelis.

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File- A view of the outer perimeter of Palestine Stadium, severely damaged by Israeli air strikes in Gaza City earlier this week, 19 November, 2012.

The End of Jewish Power

WorldNews.com

02 Dec 2012

Article by WN.com Guest Writer Gilad Atzmon. Israel suffered a humiliating defeat at The UN recently. The nations of the world stood up and said NO to the Jewish state - NO to Israeli occupation, NO to Israeli human rights abuse, NO to Jewish racism. In effect, they stood up and confessed to serious Zio-fatigue ... This is a very good news indeed. But interestingly, this united opposition to Israel is not in response to Israeli strength ... ....(size: 2.6Kb)

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File - U.S. Army Capt. Peggy Hu, Zabul Provincial Reconstruction Team civil affairs, speaks with a local child during a routine patrol in the local area Nov. 21, 2012, in Afghanistan.

'Taliban attackers' target US Afghanistan base

BBC News

02 Dec 2012

There have been "multiple explosions" near an airfield at a US base in eastern Afghanistan, Nato has said. Afghan intelligence officials told the BBC seven suicide attackers targeted the base in Jalalabad, and witnesses said that gunfire was heard ... Counter claims ... There were no Nato casualties in the attack, officials said ... ....(size: 1.7Kb)

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U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon speaks at the Human Rights Council at the United Nations in Geneva, Switzerland

Israel settlement bid a 'fatal blow' to peace

New Straits/Business Times

03 Dec 2012

UNITED NATIONS. UN leader Ban Ki-moon warned Sunday that if Israel implemented its latest plan for new settlements it would deal an “almost fatal blow” to any prospects for peace with the Palestinians.   Israel’s announcement about the 3,000 Jewish settler homes, whose planned location was not revealed, came in the wake of a historic vote by the United Nations General Assembly to upgrade Palestine’s diplomatic status ... ....(size: 4.2Kb)

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Army Pfc. Bradley Manning, center, steps out of a security vehicle as he is escorted into a courthouse in Fort Meade, Md., Wednesday, Nov. 28, 2012, for a pretrial hearing.

Pfc. Manning: From Bloody Eagle to Bloody Cage

WorldNews.com

02 Dec 2012

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A Congolese policeman in riot gear keeps an eye on Goma residents including street children who gathered for an anti Kabila demonstration supported by the M23 rebel movement in Goma, eastern Congo, Wednesday Nov. 28, 2012.

Congo rebels' withdrawal from Goma 'purely tactical', say analysts

The Guardian

03 Dec 2012

Despite retreat by the M23, there's no sign that any of the major players are willing to act to stop the violence flaring up again. A Congolese M23 rebels sleeps in the back of a truck as the rebels withdraw from Goma. Photograph. Phil Moore/AFP/Getty Images. After much initial confusion, reports indicate that rebels in the Democratic Republic of Congo have finally withdrawn from the eastern city of Goma ... This seems unlikely now ... ....(size: 7.1Kb)

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Israeli settlers and their supporters wave Israeli flags as they protest against the killing of five members of the Fogel family, including three children, in a knifed attack as they were a sleep in a West Bank settlement over the weekend by Palestinians, in Tel Aviv, Israel Sunday, March 13, 2011. Israel said Sunday it has approved building hundreds of settler homes after five members of the Fogel family, including three children, were knifed to death as they slept in a West Bank settlement over the weekend. The sign reads "Don't sign peace with blod".

Israel Moves To Build 3,000 New Settlement Homes

National Public Radio

01 Dec 2012

JERUSALEM (AP) â Israel responded swiftly Friday to U.N. recognition of a Palestinian state, revealing it will build 3,000 more homes for Jews on Israeli-occupied lands that the world body overwhelmingly said belong to the Palestinians ... Friday's decision was taken by Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and eight senior Cabinet ministers, according to the Israeli news website Ynet ... Successive U.S ... (and) only isolates Israel further." ... ___....(size: 7.2Kb)

Israel West Bank Settlement Construction Approved By Government

Huffington Post

01 Dec 2012

JERUSALEM — Israel responded swiftly Friday to U.N. recognition of a Palestinian state, revealing it will build 3,000 more homes for Jews on Israeli-occupied lands that the world body overwhelmingly said belong to the Palestinians ... Friday's decision was taken by Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and eight senior Cabinet ministers, according to the Israeli news website Ynet ... Successive U.S ... (and) only isolates Israel further." ... ___ ... ....(size: 14.0Kb)

