{"id":12661,"date":"2026-09-25T10:35:27","date_gmt":"2026-09-25T10:35:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ofrahazaofficial.com\/eng\/?p=12661"},"modified":"2026-09-25T10:35:27","modified_gmt":"2026-09-25T10:35:27","slug":"bezalels-diary","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ofrahazaofficial.com\/eng\/bezalels-diary\/","title":{"rendered":"A first look at Bezalel Aloni&#8217;s diary"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-20436 alignleft\" src=\"https:\/\/ofrahazaofficial.com\/heb\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/WhatsApp-Image-2026-09-25-at-11.50.20-287x300.jpeg\" alt=\"\u05d9\u05d5\u05de\u05df \u05d1\u05e6\u05dc\u05d0\u05dc \u05d0\u05dc\u05d5\u05e0\u05d9 \u05e2\u05e4\u05e8\u05d4 \u05d7\u05d6\u05d4 \u05d4\u05ea\u05e8\u05e1\u05e7\u05d5\u05ea \u05de\u05d8\u05d5\u05e1\" width=\"287\" height=\"300\" \/><\/p>\n<p data-path-to-node=\"1\">I recently had the privilege of glimpsing a rare treasure: Bezalel Aloni&#8217;s personal diaries.<\/p>\n<p data-path-to-node=\"2\">It is a chilling, real-time chronicle of musical history. Every page is packed to the brim \u2014 grueling rehearsal schedules, meetings with local industry leaders that evolved into international collaborations, recording sessions for timeless classics, and the quiet moments that built monumental successes.<\/p>\n<p data-path-to-node=\"3\">Out of all the years and pages, there was one specific date I immediately sought out: February 3, 1987. The day the Cessna plane carrying Ofra, Bezalel, Ofra\u2019s sister Shuli, and their companions crashed.<\/p>\n<p data-path-to-node=\"4\">And then comes the truly haunting moment: turning to the days that followed.<\/p>\n<p data-path-to-node=\"5\">In diaries where finding a single spare hour was nearly impossible, the rest of the week is simply blank. Absolute silence on the page. No meetings, no performances, no recordings. Sometimes, it is the empty pages that tell the most powerful story.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I recently had the privilege of glimpsing a rare treasure: Bezalel Aloni&#8217;s personal diaries. It is a chilling, real-time chronicle of musical history. Every page is packed to the brim \u2014 grueling rehearsal schedules, meetings with local industry leaders that evolved into international collaborations, recording sessions for timeless classics, and the quiet moments that built [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":"","_members_access_role":[],"_members_access_error":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12661","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ofrahazaofficial.com\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12661","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ofrahazaofficial.com\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ofrahazaofficial.com\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ofrahazaofficial.com\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ofrahazaofficial.com\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12661"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/ofrahazaofficial.com\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12661\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12662,"href":"https:\/\/ofrahazaofficial.com\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12661\/revisions\/12662"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ofrahazaofficial.com\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12661"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ofrahazaofficial.com\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12661"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ofrahazaofficial.com\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12661"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}