Here is a great Jewish song performed in 1969 in France by the late Yafa Yarkoni.
Yafa Yarkoni (also Yaffa Yarqoni, 1925-2012) was an Israeli singer, winner of the Israel Prize in 1998 for Hebrew song. She was dubbed Israel's “songstress of the wars” due to her frequent performances for Israel Defense Forces soldiers, especially in wartime. She was from a Mountain Jewish family.
Yafa Abramov (later Yafa Gustin and Yafa Yarkoni) was born in Giv'at Rambam (today a neighbourhood of Giv'atayim) to a Jewish family that immigrated from the Caucasus. At the age of ten, she studied ballet dancing under Gertrude Kraus, one of Israel's dance pioneers.
In the 1940s, her mother ran a café in Givat Rambam, where Yafa performed with her sister Tikva and her brother Binyamin.
In 1948, during Israel's War of Independence, Yarkoni joined an IDF song troupe affiliated with the Givati Brigade. Bab el-Wad, a song she performed at the time, became a classic, sung every year on Israel's Memorial Day. After the war, she performed songs for a program on the Kol Yisrael radio station.
Most of Yarkoni's songs were written by Tuli Reviv and Haim Hefer. Yarkoni also performed some of Naomi Shemer's early children's songs.
Among her most well-known songs are Don't say goodbye, say I will see you, about a soldier parting from his girlfriend before battle, and Road to Jerusalem, about soldiers transporting food to Jerusalem when the city was under siege in 1948.
In 1998, Yarkoni was awarded the Israel Prize, for Hebrew song.
Enjoy Yafa Yarkoni's beauty and style!
Biti at bocha o tzocheket
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