11 Facts About Ehud Manor

Ehud Manor was an Israeli lyricist, translator, poet and radio and TV personality.

Ehud Manor is widely considered to have been Israel's most prolific lyricist of all time, having written or translated over 1,000 songs.

Ehud Manor graduated from the Hebrew Reali School in Haifa in 1959.

Ehud Manor was married to actress Ofra Fuchs for 40 years; together, they had three children: Gali, Libby and Yehuda, who was named after Manor's late brother, a fallen soldier in the War of Attrition in 1968.

Ehud Manor, who had been a heavy smoker earlier in his life, was diagnosed with lung cancer in the early 2000s.

Ehud Manor began working for Israel radio in the 1960s as a musical editor.

Ehud Manor changed his surname to Manor as it was customary at the time for radio announcers to adopt Hebrew names.

Also a successful translator, Ehud Manor translated more than 600 works into Hebrew, including such Broadway hits as Cabaret, Hair, and Les Miserables.

In 1998, Ehud Manor was awarded the Israel Prize for Hebrew song.

Shortly before he died, Ehud Manor was chosen to receive an honorary doctorate from Bar-Ilan University in recognition of his prolific activity in the field of Hebrew music.

Ehud Manor learned about the song from Isaac Herzog, then the leader of the Israeli Labor Party in December 2016.