Israeli music

Matti Caspi laid to rest as family and artists gather to honor his legacy

In an emotionally charged ceremony, hundreds of family members, friends, and figures from the cultural world arrived today at the Kfar Saba cemetery to accompany Matti Caspi on his final journey.

Family members and friends attend a funeral service for Israeli singer and composer Mati Caspi, who passed away after a prolonged battle with cancer, in Tel Aviv, February 9, 2026.
Matti Caspi working on audio engineering for the IDF entertainment team on March 17, 1972.

How Matti Caspi’s music became a treasured national soundtrack - comment

Conductor Zubin Mehta attends the American Friends of the Israel Philharmonic Orchestra Duet Gala at the Wallis Annenberg Center for the Performing Arts on November 10, 2015 in Beverly Hills, California; illustrative.

Zubin Mehta cancels all Israeli shows, cites Netanyahu's 'treatment of Palestinians'

ORPHANED LAND, celebrating 35 years.

Heavy metal peace in the Mideast: Orphaned Land frontman asks if unity through music can survive


Army Radio celebrates 30 years of Gal-gal-gal Galatz

Thousands of attendees started partying at 5:30 p.m. and did not stop all the way through until sunset the next day.

 IDAN RAICHEL performs at the Galgalive Festival.

Rocking out under the Iron Dome - reporter's notebook

If you cancel your parties and you stop singing and dancing, you’re giving in to the terrorists. 

Dead Sea rave

Danny Kuttner on singing colors and how traveling abroad helped her music

Collaboration always leads to more vibrant and 'colorful' music, but individuality is also important.

 DANNY KUTTNER: Israel is my home.

The power of a unicorn: Why will Noa Kirel's Eurovision song make Germans laugh?

Just before the Israeli delegation boards a plane to the upcoming Eurovision Song contest in Liverpool, we checked what they're saying about us in Europe:

 Israeli singer Noa Kirel at the 2022 ACUM Awards ceremony for Hebrew Song near Tel Aviv on September 7, 2022.

Yehonatan Geffen provided the soundtrack for Israelis of all ages

Remembering poet Yehonatan Geffen, whose songs were embraced by the Israeli public and became an integral part of people’s lives. Geffen died at 76.

YEHONATAN GEFFEN

Two deceased singers will be revived via AI to celebrate Israel’s 75th anniversary

The song “Here Forever” will be performed by Ofra Haza and Zohar Argov, two famous Israeli singers who passed away in 2000 and 1987.

Israeli pop superstar Ofra Haza who passed away 20 years ago

Israeli composer celebrates sustainability and peace in Greece

 Mark Eliyahu performs in Greece

Ofra Haza named one of top 200 singers of all time by Rolling Stone

Haza’s life was a rags-to-riches story in which she soared high, helped change the Israeli music industry’s perception of Mizrahi music, had a huge international career and died tragically young.

 File photo of Israeli singer Ofra Haza, with her manager Bezalal Aloni.

Israeli guitarist Yitzhak Klepter passes away at 72

One of Klepter's solos was rated as the greatest guitar solo in the history of Israeli music in 1997.

 Guitarist Yitzhak Klepter of the Israeli rockband Kaveret.

Dennis Chambers set to light up this year's Red Sea Jazz Festival in Eilat

Chambers will be performing at the Red Sea Jass Festival in Eilat November 10-12, along with United States-based Ukrainian-born Israeli pianist Ruslan Sirota.

 DENNIS CHAMBERS