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The End of the Orange Season – Israeli Popular Music

Study evening: “The End of the Orange Season”

Three decades of change in Israeli popular music

From the military bands and the Russian-Slavic style that characterized the country’s early years to the rise of Western rock and Mizrahi and Mediterranean music.

The evening is the product of a research group that operated at Yad Ben-Zvi and a new issue of Et-Mol.

We will follow the changes that took place in Israeli popular music against the backdrop of the social and political processes that Israeli society underwent from the 1960s through the 1980s.

Thursday, October 29, 2026, 16:00–19:30
18 Heshvan, 2026/2027
At Yad Ben-Zvi

16:00 — Opening and greetings

• Dr. Yaniv Mezuman, CEO of Yad Yitzhak Ben-Zvi
• Marva Bluka, editor of Et-Mol

First session: What influenced Israeli popular music?

Chair: Oded Heilbronner, head of the research group at Yad Ben-Zvi

• Uri Misgav, journalist and musician
  “Singing Songs Without a Flag”: The Yom Kippur War and Its Influence on Israeli Rock
• Alon Shav, Bar-Ilan University
  Arik and the Einsteins – On a Forgotten Single That Started a Revolution
• Ari Katorza, Rimon – School of Music
  Images of the Lost Paradise in Israeli Music
• Sivan Shenhav-Shav, Levinsky-Wingate Academic Center and Rimon – School of Music
  “From Here the Way”: Danny Sanderson Between Sources of Influence and Musical Legacy

Second session: Center and periphery in Israeli music

Chair: Yael Gadinian, director of the Culture Department, Yad Yitzhak Ben-Zvi

• Boaz Cohen, radio broadcaster
  Between Center and Periphery: Tamuz on the Background of the Music in the Kerem HaTaymanim
• Haim Biton, Kay College of Education
  Under the Radar – The Moroccan Troubadour Scene and the Margins of Culture in Young Israel
• Lior Boker, Ben-Gurion University, director of the “Spring of Mizrahi Music” project at Yad Yitzhak Ben-Zvi
  “Spring – Mizrahi Music” – Sounds, Roots and a Cultural Revolution

19:30 — Conclusion

The study evening will conclude with a performance by Uzi Navon and the Experiences. Click here to register for the performance.

Doors open: 16:00