Ori Brutman, 13, of Sunnyvale, is the new “Bay Area Israeli-
American Idol.” The Sunnyvale Middle School student took first place in the March 12 contest at the Oshman Family JCC in Palo Alto, wowing the crowd with Idan Raichel’s “Sh’eriot Shel Ha’Chaim” and Bruno Mars’ “When I Was Your Man.”
Brutman won four recording hours at HeartStrings Music studio in Mountain View and will get to perform at the JCC’s Israeli Independence Day event in May.