Green Onion (band)
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Green Onion was a theatre and entertainment troupe, founded in 1957 by The Nahal
Nahal
Nahal is an Israel Defense Forces infantry brigade. Historically, it refers to a program that combines military service and establishment of new agricultural settlements, often in outlying areas...

 Band graduates. Until its disbandment in 1961, the group made five shows.

Shows

  • Shmor Al HaGvul (Guard the Border) - This show was produced by the founders of the band, before their exemption from the Nahal
    Nahal
    Nahal is an Israel Defense Forces infantry brigade. Historically, it refers to a program that combines military service and establishment of new agricultural settlements, often in outlying areas...

    .
  • 1957: Kvisat HaRash (The Poor Man's Laundry) - A pun with the Hebrew words Kvisa (Laundry) and Kivsa (Sheep), which relates to the biblical parable
    Parable
    A parable is a succinct story, in prose or verse, which illustrates one or more instructive principles, or lessons, or a normative principle. It differs from a fable in that fables use animals, plants, inanimate objects, and forces of nature as characters, while parables generally feature human...

     invented by Nathan the Prophet about the story between David
    David
    David was the second king of the united Kingdom of Israel according to the Hebrew Bible and, according to the Gospels of Matthew and Luke, an ancestor of Jesus Christ through both Saint Joseph and Mary...

     and Bathsheba
    Bathsheba
    According to the Hebrew Bible, Bathsheba was the wife of Uriah the Hittite and later of David, king of the United Kingdom of Israel and Judah. She is most known for the Bible story in which King David seduced her....

    .
  • 1958: Hop Avarnu (Hop! We Moved)
  • 1959: Af Mila LeMorgenstein (No Word to Morgenstein) - The show was used as a base to a movie with the same name, that was filmed in 1963.
  • 1959: Ve... Shalosh Nekudot! (And... Three Points!)
  • 1960: Chatul BaSak (Cat in the Sack).

Band members

In various times the members were:
  • Uri Zohar
    Uri Zohar
    Uri Zohar is a former Israeli film director, actor, and comedian who left the entertainment world to become a rabbi.-Biography:Zohar was born in Tel Aviv in 1934. In 1952, he graduated high school and did his military service in an army entertainment troupe. His first marriage ended in divorce.By...

     - Vocals, Direction
    Film director
    A film director is a person who directs the actors and film crew in filmmaking. They control a film's artistic and dramatic nathan roach, while guiding the technical crew and actors.-Responsibilities:...

  • Ilana Rubina - Vocals
  • Yona Atari - Vocals
  • Shimon Israeli - Vocals
  • Nechama Hendel
    Nechama Hendel
    Nechama 'Nama' Hendel was an Israeli singer.She began in the IDF Nahal music troupe, and came out of the Tsahal music scene in the 1950s, first in the duet "Ran veNama" – with Ran Eliran – then later as a solo act...

     - Vocals
  • Zaharira Kharifai - Vocals
  • Gabi Amrani - Vocals
  • Yosef Orag - Accordion
    Accordion
    The accordion is a box-shaped musical instrument of the bellows-driven free-reed aerophone family, sometimes referred to as a squeezebox. A person who plays the accordion is called an accordionist....

  • Chaim Topol
    Chaim Topol
    Chaim Topol , often billed simply as Topol, is an Israeli theatrical and film performer, actor, writer and producer. He has been nominated for an Oscar and Tony Award, and has won two Golden Globes.-Early life:...

     and Galya Topol - Vocals
  • Eliahu Barkai - Vocals
  • Oded Kotler - Vocals
  • Ruti Atias - Vocals
  • Avraham Mor - Took part only in the first show.
  • Nira Adi
  • Aliza Kashi
  • Arik Einstein
    Arik Einstein
    Arik Einstein is an Israeli singer-songwriter.Einstein was a vocalist for Batzal Yarok , Shleeshiyat Gesher Hayarkon and Hahalonot Hagvohim . His collaboration with Shalom Hanoch and the Churchills planted the seeds for the first Israeli rock albums...

  • Shai Denon
  • Martin Brecher - Trumpet
    Trumpet
    The trumpet is the musical instrument with the highest register in the brass family. Trumpets are among the oldest musical instruments, dating back to at least 1500 BCE. They are played by blowing air through closed lips, producing a "buzzing" sound which starts a standing wave vibration in the air...

  • David Elshayach - Drums and Percussion
  • Ephraim Kishon
    Ephraim Kishon
    ' was an Israeli author, dramatist, screenwriter, and film director. He is one of the most widely-read contemporary satirists in the world.- Early life and World War II :...

  • Shmuel Bonim
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