This beautiful song composed by Naomi Shemer z"l

 

Tonight starts : Jerusalem day, the miracle that happened in 1967

 

31-5-2011 The beautiful song and words: Jerusalem of gold and the "prophecy" of its liberation........

 

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JH8gtdDA5x0  Ofra Haza


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=72QC8EGnxTw


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kJytV7s-aUU

 

[Shuly Nathan - Yerushalayim shel zahav (live in France, 1968)]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XtpG-4bOVA0  portuguese version



 

"Jerusalem of Gold" (Hebrew: ירושלים של זהב‎, Yerushalayim Shel Zahav) is a popular Israeli song written by Naomi Shemer in 1967. The original song described the Jewish people's 2000-year longing to return to Jerusalem; Shemer added a final verse after the Six-Day War to celebrate Jerusalem's unification under Israeli control.
At that time, the Old City was under Jordanian rule; Jews had been barred from entering, and many holy sites had been desecrated. Only three weeks after the song was published, the Six-Day War broke out. The song was the battle cry and morale booster of the Israeli troops. Shemer even sang it for them before the war and festival, making them among the first in the world to hear it. On 7 June, the Israel Defense Forces captured the eastern part of Jerusalem and the Old City from the Jordanians. When Shemer heard the paratroopers singing "Jerusalem of Gold" at the Western Wall, she wrote a final verse, reversing the phrases of lamentation found in the second verse. The line about shofars sounding from the Temple Mount is a reference to an event that actually took place on 7 June.
This beautiful version is from the late OFRA HAZA.

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