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Eponymous Dances

2026-10-28T21:13:18Z

Larry: how to sort colums

Dances named after specific human beings, either by the choreographer in choosing the dance name, or by the composer in naming the music.

Click on any column header to sort that column.

==== Other than Biblical ====
{| class="wikitable sortable"
! Dance Name !! Eponym !! Choreographer !! Occasion !! Notes
|-
| Agilei Damar || Shoshana Damari ז″ל|| [[Shmulik Gov-Ari]] || Damari's 1988 Israel Prize || Song composed in '88, the dance later
|-
| Ahavat Itamar || Itamar Ben-Avi || [[Sefi Aviv]] || Itamar's once-hopeless love for his bride || son of Eliezer Ben-Yehuda; full story [[Ahavat Itamar | here]]
|-
| Ariel || Ariel || [[Moshiko Halevy|Moshiko]] || || [[Moshiko's descendants | Moshiko's grandchild]]
|-
| Bat Shlomo (Lital) || || [[Shlomo Maman]] || ||
|-
| Ben Ya || Ben Ya || Moshiko || || [[Moshiko's descendants | Moshiko's son]]
|-
| [[Bosmat]] || Bosmat ? || Moshiko || || [[Moshiko's descendants | Moshiko's first granddaughter]]
|-
| Bracha || Bracha || Moshiko || || Moshiko's sister
|-
| Chanita || Anne (Channah) Eskayo ז″ל|| [[Moshe Eskayo]] || || Moshe's wife
|-
| Debka Aliza || Aliza Mintz || Joshua Fields || ||
|-
| Debka Allon || Allon Weinstock || Moshe Eskayo || ||
|-
| Debka Ariel || Ariel Weinstock || Moshe Eskayo || ||
|-
| [[Debka Chaim]] || Chaim Gazuli ז″ל|| Moshe Eskayo || In memoriam ||
|-
| Debka Dassa || Dani Dassa || [[Dani Dassa]] || ||
|-
| Debka Dikla || Dikla Kadosh || [[Naftali Kadosh]] || || Naftali's daughter
|-
| Debka Dor || Dor ? || Moshiko || || [[Moshiko's descendants | Moshiko's grandson]]
|-
| Debka Eileen || Eileen Weinstock || Moshe Eskayo || ||
|-
| Debka Eilon || Eilon Swissa || [[Ilan Swissa]] || || Ilan's son
|-
| Debka Etti || Etti ? || Naftali Kadosh || || Naftali's ??
|-
| Debka Hilit || Hilit ? || Dudu Barzilay || || Dudu's sister
|-
| Debka Irit || Irit Eskayo Vaknine || Moshe Eskayo || || Moshe's daughter
|-
| [[Debka Larden]] || [[Larry Denenberg]] || Moshe Eskayo || Larry's 50th birthday || Commissioned by Larry's wife Rachael Rosner; possibly the first commissioned dance
|-
| Debka Li'el || Li'el Ben Sasson || Moshe Eskayo || || Moshe's first grandson, born May 19 1989
|-
| Debka Liya || Liya Tabashi[?] || [[Yuval Tabashi]] || || Yuval's daughter
|-
| Debka Moshe|| Moshe Eskayo ז″ל || [[Tamir Scherzer]] || ||
|-
| Debka Irit || Irit Eskayo Vaknine || Moshe Eskayo || || Moshe's daughter
|-
| Debka Nufar || Nufar Kadosh || Naftali Kadosh || || Naftali's daughter
|-
| [[Debka Simonne (Harvey)]] || Simonne ? || Moshe Eskayo || || friend of Moshe and of Avner Naim; more info [[Debka Simonne (Harvey) | here]]
|-
| [[Debka Skayo]] || Moshe Eskayo ז″ל || Moshe Eskayo || || More information [[Debka Skayo | here]]
|-
| [[Debka Uriah]] || Uriah Halevy || Moshiko || || [[Moshiko's descendants | Moshiko's first child]]
|-
| Eliezer Ben Yehuda || Eliezer Ben Yehuda || [[Yoram Sasson]] || || Revived Hebrew as a modern language in Israel
|-
| Gaaguim L'Skayo || Moshe Eskayo ז″ל || [[Avner Naim]] || In memoriam ||
|-
| Gam Li El || Eliyahu Gamliel ז″ל || Moshiko || In memoriam ||
|-
| Habaal Shem Tov || Baal Shem Tov || [[Meir Shem Tov]] || || The founder of Chassidism
|-
| Halleli Or || Lior Yakovee || [[Israel Yakovee]] || Lior's birth || Yakovee's son
|-
| [[Halleluyah L'Gal]] || Gal ? || [[Se'adya Amishai]] || || Se'adya's grandson; orig. song name "Halleluyah"
|-
| Harikud Shel Pnina || Pnina ? || [[Tuvia Tishler]] || ||
|-
| [[Hora Agadati]] || Baruch Agadati || [[Baruch Agadati]] || || The first choreographed dance[[Hora Agadati|?]]; see also [[First Steps]]
|-
| Hora Chemed || Chemed || Moshiko || || [[Moshiko's descendants | Moshiko's son]]
|-
| Ima Bracha || Bracha ? || Israel Yakovee || || Yakovee's mother
|-
| Kino's Dance || Kino ? || Israel Yakovee || named by the composer, not the choreographer ||
|-
| Liat Li Liat || Liat Weinstock || Moshe Eskayo || Liat's birth ||
|-
| Libi || Libi || Moshiko || || [[Moshiko's descendants | Moshiko's daughter]]
|-
| Liya || Liya Vaknine || Moshe Eskayo || || Moshe's granddaughter
|-
| Mechol Ovadya|| Ovadya ? || [[Yardena Cohen]] || || The composer
|-
| Mizmor L'David (Adonai Ro'i) || Ro'i || Moshiko || || [[Moshiko's descendants | Moshiko's granddaughter]]
|-
| Mor || Mor || Moshiko || || [[Moshiko's descendants | Moshiko's grandchild]]
|-
| Moshiko || Moshiko || [[Moshe Telem]] || ||
|-
| [[Naomi]] || Naomi Vilan || Yoav Ashriel / Bentzi Tiram || || The girlfriend of the son of the lyricist's second husband; see [[Naomi|here]]
|-
| Natzer Mechake LeRabin || Gamal Nasser and Yitzchak Rabin || [[Yo'av Ashriel]] || During the Six Day War ||
|-
| Niguna Shel Shlomit|| Shlomit ?|| [[Boaz Cohen]] || ||
|-
| Niguno Shel Berel || Berel ?|| [[Shlomo Maman]] || ||
|-
| Niguno Shel Uri|| Uri Cohen || Shlomo Maman, [[Hagai Ramati]], [[Maurice Perez]] (3 versions) || || The composer
|-
| Niguno Shel Yossi|| Yossi Spivak|| [[Raya Spivak]] || || The composer
|-
| Omer || Omer || Moshiko || || [[Moshiko's descendants | Moshiko's grandson]]
|-
| Reichan Gruzini || Reichan || Moshiko || || [[Moshiko's descendants | Moshiko's grandchild]]
|-
| Rikud Eileen || Eileen Weinstock || Moshe Eskayo || ||
|-
| Rikudo Shel Uri || Uri Bar Or || [[Noa Bar Or]] || Uri's death in Gaza || Noa is Uri's mother
|-
| [[Rona]] || Rona Shukri || Sefi Aviv || || much more information [[Rona | here]]
|-
| Shai L'Ayla || Ayla Denenberg || Moshiko || Ayla's birth ||
|-
| Shir L'Ashriel || Yoav Ashriel ז″ל|| Roni Siman Tov || Yoav's 80th birthday || music is Al Tityaesh
|-
| Shir L'Ophir || Ophir || Moshiko || || [[Moshiko's descendants | Moshiko's grandson]]
|-
| Shirat Oryana || Oryana Ashkenazi ז″ל || [[Oren Ashkenazi]] & [[Lena Ashkenazi-Stettler]] || In memoriam || Oren & Lena's daughter
|-
| Shmulke's Nigun || Shmulke ? || || ||
|-
| Tamar HaK'tana || Tamar || Moshiko || || [[Moshiko's descendants | Moshiko's granddaughter]]
|-
| Tfilat Michal || Michal Eskayo || Moshe Eskayo || || Moshe's daughter
|-
| Vals Le Miya-Ar|| Mia Arbatoba ז″ל || Moshiko || In memoriam || Moshiko's early dance teacher
|-
| Vals L'Ori || Ori || Moshiko || || [[Moshiko's descendants | Moshiko's great granddaughter]]
|-
| Vilner Gaon (Hagaon MeVilna) || The Vilna Gaon || [[Mitch Ginsburgh]] || || Also known as the GRA, Rabbi Elijah ben Shlomo Zalman Kremer
|-
| Yakir Menachem || Menachem Menachem ז″ל || Moshiko || In memoriam ||
|-
| Yiska || Yiska || Moshiko || || [[Moshiko's descendants | Moshiko's grandchild]]
|-
| Yonati || Yonah ? || Israel Yakovee || || Yakovee's grandmother
|-
| Yosifun || Yosifun ז″ל || Moshiko || In memoriam || A childhood friend
|-
| Yuvali Ninati || Yuvali || Moshiko || || [[Moshiko's descendants | Moshiko's great granddaughter]]
|}

==== Biblical ====
(For many more connections between Israeli dances and the Bible, with a wealth of details, visit [http://www.hebrewsongs.com/bible_songs.asp? The Bible Project].)
{| class="wikitable sortable"
! Dance Name !! Eponym !! Choreographer !! Citation !! Notes
|-
| Ahavat Shlomo Et Shulamit (Kishlomo Et Shulamit) || Solomon and Shulamit || Tzvi Fridhaber || ||
|-
| Avram Avinu || Abraham the patriarch || two versions || ||
|-
| Beohel Avraham || Abraham the patriarch || Levi Bar Gil || ||
|-
| Eved Avraham || Abraham the patriarch || Yoram Sasson || ||
|-
| David HaMelech Ba LaMesiba || King David|| [[Shmulik Gov Ari]] || ||
|-
| David Melech Israel || King David|| [[Shmulik Gov Ari]] || ||
|-
| David Melech Israel || King David|| [[Gurit Kadman]] || ||
|-
| David VeGoliyat || David and Goliath || Levi Bar Gil || 1 Samuel 17 ||
|-
| David Yafe Enayim || King David|| Benny Levy || ||
|-
| Eved Avraham || Abraham the patriarch || Yoram Sasson || ||
|-
| HaShir Shel Miriam || Miriam || Itzik Ben Dahan, Yaron Elfasy || ||
|-
| Joshua || Yehoshua Ben-Nun || Dani Dassa || Joshua ch. 1, 2, 10–12 || Specifics [http://hebrewsongs.com/?song=yehoshua here]
|-
| K'agadat Rivka || Rebecca, wife of Isaac || Vicki Cohen || Genesis 24 ||
|-
| Kedat Moshe Ve'Israel || Moses || Kobi Michaeli || ||
|-
| Kinor David || King David || Fredie Cohen || || [https://larry.denenberg.com/Songs/kinordavid.pdf Lyrics, transliteration, and translation]
|-
| Kismei Shaul || King Saul || Yankele Levy || 1 Samuel 28:5–19 ||
|-
| Magen David || King David || Asher Ellazam || ||
|-
| Mayim Ledavid || King David || Chilik Carmeli || ||
|-
| Mayim LeDavid HaMelech || King David || Giora Kadmon || ||
|-
| Mizmor LeDavid || King David || several versions || ||
|-
| Shir HaMaalot LeDavid || King David || Amnon Eilat || ||
|-
| [[Sulam Ya'akov]] || Jacob the Patriarch || Yonatan Gabai || ||
|-
| Torat Moshe || Moses || Israel Yakovee || ||
|-
| VaTikach Miryam || Miriam, sister of Moses || Sagi Azran || Exodus 15 ||
|-
| Vecherev Ein LeDavid || King David || Tamar Alyagor || ||
|-
| Vedavid Yafe Enayim || King David || several versions|| 1 Samuel, 16:11–12 and 18:7 ||
|}

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Eponymous Dances

2026-10-28T20:59:26Z

Larry: Debka Hilit

Dances named after specific human beings, either by the choreographer in choosing the dance name, or by the composer in naming the music.

