Israel in song...

The Six Day War in 1967 brought about deep changes in Israel; from a territorial point of view, Israel became a much bigger country, yet 1.500.00 Arabs were now under Israeli control.
A great sense of pride because of the great achievements of the war spread from Israel to Jews around the world and this Zionist pride lead to a wave of aliya from America, Europe and South America, especially Argentina, of people with deep Zionist ideals. Industry developed and there was a great economic growth in the country that was until that moment, experiencing a great and difficult economic recession.
Religious Zionists that belonged to the National Religious party, and Labor supporters for the Movement of Greater Israel assigned messianic terms to the victory of 67´and the conquest of the Biblical Lands of Judea and Samaria, a process that in their view would lead to the redemption of all Israel.
This group of believers later formed Gush Emunim (the Block of the Faithful) in 1974 after the Yom Kippur war. The Gush was a political movement which encouraged settlement activity in the Land promised to the Jewish people in the Bible.

Naomi Shemer wrote Al Kol Ele,in 1979. Her brother in law, which she cared much about, passed away, and the song was written to console her sister Ruthi. But the phrase “Al nataa kor natua”, “Do not uproot that which has been planted”, caught the attention of Gush Emunim who “appropriated” the song and attached to it a political meaning. The song became the hymn of the Gush, who at the time opposed disengagement from the city of Yamit,in the Sinai Peninsula (as a result of the Peace Agreement with Egypt)

FOR ALL THOSE THINGS

Naomi Shemer (free translation by Rebeca Herman)

For the honey and the sting
For the bitter and the sweet
For our little girl, guard us
my good Lord.
For the fire that burns
For the gleaming waters
For the man returning home
From a distant place

Chorus
For all those things
For all those things
Guard me, please my good Lord.
For the honey and the sting
For the bitter and the sweet
Do not uproot what has been planted
Do not forget to have hope
Let me return,
To the good Land


Rustles a tree in the wind
Far away a star is shining
The calmness of my heart at night
Is being inscribed now

Please take care of all those things
And for the love of my soul
For the silence and the cries
And for this song

In the following link the song is performed by Yossi Banai, for whom was originally written
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jJQg29FLVDY&feature=related