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Rebecca Zohar: "Deciding whether to get vaccinated against Corona. The immune system is strong and will overcome it"

The dilemma of whether to get vaccinated against Corona, the professional breakup with Liron Lev ("The relationship has exhausted itself"), the drug addiction ("The bondage is distorted"), the difficulties in parenting ("A blow to sin") and to what song in the past does she not connect?

Rivka Zohar releases the first song from a new album.

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Sagi Ben Nun

Wednesday, February 17, 2021, 8:30 p.m.

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Rivka Zohar in the clip for the song "Hear the Heart" (director and editor of the clip: Omer Burin; lyrics: Shachar Hadar, music: Liron Ben Shimon and Omri Kastan, musical production and arrangement: Udi Turgeman)

"Out of all the difficulties / I have always risen high / I live life / I did not come to sink / Form thoughts / want to change / Growing up from mistakes / I grew up from mistakes"

These lines are part of the new song by singer Rebecca Zohar, "Hear the heart" (Watch the clip above for the song).

"I want to tell those who will listen to the song, never fall in love. Never," Zohar says in an interview with Walla!

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"If not easy then not easy, but you can always rise from it. There is no such thing as sinking. So do not be afraid, and how the song says: in the storms always see the horizon. And the horizon is full of light. It's not just words, it's true. "It's going to be good. It's so simple, life."

This is the legendary singer's first single for a new album, written by Shachar Hadar, composed by Liron Ben Shimon and Omri Kastan, and musically produced by Udi Turgeman, who will also be signed to produce the rest of the album's songs.

The other songs on the album were created by Shachar Hadar, Eli Eliyahu, Dudu Tessa and Barak Feldman, among others.

"I talked to Udi, I told him things about myself," says Zohar, "these things went to the lyrics, and suddenly my life is described in 12 songs. I stand amazed in front of it."

The horizon is full of light.

Rivka Zohar (Photo: Daniel Sheetrit)

With what places in your life does the line "I grew up from mistakes" correspond?

"There have been so many mistakes. Intention for life that has not been founded on truth and you walk in them with things that are not right. Then you should not be afraid to change the habit. It is possible and anyone can do it. I always rose high out of all the difficulties. For example with the daughter "Mine was very not easy. It was not easy to break up with her, my attitude towards her as a mother, it was not easy for her. You hit on sin for a long time until you understand the mistakes you made and try not to repeat them. You always need honest and constant effort."

While you are very much identified with the vocals in high voices, in this song and other songs on your next album you are singing more than ever in the middle and low voices.

What led to this?

"I came to Udi ostensibly for one song, called 'With all my might', for a project he did and it was called 'The Secret Room'. We thought it would end there. Later I got the sketch of the song 'Hear the Heart' and I liked it. Udi's sketch sounded like something not to be It's easy for me to perform. I could not feel the rhythm of the song. I was used to singing at highs and suddenly there are lows. These are areas that are uncomfortable for me. I did not think I could do otherwise than I know. At the studio, at some point I was about to give up, I had a fall, Udi picked it up And he said - do not give up. It is Udi, he does not give up and he has a vision. This is the first time in my life that someone tells me how to sing. A path is opened that is all true and good. He is a great talent and he cares about every consonant, every word and every character. The heart. "It's magic."

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There were so many mistakes.

Rivka Zohar (Photo: Omar Burin)

In the new album you will for the first time have songs with Arab influences.

"True. There are Arab influences that came from Udi that connects Fried Al Atrash and David Bowie, and the album also has rock 'n' roll, pop and funk that I never had before. You cling to your character, to your own image. Here too I thought I could not sing this song, It's like an exercise, it was not easy for me to learn the funky rhythm in the song 'Back', I practiced for hours on end while cleaning the house. I have to feel a song like I did not practice it, to be completely smooth, if it's clear what I say, and it's It took hours upon hours. "

Another song on the new album is about your late husband, writer, thinker and spiritual teacher Shlomo Kahlo.

I spoke to you the day he passed away, and you told me that his last words were "everything is fine for one who is not enslaved."

At what moments in your life were you enslaved and at what times did you manage to break free from the bondage?

"True, the song that talks about Solomon includes the words 'leaving love, leaving power.' Bondage is not just drugs. Bondage is everything that makes you see things in a distorted way. Suppose someone is angry or just jealous, then he will take care of it, and stop being angry or stop To be jealous. To do good and always make it easier for the other. Once you make it easy for the other, you yourself are easy. But without even thinking about it, just make it easy, and not be enslaved to anything. Some will not leave the house, and some can not stop eating chocolate. "Be enslaved to nothing. We're all free, so let's stop putting up fences for ourselves, and then break into something that's like the songs Udi and I do."

