Naomi Shemer (Hebrew: נעמי שמר‎) (July 13, 1930 – June 26, 2004) was one of Israel's most important and prolific song writers. Events 1174 - William I of Scotland, a key rebel in the Revolt of 1173-1174, is captured at Alnwick by forces loyal to Year 1930 ( MCMXXX) was a Common year starting on Wednesday (link will display 1930 calendar of the Gregorian calendar. Events 363 - Roman Emperor Julian is killed during the retreat from the Sassanid Empire. "MMIV" redirects here For the Modest Mouse album see " Baron von Bullshit Rides Again " For a topic outline on this subject see List of basic Israel topics. A songwriter is someone who writes the Lyrics to songs the Musical composition (chords or Melody to songs or both During her lifetime, she was hailed as the "First Lady of Israeli Song. "

Born Naomi Sapir, Shemer did her own songwriting and composing, as well as setting famous poems to music, such as those of the Israeli poet, Rachel, and adapting well-known songs into Hebrew, such as the Beatles songs "Hey Jude" and "Let it Be" ("Lu Yehi"). Rachel Bluwstein Sela ( September 20, 1890 - April 16, 1931) was a Hebrew lyric poet who immigrated to Palestine in 1909 The Beatles were a pop and rock band from Liverpool, England formed in 1960 " Hey Jude " is a song by the English rock band The Beatles that was recorded in 1968

Israeli songwriter Naomi Shemer's grave on the shores of the Sea of Galilee (Kinneret)]. The stones were left by visitors, in keeping with an ancient Jewish custom

Naomi Shemer was born and raised in Kevutzat Kinneret, a kibbutz that her parents had helped to found, on the shore of the Sea of Galilee. A kibbutz ( Hebrew: קיבוץ קִבּוּץ lit "gathering clustering" plural kibbutzim) is a collective community in The Sea of Galilee, also Sea of Genneseret, Lake Kinneret or Lake Tiberias (Hebrew ים כנרת) (Arabic بحيرة طبريا) In the 1950s she served in the Israeli Defense Force's Nahal entertainment troupe and studied music at the Rubin Academy in Jerusalem. Nahal (נח"ל an acronym for Noar Halutzi Lohem, lit Fighting Pioneer Youth) is an Israel Defense Forces infantry brigade She married Mordechai Horowitz and had two children, Lali and Ariel. ^[1]

In 1983, Shemer received the Israel Prize for her contribution to Israeli culture. Year 1983 ( MCMLXXXIII) was a Common year starting on Saturday (link displays the 1983 Gregorian calendar) The Israel Prize is an award handed out by the State of Israel. The culture of Israel was in development long before the foundation of the State of Israel in 1948 and is a combination of secular life and religious heritage

Several of Shemer's songs have the quality of anthems, striking deep national and emotional chords in the hearts of Israelis. The term anthem means either a specific form of Anglican church music (in Music theory and religious contexts or more generally a song (or composition of Her most famous song is "Yerushalayim shel zahav" ("Jerusalem of Gold"). " Jerusalem of Gold " (ירושלים של זהב Yerushalayim Shel Zahav) is a popular Israeli Song written by Naomi Shemer in 1967 She wrote it in 1967, before the Six Day War, and added another stanza after Israel captured East Jerusalem and regained access to the Western Wall. Year 1967 ( MCMLXVII) was a Common year starting on Sunday (link will display full calendar of the 1967 Gregorian calendar. Background Suez Crisis aftermath The Suez Crisis of 1956 represented a military defeat but a political victory for Egypt The Western Wall (הכותל המערבי translit: HaKotel HaMa'aravi) sometimes referred to as the Wailing Wall or simply the Kotel (lit In 1968, Uri Avnery, then a member of the Israeli parliament, proposed that "Jerusalem of Gold" become the Israeli anthem. Uri Avnery (אורי אבנרי also transliterated Uri Avneri, born September 10, 1923 in Beckum, Germany as Helmut Ostermann The proposal was rejected, but the nomination itself says something about the power of Shemer's songs.

Shemer continued to write and perform until her death. She died of cancer in 2004 at the age of seventy-three. Cancer (medical term Malignant Neoplasm) is a class of Diseases in which a group of cells display uncontrolled

Bibliography

• All My Songs (Almost), copyright 1967, published by Yediot Achronot

• The Second Book, copyright 1975, published by Lulav

• Number Three (Sefer Gimel), copyright 1982, published by Lulav

• Book Four (Sefer Arbah), copyright 1995, published by Shva Publishers

References

1. ^ Naomi Shemer 1930-2004. Davar (דבר lit Word) was a Hebrew language daily newspaper published in the British Mandate of Palestine and Israel from 1925 Haaretz. Haaretz. com. Retrieved on 2007-08-27. Year 2007 ( MMVII) was a Common year starting on Monday of the Gregorian calendar in the 21st century. Events 479 BC - Greco-Persian Wars: Persian forces led by Mardonius are routed by Pausanias, the Spartan

External links

• Jewish Agency Biography
• Tikkun Toronto
• Basque Folk tune, inspiration for Jerusalem of Gold