The Yemenite Conference

Carmella Abdar

Candidate for Senior Lecturer

Achva Academic College

Dr. Carmella Abdar is a researcher of material and folk culture of Yemenite Jews, and editor of the anthology: Ma‘ase Rokem: Dress and Jewelry in the Tradition of the Jews of Yemen, published by E’eleh BeTamar: Tel-Aviv 2008. She is also a Lecturer in the Folklore Programs, Multicultural Studies, Gender and Oriental Jewry Studies at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, the Schechter Institute of Jewish Studies and Achva Academic College.

Hamid Alawadhi

Adjunct Professor of Linguistics and Middle Eastern Culture

Point Park University

Dr. Hamid Alawadhi is currently Adjunct Professor of Linguistics and Middle Eastern Culture at Point Park University in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA. He is a former Professor of Linguistics and translation at the College of Arts and Humanities, Sana’a University, Yemen.
He holds a Ph.D. in Linguistics and master’s degree in translation from the University of Sorbonne. He also has an Advanced Diploma in Arabic lexicography and BA in Arabic language and literature from the University of Tunis.
He was the Chief Editor of the Second Edition of the Encyclopedia of Yemen published in 2003 in four volumes. He was the author, translator, editor or compiler of more than ten books, and numerous articles.
Dr. Alawadhi also had a diplomatic career. He served as Ambassador and permanent representative of Yemen to UNESCO for five years. He was also Dean of the College of Arts and Humanities at Sana’a University, then Dean of the Diplomatic Institute of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Yemen. In 2014, he became a Deputy Minister for Political Affairs in the Yemeni Foreign Ministry.

Menashe Anzi

Lecturer in the Jewish History Department

Ben-Gurion University

Dr. Menashe Anzi is a lecturer in the Jewish History department at Ben-Gurion University and member of the I-CORE Daat Hamakom – Center for the Study of Cultures of Place in the Modern Jewish World. His areas of specialization include the modern history of Yemenite Jews and Iraqi Jews, the relationship between Jews and Muslims in Islamic cities, and the trade networks and Jewish migration along the Indian Ocean.

Dawn Drora Arussy

Adjunct Professor

Stern College, Yeshiva University

As an educator, Drora Arussy specializes in creative teaching methods, particularly kinesthetic integration. Multi-cultural Jewish heritage has been a passion for which she has written award-winning curricula as well as integrated into any Judaic classwork and curricula as appreciating and integrating the colorful Jewish heritage is a personal passion.

Ezra (Eddie) Ashkenazie

Researcher and Research Coordinator

Diarna Geo-Museum

A Yeshiva University PhD student focusing his studies on the Jews of the Middle East and North Africa in the modern era. He graduated from Yeshiva University with both Master’s and Bachelor’s degrees in Jewish history.

Eddie has worked on a number of book publishing and history projects, including an edition of the Pentateuch with Rabbi Saadia Gaon’s Judeo-Arabic translation (tafisr, Humash Derekh Haqadmonim); critical analyses of selected Psalms and the creation of prayer books and holiday-specific article collections for Tebah Educational Services; and copy-editing the Sephardic Community Alliance’s bi-monthly Qol HaQahal newsletter.

He also contributed a chapter on the Hebrew and Aramaic inscriptions in Damascene Jewish houses to Professor Elizabeth Macaulay-Lewis’ forthcoming Bayt Farhi and the Sephardic Palaces of Ottoman Damascus in the Late 18th and 19th Centuries (Boston: American Schools of Oriental Research, 2018), curated an exhibit on the history of the Syrian Jewish Community in New York for Brooklyn’s historic Magen David Congregation, served as a Hebrew translator and researcher for the Sephardic Heritage Museum’s movies on New York’s Syrian Jewish community, and presented at the Dahan Center’s 2015 International Conference on “Sephardic, North African, and Middle Eastern Jewish Communities in North America.”

