Minister of Education Naftali Bennett has informed singer Evyatar Banai that he has won the Lifetime Achievement Award for Jewish-Israeli Culture.
The awards committee said that "Eviatar Banai is not only an artist, he is a spiritual man. He is a painter who paints with sounds, who takes the listener to distant, strange places, to the cellars of the soul, and causes us to extract from them a cry, a tear, a laugh, movement, life."