{"id":609403,"date":"2026-09-08T08:00:11","date_gmt":"2026-09-08T08:00:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/609403\/"},"modified":"2026-09-08T08:00:11","modified_gmt":"2026-09-08T08:00:11","slug":"eyal-golans-song-tops-israeli-radio-ranking-jerusalem-post","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/609403\/","title":{"rendered":"Eyal Golan\u2019s song tops Israeli radio ranking \u2014 Jerusalem Post"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In Israel, the song \u201cMada Bedyoni\u201d (\u201cScience Fiction\u201d), performed by singer Eyal Golan, became the most frequently played song on radio during the year 5786 of the Hebrew calendar. The annual ranking was published by ACUM, an organization that protects the rights of composers, lyricists and publishers, <a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.jpost.com\/israel-news\/culture\/article-907897\">The Jerusalem Post reports<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The ranking was compiled using data from the AcumOnAir monitoring system, which tracks broadcasts on 34 licensed national and regional radio stations in Israel. The song was written by Avi Ohayon, who also composed the music together with Idan Shneor and Matan Dror. Dror arranged the track.<\/p>\n<p>Top 10 most popular tracks<\/p>\n<p>Second place went to \u201cOf Muzar\u201d (\u201cStrange Bird\u201d), performed by Peer Tasi. Third was the song \u201cMichelle,\u201d performed by Noam Bettan. Last year\u2019s ranking leader, \u201cMa Yihye Machar\u201d (\u201cWhat Will Happen Tomorrow\u201d) by Peer Tasi, fell to fourth place.<\/p>\n<p>More current news is available on the UA.News Telegram channel <a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/telegram.me\/uanewsstream\">Telegram<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The top 10 also included \u201cKulam Ganavim\u201d by Osher Cohen, \u201cRocky\u201d by Odeya Azoulay, \u201cMalkat Hador\u201d by Omer Adam, \u201cHalavay\u201d by Hanan Ben Ari and Peer Tasi, \u201cHi Lo Yoda\u2019at Lama\u201d by Peer Tasi, and \u201cKol Akava Letova\u201d by Ben Tzur.<\/p>\n<p>Leaders among performers and songwriters<\/p>\n<p>For the eighth consecutive year, Avi Ohayon topped the ranking of lyricists and composers whose works were most frequently played on Israeli radio. The most popular female songwriter was Tzlil Klifi, who was among the co-authors of \u201cMichelle\u201d together with Nadav Aharoni and Yuval Rafael.<\/p>\n<p>Among female performers, Sarit Hadad retained first place, followed by Eden Ben Zaken, Odeya Azoulay, Agam Buhbut, Yehudit Ravitz and Noa Kirel. In the men\u2019s ranking, Eyal Golan came first, Omer Adam second and the late Arik Einstein third. Shlomo Artzi and Peer Tasi also made the top five.<\/p>\n<p id=\"read-us-text\" class=\"read-us-text\">\n        Read us on <a href=\"https:\/\/telegram.me\/uanewsstream\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Telegram<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/me.sendsmessenger.co\/ua_news\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Sends<\/a>\n    <\/p>\n<p>Download our app<\/p>\n<p>        <a href=\"https:\/\/apps.apple.com\/us\/app\/ua-news\/id6478152508\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"no-modal\" src=\"https:\/\/cdn-cabinet.ua.news\/assets-front\/images\/apple-store-app.svg\"\/><\/a><br \/>\n        <a href=\"https:\/\/play.google.com\/store\/apps\/details?id=com.uanews.app&amp;hl=en\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"no-modal\" src=\"https:\/\/cdn-cabinet.ua.news\/assets-front\/images\/google-store-app.svg\"\/> <\/a><\/p>\n<p>                                                                                                            <a class=\"display-sm\" href=\"http:\/\/ua.news\/cdn-cgi\/l\/email-protection#95f7ecd5e0f4bbfbf0e2e6\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\"><\/p>\n<p>                                        <\/a><br \/>\n                                                                                                                                                <a class=\"display-sm\" href=\"http:\/\/ua.news\/cdn-cgi\/l\/email-protection#086a71487d6926666d7f7b\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\"><\/p>\n<p>                                        <\/a><br \/>\n                                                                                                                                                <a class=\"display-sm\" href=\"https:\/\/ua.news\/ua\/money\/dopomozhy-proyektu-ua-news-kryptodonatom\" target=\"_blank\" style=\"&#010;                                    max-width: 90%; margin:0 auto;&#010;                                \" rel=\"nofollow noopener\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/1788854411_711_usdt-uanews.jpeg\"\/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"In Israel, the song \u201cMada Bedyoni\u201d (\u201cScience Fiction\u201d), performed by singer Eyal Golan, became the most frequently played&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":609404,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[85,46,43],"class_list":["post-609403","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-israel","tag-il","tag-israel","tag-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/609403","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=609403"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/609403\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/609404"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=609403"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=609403"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=609403"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}