==== Other than Biblical ====
{| class="wikitable sortable"
! Dance Name !! Eponym !! Choreographer !! Occasion !! Notes
|-
| Agilei Damar || Shoshana Damari ז″ל|| [[Shmulik Gov-Ari]] || Damari's 1988 Israel Prize || Song composed in '88, the dance later
|-
| Ahavat Itamar || Itamar Ben-Avi || [[Sefi Aviv]] || Itamar's once-hopeless love for his bride || son of Eliezer Ben-Yehuda; full story [[Ahavat Itamar | here]]
|-
| Ariel || Ariel || [[Moshiko Halevy|Moshiko]] || || [[Moshiko's descendants | Moshiko's grandchild]]
|-
| Bat Shlomo (Lital) || || [[Shlomo Maman]] || ||
|-
| Ben Ya || Ben Ya || Moshiko || || [[Moshiko's descendants | Moshiko's son]]
|-
| [[Bosmat]] || Bosmat ? || Moshiko || || [[Moshiko's descendants | Moshiko's first granddaughter]]
|-
| Bracha || Bracha || Moshiko || || Moshiko's sister
|-
| Chanita || Anne (Channah) Eskayo ז″ל|| [[Moshe Eskayo]] || || Moshe's wife
|-
| Debka Aliza || Aliza Mintz || Joshua Fields || ||
|-
| Debka Allon || Allon Weinstock || Moshe Eskayo || ||
|-
| Debka Ariel || Ariel Weinstock || Moshe Eskayo || ||
|-
| [[Debka Chaim]] || Chaim Gazuli ז″ל|| Moshe Eskayo || In memoriam ||
|-
| Debka Dassa || Dani Dassa || [[Dani Dassa]] || ||
|-
| Debka Dikla || Dikla Kadosh || [[Naftali Kadosh]] || || Naftali's daughter
|-
| Debka Dor || Dor ? || Moshiko || || [[Moshiko's descendants | Moshiko's grandson]]
|-
| Debka Eileen || Eileen Weinstock || Moshe Eskayo || ||
|-
| Debka Eilon || Eilon Swissa || [[Ilan Swissa]] || || Ilan's son
|-
| Debka Etti || Etti ? || Naftali Kadosh || || Naftali's ??
|-
| Debka Hilit || Hilit ? || Dudu Barzilay || || Dudu's sister
|-
| Debka Irit || Irit Eskayo Vaknine || Moshe Eskayo || || Moshe's daughter
|-
| [[Debka Larden]] || [[Larry Denenberg]] || Moshe Eskayo || Larry's 50th birthday || Commissioned by Larry's wife Rachael Rosner; possibly the first commissioned dance
|-
| Debka Li'el || Li'el Ben Sasson || Moshe Eskayo || || Moshe's first grandson, born May 19 1989
|-
| Debka Liya || Liya Tabashi[?] || [[Yuval Tabashi]] || || Yuval's daughter
|-
| Debka Moshe|| Moshe Eskayo ז″ל || [[Tamir Scherzer]] || ||
|-
| Debka Irit || Irit Eskayo Vaknine || Moshe Eskayo || || Moshe's daughter
|-
| Debka Nufar || Nufar Kadosh || Naftali Kadosh || || Naftali's daughter
|-
| [[Debka Simonne (Harvey)]] || Simonne ? || Moshe Eskayo || || friend of Moshe and of Avner Naim; more info [[Debka Simonne (Harvey) | here]]
|-
| [[Debka Skayo]] || Moshe Eskayo ז″ל || Moshe Eskayo || || More information [[Debka Skayo | here]]
|-
| [[Debka Uriah]] || Uriah Halevy || Moshiko || || [[Moshiko's descendants | Moshiko's first child]]
|-
| Eliezer Ben Yehuda || Eliezer Ben Yehuda || [[Yoram Sasson]] || || Revived Hebrew as a modern language in Israel
|-
| Gaaguim L'Skayo || Moshe Eskayo ז″ל || [[Avner Naim]] || In memoriam ||
|-
| Gam Li El || Eliyahu Gamliel ז″ל || Moshiko || In memoriam ||
|-
| Habaal Shem Tov || Baal Shem Tov || [[Meir Shem Tov]] || || The founder of Chassidism
|-
| Halleli Or || Lior Yakovee || [[Israel Yakovee]] || Lior's birth || Yakovee's son
|-
| [[Halleluyah L'Gal]] || Gal ? || [[Se'adya Amishai]] || || Se'adya's grandson; orig. song name "Halleluyah"
|-
| Harikud Shel Pnina || Pnina ? || [[Tuvia Tishler]] || ||
|-
| [[Hora Agadati]] || Baruch Agadati || [[Baruch Agadati]] || || The first choreographed dance[[Hora Agadati|?]]; see also [[First Steps]]
|-
| Hora Chemed || Chemed || Moshiko || || [[Moshiko's descendants | Moshiko's son]]
|-
| Ima Bracha || Bracha ? || Israel Yakovee || || Yakovee's mother
|-
| Kino's Dance || Kino ? || Israel Yakovee || named by the composer, not the choreographer ||
|-
| Liat Li Liat || Liat Weinstock || Moshe Eskayo || Liat's birth ||
|-
| Libi || Libi || Moshiko || || [[Moshiko's descendants | Moshiko's daughter]]
|-
| Liya || Liya Vaknine || Moshe Eskayo || || Moshe's granddaughter
|-
| Mechol Ovadya|| Ovadya ? || [[Yardena Cohen]] || || The composer
|-
| Mizmor L'David (Adonai Ro'i) || Ro'i || Moshiko || || [[Moshiko's descendants | Moshiko's granddaughter]]
|-
| Mor || Mor || Moshiko || || [[Moshiko's descendants | Moshiko's grandchild]]
|-
| Moshiko || Moshiko || [[Moshe Telem]] || ||
|-
| [[Naomi]] || Naomi Vilan || Yoav Ashriel / Bentzi Tiram || || The girlfriend of the son of the lyricist's second husband; see [[Naomi|here]]
|-
| Natzer Mechake LeRabin || Gamal Nasser and Yitzchak Rabin || [[Yo'av Ashriel]] || During the Six Day War ||
|-
| Niguna Shel Shlomit|| Shlomit ?|| [[Boaz Cohen]] || ||
|-
| Niguno Shel Berel || Berel ?|| [[Shlomo Maman]] || ||
|-
| Niguno Shel Uri|| Uri Cohen || Shlomo Maman, [[Hagai Ramati]], [[Maurice Perez]] (3 versions) || || The composer
|-
| Niguno Shel Yossi|| Yossi Spivak|| [[Raya Spivak]] || || The composer
|-
| Omer || Omer || Moshiko || || [[Moshiko's descendants | Moshiko's grandson]]
|-
| Reichan Gruzini || Reichan || Moshiko || || [[Moshiko's descendants | Moshiko's grandchild]]
|-
| Rikud Eileen || Eileen Weinstock || Moshe Eskayo || ||
|-
| Rikudo Shel Uri || Uri Bar Or || [[Noa Bar Or]] || Uri's death in Gaza || Noa is Uri's mother
|-
| [[Rona]] || Rona Shukri || Sefi Aviv || || much more information [[Rona | here]]
|-
| Shai L'Ayla || Ayla Denenberg || Moshiko || Ayla's birth ||
|-
| Shir L'Ashriel || Yoav Ashriel ז″ל|| Roni Siman Tov || Yoav's 80th birthday || music is Al Tityaesh
|-
| Shir L'Ophir || Ophir || Moshiko || || [[Moshiko's descendants | Moshiko's grandson]]
|-
| Shirat Oryana || Oryana Ashkenazi ז″ל || [[Oren Ashkenazi]] & [[Lena Ashkenazi-Stettler]] || In memoriam || Oren & Lena's daughter
|-
| Shmulke's Nigun || Shmulke ? || || ||
|-
| Tamar HaK'tana || Tamar || Moshiko || || [[Moshiko's descendants | Moshiko's granddaughter]]
|-
| Tfilat Michal || Michal Eskayo || Moshe Eskayo || || Moshe's daughter
|-
| Vals Le Miya-Ar|| Mia Arbatoba ז″ל || Moshiko || In memoriam || Moshiko's early dance teacher
|-
| Vals L'Ori || Ori || Moshiko || || [[Moshiko's descendants | Moshiko's great granddaughter]]
|-
| Vilner Gaon (Hagaon MeVilna) || The Vilna Gaon || [[Mitch Ginsburgh]] || || Also known as the GRA, Rabbi Elijah ben Shlomo Zalman Kremer
|-
| Yakir Menachem || Menachem Menachem ז″ל || Moshiko || In memoriam ||
|-
| Yiska || Yiska || Moshiko || || [[Moshiko's descendants | Moshiko's grandchild]]
|-
| Yonati || Yonah ? || Israel Yakovee || || Yakovee's grandmother
|-
| Yosifun || Yosifun ז″ל || Moshiko || In memoriam || A childhood friend
|-
| Yuvali Ninati || Yuvali || Moshiko || || [[Moshiko's descendants | Moshiko's great granddaughter]]
|}

==== Biblical ====
(For many more connections between Israeli dances and the Bible, with a wealth of details, visit [http://www.hebrewsongs.com/bible_songs.asp? The Bible Project].)
{| class="wikitable sortable"
! Dance Name !! Eponym !! Choreographer !! Citation !! Notes
|-
| Ahavat Shlomo Et Shulamit (Kishlomo Et Shulamit) || Solomon and Shulamit || Tzvi Fridhaber || ||
|-
| Avram Avinu || Abraham the patriarch || two versions || ||
|-
| Beohel Avraham || Abraham the patriarch || Levi Bar Gil || ||
|-
| Eved Avraham || Abraham the patriarch || Yoram Sasson || ||
|-
| David HaMelech Ba LaMesiba || King David|| [[Shmulik Gov Ari]] || ||
|-
| David Melech Israel || King David|| [[Shmulik Gov Ari]] || ||
|-
| David Melech Israel || King David|| [[Gurit Kadman]] || ||
|-
| David VeGoliyat || David and Goliath || Levi Bar Gil || 1 Samuel 17 ||
|-
| David Yafe Enayim || King David|| Benny Levy || ||
|-
| Eved Avraham || Abraham the patriarch || Yoram Sasson || ||
|-
| HaShir Shel Miriam || Miriam || Itzik Ben Dahan, Yaron Elfasy || ||
|-
| Joshua || Yehoshua Ben-Nun || Dani Dassa || Joshua ch. 1, 2, 10–12 || Specifics [http://hebrewsongs.com/?song=yehoshua here]
|-
| K'agadat Rivka || Rebecca, wife of Isaac || Vicki Cohen || Genesis 24 ||
|-
| Kedat Moshe Ve'Israel || Moses || Kobi Michaeli || ||
|-
| Kinor David || King David || Fredie Cohen || || [https://larry.denenberg.com/Songs/kinordavid.pdf Lyrics, transliteration, and translation]
|-
| Kismei Shaul || King Saul || Yankele Levy || 1 Samuel 28:5–19 ||
|-
| Magen David || King David || Asher Ellazam || ||
|-
| Mayim Ledavid || King David || Chilik Carmeli || ||
|-
| Mayim LeDavid HaMelech || King David || Giora Kadmon || ||
|-
| Mizmor LeDavid || King David || several versions || ||
|-
| Shir HaMaalot LeDavid || King David || Amnon Eilat || ||
|-
| [[Sulam Ya'akov]] || Jacob the Patriarch || Yonatan Gabai || ||
|-
| Torat Moshe || Moses || Israel Yakovee || ||
|-
| VaTikach Miryam || Miriam, sister of Moses || Sagi Azran || Exodus 15 ||
|-
| Vecherev Ein LeDavid || King David || Tamar Alyagor || ||
|-
| Vedavid Yafe Enayim || King David || several versions|| 1 Samuel, 16:11–12 and 18:7 ||
|}

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Template:Rokdim

2026-10-27T21:14:12Z

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[https://rokdim.co.il/#/Dance/{{{1}}} Video] at [https://www.rokdim.co.il/ Rokdim]

Ga'aguim

2026-10-27T21:12:43Z

Larry: Link to newer video at Rokdim

Hebrew: געגועים (longing, yearning) 
Alternative transliteration: Gaaguim 

Dance by [[Moshiko Halevy]], sometimes done as a circle dance and sometimes as a couple mixer. Moshiko himself has been known to teach it both ways.

As a mixer, the formation is unique. The dance is done once through in a big circle, all holding hands, the woman to the right of her partner. At the end of once through the dance, the woman steps backward out of the circle, to begin behind her partner with no handholds. At the end of this second time through, the woman steps forward to reform the large circle, stepping to the left of her original partner to the right of her new partner.

In the teaching videos at [http://www.rokdim.co.il/home/home.asp Rokdim], Ga'aguim is presented as a circle dance with the comment that it was originally done alternately in circles and partners, but that in Israel it isn't danced that way. (No mention of couple mixing.)

Moshiko taught it in the UK in 1978 and at [[Hora Shalom]] 1982 as a couple mixer. However, on his own teaching videos, he teaches it as a circle dance. He has said that he has been forced to do so because the music is typically cut short; there aren't enough repetitions to make it a reasonable mixer. Also, many markidim don't want to force dancers to mix, since so many come with a fixed partner. But he still prefers it as a mixer. He says<ref>Interview with Moshiko, 23 September 2018</ref>:
<blockquote>
You can't play mixer dances because [the dancers] don't want to change partners, they want to stay with their private partner. Unfortunately they are missing the point of how to share in society. In many recreations people, when there are couple dances, some of the men or the women don't get a partner so they sit on the side and wait until couple dances are finished. But when you're coming to dance you're coming to share, not only to get what you can get from the recreation, you're coming also to share yourself. They behave in a very egoistical [manner]. No no I didn't change [the formation], [a mixer] is the beautiful way of how to share with each other. They don't like to leave their partners, they stick with them, missing the point of sharing. So they do it in a circle version, not in couples. They give up the couples.
</blockquote>

Prior to the first [[Karmiel Festival]] in 1988, a workshop was held for the guest North American performing groups and teachers. Twenty classic Israeli dances were presented as outstanding representatives of the genre (no connection to the "Twenty Best" list in [[Dances of the Twentieth Century]]). The dances were taught by [[Yonatan Gabai]], [[Bracha Duda'i]], and others. Through what some considered an egregiously biased selection process, Ga'aguim was the only Moshiko dance to be included. It was taught as a circle dance.

==== References ====

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=== External Links ===

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Ahavat Itamar

2026-10-27T02:03:34Z

Larry: tiny format fix

Hebrew: אהבת איתמר (Itamar's Love). Circle dance by [[Sefi Aviv]], 1991.

The Itamar of the title is Itamar Ben-Avi, son of [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eliezer_Ben-Yehuda Eliezer Ben-Yehuda], the creator of the modern Hebrew language. Ben-Yehuda wanted his son to be called Eber, the great-great-great-great-grandfather of Abraham and the eponym of the word "Hebrew", but the mohel refused as the name wasn't used in their community. So Ben-Yehuda suggested "Itamar", the name that his wife Deborah preferred, but the mohel still wouldn't consent. Finally they used "Ben Tzion". But when Itamar grew up he changed his name to the one chosen by his mother. He also changed his last name to "Ben-Avi", since "Avi" means "my father" and is simultaneously an acronym for "Eliezer Ben-Yehuda".

When Itamar was 23 he met and fell in love with Leah Abushedid, who was 16 at the time. Her mother would not consent to their union; she came from a high-status Sephardic family, and Itamar was poor and Ashkenazi. Itamar responded by writing letters and poems to Leah, all of which were published in a newspaper.  As the couple became desperate, his writings began hinting of suicide, and Leah threatened that she would never marry anyone else (thus denying grandchildren to her mother). Eventually the families were brought to see reason and the wedding took place.

The song lyrics are '''not''' from a poem written by Itamar; they were written much later by Dudu Barak at the suggestion of Itamar's daughter Drora. It was set to music by [[Nurit Hirsh]] and first performed by Miri Aloni. The full name of the song is "Ahavat Itamar Ben Avi".

The dance was dedicated by Sefi to [[Menachem Menachem]], who had recently passed away. Moshiko's dance Yakir Menachem was dedicated to the same choreographer.

=== External Links ===

The song [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UxYwS6zuxV4 performed] by Miri Aloni

[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Itamar_Ben-Avi Itamar Ben Avi] at Wikipedia (English)

[https://he.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D7%9C%D7%90%D7%94_%D7%90%D7%91%D7%95%D7%A9%D7%93%D7%99%D7%93 Leah Abushedid] at Wikipedia (Hebrew)


The [https://lyricstranslate.com/en/miri-aloni-ahavat-itamar-ben-avi-transliteration lyrics] to Ahavat Itamar Ben Avi, with translation and transliteration

Ofer Gavish's [https://www.gavisho.com/%D7%90%D7%94%D7%91%D7%AA-%D7%90%D7%99%D7%AA%D7%9E%D7%A8-%D7%91%D7%9F-%D7%90%D7%91%D7%99 blog post] on the song with more stories (Hebrew)

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Gan Chorpi

2026-10-12T00:07:32Z

Larry: Fix bad link for pétanque, alas

Hebrew: גן חורפי (Winter Garden). Partner dance by [[Gila Paz]], 2010.

The interesting thing here is not the dance, but who gets credit for the music and the lyrics.

The original song is French: Jardin d'Hiver (Winter Garden). It was written by [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Benjamin_Biolay Benjamin Biolay] and [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Keren_Ann Keren Ann] in 2000, and appears on Ann's first album ''La Biographie de Luka Philipsen''. It has been covered by many artists.

Keren Ann was "discovered" by [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henri_Salvador Henri Salvador]. When Salvador returned to singing after a couple of decades in eclipse (during which time he became a champion in the game of [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/P%C3%A9tanque pétanque]), Biolay and Ann offered the song to him for his 2002 rebound album ''Chambre avec vue''. Because of the huge popularity of the song on that album, many sources credit Salvador with its authorship. In other places it is credited solely to Benjamin Biolay or solely to Keren Ann.

The Hebrew translation of the lyrics is variously credited to Naomi Shemer (as the choreographer says in the Rokdim video) or to Tamar Giladi, who is the singer. Probably the latter is correct. However, Keren Ann is herself Israeli, born in Caesaria, and is fluent in Hebrew, English, and Dutch as well as French. It seems at least possible that she did the translation herself. It would be nice to contact her somehow and ask this question.

