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The Israeli Song Festival in Jerusalem on May 15, 1967, marked the debut of a popular song that soon became Israel’s unofficial second national anthem: Yerushalayim Shel Zahav (Jerusalem of Gold). The song wasn’t one of the contestants in the festival. Instead, Jerusalem mayor Teddy Kollek had commissioned it from popular songwriter Naomi Shemer. Shemer […]
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From lamentation to triumphalism: the story behind ‘Jerusalem of Gold,’ Israel’s second national anthem
June 23rd, 2017 
Awake Goy 
Posted in World News 
Tags: behind, israel, Jerusalem, lamentation, second, story, triumphalism 
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