Lahav played a major role in shaping popular Israeli music across generations and wrote the lyrics for many songs that have become embedded in the country’s canon. Tzruya “Suki” Lahav, one of Israel’s ...

During the ceremonies and radio broadcasts, many Israeli songs are performed, songs inspired by the wars, the soldiers, the ...

Yiddish is the language of the Jews of Eastern Europe and all the places to which they spread. It is the language of socialists and capitalists, the Partisans who fought the Nazis and most of the ...

Local reggae/rappers Hatikva 6 and American pop star Sabrina Carpenter are sharing an award for most played songs on the radio in Israel for 2024/2025. Hatikva 6’s “Superheroes,” a tribute to a nation ...

In March, Rivka Halperin was watching KAN, a satellite Israeli TV station, from her home in New York when she excitedly heard about Israel’s song choice for the 69th annual Eurovision Song Contest, ...

BASEL, Switzerland (AP) — Classically trained Austrian singer JJ won the 69th Eurovision Song Contest in Switzerland on Saturday with “Wasted Love,” a song that combines operatic, multi-octave vocals ...

“Lider mit Palestine” draws on Jewish music traditions to express solidarity with the Palestinians and opposition to the war. Yiddish is the language of the Jews of Eastern Europe and all the places ...