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Nisim Elhanati

Nisim Elhanati is an Israeli singer, composer and bouzouki player who performs Greek and Hebrew music in a Greek Mediterranean style.

born 1965Greek music in Hebrew and GreekPlaying the bouzoukiThe band Hahavaya Hayevanit

Born: 12 June 1965, Nahariya
Occupation: composer, singer

Nisim Elhanati was born in 1965 in Nahariya

Nisim Elhanati was born in Nahariya in 1965, the youngest child of Holocaust survivors from Greece. His mother came from Trikala and his father from Volos. He grew up in Acre and learned Greek from his parents.

His parents bought him his first guitar when he was 6, and he taught himself to play. He later received a bouzouki as a bar mitzvah gift. He finished high school in Acre and served in the Golani reconnaissance unit.

He first performed in 1998. From 2002 to 2005 he was lead singer of the band Hakol Baderech, and in 2006 he founded the band Hahavaya Hayevanit. He performed Greek songs in Hebrew and Greek, including a version of Irisim with poet Haim Hefer.

In 2008 he staged a show about the life of singer Aris San. From 2009 he taught bouzouki to Arab and Jewish students in Jaffa. In 2011 he wrote and sang songs for the film Rsisei Ahava, and in 2016 he performed at a Yad Vashem ceremony.