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Ofra Haza, 42, Israeli Pop Star

her privacy, though Israel was awash
with rumors. Then Haaretz broke the
taboo. She was infected with the HIV
virus and succumbed to AIDS-related
Jerusalem
complications.
fra Haza, the Israeli pop icon
During an interview a year ago at her
who died of AIDS last week
home in Herzliya, she listened
at the age of 42,
to her soundtrack recording of
sang her fusion of
the lament Yocheved, Moses'
Yemenite folk and '80s beat
mother, sang as she launched
with intense, unabashed emo-
the infant lawgiver into the
don. And she generated emo-
bulrushes in The Prince of
tion in her listeners.
Egypt. "The first time I saw the
With her striking, Middle
movie, I cried," she said.
Eastern beauty, she was the
"When Yocheved puts Moses
sister every Israeli would like
in the river, there is fear in her
to have had: talented, warm,
heart. It's so real. When you
spontaneous, unspoiled. She
listen to the song, it means
was a cliche — the ninth
Ofra Haza
something unbelievable."
child of poor Yemenite immi-
For the Moses movie, she
grants, a star who made it
recorded Yocheved's song in 14 lan-
from the back streets of south Tel Aviv
guages, including German, Greek,
to Hollywood, then came home. But
Spanish, Polish, Hungarian and
she transcended the cliche.
Portuguese. The film's director had given
Ofra was Israel's pop star laureate.
her a doll to hold while she sang. She
Her fans spanned generations and eth-
had no children of her own, but was
nic divides.
eager for a family after marrying for the
She was chosen to sing in Oslo in
first time only two years before her
1994 when Yitzhak Rabin, Shimon
death.
Peres and Yassir Arafat received the
Haza rejoiced in her success, but the
Nobel Peace Prize.. She sang again at the
joy owed more to wonder than vanity.
memorial concert after Rabin's assassina-
She thanked God, with an easy, inherit-
don a year later. Her dubbed voice sang
ed piety.
Yocheved's song in the animated movie
"I don't know what I would have
The Prince of Egypt.
done without believing in God," she
Prime Minister Ehud Barak and his
said.
predecessor, Bibi Netanyahu, paid pub-
lic tribute after her death: Peres eulo-
gized her at the graveside.
Her 13 days in intensive care were a
national drama. She was well enough to
walk into the hospital, but soon lapsed
The obituary for Sonia Reznik
into a coma.
(Feb. 18) should have indicated
At her request and that of her family,
that she was the beloved wife of
the doctors declined to identify her ill-
the late Motel Fineman.
ness. Until Monday, the media respected

ERIC SILVER
Israel Correspondent

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2000

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