Tsippi Fleischer

Tsippi Fleischer (; born 20 May 1946) is an Israeli composer. Life Tsippi Fleischer was born in Haifa, Israel, of Polish-born parents, and grew up in a mixed Jewish-Arab environment. She studied piano and theory at the Jerusalem Academy of Music and Dance and graduated from the Hebrew Reali School of Haifa, later pursuing degrees in music, Hebrew language, Middle Eastern history, and Arabic language and literature. In 1978, she married comparative linguist Aharon Dolgopolsky and had one son. She teaches at Bar-Ilan University and Levinsky Institute in Tel Aviv. As a composer In the early 1970s, Fleischer became known for her activity in jazz, theater, and light music. She composed and arranged extensively in these genres, and already then, her activity had a prominent educational component, which was expressed, among other things, in her work with the Children’s and Youth Theater under the direction of Orna Porat in Tel Aviv, and as arranger and conductor of the educational television series “Music in the Theater” hosted and musically directed by Gary Bertini. In 1970-1972, she founded and directed the light music band ‘Banot Chava’; in 1973-1975, she was the music director of the