Elisha Banai (; Elisha Banai (born November 18, 1988) is an Israeli singer, musician, songwriter, composer, music producer and actor.
Biography
Banai was born, raised and educated in
Tel Aviv
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to an artistic family. His father is the lead
singer
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Yuval Banai
Yuval Banay (; born June 9, 1962) is an Israeli musician, best known as the lead singer of the influential Israeli pop rock band Mashina.
Career
Banay served in the Artillery Corps of the Israel Defense Forces during the 1982 Lebanon War. Wh ...
of the band
Mashina
Mashina () are an Israeli pop rock band which was active from 1983 to 1995, and then again from 2003 to the present. The band is considered by many to be Israel's most important and influential rock band. Their musical style took inspiration fro ...
, and his mother is the actress
Orly Silbersatz Banai
Orly Silbersatz-Banai (; born ) is an Israeli actress and singer. She has won two Ophir Awards and a prize from the Israeli Academy of Cinema and Television.
Early life
Orly Silbersatz was born in Israel, to a secular Jewish family of Ashkenazi ...
. His grandfather is
Israel Prize
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History
Prior to the Israel Prize, the most significant award in the arts was the Dizengoff Prize and in Israel ...
-winning
actor
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and singer
Yossi Banai
Yosef "Yossi" Banai (; April 13, 1932 – May 11, 2006) was a singer, actor in film and theater, songwriter, comedian, lyricist, and Israeli theater director. He was awarded the Israel Prize for Theater in 1998 and the in 2004. Banai is considere ...
. Banai is the oldest brother of Amalia Banai, Sophie Banai and Ahron Banai.
Career
In 2006, he joined the punk rock and roll band "Got No Shame", of which he was a member for 4 years. The band released a studio
album
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called "Hometown Underground" and even went on tour in the
United States
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. In 2010, Banai went on tour with the band "Got No Shame" in
California
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. When he returned to Israel with new material, he played them to Matti Gilad and they began playing, writing and arranging the songs, and then began performing and calling themselves "Elisha Banai and the Forty Thieves". In April 2010, Elisha Banai and the Forty Thieves released their first single, "Barcelona". Only two years later, their debut album was released, and with it singles such as "Like Everyone", "Everything Burned" and "San Diego". In 2014, they released their second album "Speed of Light", produced by Peter Roth. From this album, they released singles such as "Noga Moshet Tzedek" and "Einstein". In January 2019, they released the first single "Hungry Heart" from their third album "Where to Alley". In March 2019, the band, in collaboration with
Gidi Gov
Gideon "Gidi" Gov (; 4 August 1950) is an Israeli singer, TV host, entertainer, and actor. He was married to Anat Gov before her death in 2012 and they had three children.
Biography
Early life
Gov was born in Rehovot to Daniel and Tzipora ...
, released the second single "Hero" from their third album "Where to Alley", which was released on May 12 of that year. In January 2020, Banai released an EP under the name "Marco Polo" featuring the single "Demon Train". In February 2022, Elisha released a mini-album called "Continuing to Chase the Dreams" under his own name, for the first time without the Forty Bandits, from which a double single was released, "Continuing to Chase the Dreams" + "Werewolf" with a music video directed by Banai's sister, director Amalia Zilbershatz Banai. The second single released is "Bicycle Path" with a music video featuring actors
Tom Avni
Tom Avni (Hebrew: תום אבני) is an Israeli actor, TV host, director and voice actor.
Background
Avni was born on April 20, 1986 in Eilat, Israel. His father, Nir Avni was a diver of Lithuanian-Jewish and Polish-Jewish descent, being one ...
, Lir Katz and Dov Navon.
In 2021, he participated in and won the VIP season of the show "MKR The Winning Kitchen", in which he competed in cooking together with his mother Orly. In January 2022, he was selected as a
presenter
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for the Castro fashion company for the year 2022-2023. In 2024, he participated in the third season of Dancing with the Stars, was eliminated on the sixth day and returned to the United team after winning the Lifeline episode among the eliminated couples. He was finally eliminated in the fourteenth elimination.
Studio Albums
2012 - " Elisha Banai and the forty thieves"
2014 - "Speed of light"
2019 - "ally to where?"
2020 - "marco polo"
2022 - "keep chasing after the dreams"
Film
2015 - "Apples from the Desert" as Dubi (nominated for Best Supporting Actor
Ophir award
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)
2018 - "The Electrifiers" (HaMechashmelim) as Yotam ( OSN Movies and Green Productions)
2021 - " Image of Victory" as Elyakim Ben-Ari (Bleiberg Entertainment)
2021 - ''
Honeymood
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HOT3
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2016 - "Bilti Hafich" 2 as Hezi (
Reshet
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).
2016 - "Charlie Golf One" (Tagged) as Roi (
Yes
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* YES Prep Public Schools, Houston, Texas, US
* Young Eisner Scholars, in Los Angeles, New York City, Chicago, and Appalachia, US
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).
2017 - "Fullmoon" as Oren (
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).
2017 - "Nevsu" as Gilad (
Reshet
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/
Netflix
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).
2018 - "Nechama" in guest role as "Davidi" (
HOT
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*Heat, a hot temperature
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Hot or HOT may also refer to:
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*Hot district, a district of Chiang Mai province, Thailand
** Hot subdistrict, a sub-district of Hot Distric ...
hot
Hot commonly refers refer to:
*Heat, a hot temperature
*Pungency, in food, a spicy or hot quality
Hot or HOT may also refer to:
Places
*Hot district, a district of Chiang Mai province, Thailand
** Hot subdistrict, a sub-district of Hot Distric ...
Elisha
Elisha was, according to the Hebrew Bible, a Jewish prophet and a wonder-worker. His name is commonly transliterated into English as Elisha via Hebrew, Eliseus via Greek and Latin, Ełishe (Yeghishe/Elisha) via Armenian or Alyasa via Arabic, a ...