25 Notable alumni of Jerusalem Academy of Music and Dance
Updated: June 05, 2026 EliteDegrees
Jerusalem Academy of Music and Dance is ranked #8,355 in the world and #27 in Israel by aggregated alumni prominence. Below is the list of 25 notable alumni from Jerusalem Academy of Music and Dance sorted by their wiki pages popularity. The directory includes famous graduates and former students along with research and academic staff. Many individuals affiliated with Jerusalem Academy of Music and Dance won Nobel Prizes for Peace, in Physics, Chemistry, Physiology or Medicine, and Economics.
1. Ayal Adler
1968-. (aged 58)
composer
Ayal Adler, is an Israeli composer. Active internationally, his works are continuously performed worldwide. Serves as Associate Professor in composition and theory at the Jerusalem Academy of Music and Dance. Recipient of numerous awards, including: Two Prime- Minister Awards for Composers; Two Acum Prizes (equivalent to ASCAP), and International prizes. Serves as the Director of the Israel Composers' League.
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2. Dalia Faitelson
1963-. (aged 63)
jazz guitarist
singer
Dalia Faitelson is a Denmark-based Israeli composer, vocalist, guitarist, and DJ DaFa.
3. Zehava Gal
1948-. (aged 78)
opera singer
Zehava Gal is an Israeli-born operatic mezzo-soprano.
4. Itay Talgam
1958-. (aged 68)
conductor
pianist
Itay Talgam is an Israeli conductor and business consultant.
5. Yitzhak Yedid
1971-. (aged 55)
composer
pianist
Yitzhak Yedid is an Israeli-Australian composer of contemporary classical music. He is also a pianist and an educator.
6. Walter Hautzig
1921-2017 (aged 96)
pianist
Walter Hautzig was a pianist born in Vienna, Austria.
7. David Bizic
1975-. (aged 51)
opera singer
actor
David Bižić is a Serbian-born French operatic baritone.
8. Lior Navok
1971-. (aged 55)
composer
Lior Navok is an Israeli classical composer, conductor and pianist. He was born in Tel Aviv. Navok studied composition privately with the Israeli composer Moshe Zorman, and completed a Bachelor's degree at the Jerusalem Academy of Music and Dance, where he studied composition (with Yinam Leef) and conducting. He later completed he studied for a Master's and Doctorate at the...
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9. Yaron Gottfried
1968-. (aged 58)
pianist
conductor
composer
Yaron Gottfried is an Israeli conductor, pianist and composer.
10. Michal Bat-Adam
1945-. (aged 81)
film director
actor
writer
poet
teacher
Michal Bat-Adam is an Israeli film director, producer, screenwriter, actress, and musician. Her films deal with complex and conflicted relationships, especially relationships within families. She also explores the line between sanity and mental illness. Many of these movies contain autobiographical elements.
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11. Nami Melumad
1988-. (aged 38)
composer
Naama "Nami" Melumad is an Israeli-Dutch film and television composer, conductor, flautist, and pianist based in Los Angeles. Melumad is best known for her work on Paramount+'s series Star Trek: Strange New Worlds and Star Trek: Prodigy, Pixar's Dream Productions, Marvel's Thor: Love and Thunder, the HBO Max film An American Pickle, the Amazon TV series Absentia and the virtual...
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12. Ofir Ben-Shitrit
1995-. (aged 31)
model
singer
Ofir Ben Shitrit is an Israeli Orthodox Jewish singer. She came to prominence in 2013 as a contestant on the reality singing competition The Voice Israel. She received additional media attention due to her religious background, which led to controversy and opposition in her Orthodox Jewish religious community. She launched her professional singing career in 2013, performing Hebrew, English, Arabic...
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13. Elinor Carucci
1971-. (aged 55)
photographer
Elinor Carucci is an Israeli-born American photographer and educator, based in New York City, noted for her intimate portrayals of her family's lives, emotions, relationships, and identity. She has published five monographs; Closer (2002), Diary of a Dancer (2005), Mother (2013, Midlife (2019) and The Collars of RBG (2023). She teaches at the School of Visual Arts in New York....
