Shir la Shalom ( Hebrew שיר לשלום - song of the world ) is a popular Israeli song written by Yaakov Rothblit and Yair Rosenblum in 1969. The song became the anthem of the Israeli peace movement [1] .
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The song was first performed by the Nahal Army Ensemble in 1969 during the Exhaustion War between Israel and Egypt.
The music and lyrics were influenced by Anglo-American anti-war folk rock of the sixties [2] and resonates with the hit of the musical “Hair” “Let the Sunshine In”. The song mourns the fallen soldiers and calls "to sing songs about love, not about war" (in the original version - "not about victories", but the army demanded to change this line to maintain the fighting spirit of the soldiers [3] [4] )
Many perceived this song as "defeatist" and blasphemous. The commander of the Central Military District ( Rehavam Zeevi ) and the South ( Ariel Sharon ) banned the performance of songs in the area under their command [5] .
Over the years, the song has become an unofficial anthem of the peace movement, in particular, the organization Shalom Ahshav.
During a peaceful demonstration on November 4, 1995, Miri Aloni ensembles Givatron and Irusim, Shimon Peres and Yitzhak Rabin from the stage together with the demonstrators performed the song Shir la Shalom. Immediately after the demonstration, Rabin was killed . A bloody piece of song lyrics was found in his pocket.
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- ↑ On the collaboration between Rotblit and Rosenblum on Shir LaShalom , see Regev & Seroussi (2004 , p. 106 )
- ↑ Edelman (2003) , pp. 235-6.
- ↑ Tessler (2007) , p. 98.
- ↑ For an English translation based on the song's original wording, see Small, Rabbi Amy Yitzhak Rabin: Captain, O My Captain! . Rabbis Without Borders - My Jewish Learning (October 20, 2013). Date of treatment June 19, 2014.
- ↑ Kampeas, Ron Song of Peace Has Disharmonious History . Date of treatment June 24, 2014.