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Eyal Golan performing in Cesaria, July 19, 2011 (Eliran Hadad)
The Mizrahi canon: Top classics from the margins of Israeli society
Although Mizrahi artists have become household names that can sell out amphitheaters, their music is still missing from the Israeli musical canon. The culture that Mizrahi Jews never forgot, along with the attachment to their roots and faith, are excellent tools for creating new Mizrahi classics. By Avi H. Muthada Classics, like good wine, must…
By Cafe Gibraltar April 8, 2013
Matzpen ad in Haaretz, 22.9.1967
Matzpen and the story of two ads
A strange historical coincidence had it that on the same day, September 22, 1967 – three months after the Six-Day War, with most of the Israeli public still intoxicated with euphoria – two very different political ads were published in Israeli dailies. One came from the most radical and demonized group in the political fringes, while…
By Noam Sheizaf February 11, 2013
A song was born: The tale of a controversial tune
Six or seven years ago, I was sitting in Tel Aviv’s Cafe Ginzburg with a man I admire deeply. Mikhael Manekin was then, along with Yehuda Shaul, one of heads of Breaking the Silence. BTS was still a budding organization at the time, made up entirely of Israeli soldiers who participated in the occupation and…
By Yuval Ben-Ami October 15, 2012
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