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Yafa Yarkoni (December 24, 1925 – January 1, 2012) was an Israeli singer. She won the Israel Prize in 1998 for her contributions to Hebrew music. She was dubbed Israel’s “songstress of the wars” due to her frequent performances for Israel Defense Forces soldiers, especially in wartime.
Yarkoni was born Yafa Abramov in southern Tel Aviv to a Mountain Jewish family, that had immigrated from the Caucasus.
Yarkoni was the middle child in a family of three, with an older sister, Tikva (born in 1921), and a younger brother, Benjamin (born in 1927). When she was eight years old, her parents divorced, and her father relocated to Southern Rhodesia, leaving the family in financial hardship.
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