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Novosti

30 Nov 2012

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Israel to Build 3,000 Homes beyond 1967 Border

Novosti

30 Nov 2012

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Israel plans 3000 settler homes after UN vote on Palestinian

The Daily Telegraph Australia

30 Nov 2012

ISRAEL revealed plans to build 3000 settler homes in east Jerusalem and the West Bank in response to the Palestinians' historic success in being recognised as a non-member state at the United Nations ... "It's true," he said, without specifying exactly where ... A report on the Ynet news website said the decision to connect Maaleh Adumim with Jerusalem had been taken by Netanyahu's inner circle, the Forum of Nine, on Thursday....(size: 5.2Kb)

World Jewish Congress denounces UN endorsement of Palestinian statehood bid (World Jewish Congress)

noodls

30 Nov 2012

30 November 2012. The UN General Assembly has voted overwhelmingly to recognize a Palestinian 'state' as a non-member observer to the United Nations - a move that was strongly opposed by Israel and the US. The assembly voted 138 in favor and nine against, with 41 nations abstaining ... World Jewish Congress criticizes vote ... Related content ... » Half of Israelis say peace with Palestinians unlikely - YNet, Israel Register for news updates....(size: 5.8Kb)

Why Tunisia ignored sharia law

CNN

29 Nov 2012

Click to watch video. November 29th, 2012. 12.47 PM ET. Share this on.. Facebook. Twitter. Digg. del.icio.us. reddit. MySpace. StumbleUpon. By Samuel Burke, CNN ... While Islam has always been the main religion in Tunisia, politics have long been secular ... "He declared that the country would not change and that the only difference would be that it would be more democratic than Ben Ali's Tunisia,” the Jewish leader told Ynet ... Filed under ... ... ... ....(size: 9.2Kb)

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The Security Council held a meeting on the situation in the Middle East, including the Palestinian question. Riyad H. Mansour (left), Permanent Observer of Palestine to the UN, at the meeting, 27 November, 2012.

Palestinian "state" vote a crisis moments

Asia Times

28 Nov 2012

By Victor Kotsev. Thursday is shaping up as a big day in Palestinian history ... Â. Palestinian horizon ... He even hinted that Hamas could switch to "non-violent resistance" ... [1] ... [2] ... According to a report in the Israeli site Ynet, the top Israeli decision-makers are split about how to respond to the UN vote, but most would support measures such as toppling the Palestinian Authority in case such suits are filed. [3] ... 1 ... , Ynet, November 26, 2012....(size: 16.8Kb)

Pro-settler Israeli hardliners sweep Netanyahu party vote

The Star

27 Nov 2012

JERUSALEM (Reuters) - Pro-settler hardliners swept a vote on Monday held by Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's Likud party, effectively tossing four of his closest allies and backers of Middle East diplomacy off a list of candidates running with him in a January 22 election ... "With such extremists Netanyahu could have problems," Roni Milo, a former Likud cabinet minister, quipped in a video interview with Ynet's news Web site ... ....(size: 2.1Kb)

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Ha'aretz

26 Nov 2012

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Gilad Atzmon: Pillar of Impotence

The Other Site

24 Nov 2012

Gilad Atzmon. In the past week, the people of Gaza have been subject to some serious Israeli attacks. Some Hamas leaders and militants have been murdered and many more Palestinians â innocent civilians, babies, kids women and elders â have lost their live ... Just yesterday, the Israeli right wing Ynet wrote âHamas stood up and won almost all frontsâ¦ ... Â ... As Ynet admits, they have been defeated in almost every possible respect ... Â ... ....(size: 6.8Kb)

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Netanyahu forced to defend Gaza ceasefire after being dubbed 'loser' by own troops

Newstrack India

23 Nov 2012

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Ynet
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Type	Private Company
Industry	News, Internet Portal
Founded	2000
Headquarters	Tel Aviv, Israel Tel Aviv
Key people	Jon Feder (Editor in Chief) Avi Ben Tal (General Manager)
Website	http://www.ynet.co.il

