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Ohad Talmor is a Saxophonist, Composer and Arranger.

He was born in Lyon, France, in 1970 of Israeli parents.

Childhood and Family upbringing

His father was born in Bulgaria and his mother in Romania They met in Israel after emigrating there after the war. His father, Yehuda Talmor [born Leon Mashiach], was a physicist and an intellectual with an open minded passion for the Arts and music, qualities which he suffused his son from an early age. In the latter part of his life, Yehuda Talmor returned to his first love as a painter, sculptor and poet (besides his own poetry, he translated into French the complete work of Nahman Bialik). Silvia Talmor [Silvia Carp], Ohad Talmor's mother was trained as a mathematician but upon emmigrating with her husband back to Western Europe from Israel in 1970, she anchored the family life until Ohad teenage years, at which point she started to work for the Jewish Agency for Israel. The young Talmor grew up in a tight knit community characterized by a strong attachment to Israel and Jewish secular values.