Israeli Milestones is a special music show for Independence Day, taking you in the footsteps of musical pioneers – the songwriters, composers and performers of early Israeli music, whose work was inseparable from both the land and the Zionist idea. We take a clockwise trip around Israel, starting in Tel Aviv, going up north, then east to the Sea of Galilee, then down the Jordan Valley all the way to Eilat, and back up to Tel Aviv.

Playlist:

Give us your hand and we’ll take a stroll (Tnu lanu yad venelech) – Irit Dotan
Alligators’ River (Nahal Taninim) – Chava Alberstein
Binyamina Days (Yamey Binyamina) – Matti Caspi
The Evergreen Mountain (Ha-Har ha-Yarok Tamid) – Ruchama Raz
My Valley (Emek Sheli) – Gevatron
The Eucalyptus Grove (Horshat ha-Ekaliptus) – Lehakat Hanachal
Play Me A Song, Jordan (Nagen Li, Yarden) – Rivka Zohar
The Man from the Jordan Valley (Ha-Ish min ha-Bika’a) – Lehakat Pikud Mercaz
Ein Gedi – Yehudit Ravitz
Shir Eres Negbi (Negev Lullaby) – Shoshana Damari
Eilat – Lehakat Pikud Darom
Be-He’akhzut Ha-Nachal be-Sinai (In the Nachal Outpost in Sinai) – Lehakat Hanachal
The White City (Ha’ir ha-Levana) – Arik Einstein

Atur Mitzkhekh (Your Forehead Ornate) – Arik Einstein
Forgiveness (Slikhot) – Yehudit Ravitz
Vidui (Confession) – Yehudit Ravitz
Shir Eres (Lullaby) – Matti Caspi
We Haven’t Talked About Love Yet (Lo Dibarnu Od al Ahava) – Matti Caspi
There (Ei Sham) – Ilanit
The Policeman’s Ballad (Balada le-Shoter) – Oshik Levy
Yonatan, Go Home (Yonatan, Sa Habaita) – Oshik Levy
The Ballad of Hedva and Shlomik (Ha-Balada al Hedva ve-Shlomik) – Miri Aloni
Around the Bonfire (Misaviv la-Medura) – Lehakat Pikud Mercaz
Leil Hanaya (A Night of Standstill) – Hanan Yovel, Yardena Arazi and Ephraim Shamir
The Ballad of Baruch Jamili (Ha-Balada al Baruch Jamili) – Shlomo Artzi