Famous People with Name Efrat

Efrat Gosh            Origin/Culture/Country: Jewish

Efrat Gosh: a popular Israeli singer. Gosh was born and raised in Herzliya, Israel where as a middle child with a younger and an older brother she became influenced by the jazz music of Billie Holiday, Edith Piaf, Louis Armstrong and Charlie Parker.Gosh's music career began when some friends asked her if she could make a demo recording a song, with Yoni Bloch whom had written it for Nurit Galron (famous Israeli singer). She agreed and after a week she was asked to become a background singer in Bloch’s shows. That show turned out to be an important one, as Bloch and Gosh looked to the audience and saw one of the managers of the major Israeli music label NMC at the time, Khaim Shemesh, where Yoni Bloch was signed at that time.

Benni Efrat            Origin/Culture/Country: Jewish

Benni Efrat: is an Israeli painter, sculptor, printmaker and filmmaker who was born in Beirut. He immigrated to Israel in 1947. From 1959 to 1961, he studied at the Avni Institute of Art and Design in Tel Aviv under Yehezkel Streichman (1906-1993).