=== External Links ===

Jardin d'Hiver [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fKyToxL31as sung by Keren Ann]. The credits say "the singer Keren Ann performs the title 'Jardin d’Hiver' by Henri Salvador".

Jardin d'Hiver [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lNZIzor29LI sung by Henri Salvador]. The credits say "Official music video for 'Jardin d’hiver' by Henri Salvador".

[https://shironet.mako.co.il/artist?type=lyrics&lang=1&prfid=1263&wrkid=10040 Hebrew lyrics] to Gan Chorpi at Shironet. Keren Ann is given sole credit for words and melody; the translation is credited to Tamar Giladi.

Keren Ann's [https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Keren_Ann biography] on French Wikipedia

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Debka Larden

2026-10-11T16:35:45Z

Larry: minor editing

Hebrew: דבקה לרדן, "Larden's Debka". Circle dance by [[Moshe Eskayo]], 2004.

==== History ====

Debka Larden was choreographed in honor of the fiftieth birthday of [http://www.larry.denenberg.com Larry Denenberg]. It was commissioned by Denenberg's wife, [http://philip.greenspun.com/images/pcd0865/rachael-rosner-99.tcl Rachael Rosner]. It is thought to be the first commissioned Israeli folkdance in existence, followed later by [[Becca Rausch]]'s [[Bereshit Bara]]. (There are unconfirmed reports that [[Horat He-Asor]] and [[Hora Mamtera]] were earlier commissioned dances.)

As might be expected, Debka Larden is virtually unknown outside the northeastern United States, and is not very well known even there. The part that is well known, however, is a set of four sways, during which everyone in the room shouts "Larry, Larry, Larry, Larry." This custom was made popular by Eileen Weinstock, Eskayo's long-time friend and co-teacher.

The origin of the song is a little murky. It appears on an album of Antonis Kalkantzakos called Δε Με Νοιάζει Για Μένα (I Don't Care About Myself), assembled by DJ Kostas Monaxos. The track, #14, is called just "Tsifteteli (Dance Mix)". (A [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tsifteteli tsifteteli] is a generic dance popular in Greece, Turkey, and surrounding regions.) But that album was released in 2000. Almost exactly the same song appears on album Bir Tek Sen—Barış Olsun (Only You—Let There Be Peace) released in 1996 by the Turkish group [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yurtseven_Karde%C5%9Fler Yurtseven Kardeşler] (The Yurtseven Brothers). On that album, the song is called "Halay (instrumental)"; strangely, that cut and one other instrumental cut are omitted from many listings of the album. All things considered, the song would seem to be originally Turkish. It is unknown to whom credit for the song is given on the Greek album.

==== External Links ====

The [https://www.mp3indirdur.com.tr/16329-indir-yurtseven-kardesler-halay-(enstrumental)-indir.html cut] from the 1996 Turkish album

The rest of that album, [https://www.mp3indirdur.com.tr/1743-album-yurtseven-kardesler-bir-tek-sen-baris-olsun-indir.html Bir Tek Sen—Barış Olsun]

The [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UqBY-2p39Io cut from the 2000 Greek album], and [https://www.discogs.com/%CE%9A%CF%8E%CF%83%CF%84%CE%B1%CF%82-%CE%9C%CE%BF%CE%BD%CE%B1%CF%87%CF%8C%CF%82-%CE%94%CE%B5-%CE%9C%CE%B5-%CE%9D%CE%BF%CE%B9%CE%AC%CE%B6%CE%B5%CE%B9-%CE%93%CE%B9%CE%B1-%CE%9C%CE%AD%CE%BD%CE%B1-/release/12852407 details] of that album


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Debka Larden

2026-10-11T16:33:55Z

Larry: More on the song origin: Turkish version

Hebrew: דבקה לרדן, "Larden's Debka". Circle dance by [[Moshe Eskayo]], 2004.

==== History ====

Debka Larden was choreographed in honor of the fiftieth birthday of [http://www.larry.denenberg.com Larry Denenberg]. It was commissioned by Denenberg's wife, [http://philip.greenspun.com/images/pcd0865/rachael-rosner-99.tcl Rachael Rosner]. It is thought to be the first commissioned Israeli folkdance in existence, followed later by [[Becca Rausch]]'s [[Bereshit Bara]]. (There are unconfirmed reports that [[Horat He-Asor]] and [[Hora Mamtera]] were earlier commissioned dances.)

As might be expected, Debka Larden is virtually unknown outside the northeastern United States, and is not very well known even there. The part that is well known, however, is a set of four sways, during which everyone in the room shouts "Larry, Larry, Larry, Larry." This custom was made popular by Eileen Weinstock, Eskayo's long-time friend and co-teacher.

The origin of the song is a little murky. It appears on an album of Antonis Kalkantzakos called Δε Με Νοιάζει Για Μένα (I Don't Care About Myself), assembled by DJ Kostas Monaxos. The track, #14, is called just "Tsifteteli (Dance Mix)". (A [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tsifteteli tsifteteli] is a generic dance popular in Greece, Turkey, and surrounding regions.) But that album was released in 2000. Almost exactly the same song appears on album Bir Tek Sen—Barış Olsun (Only You—Let There Be Peace) released in 1996 by the Turkish group [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yurtseven_Karde%C5%9Fler Yurtseven Kardeşler] (The Yurtseven Brothers). On that album, the song is called "Halay (instrumental)", but that cut and one other instrumental cut are omitted from many listings of the album. All things considered, the song would seem to be originally Turkish. It is unknown to whom credit for the song is given on the Greek album.

==== External Links ====

The [https://www.mp3indirdur.com.tr/16329-indir-yurtseven-kardesler-halay-(enstrumental)-indir.html cut] from the 1996 Turkish album

The rest of that album, [https://www.mp3indirdur.com.tr/1743-album-yurtseven-kardesler-bir-tek-sen-baris-olsun-indir.html Bir Tek Sen—Barış Olsun]

The [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UqBY-2p39Io cut from the 2000 Greek album], and [https://www.discogs.com/%CE%9A%CF%8E%CF%83%CF%84%CE%B1%CF%82-%CE%9C%CE%BF%CE%BD%CE%B1%CF%87%CF%8C%CF%82-%CE%94%CE%B5-%CE%9C%CE%B5-%CE%9D%CE%BF%CE%B9%CE%AC%CE%B6%CE%B5%CE%B9-%CE%93%CE%B9%CE%B1-%CE%9C%CE%AD%CE%BD%CE%B1-/release/12852407 details] of that album


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Dror Yikra

2026-10-10T20:46:40Z

Larry: Composer of Yankele's version

Dror Yikra (Hebrew: דרור יקרא, "He will proclaim freedom") is a poem by [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dunash_ben_Labrat Dunash HaLevi ben Labrat], poet and grammarian of
tenth-century Spain. (In the first three verses and the final verse, the
initial letters of the lines spell out "Dunash".) The poem
has become a piyyut traditionally sung on shabbat to any number of
melodies, including [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QnK4s9W9zGw The Sloop John B]
and [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=itIG4WU3WUc The Cups Song].
One melody transitions smoothly into the [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yfSLuEj99d0 Ballad of Gilligan's Island].

Of course, Israeli dances have been choreographed to many of these musical
settings:

* The most common, known as Dror Yikra, is a beginners' dance to a melody by Moshe Ben Mush, and is the [[First Creations | first dance choreographed]] by [[Eliyahu Gamliel]] (1972).

* In the same year, [[Moshe Eskayo]] created a more difficult dance for the same melody, played much faster. This dance is usually known as "Dror Yikra (fast)" to distinguish it from Gamliel's dance.

* The dance called Debka Dror (1987, [[David Alfassi]]) is done to a melody by Rachamim Chocima, with words from the piyyut.

* The music to [[Yankele Levy]]'s dance Shabbat Re'im (1982) also uses the lyrics from Dror Yikra, set to a completely different tune possibly by Yehuda Glantz but possibly "folk".

* Another dance called Dror Yikra with the same words was done in 2013 by [[Gadi Bitton]] with music by Yonatan Razel.

* The dance called Dror (2016, [[Tuvia Tischler]]) is another dance with the same words to a different melody by Yoni Ganot.

* [[Moshiko]] (like Dunash, a HaLevi) choreographed a partner mixer called Dror Yikra in 1970, to a Yemenite folk melody from Aden. The recording is instrumental and the words of the poem don't actually appear.

=== Links ===

All six verses of the original poem, in [https://shironet.mako.co.il/artist?type=lyrics&lang=1&prfid=6934&wrkid=31139 Hebrew] and in [https://www.hebrewsongs.com/song-droryikra.htm English translation/transliteration].

[http://www.israelidances.com/search.asp?S=&ChoreographerName=&intPageNo=1&OrderBy=&SearchThis=dror+yikra&Search=Search+the+Database Variants of Dror Yikra] at [http://www.israelidances.com israelidances.com]

[http://www.rokdim.co.il/rikudim/f_rikud.asp?rikudId=5850&mode=info Gamliel's dance] at [http://www.rokdim.co.il/ Rokdim]

[http://www.rokdim.co.il/rikudim/f_rikud.asp?rikudId=5813&mode=info Debka Dror] at [http://www.rokdim.co.il/ Rokdim]

[https://www.rokdim.co.il/dance/5abd23dadb5332cc3c8b4616 Shabbat Re'im] at [http://www.rokdim.co.il/ Rokdim]

[https://www.rokdim.co.il/dance/5abd2506db53322e3d8b45b4 Dror] at [http://www.rokdim.co.il/ Rokdim]

[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Yr51QMpSSUM Moshiko's partner mixer]

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Ayuma BeHar HaMor

2026-10-10T20:32:14Z

Larry: Minor editing

Hebrew: איומה בהר המור

The phrase "Ayuma behar hamor" is the first line of several poems in the Diwan, the semi-sacred collection of poems and songs compiled and mostly or entirely written by Rabbi Shalom Shabazi, 1619–1720, who was known as the "Poet of Yemen". A list of dances whose music uses lyrics from the Diwan is [[Dances from the Diwan | here]], and more information on the Diwan is [[Diwan | here]].

The poems beginning with "Ayuma behar hamor" all begin with these lines:

<poem>
::::.איומה בהר המור, עלי לך ובשרי
::::.ונשיר בשיר מזמור. בנגון ליוצרי
::::Ayuma behar hamor, ali lach uvaseri.
::::Venashir beshir mizmor. Benigun leyotzeri.
</poem>

. . . after which they differ. Here are the dances whose music uses one or another of these poems:

* Ayuma BeHar HaMor, the most common, is an easy circle dance by [[Amnon Shauli]], 1983. The Diwan page containing this version is [[Media:Ayuma-behar-hamor.pdf | here]].

* Amalel Shir, circle dance by [[Shlomo Maman]], 1981. The Diwan page containing this poem is [[Media:Amalel-shir.png|here]]. (Only some of the lyrics appear, at the bottom.)

* Ayuma, individual dance (circle formation without handhold) by [[Moshiko HaLevy]], 1991. The Diwan pages containing this version are [[Media:Ayuma-moshiko.pdf | here]]. (The first and fifth verses are sung.)

* Sabaya, circle dance by [[Gadi Bitton]], 2022. It is not clear whether the song uses any lines other than the first two above; the other lyrics may not be from the Diwan. But there may be some words from the same poem as Ayuma BeHar HaMor. Although the word "sabaya" in Arabic can mean "young women", here it refers to a Yemeni layer cake (see link below).

The phrase "Ayuma behar hamor" is hard to translate. As we see in the notes on the page for Ayuma, "ayuma" refers to the Shechina, the immanent presence of God as experienced by humankind. Therefore it includes aspects of radiance and splendor, but also of awesomeness and even terror. (The words is sometimes translated as "disaster" but that doesn't seem appropriate.) Har HaMor, literally "the mountain of myrrh", may be Mount Moriah, but it may also be an allusion to Mount Sinai. And poetically it may be both at once.

A note on pronunciation: In the second line of the poem, the letter gimel of the word "nigun" contains a dagesh, a dot. (Reason: It comes from the verb לנגן in binyan pi'el, a so-called "heavy" binyan where the second root letter receives a dagesh unless impossible.) Just as this dot in modern Hebrew makes the difference between "b" and "v" and between "p" and "f", dagesh in Yemenite Hebrew changes the "g" sound to "j". Furthermore, the prefix "ו", meaning "and", is pronounced not as "v" but as "w". So listen carefully to the singer. If in the second line you hear "w'nashir beshir mizmor, benijun leyotzri" you know that the singing is authentic.

=== External Links ===

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{{AussieLink|Amalel Shir|204}} at [http://www.israelidances.com israelidances.com]
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 [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jAAJsdxGU54 Sung] by Avner Gadasi
 Easier-to-read [https://larry.denenberg.com/Songs/amalel-shir.pdf lyrics]

{{AussieLink|Ayuma|1490}} at [http://www.israelidances.com israelidances.com]
 {{Rokdim|5abd23bcdb5332303a8b538d}}
 Easier-to-read [https://he.wikisource.org/wiki/%D7%90%D7%99%D7%95%D7%9E%D7%94_%D7%91%D7%94%D7%A8_%D7%94%D7%9E%D7%95%D7%A8 lyrics]

{{AussieLink|Sabaya|10917}} at [http://www.israelidances.com israelidances.com]
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A recipe for [https://www.jewishfoodsociety.org/recipes/sabaya-crispy-yemeni-layer-cake Sabaya]

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KesheNavo

2026-10-10T20:21:08Z

Larry: Minor editing/linking

Hebrew: כשנבוא (When We Come). Circle dance by [[Avi Perez]], 1986.

The song is originally Greek. It's title is "Τι θέλεις, γέρο;" ("What do You Want, Old Man?") and it was composed by Argyris Kounadis with lyrics by Giorgos Kalamariotis. The song was
written at the end of the [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Greek_junta Regime of the Colonels], the junta that overthrew the Greek government in 1967 and ruled as an authoritarian dictatorship until 1974. The title means "What Do You Want, Old Man" and is addressed to one of the fallen leaders, who has by then lost all his power. (Greek songwriters played a large part in the resistance against the Regime, including especially Mikis Theodorakis, who wrote the music for the protest film [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Z_(1969_film) Z] and also wrote the song whose Hebrew version is El Elohey Shamayim.)

The Hebrew version was performed by Arik Einstein, working with Miki Gavrielov (Hebrew lyrics by Eli Mohar). Einstein is widely recognized as the first to popularize Greek music in Israel, starting with the song we call Irisim. Although the dance is called "KesheNavo", the Hebrew song was titled "SheKesheNavo". This is why: In the Hebrew version, the second line of the refrain starts with "shekeshenavo", and at exactly the same point the original lyric is "σε ξένο κό", that is, "se kséno kó", which sounds a lot like "shekeshenavo" as you can hear in the Greek recording below. The song appeared on Einstein's 24th album, "Ohev Lihyot BaBayit", which was the first CD produced and sold in Israel.

The recording we typically use (unless cut otherwise) has a [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bouzouki bouzouki] solo in place of the repetition of the refrain after the second verse. The player is Yehuda Poliker. Listen carefully and you'll hear Arik Einstein call out "Yasu, Yuda!" followed by "Einayim Sheli", the name of Poliker's first album, which had just been released.

