Tzipi Talking in Gan Meier before the parade and a proud gay parent and son

Israeli europop becoming popular in Israel

It all started a few years back with Hovevey Zion's version of Boten Anna, a Swedish euro pop song with kind of nerdy lyrics in it's original language. Somehow this song travelled over the internet to Israel where it became a hugher hit than ever in its orginal state and original country.

The Israeli duo Hovevey Zion consisting of Noy Alooshe and DJ Dor Dekel formed the " europ pop/dance band "Hovevey Zion" and wrote some funny hebrew lyrics to the song that became "Rotse Banot" ("I want girls"). The hit was on TV-shows and a lot of people copied the song in so many ways.

Now another band has huge success in Israel.The amazing Maze. The song of the summer 2009 must undoubtly have been "After Basdinim" (" a leave from army spent in the sheets"). The song catched the same kind of summery feeling as Rotse Banot did but unlike that song this is an original israeli euro pop hit. And it came with a video (see below). The song generated a gold record for over 100 000 downloads of the song using mobile.

Now the band is soon releasing a new hit video for a duet that has been around for a while. The song is "Nogaat Bi" ("You touch me").

Arab woman finished 4th most popular in Israeli show

Arab-israeli singer and actress Mira Awad lost the chance to win Reshets "Rokdim im Kochavim" last Sunday. But she ended the 4th most popular dancer in the Israeli show Even if the internet poll on the reshet website gave her the 2nd palce right after Moshe Peretz. In the final she danced to a song performed by herself covering a song from famous singer Rita.

Dancing with the stars

Also in Israel , there is "dancing with the stars" "Rokdim im Kochavim". This year, with mizrahi singer Moshe Peretz and arab-israeli singer and actress Mira Awad. Mira Awad has participated in Eurovision 2009 and also starred in Eytan Fox's "The Bubble" and wrote songs for the internationaly known movie "Lemon Tree". In 2009 she released an album in Arabic in Israel "Bahlawan".It became one of the best-selling albums on the internet in Israel in 2009. Now she is immensely popular in the "Rokdim im Kochavim", both by the jury in the program and among the web voters on Reshets website.
Previously, she was one of the pioneers of the Arab actoresses and actors who appeared in the Arab comedy series "Arabic Labor" in which she played an Arab woman who was in love with a jewish man. The entire show can be viewed on the internet from Reshets website. You really can not help but be affected by Mira's contagious positive impression and spontaneous warmth. To understand why there is a conflict between Arabs and Jews is so strange when you see how good the atmosphere is between Mira and her Jewish dance partner Dani Yurtman.


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