Uzi Avner

Researcher

Dead-Sea & Arava Science Center

From 1977 to 1999 Dr. Uzi Avner served as the District Archaeologist of the Southern Negev for the Israel
Antiquities Authority. His activities included studying the desert cultures during the last 10,000 years, surveys, excavations, protection and conservation of desert archaeology and environment. In 2002 his dissertation- “Studies in the Material and Spiritual Culture of the Negev and Sinai Populations”- was awarded Summa Cum Laude by the Hebrew University, Jerusalem. From 1999 to 2014, he taught desert archaeology in the Arava Institute and in the Eilat campus of Ben Gurion University. Since 2008 he is a researcher at the Dead-Sea & Arava Science Center, studying ancient desert farming, hunting installations (“desert kites” and carnivore traps), copper mining and production, desert cult sites of various types and periods, ancient desert roads, rock-art and others. Publications list and PDF files can be found here.

Danny Bar-Ma’oz

Author & Historian

Dr. Danny Bar-Ma’oz holds a PhD from the Bar-Ilan University in the history of the people of Israel, and has published books on Yemenite Jewish research, as well as on early Jewish settlement in Ottoman Palestine and British Mandate Palestine.

Osnat Braidman Sharabi

Choreographer

Rechovot Teiman & Lehakat Bat Nedivim

Osnat Braidman Sharabi is a dancer, soloist, and choreographer. Born in Rosh Haayin to Yemenite parents, from 1983-1996, she performed in the Enbal Dance Theater as a dancer and soloist. Since 1999, she has served as artistic director and choreographer for Yemenite dance troupes in Israel, including Rechovot Teiman and Lehakat Bat Nedivim. She also lectures on Yemenite Dance at the Jerusalem Dance Academy and the Yemenite Jewish Museum in Rehovot. Together, with her husband, she is director of the Accord music school in Modi’in. She is a recipient of the Shabazi prize for her contributions to preserving the dance heritage of Yemenite Jews.

Michael M. Cernea

Former Senior Adviser for Sociology and Social Policy

The World Bank

Prof. Michael M. Cernea is an American sociologist and anthropologist, born in Romania, who immigrated to the USA in 1974. He is Member of the Academy of Sciences of Romania, has worked at the World Bank btw. 1974-1999 and is widely recognized for introducing sociological knowledge into the World Bank’s approaches, projects and policies. He has argued for “Putting People First” in Projects, has researched and published on a wide range of development issues, risks, and pathologies, on cultural heritage preservation, on poverty/impoverishment, grassroots organizations, and population resettlement. He has taught at Universities in USA, Europe, and Asia, and is Emeritus Professor and Doctor Honoris Causa of several universities.

Uzi Eli

The Etrog Man

Machane Yehuda Market

Mr. Eli learned natural pharmaceuticals from his Yemenite mother and from his travels around the world. He has a boot in two markets in Israel and is consulted on homeopathic recipes by people from around the world. See his website etrogman.com.

Paul B. Fenton

Co-Director

Department of Arabic and Hebrew Studies, Sorbonne

Both an Arabist and a Hebraist, Professor Paul B. Fenton is currently co-director of the Department of Arabic and Hebrew Studies at the Sorbonne (Paris), where he has been Professor of Hebrew and Jewish Studies since 1997.
After Rabbinical studies, he obtained a BA and then a Master of Arts in Semitic studies, at Strasbourg University (1972) before going on to do his Doctorate at the Sorbonne (1976), specializing in Jewish Civilisation in the Islamic context.

Aharon Gaimani

Professor

Bar-Ilan University

Professor Aharon Gaimani is a Full Professor in The Department of Jewish History and Contemporary Jewry, Bar-Ilan University, Ramat Gan, Israel. He is a world-renowned scholar whose research interest are primarily in the area of the social and cultural history of Yemenite Jewry.
In 2005 his book “Changes in the Heritage of Yemenite Jewry Under the Influence of the Shulhan `Arukh and the Kabbalah of R. Yitshaq Luria” was published by the Bar-Ilan University Press. In 2017 his book “The Names of Yemenite Jewry – A Social and Cultural History” was published by the University of Maryland Press.