=== Links ===

[https://larry.denenberg.com/Songs/shekeshenavo.pdf Lyrics, translation, transliteration, and musical transcription] of the Hebrew version

[https://www.greeklyrics.de/songtext/8855-ti-thelisgero Lyrics and transliteration] of the original Greek song

Ofer Gavish's [https://www.gavisho.com/%D7%A9%D7%9B%D7%A9%D7%A0%D7%91%D7%95%D7%90 blog post] (Hebrew) on this song, which tells more of the story and is the source of much of this article

The original [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fWEmORH3nyc performance] by Antonis Kalogiannis

The first [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=irHkYljhg3E performance] by Arik Einstein, including ad lib passages that are cut on our recordings and are explained in the blog post above

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Original Music

2026-10-09T21:44:18Z

Larry: link KesheNavo

Dances that are usually done to an adapted version of the music.

The adaptation is usually a Hebrew version of the lyrics set to
the original melody, sometimes a translation but often just similar-sounding words. Dances typically done to the original music aren't
listed here, even if the lyrics aren't in Hebrew.

Click any column header to sort the table by that column.



{| class="wikitable sortable"
! Dance Name !! Original Name !! Language !! Translation !! Lyricist / Composer !! Notes/Links
|-
| Adon Olam || La Femme de mon ami || French || My Friend's Wife || René Blanc, Jacques Demarny, Enrico Macias || [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G_7hL5XMCZU Sung by Enrico Macias]
|-
| Agadat HaSultan || Μέσ της πόλης τα στενά || Greek || Alleyways of Istanbul || Spyros Peristeris(?) / Giannis Papaioannou(?) || [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rRkMXTBGRf4 sung by Stella Haskil]; [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6V6KX9Mb4ho another version]
|-
| Ahava Asura || [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elle_%C3%A9tait_si_jolie Elle était si jolie] || French || She Was So Pretty || [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alain_Barri%C3%A8re Alain Barrière] || [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DoZb0_fzs3s watch] (The melody is also the original tune for [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SO4ygYgjh2c Ha'Ir Be'Afor]; more info [[Ha'Ir Be'Afor | here]].)
|-
| Ahava Atzuma || [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/L'amour_est_bleu L'amour est bleu] || French || Love is Blue || Pierre Cour / [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andr%C3%A9_Popp André Charles Jean Popp] || [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nD4ib9-laGY Sung] by Greek-born [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vicky_Leandros Vicky Leandros], taking 4th place for Luxembourg in the [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eurovision_Song_Contest_1967 1976 Eurovision Song Contest] in Vienna
|-
| Al Titni Lo || El Camino || Spanish || The Road || [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gipsy_Kings Gipsy Kings] || [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z0A9KU-xBEY watch]
|-
| Amru Lo || Azzurro || Italian || Blue || Paolo Conte & Vito Pallavicini / Paolo Conte & Michele Virano || [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q1VGoKBKR3I sung] by Adriano Celentano
|-
| Ani Bach Shavui || Πάω απόψε να τρελαθώ || Greek || I'm Going To Go Crazy Tonight || Kosmas / Savvas Iliadis|| [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EkHNNm_h0vo sung] by Giorgos Giannias; [http://www.greeklyrics.gr/lyrics/view/3252/paw-apopse-na-trelathw lyrics]
|-
| Ani Chozer HaBayta || Lasciatemi Cantare || Italian || Let Me Sing || Toto Cutugno || [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0-4RLPSwNtc performed] by the composer; [https://lyricstranslate.com/en/Toto-Cutugno-L%E2%80%99italiano-lyrics.html lyrics] (with translations)
|-
| Ani Eshtage'a || La Partida || Spanish || Parting || Carlos Bonnet || [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6M-I6dCMHg8 performed] by Carmela (Carmen Requeta Dideo); [https://lyricstranslate.com/en/la-partida-prydh.html lyrics & translation]
|-
| [[At Li Paris]] || Africa || Italian || Africa || Salvatore "Toto" Cutugno et. al. || [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w7191wBlMbg performed] by Toto Cutugno; more information [[At Li Paris | here]]
|-
| At Oti Shofetet || Άντε Γεια || Greek || Goodbye || Panos Falaras / Kostas Miliotakis || [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IFY_drG-XfA performed] by Kaiti Garbi; [https://kithara.to/stixoi/MTQ2NDQyOTcw/ante-geia-garmpi-kaiti-lyrics Greek lyrics]
|-
| BaAviv At Tashuvi Chazara || Au printemps tu reviendras || French || In the Spring, You Will Return || Charles Aznavour || [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EjRBmHlgEig listen]
|-
| BaChof Shel Trapatoni || Μια νύχτα μόνο δεν φτάνει || Greek || Just One Night is Not Enough || Sotis Volanis & Panos Kamelis || [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3v4GcrgVp1c sung] by Sotis Volanis
|-
| [[BeSof Ma'agal]] || At the End of the Circle || English || || Kenny Young || more information [[BeSof Ma'agal|here]]
|-
| [[Chad Gadya]] || Alla Fiera dell'Est || Italian || At the Eastern Fair || Luisa Zappa / Angelo Branduardi
| [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iP2gqdGf1qU performed] by Branduardi; [[Chad Gadya|''more info'']]
|-
| Chalom O Shnayim || Τα Παιδιά του Πειραιά || Greek || The Children of Piraeus || Manos Hadjidakis || [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=28EAWlOXrYs performed by Melina Mercouri]. The song [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Never_on_Sunday_(song) Never on Sunday] also uses this music.
|-
| Chalon Mashkif || زَينة / عزيزة || Arabic || Zeina / Aziza || Mohammed Abdel Wahad || [https://youtube.com/watch?feature=youtu.be&v=sBFnM2gh1qo&t=1m35s Listen to Zeina] [https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=vuFYi6mu-Ns&t=25s Listen to Aziza]
|-
| Cheruti || Libertà || Italian || Freedom || Albano Carrisi & Romina Power || [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4CreqEL1p24 sung] (lyric subtitles) by Al Bano & Romina
|-
| El Elohei Shamayim || Ένα το χελιδόνι || Greek || One Single Swallow || Mikis Theodorakis || [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B9KLSwhr9E4 sung] by Gregory Bithikotsis; [https://lyricstranslate.com/en/%CE%AD%CE%BD%CE%B1-%CF%84%CE%BF-%CF%87%CE%B5%CE%BB%CE%B9%CE%B4%CF%8C%CE%BD%CE%B9-one-single-swallow.html lyrics/translation]
|-
| [[Gan Chorpi]] || Jardin d'hiver || French || Winter Garden || Benjamin Biolay & Keren Ann || [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fKyToxL31as sung] by Keren Ann; more info [[Gan Chorpi | here]]
|-
| HaAviv || Le printemps || French || The Spring|| Michel Fugain & Le Big Bazar || [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P6O3bM4MtVc watch]
|-
| HaShoshana Porachat || Los Bilbilicos (La Rosa Enflorese) || Ladino || The Little Nightingales || folk || [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WiqHqp0ZVr8 sung]; Also in English [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zHNSAK-iWy0 The Swallow] by Richard Fariña
|-
| Ilu Tsiporim || Si tous les oiseaux || French || If All the Birds || Jean Broussolle / Jean-Pierre Calvet || [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2QcRHPTx4VQ listen]; [https://www.paroles-musique.com/paroles-Les-Compagnons-De-La-Chanson-Si-Tous-Les-Oiseaux-lyrics,p18681 lyrics]
|-
| Irisim || Γύρισε || Greek || Come Back! || Nikos Fatseas / Giannis Vella || Performed by [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5ZL2EXhZGh8 Nikos Gounaris], by [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gWDFFxKsemE Stella Greca] and by duet [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j1kzD4qYxc0 Ofra Haza and Glykeria]; [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SdPpEFEjF_4 lyrics]
|-
| Isha Al HaChof || Τώρα που πας στην ξενιτιά || Greek || Now You Go to Foreign Lands || Nikos Gatsos / Manos Hadjidakis || [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=07T9zcpFD-A sung] by Nana Mouskouri
|-
| Kachol || Far From Home || English || || (instrumental) / folk (Shetlands?) || [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9GnC0GUDPgs listen]
|-
| [[KesheNavo]] || Τι θέλεις, γέρο; || Greek || What Do You Want, Old Man? || Giorgos Kalamariotis / Argyris Kounadis
| [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n5srFXu-fXk sung] by Rena Koumiwti; [https://larry.denenberg.com/Songs/shekeshenavo.pdf lyrics & translation] of the Hebrew version; more information [[KesheNavo | here]]
|-
| Ksheyavo Shalom || When the Saints Go Marching In || English || || Folk / Christian hymn || Many recordings starting 1923, including a jazz version by Louis Armstrong in 1938. [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/When_the_Saints_Go_Marching_In more information]
|-
| Kmo SheAt || [https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comme_toi_(chanson_de_Jean-Jacques_Goldman) Comme toi] || French || Like You || [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jean-Jacques_Goldman Jean-Jacques Goldman] || [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ySZBnMukO8g performed] by the artist; [http://lyricstranslate.com/en/comme-toi-just-you.html lyrics] (with translation)
|-
| Kmo Sira Trufa || Μετανιώνω || Greek || I Regret || Natalia Germanou / [https://www.facebook.com/pg/tonykontaxakismusic/about/ Tony Kontaxakis] || [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QL2THxQaS0Q sung] by Despina Vandi
|-
| Kulanu BaMitzad || В Путь! || Russian || Let's Go! || Mikhail Dudin / Vasily Solovyov-Sedoi || [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_jqOGpzNrg4 performed] by the Russian Red Army Choir
|-
| Le'ehov Im Efshar || [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Didi_Tera_Devar_Deewana दीदी तेरा देवर दीवाना] || Hindi || Sister, Your Brother-in-Law is Crazy || Dev Kohli / Raamlaxman || [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2V56f0xZNqw performed] in [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hum_Aapke_Hain_Koun..! ''Hum Aapke Hain Koun..!'']
|-
| Lech L'Sfat HaYam || [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Puttin%27_On_the_Ritz Puttin' On the Ritz] || English || || Irving Berlin || [https://vimeo.com/261408052 Astaire]; [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OG3PnQ3tgzY Taco]
|-
| Leylot Shel Ahava || Μίλησέ μου || Greek || Talk to Me || Nikos Gatsos / Manos Hatzidakis || [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vrcd8CumMeU sung by Nana Mouskouri] (with English subtitles), [http://www.greekmidi.com/songs/hatzidakis/milisemou.html lyrics]
|-
| Lu || Slave || French || Slavic || Jean-Marie Moreau / François Feldman || [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OjvExEjS3rU listen]; [http://www.lyricsbox.com/francois-feldman-slave-lyrics-2z9w31t.html lyrics]
|-
| Lu Yehi || [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Let_It_Be_(Beatles_song) Let It Be] || English || || Paul McCartney || [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7P6X3IWLECY watch]
|-
| [[Mariposa]] || Έλα και πάμε || Greek || Come, Let's Go || Viki Gerothodorou / Dimitris Dekos || [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2ORqThYinHg sung] by Nikos Vertis; more info [[Mariposa | here]]
|-
| MeEver LaKeshet || Somewhere Over the Rainbow || English|| || Harold Arlen / Yip Harburg || [https://youtu.be/PSZxmZmBfnU performed] by Judy Garland
|-
| Meohav Al HaMirpesset || La dame en bleu || French || The Woman In Blue || [https://www.lesoleil.com/2014/06/01/lauteure-de-la-dame-en-bleu-nest-plus-2a120f16985ed2bca24903b420b29655/ Christine Charbonneau] / P. Yellowstone || [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hN3fsTT7jbo Performed] by [https://www.montrealgazette.com/opinion/columnists/article97319.html Michel Louvain]
|-
| MiGavo'a || [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/From_a_Distance From a Distance] || English || || Julie Gold || [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hLHE9jrb_N4 Performed] by Bette Midler
|-
| Nitzotz HaAhava || Οι δυ' πα στέλιο έζησα μ' || Greek || || || [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BE7kzHJmtLk Performed] by Stelios Kazantzidis and Chrysanthos Theodoridis
|-
| Numa Numa Hey || Dragostea Din Tei || Romanian || Love Under the [https://www.gardeningknowhow.com/ornamental/trees/linden/linden-tree-information.htm Linden Tree] || Dan Bălan || [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YnopHCL1Jk8 Official video] from O-Zone, [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qj30XR3af2I with lyrics], [https://songmeanings.com/songs/view/3530822107858516831/ translation]
|-
| Od Nashuv || [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/North_to_Alaska_(song) North to Alaska] || English || || [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Johnny_Horton Johnny Horton] || [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BLONWy46gIE Performed] by Johnny Horton
|-
| Ohevet Ozevet || Κραυγή || Greek || Scream || Nikos Karvelas || [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nCWLin-JsPk sung] by Anna Vissi
|-
| Perach Leyli || Capullito de Alelí || Spanish || Little Lily Bud || Rafael Hernández Marín || [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TYhF07e0Zws sung] by Guillermo Haidr; [https://www.letras.com/rafael-hernandez/1501795/translation.html lyrics and translation]
|-
| Pilpel U'Batatav || Дилмано дилберо (Dilmano Dilbero) || Bulgarian || Beautiful Dilmana || || [https://www.facebook.com/watch/?v=1096709334043037 performed] by Bulgarian Voices Berlin
|-
| Rafsoda || Ανάθεμά σε || Greek || Damn you || Yannis Kotsiras || [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hCnBCUhXlvo sung] by composer, [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UnBmAhypOw8 performed] by Nina Kallergi among many others
|-
| Regesh Me'urav || Borino Oro || (Balkan) || (instrumental) || Stefan Hantel (Shantel) || [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OOEg5PT6eMo listen]
|-
| Rikud Obsession || Obsesión || Spanish || Obsession || Aventura || [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DK6ZaRVRsXo listen] (click for lyrics)
|-
| Rikud HaYare'ach || [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moondance_(Van_Morrison_song) Moondance] || English || || [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Van_Morrison Van Morrison] || [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6lFxGBB4UGU sung] by the composer
|-
| Rina || Сердце || Russian || The Heart || Vasily Levedev-Kumach/Isaac Dunaievsky || [https://youtu.be/VnaskPWH604 listen]
|-
| [[Rona]] || زحمة || Arabic || Crowded || Hassan Abu 'Atman / Hany Shanouda|| [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=djqFU71juWM performed] by Ahmad 'Adaweyah; much more information [[Rona | here]]
|-
| Saper Al Ahava || Ποτέ, ποτέ, ποτέ || Greek || Never, Never, Never || Nikos Ignatiadis || [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a70VdUrCki4 sung] by Giannis Parios and Eleni Dimou (incl. Greek lyrics)
|-
| Shalom Lach Eretz Nehederet || [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/City_of_New_Orleans_(song) City of New Orleans] || English || || [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steve_Goodman Steve Goodman] || [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TvMS_ykiLiQ performed] by Arlo Guthrie
|-
| Shecharchoret || Morenica || Ladino || Little Dark Beauty || folk || [https://www.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=3&v=tAm7tTISDCE&feature=emb_logo sung] by Mor Karbasi; [https://lyricstranslate.com/en/morenica-little-dark-beauty.html lyrics & translation]
|-
| Shir Al Etz (Al Haderech Etz Omed) || אויפֿן וועג שטייט אַ בוים || Yiddish || Song About a Tree (On the Road Stands a Tree) || Itzik Manger / Philip Laskowsky || [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Lj0FAhNKFCc perfomed] and [http://unspeakablethefilm.com/twostories.html stories of the poem]
|-
| Shir HaShayara || Τα παιδιά της άμυνας || Greek || Children of Defense || Nikos Gatsos / Stavros Xarchakos || [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uny1DrIfgbo sung] by Nikos Dimitratos; [https://www.allthelyrics.com/forum/showthread.php?t=36702 lyrics/translation]
|-
| [[Shir Megaresh et HaChoshech]] || გოგოვ შენ კი გენაცვალე || Georgian || You, Girl, My Beloved || Georgian folk
|| watch [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IVZJfIWJMrE here]; more information and other versions [[Shir Megaresh et HaChoshech | here]]
|-
| Siman She'Ata Tsa'ir || Whiskey in the Jar || English || || Irish folk || [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hlWTASnnft4 listen]
|-
| Simlatech Hashzurah || Молодежная || Russian || Youth || Vasily Lebedev-Kumach / Isaac Dunaevsky || [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=56TD1yd71Ng listen] [https://youtu.be/BfUu9wMvypo?t=2738 performed] in 1938 Russian movie Volga-Volga
|-
| [[Sonata]] || Tango to Évora || (instrumental) || || Loreena McKennit || the [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JedmQen0M50 original]; much more info [[Sonata|here]]
|-
| Susati Ve'Ani || Песня старого извозчика || Russian|| Old Coachman's song || Yaroslav Rodionov / Nikita Bogoslovsky, 1941 || [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eon09y3YZhk listen]
|-
| Tango Mazochisti || Masochism Tango || English || || Tom Lehrer || [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TytGOeiW0aE performed] by Tom Lehrer; [https://genius.com/25382703 lyrics]
|-
| Tchol HaMitpachat || Синий платочек || Russian|| The Blue Handerchief || Yakov Galitsky / Yezhy Peterburgsky || [https://youtu.be/pefW8euBLuM listen]
|-
| Tni Li (partner) || Ελένη || Greek || Eleni (girl's name) || Nikos Karvelas || [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N7IF_BU62Tc sung] by Anna Vissi; [http://www.stixoi.info/stixoi.php?info=Lyrics&act=details&song_id=4641 lyrics]
|-
| Todah || Ολα καλα || Greek || It's All Good || Stavros Kougioumtzis || [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=32aaDJOgtMo listen]
|-
| Tzel Midbar || Анатема || Serbian || Anathema || (instrumental) / Aleksandar "Sanja" Ilić || [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XLcu1yDfELQ listen]
|-
| [[VeShuv Itchem]] || Sev Kardeşim || Turkish|| Brotherly Love || Şenay Yüzbaşıoğlu / Nurit Hirsh || [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m5EJIJMhVfw sung] by Şenay (with lyrics); [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xGKZ8Xho7Sg another version]; note that the original is Hebrew, so this is a "reverse" cover; [[VeShuv Itchem | more information]]
|-
| Yaldati (Pnei Malach) || Το τραγούδι μου || Greek || My Song || Stelios Fotiadis
| [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XeWNXpU7lqs sung] by Glykeria; [http://larry.denenberg.com/Songs/yaldati-greek.pdf lyrics/translation]
|-
| Yam HaMishalot || Και πώς να κοιμηθώ || Greek || And How Will I Sleep? || Nikos Vaksevanelis / Vasilis Kelaidis || [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qHnjw5G4Isk sung] by Christos Pazis
|-
| Zingarella || Zingarela || French || (girl's name) || [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Enrico_Macias Enrico Macias] || [https://lyricstranslate.com/en/enrico-macias-zingarela-lyrics.html lyrics]; [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IMH2WasnZGU sung by Macias] on top of [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gina_Lollobrigida Gina Lollobrigida] dancing in [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Hunchback_of_Notre_Dame_(1956_film) The Hunchback of Notre Dame]
|-
| Ziv Zeh || Γίνεται || Greek || It's Possible || [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pantelis_Pantelidis Pantelis Pantelidis] || [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MKY7IK8heQk sung] by Pantelidis; [https://lyricstranslate.com/en/ginetai-its-possible.html lyrics/translation]
|-
| Zman L'Chayech || Quiero Ser || Spanish || I Want to Be || Amaia Montero || [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=--7nGrJr4Yg Sung] by the artist (with Spanish lyrics)
|}

