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Pizmunist David Halfon passed away at the age of 73. David's funeral will take place tonight (Monday) at 21:30 at the Or Yehuda-Kiryat Ono cemetery.
Halfon was born, grew up and lived his whole life in Or Yehuda.
At the age of 17 he wrote the song "Illusions" which was composed and performed by Nisim Sarousi and became a big hit.
He also signed the hits "God gave you a gift" performed by Eitan Masuri and "A woman who builds a woman who destroys" which he wrote with Samdar Shir, composed by Avner Gadasi and performed by Avi Sinouani.
In addition, he also wrote songs for Shimi Tabori, Haim Moshe, Shlomi Shabbat, Eyal Golan, Sharit Haddad, Mike Sharon, Avner Gadasi, Etti Levy, Zvika Pick, Pnina Rosenblum, Chen Mushrif, Sharif, Rinat Bar, Tamir Gal, Itzik Kala, Gabi Shushan and more.
"Today I don't see that life is a gift, I have hard days," Halfon said in an interview with Mako in September 2016, "I send faxes, go to meetings with promoters whom I promoted at the time, singers whose careers I boosted. I won't name names, but I am assured that they will transfer the My songs and they recorded them, and they've been lying to me for 10 years. I gave up on them, but I continue to write anyway. The hardest thing for me is when I meet people who know me in the neighborhood, for example, and ask me, 'Dude, why did you stop writing?'
'Why don't we hear your new material?'
And they don't understand that I never stopped writing, the artists simply ignore me."
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