(Jewish Group) 'One Nation': Viral song brings back emotions and hope during brutal war

Ariel Zurayev, Yonatan Giertz, and Yehuda Kaplan were speechless after the October 7 attack, but what they created has crossed all languages barriers

Viral song “One Nation” washed Israel and the Jewish world with hope, while still reeling from the worst atrocity committed to the small minority group since the Holocaust. You can read the story at i24 news HERE.

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Performance: Ariel Zurayev
Song and video production: Yonatan Giertz
Lyrics and music: Ariel Zurayev, Yonatan Giertz and Yehuda Kaplan
Arrangement and musical production: Ariel Zurayev

The full lyrics:

Without words
Without feelings
There's no escape from the thoughts
There's an unexplained rift here
How do you write when the heart is broken?

I'm here, in front of the news
I can't process the tears
If we're a chosen people
How was such a cruel fate inscribed

And there are no answers
A heavy fog has descended
Who do you turn to?
The soul was wounded
("Hear O' Israel" is said together)

Our hope is not yet lost
To be free in our country
Hear O Israel, we are all one nation.

The horrors cannot be described in words
The soul is wounded; we just wanted to dance
We don't want to see more crying mothers
Is it too much to ask to live in peace?

We have no other country
Even if the ground below us burns
Enough of the division, enough of the hatred
They see us and take advantage of the weakness

This is the time to spread hope and love
Raise your head and smile back
Because we are all brothers, not only in arms

The people of Israel are a family
We will be victorious, there's no doubt
In history, we won all the battles
And to all the haters, get lost, bye
Am Yisrael Chai (the People of Israel Live)!