My playlist features 25 Israeli popular songs from 2025, spanning 90 minutes. The list isn’t ranked; rather, it’s curated to ...

When Yoni Bloch used artificial intelligence to create visuals for his song “A Happy Ending” in January, he never imagined that, just nine months later, life would imitate his art. When Israeli pop ...

Pop star Yoni Bloch created an AI music video with scenes of Israeli hostages returning as a hopeful fantasy. Now the video is remade with real life scenes. When Israeli pop star Yoni Bloch created a ...

On Oct. 7, 2023, as Israel woke up to the horror of a massive terrorist assault, Jerusalem singer-songwriter Sara Elijah reached for her guitar. The song that emerged in the days that followed, “If ...

Many people refer to Kleinstein as the Israeli Billy Joel, mainly for the similarities in their melodic, piano-based songs about love and life. But the parallels don’t end there. For any new immigrant ...

An artificial intelligence clip of Israelis celebrating the release of the hostages (left) alongside a clip of Hostage Square in Tel Aviv (right) in Yoni Bloch’s new music video. Screenshot JTA When ...

(JTA) — When Israeli pop star Yoni Bloch created a music video in January depicting scenes of the Israeli hostages returning through the use of artificial intelligence, it was meant as a hopeful ...

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