Yerushalayim Shel Zahav

Song of the Day 05/10/2022

May 10, 2022

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Yerushalayim Shel Zahav by Naomi Shemer

In my painfully limited and and intellectually restricted opinion, never before Naomi Shemer has a voice encapsulated the stoic realism of war and compromise so purely.

Born on a kibbutz on the shore of the Sea of Galilee, Shemer would serve in a paramilitary entertainment troupe as part of the Israeli Defense Forc…

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