Sarit Hadad

Birth Name: Sarah Hudadatov (שרה חודדטוב)

Place of Birth: Afula, Northern District, Israel

Date of Birth: September 20, 1978

Ethnicity: Mountain/Mizrahi Jewish [including Russian and Ukrainian]

Sarit Hadad (שרית חדד) is an Israeli singer. She was named by Channel 24 as the “best female singer of the 2000s” in October 2009. She represented Israel in the Eurovision Song Contest 2002, finishing twelfth. Hadad was a judge in the inaugural season of The Voice Israel.

She was born to a family of Mountain Jews from Caucasus. Her parents had made aliyah from Derbent, Dagestan, Soviet Union (now Russia) in 1976. It’s also stated that Hadad traces her ancestry to Uralo-Kavkaz, a region in Ukraine near the Black Sea. In 1980, her family moved to Hadera, Israel.

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