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Argov’s troubled history did not go unnoticed in the immediate aftermath of his big win. Shortly after the 1982 festival, the now-defunct HaOlam HaZeh weekly newsmagazine ran a full-page spread ...

Argov was called, simply, the “king” of Mizrahi music, and he helped mainstream the genre that is rooted in the songs and poetry of Jews from across the Middle East and North Africa.

Argov takes the A Train Italian clarinetist Nico Gori returns to Israel this week to perform a program combining the jazz workings of Sasha Argov with the sounds of Duke Ellingon and Billy Strayhorn.

Shlomo Argov, who died yesterday in Jerusalem aged 73, was Israel's ambassador to Britain from 1979 to 1982, when he survived an assassination attempt which left him almost completely paralysed ...

Shlomo Argov, diplomat: born Jerusalem 14 December 1929; married (one son, two daughters); died Jerusalem 23 February 2003. Shlomo Argov, the Israeli ambassador to London who was shot in the head ...

Argov was taken from the London hospital to the airport to board the El Al jet under tight security precautions. He travelled to Israel on a stretcher, accompanied by his wife, a doctor and a nurse.