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Parting with Arik Einstein
He changed the world of Israeli music and in the last fifty years he has become
synonymous to good old Israel. On Tuesday night, without preparation and without
warning, he left us.
“25 minutes ago we announced the death of Arik Einstein. Arik Einstein came to us
from home in a state of CPR and died, in fact, from aortic aneurysm, and there is no
one to sing for us anymore."
Arik Einstein was born in 1939 in Tel Aviv. He began his music-making career with
the Nahal band and later was a member of the Gesher Hayarkon trio, the High
Windows and the Coop group. He accompanied us since childhood with Mister
Chocolate. He sang about love, joy and sadness and he also sang topical and political
songs like the song about the missing soldier Guy Hever and about Gilad Shalit.
There was also Arik Einstein the actor, the one from Salah Shabati, Metzitzim, Lool
and Kvalim. The man who always had “HaPoel” in his heart, the one whom everyone
praised for his talent for imitation and sense of humor.
After a car accident he went through in ‘82 he retreated from the spotlight . He
rarely performed and appeared in public because he simply didn’t want to. But he
still remained one of the most successful singers, the most played and the most
loved.
On November 26, at 10:30 at night, the doctors declared the death of a legend, the
parting from inalienable goods in Hebrew music.

‫אור‬-‫לוקט ועובד ע"י צוות אולפן‬