Motti Rodan - Again

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Gaya Shaki - Oh My Love

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Lyrics by John Lennon & Yoko Ono:

Oh my love for the first time in my life

My eyes are wide open

Oh my lover for the first time in my life

My eyes can see

I see the wind

Oh, I see the trees

Everything is clear in my heart

I see the clouds

Oh, I see the sky

Everything is clear in our world

Oh my love for the first time in my life

My mind is wide open

Oh my lover for the first time in my life

My mind can feel

I feel the sorrow

Oh, I feel dreams

Everything is clear in my heart

I feel life

Oh, I feel love

Everything is clear in our world

Shai Nehaisi - Tunis

A song that enters your heart and refuses to leave.

In Shai Nehaisi's words: My grandparents made Aliyah from Tunis in the 1960s. They were the last ones to come from their city because my grandfather was a Jewish Agency emissary and made sure that all the jews in his city immigrated safely to Israel. When they arrived in Israel with their seven children they were housed in a small three-room apartment in Netanya. Even though they experienced difficulties they never complained, they were always grateful for the right to live in the Holy Land. My grandmother belonged to a different generation, a generation of simplicity, human love, giving, innocent faith in God, and gratefulness for every small thing. My grandmother lived in that same old apartment until the day she died. The song "Tunis" tells her story and the story of an entire generation that is slowly disappearing from our country.

Tunis' sun shines

Hands join in prayer

In the silence of the house, this is how the day begins

Who is there with her?

Squeaks of a wobbly table

Knocks on a single mug

The doors of the house have for long been unopened

To voices

And there she sits in the same corner

And the kids are running around her again

Pots filled with love

The old apartment in the Aliyah housing

She looks out to the window, God give joy

Family

All of the pictures of tzadikim 

Memories in a bookcase

How he would sit with her

And bless at length

And there she sits in the same corner

And the kids are running around her again

Pots filled with love

The old apartment in the Aliyah housing

She looks out to the window, God give joy

Family

Tunis' sun has already set

Where are you, madam?

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Lior Yeini - Come to Eilat

In loving memory of Lior Yeini, who passed away earlier this week at age 84. A timeless classic.

Let's escape the asphalt

And from the wrinkled cities

Let's escape to the quiet lagoons

Come to Eilat, to Eilat

In the capital of the sun

With freckles all over

In front of the skies, we'll grab a nap

And the wind that will settle

Will allow us to not think

About a thing

Eyes closed

We'll escape as a pair

To the water to the coral gardens

Between blue and green

We'll throw away the swimsuits

We'll toss them into the waves

With wild hair

Blown by the wind

I'm lying around like a lizard

Like a dolphin who escaped 

From the depths of the Gulf of Eilat

Like a surprise

Give me just two months

On the skis

And I won't trip on the waves of the water

Between green and blue

Man I can

I can live forever

Let's escape the asphalt

Let's discover 

The wondrous places

And the magic in the bays

Like Colombus so suddenly

In a light sailboat

If you came this time

You'll again return to Eilat

Because the city is enchanted

And the hiding place is under a spell

And you will arrive at it

You will arrive at it younger

Let's escape the asphalt