Lu yehi naomi shemer biography

Naomi Shemer (July 13, 1930 – June 26, 2004) was a leading Israeli songwriter hailed as the "first lady of Israeli song and poetry."

Biography

Naomi Sapir was born on Kvutzat Kinneret, a kibbutz her parents had helped found, on the shores of the Sea of Galilee.

Lu yehi naomi shemer biography

In the 1950s she served in the Israeli Defense Force's Nahal entertainment troupe, and studied music at the Rubin Academy in Jerusalem. She first married actor Gideon Shemer and had a daughter, Lali. They were later divorced; she went on to marry attorney Mordechai Horowitz, with whom she had a son, Ariel.

Death

Shemer continued to write and perform until her death. She died of cancer in 2004, aged 73.

Songwriting career

Shemer did her own songwriting and composing, set famous poems to music, such as those of the Israeli poet, Rachel, and adapted well-known songs into Hebrew, such as the Beatles songs "Hey Jude."

She composed in 1963 Hurshat Ha'Eucalyptus (The Eucalyptus Grove),