http://www.ted.com/talks/tan_le_my_immigration_story.html

http://www.ted.com/talks/drew_dudley_everyday_leadership.html

Idan Raichel - Mom, Dad and all the Rest - Links and Lyrics

Idan Raichel - Mom, Dad and all the Rest

A beautiful Israeli song by the Idan Raichel Project. The song portrays the true and deep pain of soldiers returning home from war. It also questions whether a soldier's family even knows the experience they have been through. It firmly states there is no glamour and pride associated with a soldier's work.

The song was actually written by a fallen soldier of the Yom Kippur War.

Lyrics

And when the night is over and the sun shines

Will you know Mom, what our eyes have seen?

Tall tree-tops around, yet with scorched stems

Big houses around, but ruined and matte colored

I walk on ruins, Mom

And believe me, there is no pear and there is no flower

We are not heroes because our labour is dark (black)

The sun will set, the darkness will come

And we will sleep with our clothes in the bed

Yes mother, it's important, it's hard and it's terrible

I swear that it is hard, but I am staying

The ground is gray and the horizon is black

And the blue of the sky lingers and waits

And does not touch, it does not touch the black horizon

A space between them, nothing to do with all the rest

And it is very hard, but I am staying

There is a wired fence, and beyond it a drawn sword

Mom, Dad and all the rest

We are not heroes because our labour is dark (black)

The sun will set, the darkness will come

And we will sleep with our clothes in the bed

Yes mother, it's important, it's hard and it's terrible

And when the night is over and the sun shines

Will you know Mom, what our eyes have seen?

Michel Cohen - Links and Lyrics

Michel Cohen - Al Tashlicheni Le'et Zikna (Do not cast me off in time of old age)

Young vocal-genius Michel Cohen covers a song which is based on a Psalm from Tehilim, Chapter 71.

"My mouth shall be filled with Thy praise, and with Thy glory all the day. Cast me not off in the time of old age; when my strength faileth, forsake me not"

Lyrics

My mouth shall be filled with Thy praise

And with Thy glory all the day.

Do not cast me off in time of old age;

do not forsake me when my strength fails.