Miri Aloni


Miri Aloni is an Israeli singer and actress. Already a popular singer, she became an iconic figure after singing "Shir Lashalom" minutes before the assassination of Yitzhak Rabin in 1995.

Biography

Aloni was born in Givatayim on December 25, 1949.
Aloni enlisted into the Israel Defense Forces in 1968, serving in the Nahal band. In the seventies and eighties she played in various bands, including Apocolypse, and had major roles in several movies and TV series.
Minutes before Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin was murdered at a political rally in November 1995, Miri Aloni sang the song "Shir Lashalom".
She lived in Germany from 1999 to 2002. In 2006, Nitzan Gilady made a video of her life: Singing to Oblivion – The Story of Miri Aloni.
In later years, she was known for her street performances at Carmel Market in Tel Aviv. She started doing this in 2003 as a protest against cuts in the governmental subsidies in culture, but, as she explained, she started enjoying this, because it breaks the distance between the singer and the people.
Her last husband was, and they had two sons, Yirmi and Yossi.
In 2021 her leg was amputated after a severe infection, and she spent eight months in a hospital. After an interview, when she asked for help with funding her housing, the assisted housing network offered her free of charge accommodation in Ramat Ef'al for the rest of her life.

Filmography

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  • Ahava Ilimeth
She performed the theme songs of the TV series.

Recordings

  • "Mona Lisa of the Twentieth Century"
  • "Women from Brecht"
  • "Drop of Love "
  • "A Little Bit of Love"