Bracha Gal

Faculty Member, Nursing Department

Tel Aviv University

Bracha Gal is a nurse-midwife, former chief of nursing and midwifery in one of Israel’s largest obstetric department. She is now faculty in the program of midwifery at the Nursing Department, Tel Aviv University.

A daughter to a traditional Yemenite midwife who immigrated to Israel, Bracha focuses her research interests on the practices of the traditional Jewish communities in Yemen and the transition of women and midwives from communal birth to the modern social life and medicine of Israel. She is also affiliated with the Dept. of Jewish History in Tel Aviv University and the bioethics research group at the department of medical education, Sackler School of Medicine, Tel Aviv University.

Tova Gamliel

Anthropologist, Associate Professor, Department of Sociology and Anthropology

Bar Ilan University

Professor Tova Gamliel is a professor of anthropology at Bar-Ilan University, Israel.
Her academic identity is that of existential and psychological anthropology. She is the author of Old Age with a Gleam in the Eyes (2000), End of Story: Meaning, Identity, Old Age (2005), Aesthetics of Sorrow: The Wailing Culture of Yemenite Jewish Women (2014), and Zahara’s Diaries: A Feminine Invitation to Anthropology (2014).

Benny Gamlieli

Senior Tour Guide and Lecturer

Tour guide in Israel, including for foreign journalists and guests of the Ministry of Tourism, the Foreign Ministry and the JNF. My tours provide information that serves for the writing of articles about Israel.
Lecturer at the Eilat branch of Rishon le Zion College of Management.
Guide and Lecturer at the Eilat branch of the Avshalom Institute for the Study of the Land of Israel. Lecturer at the Eilat branch of Ben Gurion University
Administration, organization, and guiding of tour groups to Scandinavia, Italy, Spain, Switzerland, Thailand, Morocco, Sri Lanka, India, Brazil, Mexico, Guatemala, Cuba.
A graduate of the Open University of Ben-Gurion in the history of the Jewish people and holds a master’s degree in Judaism, Bible and Gender Studies from the Schechter Institute of Jerusalem.

Jason Guberman-P

Executive Director

American Sephardi Federation

Executive Director of the American Sephardi Federation, is a social entrepreneur who specializes in building broad coalitions and melding intellectual and technical innovation. A summa cum laude graduate of Sacred Heart University and founding executive director of Digital Heritage Mapping, Jason was named to Connecticut Magazine’s “40 under 40” and to The New York Jewish Week’s “36 under 36.”  He has presented at Stanford University’s Digital Humanities Center, conferences of the Association of Jewish Studies and Center for Jewish History, guest lectured classes at Harvard’s Middle East Studies Center and at Wellesley College, served on the Council of Young Jewish Presidents and participated in meetings and a mission (to Morocco, Egypt, Israel, and Cyprus) of the Conference of Presidents of Major American Jewish Organizations (of which ASF is a member), written for AJS Perspectives, Sh’ma Journal, Wexner Foundation Newsletter, The Algemeiner, and MyJewishLearning.com, and appeared on NPR’s Here & Now. Jason is an alumnus of the Tikvah Fund’s Fellowship, Core18 Leaders Laboratory, and the Global Jewish Leadership Initiative.

Yousef M. Hamidaddin

Innovation Advocate

Yousef Hamidaddin for the last 7 years has been focused on building and deploying a regional innovative strategy starting from Jordan & worked on developing 40MUSD in innovative funds to deliver solutions that address the a region to be well positioned as an “open lab” – a term coined for early adoption that can take solutions globally.
He was a board member of ICTAC (ICT Advisory Council) to the Minister of ICT, a board member of Int@j (Information & Communication Association of Jordan) which is a voluntary non-profit, private organization representing, promoting and advancing the Jordanian software and IT services industry in the global market. He sat on the Technology & Innovation Cluster Committee under the Ministry of Planning & International Cooperation, & appointed as part of the Jordan Technology Re-launch Team labeled as Reach 2025 which was launched in November 2016. He was the chairman of the Innovative Solution Board an initiative from the Foundation of HRH the Crown Prince of Jordan. He was also CEO of Oasis 500 a Jordan based MENA wide accelerator where he managed a portfolio of over 130 startups, and raising 18MUSD in follow-up funding. He also manages a MENA Impact fund with 2.5MUSD investments so far into non-MENA startups that want to enter our region. He is currently the Chairman of Innovative Yemen.
Yousef is a frequent speaker on innovation, entrepreneurship, and acceleration across MENA.

