Liora Itzhak

Liora Itzhak was born in 1974 in Lod

Liora Itzhak was born in Lod in 1974 to parents from the Bene Israel community who came to Israel from India in the early 1970s. Her father took the first name of his grandfather, Yitzhak Shalom Pezarkar, as the new family name. As a child she sang at events of the Indian community in Israel.

She moved to India as a teenager to study Indian music and stayed about 8 years. In Pune she studied at the Sur Sarvadhan Institute with Pandit Suresh Talwalkar and Ramesh Nadkarni. She then worked in the Bollywood film industry, recording soundtrack songs and singing in the film Dil Ka Doctor.

Back in Israel she worked with Moshe Malyankar, Yoav Itzhak, the Idan Raichel Project, Hadag Nahash and Blastoyz. She recorded Indian-style covers on the Baby Oriental albums and released the single Mala Mala. She sang at a 2015 state banquet for Indian President Pranab Mukherjee and before Narendra Modi and Benjamin Netanyahu in 2017.

In 2019 she took part in the seventh season of HaKokhav HaBa L'Eurovizion. After the Swords of Iron war began in October 2023, she started advocacy for Israel in Indian media, mostly in Hindi. She is married to Yaron Levi, has 2 daughters and lives in Rehovot.