Arik Lavie (Hebrew: אריק לביא‎; 9 March 1927 – 29 June 2004) was an Israeli pop-rock-folk singer and actor.

[1] Lavie was born to a Jewish single mother named Edith Hauben [2] who gave birth to him at the age of 19.

His mother married a man named Frank Inselsbacher of the French Foreign Legion and he gave him his surname.

In 1936, accompanied by distant relatives, he emigrated from Germany to Kfar Baruch in Mandatory Palestine at the age of 9.

He participated in many theater plays, several movies (e.g. Hill 24 Doesn't Answer, Operation Thunderbolt, Rocking Horse, Hole in the Moon), and published a number of solo and non-solo albums (e.g.

[3] Lavie had a very rich voice that allowed his band members to play simple musical roles and spend very little time on rehearsals.

His romantic song The Red Rock (HaSela haAdom) was about Petra, the ancient Jordanian city.