Asher Mizrahi

Asher Mizrahi (Hebrew: אשר מזרחי; 1890 – 27 October 1967) was a Jewish Tunisian tenor singer and musician, who was born in Jerusalem eventually returned to Israel.He was considered one of the greatest Sephardic-Jerusalem cantors of the 20th century and was renowned among both Jewish and Arab communities. Mizrahi composed approximately 600 songs, including over 200 Hebrew piyyutim, around 300 Arabic songs, and an unspecified number of Ladino pieces such as "Mi Suegra" and "Marsilia".

During the Balkan wars, he left his home in what was then Ottoman Syria. He initially went to Malta, then to Tunisia in 1911. He returned to what was then British Mandatory Palestine from 1919 to 1929, after which he returned to Tunisia and settled there for almost forty years. In the late 1940s, he ended his active career. He left Tunis after the Six-Day War in 1967, and settled in Israel. He died three months after moving to Israel.

Mizrahi is also known for singing the songs "Habibi Yah Habibi" and "Nagilah Haleluyah".