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14. Netania Davrath
1931-1987 (aged 56)
opera singer
Netania Davrath was a Ukrainian-born Israeli soprano opera and concert singer.
15. Asher Fisch
1958-. (aged 68)
conductor
musician
Asher Fisch is an Israeli conductor and pianist.
16. Elam Rotem
1984-. (aged 42)
singer
composer
harpsichordist
Elam Rotem is a composer, singer, and harpsichordist based in Basel, Switzerland. He is a leading expert in early music, specifically the music of the turn of the 17th century. He is the founder and director of the group Profeti della Quinta and maintains Early Music Sources, a website collating writings and information on the subject of early music.
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17. Eliahu Inbal
1936-. (aged 90)
conductor
Eliahu Inbal is an Israeli conductor. Inbal has enjoyed a career of international renown, conducting leading orchestras around the world. He has conducted a wide variety of works. He is best known for his interpretations of late-Romantic works, but is also noted as an opera conductor, and has given the premieres of a number of modern works.
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18. Avi Avital
1978-. (aged 48)
mandolinist
composer
musician
Avi Avital is an Israeli mandolinist. He is best known for his renditions of well-known Baroque and folk music, much of which was originally written for other instruments. He has been nominated for a Grammy Award (Best Instrumental Soloist with Ensemble) and in 2013 signed a record agreement with Deutsche Grammophon.
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19. Gilad Atzmon
1963-. (aged 63)
jazz musician
writer
saxophonist
composer
political activist
Gilad Atzmon is an Israeli-born British saxophonist, novelist, political activist, and writer.
20. Gilat Bennett
1977-. (aged 49)
pastry chef
Gilat Ethel Bennett is an Israeli pastry chef and parent counselor who is the wife of former Israeli Prime Minister Naftali Bennett.
21. Nurit Hirsh
1942-. (aged 84)
songwriter
conductor
composer
Nurit Hirsh is an Israeli composer, arranger and conductor who has written over a thousand Hebrew songs. Three of her most famous and widely known songs are Ba-Shanah ha-Ba'ah (Next Year, lyrics by Ehud Manor), Oseh Shalom bi-Meromav (text from the Kaddish prayer). and A-Ba-Ni-Bi, the winning entry in the 1978 Eurovision Song Contest.
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22. David D'Or
1965-. (aged 61)
singer
songwriter
composer
David D'Or is an Israeli singer, composer, and songwriter. A countertenor with a vocal range of more than four octaves, he is a three-time winner of the Israeli "Singer of the Year" and "Best Vocal Performer" awards. He was also chosen to represent Israel in the 2004 Eurovision Song Contest, at which he placed 11th in the semi-final. By February...
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23. Naomi Shemer
1930-2004 (aged 74)
singer
songwriter
composer
Naomi Shemer was an Israeli songwriter, composer, and performer, widely described as the "first lady of Israeli song". She became one of the most influential figures in modern Hebrew music, writing numerous songs that became cultural touchstones, most notably "Yerushalayim Shel Zahav" ("Jerusalem of Gold"), which gained prominence after the Six-Day War and is often regarded as a second national...
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24. Noga Erez
1989-. (aged 37)
singer
television actor
singer-songwriter
Noga Erez is an Israeli musician.
25. Ziv Cojocaru
1977-. (aged 49)
music arranger
conductor
composer
Ziv Cojocaru is an Israeli composer, conductor, arranger, and pianist. He serves as Associate Professor and Head of the Music Division in the Department of the Arts at Ben-Gurion University of the Negev. He is also Composer-in-Residence with the Israel Symphony Orchestra Rishon LeZion. Cojocaru is the recipient of the ACUM Prize and the Prime Minister's Award for Composers (2015).
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