{"id":6498,"date":"2018-11-12T13:12:27","date_gmt":"2018-11-12T11:12:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/kol-ami.kulam.org\/2018\/11\/12\/yonina-mashup-of-traditional-hannukah-modern-israeli-songs"},"modified":"2018-11-12T13:12:27","modified_gmt":"2018-11-12T11:12:27","slug":"yonina-mashup-of-traditional-hannukah-modern-israeli-songs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kol-ami.kulam.org\/en\/2018\/11\/12\/yonina-mashup-of-traditional-hannukah-modern-israeli-songs\/","title":{"rendered":"Yonina: Mashup of Traditional Hannukah &#038; Modern Israeli Songs"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><div class=\"embed\"><iframe width=\"1170\" height=\"658\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/cxyOtDK2etQ?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div><\/p>\n<p><em>In this music\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/youtu.be\/cxyOtDK2etQ\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">video<\/a>, husband-wife team,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/channel\/UC5If9nG2OCtc3j55PtPv5iw\/featured\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Yonina,<\/a>\u00a0perform a creative medley of traditional Hannukah songs, including Maoz Tzur and Al Hanissim, with modern Israeli songs, including Shlomi Shabat&#8217;s &#8220;Biglal Haruach&#8221; (Because of the Spirit) and Israel&#8217;s national anthem, Hatikvah. The song emphasizes that the Jewish nation has always prevailed historically because of our spirit, as opposed to physical strength. <\/em><em>The translated lyrics are provided below.<\/em><\/p>\n<h3>Lyrics<\/h3>\n<p>Whatever may be,<br \/>\nI will make a change<br \/>\nI will make my dream come true<br \/>\nThose who bring bad news, violence or another decree-<br \/>\nWill not change my essence<\/p>\n<p>You, me and the g-d who is beside us<br \/>\nWe shall prevail<br \/>\nNot because of strength but only because of the wind\/spirit blowing in our backs<\/p>\n<p>Just because of the spirit<br \/>\n\u201cAl Hanissim&#8230;\u201d- we thank you for the miracles, the redemption, the bravery and the wars you fought for our fathers, then and now. (From: Chanukkah prayer, Al Hanissim)<\/p>\n<p>Our faith has not been lost, the faith 2,000 years old, to be a free nation in our land&#8230;(From: \u201cHatikva\u201d)<\/p>\n<p>Just because of the spirit- within me, in my mind, in my soul<br \/>\nJust because of the spirit- within me, in my blood, in my soul.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In this music\u00a0video, husband-wife team,\u00a0Yonina,\u00a0perform a creative medley of traditional Hannukah songs, including Maoz Tzur and Al Hanissim, with modern Israeli songs, including Shlomi Shabat&#8217;s &#8220;Biglal Haruach&#8221; (Because of the Spirit) and Israel&#8217;s national anthem, Hatikvah. The song emphasizes that the Jewish nation has always prevailed historically because of our spirit, as opposed to physical [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":80,"featured_media":6499,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"video","meta":[],"categories":[3769],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kol-ami.kulam.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6498\/"}],"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=6498"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/kol-ami.kulam.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6498\/revisions\/"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13681,"href":"https:\/\/kol-ami.kulam.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6498\/revisions\/13681\/"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kol-ami.kulam.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6499\/"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kol-ami.kulam.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/?parent=6498"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kol-ami.kulam.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories\/?post=6498"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kol-ami.kulam.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags\/?post=6498"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}