Yehoram Gaon
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| Background information | |
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December 28, 1939 Jerusalem, Israel |
| Genres | Pop, Israeli music |
| Years active | 1957–present |
| Labels | Hed Arzi Music |
Yehoram Gaon (Hebrew: יהורם גאון) (informally, Yoram Gaon) (born December 28, 1939) is an Israeli singer, actor, director, producer, TV and radio host, and public figure. He has also written and edited books on Israeli culture.
The son of Sephardic Jewish parents—a Bosnian-Jewish father and Turkish-Jewish mother, both immigrants to Israel— he became an early inspiration of "solidarity and pride" for the Sephardic community.
Yoram Gaon was born in the Beit Hakerem neighborhood of Jerusalem in 1939. His father, Moshe-David Gaon, a well-known historian, was born in Sarajevo in 1889, and immigrated to British Mandate Palestine, where members of his family had lived for five generations. He was a school master and Hebrew teacher in Jerusalem, Buenos Aires, and İzmir. He was also a poet and a scholar of Ladino. In Turkey, he met and married Sara Hakim, returning with her to Jerusalem.
Gaon enlisted in the IDF in 1957. In the military, he joined the Nahal entertainment troupe, beginning a career in the performing arts.
Gaon has two children from his former marriage to Orna Goldfarb: Moshe-David (named after his father) and Hila. His three brothers are Yigal, Kalila Armon, and businessman and industrialist Benny Gaon, who died of cancer in 2008.
After performing in the Nahal Brigade entertainment troupe during his army time, Gaon joined the "Yarkon Bridge Trio" (שלישיית גשר הירקון).
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