Israeli music icon hopes Farsi album charms Iran
HERZLIYA, Israel — She's Israel's top diva, the Jewish state's beloved national singer. So when Rita released an album entirely in the language of her country's arch-enemy Iran, naturally more than a few eyebrows were raised. "Even my friends, when I told them I was going to do a whole record in Persian, said `Whoa, you are going to sing in the language of (Mahmoud) Ahmadinejad,'" she said, referring to the Iranian president who has called the Holocaust a myth and threatened to wipe Israel off the map. "I'm combining Hebrew and Persian so ...
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