{"id":9228,"date":"2019-01-03T09:49:12","date_gmt":"2019-01-03T09:49:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/kol-ami.kulam.org\/2019\/01\/03\/natan-alterman-yehoram-gaon-the-silver-platter"},"modified":"2019-11-06T17:26:08","modified_gmt":"2019-11-06T15:26:08","slug":"natan-alterman-yehoram-gaon-the-silver-platter","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kol-ami.kulam.org\/en\/2019\/01\/03\/natan-alterman-yehoram-gaon-the-silver-platter\/","title":{"rendered":"Natan Alterman \/ Yehoram Gaon: The Silver Platter"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><div class=\"embed\"><iframe width=\"1170\" height=\"658\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/csIQRKP1Qys?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div><\/p>\n<p><em><a href=\"https:\/\/youtu.be\/csIQRKP1Qys\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">This haunting song<\/a> conveys the great sacrifices upon which the State of Israel was establishment. Soon after the release of the UN Partition Plan of 1947, Chaim Weizmann, who would become the first president of the State of Israel, stated &#8220;The state will not be given to the Jewish people on a silver platter.&#8221; This famous quote was the inspiration for Natan Alterman&#8217;s famous poem, &#8220;The Silver Platter,&#8221; which was published in Davar newspaper on December 19, 1947. This poem, which spoke of the tragic sacrifices that would be made for independence, was later put to music and performed by Yehoram Gaon. <a href=\"http:\/\/zionism-israel.com\/hdoc\/Silver_Platter.htm\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">An English translation<\/a> of the poem is provided below.\u00a0<\/em><em>See the closing verses in Hebrew below and the complete Hebrew words\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/shironet.mako.co.il\/artist?type=lyrics&amp;lang=1&amp;prfid=743&amp;wrkid=4982\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">here<\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-9331 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/kol-ami.kulam.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/27\/2019\/04\/\u05de\u05d2\u05e9-\u05d4\u05db\u05e1\u05e3.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"228\" height=\"139\" \/><\/p>\n<h2 align=\"left\">The Silver Platter by\u00a0Natan Alterman<\/h2>\n<p>And the land will have rest. The heavens\u2019 eye crimsons<br \/>\nAnd dims away slow<br \/>\nOver borders still smoking.<br \/>\nAnd the nation will rise \u2013 torn-hearted but breathing\u2026<br \/>\nTo accept the one miracle<br \/>\nThere is no other coming\u2026<\/p>\n<p>She prepares for the rite. She wakes with the moon<br \/>\nAnd stands, ere the dawn, swathed in joy and in awe.<br \/>\nThen before her appear \u2014<br \/>\nA boy and a girl<br \/>\nMarching, ever slowly, towards the fore of the nation.<\/p>\n<p>Wearing full kits, and heavy of boot,<br \/>\nThey rise in the path<br \/>\nSilent proceeding.<br \/>\nTheir clothes are unchanged, water\u2019s not yet erased<br \/>\nA trace of days\u2019 toil and nights spent under fire.<\/p>\n<p>Tired without end, ascetics from rest,<br \/>\nDripping with Hebrew youth\u2019s dews \u2014<br \/>\nThe two approach quiet,<br \/>\nAnd motionless stand.<br \/>\nNot a sign if they\u2019re living, or if they\u2019ve been shot.<\/p>\n<p>Then the nation will ask, washed in wonder and tears,<br \/>\n\u201cWho are you?\u201d And their silent reply:<br \/>\n\u201cWe are the silver platter<br \/>\nUpon which you were handed the state of the Jews.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>So they shall say. And fall to their feet in a shadowy veil.<br \/>\nAnd the rest shall be told in the annals of Israel.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This haunting song conveys the great sacrifices upon which the State of Israel was establishment. Soon after the release of the UN Partition Plan of 1947, Chaim Weizmann, who would become the first president of the State of Israel, stated &#8220;The state will not be given to the Jewish people on a silver platter.&#8221; This [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":80,"featured_media":9229,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"video","meta":[],"categories":[2550,2582,1051],"tags":[2501,2409,375,2503,2516],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kol-ami.kulam.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9228\/"}],"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=9228"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/kol-ami.kulam.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9228\/revisions\/"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13001,"href":"https:\/\/kol-ami.kulam.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9228\/revisions\/13001\/"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kol-ami.kulam.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/9229\/"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kol-ami.kulam.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/?parent=9228"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kol-ami.kulam.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories\/?post=9228"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kol-ami.kulam.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags\/?post=9228"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}