Ynet is the most popular Israeli news and general content website, which is the online outlet for Yediot Ahronot, the country's secondleading daily newspaper (Israel Hayom is the current leading).^[1] However, all of Ynet's content is original work, published exclusively on the website and written by an independent staff.^[2]^[3]

Ynet was launched on June 2000 in Hebrew only, but since 2004 operates a short English edition, Ynetnews, which deals mainly with news and commentary. In addition, Ynet hosts the online version of Yedioth Aharanot's media group Magazines: Laisha (which also operates Ynet's fashion section), Pnai Plus, Blazer, GO magazine, and Mentha. For two years, Ynet had also an Arabic version, which ceased to operate in May 2005. Ynet's main competition comes from Walla! and Nana. Since 2008, Ynet is Israel's most popular internet portal, as measured by Google Trends.^[4]

According to Alexa Internet traffic rankings, Ynet is among the top 1000 websites in the world and the top 10 sites in Israel.^[5]

"200 Greatest Israelis" poll (2005)[link]

In 2005, Ynet conducted a poll to determine whom the general public considers the 200 Greatest Israelis of all time.^[6]^[7]^[8]^[9]^[10] Due to the nature of the poll used to select and rank the Israelis, the results do not pretend to be an objective assessment.^[11]

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Ninet Tayeb
Ninet Tayeb at the 2007 Yom Ha'atzmaut concert in the Yarkon Park
Background information
Born	(1983-10-21) October 21, 1983 (age 28)
Origin	Kiryat Gat, Israel
Genres	Alternative rock, indie
Instruments	Vocals, guitar, drums
Years active	2003–present
Labels	Hed Artzi Helicon
Website	Official website

Ninet Tayeb (Hebrew: נינט טייב‎, also known as Ninette or Nina) (born October 21, 1983, in Kiryat Gat, Israel) is an Israeli-pop rock singer and actress who became widely known as the first winner of Kochav Nolad (the Israeli version of Pop Idol).^[1]

She is currently performing after the release of her second album, and stars in the Israeli version of Spring Awakening.^[2]

1 Early life
2 Kokhav Nolad (Israel Idol)
3 Acting career
4 Albums
- 4.1 Barefoot
- 4.2 Communicative
5 Awards and nominations
6 Other projects
7 Personal life
8 References
9 External links

Early life [link]

Tayeb is of Moroccan Sephardic Jewish descent, the third of five children to her parents. She was raised in Kiryat Gat, where she started to sing in the local youth center.^[3] She was nicknamed Nina by her friends and family.

Kokhav Nolad (Israel Idol)[link]

During her IDF service, Tayeb auditioned for the first season of "Lo Nafsik Lashir – Kokhav Nolad, then a format under development. The Israeli media embraced her as a Cinderella story and named her the star, and she was in the lead all throughout the season.^[4] In the semifinal, she sang a song by Hayehudim, bringing mainstream attention to the veteran band.^[5] In the final, she performed Zohar Argov's classic Mizrahi song "Yam Shel Dma'ot" (A Sea of Tears), and won with almost half of the votes. She is the contestant with the longest-lasting and largest popularity after the show.

She is usually invited to the grand finale of the show every year and introduced as the number one winner of the show.

Acting career [link]

After winning Kokhav Nolad, Teddy productions, the production company behind Kokhav Nolad, created a daily drama to capitalize on Tayeb's popularity. The show, HaShir Shelanu ("Our Song"), was loosely based on Tayeb's life, became a hit and ran through 4 seasons, with Tayeb starring as Ninet Levi for two seasons, and as herself for the remaining two.^[4]

In 2009 the movie "Kirot", a thriller directed by Dani Lerner, was released to theaters with Ninet in the lead as a beaten woman avenging her abusing husband.^[6]

In the summer of 2010 Ninet played the roll of Wendla Bergman on the Hebrew vesion of the rock musical "Spring Awakening" written by Frank Wedekind. Ninet was nominated for the Israeli Theatre Awards for best female actress of 2010.

