Daliah Lavi

Daliah Lavi was born in 1942 in Shavei Tzion

Daliah Lavi was born Daliah Lewinbuk in Shavei Tzion, near Nahariya. Her mother Ruth came from Germany and her father Reuben came from Russia. When she was 10 she met the actor Kirk Douglas, who was filming The Juggler in Israel.

Douglas paid for her to study dance at the Royal Opera in Stockholm. She stopped her studies and returned to Israel because of her father's illness and death. She then began working as a model.

Her first film was the Swedish Hemsöborna in 1955. From 1960 she acted in many European and American films, in German, French, Italian, Spanish and English. Her films included Two Weeks in Another Town, Lord Jim, The Silencers and Casino Royale.

Around 1970 she was signed by producer Jimmy Bowien and turned to singing. She recorded albums and had hits in Germany, and toured Germany, Austria, England and Switzerland. She was married 4 times, and in 1992 she moved with her family to Asheville, North Carolina.

She died at her home in 2017 and was buried in Shavei Tzion. In 2018 she received a lifetime achievement award from German public television for her schlager music.