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KesheNavo

2026-10-09T21:01:26Z

Larry: Created page with "Hebrew: כשנבוא (When We Come). Circle dance by Avi Perez, 1986. The song is originally Greek. It's title is "Τι θέλεις, γέρο;" ("What do You Want, Old Man?"); it was composed by Argyris Kounadis with lyrics by Giorgos Kalamariotis. The song was written at the end of the [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Greek_junta Regime of the Colonels], the junta that overthrew the Greek government in 1967 and ruled as an authoritarian dictatorship until 1974. The..."

Hebrew: כשנבוא (When We Come). Circle dance by [[Avi Perez]], 1986.

The song is originally Greek. It's title is "Τι θέλεις, γέρο;" ("What do You Want, Old Man?"); it was composed by Argyris Kounadis with lyrics by Giorgos Kalamariotis. The song was
written at the end of the [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Greek_junta Regime of the Colonels], the junta that overthrew the Greek government in 1967 and ruled as an authoritarian dictatorship until 1974. The title means "What Do You Want, Old Man" and is addressed to one of the fallen leaders, who has by then lost all his power. (Greek songwriters played a large part in the resistance against the Regime, including Mikis Theodorakis, who wrote the music for the protest movie [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Z_(1969_film) Z] and also wrote the song whose Hebrew version is El Elohey Shamayim.)

The Hebrew version was performed by Arik Einstein, working with Miki Gavrielov (Hebrew lyrics by Eli Mohar). Einstein is widely recognized as the first to popularize Greek music in Israel, starting with the song we call Irisim. Although the dance is called "KesheNavo", the Hebrew song was titled "SheKesheNavo": In the Hebrew version, the second line of the refrain starts with "shekeshenavo", and at exactly the same point the original lyric is "σε ξένο κό", that is, "se kséno kó", which sounds a lot like "shekeshenavo" as you can hear in the Greek recording below. The song appeared on Einstein's 24th album, "Ohev Lihyot BaBayit", which was the first CD produced and sold in Israel.

The recording we typically use, unless it's cut, has a bouzouki solo in place of the repetition of the refrain after the second verse. The solo is played by Yehuda Poliker. Listen carefully and you'll hear Arik Einstein call out "Yasu, Yuda!" followed by "Einayim Sheli", the name of Poliker's first album, which had just been released.

=== Links ===

[https://larry.denenberg.com/Songs/shekeshenavo.pdf Lyrics, translation, transliteration, and musical transcription] of the Hebrew version

[https://www.greeklyrics.de/songtext/8855-ti-thelisgero Lyrics and transliteration] of the original Greek song

Ofer Gavish's [https://www.gavisho.com/%D7%A9%D7%9B%D7%A9%D7%A0%D7%91%D7%95%D7%90 blog post] (Hebrew) on this song, which tells more of the story and is the source of much of this article

The original [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fWEmORH3nyc performance] by Antonis Kalogiannis

The first [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=irHkYljhg3E performance] by Arik Einstein, including ad lib passages that are cut on our recordings and explained in the blog post above

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SheKesheNavo

2026-10-09T19:44:00Z

Larry: Redirected page to KesheNavo

#REDIRECT [[KesheNavo]]
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Called dances

2026-09-14T13:16:53Z

Larry: Fix link to Yalel Ha'wah

A called dance is one where a leader controls the dance by signalling the upcoming steps. Typically, the leader is the first person in the line and signals by calling out the name or number of a section of steps. Called dances are extremely rare in recreational Israeli dance; normally the sequence is unchanging, or, at most, follows the music, which may have multiple versions. In a true called dance, the sequence is completely at the whim of the caller.

=== List of called dances ===

Where appropriate, more details can be found at the individual page of each dance. Please keep this list in alphabetical order.

* [[Bosmat]]: circle dance by [[Moshiko HaLevy]] (called only in a few venues)

* [[Od Yavo Shalom Aleinu]]: circle dance by [[Levi Bargil]]

* [[Shibolei Paz]]: circle dance by [[Moshe Eskayo]] (a small piece is called in a few venues)

* Tcherkessia: circle dance of folk (possibly Circassian) origin which became part of the early canon of folk dances in Israel, and is still done with children in Israel and in America

* [[Yalel Ha'wah]]: circle dance by [[Moshe Eskayo]]

* [[Zakariya]]: circle dance by Moshiko Halevy

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Original Music

2026-09-07T14:52:16Z

Larry: Tni Li fix lyrics link

Dances that are usually done to an adapted version of the music.

The adaptation is usually a Hebrew version of the lyrics set to
the original melody, sometimes a translation but often just similar-sounding words. Dances typically done to the original music aren't
listed here, even if the lyrics aren't in Hebrew.

Click any column header to sort the table by that column.