Albums [link]

Barefoot [link]

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The studio album "Barefoot"

Three years after winning the Israeli Kokhav Nolad reality show, Tayeb began work on her first album, Barefoot (Yechefa, Hebrew: יחפה). The album was produced by the Israeli rock singer Aviv Geffen,^[3] whom Ninet admired in her teen years; it was mainly composed, written and adapted by him. The album was released on September 7, 2006, and was later certified gold, selling more than 20,000 copies. The cover image was produced by Helicon.

1. Barefoot
"Yehefa" / יחפה

2. When You Are Here [Released as first single on July]
"KsheAta Kan" / כשאתה כאן

3. Anything Might Happen [Released as second single on August]
"HaKol Yakhol Likrot" / הכול יכול לקרות

4. Days of Forgiveness
"Yamim Shel Sliha" / ימים של סליחה

5. If You Come [Released as fourth single on December]
"Im Tavo" / אם תבוא

6. Longing (Are the Children of Loneliness)
"Ga'agu'im (Hem HaYeladim Shel HaBdidut)" / געגועים הם הילדים של הבדידות

7. Good to Die In the Name of Love
"Tov Lamut BeAd HaAhava" / טוב למות בעד האהבה

8. She Knows [Released as third single on November & first video clip, ^{see this section}]
"Hi Yoda'at" / היא יודעת

9. After All
"Aharei HaKol" / אחרי הכול

10. How Does It Feel When It's Over
"Eikh Margishim KsheZe Nigmar" / איך מרגישים כשזה נגמר

11. Knew You'd Be Back
"Yadati SheTahzor" / ידעתי שתחזור

12. Puppet
"Buba" / בובה

Songs 1–4 (including the first two singles) & 6, 10 & 12- were all written, composed and adapted by Geffen. Song 5, the fourth single, was written by Eli Moreno, composed by Ilay Bottner & adapted by Idan Raichel and Gil'ad Shmu'eli. Song 7 was written and composed by Erez Al'Grebli, and adapted by him and Tomer Mazmer. Song 8, the third single (and first video clip) was written by Tayeb, composed by her and Ilay Bottner, and adapted by Aviv. Song 9 was written by Barak Pheldman, composed and adapted by Yonni Bloch. Song 11 was written by Tayeb and Geffen, composed & adapted by him.

Tayeb has expressed some unhappiness with the first album, noting that due to microphone issues, her singing quality in it was not good.^[7]

Communicative [link]

On November 17, 2009, Tayeb released her second album, Communicativi (communicative).^[8] Tayeb wrote all the lyrics in the album, composed most of it, and produced and arranged the album with Rockfour. The album was praised by the critics as brave and exciting, mostly for the major shift in Tayeb's image from "the national sweetheart" of Israel to a darker image of a rocker. The album introduces Tayeb's new musical influences from the rock genre such as Jeff Buckley, P.J. Harvey, etc. This album is by far less commercial than her debut and none of the singles that have been released became hits, although Tayeb's status as Israel's most famous person in entertainment remains strong, thus making "Communicativi" one of the most talked about albums of recent years.

Track listing:

1. אם אני אלך / If I Leave
2. מדברים / Talking
3. כלה / Bride
4. עבדים / Slaves
5. שלווה / Serenity
6. אולי בחגים / Maybe During The Holidays
7. כך היה תמיד / It's Always Been Like This
8. פרח / Flower
9. כדור פורח / Hot air Balloon
10. כלב / Dog
11. יקינטון / Hyacinth
12. בשקט הזה / In This Silence
13. שני מעברים / Two Passages

Awards and nominations [link]

Ninet Tayeb

Sounds and Voices – IBA – First Place, 2001.
The Next King (המלך הבא) – Third place, 2002.
Kokhav Nolad – First place, 2003.
Golden Screen Awards – won Best Actress In A Daily Drama, 2005.
Pnai Plus Magazine – The Beautiful Right People project – First place, 2005.
Shir Nolad – First place, 2006.
Children's Chosen People (The Children's Channel) – Favorite Actress, 2006.
The Israeli Music Channel Awards – won Singer Of The Year award, 2007.
Children's Chosen People (The Children's Channel) – Favorite Singer, 2007.
Jerusalem Radio – Singer Of The Year, 2007.
People Of The Year – nominated for Person Of The Year In Musics in 2006 and 2009.
Song of The Decade project (Channel 24 and Galgalatz) – Singer of the decade nomination.
MTV Europe Music Awards – Won Israel's favorite act, 2009.

