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Tuesday, Jul 11

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The song that made a country – Ori Golan - Sponsored Content

'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

Sunday, Jun 18

22

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

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

Tuesday, May 30

11

When the words came back to me – Reyzl Grace - Sponsored Content

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

Saturday, May 20

13

The song that binds me to Israel – Sally Abrams - Sponsored Content

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

Sunday, May 14

16

A place where Judaism is in the air – Josh Shron - Sponsored Content

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

Monday, May 8

15

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

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

Monday, May 1

16

Tomorrow I will be so far away: Like a wildflower

The idea of leaving the kibbutz felt like a colossal failure, like the breaking of a marriage – this song got me through it

Friday, Apr 28

03

The most beautiful prayer I know – Arie Hasit - Sponsored Content

Yehonatan Geffen told us his song, 'It will be good,' wasn't true. But I sing it with my daughter every night

Thursday, Apr 27

18

Meeting, Hardly Meeting: The beauty of inaccessible love

When Hanan Yovel came to serenade my army unit, he held my attention through the exhaustion with words by Rachel the Poet

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Ani Ohev: The things we love

The song modulates and layers as it goes on. It seems to capture something lovely and true about parenting

15

‘A Song for Peace’: The dangerous anthem

Written 25 years earlier by a young man who had lost a leg as a soldier in the 1967 war, the song was still a revolution in seven verses

14

Kobi Oz’s song to his grandfather is a prayer for Israel

As the singer performs for us on a Tel Aviv rooftop, I look around me, and people’s cheeks are damp with tears

‘Hallevai’: Declaring war on despair

Hope is not merely something we feel – it’s something we create by holding onto the feeling

Tuesday, Apr 25

21

The song that made me an Israeli

Here was a vision of our future; an Israel in which I, an American Jew with Bob Dylan as my soundtrack, might also find a place

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Hardly meeting: The beauty of inaccessible love – Alon Tal - Sponsored Content

When Hanan Yovel came to serenade my army unit, he held my attention through the exhaustion with words by Rachel the Poet

Wednesday, Mar 23

17

To build strong biotech ecosystem, Israel must join global battle for talent

Task of building Israeli multinational companies in bioconvergence and biotech requires experts, executives from other leading industry centers worldwide

Monday, Jan 31

12

Confessions of a reluctant dish heiress

My mother’s demand that we all decide now what we want to inherit goes against my religion of denial – but I’ll take the pink set