{| class="wikitable sortable"
! Dance Name !! Original Name !! Language !! Translation !! Lyricist / Composer !! Notes/Links
|-
| Adon Olam || La Femme de mon ami || French || My Friend's Wife || René Blanc, Jacques Demarny, Enrico Macias || [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G_7hL5XMCZU Sung by Enrico Macias]
|-
| Agadat HaSultan || Μέσ της πόλης τα στενά || Greek || Alleyways of Istanbul || Spyros Peristeris(?) / Giannis Papaioannou(?) || [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rRkMXTBGRf4 sung by Stella Haskil]; [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6V6KX9Mb4ho another version]
|-
| Ahava Asura || [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elle_%C3%A9tait_si_jolie Elle était si jolie] || French || She Was So Pretty || [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alain_Barri%C3%A8re Alain Barrière] || [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DoZb0_fzs3s watch] (The melody is also the original tune for [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SO4ygYgjh2c Ha'Ir Be'Afor]; more info [[Ha'Ir Be'Afor | here]].)
|-
| Ahava Atzuma || [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/L'amour_est_bleu L'amour est bleu] || French || Love is Blue || Pierre Cour / [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andr%C3%A9_Popp André Charles Jean Popp] || [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nD4ib9-laGY Sung] by Greek-born [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vicky_Leandros Vicky Leandros], taking 4th place for Luxembourg in the [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eurovision_Song_Contest_1967 1976 Eurovision Song Contest] in Vienna
|-
| Al Titni Lo || El Camino || Spanish || The Road || [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gipsy_Kings Gipsy Kings] || [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z0A9KU-xBEY watch]
|-
| Amru Lo || Azzurro || Italian || Blue || Paolo Conte & Vito Pallavicini / Paolo Conte & Michele Virano || [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q1VGoKBKR3I sung] by Adriano Celentano
|-
| Ani Bach Shavui || Πάω απόψε να τρελαθώ || Greek || I'm Going To Go Crazy Tonight || Kosmas / Savvas Iliadis|| [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EkHNNm_h0vo sung] by Giorgos Giannias; [http://www.greeklyrics.gr/lyrics/view/3252/paw-apopse-na-trelathw lyrics]
|-
| Ani Chozer HaBayta || Lasciatemi Cantare || Italian || Let Me Sing || Toto Cutugno || [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0-4RLPSwNtc performed] by the composer; [https://lyricstranslate.com/en/Toto-Cutugno-L%E2%80%99italiano-lyrics.html lyrics] (with translations)
|-
| Ani Eshtage'a || La Partida || Spanish || Parting || Carlos Bonnet || [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6M-I6dCMHg8 performed] by Carmela (Carmen Requeta Dideo); [https://lyricstranslate.com/en/la-partida-prydh.html lyrics & translation]
|-
| [[At Li Paris]] || Africa || Italian || Africa || Salvatore "Toto" Cutugno et. al. || [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w7191wBlMbg performed] by Toto Cutugno; more information [[At Li Paris | here]]
|-
| At Oti Shofetet || Άντε Γεια || Greek || Goodbye || Panos Falaras / Kostas Miliotakis || [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IFY_drG-XfA performed] by Kaiti Garbi; [https://kithara.to/stixoi/MTQ2NDQyOTcw/ante-geia-garmpi-kaiti-lyrics Greek lyrics]
|-
| BaAviv At Tashuvi Chazara || Au printemps tu reviendras || French || In the Spring, You Will Return || Charles Aznavour || [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EjRBmHlgEig listen]
|-
| BaChof Shel Trapatoni || Μια νύχτα μόνο δεν φτάνει || Greek || Just One Night is Not Enough || Sotis Volanis & Panos Kamelis || [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3v4GcrgVp1c sung] by Sotis Volanis
|-
| [[BeSof Ma'agal]] || At the End of the Circle || English || || Kenny Young || more information [[BeSof Ma'agal|here]]
|-
| [[Chad Gadya]] || Alla Fiera dell'Est || Italian || At the Eastern Fair || Luisa Zappa / Angelo Branduardi
| [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iP2gqdGf1qU performed] by Branduardi; [[Chad Gadya|''more info'']]
|-
| Chalom O Shnayim || Τα Παιδιά του Πειραιά || Greek || The Children of Piraeus || Manos Hadjidakis || [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=28EAWlOXrYs performed by Melina Mercouri]. The song [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Never_on_Sunday_(song) Never on Sunday] also uses this music.
|-
| Chalon Mashkif || زَينة / عزيزة || Arabic || Zeina / Aziza || Mohammed Abdel Wahad || [https://youtube.com/watch?feature=youtu.be&v=sBFnM2gh1qo&t=1m35s Listen to Zeina] [https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=vuFYi6mu-Ns&t=25s Listen to Aziza]
|-
| Cheruti || Libertà || Italian || Freedom || Albano Carrisi & Romina Power || [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4CreqEL1p24 sung] (lyric subtitles) by Al Bano & Romina
|-
| El Elohei Shamayim || Ένα το χελιδόνι || Greek || One Single Swallow || Mikis Theodorakis || [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B9KLSwhr9E4 sung] by Gregory Bithikotsis; [https://lyricstranslate.com/en/%CE%AD%CE%BD%CE%B1-%CF%84%CE%BF-%CF%87%CE%B5%CE%BB%CE%B9%CE%B4%CF%8C%CE%BD%CE%B9-one-single-swallow.html lyrics/translation]
|-
| [[Gan Chorpi]] || Jardin d'hiver || French || Winter Garden || Benjamin Biolay & Keren Ann || [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fKyToxL31as sung] by Keren Ann; more info [[Gan Chorpi | here]]
|-
| HaAviv || Le printemps || French || The Spring|| Michel Fugain & Le Big Bazar || [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P6O3bM4MtVc watch]
|-
| HaShoshana Porachat || Los Bilbilicos (La Rosa Enflorese) || Ladino || The Little Nightingales || folk || [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WiqHqp0ZVr8 sung]; Also in English [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zHNSAK-iWy0 The Swallow] by Richard Fariña
|-
| Ilu Tsiporim || Si tous les oiseaux || French || If All the Birds || Jean Broussolle / Jean-Pierre Calvet || [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2QcRHPTx4VQ listen]; [https://www.paroles-musique.com/paroles-Les-Compagnons-De-La-Chanson-Si-Tous-Les-Oiseaux-lyrics,p18681 lyrics]
|-
| Irisim || Γύρισε || Greek || Come Back! || Nikos Fatseas / Giannis Vella || Performed by [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5ZL2EXhZGh8 Nikos Gounaris], by [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gWDFFxKsemE Stella Greca] and by duet [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j1kzD4qYxc0 Ofra Haza and Glykeria]; [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SdPpEFEjF_4 lyrics]
|-
| Isha Al HaChof || Τώρα που πας στην ξενιτιά || Greek || Now You Go to Foreign Lands || Nikos Gatsos / Manos Hadjidakis || [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=07T9zcpFD-A sung] by Nana Mouskouri
|-
| Kachol || Far From Home || English || || (instrumental) / folk (Shetlands?) || [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9GnC0GUDPgs listen]
|-
| Keshenavo || Τι θέλεις, γέρο; || Greek || What Do You Want, Old Man? || Giorgos Kalamariotis / Argyris Kounadis
| [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n5srFXu-fXk sung] by Rena Koumiwti; [https://larry.denenberg.com/Songs/shekeshenavo.pdf lyrics & translation] of the Hebrew version
|-
| Ksheyavo Shalom || When the Saints Go Marching In || English || || Folk / Christian hymn || Many recordings starting 1923, including a jazz version by Louis Armstrong in 1938. [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/When_the_Saints_Go_Marching_In more information]
|-
| Kmo SheAt || [https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comme_toi_(chanson_de_Jean-Jacques_Goldman) Comme toi] || French || Like You || [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jean-Jacques_Goldman Jean-Jacques Goldman] || [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ySZBnMukO8g performed] by the artist; [http://lyricstranslate.com/en/comme-toi-just-you.html lyrics] (with translation)
|-
| Kmo Sira Trufa || Μετανιώνω || Greek || I Regret || Natalia Germanou / [https://www.facebook.com/pg/tonykontaxakismusic/about/ Tony Kontaxakis] || [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QL2THxQaS0Q sung] by Despina Vandi
|-
| Kulanu BaMitzad || В Путь! || Russian || Let's Go! || Mikhail Dudin / Vasily Solovyov-Sedoi || [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_jqOGpzNrg4 performed] by the Russian Red Army Choir
|-
| Le'ehov Im Efshar || [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Didi_Tera_Devar_Deewana दीदी तेरा देवर दीवाना] || Hindi || Sister, Your Brother-in-Law is Crazy || Dev Kohli / Raamlaxman || [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2V56f0xZNqw performed] in [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hum_Aapke_Hain_Koun..! ''Hum Aapke Hain Koun..!'']
|-
| Lech L'Sfat HaYam || [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Puttin%27_On_the_Ritz Puttin' On the Ritz] || English || || Irving Berlin || [https://vimeo.com/261408052 Astaire]; [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OG3PnQ3tgzY Taco]
|-
| Leylot Shel Ahava || Μίλησέ μου || Greek || Talk to Me || Nikos Gatsos / Manos Hatzidakis || [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vrcd8CumMeU sung by Nana Mouskouri] (with English subtitles), [http://www.greekmidi.com/songs/hatzidakis/milisemou.html lyrics]
|-
| Lu || Slave || French || Slavic || Jean-Marie Moreau / François Feldman || [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OjvExEjS3rU listen]; [http://www.lyricsbox.com/francois-feldman-slave-lyrics-2z9w31t.html lyrics]
|-
| Lu Yehi || [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Let_It_Be_(Beatles_song) Let It Be] || English || || Paul McCartney || [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7P6X3IWLECY watch]
|-
| [[Mariposa]] || Έλα και πάμε || Greek || Come, Let's Go || Viki Gerothodorou / Dimitris Dekos || [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2ORqThYinHg sung] by Nikos Vertis; more info [[Mariposa | here]]
|-
| MeEver LaKeshet || Somewhere Over the Rainbow || English|| || Harold Arlen / Yip Harburg || [https://youtu.be/PSZxmZmBfnU performed] by Judy Garland
|-
| Meohav Al HaMirpesset || La dame en bleu || French || The Woman In Blue || [https://www.lesoleil.com/2014/06/01/lauteure-de-la-dame-en-bleu-nest-plus-2a120f16985ed2bca24903b420b29655/ Christine Charbonneau] / P. Yellowstone || [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hN3fsTT7jbo Performed] by [https://www.montrealgazette.com/opinion/columnists/article97319.html Michel Louvain]
|-
| MiGavo'a || [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/From_a_Distance From a Distance] || English || || Julie Gold || [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hLHE9jrb_N4 Performed] by Bette Midler
|-
| Nitzotz HaAhava || Οι δυ' πα στέλιο έζησα μ' || Greek || || || [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BE7kzHJmtLk Performed] by Stelios Kazantzidis and Chrysanthos Theodoridis
|-
| Numa Numa Hey || Dragostea Din Tei || Romanian || Love Under the [https://www.gardeningknowhow.com/ornamental/trees/linden/linden-tree-information.htm Linden Tree] || Dan Bălan || [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YnopHCL1Jk8 Official video] from O-Zone, [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qj30XR3af2I with lyrics], [https://songmeanings.com/songs/view/3530822107858516831/ translation]
|-
| Od Nashuv || [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/North_to_Alaska_(song) North to Alaska] || English || || [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Johnny_Horton Johnny Horton] || [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BLONWy46gIE Performed] by Johnny Horton
|-
| Ohevet Ozevet || Κραυγή || Greek || Scream || Nikos Karvelas || [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nCWLin-JsPk sung] by Anna Vissi
|-
| Perach Leyli || Capullito de Alelí || Spanish || Little Lily Bud || Rafael Hernández Marín || [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TYhF07e0Zws sung] by Guillermo Haidr; [https://www.letras.com/rafael-hernandez/1501795/translation.html lyrics and translation]
|-
| Pilpel U'Batatav || Дилмано дилберо (Dilmano Dilbero) || Bulgarian || Beautiful Dilmana || || [https://www.facebook.com/watch/?v=1096709334043037 performed] by Bulgarian Voices Berlin
|-
| Rafsoda || Ανάθεμά σε || Greek || Damn you || Yannis Kotsiras || [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hCnBCUhXlvo sung] by composer, [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UnBmAhypOw8 performed] by Nina Kallergi among many others
|-
| Regesh Me'urav || Borino Oro || (Balkan) || (instrumental) || Stefan Hantel (Shantel) || [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OOEg5PT6eMo listen]
|-
| Rikud Obsession || Obsesión || Spanish || Obsession || Aventura || [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DK6ZaRVRsXo listen] (click for lyrics)
|-
| Rikud HaYare'ach || [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moondance_(Van_Morrison_song) Moondance] || English || || [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Van_Morrison Van Morrison] || [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6lFxGBB4UGU sung] by the composer
|-
| Rina || Сердце || Russian || The Heart || Vasily Levedev-Kumach/Isaac Dunaievsky || [https://youtu.be/VnaskPWH604 listen]
|-
| [[Rona]] || زحمة || Arabic || Crowded || Hassan Abu 'Atman / Hany Shanouda|| [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=djqFU71juWM performed] by Ahmad 'Adaweyah; much more information [[Rona | here]]
|-
| Saper Al Ahava || Ποτέ, ποτέ, ποτέ || Greek || Never, Never, Never || Nikos Ignatiadis || [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a70VdUrCki4 sung] by Giannis Parios and Eleni Dimou (incl. Greek lyrics)
|-
| Shalom Lach Eretz Nehederet || [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/City_of_New_Orleans_(song) City of New Orleans] || English || || [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steve_Goodman Steve Goodman] || [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TvMS_ykiLiQ performed] by Arlo Guthrie
|-
| Shecharchoret || Morenica || Ladino || Little Dark Beauty || folk || [https://www.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=3&v=tAm7tTISDCE&feature=emb_logo sung] by Mor Karbasi; [https://lyricstranslate.com/en/morenica-little-dark-beauty.html lyrics & translation]
|-
| Shir Al Etz (Al Haderech Etz Omed) || אויפֿן וועג שטייט אַ בוים || Yiddish || Song About a Tree (On the Road Stands a Tree) || Itzik Manger / Philip Laskowsky || [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Lj0FAhNKFCc perfomed] and [http://unspeakablethefilm.com/twostories.html stories of the poem]
|-
| Shir HaShayara || Τα παιδιά της άμυνας || Greek || Children of Defense || Nikos Gatsos / Stavros Xarchakos || [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uny1DrIfgbo sung] by Nikos Dimitratos; [https://www.allthelyrics.com/forum/showthread.php?t=36702 lyrics/translation]
|-
| [[Shir Megaresh et HaChoshech]] || გოგოვ შენ კი გენაცვალე || Georgian || You, Girl, My Beloved || Georgian folk
|| watch [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IVZJfIWJMrE here]; more information and other versions [[Shir Megaresh et HaChoshech | here]]
|-
| Siman She'Ata Tsa'ir || Whiskey in the Jar || English || || Irish folk || [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hlWTASnnft4 listen]
|-
| Simlatech Hashzurah || Молодежная || Russian || Youth || Vasily Lebedev-Kumach / Isaac Dunaevsky || [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=56TD1yd71Ng listen] [https://youtu.be/BfUu9wMvypo?t=2738 performed] in 1938 Russian movie Volga-Volga
|-
| [[Sonata]] || Tango to Évora || (instrumental) || || Loreena McKennit || the [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JedmQen0M50 original]; much more info [[Sonata|here]]
|-
| Susati Ve'Ani || Песня старого извозчика || Russian|| Old Coachman's song || Yaroslav Rodionov / Nikita Bogoslovsky, 1941 || [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eon09y3YZhk listen]
|-
| Tango Mazochisti || Masochism Tango || English || || Tom Lehrer || [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TytGOeiW0aE performed] by Tom Lehrer; [https://genius.com/25382703 lyrics]
|-
| Tchol HaMitpachat || Синий платочек || Russian|| The Blue Handerchief || Yakov Galitsky / Yezhy Peterburgsky || [https://youtu.be/pefW8euBLuM listen]
|-
| Tni Li (partner) || Ελένη || Greek || Eleni (girl's name) || Nikos Karvelas || [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N7IF_BU62Tc sung] by Anna Vissi; [http://www.stixoi.info/stixoi.php?info=Lyrics&act=details&song_id=4641 lyrics]
|-
| Todah || Ολα καλα || Greek || It's All Good || Stavros Kougioumtzis || [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=32aaDJOgtMo listen]
|-
| Tzel Midbar || Анатема || Serbian || Anathema || (instrumental) / Aleksandar "Sanja" Ilić || [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XLcu1yDfELQ listen]
|-
| [[VeShuv Itchem]] || Sev Kardeşim || Turkish|| Brotherly Love || Şenay Yüzbaşıoğlu / Nurit Hirsh || [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m5EJIJMhVfw sung] by Şenay (with lyrics); [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xGKZ8Xho7Sg another version]; note that the original is Hebrew, so this is a "reverse" cover; [[VeShuv Itchem | more information]]
|-
| Yaldati (Pnei Malach) || Το τραγούδι μου || Greek || My Song || Stelios Fotiadis
| [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XeWNXpU7lqs sung] by Glykeria; [http://larry.denenberg.com/Songs/yaldati-greek.pdf lyrics/translation]
|-
| Yam HaMishalot || Και πώς να κοιμηθώ || Greek || And How Will I Sleep? || Nikos Vaksevanelis / Vasilis Kelaidis || [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qHnjw5G4Isk sung] by Christos Pazis
|-
| Zingarella || Zingarela || French || (girl's name) || [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Enrico_Macias Enrico Macias] || [https://lyricstranslate.com/en/enrico-macias-zingarela-lyrics.html lyrics]; [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IMH2WasnZGU sung by Macias] on top of [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gina_Lollobrigida Gina Lollobrigida] dancing in [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Hunchback_of_Notre_Dame_(1956_film) The Hunchback of Notre Dame]
|-
| Ziv Zeh || Γίνεται || Greek || It's Possible || [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pantelis_Pantelidis Pantelis Pantelidis] || [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MKY7IK8heQk sung] by Pantelidis; [https://lyricstranslate.com/en/ginetai-its-possible.html lyrics/translation]
|-
| Zman L'Chayech || Quiero Ser || Spanish || I Want to Be || Amaia Montero || [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=--7nGrJr4Yg Sung] by the artist (with Spanish lyrics)
|}

[[Category:Dances]]
[[Category:Dance Lists]]

Original Music

2026-09-06T10:44:26Z

Larry: Tango Mazochisti

Dances that are usually done to an adapted version of the music.

The adaptation is usually a Hebrew version of the lyrics set to
the original melody, sometimes a translation but often just similar-sounding words. Dances typically done to the original music aren't
listed here, even if the lyrics aren't in Hebrew.

Click any column header to sort the table by that column.