In 2005, she was voted the 10th-greatest Israeli of all time, in a poll by the Israeli news website Ynet to determine whom the general public considered the 200 Greatest Israelis.^[9]

Other projects [link]

In 2004 Tayeb recorded a song called "Like Everybody" with comedian Eli Finish for the charity television broadcast "Yomtov". In 2008 Tayeb took part in the documentary TV series "Once In A Lifetime" for which she flew to Jamaica with musician Ben Artzi, where they recorded a reggae track together with local musicians. In memorial of Ofra Haza she recorded, along with Ivri Lider, a pop rock version of Haza's song "This Pain". The duet became a hit in Israel in 2007.

In the annual musical project "Hebrew Labor" of 2008 (new versions of Israeli classics), she recorded Ilan Virtzberg's song to late poet Yona Wallach lyrics, "I Couldn't Do Anything With This". The song was the first public presentation of "the new Ninet", as it introduced an alternative rock direction in Tayeb's career.

Tayeb took part in the annual children's song contest Festigal as a guest performer (not performing on Saturdays due to religious reasons) in 2004. In 2006 she participated in the children's production Shir Nolad – a cover versions competition of classical children's songs, which she won with a cover version of the classic "Mother". It was during that time when she met future life partner Yehuda Levi. She competed in the renewed Children's Song Festival in 2008 with the song "Layla" (Nighty Night) which she wrote and composed herself. The song featured, once again, alternative influences in the melody and her singing.

Tayeb was invited to perform in tribute concerts for Meir Ariel, Inbal Perlmutter, Elliott Smith and Jeff Buckley. The latter is the object of Tayeb's admiration. After meeting with Buckley's guitarist and song writer Gary Lucas, Lucas invited Tayeb to record a song which he co-wrote with Buckley but was never recorded.

In 2009 she performed in the renewed Arad Festival. It was the first time Tayeb performed her new material to a large audience. The reaction was unpleasant: Tayeb was booed off stage and refused an encore, which not much to anyone's surprise caused a bit of a media frenzy. Weeks later in a television interview about the Arad incident she stated: "It was painful, but it's the audience's prerogative".

Tayeb recorded the Hebrew soundtrack for the movie Mary Poppins. She was chosen by Walt Disney Company to record the Hebrew soundtrack for the movie The Princess And The Frog.

In 2010 Tayeb was chosen for the role of Wendla in Israeli production of the musical Spring Awakening at "Beit Lessin" Theatre.

Tayeb is the host of Israel Radio's 88 FM station "Pando Najena" show. She is currently working on two albums, one in English and one in Hebrew, with Rockfour.^[7]

Personal life [link]

Tayeb began dating her Hashir Shelanu co-star (and on screen lover) Ran Danker in 2004.^[10] Their on screen and off screen romance was the source of unprecedented media and public interest. Soon after their break up in early 2006, rumors arose speculating that their break up was the result of an affair between Tayeb and actor Yehuda Levi, the boyfriend of Hashir Shelanu co-star Efrat Boimvald. The two supposedly met while working on the children show production Shir Nolad in 2006. Although Levi ended his relationship with Boimvald after 7 years, Tayeb and Levi denied the rumors. They were spotted together on several occasions and after five months, Tayeb confirmed the new romance in an interview, stating that the two were in love. In 2009, Levi confessed in an interview that their romance began while they were both dating other people. Tayeb and Levi now live together in Tel Aviv.

References [link]

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^ ^a ^b Nobody's darling, By Ben Shalev, Haaretz.com, May 6, 2011, retrieved 2011-07-09
^ ".". http://www.haaretz.com/news/diplomacy-defense/sexy-silence-among-the-screams-1.3328. Retrieved September 1, 2011.
^ גיא בניוביץ' (June 20, 1995). "הישראלי מספר 1: יצחק רבין – תרבות ובידור". Ynet. http://www.ynet.co.il/articles/0,7340,L-3083171,00.html. Retrieved July 10, 2011.
^ ".". http://www.ynetnews.et%20Tayeb%20danker. Retrieved September 1, 2011.

