Considerations

When I trav­eled to Israel last sum­mer, I asked an IDF sol­dier that was with my group to rec­om­mend a good Israeli band.

She took me to Tower Records in the Jerusalem mall, and I ended up buy­ing the first album by Hayehudim (The Jews), a husband-and-wife team that is one of the most pop­u­lar bands in Israel. Their songs are a mix of hard rock (with a touch of heavy metal) and soft bal­lads. The band’s web­site (in Hebrew) is here.

I have all their albums now, and I just found YouTube videos of their unplugged per­for­mance in Tel Aviv. Here are four of them:

“Taa­zor Li (Save Me)” — a fast song about a woman who hates that she loves her lazy, loutish boyfriend

“Mechapes Tshuva (Look­ing for an Answer)” — a slow, philo­soph­i­cal song about a guy who goes through drugs, reli­gion and var­i­ous things to find “the answer”

“Father” — a sad song in Eng­lish about the woman’s father

“Od Aron Echad (Another Cof­fin)” — an fast, alter­nat­ing duet that (I think) is about two lovers in the mid­dle of a fight

Adden­dum: I had to add one more.

“HaZ­man Shelach (Your Time)” — one of their most pow­er­ful songs — it’s about a trou­bled teenage girl who deals with an eat­ing dis­or­der and break­ing up with her boyfriend

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