Darya Mosenzon is a Tel Aviv-based pianist specializing in North African music. She began playing the piano and composing at a young age and studied classical music throughout her childhood. Since adolescence, she was drawn to other genres of music as well, culminating in her choice to pursue Moroccan and Algerian music. — DaryaMosenzon.com …
Idan Raichel is an Israeli singer-songwriter and musician known for his Idan Raichel Project…
Pop singer Noa Kirel, 20, rose to fame in Israel when she appeared in the Pushers documentary series from HOT, a major Israeli cable and Internet provider. The series tracks parents who push their children to success in different areas. It featured Kirel and her father, who was financially supporting her entertainment career development. Since…
The first year Israel won Eurovision was 1978, in Paris, with the song “A-Ba-Ni-Bi” performed by Izhar Cohen and the Alphabeta. Israel won again the following year, in Jerusalem, with the song “Hallelujah,” which became an international hit. In 1998, trailblazing transgender singer Dana International won the competition in Birmingham, U.K.: she performed the song…
When he was just a boy, Uziya Tzadok performed a stunning rendition of the song “Shema Yisrael” on Israeli television…
Headquartered in Tel Aviv and founded in 1936 — 12 years before the establishment of the State of Israel — as the Palestine Philharmonic, the Israel Philharmonic Orchestra (IPO) was originally made up of talented Jewish musicians forced to flee Europe because of the rise of Nazism. Two notable, long-time IPO conductors have been Leonard…
Ester Rada (36) is an Israeli-born singer and actress whose family came from Ethiopia. Her music career started during her military service: She sang Israeli pop songs for an IDF band. After the 2013 release of her acclaimed first EP, Life Happens, and the 2014 release of her first full album, Ester Rada, Rada started…
For Holocaust Remembrance Day 2018, Koolulam invited 600 Holocaust survivors, children, grandchildren, and great-grandchildren to sing together in a special project of Beit Avi Chai together with “Zikaron BaShalom.” They sang the meaningful and stirring song “Chai!” (“I’m still alive, the people of Israel are still alive!”). Quote: “Koolulam is a social-musical initiative aimed…
WOW! FACTS
Inventor of the mobile phone, “Father of the Internet,” inventor of the video game cosole, inventor fo the laser, inventor of the gramophone, creator of the Barbie Doll, creator of the cruise ship, “Father of Immunology,” inventor fo the modern condom (!), a prime minister of the U.K., a three-time prime minister of France, a president of Switzerland and the primary financier of the American Revolution?
We knew you could guess… all of them are (or were) Jews!
To learn about these and many more AmazingJews, watch a compilation put together by JewOfTheWeek.net in 2015 and posted on YouTube. >>
Nobel Prizes
Although Jews are less than two-tenths of one percent of the world’s population, more than 20% of Nobel Prize winners have been Jewish. Source: Google
Polio Vaccine
Millions and millions of people worldwide have been spared the ravages of poliomyelitis — including paralysis and even death — thanks to research conducted by Jewish scientist Dr. Jonas Salk and his team. The Salk vaccine entered widespread use in the U.S. in 1955. Source: Wikipedia
Miss Liberty
The words “…give me your tired, your poor, your huddled masses…” on the Statue of Liberty were written by Emma Lazarus, a Jew. Source: BuzzFeed
Blue Jeans
Levi Strauss, an immigrant from Germany, invented his blue jeans in 1873. Source: BuzzFeed
Start-Up Nation
Israel has the third highest rate of entrepreneurship in the world. It has the highest rate of entrepreneurship among women and people over 55 in the world. Source: BuzzFeed