Miri Aloni (; born December 25, 1949) is an Israeli singer and actress. Already a popular singer, she became an iconic figure after singing " Shir Lashalom" ("Song for Peace") minutes before the

assassination of Yitzhak Rabin Yitzhak Rabin, the prime minister of Israel, was assassinated on 4 November 1995 at 21:30, at the end of a rally in support of the Oslo Accords at the Kings of Israel Square in Tel Aviv. The assailant was Yigal Amir, an Israeli law student and u ...

in 1995.Meredith Price
Right Place, Wrong Time
''Jewish Journal'', December 9, 2009

Biography

Aloni was born in Givatayim on December 25, 1949. Aloni enlisted into the

Israel Defense Forces The Israel Defense Forces (IDF; , ), alternatively referred to by the Hebrew-language acronym (), is the national military of the State of Israel. It consists of three service branches: the Israeli Ground Forces, the Israeli Air Force, and ...

in 1968, serving in the Nahal band. In the seventies and eighties she played in various bands, including ''Apocolypse'', and had major roles in several movies and TV series. Minutes before Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin was murdered at a

political rally Politics () is the set of activities that are associated with making decisions in groups, or other forms of power relations among individuals, such as the distribution of status or resources. The branch of social science that studies poli ...

in November 1995, Miri Aloni sang the song " Shir Lashalom" ("Song for Peace", of which she was the first performer). She lived in Germany from 1999 to 2002. In 2006,

Nitzan Gilady Nitzan Gilady (also known as Nitzan Giladi; ) is an Israeli film director who has written, produced and directed the documentary films ''In Satmar Custody'' (2003), ''Jerusalem Is Proud to Present'' (2008), ''The Last Enemy (documentary), The L ...

made a video of her life: ''Singing to Oblivion – The Story of Miri Aloni''. In later years, she was known for her street performances at Carmel Market in

Tel Aviv Tel Aviv-Yafo ( or , ; ), sometimes rendered as Tel Aviv-Jaffa, and usually referred to as just Tel Aviv, is the most populous city in the Gush Dan metropolitan area of Israel. Located on the Israeli Mediterranean coastline and with a popula ...

. She started doing this in 2003 as a protest against cuts in the governmental subsidies in culture, but, as she explained, she started enjoying this, because it breaks the distance between the singer and the people. Her last husband was , and they had two sons, Yirmi and Yossi. In 2021 her leg was amputated after a severe infection, and she spent eight months in a hospital. After an interview, when she asked for help with funding her housing, the assisted housing network offered her free of charge accommodation in

Ramat Ef'al Ramat Ef'al () is a neighborhood of Ramat Gan in central Israel. Previously part of Ef'al Regional Council, in 2007 it was transferred to the municipality of Ramat Gan together with Kfar Azar. History Ef'al was planned as an urban kibbutz, but ...

for the rest of her life.אחרי הפרסום ב-ynet: נמצא פתרון דיור למירי אלוני
''ynet'', February 14, 2022

Filmography

* ' (1973) * ' (1979) * ' (1982) * ''Ahava Ilimeth'' (1985) She performed the theme songs of the TV series .

Recordings

* "Mona Lisa of the Twentieth Century" (1973) * "Women from Brecht" * "Drop of Love (Ahava peep)" (1987) * "A Little Bit of Love" (2002)

References

External links

*
Song list (in Hebrew)
{{DEFAULTSORT:Aloni, Miri 1949 births Living people 20th-century Israeli women singers Israeli film actresses Israeli television actresses Israeli folk singers Israeli rock singers Israeli women folk singers Israeli women rock singers Israeli guitarists Israeli women guitarists Jewish folk singers English-language singers from Israel