Israeli folk musician Naomi Shemer died. Shemer, the singer/songwriter of dozens of Zionist favorites like “Jerusalem of Gold” and “Lu Yehi,” died Saturday of cancer. She was 74. Shemer was asked to write a song about Jerusalem shortly before the 1967 Six-Day War, and “Jerusalem of Gold” became the anthem of the war in which Israel captured Jerusalem’s Old City.
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