{"id":11023,"date":"2013-11-28T09:54:05","date_gmt":"2013-11-28T15:54:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/?p=11023"},"modified":"2013-11-28T09:54:05","modified_gmt":"2013-11-28T15:54:05","slug":"iconic-israeli-singer-arik-einstein-dies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/iconic-israeli-singer-arik-einstein-dies\/","title":{"rendered":"Iconic Israeli singer Arik Einstein dies"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>JERUSALEM (JTA) &#8212; Arik Einstein, an iconic Israeli singer as well as a songwriter and actor, has died.<\/p>\n<p>Einstein died Tuesday night at a Tel Aviv hospital, where he was rushed after suffering an aortic aneurysm. He was 74.<\/p>\n<p>Israeli television channels halted their regular programming to broadcast clips and remembrances of the singer, whose first recordings were released in the 1960s.<\/p>\n<p>Fans holding a vigil outside the Sourasky Medical Center cried when the hospital&#8217;s director general, Dr. Gabriel Barbash, announced that Einstein had died.<\/p>\n<p>Einstein has not performed in front of an audience since the early 1980s following a road accident in which he was seriously injured.<\/p>\n<p>His first album, &#8220;Shar Bisvilech&#8221; or &#8220;Singing for You,&#8221; was released in 1966. He was part of the rock band The High Windows with Shmulik Kraus and Israeli-American Josie Katz. He also formed the Lool, or Chicken Coop, comedy troupe.<\/p>\n<p>Among his\u00a0 well-known songs were &#8220;Ani Ve&#8217;ata,&#8221; or &#8220;You and Me&#8221;; &#8220;Atur mitzchech zahav shachor&#8221;; and &#8220;Sa Le&#8217;at,&#8221; or &#8220;Drive Slowly.<\/p>\n<div style=\"padding-bottom:20px; padding-top:10px;\" class=\"hupso-share-buttons\"><!-- Hupso Share Buttons - https:\/\/www.hupso.com\/share\/ --><a class=\"hupso_toolbar\" href=\"https:\/\/www.hupso.com\/share\/\"><img decoding=\"async\" data-src=\"https:\/\/static.hupso.com\/share\/buttons\/share-medium.png\" style=\"border:0px; padding-top: 5px; float:left;\" alt=\"Share Button\" src=\"data:image\/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAAAAACH5BAEKAAEALAAAAAABAAEAAAICTAEAOw==\" class=\"lazyload\" \/><noscript><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/static.hupso.com\/share\/buttons\/share-medium.png\" style=\"border:0px; padding-top: 5px; float:left;\" alt=\"Share Button\"\/><\/noscript><\/a><script type=\"text\/javascript\">var hupso_services_t=new Array(\"Twitter\",\"Facebook\",\"Google Plus\",\"Pinterest\",\"Linkedin\",\"Tumblr\",\"Email\");var hupso_background_t=\"#EAF4FF\";var hupso_border_t=\"#66CCFF\";var hupso_toolbar_size_t=\"medium\";var hupso_image_folder_url = \"\";var hupso_url_t=\"\";var hupso_title_t=\"Iconic%20Israeli%20singer%20Arik%20Einstein%20dies\";<\/script><script type=\"text\/javascript\" src=\"https:\/\/static.hupso.com\/share\/js\/share_toolbar.js\"><\/script><!-- Hupso Share Buttons --><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[27,19],"tags":[4447,8781,8790,8795,8788,4448],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11023"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11023"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11023\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11024,"href":"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11023\/revisions\/11024"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11023"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11023"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11023"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}