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Hosts	Zvika Hadar (1–present)

Judges	Tzedi Tzarfati (2–present) · Roni Brown (2) · Ricky Gal (2–3) · Svika Pick (3–7) · Margalit Tzan'ani (4–9) · Gal Ohovski (4–8) · Dana International (7–8) · Pavlo Rosenberg (8) · Miri Mesika (9–present) · Yair Nitzani (9) · Gidi Gov (10–present) · Moshe Peretz (10–present)

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v t e 2004 Chanukah Song Festival

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Persondata
Name	Tayeb, Ninet
Alternative names
Short description	Israeli singer
Date of birth	October 21, 1983
Place of birth	Kiryat Gan, Israel
Date of death
Place of death

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Ziggy Marley
Ziggy Marley performing in 2007.
Background information
Birth name	David Nesta Marley
Also known as	Ziggy Marley
Born	(1968-10-17) 17 October 1968 (age 43) Kingston, Jamaica
Genres	Reggae
Occupations	Musician, Singer-songwriter, Guitarist, voice actor
Instruments	Guitar, vocals, Piano, percussion
Years active	1979–present
Labels	Tuff Gong Worldwide
Associated acts	Ziggy Marley and the Melody Makers
Website	www.ziggymarley.com

David "Ziggy" Marley (born 17 October 1968, Trenchtown, Jamaica) is a Jamaican musician and leader of the band Ziggy Marley and the Melody Makers. He is the oldest son of famed reggae musician Bob Marley. His father gave him the nickname "Ziggy"; he has stated that it means "a small joint".

1 Musical career
2 Personal life
3 Philanthropy
4 Other work
5 In popular culture
6 Discography
- 6.1 Solo albums
7 References
8 External links

Musical career [link]

In 1979, Ziggy and his siblings, Cedella, Stephen and Sharon made their recording debut with their father, "Children Playing in the Streets". The Melody Makers, as the group came to be known, played occasionally for several years, including at their father's funeral in 1981. Their debut LP was Play the Game Right, which was a very pop-oriented album, earning Ziggy some derision from critics. The band's label, EMI, wanted to market Ziggy as a solo act, and so the Melody Makers moved to Virgin Records, where they recorded Conscious Party (1988, produced by Chris Frantz and Tina Weymouth). The album was critically and popularly successful, as was One Bright Day (1989) and Jahmekya (1991).

Ziggy Marley singing at Guilfest 2011

As the 1990s continued, the Melody Makers' sales slowly declined, beginning with Joy and Blues (1993) and continuing with Free Like We Want 2 B (1995).

Ziggy became politically active, working with the United Nations and creating a record label called Ghetto Youths Crew. A solo album, Dragonfly was released on 15 April 2003. On 2 July 2006, his second solo album, Love Is My Religion, was released on his independent record company Tuff Gong Worldwide. This album won a Grammy for best Reggae album and this was Ziggy's 4th Grammy win. On 5 May 2009, his third solo children's album Family Time, was released on his independent record company Tuff Gong Worldwide. Family Time features Family and Friends, Rita Marley, Cedella Marley, Judah Marley, Paul Simon, Willie Nelson, Jack Johnson, Toots Hibbert, Laurie Berkner, Elizabeth Mitchell and more. This album won a Grammy for "Best Musical Album for Children".

Some of his most popular singles include "True To Myself", "Drive", "People Get Ready", and his hit single "Tomorrow People", which reached #39 on the Billboard Hot 100.

In April 2011, Marley announced his fourth album, entitled Wild and Free would be released on 14 June. The title track, featuring Woody Harrelson, is available for free with the pre-order of Ziggy's first comic book, "Marijuanaman."

Personal life [link]

Ziggy Marley is the oldest son of Bob Marley. He is married to Orly Marley, who is a former vice-president of William Morris Agency. He also has 6 children, Daniel Marley, Justice Marley, Zuri Marley, Judah Victoria, Gideon Robert Nesta, and Abraham Selassie Robert Nesta. Most of the family resides in Miami.

Philanthropy [link]

Ziggy Marley founded Unlimited Resources Giving Enlightenment (URGE), which works to help children (especially in Jamaica and Ethiopia).

In 2007, Marley signed on as an official supporter of Little Kids Rock, a nonprofit organization that provides free musical instruments and free lessons to children in public schools throughout the United States. He has visited with children in the program and sits on the organization's board of directors as an honorary member.

