Early Life
Hitman was born in Givat Shmuel to holocaust-survivor parents. His father was a cantor and his mother was secular. He was raised in a pluralistic environment. He was given a guitar by his parents aged 11, and a piano by his grandmother when he turned 17. In the army he served as a combat soldier and later he joined an army band.
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