{"id":10457,"date":"2019-04-28T10:52:41","date_gmt":"2019-04-28T07:52:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/kol-ami.kulam.org\/2019\/04\/28\/20-000-brothers-a-tribute-song-to-sean-carmeli"},"modified":"2019-04-29T22:57:19","modified_gmt":"2019-04-29T19:57:19","slug":"20-000-brothers-a-tribute-song-to-sean-carmeli","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kol-ami.kulam.org\/en\/2019\/04\/28\/20-000-brothers-a-tribute-song-to-sean-carmeli\/","title":{"rendered":"20 000 Brothers: A Tribute Song to Sean Carmeli"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><div class=\"embed\"><iframe width=\"1170\" height=\"658\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/zFSrYrCerIk?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div><\/p>\n<p><em>In Hebrew with English subtitles, this powerful song was written by Ariel Horowitz as a tribute to\u00a0First Sgt. Nissim Sean Carmeli, a lone soldier who was among the first killed in Operation Protective Edge in 2014. As an American Jew who chose to serve in the IDF despite the fact that his parents lived in Texas, concerns\u00a0<\/em><em>were expressed on social media that his funeral would be relatively empty. Subsequently,\u00a0<\/em><em>an estimated 20 000 people attended his funeral in a staggering display of respect and solidarity. Because he was a big fan of the Maccabi Haifa soccer team, the team even arranged free transportation from his late night funeral back to the center of the country in an effort to encourage fans to attend. See the chorus in Hebrew and a translation of the lyrics to English below. For complete Hebrew lyrics, <a href=\"https:\/\/shironet.mako.co.il\/artist?type=lyrics&amp;lang=1&amp;prfid=161&amp;wrkid=37691\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">click here<\/a>.\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">\u05e2\u05e9\u05e8\u05d9\u05dd \u05d0\u05dc\u05e3 \u05d0\u05d9\u05e9 \u05d5\u05d0\u05ea\u05d4 \u05d4\u05e8\u05d0\u05e9\u05d5\u05df<br \/>\n\u05e2\u05e9\u05e8\u05d9\u05dd \u05d0\u05dc\u05e3 \u05d0\u05d9\u05e9 \u05d0\u05d7\u05e8\u05d9\u05da \u05e9\u05d5\u05df<br \/>\n\u05e6\u05d5\u05e2\u05d3\u05d9\u05dd \u05d1\u05e9\u05e7\u05d8 \u05e2\u05dd \u05e4\u05e8\u05d7\u05d9\u05dd<br \/>\n\u05e9\u05ea\u05d9 \u05d0\u05d7\u05d9\u05d5\u05ea \u2013 \u05e2\u05e9\u05e8\u05d9\u05dd \u05d0\u05dc\u05e3 \u05d0\u05d7\u05d9\u05dd<\/p>\n<h2>20,000 People<\/h2>\n<p>Twenty thousand people, and you are the first.<br \/>\nTwenty thousand people behind you, Sean.<br \/>\nMarching in silence with flowers,<br \/>\nTwo sisters, 20,000 brothers<\/p>\n<p>Football fans who came with the team scarves<br \/>\nAnd a woman with the flag<br \/>\nWho is not sure why she is so crying so much<br \/>\nWithout ever knowing you<\/p>\n<p>Twenty thousand people&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>Came to say thank you and to say goodbye<br \/>\nTo say that there&#8217;s no such thing as a &#8216;lone soldier&#8217;<br \/>\nor that &#8220;a people that dwells alone is not&#8221;<br \/>\nAs long as there are in Texas, in Haifa, and in Gush Etzion<br \/>\nPeople like you, Sean<\/p>\n<p>Twenty thousand people&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>The Maker of peace above<br \/>\nMake peace for us with the coming of autumn<br \/>\nNo longer being seen anymore, Sean<br \/>\nThis is why they all came here, the elderly and the young,<br \/>\nFrom Haifa and Gush Etzion<\/p>\n<p>Twenty thousand people&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In Hebrew with English subtitles, this powerful song was written by Ariel Horowitz as a tribute to\u00a0First Sgt. Nissim Sean Carmeli, a lone soldier who was among the first killed in Operation Protective Edge in 2014. As an American Jew who chose to serve in the IDF despite the fact that his parents lived in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":80,"featured_media":10458,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"video","meta":[],"categories":[1051],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kol-ami.kulam.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10457\/"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kol-ami.kulam.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kol-ami.kulam.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post\/"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kol-ami.kulam.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/80\/"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kol-ami.kulam.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments\/?post=10457"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kol-ami.kulam.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10457\/revisions\/"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kol-ami.kulam.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/10458\/"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kol-ami.kulam.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/?parent=10457"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kol-ami.kulam.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories\/?post=10457"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kol-ami.kulam.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags\/?post=10457"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}