{| class="wikitable sortable"
! Dance Name !! Original Name !! Language !! Translation !! Lyricist / Composer !! Notes/Links
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| Adon Olam || La Femme de mon ami || French || My Friend's Wife || René Blanc, Jacques Demarny, Enrico Macias || [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G_7hL5XMCZU Sung by Enrico Macias]
|-
| Agadat HaSultan || Μέσ της πόλης τα στενά || Greek || Alleyways of Istanbul || Spyros Peristeris(?) / Giannis Papaioannou(?) || [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rRkMXTBGRf4 sung by Stella Haskil]; [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6V6KX9Mb4ho another version]
|-
| Ahava Asura || [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elle_%C3%A9tait_si_jolie Elle était si jolie] || French || She Was So Pretty || [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alain_Barri%C3%A8re Alain Barrière] || [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DoZb0_fzs3s watch] (The melody is also the original tune for [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SO4ygYgjh2c Ha'Ir Be'Afor]; more info [[Ha'Ir Be'Afor | here]].)
|-
| Ahava Atzuma || [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/L'amour_est_bleu L'amour est bleu] || French || Love is Blue || Pierre Cour / [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andr%C3%A9_Popp André Charles Jean Popp] || [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nD4ib9-laGY Sung] by Greek-born [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vicky_Leandros Vicky Leandros], taking 4th place for Luxembourg in the [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eurovision_Song_Contest_1967 1976 Eurovision Song Contest] in Vienna
|-
| Al Titni Lo || El Camino || Spanish || The Road || [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gipsy_Kings Gipsy Kings] || [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z0A9KU-xBEY watch]
|-
| Amru Lo || Azzurro || Italian || Blue || Paolo Conte & Vito Pallavicini / Paolo Conte & Michele Virano || [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q1VGoKBKR3I sung] by Adriano Celentano
|-
| Ani Bach Shavui || Πάω απόψε να τρελαθώ || Greek || I'm Going To Go Crazy Tonight || Kosmas / Savvas Iliadis|| [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EkHNNm_h0vo sung] by Giorgos Giannias; [http://www.greeklyrics.gr/lyrics/view/3252/paw-apopse-na-trelathw lyrics]
|-
| Ani Chozer HaBayta || Lasciatemi Cantare || Italian || Let Me Sing || Toto Cutugno || [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0-4RLPSwNtc performed] by the composer; [https://lyricstranslate.com/en/Toto-Cutugno-L%E2%80%99italiano-lyrics.html lyrics] (with translations)
|-
| Ani Eshtage'a || La Partida || Spanish || Parting || Carlos Bonnet || [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6M-I6dCMHg8 performed] by Carmela (Carmen Requeta Dideo); [https://lyricstranslate.com/en/la-partida-prydh.html lyrics & translation]
|-
| [[At Li Paris]] || Africa || Italian || Africa || Salvatore "Toto" Cutugno et. al. || [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w7191wBlMbg performed] by Toto Cutugno; more information [[At Li Paris | here]]
|-
| At Oti Shofetet || Άντε Γεια || Greek || Goodbye || Panos Falaras / Kostas Miliotakis || [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IFY_drG-XfA performed] by Kaiti Garbi; [https://kithara.to/stixoi/MTQ2NDQyOTcw/ante-geia-garmpi-kaiti-lyrics Greek lyrics]
|-
| BaAviv At Tashuvi Chazara || Au printemps tu reviendras || French || In the Spring, You Will Return || Charles Aznavour || [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EjRBmHlgEig listen]
|-
| BaChof Shel Trapatoni || Μια νύχτα μόνο δεν φτάνει || Greek || Just One Night is Not Enough || Sotis Volanis & Panos Kamelis || [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3v4GcrgVp1c sung] by Sotis Volanis
|-
| [[BeSof Ma'agal]] || At the End of the Circle || English || || Kenny Young || more information [[BeSof Ma'agal|here]]
|-
| [[Chad Gadya]] || Alla Fiera dell'Est || Italian || At the Eastern Fair || Luisa Zappa / Angelo Branduardi
| [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iP2gqdGf1qU performed] by Branduardi; [[Chad Gadya|''more info'']]
|-
| Chalom O Shnayim || Τα Παιδιά του Πειραιά || Greek || The Children of Piraeus || Manos Hadjidakis || [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=28EAWlOXrYs performed by Melina Mercouri]. The song [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Never_on_Sunday_(song) Never on Sunday] also uses this music.
|-
| Chalon Mashkif || زَينة / عزيزة || Arabic || Zeina / Aziza || Mohammed Abdel Wahad || [https://youtube.com/watch?feature=youtu.be&v=sBFnM2gh1qo&t=1m35s Listen to Zeina] [https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=vuFYi6mu-Ns&t=25s Listen to Aziza]
|-
| Cheruti || Libertà || Italian || Freedom || Albano Carrisi & Romina Power || [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4CreqEL1p24 sung] (lyric subtitles) by Al Bano & Romina
|-
| El Elohei Shamayim || Ένα το χελιδόνι || Greek || One Single Swallow || Mikis Theodorakis || [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B9KLSwhr9E4 sung] by Gregory Bithikotsis; [https://lyricstranslate.com/en/%CE%AD%CE%BD%CE%B1-%CF%84%CE%BF-%CF%87%CE%B5%CE%BB%CE%B9%CE%B4%CF%8C%CE%BD%CE%B9-one-single-swallow.html lyrics/translation]
|-
| [[Gan Chorpi]] || Jardin d'hiver || French || Winter Garden || Benjamin Biolay & Keren Ann || [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fKyToxL31as sung] by Keren Ann; more info [[Gan Chorpi | here]]
|-
| HaAviv || Le printemps || French || The Spring|| Michel Fugain & Le Big Bazar || [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P6O3bM4MtVc watch]
|-
| HaShoshana Porachat || Los Bilbilicos (La Rosa Enflorese) || Ladino || The Little Nightingales || folk || [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WiqHqp0ZVr8 sung]; Also in English [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zHNSAK-iWy0 The Swallow] by Richard Fariña
|-
| Ilu Tsiporim || Si tous les oiseaux || French || If All the Birds || Jean Broussolle / Jean-Pierre Calvet || [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2QcRHPTx4VQ listen]; [https://www.paroles-musique.com/paroles-Les-Compagnons-De-La-Chanson-Si-Tous-Les-Oiseaux-lyrics,p18681 lyrics]
|-
| Irisim || Γύρισε || Greek || Come Back! || Nikos Fatseas / Giannis Vella || Performed by [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5ZL2EXhZGh8 Nikos Gounaris], by [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gWDFFxKsemE Stella Greca] and by duet [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j1kzD4qYxc0 Ofra Haza and Glykeria]; [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SdPpEFEjF_4 lyrics]
|-
| Isha Al HaChof || Τώρα που πας στην ξενιτιά || Greek || Now You Go to Foreign Lands || Nikos Gatsos / Manos Hadjidakis || [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=07T9zcpFD-A sung] by Nana Mouskouri
|-
| Kachol || Far From Home || English || || (instrumental) / folk (Shetlands?) || [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9GnC0GUDPgs listen]
|-
| Keshenavo || Τι θέλεις, γέρο; || Greek || What Do You Want, Old Man? || Giorgos Kalamariotis / Argyris Kounadis
| [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n5srFXu-fXk sung] by Rena Koumiwti; [https://larry.denenberg.com/Songs/shekeshenavo.pdf lyrics & translation] of the Hebrew version
|-
| Ksheyavo Shalom || When the Saints Go Marching In || English || || Folk / Christian hymn || Many recordings starting 1923, including a jazz version by Louis Armstrong in 1938. [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/When_the_Saints_Go_Marching_In more information]
|-
| Kmo SheAt || [https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comme_toi_(chanson_de_Jean-Jacques_Goldman) Comme toi] || French || Like You || [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jean-Jacques_Goldman Jean-Jacques Goldman] || [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ySZBnMukO8g performed] by the artist; [http://lyricstranslate.com/en/comme-toi-just-you.html lyrics] (with translation)
|-
| Kmo Sira Trufa || Μετανιώνω || Greek || I Regret || Natalia Germanou / [https://www.facebook.com/pg/tonykontaxakismusic/about/ Tony Kontaxakis] || [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QL2THxQaS0Q sung] by Despina Vandi
|-
| Kulanu BaMitzad || В Путь! || Russian || Let's Go! || Mikhail Dudin / Vasily Solovyov-Sedoi || [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_jqOGpzNrg4 performed] by the Russian Red Army Choir
|-
| Le'ehov Im Efshar || [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Didi_Tera_Devar_Deewana दीदी तेरा देवर दीवाना] || Hindi || Sister, Your Brother-in-Law is Crazy || Dev Kohli / Raamlaxman || [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2V56f0xZNqw performed] in [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hum_Aapke_Hain_Koun..! ''Hum Aapke Hain Koun..!'']
|-
| Lech L'Sfat HaYam || [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Puttin%27_On_the_Ritz Puttin' On the Ritz] || English || || Irving Berlin || [https://vimeo.com/261408052 Astaire]; [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OG3PnQ3tgzY Taco]
|-
| Leylot Shel Ahava || Μίλησέ μου || Greek || Talk to Me || Nikos Gatsos / Manos Hatzidakis || [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vrcd8CumMeU sung by Nana Mouskouri] (with English subtitles), [http://www.greekmidi.com/songs/hatzidakis/milisemou.html lyrics]
|-
| Lu || Slave || French || Slavic || Jean-Marie Moreau / François Feldman || [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OjvExEjS3rU listen]; [http://www.lyricsbox.com/francois-feldman-slave-lyrics-2z9w31t.html lyrics]
|-
| Lu Yehi || [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Let_It_Be_(Beatles_song) Let It Be] || English || || Paul McCartney || [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7P6X3IWLECY watch]
|-
| [[Mariposa]] || Έλα και πάμε || Greek || Come, Let's Go || Viki Gerothodorou / Dimitris Dekos || [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2ORqThYinHg sung] by Nikos Vertis; more info [[Mariposa | here]]
|-
| MeEver LaKeshet || Somewhere Over the Rainbow || English|| || Harold Arlen / Yip Harburg || [https://youtu.be/PSZxmZmBfnU performed] by Judy Garland
|-
| Meohav Al HaMirpesset || La dame en bleu || French || The Woman In Blue || [https://www.lesoleil.com/2014/06/01/lauteure-de-la-dame-en-bleu-nest-plus-2a120f16985ed2bca24903b420b29655/ Christine Charbonneau] / P. Yellowstone || [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hN3fsTT7jbo Performed] by [https://www.montrealgazette.com/opinion/columnists/article97319.html Michel Louvain]
|-
| MiGavo'a || [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/From_a_Distance From a Distance] || English || || Julie Gold || [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hLHE9jrb_N4 Performed] by Bette Midler
|-
| Nitzotz HaAhava || Οι δυ' πα στέλιο έζησα μ' || Greek || || || [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BE7kzHJmtLk Performed] by Stelios Kazantzidis and Chrysanthos Theodoridis
|-
| Numa Numa Hey || Dragostea Din Tei || Romanian || Love Under the [https://www.gardeningknowhow.com/ornamental/trees/linden/linden-tree-information.htm Linden Tree] || Dan Bălan || [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YnopHCL1Jk8 Official video] from O-Zone, [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qj30XR3af2I with lyrics], [https://songmeanings.com/songs/view/3530822107858516831/ translation]
|-
| Od Nashuv || [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/North_to_Alaska_(song) North to Alaska] || English || || [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Johnny_Horton Johnny Horton] || [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BLONWy46gIE Performed] by Johnny Horton
|-
| Ohevet Ozevet || Κραυγή || Greek || Scream || Nikos Karvelas || [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nCWLin-JsPk sung] by Anna Vissi
|-
| Perach Leyli || Capullito de Alelí || Spanish || Little Lily Bud || Rafael Hernández Marín || [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TYhF07e0Zws sung] by Guillermo Haidr; [https://www.letras.com/rafael-hernandez/1501795/translation.html lyrics and translation]
|-
| Pilpel U'Batatav || Дилмано дилберо (Dilmano Dilbero) || Bulgarian || Beautiful Dilmana || || [https://www.facebook.com/watch/?v=1096709334043037 performed] by Bulgarian Voices Berlin
|-
| Rafsoda || Ανάθεμά σε || Greek || Damn you || Yannis Kotsiras || [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hCnBCUhXlvo sung] by composer, [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UnBmAhypOw8 performed] by Nina Kallergi among many others
|-
| Regesh Me'urav || Borino Oro || (Balkan) || (instrumental) || Stefan Hantel (Shantel) || [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OOEg5PT6eMo listen]
|-
| Rikud Obsession || Obsesión || Spanish || Obsession || Aventura || [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DK6ZaRVRsXo listen] (click for lyrics)
|-
| Rikud HaYare'ach || [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moondance_(Van_Morrison_song) Moondance] || English || || [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Van_Morrison Van Morrison] || [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6lFxGBB4UGU sung] by the composer
|-
| Rina || Сердце || Russian || The Heart || Vasily Levedev-Kumach/Isaac Dunaievsky || [https://youtu.be/VnaskPWH604 listen]
|-
| [[Rona]] || زحمة || Arabic || Crowded || Hassan Abu 'Atman / Hany Shanouda|| [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=djqFU71juWM performed] by Ahmad 'Adaweyah; much more information [[Rona | here]]
|-
| Saper Al Ahava || Ποτέ, ποτέ, ποτέ || Greek || Never, Never, Never || Nikos Ignatiadis || [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a70VdUrCki4 sung] by Giannis Parios and Eleni Dimou (incl. Greek lyrics)
|-
| Shalom Lach Eretz Nehederet || [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/City_of_New_Orleans_(song) City of New Orleans] || English || || [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steve_Goodman Steve Goodman] || [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TvMS_ykiLiQ performed] by Arlo Guthrie
|-
| Shecharchoret || Morenica || Ladino || Little Dark Beauty || folk || [https://www.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=3&v=tAm7tTISDCE&feature=emb_logo sung] by Mor Karbasi; [https://lyricstranslate.com/en/morenica-little-dark-beauty.html lyrics & translation]
|-
| Shir Al Etz (Al Haderech Etz Omed) || אויפֿן וועג שטייט אַ בוים || Yiddish || Song About a Tree (On the Road Stands a Tree) || Itzik Manger / Philip Laskowsky || [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Lj0FAhNKFCc perfomed] and [http://unspeakablethefilm.com/twostories.html stories of the poem]
|-
| Shir HaShayara || Τα παιδιά της άμυνας || Greek || Children of Defense || Nikos Gatsos / Stavros Xarchakos || [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uny1DrIfgbo sung] by Nikos Dimitratos; [https://www.allthelyrics.com/forum/showthread.php?t=36702 lyrics/translation]
|-
| [[Shir Megaresh et HaChoshech]] || გოგოვ შენ კი გენაცვალე || Georgian || You, Girl, My Beloved || Georgian folk
|| watch [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IVZJfIWJMrE here]; more information and other versions [[Shir Megaresh et HaChoshech | here]]
|-
| Siman She'Ata Tsa'ir || Whiskey in the Jar || English || || Irish folk || [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hlWTASnnft4 listen]
|-
| Simlatech Hashzurah || Молодежная || Russian || Youth || Vasily Lebedev-Kumach / Isaac Dunaevsky || [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=56TD1yd71Ng listen] [https://youtu.be/BfUu9wMvypo?t=2738 performed] in 1938 Russian movie Volga-Volga
|-
| [[Sonata]] || Tango to Évora || (instrumental) || || Loreena McKennit || the [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JedmQen0M50 original]; much more info [[Sonata|here]]
|-
| Susati Ve'Ani || Песня старого извозчика || Russian|| Old Coachman's song || Yaroslav Rodionov / Nikita Bogoslovsky, 1941 || [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eon09y3YZhk listen]
|-
| Tango Mazochisti || Masochism Tango || English || || Tom Lehrer || [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TytGOeiW0aE performed] by Tom Lehrer; [https://genius.com/25382703 lyrics]
|-
| Tchol HaMitpachat || Синий платочек || Russian|| The Blue Handerchief || Yakov Galitsky / Yezhy Peterburgsky || [https://youtu.be/pefW8euBLuM listen]
|-
| Tni Li (partner) || Ελένη || Greek || Eleni (girl's name) || Nikos Karvelas || [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N7IF_BU62Tc sung] by Anna Vissi; [http://www.stixoi.info/stixoi.php?info=Lyrics&act=details&song_id=4880 lyrics]
|-
| Todah || Ολα καλα || Greek || It's All Good || Stavros Kougioumtzis || [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=32aaDJOgtMo listen]
|-
| Tzel Midbar || Анатема || Serbian || Anathema || (instrumental) / Aleksandar "Sanja" Ilić || [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XLcu1yDfELQ listen]
|-
| [[VeShuv Itchem]] || Sev Kardeşim || Turkish|| Brotherly Love || Şenay Yüzbaşıoğlu / Nurit Hirsh || [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m5EJIJMhVfw sung] by Şenay (with lyrics); [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xGKZ8Xho7Sg another version]; note that the original is Hebrew, so this is a "reverse" cover; [[VeShuv Itchem | more information]]
|-
| Yaldati (Pnei Malach) || Το τραγούδι μου || Greek || My Song || Stelios Fotiadis
| [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XeWNXpU7lqs sung] by Glykeria; [http://larry.denenberg.com/Songs/yaldati-greek.pdf lyrics/translation]
|-
| Yam HaMishalot || Και πώς να κοιμηθώ || Greek || And How Will I Sleep? || Nikos Vaksevanelis / Vasilis Kelaidis || [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qHnjw5G4Isk sung] by Christos Pazis
|-
| Zingarella || Zingarela || French || (girl's name) || [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Enrico_Macias Enrico Macias] || [https://lyricstranslate.com/en/enrico-macias-zingarela-lyrics.html lyrics]; [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IMH2WasnZGU sung by Macias] on top of [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gina_Lollobrigida Gina Lollobrigida] dancing in [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Hunchback_of_Notre_Dame_(1956_film) The Hunchback of Notre Dame]
|-
| Ziv Zeh || Γίνεται || Greek || It's Possible || [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pantelis_Pantelidis Pantelis Pantelidis] || [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MKY7IK8heQk sung] by Pantelidis; [https://lyricstranslate.com/en/ginetai-its-possible.html lyrics/translation]
|-
| Zman L'Chayech || Quiero Ser || Spanish || I Want to Be || Amaia Montero || [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=--7nGrJr4Yg Sung] by the artist (with Spanish lyrics)
|}

[[Category:Dances]]
[[Category:Dance Lists]]

Original Music

2026-09-05T11:59:04Z

Larry: link keshenavo lyrics from larry.denenberg.com

Dances that are usually done to an adapted version of the music.

