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  • I sum up the discussion in my own fashon :

    Ofra Haza was one lovely and big-hearted person. And that is enough to satisfy me.

    She is meant to be jewish, yemenish jew.

    I guess her songs will serve as a model for me to learn hebrew and arabic in the future.

    Would she be muslim or jewish don't bother me, as I believe heartly most of muslim and jew to be good persons.

  • I don't mean to look a "gift horse in the mouth", as they say, but it seems that there was very little of an interview and read as if some of it may have been cut off.

    I'm sure it's an old vid and I do appreciate the post. Just seems as some of the convo may be missing. Maybe not. Sometimes they did consider 10 seconds of chat as an "interview". That's not on you, dear posting person.(I do thank you for the post) Just sayin'...

  • HA'TIKVA NEIGHBORHOOD

  • IM NINALU DALTEY MAROM - IF DOORS OF HEAVEN IS LOCKED

    DALTEY NEDIVIM LO NINALU - DOORS OF GENEROUS IS NOT LOCCKED

    rabby shalom shabazy - jewish  pray song

  • "By the way " Lyrics & Music by Aharon Amram

    וזה אמנם לא שיר קודש של רבי שלום שבזי.. אבל בטח שלא שיר עגבים.

  • אני מכיר את כל המקומות האלה .

    זה שכונת " נווה צדק " ואחר כך

    " שכונת התיקווה " ששם עופרה חזה גדלה .

    אחחח איזה זיכרונות ..............

    וזה עוד צולם ש- שכונת נווה צדק הייתה שכונה של פושעים

    והיום היא שכונה של עשירים .

    ואילו שכונת התיקווה הייתה שכונה של אנשים טובים

    והיום היא שכונה של פושעים

  • אני גם אוהב מוזיקה מזרחית - " במיוחד מיזרחית של פעם " .

    אני חושב שפעם היו כאן שירים מיזרחיים נורא יפים והיום הכל זה זבל ,

    רק שירי דיכאון ושירים מטומטמים של " הוא אוהב אותה והיא אוהבת אותו " .

    המוזיקה המזרחית בארץ נעשתה בשנים האחרונות נורא מטומטמת ומצועצעת .

    אפילו הערבים צוחקים על המוזיקה המזרחית שלנו .

  • חבל שאני לא מבין את המילים - כזה שיר יפה ומקסים !

    שיר תפילה יהודי תימני של רבי שלום שבזי

    חבל

    יכלו ללמד את זה בבתי ספר לילדים

    קצת יהדות לא תזיק לנו

  • @shaharmos

    אחי זה שיר עגבים, ממש לא שיר קודש!!!

    מן דמע עייני יכון באב א-סמא מפתוח - מדמעות עיני תהיה דלת השמים פתוחה וכו'...

  • @BenYair1

    מה זאת אומרת " שיר עגבים " ? ...

    זה נישמע ממש כמו פיוט השיר הזה

  • @shaharmos

    אחי זה כמו השירים האלה במזרחית שהגבר חולה על האישה - אז כאן האישה שרה בסגנון דומה לגבר, אם כי קצת יותר עדין ומסוגנן. זה מה שנקרא "שירי נשים". בתימן היתה מציאות שהגברים היו יוצאים לעבוד חודשים ולא שבים הביתה והאישה המתגעגעת הייתה שרה שירים שמביעים את זה. מה שבטוח שהשירים האלו יפים והחומר שלהם הרבה יותר איכותי מהשירים של המזרחית פה (לא שאני שונא מזרחית או משהו)

  • the oldest JEWISH COMMUNITY in the world

    it is the JEWS OF IRAQ .

    becouse they lived from the time of ABRAHAM

  • @shaharmos huh? The jews are descendants of Abraham, they couldn't exist in his time

  • this is TEL AVIV .

  • great my sweet Orfa. Now you are in heaven near God I am sure.

  • YEMEN  ARABIC

  • I was on the crew that shot this film, I have some good stills of Paula and Ofra on set.

  • Are you planning to do anything with them ?

  • Please share them!

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  • That link will not work for me!

  • OFRA and PAULA was died at the same year

  • Maybe I am harse. Better for me to not make such a rude comment. Bezalel Aloni her manager was infatuated over Ofra Fazine. So I retract the rude comments. I am not her judge could never be. But Bezalel's comments in his book is due to his fatuation and not tending her funeral he mocked up the book in respect. Wouldn't you? I suggest let be let be. Ofra was a good singer. But her heritage was well guarded. That I know. Or law suits would fly. So I won't change what I know. And enough said.

