Shiron (songbook) for the Eve of Passover with excerpts from the Haggadah - Special print issued for the Passover Seder at Metzudat Kfir in Jerusalem - Central Command headquarters - on Passover 1974 (several months before the Yom Kippur War), accompanied by illustrations. Rare.
On the page after the cover, the roaring lion emblem of the IDF Central Command is printed in large with the text: “This songbook is given as a souvenir to participants of the central Seder of Central Command at "Metzudat Kfir" 1974. The songbook opens with the verse “Yisrael Betach BaHashem Ezram uMaginam Hu” "Yevarechecha Hashem MiTzion", "Yonati BeChagvei HaSela" followed by “Simchu Shamayim", "Ha'er Eineynu", and more. Also appear excerpts from the Passover Haggadah: “Shlach Na Et Ami”, “Dayenu”, Song of Miriam, "Ki Lo Nae" and "Had Gadya". Featured between the excerpts is the song which became the anthem of Central Command “Al Kapav Yavi” by Yoram Taharlev, Hurshat HeEucalyptus, Naomi Shemer’s song “Machar”, "Al Pisgat Har HaZofim", Ehud Manor's song “BeShana Haba'a” and more.
Central Command headquarters is located in northern Jerusalem between the neighborhoods of Neve Ya'akov and Shuafat. The headquarters camp was formerly called “Metzudat Kfir” but today its name is “Camp Nehemia, ” after Major General Nehemia Tamari, who was killed there in a helicopter crash in 1994.
Rare. Not listed in the National Library.
13 [1] p. 21 cm. Light stains on cover. Very good condition.
