What characterizes Yoram Taharlev is the connection he makes in his songs to the concrete, to the emotion of the time when the hymns were written, to specific places, to real people, and all the associations that accompany a simple phrase like "the path to the pools".
He was born and raised in Kibbutz Yagur. Feel it in some of his songs. It's a heavy load, Yagur. The large kibbutz at the far entrance to Haifa, together with Ein Harod, was a hit and a state of the united kibbutz. According to his testimony, his first song composed was 'You and I and the Spirit'. In 1964. The composer lived in a kibbutz on the other, eastern side of the Jezreel Valley, Beit Alfa. It was Nahum Heiman. It is hard to believe how quickly the song entered the repertoire of public singing in the surrounding economies. Ein Harod, Beit Alfa, Geva and Yagur were included in a song that kibbutzniks recognize: "Four in the afternoon" by the Nahal band, with the battle cry - "On Saturday we will go to Sahna!" The one who controls Yagur and the other settlements in the area.
Taharlev belongs to a group of songwriters from the kibbutzim who designed Hebrew song for generations, along with Matti Caspi, Shalom Hanoch, Meir Ariel, Natan Yonatan, Nahum Heiman and more. His well-known and powerful poems express the spirit of the period of the ongoing campaign between the Six Day War and the end of the 1970s. It sounds very pretentious to take the best-known battle from the Six Day War, so bloody, incorporate the warriors' testimonies and extract from it a long, rhythmic, captivating chorus, accompanied by the sweeping soundtrack of Yair Rosenblum. "Ammunition Hill" is a war movie that lasts for long minutes, and even those who hate "War" and the song will not be able to deny that this is the story of our lives in those years, and maybe not just in those years.
Along with "Ammunition Hill," his best-known song is "The Ballad of Joel Moishe Salomon."
People of a certain age simply know people of a certain age who fought on Ammunition Hill, or people who are descendants of Joel Moishe and Zerach Brent.
In this way, Taharlev is really connected to the core of the reactor of the old land of Israel.
In Taharlev, as his name and his Hassidic appearance indicate, there is a connection between the almost exiled Jew and the native, the native.
In any case, Eliyahu HaCohen, the Cohen of the Hebrew singer, thought so.
His most memorable songs are songs of pain and longing for someone who went and did not return, such as "The Path to the Pools," "If You Return" and "I Had a Friend I Had a Brother."
Taharlev is less mythological than Naomi Shemer or Haim Hefer, but his songs are better known than him, they would go without him.
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