Amir Frischer Gutman

Amir Frischer Gutman was born in 1976 in Kiryat Chaim

He was born Amir Feiger in Kiryat Chaim to parents who came from Romania. After his parents divorced, he shortened his family name to Fei and added Gutman, the name of his maternal grandfather, because many of that family were murdered in the Holocaust. He attended high school in Kiryat Chaim and worked as a young journalist and a model.

After his IDF service he joined an entertainment team at hotels in Eilat. He then became a member of the boy band Hi-Five, which released three gold albums and an EP before it broke up in 2000. He later released the solo albums Mantra and Honey in Beehives.

He wrote and composed many songs for the Festigal, several of which won first place. He acted in musicals for children and adults, including Habima productions, and worked as a director and choreographer.

He was among the first public figures in Israel to come out, and in 2009 he married his partner Yanai Frischer. In 2016 he was diagnosed with lymphoma, but after chemotherapy it was found he had Kikuchi disease. In 2017 he drowned at a beach in Atlit after holding his niece above water, and she survived.