TheMenorah
The official emblem of the State of Israel is the menorah, the seven-branched candelabra whose shape is said to have been derived from the plant known in antiquity by the name 'Moriah'. The olive branches surrounding the menorah represent the Jewish people's yearning for peace. The branch are linked at the bottom by the inscription which reads "ISRAEL" in Hebrew. The olive branch itself has been synonymous with peace since the dove sent to find dry land, brought one back to Noah's Ark. The emblem was adopted in 1449. The bottom part of it represents the 1st temple.
Israel became a
State on May 14, 1948
Hatikvah
Israel National Anthem
As long as deep in the heart,
The soul of a Jew yearns,
And towards the East
An eye looks to Zion,
Our hope is not yet lost,
The hope of two thousand years,
To be a free people in our land,
The land of Zion and Jerusalem.
Kol-od ba-le-vav p'ni-ma
Nefesh Y'h-di ho-mi-ya.
Ul'fa-atey miz-rach Ka-dima
Ayin l'-Tzi-yon tzo-fi-ya.
Od lo av-da tik-va-tey-nu
Ha-tik-va sh'not al-pa-yim
Li-yot am chaf-shi b'-artzenu
B'eretz Tzi-yon viru-shalayim.
Klezmer
Among East European Jews, the occupation of the klezmer(plural: klezmer or klezmorim), or professional folk musican has been an ongoing profession for centuries. Unlike other "folk" musicians however, klezmorim have always formed a distinct professionalized caste with East European Jewish society,
Klezmer is the Yiddish pronunciation of Hebrew "k'layzemer"meaning 'musical instruments', which in the East European context came to refer to the musicians themselves. Strictly defined, klezmer music is the traditional instrumental music of East European Jew, performed at weddings and other celebrations such as the dedication of a Torah scroll or a synagogue. Comprising dance tunes as well as music for listening during the wedding and banquet, it is one part of a rich totality of East European Jewish music that includes diverse liturgical and folksong traditions as welll as - in more recent time - Yiddish theatre, popular and art music. The term "klezmer music" though , is a contemporary one: Soviet-Jewish ethnomusicologist Moyshe Beregovski pioneered the designation in the 1930s.
The repertoire of klezmer musicians and Yiddish folksingers, like most genres of Jewish music world-wide, has likely always consisted of a mixture of traditional Jewish musical elements - employed in uniquely Jewish settings like synagogues or home religious practice - with elements of local non-Jewish music and the popular music of the day. As such, it is a metaphor for centuries of Cultural interaction between Jews and non-Jews. While distinctly Jewish, klemer music is agenre whose performers as well as"consumers" in multi-ethnic Eastern Europe included non-Jews as well. Klezmorim both collaborated and competed with non-Jewish musicians, especially Roma(Gypsies), and performed both Jewish and non-Jewish repertorire for Jews and non-Jews of all social classes. Klezmer music an be divided into a "core repertoire" for in-group Jewish occasions, containing the most Jewish elements of the music, and a broader repertoire reflecting the influence of the non-Jewish environment.
Although musical traditions flourished throughout Jewish Eastern Europe, Ukraine and the adjacent east Romanian areas of Moldavia and Bessarabia can be considered a kind of "heartland" of Yiddish folk music. Most famous klezmer virtuosi in both Europe and American have had roots in these regions, and much of the klezmer repertoire as we know it has a marked east Romanian flavor. The influence of Romanian-derived styles was so strong at the turn of the century that it formed the basis of a "national" Yiddish style in both klezmer music and the Yiddish theatre. Popular Romainian-Jewish dance tunes like the bulgar and sirba achieved such prominence in the U.S. that some American-Jewish professional musicians now refer to the entire Jewish wedding repertoire as the "bulgars".
A Yiddish proverb says 'Oyb di velt vet vern oysgeleyt, iz nor in skhus fun kinder" but will there be any thing left to save? The answer to that is simple. Today you can hear klezmer all over the Jewish community and the world(it has woven itself into contempory music) and now you have just read about it on the Internet.
"Simon tov umazol tov y'hay lonu ulchol yisro-ayl, omayn."
In October 1948, the Provisional Council of the Sate of Israel adopted the with blue and white colours with the Shield of David as the flag of Israel. The flag was unfuled on May 11, 1949, at Lake Success in New York, when Isrel became the 59th member of the United Nations.
The person who played the major role in this designwas David Wolfsohn,the distinguished Zionist leader who succeeded Theodor Herzl in 1905 as the President of the World Zionist Organization.
Here are Wolfsohn's own account of the birth of the Zionist flag:"At the behest of our leader Herzl, I came to Basel to make preparations for the Zionist Congress, to assure its success and to avoid any opening for detractors. Among the many problems that occupied me then was one which contained something of the essence of the Jewish problem: What flag would we hang in the Congress Hall? Then an idea struck me. We have a flag - and it is blue and white. The tallit (prayer-shawl) which we wrap ourselves when we pray: That is our symbol. Let us take this tallit from its bag and unroll it before the eyes of Israel and the eyes of all nations. So I ordered a blue and white flag with the Shield of David painted upon it. That is how our national flag, that flew over Congress Hall, came into being. And no one expressed any surprise or asked whence it came or how".
Israel is the seed of the blossom,
within the spirit womb in which I growand the citadel for my peoplea state of spirit for us all 
How the Star Of David, Came Into To Beginning
The House of David finally enter a period of great peace for the Jewish people. The King told his soldiers to throw down there shields and swords for they were no longer needed. When the King David looked at the pile of shields on the ground. All the shields had broken into to many pieces and they formed a star shape. Hence this star shape of King David broken shields, become known as the Star of David to this day.
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