The Historama
Alex Ben-Arieh
P.O.Box 32128
Tel Aviv, Israel 61321
Phone: +972-547-680-086
Fax: +972-3-546-1971


Israeli Music Room
Historama.com is not just about Israeli history, it's also about Israeli culture - and here we *love* Israeli music. As with many other blue-and-white "products of the land" we are unashamed to say that ours is the best music that exists: literally tens of thousands of recorded songs by (now) thousands of talented singers and musicians - and all this in a Hebrew language which was revived in its modern form just over 100 years ago.

For the benefit of those with an interest in Israel or curiousity about her culture, we upload here on a regular basis songs from Israel (presently in Hebrew, but very soon also in Arabic) together with translations of their lyrics from Hebrew into English, links to video clips and some information about the song or the musician.

Culture is universal language and the interested visitor may be surprised to 'hear' that the style and content of Israeli music is not as foreign and distant as the country's location on a map.

The index of songs (masterlist as well as subject menus) is shown below. Until January 2012 we were able to use an mp3 player (with legal copies of songs) until we were asked to remove it, as it was seen as a "private radio station". We've replace that player with a YouTube playlist which contains most of the original songs: some still don't exist on YouTube, so the numbering on the playlist skips those tracks from our menu below which don't (yet) appear in the playlist. Adding to the 'complications' most YouTube music videos cannot be 'embedded' on 3rd party websites, so the playlist will open in a separate window:

Click Here To Open the Music Playlist

For those looking to "graduate" into deeper waters, we highly recommend the music broadcasts on "Reshet Gimmel" radio (the Hebrew music station of the Voice of Israel; mostly contemporary hits on the weekend - click on the speaker symbol near the top-right corner); an especially good source is the weekend "Shabat Ivri" ("Hebrew Sabbath") program on 103fm (mostly classic and folk hits from the '60s-'70s), which runs from 5pm on Fridays to 9pm Saturdays (Israel time; subtract 7 hours for American "eastern standard time" - click on the microphone symbol for the live broadcast).

Main Music Genre Menu
(the links below will open category listing and their songs in a separate window; the full index is below)
CONTEMPORARY HITS CLASSIC / ROCK POLITICAL & WARTIME ANTHEMS
YEHORAM GAON ARIK EINSTEIN SHALOM HANOCH MATTI CASPI
YEHUDA POLIKER EHUD BANAI MASHINA 80'S AND 90'S
CONTEMPORARY FEMALE ARMY (IDF) ENSEMBLES FOREIGN COVERS ISRAELI SOUL
CONTEMPORARY RELIGIOUS CHAVA ALBERSTEIN



Menu of Jukebox Songs (the list is sortable by clicking on the column names)

