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Google Israel Wishes Naomi Shemer A Happy 80th Birthday

Google Israel has a beautiful logo up for the birthday of the late Naomi Shemer (נעמי שמר‎). Here is a picture of the Google Doodle:

יום הולדת 80 לנעמי שמר!

Clicking on the logo takes you to a search result for [נעמי שמר] on Google Israel.

Naomi was born on July 13, 1930 and died at the age of 73 on June 26, 2004. She was known as the “first lady of Israeli song,” writing very popular Israeli songs. You can see a full list of her works on Wikipedia and if you have good Hebrew skills you can the more detailed Hebrew Wikipedia page.

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