{"id":8906,"date":"2019-01-17T12:02:03","date_gmt":"2019-01-17T10:02:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/kol-ami.kulam.org\/2019\/01\/17\/chava-alberstein-my-daughter-are-you-cyring-or-laughing"},"modified":"2019-04-10T09:07:16","modified_gmt":"2019-04-10T07:07:16","slug":"chava-alberstein-my-daughter-are-you-cyring-or-laughing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kol-ami.kulam.org\/en\/2019\/01\/17\/chava-alberstein-my-daughter-are-you-cyring-or-laughing\/","title":{"rendered":"Chava Alberstein: My Daughter, Are you Cyring or Laughing?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><div class=\"embed\"><iframe width=\"1170\" height=\"878\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/WdbPTkIt354?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div><\/p>\n<p><em>Written after the Six Day War, <a href=\"https:\/\/youtu.be\/WdbPTkIt354\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">this iconic Israeli song<\/a> describes a young girl from Kibbutz Gadot not knowing how to react when she emerges from a bomb shelter in northern Israel to see her home destroyed. On the one hand, her home is destroyed, and her father is away at war. On the other hand, Israel&#8217;s successful conquest of the Golan Heights means that the communities of northern Israel will finally be safe after years of constant shelling from Syria. Kibbutz Gadot in the Jordan Valley suffered massive attacks during the 1950s and 1960s and was largely destroyed during the Six Day War. A complete\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/lyricstranslate.com\/en\/%D7%91%D7%AA%D7%99-%D7%90%D7%AA-%D7%91%D7%95%D7%9B%D7%94-%D7%90%D7%95-%D7%A6%D7%95%D7%97%D7%A7%D7%AA-my-child-are-you-crying-or-laughing.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">English translation of the lyrics<\/a>\u00a0is provided onscreen and below.\u00a0See the Hebrew lyrics of one verse below and the complete Hebrew lyrics <a href=\"https:\/\/shironet.mako.co.il\/artist?type=lyrics&amp;lang=1&amp;prfid=975&amp;wrkid=874\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">here<\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">\u05d4\u05d1\u05d9\u05d8\u05d9 \u05dc\u05de\u05e2\u05dc\u05d4, \u05d1\u05ea\u05d9, \u05d0\u05dc \u05d4\u05d4\u05e8<br \/>\n\u05d4\u05d4\u05e8 \u05e9\u05d4\u05d9\u05d4 \u05db\u05de\u05e4\u05dc\u05e6\u05ea<br \/>\n\u05e2\u05d5\u05d3 \u05d9\u05e9 \u05ea\u05d5\u05ea\u05d7\u05d9\u05dd, \u05d9\u05dc\u05d3\u05ea\u05d9, \u05e2\u05dc \u05d4\u05d4\u05e8<br \/>\n\u05d0\u05da \u05d4\u05dd \u05de\u05d0\u05d9\u05d9\u05de\u05d9\u05dd \u05e2\u05dc \u05d3\u05de\u05e9\u05e7<\/p>\n<h2>My Daughter, Are You Laughing or Crying?<\/h2>\n<div class=\"par\">\n<p class=\"ll-0-1\">Last shell exploded and hushed,<br \/>\nThe silence surrounded the valley,<br \/>\nA girl in Gadot came out of the shelter,<br \/>\nAnd the are no more houses in the farm.<br \/>\nMommy, we had a greenish house,<br \/>\nWith daddy, and doll, and a Loquat tree,\\<br \/>\nThe house is gone, daddy is far,<br \/>\nMom are you crying or laughing?<\/p>\n<p class=\"ll-0-8\">Look up my child, to the mountain,<br \/>\nThe mountain that became our monster.<br \/>\nThere are (still) some cannons, my child, on the mountain,<br \/>\nBut they are threatening Damascus.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p class=\"emptyline\">Look up my child, to the Golan Heights,<br \/>\nThere are soldiers there, but now their flag<br \/>\nIs blue and withe,<br \/>\nDaddy is crying and laughing there too,<br \/>\nWe will have greenish house, my child,<br \/>\nWith daddy, a doll, and Loquat tree.<br \/>\nand no more fear, my beloved child,<br \/>\nMy child are you crying or laughing?<\/p>\n<p class=\"emptyline\">Sunsets in red, and sunrises in gold,<br \/>\nTouching the greenery and the water,<br \/>\nWith out an enemy cannons on the mount.<br \/>\nThe valley will be double as green.<\/p>\n<p class=\"emptyline\">The Jordan (river) flowing, curving as drunk,<br \/>\nblossom kissing the valley.<br \/>\nand no one will turn the Jordan backwards.<br \/>\nMy child are you crying or laughing?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Written after the Six Day War, this iconic Israeli song describes a young girl from Kibbutz Gadot not knowing how to react when she emerges from a bomb shelter in northern Israel to see her home destroyed. On the one hand, her home is destroyed, and her father is away at war. 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