The song you picked was written by Leonard Cohen. I remember it well from the very early 1970s. He was a Canadian singer/song writer who had many, many hits often done by other people. You should have used Cohen's version of it. Nice video, too.
Thanks for watching it Paul and I appreciate your feedback.
I know it was Leonard Cohen's original and I did consider using it.
But my decisison to use Hagit Yaso's version was a double entendre of sorts.
You see, Leonard was a Jewish Born Canadian, his mother a daughter of a
Talmudic writer, Rabbi Solomon Klonitsky-Kline.
In the Yom Kippur War of '73, Israel came under a surprise joint attack of Egypt and Syria.
Israel was caught off guard and it looked like there was a real chance Israel would be destroyed.
Leonard felt it was his duty to go and try to be of some help.
He spent several weeks with the Israeli troops in Israel.
This version that I used, was sung by Hagit Yaso, a daughter of Ethiopian parents who fled Ethiopia to return to Israel helped by the IAF under very dangerous conditions.
She performed it at the opening ceremony of the American Embassy in Jerusalem, 2018.
Exactly 70 years after the rebirth of the nation Israel.
I kind of went into a lot more detail than I intended but I just wanted to share why I chose this version over the original, and I kinda like this version as I feel it suits the video a bit better.
RB
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