Arik Lavie
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Arik Lavie was an Israel
Israel
The State of Israel is a parliamentary republic located in the Middle East, along the eastern shore of the Mediterranean Sea...

i actor and Pop-Rock-Folk singer.

His career started in the military band
Military band
A military band originally was a group of personnel that performs musical duties for military functions, usually for the armed forces. A typical military band consists mostly of wind and percussion instruments. The conductor of a band commonly bears the title of Bandmaster or Director of Music...

 of the Palmach
Palmach
The Palmach was the elite fighting force of the Haganah, the underground army of the Yishuv during the period of the British Mandate of Palestine. The Palmach was established on May 15, 1941...

, in 1945. Since then, he participated in many theater plays and some movies (e.g. Hill 24 Doesn't Answer
Hill 24 Doesn't Answer
Hill 24 Doesn't Answer , the first feature film produced in Israel, is a 1955 Israeli war film directed by Thorold Dickinson. It was entered into the 1955 Cannes Film Festival.-Cast:* Edward Mulhare - James Finnegan* Michael Wager - Allan Goodman...

, Operation Thunderbolt, Rocking Horse
Rocking Horse
Rocking Horse is director Yaky Yosha's second feature made in 1978. It was the first film to represent Israel in the Directors’ Fortnight of the Cannes Film Festival. It also participated at Locarno, San-Francisco, Chicago and many other international festivals...

, Hole in the Moon
Hole in the Moon
Hole in the Moon is an Israeli avant-garde- satiric movie, published in 1964.Amos Kenan wrote its script and Uri Zohar directed it and was its star. The costar was Avraham Heffner. The guest actors were Dahn Ben-Amotz and Shaike Ophir. Many other actors performed in the film a few short roles each...

), and published a number of solo and non-solo albums (e.g. Le Arava Trio :he:%D7%A7%D7%95%D7%91%D7%A5:Arava Trio.JPG). He was occasionally seen on prime time, on the Israeli T.V., when it had only one channel.

Lavie had a very rich voice that allowed his band members to play simple musical roles and spend very little time on rehearsals. Thus, Lavie could give many concerts in the young state of Israel, when it had a small, poor population.
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