Ilana Rovina
Israeli singer
Ilana Rovina (Hebrew: אילנה רובינא; 10 February 1934 – 18 October 2020) was an Israeli singer.
Biography
Ilana Rovina was the daughter of Russian-born actress Hanna Rovina and Russian-born poet Alexander Penn, the child of an extramarital affair that caused a public scandal. Her parents never married, not even after the end of her father's first marriage. She was raised by foster parents in her early years. Songwriter Zrubavela Sasonkin (1929 - 2004) was her older paternal half-sister. She had two other paternal half-siblings, Adam (1931 - 1933), born to her father and his first wife Bella Don and brother to Zrubavela, and Sinilga, born to her father and his second wife Rachel Luftglass. She attended Tichon Hadash high school in Tel Aviv.
Rovina married several times. Her first husband was American Bill Stewart; they married in 1956 but soon divorced. She married fellow entertainer Uri Zohar; they also divorced.
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Biographical claims are most persuasive when dates, appointments and relationships can be traced to records created close to the events described. The source revision retrieved here is dated May 31, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q100627627. VIAF identifies the subject as 187430865. The Library of Congress control number is n2019027150. 2 of 3 selected statements include explicit references; 0 carry qualifiers and 0 use preferred rank. The first chronological checks are 1934, 2020, 1929 and 2004.
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