Shosh Atari

Shosh Atari was born in 1949 in Rehovot

Shoshana Atari was born in Rehovot and grew up in the Shaarayim neighborhood. She was the sixth of 7 children, and her sisters included Yona and Gali Atari. As a teenager she attended the Hadassim boarding school, where she began announcing on a student radio station.

She served in the army as an announcer at Galei Tzahal. She then joined Kol Yisrael as an announcer and music presenter. From the founding of Reshet Gimel in 1976 and through the 1980s, she hosted music programs there, including "Chadash, Chadish U-mechudash" and "Lohet".

She also hosted the television game show "Pitsuchim" on Educational Television and worked as a disc jockey. In 1996 she left Reshet Gimel and helped found the regional station Radio Lev HaMedina, where she managed programming. She wrote 3 songs for her sister Gali's albums, and her book "Secrets and Lies" came out in 2004.

In 1999 she developed kidney failure and had a kidney transplant in November 2000. In 2007 she played Nili in the Channel 2 series "Hakol Dvash". She died of a heart attack at her Tel Aviv home on 1 April 2008 and was buried at the Yarkon Cemetery.