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Music of Israel

The music of Israel is a combination of Jewish and non-Jewish music traditions that have come together over the course of a century to create a distinctive musical culture. For more than 100 years, musicians have sought original stylistic elements that would define the emerging national spirit...

 by Mosh Ben Ari sung in Hebrew and Arabic. The song, called "Od Yavo Shalom Aleinu" means "Peace Will Come Upon Us". It is an upbeat song and has become a theme tune to almost all youth movements in Israel

Israel

The State of Israel is a parliamentary republic located in the Middle East, along the eastern shore of the Mediterranean Sea...

 and in the Jewish diaspora

Jewish diaspora

The Jewish diaspora is the English term used to describe the Galut גלות , or 'exile', of the Jews from the region of the Kingdom of Judah and Roman Iudaea and later emigration from wider Eretz Israel....

. A large chart hit in Israel several years ago, it has now come to symbolize a call for peace

Peace

Peace is a state of harmony characterized by the lack of violent conflict. Commonly understood as the absence of hostility, peace also suggests the existence of healthy or newly healed interpersonal or international relationships, prosperity in matters of social or economic welfare, the...

 and end to the struggle in the Arab-Israeli conflict.

Text of the bridge

#	English translation	Transliteration Romanization of Hebrew Hebrew uses the Hebrew alphabet with optional vowel points. The romanization of Hebrew is the use of the Latin alphabet to transliterate Hebrew words....	Hebrew
1	Again peace will come upon us	Od yavo' shalom Shalom Shalom is a Hebrew word meaning peace, completeness, and welfare and can be used idiomatically to mean both hello and goodbye...  aleinu
2	Again peace will come upon us	Od yavo' shalom aleinu
3	Again peace will come upon us	Od yavo' shalom aleinu
4	and on everyone.	Ve'al kulam (x2)
5	Salaam Salaam Salaam may refer to:* , the word for "peace" in Arabic, often used as a greeting, see S-L-M for an overview* , one of the Names of God in Islam... ('peace' in Arabic)	Salaam (Salaam)
6	Among us and on all the world	Aleinu ve'al kol ha olam
7	Salaam, Salaam	Salaam, Salaam (x2)

Media

• YouTube Video - Professional version of the song
• YouTube Video - A crowd singing the song
• YouTube Video - A large group singing the song at night