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Naomi Shemer

1930 - 2004

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Naomi Shemer (Hebrew: נעמי שמר; July 13, 1930 – June 26, 2004) was a leading Israeli musician and songwriter, hailed as the "first lady of Israeli song and poetry." Her song "Yerushalayim Shel Zahav" ("Jerusalem of Gold"), written in 1967, became an unofficial second anthem after Israel won the Six-Day War that year and reunited Jerusalem. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Naomi Shemer has received more than 200,403 page views. Her biography is available in 20 different languages on Wikipedia. Naomi Shemer is the 767th most popular singer (down from 605th in 2019), the 216th most popular biography from Israel (down from 191st in 2019) and the 6th most popular Israeli Singer.

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  • 200k

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  • 50.76

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 20

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 2.67

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 3.26

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

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Among SINGERS

Among singers, Naomi Shemer ranks 767 out of 3,528Before her are Polad Bülbüloğlu, Anita O'Day, Pat Boone, Inva Mula, Fréhel, and Ileana Cotrubaș. After her are Ville Valo, Sylvester, Nicky Hopkins, Brigitte Fontaine, Carl Wilson, and Billy Vaughn.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1930, Naomi Shemer ranks 258Before her are Donn F. Eisele, José Ramón Machado Ventura, Julián Herranz Casado, John Alcott, Yi-Fu Tuan, and Chuck Daly. After her are Tadao Kobayashi, Tommy Flanagan, Carmen Sevilla, Antonio Saura, Mordechai Gur, and Pierre Vidal-Naquet. Among people deceased in 2004, Naomi Shemer ranks 136Before her are Ota Šik, M. S. Subbulakshmi, Howard Keel, Tiziano Terzani, Kalevi Sorsa, and Carrie Snodgress. After her are Muhammad Zaidan, Mitsuteru Yokoyama, Marjorie Courtenay-Latimer, Xenophon Zolotas, Briek Schotte, and Agnes Martin.

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In Israel

Among people born in Israel, Naomi Shemer ranks 216 out of 430Before her are Marie-Alphonsine Danil Ghattas (1843), Moshe Ya'alon (1950), Emile Habibi (1922), Yvan Attal (1965), Dalia Itzik (1952), and Yigal Amir (1970). After her are Mordechai Gur (1930), Judea Pearl (1936), Arik Einstein (1939), Dan Halutz (1948), Gali Atari (1953), and Yakir Aharonov (1932).

Among SINGERS In Israel

Among singers born in Israel, Naomi Shemer ranks 6Before her are Ofra Haza (1957), Dana International (1969), Esther Ofarim (1941), Carmela Corren (1938), and Achinoam Nini (1969). After her are Arik Einstein (1939), Gali Atari (1953), Izhar Cohen (1951), Yasmin Levy (1975), Rika Zaraï (1938), and Ishtar (1968).