February 7, 2023 at 9:45 am
The Israel Prize is the highest award of the State of Israel. Once a year, on the eve of Israeli Independence Day, it is awarded at a state ceremony in Jerusalem. Three singers have been awarded the Israel Prize so far. With Yerushalayim shel zahav, the golden city of Jerusalem, Naomi Shemer, singer-songwriter, creates Israel’s secret anthem following the Six-Day War in 1967 and the reunification of Jerusalem.
Shoshana Damari combines eastern and western musical aesthetics with her voice. Damari raised her voice on Kol Yerushalayim radio at the age of 14 and gave her first solo concert at seventeen. In 1944 she joined the satirical drama troupe Li La Lo and interpreted the famous melody “Kalaniyot” (poppy flowers) – almost Lili Marleen in Israeli. Damari records dozens of albums, makes films and tours the world. Nurit Hirsh composed more than 1,600 Hebrew songs. Her “Oseh shalom” is part of the liturgy in synagogues and Jewish communities worldwide. Israel won the 1978 Eurovision Song Contest in Paris with Nurit Hirsh’s “A-Ba-Ni-Bi”.
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