Rina Hubara Starik

PhD. Candidate

Bar Ilan University

Rina Hubara Starik is a Yemeni-Israeli researcher examining the historical role of Jewish women in Yemen.  A graduate (BA and MA) from Bar-Ilan University with 40 years’ experience as a learning disability diagnostician, she is now pursuing a Ph.D exploring “The Place of the Jewish Woman in Yemen in the Family and the Community and their Influence as Social Agents in Modern Times.” Rina’s research has entailed interviewing 120 elderly Yemeni women to examine their way of coping with family routines and difficulties. She discovered that quite a few women did not follow the traditional roles they were required to fill in a conservative, patriarchal society. Rina has also recorded the memories of elderly men and women from all over Yemen, collecting vital data on Jewish sites and communities, including the environments in which they lived, their way of life, descriptions of people of stature, and extraordinary events.

Kerstin Hünefeld

Adjunct Faculty Member

Department of Islamic Studies Freie Universität Berlin

Kerstin Hünefeld is an adjunct faculty member with teaching assignment at the Department of Islamic Studies, Freie Universität Berlin, and part-time substitute for the Head of Department (Prof. Krämer). She will be a post-doc fellow at the Herbert D. Katz Center (UPenn) from September 2018. Her publications include a monograph on Imam Yahya and the Jews of Sanaa and several internationally published articles.

Ephraim Isaac

Director

Institute of Semitic Studies, Princeton

Professor Ephraim Isaac is a scholar of ancient Semitic Languages & Civilization, and African/Ethiopian Languages and Religion. He is the Director of the Institute of Semitic Studies (Princeton, New Jersey) and the Chair of the Board of the Ethiopian Peace and Development Center.

Dr. Isaac holds B Div. (Harvard Divinity School, ’63); a Ph.D. in Near Eastern Languages (Harvard University, ’69); a D.H.L. (Honorary, John Jay/CUNY, ’93); a Litt. D. (Honorary, Addis Ababa University, 2004). He is a founder, and the first Professor of Afro-American Studies at Harvard University. In recognition of his merits, the “Ephraim Isaac Prize for Excellence in African Languages” is given to a Harvard graduate who writes the best essay in African Studies.

Hananya Koresh

Director

Museum of Jewish Yemenite Heritage and Communities in Israel

A graduate of Tel Aviv University BA in Middle Eastern History Arabic Language and Literature and MA in Religion Studies. Currently serves as VP of Property and Finance at the Rehovot Municipality and Director of the Yemenite Heritage Center and the Jewish Communities. Member of the Committee for Preservation of Sites, Heritage, Names and a member of the Planning and Building Committee of the Rehovot Municipality. Also serves as a tour guide in Rehovot in the preservation and heritage complexes.

Tzvi Langermann

Professor

Bar Ilan University

Tzvi Langermann teaches at Bar Ilan University. His published works include: a book in Hebrew on The Jews of Yemen and the Exact Sciences, an English compilation entitled Yemenite Midrash, and numerous studies in both Hebrew and English on the Yemenite Jewish thought, Maimonides, and other topics.

Shoshana Madmoni-Gerber

Associate Professor

Suffolk University

Shoshana Madmoni-Gerber earned her Ph.D. in Communication from the University of Massachusetts at Amherst. Her book, Israeli Media and the Framing of Internal Conflict: The Yemenite Babies Affair was published by Palgrave Macmillan in 2009, and in paperback in 2014.

