Popular israeli music

IDF paratrooper Yosef Haguel, associated with famed 'Ballad for a Medic,' dies at 80

Ballad for a Medic became one of Gaon’s most beloved songs, even though it wasn't played on Israeli radio stations for several years, except on Remembrance Day.

Yosef Haguel boards a convoy to Lebanon in August 2026.
NUNU BLOWS OUT the candle on her five-year career cake, alongside Guri Alfi (right), at the Barby last weekend

‘I want Adam Levine to bring me the cake’: Israeli pop star Nunu on five years of war and music

 SASSON SHAULOV’S YouTube cover page for ‘Tamid Ohev Oti,’ translated from the Hebrew as ‘Always Loves Me.’

How 'Tamid Ohev Oti' became an unlikely Israeli anthem of 2024

 Israeli singer Adam (Haim Cohen), 1987.

Israeli pop sensation Adam has died at 64


Jerusalem to Berlin to Kfar Blum

Experiencing a musical weekend at the Pastoral Hotel in Kibbutz Kfar Blum.

GET YOUR music on at the Pastoral Hotel at Kibbutz Kfar Blum.

Off the chain

Israeli-born, New York-based tenor saxophonist Arnan Raz strings together an honest narrative in his sophomore album, ‘Chains Of Stories’

ARNAN RAZ: I was trained to make people feel, that was my goal.

Miri Mesika, David D'or to perform at UN without Amir Benayoun

The co-writer of the Holocaust memorial song will sit out the trip, refuses second meeting at the embassy over visa.

Miri Mesika and David D'or will have to make do without Amir Benayoun

Country folk in Jerusalem

The show is “only a guitar, a singer, an audience and the connection between them.”

GUITARIST-VOCALIST Daniel Sagalnik will give a free show at Jerusalem’s Abraham Hostel on Thursday

One of a kind

“The first half of ‘Ehad’ is played on a good [well-tuned] piano. It’s sort of postromantic music – semi-Arab, semi-trippy, semi-classical, semi–Chopin, I don’t know what – sort of ambient; there’s

Internationally acclaimed conductor and pianist David Greilsammer will appear in the festival’s opening and closing concerts

Alt-J to return to Israel to perform in May

British indie rockers Alt-J are returning to Israel to perform at the Tel Aviv Convention Center on May 28.

BRITISH INDIE rockers Alt-J.

Musical theatrics

The Papanosh quintet performs at the Jerusalem Jazz Festival

The Papanosh quintet

Asaf Avidan relives old pain in new song

The Study on Falling is set to be released in November.

Asaf Avidan

Introducing Shelly and Rotem

Tel Aviv-based indie duo prepare to release their debut album, ‘Some Things Can Change’

Tel Aviv-based indie duo Shelly and Rotem

A Hebrew-English mashup summer hit?

Mizrahi singer Omer Adam is counting on English lyrics to make his latest song a hit.

Omer Adam in concert