{"id":9234,"date":"2019-01-03T11:11:31","date_gmt":"2019-01-03T09:11:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/kol-ami.kulam.org\/2019\/01\/03\/the-nachal-band-song-of-friendship"},"modified":"2019-01-03T11:11:31","modified_gmt":"2019-01-03T09:11:31","slug":"the-nachal-band-song-of-friendship","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kol-ami.kulam.org\/en\/2019\/01\/03\/the-nachal-band-song-of-friendship\/","title":{"rendered":"The Nachal Band: Song of Friendship"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><div class=\"embed\"><iframe width=\"1170\" height=\"878\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/tw8-CVakruA?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div><\/p>\n<p><em>Written by Haim Gouri at the end of the War of Independence and most famously sung by The Nachal Band, a military entertainment troupe, <a href=\"https:\/\/youtu.be\/tw8-CVakruA\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">this moving song<\/a> is a memorial to the 1% of the population who lost their lives during the war,\u00a0many of whom were Holocaust survivors and new immigrants.\u00a0<\/em><em>The lyrics, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.hebrewsongs.com\/song-hareut.htm\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">translated below in English<\/a>, speak of the deep bond of friendship forged between these strangers who fought together for the establishment of the Jewish state. This was known as Yitzhak Rabin&#8217;s favorite song.\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n<h2>The Friendship<\/h2>\n<p>In the Negev, the autumn night falls,<br \/>\nAnd it kindles the stars in the quiet,<br \/>\nAs the breeze rustles outside the door<br \/>\nAnd the dust settles down on the highway.<\/p>\n<p>Time goes on, do we notice at all<br \/>\nHow the months have gone by one by one?<br \/>\nTime goes by, there are few of us left,<br \/>\nAnd so many we once knew are gone.<\/p>\n<p><em>Chorus<\/em><br \/>\nThey are gone from our midst,<br \/>\nAll their laughter, their youth and their splendor.<br \/>\nBut we know that a friendship like that,<br \/>\nWe are bound all our lives to remember,<br \/>\nFor a love that in battle is forged,<br \/>\nWill endure while we live, fierce and tender.<\/p>\n<p>Oh, the friendship we bore without words,<br \/>\nIt was silent and grey, it was wordless.<br \/>\nFrom the pain and the blood of those days,<br \/>\nIt remains with us, ardent and yearning.<\/p>\n<p>In the name of that friendship we know,<br \/>\nIn its name we&#8217;ll go on, every forward,<br \/>\nFor those friends, when they fell on their swords,<br \/>\nLeft us this precious gift to recall them.<\/p>\n<p><em>Chorus<\/em><br \/>\nThey are gone from our midst,<br \/>\nAll their laughter, their youth and their splendor.<br \/>\nBut we know that a friendship like that,<br \/>\nWe are bound all our lives to remember,<br \/>\nFor a love that in battle is forged,<br \/>\nWill endure while we live, fierce and tender.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Written by Haim Gouri at the end of the War of Independence and most famously sung by The Nachal Band, a military entertainment troupe, this moving song is a memorial to the 1% of the population who lost their lives during the war,\u00a0many of whom were Holocaust survivors and new immigrants.\u00a0The lyrics, translated below in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":80,"featured_media":9235,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"video","meta":[],"categories":[2550,2582,1051],"tags":[2501,2409,2503,2515,2516],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kol-ami.kulam.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9234\/"}],"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=9234"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/kol-ami.kulam.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9234\/revisions\/"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13002,"href":"https:\/\/kol-ami.kulam.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9234\/revisions\/13002\/"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kol-ami.kulam.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/9235\/"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kol-ami.kulam.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/?parent=9234"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kol-ami.kulam.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories\/?post=9234"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kol-ami.kulam.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags\/?post=9234"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}