Song # in Jukebox Song Name Artist Name Genre Menu Category
1-2 "Goodbye Adolescence Hello Love" (live) Mashina Pop / Rock 80's and 90's Hits
3 "Something Small and Good" Mashina Pop / Rock Contemporary
4 "Certified Optician" Mashina Pop / rock Mashina
5 "Birthday" (remix) Berry Sakharof and Infected Mushroom Techno Contemporary
6 "Not Suckers" Hadag Nakhash Hip Hop / Rap Contemporary
7 "I Have a Dream" Yehoram Gaon Classic / Rock Classic / Rock
8 "The Heat of July-August" Shlomo Artzi Pop Political & Wartime
9 "It Happens" Aric Lavie Classic Rock / Vocal Anthems
10 "Don't Get Through the Month" Aric Lavie Classic / Rock Classic / Rock
11 "Why Didn't You Tell Me" Aric Lavie Classic / Rock Classic / Rock
12 "How Is It That a Star" Matti Caspi Classic / Rock Classic / Rock
13 "A Moment of Silence" Matti Caspi Classic Rock / Vocal Matti Caspi
14 "I Feel Like a King (Mellow Yellow)" Arik Einstein Classic Rock Covers of Foreign Songs
15 "Sabbath the Queen" Arik Einstein Classic Rock Arik Einstein
16 "Terminal Luminelt" Meir Ariel Classic / Rock Classic / Rock
17 "Borders" Ehud Banai Rock Contemporary
18 "The Face of The Nation" T-Slam Pop Political & Wartime
19 "Yonathan, Come Home" Oshik Levy Classic Rock Political & Wartime
20 "Perhaps on the Sea-Shore" (remix) Yehoram Gaon and The Doves Classic Rock revised Contemporary
21 "Waiting For Messiah" Shalom Hanoch Pop Political & Wartime
22 "The Child in You" (live) Yehuda Poliker Rock Contemporary
23 "On Full Moon Nights" Eran Tzur Rock / Pop Contemporary
24 "In a Striped Shirt" Ivri Lider Rock / Pop Contemporary
25 "15 Minutes" Assaf Amdurksy Techno / Instrumental Contemporary
26 "Dark Dream" Assaf Amdursky Techno-Rock Contemporary
27 "Nails and Feathers" Micha Shitreet Pop / Rock Contemporary
28 "Enta Omri" Micha Shitreet Dance Contemporary
29 "In The Spring" Micha Shitreet Pop / Rock 80's and 90's Hits
30 "In the Society for the Protection of Nature" Ariel Zilber Pop / Rock 80's and 90's Hits
31 "The Scrub's Song" Meir Banai Pop / Rock 80's and 90's Hits
32 "She Walks on the Streets" Alon Olearchik Pop / Rock 80's and 90's Hits
33 "Saturdays and Holidays" Yehudit Ravitz Pop / Rock 80's and 90's Hits
34 "Landscape of Childhood" Shlomo Artzi Pop / Rock Contemporary
35 "Because Man is a Tree of the Field" Shalom Hanoch Rock Shalom Hanoch
36 "This Way and That" Shalom Hanoch Pop / Rock Shalom Hanoch
37 "Little by Little" Shalom Hanoch Pop / Rock Shalom Hanoch
38 "Overtakes From Above" Mookie Hip-Pop / Rock Contemporary
39 "Today" Shalom Hanoch (featuring Monica Sex) Pop / Rock Contemporary
40 "Directed Signal" Yitzhak Klepter Classic / Rock Classic / Rock
41 "I See You Running Away" Oshik Levy Classic / Rock Classic / Rock
42 "Where Are You [My] Love" Yehoram Gaon Classic Rock / Vocal Yehoram Gaon
43 "City Evening" Yossi Banai Pop / Rock Contemporary
44 "Me and Simon and Little Moise" Yossi Banai Classic / Rock Classic / Rock
45 "And if This Song Sounds Familiar to You" Hanan Yovel Classic / Rock Classic / Rock
46 "Melting in the Rain" (live) Yehuda Poliker Rock Yehuda Poliker
47 "Performance for Reservists" Ehud Banai Rock Ehud Banai
48 "Hebrewman" Ehud Banai Reggae/Rock Ehud Banai
49 "Play On, Play On" ('Sakhki Sakhki') Aric Lavie Classic / Rock Classic / Rock
50 "On Hot Summer Nights" Matti Caspi Classic Rock / Vocal Matti Caspi
51 "Still Will Come the Day" Matti Caspi Classic Rock / Vocal Matti Caspi
52 "Binyamina Days" Chava Alberstein Classic / Rock Classic / Rock
53 "Drive Slowly" Arik Einstein Classic Rock Arik Einstein
54 "Joint Apartment" Benzine Pop / Rock 80's and 90's Hits
55 "Sweet Future" (live) Mashina Pop / rock Mashina
56 "Coming Out" Ehud Banai Rock Ehud Banai
57 "I Will Bring You" Ehud Banai Ethnic/Rock Ehud Banai
58 "I Will Speak to You" Chava Alberstein Classic / Vocal Classic / Rock
59 "Here I Am" Yehoram Gaon Classic Rock / Vocal Yehoram Gaon
60 "I Didn't Know That You Would Leave Me" Matti Caspi Classic Rock Matti Caspi
61 "How Good That You Came Home" Arik Einstein Classic Rock Arik Einstein
62 "She Argued With Him for Hours" Mashina Pop / rock Mashina