Ester Muchawsky-Schnapper

Senior Curator Emerita

The Israel Museum

Ester Muchawsky-Schnapper, Senior Curator Emerita, The Mandel Wing for Jewish Art and Life, the Israel Museum, Jerusalem, was born in Germany and immigrated to Israel in 1967. She studied at the Hebrew University, Jerusalem archaeology, art-history, and folklore. Her exhibitions with catalogs include Les Juifs d’Alsace (1991), The Yemenites, Two Thousand Years of Jewish Culture (Jerusalem 2000; Paris 2003-4), A World Apart Next Door. Glimpses into the Life of Hasidic Jews (2012) and Scenes of Sana’a. Yihye Haybi’s Photographs from Yemen, 1930-44 (2014). Her publications focus on material culture combining object-analysis with cultural interpretation. She received from the Ministry of Culture and Sport the “Curator of the Year 2013” prize and in 2015 the “Shalom Shabazi Prize.”

Barak Oded

Director

Mizmorey Teman Choir

Barak Oded is the musical director and conductor of choirs and singing groups in Israel. A gifted bass singer, he performed in several ensembles including Vocal Octet, and has performed all around the world, including India and Kenya. He studied music instruction and conducting at the Lewinski school. He has served as a teacher of music in several schools, including the School for Stage Arts in Tel-Aviv.

Barak is the conductor and musical director of four choirs in Israel, with whom he participates in international choir conferences, festivals, and exchange concerts with sister-choirs, including those who are associated with twin-cities world-wide. He and his choirs perform concerts in the framework of dedicated overseas tours. His choirs include a Yemenite choir from Rosh Ha’ayin, a Yemenite children’s choir, and an Israeli gospel choir.

Barak also prepares custom arrangements for special events, diverse vocal ensembles, and tutors young musicians. He served as assistant conductor of the Israel Chamber and the philharmonic Choirs and has participated in many festivals workshops for music and choir conductors in Italy, Spain, Germany, UK &USA.

Ms. Marjorie Ransom

Writer/researcher

Marjorie Ransom is a former US diplomat who served twice in Yemen, first in 1966 and then in 1975. During her time as a diplomat in several Arab countries, she collected Middle Eastern silver jewelry, textiles, and costumes. From 2004-2009, with support from the American Institute for Yemeni Studies, she did research in Yemen and then wrote the book, Silver Treasures from the Land of Sheba: Yemeni Regional Jewelry. Ms. Ransom received her BA from Trinity University in Washington, DC and her Master’s degree in History and a Certificate in Middle East Studies from Columbia University in New York. She is currently working on a second volume on Yemeni Silversmiths.

Tuvia Sulami

Director

House of the Jews of Yemen

Tuvia Sulami was born in the Hatikva Quarter of Tel-Aviv on 28 November 1939, into a family that emigrated from Yemen in 1926. He pursued his bachelor’s degree at the Hebrew University in Jerusalem, where he majored in the history of Islamic countries and in political science. Since then he has become an orientalist by profession, a researcher, and an expert in Yemenite Jewish history, their culture and their literature. From 1969–1993, he worked as an orientalist for Israel’s Defense Ministry. From 1965–1969, he served as the editor of the magazine Afikim, thereafter serving as member of the editorial board and management. He later became a prominent activist in the campaign to build public awareness in the Missing Yemenite Children Affair. Since 1982, he has been a member of the “E’ele BeTamar” organization and greatly involved in its activities. A cultural and social activist who has published many short stories and articles, as also helped promote cultural events. Since 1996, he has voluntarily served also as the director of the “House of the Jews of Yemen” in Petah Tikva, operating under the auspices of the Petah Tikva municipality.

Sharona Tam Amosi

Lecturer in Judaic Studies and Gender

Moreshet Ya'akov

Sharona holds a PhD in philosophy and gender from Bar Ilan University. She researches the poetry of Yemenite Jewish women. She served in the Department of Education as a superintendent, traveled abroad as an emissary, serving as principal, and is the recipient of prizes from the Department of Education, and others, for her contributions to society. Sharona also holds a BsC in music and biology from Tel Aviv University.

