Natan Alterman - Morning Song

This is a song that i had in my collection, but after hearing my grandmother sing it, i felt it neccesary to upload it.
Early Israel was a harsh and unforgiving place. Many lands were costly, uninhabitable and dangerous. Swamps full of malaria, unstable gravel patches and uninhabitable deserts.
The early Zionists of the first and second Alyah put a great emphasis on the redemption of the land of Israel, some as part of a soicalist agenda of creating a strong agrarian labour culture out of what they percieved as the redemption of the Jews themselves.
Natan Alterman is perhaps one of the most important Zionist poets of all time, and in his writings he often tried to capture the spirit of a new, redeemed Israel.

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Natan Alterman was a giant. One of his poems became one of the most moving songs of shir ivri, Leil Hanaya, thanks to another genius, Yair Rosemblum (sadly and unfairly, I guess it is not as known as it should be, at least in the Diaspora). I strongly recommend watching: kzbin.info/www/bejne/iGKTnaCNesycqLM . Hanan Yovel, Yardena Arazi, Efraim Shamir, all so very young, all already spectacular!

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It's one of my favorites. I thought about uploading it once but it's an incredibly complicated and dense poem. Even at the time when it was written it was already hard for most people to process the lyrics. The fact that it was successfully composed into a melody is incredible. I just don't know if the value of it can be properly conveyed in English