Maya Bouskilla
Pop Singer
Israeli singer whose debut pop album, Sold Out Story, earned her a New Artist of the Year Award.
She was discovered at a karaoke bar by a talent scout for Helicon Records.
She enlisted in the Israel Defense Forces at age thirty, after earlier deferring service on religious grounds.
She came from a family of Jewish-Moroccan descent.
Shiri Maimon was another Israeli pop singer born in the late twentieth century.