The remix featured a prominent Ofra Haza sample and many other vocal cut ups as well as a looped rhythm which, when speeded up, became a staple of the breakbeats genre.

* 1957 – Ofra Haza, Israeli singer ( d. 2000 )

The first single off the album, " My Love Is for Real " featured a fusion of R & B and traditional Middle Eastern instruments, and was performed with Yemeni-Israeli singer Ofra Haza.

* Israeli pop superstar Ofra Haza recorded the song entitled " שיר אהבה " ( Love Song ) on her 1988 album " Shaday ".

* November 19 – Ofra Haza, Israeli singer ( d. 2000 )

* " Fatamorgana ( Mirage )", a 1989 song by Ofra Haza from Desert Wind

Memorial plaque in memory of Ofra Haza at her childhood home in 39 Boaz Street, Tel Aviv.

Ofra Haza ( Hebrew: עפרה חזה, Arabic: ; born Bat-Sheva Ofrah Hazah ; 19 November 195723 February 2000 ) was an Israeli singer of Yemenite Jewish origin, an actress and international recording artist.

He introduced Ofra Haza, an Israeli Yemenite singer, to the directors, and they thought she was so beautiful that they designed one of the characters in the film to look like her.

Under the insistence of the record company the band re-recorded their early single " Temple of Love " ( with Ofra Haza on additional vocals ) to promote the collection of their early independently released singles, entitled Some Girls Wander By Mistake ( 1992 ).

Ofra Haza from Israel, who took the second place, had an enduring success with her song " Chai " which became a hit in Europe, launching her career.

Many singers have sung it, including Ofra Haza, Regina Spektor, and Sophie Milman.

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Ofra Haza on " Yemenite Songs " cover with a traditional Yemenite costume.

Yemenite music reached a world audience in the 1980s as a result of the efforts of Israeli singer Ofra Haza, whose album Yemenite Songs became an international hit with world music fans.

Leading performers have included the internationally acclaimed dance music singer Ofra Haza ( singer of " Im Nin ' Alu ", from the album Shaday ), Berry Sakharof, often referred to as " The Prince of Israeli Rock "; Rami Fortis, the groups " Efo HaYeled?

* Ofra Haza – Apart from her success in Israel, Haza was well known in Europe and North America in the 1980s and 1990s for her unique blend of Yemenite music and electronic dance sounds.

* Ofra Haza – 1990

* Ofra Haza – vocals

* Ofra Haza

Subsequent work included projects for Tommy Page, David Byrne of the Talking Heads, Ofra Haza, the Beastie Boys, Sinéad O ' Connor and UB40.

* The late Israeli singer Ofra Haza sang one of the most popular versions of the song at Pa ' amonei HaYovel ( Bells of the Jubilee ), Israel's 50th Anniversary celebration in 1998.

Hotei's 1998 album Supersonic Generation, recorded in part with Apollo 440 and Ofra Haza, was released in 14 European countries.

* 3 March: A Palestinian sniper kills seven Israeli soldiers and three civilians at an IDF roadblock near the settlement of Ofra.

* 6 June: 18-year-old Israeli student died of gunshot wounds to the chest sustained in a shooting attack near Ofra, north of Ramallah, when Palestinian gunmen opened fire in an ambush.

The Israeli settlement of Ofra is close to the site as well.

* Israeli-Palestinian conflict: A Palestinian sniper firing from a hill near Ofra kills seven Israel Defense Forces soldiers and three Israeli settlers, and wounds another six.

The document concerns several homes in the Israeli settlement of Ofra, approximately 15 miles north of Jerusalem in the West Bank.

In 1997, Peterson collaborated with Israeli singer Ofra Haza, producing her last album Ofra Haza.

* Ofra Haza ( 1957 – 2000 ) ( Yemenite Jew )

Later that year, Haza released Shirey Moledet which consisted of her renditions of well-known Israeli folk songs, eventually going platinum as well.

By the time she had completed her military service in 1979, Haza had matured as a singer and was ready to launch a solo career.

Haza was born the youngest of nine children, to a Yemenite Jewish family, in the poor Tel Aviv neighborhood of Hatikvah.

Haza grew up in a traditional Yemenite family who lived in Tel Aviv's poor Hatikva neighborhood.

** Sarit Hadad, Israeli pop singer

* Sharon Cohen, more commonly known as Dana International, an Israeli pop singer

In pop music, the shofar is used by the Israeli Oriental metal band Salem in their adaptation of " Al Taster " psalm.

* Puncher, Israeli pop music band

In the early 2000s, Schwimmer dated Australian pop singer Natalie Imbruglia, Israeli actress Mili Avital, and American actress Rochelle Ovitt.

It tends to be very eclectic, and contains a wide variety of influences from the Diaspora, as well as more modern cultural importations: Hassidic songs, Asian and Arab pop ( especially by Yemenite singers ), and Israeli hip hop or heavy metal.

Hadad's career as a pop singer has been highly successful, with many of her songs topping the Israeli charts.

In addition to creating an Israeli style and sound, Israel's musicians have made significant contributions to classical, jazz, pop rock and other international music genres.

Since the late 1960s, Israeli popular music has been deeply influenced by mainstream pop and rock music from the United Kingdom and the U. S. Iconic Israeli 1970s rock groups such as Kaveret and Tamooz and singer-songwriters such as Shalom Hanoch and Miki Gavrielov, laid the foundations for what is today the rich and varied scene of Israeli pop and rock.

Mixing Western pop and rock with the original style of Israeli folk music and Oriental Jewish music, particularly Yemenite, Greek and Andalusian-Moroccan, creates together the original and unique sound of Israeli music today.

Other pop stars include Ninet Tayeb, Harel Skaat and Shiri Maimon — all winners of the Israeli talent search TV show Kokhav Nolad (" A Star is Born ", the Israeli version of " Pop Idol ").

These immigrants developed an eclectic Mediterranean style called " Muzika Mizrahit " ( Oriental music ), which became increasingly popular in the early 1960s and was later influenced by popular Greek music ( Rembetiko ), whilst at the same time, influencing Israeli pop and rock.

This view — that Israeli music is a defining element in the creation of Israeli culture — continues to this day, and influences artists in all musical genres — pop, rock, and classical.

Dubi Zeltzer, considered one of the founding fathers of Israeli pop music, wrote many of the songs for the Nahal Brigade entertainment troupe.

Singers who mix rock and pop elements with the traditional songs of the Land of Israel are usually achieving tremendous popularity and considered as leading acts in Israeli music today, singers such as Rita, Shlomo Artzi, Achinoam Nini, Ivri Lider, Aviv Gefen, Dana Berger, Evyatar Banai, Harel Skaat, Ninet Tayeb, Shiri Maimon, Dana International, Sharon Haziz, Mika Karni Roni Duani, David D ' or, Metropolin and many more.

Most of these artists also like to mix some elements of electronic sounds of Dance music, so you can find style influences of pop icons such as Madonna and Kylie Minogue in Israeli music as well.