Yigal Tamir

Artist

Born in Jerusalem (1948), Yigal is the son of Malka and Shalom Tam –one of the original Bezalel artisans. He studies and works in the fields of design and art: sculpture and fresco, metal and silver craftsmanship, artistic glass design, wood artistry, etc.
Yigal designed the seats and overall design of the Knesset Plenum Hall. Yigal is involved in the restoration and creation of houses of prayer (synagogues) and heritage sites (Yemenite, Syrian, Caucasian…) with Judeo-Islamic motifs.

Adena Tanenbaum

Associate Professor, Department of Near Eastern Languages and Cultures

The Ohio State University

Adena Tanenbaum, Ph.D. Harvard University (1993), is Associate Professor of Near Eastern Languages and Cultures at Ohio State University. She has published on medieval Hebrew poetry and belles-lettres, and is completing a monograph on Zechariah Aldāhirī’s maqāma, Sefer Hamusar (Yemen, 16th c.).

Avinoam Tzabari

Head of Obstetrics & Gynecology Department

Yoseftal Hospital, Eilat. Israel

Dr. Avinoam Tzabari, is a specialist in obstetrics and gynecology. Being head of the department of obstetrics and gynecology for more than 16 years, Dr. Tzabari has extensive experience in accompanying and supervising numerous pregnancies and births.
In 1996 Dr. Tzabari developed a computerized pregnancy tracking system in order to facilitate the planning and scheduling of pregnancy tests for the pregnant woman. As an additional stage of creating an easy and accessible planning process of pregnancy tests, he came up with an idea for a new method: Remind Me – a notification service aimed at providing reminders and information about tests during pregnancy.

Liliane Vana

Associate Professor, IEJ, Free University of Brussels, Belgium (ULB)

Member, French National AIDS Council (CNS, France)

Liliane VANA is a PhD in religious sciences and Professor at Institute for the Study of Judaism, Free University of Brussels, Belgium, and in Paris at Institut Universitaire E. Wiesel. She is specialist in Jewish Law, Talmudist, and Philologist. Her researches focus on halakhah: Abodah Zarah, Bioethics, Medically Assisted Procreation, Marriage, Divorce, Environment. 

She is Co-director of the Mishnah Scientific Edition « Mishnah Corpus Tannaiticum» in French and Hebrew. Presently (2016-2020) she is Member of the French National AIDS Council (Conseil National du Sida-CNS). She is also Halakhic Counselor to agunot (women to whom the husband refuses to grant a get – writ of repudiation) and the Founder of the Orthodox LectureSefer Prayer Group.

Mark S. Wagner

Associate Professor of Arabic

Department of Foreign Languages & Literatures, Louisiana State University

Dr. Mark Wagner is Associate Professor of Arabic at the Louisiana State University. He is a specialist in Arabic literature with a particular interest in literary and legal texts from Yemen and in the cultural interactions between Muslims and Jews.  He has published books and articles on a wide range of topics, among them Muslim and Jewish poetic traditions in Yemen, blasphemy in Islamic law, and Quranic exegesis.

Rachel Yadid

Head of Early Childhood Education

Beit Berel

Dr. Rachel Yadid (teaching certificate, BA Jewish History and Geography, MA Education, PhD Education) was born Rachel Dahari (Yitzhari) in Tel Aviv in the 5710 (1950). Her family made Aliyah from Rada’a in January 1949. In 1960 the family moved to Rishon LeTzion and lived out their days there. Rachel graduated with honors from the elementary school Yeshurun, and received a scholarship to continue her studies in Gymnasia Realia. She immediately recognized her calling was in education.
In 1970, she completed her pedagogic studies in Givat Washington Seminary and that summer married Elyah. Together they had three boys (Tamir, Harel and Gilad) and one daughter, Eilat. At age 20 she began teaching in elementary school where she served as a homeroom teacher and administrator while continuing her own personal education.
From 1987-1989 she and her family were sent by the Jewish Agency to serve as Shlichim in Charleston, South Carolina where they taught Judaic Studies, Hebrew language and Zionism. In addition, they were program coordinators for Jewish events.
She has served as homeroom teacher, administrator, grade-level coordinator and Head of Department in elementary and middle schools. More recently she has lectured in teacher colleges and Universities throughout Israel on effective pedagogically as well as lectured at teacher conferences. Currently she is completing her tenure as Head of Early Childhood Education in Beit Berel where she coordinates in-service programs between various bodies. In addition, she has held the position of Director of “A Computer for Each Child” for the Prime Minister’s office, and Director of Green Village.
She joined E’eleh Betamar’s national board in 2000 and has been working diligently to ensure that the organization continues to gather and disseminate the beauty and richness of the Yemeni Jewish heritage.

