Rocking her full head of spiral curls, and wielding her well-worn guitar, Ravitz still performs her timeless hits at music festivals and in concert. Her music is ingrained in Israeli pop culture. Artist: Yehudit Ravitz Album: “ Greatest Hits,” 1994Īnother folk-rock superstar who got her start in the 1970s and hasn’t slowed down since, Yehudit Ravitz wrote some of Israeli’s most well-known songs. Songs off the album every Israeli knows: “Kama Tov She Bata Habaitah” (How Good It Is That You Came Home), “Kacha v’Kacha” (Like This and Like That), “Pitom K’shelo Baat” (Suddenly When You Didn’t Come)Ģ. It catches the best of the both of them – and Israeli musical history - in one album. The crooner beloved by all ages has penned some of Israel’s most iconic folk-rock songs.Īrtzi teamed up with Shalom Hanoch, the father of Israeli rock, also making music since the 1970s, for this concert recorded live from the Roman amphitheater in Caesarea on the Mediterranean coast. Going strong since 1970, he still puts on charismatic live performances and continues to create new music. Talk about two birds with one stone: Shlomo Artzi is considered by many to be THE biggest musical personality in Israel. Artists: Shlomo Artzi and Shalom Hanoch Album: “ Shlomo Artzi Live in Caesarea with Shalom Hanoch,” 2005 Let it be your crash course in Israeli musical culture as you get to fast forward through all the filler songs, and just listen to those iconic popular songs that all Israelis know.ġ.
These are the best greatest hits compilations from the giants of Hebrew music, of all different musical genres. Or if you’re really lucky, you’ll be making midcareer best-hit CDs long before your retirement from music, like most of the Israeli artists on this list. What’s left to do once you’re through the tunnel and out the other side of a wildly successful music career? Make a greatest-hits album, of course!