From Ammunition Hat to Paratrooper's Poem: The Unforgettable Military Poems by Yoram Taharlev | Israel today

Yoram Taharlev, who passed away today (Thursday) at the age of 84, wrote some of the best-known songs, including those that took root as a kind of unofficial anthems of some IDF units. In this battle.

Taharlev wrote, among other things, the song "Push Shrioner", "The Song of a Paratrooper" and "The People of Silence", three songs that over the years have become representative of female soldiers and well-known units.

Alongside them, he also wrote other and slightly lesser-known songs, including "The Red Beret," "My Salt" and "This Is Nahal."

The great composer was born and raised in Kibbutz Yagur, and his first songs were lost in the events of the Black Shabbat in the kibbutz.

He performed his military service as a reporter for the GDNA newspaper, and later served as its editor.

In addition, he served as an editor "in the Nahal camp." For years he worked as an editor at the Ministry of Defense publishing house.

In the past, he told the Green Page newspaper what led him to write the song "Ammunition Hill" and how he did it: "It was written after the Six Day War when they asked me for a song about the paratroopers.

I wrote the song inspired by the story of a soldier who took part in a battle on Ammunition Hill, I took exact quotes from his words, I shortened, but I did not invent anything.

The well-known phrase 'I just wanted to go home safely' is also an authentic phrase.

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