Daniel Zamir

Daniel Zamir (born 1980 in Petah Tikva) is an Israeli religious Jewish saxophone player - originally Alto saxophone and nowadays mostly Soprano saxophone. Zamir was born to a secular family and started playing the saxophone at the age of twelve. He is a graduate of Telma-Yalin high school of arts in Israel. After he finished his studies he was discharged from the Israel Defense Forces due to his low weight and left for New York, where he began showing interest in Jewish, Hasidic and East European music.