Josie Katz

Josie Katz (Hebrew: ג'וזי כץ; born August 14, 1940) is an Israeli singer, actress, dancer and painter who received the Bonei Zion Prize in 2021 for her contributions to arts and culture.

With the band's break-up in 1968, Katz released a song named "The Homeland's Birthday" (יום הולדת למולדת) which received a bad reaction, and then returned to the US with Kraus.

In 1970 Katz returned to Israel to participate in Havurat Lul's television series, and later on in the movie Shablul directed by Boaz Davidson, along with Uri Zohar and Shalom Hanoch.

In 1997, after fifteen years in which she did not work as a singer, Katz participated in Nathan Cohen's album Road Station, in renewed recordings for songs by The Pure Souls.

In 1982, after she suffered violent abuse by her partner Shmulik Kraus, she left Israel and moved to live in the United States with her two children, Ben and Shem.