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End of Orange Season – Israeli Popular Music
Thursday, October 29, 2026
16:15–19:30
Yad Izhak Ben Zvi
Study evening: "The End of the Orange Season", Israeli popular music Three decades of change in Israeli popular music: from the army ensembles and the Russian-Slavic style that marked the early years of the state to the rise of Western rock and Mizrahi and Mediterranean music. The evening is the fruit of a research group that worked at Yad Ben-Zvi and a new issue of 'Et-Mol'. We will follow the changes in Israeli popular music against the background of the social and political processes Israeli society went through from the 1960s to the 1980s. Thursday | 29.10.26, 18 Heshvan 5787 | 16:00-19:30 | at Yad Ben-Zvi 16:00 Opening and greetings Dr. Yaniv Mazuman, Director General of Yad Yitzhak Ben-Zvi Marva Bluka, editor of 'Et-Mol' First session: What influenced Israeli popular music? Chair: Oded Heilbronner, head of the research group at Yad Ben-Zvi Uri Misgav, journalist and musician "Singing songs without a flag": the Yom Kippur War and its influence on Israeli rock Alon Shav, Bar-Ilan University Arik and the Einsteins – on a forgotten single that started a revolution Ari Katorza, Rimon School of Music Images of the lost paradise in Israeli music Sivan Shenhav-Shav, Levinsky-Wingate Academic Center and Rimon School of Music "Mikan HaDerech": Danny Sanderson between sources of influence and musical legacy Second session: Center and periphery in Israeli music Chair: Yael Gadinian, head of the culture department, Yad Yitzhak Ben-Zvi Boaz Cohen, radio broadcaster Between center and periphery: the band…
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