Yehoram Gaon

Gaon in the role of Yonatan Netanyahu in Operation Thunderbolt , 1976

Yehoram Gaon ( Hebrew יהורם גאון, also colloquially Yoram Gaon ; born December 28, 1939 in Jerusalem ) is an Israeli singer and actor. In 2004 he won the Israel Prize .

biography

Yehoram Gaon was born in Jerusalem in 1939 and grew up in the Bet Hakerem neighborhood. He is the youngest of four children of the historian and Ladino researcher Moshe-David Gaon, who was born in Bosnia as a descendant of Spanish Jews . Yehorams mother Sarah comes from the Turkish Izmir , where Moshe-David worked as a Hebrew teacher.

Yehoram Gaon graduated in 1957 his military service in the Israeli army in Lahakat Nahal , the entertainment troupe of Nahal . His military superior Uri Zohar was initially by no means convinced of his singing abilities and advised him to try acting instead.

In 1965 he released his first solo album with songs by Yossi Gamsu (* 1938), which included a Hebrew version of the Beatles song I Want to Hold Your Hand . His next production, an EP , contained four songs with texts by Gamsu set to music by Sascha Argow . After a short stay in the USA, he returned to Israel in 1966 and quickly gained fame as the lead actor in the successful musical Casablan . Israeli artists such as Naomi Schemer , Haim Hefer (1925–2012) and Dov Seltzer (* 1932) wrote songs for him. In the 1980s he performed with Yardena Arazi and Boaz Sharabi and published numerous romances in Ladino. He is considered a mediator between pop music and the melodies of the Mizrachim .

Gaon also starred in several Israeli films . In Operation Thunderbolt , the plot of which is based on Operation Entebbe in Uganda , he plays Yonatan Netanyahu , who was killed as the leader of the operation; Klaus Kinski takes on the role of the German terrorist Wilfried Böse . The film, directed by Menahem Golan shortly after the events in Uganda , proved to be an international success and was even nominated for an Oscar . Krovim Krovim ("Close Relatives"), the first Israeli sitcom , ran on Channel 1 ( Aruz 1 ) on Israeli television from 1983–1986 . In this 38 episode television series , Gaon starred as a hypochondriac engineer and family man, starring Hanna Maron , among others . After a decade-long break from filming, he appeared again in 2004 in Medurat Hashevet ("Campfire") by Joseph Cedar . In 2004 he was awarded the Israel Prize for Hebrew Song.

Individual evidence

1. ↑ biography (Hebrew)
2. ↑ Short biography of the 2004 award winners (Hebrew)

Web links

Commons : Yehoram Gaon  - collection of images, videos and audio files

• Web site Yehoram Gaon (English)
• Yehoram Gaon in the Internet Movie Database (English)