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This song is playing in my head and doesn't let go. Powerful lyrics, great melody by Moti Hamer. The simple words that lead to the concept of 'Rikma Enoshit' - 'one human weave alive' is possibly what's bugging me.

You can find great performances of this song on Youtube, especially because it is sang on almost every memorial day here in Israel. I chose the one by Hava Alberstein.

I didn't find any professional translation, so I asked my son, Ehud, to help me here. That's ...

Yesterday I watched the "On the Move" documentary about Ehud Banai and his first band; the Refugees. Ehud Banai is a musician, singer and song writer, whose first Album is considered by many to be one of the best and the most important albums of Israeli rock, with original mix of new-wave guitar rock with oriental rhythms and sounds. He released 9 albums to date, and if you want to understand Israeli culture through music, listen to his songs and lyrics. Ehud Banai ...

How social media, web and mobile tell the story of the Nativity. Christmas story told through Facebook, Twitter, YouTube, Google, Wikipedia, Google Maps, GMail, Foursquare, Amazon... This viral video was created by Excentric a media company from Portugal, in English (over 10m views) and Portuguese (around 3m views).  Their final message is 'Times change, the feeling remains the same'. Cool.

My daughter is hooked on 'Lost'.  A new episode of the second season is replayed every day at 9pm, and I join her when I can.  Its not a bad show. In the last episode, Mr Echo, after finding his dead brother in the airplane, wears his brothers cross and reads aloud Psalm 23.

The greater picture of what 'Lost' is trying to say (if indeed it has a coherent message to deliver) is not that clear to me. 'Lost' is very good at keeping the illusion that such a ...