Yael Deckelbaum

Yael Deckelbaum was born in 1979 in Jerusalem

Yael Deckelbaum was born in Jerusalem in 1979. Her father, David Deckelbaum, came to Israel from Canada, worked as a dentist and played banjo in the original lineup of the band HaPundakim. Her mother, Margalit, was a social worker, and she grew up between Moshav Aminadav and Canada.

She first played before a large crowd at the Sulam Yaakov festival as a guest of her father's band. In 1995 she won a young talent contest and later formed the band The Palmtrees. In 1997, at auditions for a military band, she met Dana Adini.

In 2004 she and Adini formed HaBanot Nechama with Karolina, and the band released its first album in 2007. In 2009 she released her first solo album, Ground Zero, in English, and some of its songs were used in the US series Girls. She also played a supporting role in the film Antarctica in 2008.

After her father died, she made her second album, Simcha VeEtzev, in Hebrew only, and it came out in 2012. She performed with Mashina on acoustic tours and took part in the Avoda Ivrit project. Her third album, Enosh, was funded through crowdfunding and released in 2015.