Holding out for a zero... it's Eurovision time...

[ilan]

And isn't that conductress the same one as in Izhar Cohen's Abanibi song?

Yes. Her name is Nurit* Hirsch. She composed both songs. A friend of mine once dated her daughter, she was drop-dead gorgeous.

_{*Literally, buttercup. Since we've already started a Hebrew 101 here.}

[uwe]

The LBO is good for overall education, so bring on the Hebrew! All my NY partners ever do is write in Yiddish to me of which I can regularly understand about 60-70% of.

[4stringer77]

If you didn't figure it out from the tree frog reference, Ilan means tree. My name means lion, kind of. Lion should technically be Arieh. My mom says she got the name from the Leon Uris book the Exodus, also a movie starring Paul Newman. My dad, Abba in Hebrew, insists I was named after the ex Prime Minister and Isralie national hero Ariel Sharon. Go figure, most people now associate my name with the hbo entourage character Ari Gold.
Ya know Russians don't have a J sound in their alphabet. If they talk about the Beatles they call John and George, Dzohn and Dzheordzh.