Shalom Zadok

Master Silversmith

Sagiv Cohen

Singer

Sagiv Cohen is an Israeli singer, most famous as a singer of Mizraḥi (Middle Eastern Jewish) music. He has performed and recorded several times together with Daklon.

Tsion Golan

Singer

Tsion Golan is an Israeli singer of Yemenite Jewish origin. Most of his songs are in Judeo-Yemeni Arabic and in the ancient Yemenite dialect of Hebrew. Most of his songs were written and composed in Israel by himself, his mother in law, Naomi Amrani and by other Israeli writers. Some of his songs were written by the famous Rabbi Shalom Shabazi.

He has recorded over 22 albums.

Avihu Medina

Singer

Avihu Medina is an Israeli composer, arranger, songwriter, and singer of Mediterranean Israeli music. He has composed more than 401 Mizrachi music songs. Through 2007, he had released nine albums. He is considered by some to be the best-known Oriental singer, and has composed many of Zohar Argov’s songs.

Lehakat Bat Nedivim

Dance Troop

“Bat Nedivim” dance troupe is a Yemenite folklore troupe, which operates within the framework of the “Afikim” voluntary association under Mr. Tuviya Sulami.
The members of the troupe are first and second generation of Jewish women immigrants from Yemen.
The troupe focuses on dances from the Yemenite culture and preserves their customs through dances, songs, dress and special accessories, such as tins, jugs, and colorful trays etc., which enhance its rich culture.
The troupe presents choreography of women dances, which preserve the special Yemenite step in an authentic and visual artistic manner and hence transformed into a stage performance.
The “Yemenite” step is an inseparable part of the Israeli dance folklore in Israel and abroad.
The Yemenite ethnic group is naturally talented with song and dance.
The troupe performs throughout Israel and is invited to festivals all over the world, large and important performances throughout the country, television shows, festivities, hinot and
weddings.
She has represented the city of Petach Tikva and Israel in folklore festivals in Italy, Bulgaria….

Troupe management: Maza Lilan
Choreography and artistic management: Osnat Braidman Sharabi
Past dancer and soloist in the “Inbal” dance theater for 13 years.
“Shabazi” prize winner on her donation of the dance culture preservation.

Mizmorey Teman Choir

Choir

Director: Barak Oded

Rechovot Teiman

Dance Troop

Rechovot Teiman (The Streets of Yemen) dance troupe is a Yemenite folklore troupe, which operates within the framework of the “experiences” community center network of the Rehovot Municipality. The members of the troupe are first, second and third generation of Jewish men and women immigrants from Yemen, who settled in the neighborhoods of the city of Rehovot, in Israel.

The troupe focuses on dances from Yemenite culture and preserves their customs through dances, songs, dress and special accessories, such as tins, jugs, and colorful trays etc, which enhance its rich culture.
The Yemenite dances portray the way of life in Yemen through their everyday joys, kitchen work, prayers and family events. The nature of the dance movements and steps are presented, exhibited and expressed through choreography and artistic conception on stage, together with the preservation of authenticity of the movements and the traditional Yemenite steps.

The troupe has performed throughout Israel and has represented the city of Rehovot and Israel at international folklore festivals in Belarus, Slovakia, Italy, Bulgaria, and others.

Choreographer: Osnat Breidman Sharabi