63 "I See You" Shlomo Artzi & Shalom Hanoch Pop / Rock Contemporary
64 "Me and You" Arik Einstein Classic Rock Anthems
65 "Eretz Israel" Arik Einstein Classic Rock Arik Einstein
66 "Sparks" Fortis / Sakharof Pop / Rock 80's and 90's Hits
67 "There's no End to Childhood" Fortis / Sakharof Pop / Rock 80's and 90's Hits
68 "Once Upon a Time" Arik Einstein Classic Rock Arik Einstein
69 "David and Saul" Ehud Banai Ethnic/Rock Ehud Banai
70 "Come Home" Ehud Banai Rock Ehud Banai
71 "Arik" Shlomi Shaban Pop / Rock Contemporary
72 "They're Working on Us" The Pale Scout Trio
("Ha'Gashash Ha'Khiver")
Vocal Political & Wartime
73 "America" Ethnix Pop / Rock Contemporary
74 "Heatwave in the Morning" Menny Beger Pop 80's and 90's Hits
75 "An Hour of Mystery" Ehud Banai Rock Ehud Banai
76 "Pillar of Fire" Shem-Tov Levy Instrumental Anthems
77 "Kiss Me" Sivan Shavit Indie Contemporary Female
78 "My Old Friends" Ivri Lider Pop / Rock Contemporary
79 "Preelie" Fools of the Prophecy (Shotei Ha'Nevuah) Indie Contemporary
80 "The Doll House" The Doll House (Beit Ha'Bubot) Indie / Rock Contemporary
81 "Game of Tears" Revenge of the Tractor Pop / Rock 80's and 90's Hits
82 "Here Again (Part B)" Shabak Samekh Indie / Rap Contemporary
83 "Going Wild in the Countryside" Fools of the Prophecy (Shotei Ha'Nevuah) Indie Contemporary
84 "For Your Blue Eyes" (live) Yehuda Poliker Instrumental Yehuda Poliker
85 "After All You're a Song" Shlomo Artzi Classic / Rock Classic / Rock
86 "Your Time Has Passed" Ehud Banai Rock Ehud Banai
87 "Let Us Rest Our Head on a Dune" The Pale Scout Trio (Ha Gashash Ha Khiver) with Oshik Levy and Aryeh Moskona Classic / Rock Classic / Rock
88 "Better Nothing Than Almost" Ivri Lider Pop / Rock Contemporary
89 "The Anger" Rockfour Pop / Rock 80's and 90's Hits
90 "A Story of Times Past" (live) Yehuda Poliker Instrumental Yehuda Poliker
91 "Ballad for a Double Agent" Mashina Pop / rock Mashina
92 "Prague" Arik Einstein Classic Rock Arik Einstein
93 "I Don't Know" (live) Yehuda Poliker Rock Yehuda Poliker
94 "Girls of The Sea" (live) Mashina Pop / rock Mashina
95 "Give Me Strength" Ariel Zilber Classic / Rock Classic / Rock
96 "City of Refuge" Ehud Banai Rock Ehud Banai
97 "Danny" (live) Mashina Pop / rock Mashina
98 "Face to Face" (live) Yehuda Poliker Rock Yehuda Poliker
99 "Iris Fields" (live) Yehuda Sa'ado Pop / Rock Contemporary
100 "Restless Night" Shlomo Artzi Pop / Rock 80's and 90's Hits
101 "The Golden Calf" Ehud Banai Rock Ehud Banai
102 "The Light at the End" Arik Einstein Rock Arik Einstein
103 "Sitting on the Fence" Arik Einstein Classic Rock Arik Einstein
104 "(Through) Foreign Eyes" Rona Kenan (Keinan) Folk / Rock Contemporary Female
105 "Angels (Incitement)" Metropolin (featuring Efrat Gosh) Electronica Contemporary Female
106 "Sleeping Without Dreaming" Metropolin (featuring Dana Berger) Electronica Contemporary Female
107 "Take Me There" Sharon Haziz Pop / Rock Contemporary Female
108 "Beneath a Mediterranean Sky" Shlomo Artzi Pop / Rock 80's and 90's Hits
109 "She Doesn't Say Anything" Metropolin (featuring Sharona Nastovich) Electronica Contemporary Female
110 "How 'Yossi'" (live) Berry Sakharof Rock Contemporary
111 "Everybody Wants" Arik Einstein Rock / Blues Arik Einstein
112 "There it Goes Again" Matti Caspi Classic Rock Matti Caspi
113 "Achinoam Doesn't Know" Arik Einstein Classic Rock Arik Einstein
114 "They'll Always Wait for You" Leah Shabat Pop / Rock Contemporary Female
115 "Fragile" Arik Einstein Classic Rock Arik Einstein
116 "Starter" Ehud Banai Rock Ehud Banai
117 "What Are Your Eyes Saying" Yehoram Gaon Classic Rock / Vocal Yehoram Gaon
118 "If They Will be Locked (remix)" Ofra Haza Electronica Contemporary Female
119 "Haifa Across the Sea" Micha Shitreet Rock Contemporary
120 "Momentum" Boaz Banai Rock Contemporary
121 "A Room of my Own" Arkadi Duchin Rock 80's and 90's Hits
122 "Dog Competition" Eviatar Banai Rock Contemporary
123 "We Overcame Pharaoh" (this too shall pass) Various Artists (Meir Ariel) Rock Political & Wartime
124 "Sigapo" The Doll House (Beit Ha'Bubot) Indie / Rock Contemporary
