Some music to show how close the Israel & Palestinians are

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Yemeniti Arab Jewish song about the ancestors of these Yemeniti Jews in Israel. How they came to Israel and were discriminated by White European Ashkenazi Jews due to their Arab culture.

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Ofra Haza (Hebrew: עפרה חזה; 19 November 1957 – 23 February 2000) was an Israeli singer, songwriter and actress, commonly known in the Western world as "the Madonna of the East", or "the Israeli Madonna". Her voice has been described as a "tender" mezzo-soprano. In 2023, Rolling Stone ranked Haza at number 186 on its list of the 200 Greatest Singers of All Time.

Of Mizrahi Jewish (Yemenite-Jewish) descent, Haza's music is known as a mixture of traditional Middle Eastern and commercial singing styles, fusing elements of Eastern and Western instrumentation, orchestration and dance-beat, as well as lyrics from Mizrahi and Jewish folk tales and poetry. By the late 1980s, Haza was an internationally successful artist, achieving large success in Europe and the Americas and appearing regularly on MTV. During her singing career, she earned many platinum and gold discs and her music proved highly popular in the club scene. By the 1990s, at the peak of her career, she regularly featured in movie soundtracks, such as that of Dick Tracy (1990) and famously in The Prince of Egypt (1998), and her vocals were popularly sampled in hip hop. Her death in 2000 from an AIDS -related illness shocked Israeli society.

In Israel, Haza was a highly influential cultural figure, referred to as one of the country's biggest cultural icons, who helped to popularize Mizrahi culture.

In the Netherlands in 1988, in the Veronica tv broacast corporations tv pop show Countdown

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2011 during the Arab Spring

Directed by: Eli Rezik, Ayed Fadel, Suhell Nafar.
Music Production by: Bruno Cruz

Green Tunisia!
Dedication From Palestinian Artists To The Tunisian People!

[karl]

Pieter

Ordinarily I stay away from Israeli music not because it is Israeli but simply have not enjoyed the style that is theirs alone. But one exception was some with Miss Ofra Haza, she sang these songs in a European style. Somewhere in my moving locations they were lost from where, who knows.

Karl