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Naomi Shemer’s soundtrack of Israel at 77 with Moti Zeira

Moti Zeira, biographer of Israeli musician Naomi Shemer and a leading voice in Israeli cultural renewal, explores how music carries the weight of memory, protest, and hope.

Naomi Shemer by Solomon Souza. Mahane Yehuda, Jerusalem, February 2016. (Renee Ghert-Zand/TOI)

What does it mean to keep singing when the world is broken? In this special Yom Ha’atzmaut episode of Identity/Crisis, host Yehuda Kurtzer sits down with Moti Zeira — biographer of legendary Israeli musician Naomi Shemer and a leading voice in Israeli cultural renewal — to explore how music carries the weight of memory, protest, and hope.

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