125 "Because She Doesn't Want To" Mashina Pop / rock Mashina
126 "Thorns (part A)" Meir Ariel Rock 80's and 90's Hits
127 "End of Summer" Micha Shitreet & Berry Sakharof Rock Contemporary
128 "To See the Light" Efrat Gosh Electronica / Indie Contemporary Female
129 "The Tree is Tall" Apocalypse (Akharit HaYamim) Classic / Rock Classic / Rock
130 "Come to Eilat" Lior Yeini Classic / Rock Classic / Rock
131 "Shooting Star" Yehuda Eder Classic Rock Covers of Foreign Songs
132 "Boxing Match" Efrat Gosh Electronica / Indie Contemporary Female
133 "Just Like it Was" Efrat Gosh Electronica / Indie Contemporary Female
134 "The Babble Song" Pale Scout Trio Vocal / Humor Classic / Rock
135 "A Man Accumulates Memories" Avraham Tal Electronica / Indie Contemporary
136 "Delusions" Nissim Sarousi Soul / Rock Israeli Soul
137 "That's How We Parted" Avner Gadassi Soul / Rock Israeli Soul
138 "A Thousand Firemen" Doda (Gidi Gov & Danny Sanderson) Good-Time Rock 'n Roll 80's and 90's Hits
139 "Oh What Will Be" Matti Caspi Latin-Spanish Matti Caspi
140 "What Will Be Will Be" (live) Yehuda Poliker Rock Yehuda Poliker
141 "Less But Hurts" (live) Yehuda Poliker Rock Yehuda Poliker
142 "And the Children Come" (live) Yehuda Poliker Rock Yehuda Poliker
143 "The Remains of Life" Idan Raichel Project Ethnic / World Music Contemporary
144 "The Dreams of Others" Idan Raichel Project Ethnic / World Music Contemporary
145 "With My Eyes Shut" Idan Raichel Project Ethnic / World Music Contemporary
146 "Everything Passes" Idan Raichel Project Ethnic / World Music Contemporary
147 "Violets" David Broza Latin-Spanish 80's and 90's Hits
148 "On the Steps of the Theater" Ilan Virtzberg Pop 80's and 90's Hits
149 "I Avoid You" Micha Shitreet Contemporary Contemporary
150 "Sun Sun" Ariel Zilber Classic Rock Israeli Classic Rock
151 "Cypress Tree" Ariel Zilber Classic Rock Israeli Classic Rock
152 "Street Lamp" Tamuz Classic Rock Israeli Classic Rock
153 "Oak Tree" Yehoram Gaon Classic Rock / Vocal Yehoram Gaon
154 "On the Path to the Pools" Chava Alberstein Political & Wartime Political & Wartime
155 "The Celebration has Ended" The Gevatron Classic-Folk/Vocal Israeli Classic-Folk Music
156 "What's the Matter Lonely One" Berry Sakarof & Rae Mochiach Modern-Religious Modern-Religious
157 "And So It Became Nothing" Berry Sakarof & Rae Mochiach Modern-Religious Modern-Religious
158 "Sunday Morning" Yehuda Poliker Rock Yehuda Poliker
159 "Window to the Mediterranean Sea" Yehuda Poliker Rock Yehuda Poliker
160 "Coffee at Berta's" The Pure Souls Classic Rock Classic Rock
161 "Three Days" Yehuda Poliker Rock Yehuda Poliker
162 "Walking Aimlessly (Loafer)" Tammuz Classic Rock Classic Rock
163 "Run, Shmulik" ("Rutzi Shmulik") Ariel Zilber Classic Rock Anthems
164 "May the Night not End for Me" The Pure Souls Classic Rock Classic Rock
165 "Don't Leave Now" Yehuda Poliker Rock Yehuda Poliker
166 "I'll Wait for You" The Pure Souls Classic Rock Classic Rock
167 "The Street of the Pure Souls" The Pure Souls Classic Rock Classic Rock
168 "And an Empty Heart" Berry Sakharof & Rae Mochiach Modern-Religious Modern-Religious
169 "Strengthened Forever" Avraham Tal Techno-Dance Contemporary
170 "And Sweet is the Light in Your Eyes" Sasi Keshet Sixties Classic Classic Rock
171 "To Fly Like a Bird" Danny Litani Seventies Pop/Rock Classic Rock
172 "Who's Afraid of Mrs. Levine" HaShlosharim ("the Three'ngers") Sixties Classic Classic Rock
173 "On the Road" The Gevatron Classic-Folk/Vocal Classic Rock
174 "I Gave Her My Life" Kaveret Classic Rock Classic Rock
175 "In the Endless Traffic Jam" Yehuda Poliker Pop-Rock Yehuda Poliker
176 "It Returns" Danny Granot Classic Rock Classic Rock
177 "Above Mount Scopus" Yehoram Gaon Vocal/Anthem Anthems
178 "Let it Be" (Lu Yehi) Chava Alberstein Classic Rock/Folk Anthems
179 "Song of Tishrei" Chava Alberstein Classic-Folk Chava Alberstein
180 "In Front of a Volcano" Chava Alberstein Classic Rock Chava Alberstein
181 "It's Not the End" Yehuda Poliker Techno Yehuda Poliker
182 "Solveig" Chava Alberstein Classic Rock/Vocal Chava Alberstein
183 "Trans Orient" Yehuda Poliker Greek Yehuda Poliker