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  • Jews respond? To Me? LOOOLL? I think you are the imposter Moron. You lick my ass clean before you send me private emails of being fake? This really bothers you. I like this. You made my day. Next time I wipe my ass. I will just think of you.LOL! You don't know anything about Jews or even anyone who lives there. Stupid Fuck AhavatHaShalom!

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  • I hope the same god would punish you by getting AIDS, for your rude and ignorant comments.

  • Hey I already apologized for the comment. What the heck. Hope you get punished from GOD for your ignorance. That is actually a sin to be ignorant. No excuse to have not known.

  • Not knowing the law is never an excuse for not obeying it. Try to say in a court "I didn't know the law"- and see what they say.

  • Who's talking Law here. Not me. Even though I am in the legal system.

  • Chip, you're sick. Get off Ofra's threads.

  • Exile from what?Have you been in Yemen?Or even Israel for that matter?Have you ever met any of her family or relatives?You may be lucky to answer yes to one of these questions. But my fellow Jew. I have been all over the world. And I have spent much time with government and ministries and officials of both Yemen and Israel. And you are a idiot. Stupid. Need to learn more in life.And get married so you won't wet your pants all the time over Ofra.I know her family. You don't. Stupid wanna be Jew.

  • You're obviously an ignorant imposter. F-ck off and leave Jews alone.

  • Ofra states clearly here on Youtube (v=U0fGQvXOOdY) that, "My parents were in exile in Yemen - a place they didn't belong".

    The intention of anti-Semitic pr-cks like Chip is to deny the Jews their identity. It's a form of cultural cleansing expected from Arab pr-cks.

  • You ass wipe Moron. What does archeology have to do with this. You made me laugh about that one. And what the heck are you talking about anyway? I even showed this to my Jewish friends, and they think you;ve been smoking to much weed. Chomsky, and Sands are tops in the Mideast affairs stupid. How did archeology get in this? LOOOOL! Maybe other Historians should be mentioned, Israel Shahak, Whats wrong with you. You probably never went to Yemen before. Maybe not even Israel like me. Stupidity!

  • Chip, you are an ingornt anti-Semite; Chomsky, Sands, and Shahak are pathological self-haters debunked a long time ago.

    Now please f-ck off ad leave Jews alone.

  • the song is very close to arabic.

  • love Ofra Haza - amazing amazing voice & Adore Paula

  • Even if I was anti Semetic that you said. Why would I post a Cool Music Jewish Video in my youtube posting? What a moron. Sounds like a kid, and cant hang out with the older crowd. So go and check out my video. The Bed art one. By Oren Lavie. And yes I saw the dress Ofra is wearing. Again you got con'd by the best has I said before. Ass wipe.

  • Every once in awhile some fake jew comes along and pretends to have studied a little bit. Like

    AhavatHaShalom. Anti Semetic Ass wipe. Yet all his talk is without fact, or based on NAS findings, which are loose to begin with. I suggest you study again, read some works by Noam Chomsky, or Shlomo Sands. Even he is a professor in Israel. The list can go on here. Get a life dude. Nobody is believing you anymore. And you still don't know nothing about Ofra or her family like I do.

  • Listen you anti-Semitic prick Chip, Chomsky is a prof of linguistics at MIT not of archaeology or history in Israel. Sand is a prof of French lit & knows nothing about Mideast history or archaelogy. His book has already been demolished.

    Now f-ck off and leave the Jews alone.

  • LageBandage asks, "Who cares about jewish or muslim heritage?"

    Ofra did. Go listen to Goral Echad.

  • Neither Chip nor Lange seem to have noticed that in this clip Ofra is wearing the Israeli national colours.

    Hamorim.

  • You give yourself away as a putz with your ignorance:

    1. Israel's Jewish population is 5.6 millions and the "Ashkenzi" part thereof well over 2 million, not 1.4 million as asswipe-chip claims.

    2. The "lost tribes" were deported over two millennia ago by the Assurians to Asia and have nothing to do with Ashkenazim. Large Ashkenazi populations did not appear in Europe until a millennium or more after the dispersion of the "lost tribes".

    Putz.

  • I agree LageBandage. I just don't like fake people who pretend to know something about Jewish history. Shalom

  • Fuck off, chip.

  • Well AhavatHaShalom anyone who believes in half the stuff NAS outs out we all would be senile and delirious. Ashkenazi Jews (about 1.4 million, mostly German and Polish) make up the majority of Jews today in Israel. Their descendants were the converted ones from one of the lost tribes of Israel centuries ago. Not the blood types. Today almost all Jews have tainted blood lines. And most of those are from Germany,&Russia. That's why most Jews today(the fake ones) donb't carry those traits anymore.

