MUSIC / 01
JONO / DJ
HIP-HOP / OPEN FORMAT / HOUSE
IT STARTED AT 14.
FROM ~80 PEOPLE
A NIGHT
TO 150–200
EVERY TUESDAY.
UP TO ~300
ON THE BIG NIGHTS.
CREATIVE DIRECTION · MUSIC DIRECTION
COMMUNITY · CONTENT
I asked for DJ decks for my Bar Mitzvah and started playing school parties soon after. By 15, I was already playing youth events around Haifa under my own name.
02 / ELECTION DAY
HE DIDN'T NEED
TO BECOME YOUNGER.
THE CAMPAIGN NEEDED
TO GET CLOSER.
YONA YAHAV WAS ELECTED MAYOR OF HAIFA IN 2024.
01 / THE STORY
During my army service, Yonatan Nizry became JONO -
and youth parties turned into clubs, soldiers and student events, residencies and stages across Israel.
I BECAME JONO
Clubs turned into residencies, residencies into bigger stages - and somewhere along the way, JONO became a name on lineups across the country.
THEN JONO TOOK OFF.
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ATLANTA / MOON CHILD / HANGAR 09 / FORUM
MIRPESET / ROVA YAGUR / LOFT 124 / MORRISON
KULI ALMA / RADIO EPGB - AND MORE
02 / THE APPROACH
PLAY WHAT THE ROOM NEEDS.
THEN PLAY WHAT IT DIDN'T KNOW IT NEEDED.
I read the room constantly - the energy, the interactions, when people are singing, when they're drinking, when they're starting to drift.
The goal isn't to stack hit after hit. It's to build the night in the right order, keep people connected to the music and leave enough room for something unexpected.
IF I CUT THE VOLUME
AND THEY SING IT BACK,
WE'RE GOOD.
Club sets lean toward trap and current hip-hop. For wider rooms, I pull from the MTV era, classics and records people forgot they knew.
HIP-HOP
03 / THREE SIDES OF JONO
THE ROOTS.
Pop, hip-hop, Israeli music, electronic records and mainstream classics - mixed without sacrificing musical quality.
OPEN FORMAT
MUSICAL MATBUCHA.
Good versions, original edits and unexpected turns. Not just drop after drop after drop.
Somewhere between minimal, house and tech house - upbeat, warm and built to bring the room together.
HOUSE
WHERE I'M HEADED.
House is where I'm currently pushing JONO forward: new music, club sets and eventually bigger stages in Israel and abroad.