Maureen Nehedar is an Israeli singer, creator and composer. She has created a revival of Persian-Jewish tradition poetry (Piyutim).
 
In 2014 she released the highly successful and widely praised album “Asleep in the Bosom of Childhood”, which reached the top of the charts for album sales in Israel.
 
Ha’aretz newspaper wrote the following about Maureen’s work, “Wonderful singer, excellent composer, (she creates) a natural and proper connection between art and folk culture, and between new and old”.
 
Maureen was born in Isfahan, Iran and moved to Israel as an infant with her family following the Islamic revolution in Iran and Khomeini’s rise to power.