  • Chip, you live in a fantasy world. Half of Israel's Jews are Mizrahi.

    Furthermore, your understanding of Ashkenazim is lacking. A number of studies (including one by the American national Academy of Sciences) shows 80% of Ashkenazi makeup to be Semitic.

    As for your drivel about tainted blood lines - fuck off.

  • Nice song, hot girl!

    Who cares about jewish or muslim heritage?

    Go to sleep politicians.

  • I agree HIGHDEEBOY. If you just read some of the comments in the history of this post, you will see. There is more hatred from the Zionistic side then mine. The real important thing here is to follow your faith. If you are Jewish or Muslim, this is not a form of music you should be indulging in anyway. It is a big sin to listen to. No matter the faith.

  • Common. SHe doesn't even look Jewish. Where are the blue eyes and blond Hair all the jews have today?

    She is so arab and a fake Jew it is all over her face. But you guys bought the lie anyway in her songs. Besides I knew her family, and you dont know anything. Just got con'd by a smart arab family to buy her music, and make her rich. I know jews lived in Yemen. I lived there. But this one is not the cover of a book you can read correctly. Hey just go to yemen and meet her surviving family.

  • You're an ignorant anti-Semite.

    The Jews remain mostly dark-eyed, and the American National Academy of Sciences has published studies indicating even "European" Jews have mostly Semitic genetic makeup.

    Further, half of Israel's Jews are Mizrahi, native to the Mideast, and have never set foot in Europe.

    Finally, cease your bollocks about "surviving family". There are just a handful of Jews left in Yemen, the majority having fled Muslim is-treatment and dhimmitude to Israel.

  • This preceding was addressed to "Chipmaster," who should go away and leave alone Jews/Israelis like Ofra.

  • Chip wrote, "SHe doesn't even look Jewish. Where are the blue eyes and blond Hair all the jews have today?"

    Chip doesn't know sh-t about Jews or Jewish heritage. He shoud f-ck off and leave the Jews alone.

  • Great and nice song. Ofra, the Best.

  • I like this version!

  • you CANT say arabic jew, or jewish arab!

    You Can Say; israeli arab, or israeli jew, just like you can say yemenite jew or yemenite arab!

    hope i finally got some sense in your mind!

  • ok i saw and read some very stupid comments here.

    Galbi= my heart (in arabic)

    Yemen is a muslim country, but jews lived there also, for many years!

    like other muslim countries that jews lived in (morroco, Iran, Iraq, egypt and more...)

    Ofra Haza was in her life and death- jewish for 100% !!!!

    not arab and not muslim!

    old yemenite jews speak the jewish yemenite language whos similar to arabic but not the same, some words taken from hebrew.

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  • grande grande grande bravissima e bellissima ofra haza il mio mito da sempre...

  • יפה מאוד

  • I never knew she performed so ofted... up to 4 performances a day. Her voice box must be supernatural.

  • she's dressed int he colours of israel

  • ajaaj70 - you are too stupid for this present life -

    i'm from romania -

  • Thanks so much for this video. I love this song and is a interesting historic moment.

  • aww she is so pretty and she has a lovely voice....ihtz sad that she's past on

  • incredible voice.....RIP Ofra

  • I have loved this song since my sister recorded it off the radio in like 1986. Though I ddt find out who sung this until 2004. lol yay!

  • i recorded this song in 1986, too....coincidence......anyway­, beautiful voice, beautiful woman

  • weird two dead people talking

  • I love this song.

    Thank you!

  • galbi = korean barbacue!!

  • thanks for posting this.

    RIP Ofra Haza and Paula Yates.

  • What a beautiful woman and so talented.

  • ummmmm Ofra Haza was an ethnic Jew and that is that. You cannot twist things around to your liking!

  • You folks need to visit Yemen one day and see. So don't talk if you haven't been there, and met the family. Let alone Yemenites in person. I was there for 8 months doing work for the local Telecom Engineering staff. Believe me! I know !

  • What's the deal! Who the heck is confusing arab with jew here. Idiots she is arab, and stop sending me crap over this. You just don't study so forget it already! Get a real life outside of posting all day long!!

  • She´s popular among Brazilians that like Jew/Arab songs.. Didn´t know she died of SIDA.. What a loss..

  • Doron Ashkenazi has a fucking shit , his the one to contaninated Ofra and he took all her money to by Drug

    Bastard

  • beautiful like all the Yemenites!

  • Can't you make the difference between muslim and Arab? "Arab" is not synonymous with "muslim". There are Christian Arabs, Pagan Arabs, Arabian Jews - such as Ofra Haza, whose family came from Yemen - and so on. Just as "American" is not synonymous with "Christian" (or "moron")...

