Nurit Hirsh (Hebrew: נורית הירש, b. Tel Aviv, 1942) is an Israeli composer, arranger and conductor who has written over a thousand Hebrew songs. Two of her most famous and widely songs are Ba-Shanah ha-Ba’ah (Next Year, lyrics by Ehud Manor), and Oseh Shalom bi-Meromav (text from the Kaddish prayer).
Nurit Hirsh studied at the Academy of Music in Tel Aviv, majoring in piano. She also studied composition with Mordecai Seter, orchestration with Noam Sheriff and conducting with Laslo Rott. She studied clarinet with Yaacov Barnea of the Israel Philharmonic Orchestra. Hirsh did her IDF military service with the entertainment troupe of the armored corps. She began composing upon completion of her service, debuting with Perach Halilach, composed in 1965 to lyrics by Uri Asaf and which was made famous by singer Chava Alberstein.
Hirsh has won prizes in Greece, Brazil, Chile, Japan, Portugal, Malta, Ireland and Yugoslavia. In 1973, her song Ey Sham, performed by Ilanit, placed fourth in the Eurovision Song Contest in Luxembourg. She orchestrated the song and conducted the orchestra.
Nurit (Hebrew: נורית) was a moshav on Gilboa Mountain in northern Israel. It belongs to the Gilboa Regional Council.
The moshav was founded in 1950 by immigrants to Israel from Yemen. It is named after the nearby Arab village Nuris, which lies in the adjacent valley. The Arab village was captured on May 29, 1948, during the Israeli War of Independence.
The residents of the moshav abandoned it after nine years, except for one woman who continued to live there until the early 1970s.
In 1962 the place became a Gadna army base, and it remains so today (as of 2006).
Coordinates: 32°32′30.37″N 35°21′22.1″E / 32.5417694°N 35.356139°E / 32.5417694; 35.356139