ISRAEL AT WAR - DAY 427

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That Song

We've all got that song – that one incredible song – that changed things.
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The song that made a country – Ori Golan

'I have no other country,' a beloved anthem embraced by today's protesters, was born of Ehud Manor's personal tragedy, as his widow Ofra tells it

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When ‘Under Your Wing’ became poetry to my ears – Bill Slott

Arik Einstein's mournful love song brought to life words by one of the greatest poets of modern Hebrew

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When the words came back to me – Reyzl Grace

What Clara offered was Hebrew lessons in exchange for babysitting. But what she gave me was a place that felt like home

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The song that binds me to Israel – Sally Abrams

Not giving up on the Zionist miracle means believing that Israel is a place whose wonders have yet to cease -- even now

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A place where Judaism is in the air – Josh Shron

Rami Kleinstein's song welcoming the Sabbath represents my Israel, that beautiful fusion of religious and secular

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A soldier’s love song, a country’s innocence – Jody Hirsh

Crooning in 1968 from the peak of newly-captured Mt. Hermon, a soldier offers his love a kingdom dipped in a sea of gold