'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
Arik Einstein's mournful love song brought to life words by one of the greatest poets of modern Hebrew
What Clara offered was Hebrew lessons in exchange for babysitting. But what she gave me was a place that felt like home
Not giving up on the Zionist miracle means believing that Israel is a place whose wonders have yet to cease -- even now
Rami Kleinstein's song welcoming the Sabbath represents my Israel, that beautiful fusion of religious and secular
Crooning in 1968 from the peak of newly-captured Mt. Hermon, a soldier offers his love a kingdom dipped in a sea of gold
The idea of leaving the kibbutz felt like a colossal failure, like the breaking of a marriage – this song got me through it
Yehonatan Geffen told us his song, 'It will be good,' wasn't true. But I sing it with my daughter every night
When Hanan Yovel came to serenade my army unit, he held my attention through the exhaustion with words by Rachel the Poet
The song modulates and layers as it goes on. It seems to capture something lovely and true about parenting
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
As the singer performs for us on a Tel Aviv rooftop, I look around me, and people’s cheeks are damp with tears
Hope is not merely something we feel – it’s something we create by holding onto the feeling
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
Task of building Israeli multinational companies in bioconvergence and biotech requires experts, executives from other leading industry centers worldwide
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