Four months ago, you released a great cover version with Yishai Levy for the song "It Happens" originally performed by Arik Lavie and written and composed by Shmulik Kraus.

To what extent did the fact that you both overcame drug addiction also connect you in the past?

"Once someone goes through the same experience as you, there is an understanding between you that does not need words. Understand each other without even talking about it. Again, the heart of the matter is not to be afraid of falls. You can always get up from them."

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Rivka Zohar (Photo: Government Press Office, Yaakov Saar)

After the government suffocated the culture for a whole year, “by chance” just before the election they remembered to put a band-aid on the culture and start opening shows next week.

What do you think about this?

"I think when there is a difficult situation, and all of humanity experiences it, then it is impossible to perform in such a situation. You have to take the best of it and think about what I can do. I created songs. I have no complaint. I have no shortage of performing on stage. So happily we will do it, now you can listen to songs online, in clips and on the radio. Do not get angry. What choice can there be? How will we perform? We will absorb the not easy, and think how can we contribute, think what I can do for myself and not what others have not done for me "For me, the work itself was magical. We meet with Udi once a week and create songs, sometimes two a week."

Have you been vaccinated against corona?

"No. I still think whether or not to get vaccinated. I never get vaccinated, nor have I ever been vaccinated against the flu. So I thought maybe you should not here either. I think when your immune system is strong then it will overcome it. I never. Vaccines. And there are mutations for the virus, and it only stores what is now, and what about the mutations? ".

There is no shortage of performing on stage.

Rivka Zohar (Photo: Maariv, Eli Dassah)

A comprehensive study by Clalit Health Fund was published this week, which found that Pfizer's corona vaccine resulted in a 94% decrease in infection with symptoms and a 92% decrease in the rate of serious patients.

The study examined 1.2 million people, half of whom were vaccinated.

So the vaccine works.

"Fine, fine. It's encouraging that it's like that. I'm still undecided but there's enough pressure on me to do it. After what you told me it looked, look, maybe I will do it."

Once you do not vaccinate other people's life threatening.

"Right. And that's why I might be vaccinated. In the meantime, there is nothing to be afraid of me because apart from going to rehearsals I do not leave the house. And go to the grocery store. The grocery store is fine."

Are you leaving the house with a mask?

"I put on a scarf. But everything is good, there is nothing to worry about. Life does not end! Everything is good. So true, we are deprived of things, but not afraid of it. We will do what can be done, and not complain because it only adds to the pain that everyone suffers from."

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Rivka Zohar and Liron Lev (Photo: Maariv, Raanan Cohen)

For years you refused to sing two of your greatest hits, "What I Will Bless" and "Singer of the Three Answers," and at the end of Saturday performed them.

Today there are other songs of yours that you feel uncomfortable with?

"I do not have songs that I do not feel comfortable with, but there are songs of mine that I am less connected to. I would not sing the song 'Moment of Victory'. There is something unresolved in the song, and I want to bring songs that will not enslave anything and break the listener into space."

"If an artist only stays in his past - it's not good," Zohar adds.

"You have to keep creating, and then when you have a new piece, you can bring the songs that the audience loves in a different shell, that you too will have a desire to bring them again, happily, like 'On the way to the village', 'On His hand will bring', 'On' and 'What "And then this thing makes sense, and not just recycle the past. If I didn't have new songs, I couldn't keep singing."

Rivka Zohar (Photo: Daniel Sheetrit)

This year will mark the 50th anniversary of Zohar's appearance at the second children's song festival in 1971 with the big hit "Gali" by Ehud Manor and Kobi Asherat, who also performed at the same festival Noam Kaniel and came in second place.

Zohar also performed at the rival event, the Festigal, in 1985 with the unforgettable comeback song "The Road to the Village".

These children’s events have spawned masterpieces, which is hardly the case at the Festigal and other commercial children’s productions today.

I point this out to Zohar, and she says, "I will not do things like the productions that exist today. The artist must take into account what he does and what he gives to the audience. And the more he grows in years, as a person, the more he opens the way to it. For what he takes out of his mouth. "

Which of your many past achievements are you particularly proud of?

"I rejoice in what I do today. The past belongs more to the audience that experienced the songs, this is where the nostalgia comes in. But what matters is what we do today, and what we have learned from the past. From the experience of the past you bring yourself as you are today."

For several years she collaborated with singer Liron Lev on creating new songs and albums and joint shows.

Why did your professional path part?

"I think it's exhausting itself. It happened by itself. I did not plan for this thing to happen to Udi, it just happens. And it's the magic of life. Liron goes his way with his songs, and I go my way. And everything is good. It's natural that there is development. And life is "Real magic! I'm so happy to see the sun. I have a window full of trees, especially in Jaffa. Life is magic!"

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