Israeli Classic Song Showcase - "Nolad'ti LaShalom"

Today we're starting a series of classic songs that came out of Israel during its formative years and in the years that followed. Some of them were prize winners at song festivals and others are just beautiful products of Israeli musical talent. 

The songs will be posted here periodically along with our usual mix of humor, jokes, funny happenings, and Jewish traces in unexpected places.

It's fitting that we're posting our first selection in this series, Nolad'ti LaShalom, on the 5th Yahrzeit of Shulamit Kustanowitz.

Shuly, the inspiration for Jewish Humor Central, was not only a wonderful wife, mother, savta, author and journalist, but also served as a gentle censor of some of our posts that otherwise might have entered the blogosphere with questionable content.

She was born as World War II was ending, and wrote:

I was born on May 1, 1945, so my stone should read, in Hebrew, “I was born for the peace (noladti lashalom).” We, of this generation, will remember it as part of a song of modern Israel, that I have been born for a peace that’s just starting to come but is meant for the ages. For the historically aware, however, the association will be the peace the world felt on its first day without Hitler, and it was for that date that I was named.

Here is the classic Israeli song Nolad'ti LaShalom, sung by the group called Sexta. The Hebrew lyrics appear as subtitles and the English translation is below the video.

Enjoy!

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I WAS BORN TO PEACE

I was born to the melodies and to the songs of all countries I was born to the language and the place too to the few and many who will give peace a hand. Ah - ah - ah - ah - ah ah ah....... Chorus (X2) I was born to peace - let it arrive I was born to peace - let it come I was born to peace - let it appear I want, I want to be in it already. I was born to the dream and in it I see that peace will come I was born to the desire and the belief that it will come after thirty years. Chorus... I was born to a people two thousand years old. that have a land and it has a piece of heaven and it sees, watches the day unfold and it's a beautiful moment, moment of peace. Ah - ah - ah - ah - ah ah ah....... Chorus...