Other work [link]

In 1991, Marley and the Melody Makers contributed the song "Give A Little Love" to the Disney album, For Our Children. The album is a collection of kid-friendly songs by popular artists (e.g. Paul McCartney, Bruce Springsteen, and Elton John), with proceeds given to the Pediatric AIDS Foundation.

Marley made guest appearances as himself on an episode of the sitcom Family Matters in 1995, and on the television series Charmed in season 6 (episode 14, "The Legend of Sleepy Halliwell"), performing "Rainbow in the Sky".

He and his Melody Makers made a guest appearance on the popular kids television show Sesame Street in the 1991-92 season, and sang a Sesame Street version of "Small People" from their 1991 album Jahmekya

In 1996, Marley and the Melody Makers recorded the reggae-style theme song for the children's television series Arthur called "Believe in Yourself".

He voiced Ernie, one of Sykes' (Martin Scorsese) Rasta jellyfish henchmen in the 2004 film Shark Tale. In the film when Oscar (Will Smith) tries to sing the Bob Marley song "Three Little Birds", Marley's character zaps Oscar on the head and says "That's not the way you sing that song, mon." The title song for the film was a cover version of "Three Little Birds" performed by Marley and Sean Paul.

Further voice acting includes "Crockadle" on an episode of My Gym Partner's a Monkey, the Cheshire Cat in a 2010 episode of Wonder Pets, and Reflux the Knaaren, in the Ubisoft video game Rayman 3.

Marley covered "Drive" by The Cars for the Adam Sandler movie 50 First Dates, and his father's song "Three Little Birds" for the Dora The Explorer soundtrack.

Ziggy is listed as the featured artist on Donna Summer's song, "Crayons," the title track from her 2008 album. He has also performed duets with Angelique Kidjo, Sting, Dora The Explorer, Taj Mahal, The Chieftains, Sean Paul and others.

Marley and his daughter Judah made an appearance in the 2009 Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade.

Ziggy Marley released a pro-marijuana song in support of California's Proposition 19 ballot initiative to legalize recreational marijuana. Voters rejected the ballot but backers said they would mount another legalization campaign in 2012.

In popular culture [link]

On an episode of Celebrity Deathmatch, Ziggy was mentioned while his father, Bob Marley (who was brought back to life via time machine), had his hands full with Shaggy. Shaggy first implies that Ziggy was merely a Bob impersonator ("Me? What about Ziggy? He sings all your songs - he even looks like you!"), while Bob answers that Ziggy is his son. Shaggy taunts Bob on how Ziggy might have got his name, on which Bob fight backs with comments on Scooby-Doo, where Shaggy got his nickname.

His song "Love Power" was played during the end credits of Muppet Treasure Island (1996), and "True To Myself" was featured on the TV show Scrubs (Season 8 Episode 14 - "My Soul On Fire", Pt. 1).

In the episode of South Park entitled Medicinal Fried Chicken, Randy Marsh wants to get a prescription for medicinal marijuana before the Ziggy Marley concert in Denver.

He is mentioned in holding a concert in Nevada in The Fresh Prince of Bel Air.

Discography [link]

Main article: Ziggy Marley discography

Ziggy Marley and the Melody Makers albums

Solo albums [link]

2003: Dragonfly
2006: Love Is My Religion
2008: Love Is My Religion Live
2009: Ziggy Live From Soho
2009: Family Time
2011: Wild and Free

References [link]

External links [link]

v t e Ziggy Marley and the Melody Makers

Ziggy Marley Stephen Marley Sharon Marley Cedella Marley

Studio albums	Play the Game Right Children Playing (unreleased) Hey World! Conscious Party One Bright Day Jahmekya Joy and Blues Free Like We Want 2 B Fallen Is Babylon Spirit of Music

Live albums	Live Vol. 1

Compilations	Time Has Come: The Best of Ziggy Marley and the Melody Makers The Best of Ziggy Marley & The Melody Makers

Ziggy Marley solo albums	Dragonfly Love Is My Religion Family Time Wild and Free

Persondata
Name	Marley, Ziggy
Alternative names
Short description
Date of birth	17 October 1968
Place of birth	Trenchtown, Jamaica
Date of death
Place of death

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