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January 16, 2017

Remembering Meir Banai, an Israeli Musician at the Forefront of a Rebellion against Secularism

The new era of religious inquisitiveness.

Last Thursday the celebrated pop musician Meir Barnai died at the age of fifty-five. Banai, a member of what might be termed the royal family of Israeli rock, never became religiously observant, as did his brother Evyatar and cousin Ehud (also highly successful recording artists). But like them he was at the forefront of a movement among secular Israelis to rediscover the Jewish religion, as Daniel Gordis writes:

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