{"id":9231,"date":"2019-01-03T10:48:23","date_gmt":"2019-01-03T08:48:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/kol-ami.kulam.org\/2019\/01\/03\/yaffa-yarkoni-bab-el-wad"},"modified":"2019-01-03T10:55:04","modified_gmt":"2019-01-03T08:55:04","slug":"yaffa-yarkoni-bab-el-wad","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kol-ami.kulam.org\/en\/2019\/01\/03\/yaffa-yarkoni-bab-el-wad\/","title":{"rendered":"Yaffa Yarkoni: Bab el Wad"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><div class=\"embed\"><iframe width=\"1170\" height=\"878\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/9p0xmWtP6Ig?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div><\/p>\n<p><em>Written by Haim Gouri, composed by Shmuel Farshko and performed by Yaffa Yarkoni,<a href=\"https:\/\/youtu.be\/9p0xmWtP6Ig\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"> this moving song<\/a> commemorates the battles of Bab El Wad \/ Sha&#8217;ar Hagai during the War of Independence. A strategic site on the road between Tel Aviv and Jerusalem, Bab El Wad saw fierce fighting between Arab forces and Jewish convoys trying to bring food and supplies to the besieged\u00a0city of Jerusalem during the war. The remains of armoured cars destroyed along the way still line the route as a memorial to those who sacrificed their lives for Jerusalem and her citizens. An <a href=\"http:\/\/www.hebrewsongs.com\/song-babelwad.htm\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">English translation of the lyrics are<\/a> provided on screen and below.\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n<h2>Bab El Wad<\/h2>\n<p>Here I am passing, standing by the stone.<br \/>\nAn asphalt road, rocks and ridges.<br \/>\nDay goes down slowly, sea-wind blows<br \/>\nLight of a first star, over Beit Maschir.<\/p>\n<p>Bab-el-wad,<br \/>\nDo remember our names forever,<br \/>\nConvoys broke through, on the way to the City.<br \/>\nOur dead lay on the road edges.<br \/>\nThe iron skeleton is silent like my comrade.<\/p>\n<p>Here pitch and lead fumed under the sun,<br \/>\nHere nights passed with fire and knives.<br \/>\nHere sorrow and glory live together<br \/>\nWith a burnt armoured car and the name of an unknown.<\/p>\n<p>Bab-el-wad<\/p>\n<p>And I walk, passing here silently,<br \/>\nAnd I remember them, one by one.<br \/>\nHere we fought together on cliffs and boulders<br \/>\nHere we were one family.<\/p>\n<p>Bab-el-wad<\/p>\n<p>A spring day will come, the cyclamens will bloom,<br \/>\nRed of anemone on the mountain and on the slope.<br \/>\nHe, who will go on the road we went,<br \/>\nHe will not forget us, Bab-el-wad.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Written by Haim Gouri, composed by Shmuel Farshko and performed by Yaffa Yarkoni, this moving song commemorates the battles of Bab El Wad \/ Sha&#8217;ar Hagai during the War of Independence. A strategic site on the road between Tel Aviv and Jerusalem, Bab El Wad saw fierce fighting between Arab forces and Jewish convoys trying [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":80,"featured_media":9232,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"video","meta":[],"categories":[2550,1643,2582,1051],"tags":[2501,2518,2409,2519,2503,2516],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kol-ami.kulam.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9231\/"}],"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=9231"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/kol-ami.kulam.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9231\/revisions\/"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13004,"href":"https:\/\/kol-ami.kulam.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9231\/revisions\/13004\/"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kol-ami.kulam.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/9232\/"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kol-ami.kulam.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/?parent=9231"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kol-ami.kulam.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories\/?post=9231"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kol-ami.kulam.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags\/?post=9231"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}