Aviv Geffen

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Aviv Geffen (Hebrew: אביב גפן‎, born May 10, 1973) is an Israeli rock musician, singer, songwriter, producer, keyboardist, and guitarist and the son of writer and poet Yehonatan Geffen and Nurit Makover, brother of actress Shira Geffen, and an alumnus of Rimon School of Jazz and Contemporary Music.

Geffen was and is extremely popular among Israeli youth who were known during the 1990s as the "Moon Children" ילדי הירח, i.e., hippies. Politically, he associates with the Israeli left. His music deals with subjects such as love, peace, death, suicide, politics, armies in general and the IDF specifically. He is often criticized for having not served in the IDF, though, officially, he was discharged for medical reasons.

Biography

Early life

Geffen was born and raised in Ramat Gan. His first public performance was in 1984, in the Israeli youth program "Shminiyot BaAvir" ["somersaults"] on the Israeli Channel 1, in which he sang the song "You're Only 40 Years Old" which his sister wrote and which he composed by himself. In 1987 Geffen participated in the amateur film "Hamitpahat" (The Handkerchief), for which he wrote and sang the song "Ima" ["Mom"].

Gefen

Gefen (Hebrew: גֶּפֶן, lit. Grapevine) is a moshav in central Israel. Located between Beit Shemesh and Kiryat Malakhi, it falls under the jurisdiction of Mateh Yehuda Regional Council. In 2006 it had a population of 309.

The village was established in 1955 by immigrants from Morocco. It is named after Psalm 80:15: "God Almighty, look down from heaven and see; watch over this grapevine."

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