Daniel Galay

Born in Argentina, in 1945. Composer and writer living in Tel Aviv. In 1965, he won the Shmerke Kaczerginski prize from the Jewish World Congress for one of his stories. In 2009, he received the Prime Minister’s prize for musical composition, and in 2020 the prize for Jewish music from the National Authority for Yiddish Culture. He has published books of poetry and drama. Since 2001, the chairman of the union of Jewish writers and journalists in Israel. He has studied Yiddish intonation since 1995.