  • Chip is an idiot. Ofra's parents were devout Jews to made aliya to Zion from Yemen in the 1930's.

  • She is a arab dummy. Parents were Yemenite's.

  • yes she was an Yemeni Arab Jew

  • this is from Yemenite Jewish music

  • It reaches the international charts ... I remember our TV and radio in Germany send it, too. So exotic cool Orient-Pop but 1st class

  • Breathtakingly beautiful.

  • Thanks srparkinson for this post. She was as physically as beautiful as her voice was tonally perfect. I was introduced to the "Galbi" and "Im Nin'Alu" 12-inch versions in 1988. I've been looking for them ever since. RIP Ofra Haza.

  • what language is she singing in. sounds like arabc-hebrew hybrid

  • Yes it is Yemenite arabc-hebrew

  • o. never knew there was such thing, thats cool

  • Wonderful song!!

  • Love this song. Ofra makes me proud to be of Jewish descent. Best voice I have ever heard, hands down!

  • What does it mean? Someone could help me? Thanks

  • Anyway, I have foreskin.

  • Ofra original. Of Yemen 4000 years in the same place

    USA NO ONE LIVE 4000 same place

  • Uh, Native Americans have been here for over 12,000 years. Have you ever heard of Kennewick Man? Prime example, look him up. His remains were found in Washington State and are about 9,300 years old. Bullcrap, no one has been here for less than 4,000 years!

  • but extinction Native Americans from usa

    Because of disease,  famine and killed

  • my dads family are originally from yemen

    love ofra haza...

  • te echo de menos.

  • I love her!!!

  • Lets leave religion out of it, the bush family helped the spread of aids by doing nothing, and they still do...for the ignorant(reagan and both bushes.

  • I love Ofra, it desn't matter me if she jwesh or muslim but I am proud she is orginally from Yemen, I don't hate anyone because his religon. we have jwesh in Yemen and no one dare to hurt them.

  • Ofra Haza should never have died--her husband gave her the aids virus and in the end because of her personal fear in Israel that she would`nt get work--she did not seek treaement until too late.The aids drugs toxicity killed her not the virus.

  • i feel sad for ofra haza while she can be born in yemen her family had to leave because of "religous persicution" unfortunately rest in peace ofra haza yemeni arab jew.

  • Religiouse persecution is taking place everywhere the jews are doing it to muslims and the muslims do it to the jews everyone is doing something but who does it first and how badly you be the judge.

  • yes they r

  • She was not an Arab simply because the present day people of Yemen speak Arabic and it is part of the Muslim-Arab world. Jews from Israel from been in Yemen since the time of King Solomon.

  • She was born in Tel Aviv: Her parents were born in Yemen.

  • she deid on 23 feb 2000 by contamination [her husban VIH]

    and this assold expand all her money in Drugs!

    i hope they will burn him 1000 times in hell

  • Thank you SO much! I've been looking for more Ofra Haza interviews and yours has her looking her best and young! :D

  • she had a nice voice ...

  • jews??heheehehehehe

  • whats going on here?the next thing we will need to show our helmeted warriors.

  • I am Jewish,I'll have a Babycham.

  • Ofra Haza, may she rest in peace,

    wonderful lady,wonderful voice

    THE BEST....WILL BE MISSED. HADASSAH

  • Happyhead64 pay as sweet this is not the appropriate place for discussion of religion and all the people we know all the sons Adam, a Muslim from Yemen

  • I SAID THAT:

    "If you'd like to have a religious debate, we can do it privately, but I'm not going to debate religious beliefs here. HERE we pay homage to Ofrah Hazah."

  • mind your own businesss

  • lovely song, lovely woman

  • anyone know who did this remix? it's amazing.

  • Perfekt!!!

  • its my best song in 1980 I loved ofra haza to and I dont care that she was a jew .

  • you don't care that she was a Jew...why SkyLondon2008 are you a Jew hater?

  • Evie3569, why are you so jumpy and looking for a fight? I work with people who are gay and l don't care if they are. Does that make me homophobic?

  • i loved ofra haza and i dont care that she was a jew

  • rip

  • What a VOICE!! Incredible! So sad that she is gone. I miss her alot.

