WATCH: Israel’s Entebbe Rescue theme song
IDF musicians perform the classic on anniversary of daring rescue in which Netanyahu's brother was killed.
OPERATION THUNDERBOLT
THE LAND OF DEER
At midnight they arose
and struck at the edge of the world
like sons of ghosts they hurried to take flight
to return the honor of humanity
To the land of the deer (Israel)
to the honey of her fields
to the Carmel and the desert
to a nation who will not be silent/still
who will not abandon its sons to a foreigner
to the land of deer, in whose mountains
a city beats from generation to generation
to the motherland to whose navel
her children are bound in good and in bad
At midnight passes
in its/our fields a blistering wind
a willow then bows her head for those who
with the dawn did not come back
To the land of the deer (Israel)
to the honey of her fields
to the Carmel and the desert
to a nation who will not be silent/still
who will not abandon its sons to a foreigner
to the land of deer, whose tears
fall on a field of sunflowers
whose sadness and happiness
are criss-crossed across her dress.
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