The day Ofra Haza died was actually the second time Israel had been plunged into a state of mourning for her. Thirteen years earlier, in February 1987, a Cessna aircraft carrying the most celebrated ...

IT WAS 1991, and Israeli superstar Ofra Haza was in a studio deep in the heart of Europe recording “Give Peace a Chance” with Peter Gabriel, Lenny Kravitz, Hammer and a lot of other singers crying out ...

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.

His approach is meticulous. Each of Haza’s songs is adapted into flamenco palos, distinct rhythmic frameworks that give each piece a particular emotional character. When dancer Adva Yermiyahu and ...