  • X who was brought up religious has in fact still a very religious definition of who is a jew.but one can have that definition also because of being antiracist.I myself had long the idea that I am not jewish, but just a human being who is claimed by religious jews and by antisemites to be a separate category of human being.but then one day i decided to accept it-and become "a dissident jew"

  • that socialism would end discrimination and became internationalists.but the zionists thought that discrimination can not be banned, therefore they wanted to live in a jewish majority state(jewish nationalism), and paradoxically used the religious books as source of the history of the jews.conclusion:until 2000 years ago we were a normal people in our own country, we have to go back to that situation

  • common fate, common angers, and collective anecdotes-in short:a culture

    Zionism started as a movement of less-religious/non-religious european "cultural" jews who shared the wish to be able to live not as a discriminated minority but "normal" many of this kind of jews hoped

  • (since the Enlightment)but this did not them being the target of antisemitism.also:jews who are no longer religious often are still a bit sentimental about some remnants of the religion and because of the long history of antisemitism they also share with other jews a

  • you are absolutely right. I was born Jewish, but dont practice at all...in fact I am more Wiccan than anything else, but I still have a place in my heart for Judaism. I always will, it's my heritage and I am proud of who I am and where I came from.

  • how dare you say that about MY religion. And its obvious that many people agree with me, since your comment has 6 thumbs down. Keep your opinions about religion to yourself, I didnt ask you if you approve of my life. I am quite happy, and no, I didnt watch Bewitched, Did you watch it?

  • you are not ashamed to wear the star of david around your neck and he was not a good king had affair with married woman also king solomon i dont beleive in those people sorry thank god im christian iraqi for ever home of jews

  • whatever.

  • wiccan is occult

    God specifically tells us not to be a part of that.

    read Torah,then you will know about Judaism

    or rather Torah observance ,is obeying God.

    i have always been one to study about God,and find that the Torah,first five books of the Bible and the prophets and Psalms and Proverbs

    contain all we need to serve Our Creator if we

    seek everyday to do what He asks. hadassah

  • wiccan is PAGAN, not OCCULT. get your facts straight before you make a comment like that. Wicca is about earth and air and water and life. there is nothing Occult about it. It isnt magic and it isnt imagery or prestidigitation. It is an active religion in the US and many other countries and it just as valid as Judaism. I am also Jewish, if you red my earlier comments, and yes, I did celebrate Passover last weekend. You are very rude.

  • who the hell do you think you are telling me my religion is a joke and based in the occult? YOU are just like the rest of the over 50 crowd. If you dont understand something, you ragg all over it. Keep your mouth shut and your half-ass backwards bible preaching opinions to yourself. No one is interested. I AM JEWISH, but embrace the Wicca. If you dont like it, WHO CARES? I dont need your permission and I certainly dont acknowledge your comments.

  • don't get upset over morons on here- there too shallow and thick to worry about- i think about 2% of people are ok, the rest , well.....

  • thanks for the support. I agree.

    MY best to you, tokaicarl. :)

  • i stand corrected it is pagan

    God warns us against paganism.

    just truth not to be rude.

    if the bridge was out ahead of us and you were behind me,wouldn't you welcome a warning?

  • First, allow me to apologize for my language. Second, I would welcome a warning of a bridge being out, NOT a waring that my choice of religion is wrong. Like I said, I am Jewish but I embrace the Wiccan ways, and how on earth does that have anything to do with the particular video? If you'd like to have a religious debate, we can do it privately, but I'm not going to debate religious beliefs here. HERE we pay homage to Ofrah Hazah.

  • Great song . does anyone know what remix it is? i got the yemenite and ofra haza album but its not the same remix.

  • Wonderful song!

  • When this song first arrived on the night club scene in San Francisco, namely DV8, it was phenomenal. May she rest in peace.

  • Yemen jews are the best!

  • and you are Yemeni?

  • no, but been living with some

  • so why u say yemeni jews r the best lol if ur not yemeni

  • I dont have to be 1 to think that

  • lol I am (well...half...my mom is yemenite israeli ) but damn proud of it :D

  • are you Yemeni?

  • once again, no.

  • why u say yemen jews instead of just yemenis

  • shssssssssss! up!

  • Sonya, if you deny Ofra her identity - if you cannot acknowledge she was an Israeli and a Jew, daughter of those you drove from Yemen - then you should not dishonor her memory by posting on her threads.

    Go away!

  • By the way, Sonya, were you less blinded by your classic anti-Semitic bigotry, you would have noticed Ofra is wearing the Israeli national colours.

  • my mother knew her!!! they went to the same highschool and took the same bus home!

  • song is as awesome as "Im'nin alu" is but there is very high need of making an adequate remix. That's so pity that when her last album was being created in 1997 the producer didn't regarded "Galbi" for remixing.

  • the first song is in arabic

  • كل اغنياتك حلوه تذكرني عندما كنا في العراق

  • love the song

  • both these lovely women died in 2000. How sad.