Ehud Manor

Ehud Manor (Hebrew: אהוד מנור) (born July 13, 1941, Binyamina, Israel, died April 12, 2005) was an Israeli songwriter, poet, translator and radio and TV personality. Manor graduated from Cambridge University. He wrote an approximately 1,250 songs and translated another 630 into Hebrew. He also translated many Broadway musicals into Hebrew for local productions. Internationally he is probably best remembered for the song "BaShanah HaBa'a" (Next Year). Manor's song "Abanibi", performed by Izhar Cohen and the Alpha Beta, won the Eurovision song contest in 1978. He was a recipient of the Israel Prize, Israel's most prestigious award.