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Birth Name: Sarah Hudadatov (שרית חדד)
Place of Birth: Afula, Northern District, Israel
Date of Birth: 20 September, 1978
Ethnicity: Mountain Jewish, Mizrahi Jewish, possibly Ashkenazi Jewish
Sarit Hadad (שרית חדד) is an Israeli singer. She represented Israel in the Eurovision Song Contest 2002, with “Light a Candle,” finishing twelfth. She was named by Israel’s Channel 24 as the “best female singer of the 2000s,” and was a judge on the inaugural season of The Voice Israel .
Sarit was born in Afula, Israel, to a family of Mountain Jews, from the Caucasus. Her parents had made aliyah from Derbent, Dagestan, Soviet Union, now Russia, in 1976. It is also stated that Hadad traces her ancestry to Uralo-Kavkaz, a region in Ukraine, near the Black Sea. In 1980, her family moved to Hadera, Israel.
Sarit has three children with her former partner, singer and songwriter Tamar Yahalomi.
Source: https://www.jpost.com