The adaptation is usually a Hebrew version of the lyrics set to
the original melody, sometimes a translation but often just similar-sounding words. Dances typically done to the original music aren't
listed here, even if the lyrics aren't in Hebrew.

Click any column header to sort the table by that column.



{| class="wikitable sortable"
! Dance Name !! Original Name !! Language !! Translation !! Lyricist / Composer !! Notes/Links
|-
| Adon Olam || La Femme de mon ami || French || My Friend's Wife || René Blanc, Jacques Demarny, Enrico Macias || [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G_7hL5XMCZU Sung by Enrico Macias]
|-
| Agadat HaSultan || Μέσ της πόλης τα στενά || Greek || Alleyways of Istanbul || Spyros Peristeris(?) / Giannis Papaioannou(?) || [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rRkMXTBGRf4 sung by Stella Haskil]; [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6V6KX9Mb4ho another version]
|-
| Ahava Asura || [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elle_%C3%A9tait_si_jolie Elle était si jolie] || French || She Was So Pretty || [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alain_Barri%C3%A8re Alain Barrière] || [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DoZb0_fzs3s watch] (The melody is also the original tune for [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SO4ygYgjh2c Ha'Ir Be'Afor]; more info [[Ha'Ir Be'Afor | here]].)
|-
| Ahava Atzuma || [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/L'amour_est_bleu L'amour est bleu] || French || Love is Blue || Pierre Cour / [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andr%C3%A9_Popp André Charles Jean Popp] || [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nD4ib9-laGY Sung] by Greek-born [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vicky_Leandros Vicky Leandros], taking 4th place for Luxembourg in the [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eurovision_Song_Contest_1967 1976 Eurovision Song Contest] in Vienna
|-
| Al Titni Lo || El Camino || Spanish || The Road || [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gipsy_Kings Gipsy Kings] || [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z0A9KU-xBEY watch]
|-
| Amru Lo || Azzurro || Italian || Blue || Paolo Conte & Vito Pallavicini / Paolo Conte & Michele Virano || [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q1VGoKBKR3I sung] by Adriano Celentano
|-
| Ani Bach Shavui || Πάω απόψε να τρελαθώ || Greek || I'm Going To Go Crazy Tonight || Kosmas / Savvas Iliadis|| [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EkHNNm_h0vo sung] by Giorgos Giannias; [http://www.greeklyrics.gr/lyrics/view/3252/paw-apopse-na-trelathw lyrics]
|-
| Ani Chozer HaBayta || Lasciatemi Cantare || Italian || Let Me Sing || Toto Cutugno || [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0-4RLPSwNtc performed] by the composer; [https://lyricstranslate.com/en/Toto-Cutugno-L%E2%80%99italiano-lyrics.html lyrics] (with translations)
|-
| Ani Eshtage'a || La Partida || Spanish || Parting || Carlos Bonnet || [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6M-I6dCMHg8 performed] by Carmela (Carmen Requeta Dideo); [https://lyricstranslate.com/en/la-partida-prydh.html lyrics & translation]
|-
| [[At Li Paris]] || Africa || Italian || Africa || Salvatore "Toto" Cutugno et. al. || [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w7191wBlMbg performed] by Toto Cutugno; more information [[At Li Paris | here]]
|-
| At Oti Shofetet || Άντε Γεια || Greek || Goodbye || Panos Falaras / Kostas Miliotakis || [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IFY_drG-XfA performed] by Kaiti Garbi; [https://kithara.to/stixoi/MTQ2NDQyOTcw/ante-geia-garmpi-kaiti-lyrics Greek lyrics]
|-
| BaAviv At Tashuvi Chazara || Au printemps tu reviendras || French || In the Spring, You Will Return || Charles Aznavour || [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EjRBmHlgEig listen]
|-
| BaChof Shel Trapatoni || Μια νύχτα μόνο δεν φτάνει || Greek || Just One Night is Not Enough || Sotis Volanis & Panos Kamelis || [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3v4GcrgVp1c sung] by Sotis Volanis
|-
| [[BeSof Ma'agal]] || At the End of the Circle || English || || Kenny Young || more information [[BeSof Ma'agal|here]]
|-
| [[Chad Gadya]] || Alla Fiera dell'Est || Italian || At the Eastern Fair || Luisa Zappa / Angelo Branduardi
| [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iP2gqdGf1qU performed] by Branduardi; [[Chad Gadya|''more info'']]
|-
| Chalom O Shnayim || Τα Παιδιά του Πειραιά || Greek || The Children of Piraeus || Manos Hadjidakis || [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=28EAWlOXrYs performed by Melina Mercouri]. The song [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Never_on_Sunday_(song) Never on Sunday] also uses this music.
|-
| Chalon Mashkif || زَينة / عزيزة || Arabic || Zeina / Aziza || Mohammed Abdel Wahad || [https://youtube.com/watch?feature=youtu.be&v=sBFnM2gh1qo&t=1m35s Listen to Zeina] [https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=vuFYi6mu-Ns&t=25s Listen to Aziza]
|-
| Cheruti || Libertà || Italian || Freedom || Albano Carrisi & Romina Power || [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4CreqEL1p24 sung] (lyric subtitles) by Al Bano & Romina
|-
| El Elohei Shamayim || Ένα το χελιδόνι || Greek || One Single Swallow || Mikis Theodorakis || [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B9KLSwhr9E4 sung] by Gregory Bithikotsis; [https://lyricstranslate.com/en/%CE%AD%CE%BD%CE%B1-%CF%84%CE%BF-%CF%87%CE%B5%CE%BB%CE%B9%CE%B4%CF%8C%CE%BD%CE%B9-one-single-swallow.html lyrics/translation]
|-
| [[Gan Chorpi]] || Jardin d'hiver || French || Winter Garden || Benjamin Biolay & Keren Ann || [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fKyToxL31as sung] by Keren Ann; more info [[Gan Chorpi | here]]
|-
| HaAviv || Le printemps || French || The Spring|| Michel Fugain & Le Big Bazar || [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P6O3bM4MtVc watch]
|-
| HaShoshana Porachat || Los Bilbilicos (La Rosa Enflorese) || Ladino || The Little Nightingales || folk || [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WiqHqp0ZVr8 sung]; Also in English [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zHNSAK-iWy0 The Swallow] by Richard Fariña
|-
| Ilu Tsiporim || Si tous les oiseaux || French || If All the Birds || Jean Broussolle / Jean-Pierre Calvet || [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2QcRHPTx4VQ listen]; [https://www.paroles-musique.com/paroles-Les-Compagnons-De-La-Chanson-Si-Tous-Les-Oiseaux-lyrics,p18681 lyrics]
|-
| Irisim || Γύρισε || Greek || Come Back! || Nikos Fatseas / Giannis Vella || Performed by [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5ZL2EXhZGh8 Nikos Gounaris], by [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gWDFFxKsemE Stella Greca] and by duet [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j1kzD4qYxc0 Ofra Haza and Glykeria]; [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SdPpEFEjF_4 lyrics]
|-
| Isha Al HaChof || Τώρα που πας στην ξενιτιά || Greek || Now You Go to Foreign Lands || Nikos Gatsos / Manos Hadjidakis || [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=07T9zcpFD-A sung] by Nana Mouskouri
|-
| Kachol || Far From Home || English || || (instrumental) / folk (Shetlands?) || [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9GnC0GUDPgs listen]
|-
| Keshenavo || Τι θέλεις, γέρο; || Greek || What Do You Want, Old Man? || Giorgos Kalamariotis / Argyris Kounadis
| [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n5srFXu-fXk sung] by Rena Koumiwti; [https://larry.denenberg.com/Songs/shekeshenavo.pdf lyrics & translation] of the Hebrew version
|-
| Ksheyavo Shalom || When the Saints Go Marching In || English || || Folk / Christian hymn || Many recordings starting 1923, including a jazz version by Louis Armstrong in 1938. [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/When_the_Saints_Go_Marching_In more information]
|-
| Kmo SheAt || [https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comme_toi_(chanson_de_Jean-Jacques_Goldman) Comme toi] || French || Like You || [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jean-Jacques_Goldman Jean-Jacques Goldman] || [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ySZBnMukO8g performed] by the artist; [http://lyricstranslate.com/en/comme-toi-just-you.html lyrics] (with translation)
|-
| Kmo Sira Trufa || Μετανιώνω || Greek || I Regret || Natalia Germanou / [https://www.facebook.com/pg/tonykontaxakismusic/about/ Tony Kontaxakis] || [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QL2THxQaS0Q sung] by Despina Vandi
|-
| Kulanu BaMitzad || В Путь! || Russian || Let's Go! || Mikhail Dudin / Vasily Solovyov-Sedoi || [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_jqOGpzNrg4 performed] by the Russian Red Army Choir
|-
| Le'ehov Im Efshar || [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Didi_Tera_Devar_Deewana दीदी तेरा देवर दीवाना] || Hindi || Sister, Your Brother-in-Law is Crazy || Dev Kohli / Raamlaxman || [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2V56f0xZNqw performed] in [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hum_Aapke_Hain_Koun..! ''Hum Aapke Hain Koun..!'']
|-
| Lech L'Sfat HaYam || [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Puttin%27_On_the_Ritz Puttin' On the Ritz] || English || || Irving Berlin || [https://vimeo.com/261408052 Astaire]; [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OG3PnQ3tgzY Taco]
|-
| Leylot Shel Ahava || Μίλησέ μου || Greek || Talk to Me || Nikos Gatsos / Manos Hatzidakis || [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vrcd8CumMeU sung by Nana Mouskouri] (with English subtitles), [http://www.greekmidi.com/songs/hatzidakis/milisemou.html lyrics]
|-
| Lu || Slave || French || Slavic || Jean-Marie Moreau / François Feldman || [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OjvExEjS3rU listen]; [http://www.lyricsbox.com/francois-feldman-slave-lyrics-2z9w31t.html lyrics]
|-
| Lu Yehi || [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Let_It_Be_(Beatles_song) Let It Be] || English || || Paul McCartney || [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7P6X3IWLECY watch]
|-
| [[Mariposa]] || Έλα και πάμε || Greek || Come, Let's Go || Viki Gerothodorou / Dimitris Dekos || [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2ORqThYinHg sung] by Nikos Vertis; more info [[Mariposa | here]]
|-
| MeEver LaKeshet || Somewhere Over the Rainbow || English|| || Harold Arlen / Yip Harburg || [https://youtu.be/PSZxmZmBfnU performed] by Judy Garland
|-
| Meohav Al HaMirpesset || La dame en bleu || French || The Woman In Blue || [https://www.lesoleil.com/2014/06/01/lauteure-de-la-dame-en-bleu-nest-plus-2a120f16985ed2bca24903b420b29655/ Christine Charbonneau] / P. Yellowstone || [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hN3fsTT7jbo Performed] by [https://www.montrealgazette.com/opinion/columnists/article97319.html Michel Louvain]
|-
| MiGavo'a || [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/From_a_Distance From a Distance] || English || || Julie Gold || [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hLHE9jrb_N4 Performed] by Bette Midler
|-
| Nitzotz HaAhava || Οι δυ' πα στέλιο έζησα μ' || Greek || || || [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BE7kzHJmtLk Performed] by Stelios Kazantzidis and Chrysanthos Theodoridis
|-
| Numa Numa Hey || Dragostea Din Tei || Romanian || Love Under the [https://www.gardeningknowhow.com/ornamental/trees/linden/linden-tree-information.htm Linden Tree] || Dan Bălan || [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YnopHCL1Jk8 Official video] from O-Zone, [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qj30XR3af2I with lyrics], [https://songmeanings.com/songs/view/3530822107858516831/ translation]
|-
| Od Nashuv || [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/North_to_Alaska_(song) North to Alaska] || English || || [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Johnny_Horton Johnny Horton] || [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BLONWy46gIE Performed] by Johnny Horton
|-
| Ohevet Ozevet || Κραυγή || Greek || Scream || Nikos Karvelas || [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nCWLin-JsPk sung] by Anna Vissi
|-
| Perach Leyli || Capullito de Alelí || Spanish || Little Lily Bud || Rafael Hernández Marín || [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TYhF07e0Zws sung] by Guillermo Haidr; [https://www.letras.com/rafael-hernandez/1501795/translation.html lyrics and translation]
|-
| Pilpel U'Batatav || Дилмано дилберо (Dilmano Dilbero) || Bulgarian || Beautiful Dilmana || || [https://www.facebook.com/watch/?v=1096709334043037 performed] by Bulgarian Voices Berlin
|-
| Rafsoda || Ανάθεμά σε || Greek || Damn you || Yannis Kotsiras || [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hCnBCUhXlvo sung] by composer, [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UnBmAhypOw8 performed] by Nina Kallergi among many others
|-
| Regesh Me'urav || Borino Oro || (Balkan) || (instrumental) || Stefan Hantel (Shantel) || [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OOEg5PT6eMo listen]
|-
| Rikud Obsession || Obsesión || Spanish || Obsession || Aventura || [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DK6ZaRVRsXo listen] (click for lyrics)
|-
| Rikud HaYare'ach || [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moondance_(Van_Morrison_song) Moondance] || English || || [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Van_Morrison Van Morrison] || [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6lFxGBB4UGU sung] by the composer
|-
| Rina || Сердце || Russian || The Heart || Vasily Levedev-Kumach/Isaac Dunaievsky || [https://youtu.be/VnaskPWH604 listen]
|-
| [[Rona]] || زحمة || Arabic || Crowded || Hassan Abu 'Atman / Hany Shanouda|| [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=djqFU71juWM performed] by Ahmad 'Adaweyah; much more information [[Rona | here]]
|-
| Saper Al Ahava || Ποτέ, ποτέ, ποτέ || Greek || Never, Never, Never || Nikos Ignatiadis || [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a70VdUrCki4 sung] by Giannis Parios and Eleni Dimou (incl. Greek lyrics)
|-
| Shalom Lach Eretz Nehederet || [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/City_of_New_Orleans_(song) City of New Orleans] || English || || [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steve_Goodman Steve Goodman] || [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TvMS_ykiLiQ performed] by Arlo Guthrie
|-
| Shecharchoret || Morenica || Ladino || Little Dark Beauty || folk || [https://www.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=3&v=tAm7tTISDCE&feature=emb_logo sung] by Mor Karbasi; [https://lyricstranslate.com/en/morenica-little-dark-beauty.html lyrics & translation]
|-
| Shir Al Etz (Al Haderech Etz Omed) || אויפֿן וועג שטייט אַ בוים || Yiddish || Song About a Tree (On the Road Stands a Tree) || Itzik Manger / Philip Laskowsky || [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Lj0FAhNKFCc perfomed] and [http://unspeakablethefilm.com/twostories.html stories of the poem]
|-
| Shir HaShayara || Τα παιδιά της άμυνας || Greek || Children of Defense || Nikos Gatsos / Stavros Xarchakos || [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uny1DrIfgbo sung] by Nikos Dimitratos; [https://www.allthelyrics.com/forum/showthread.php?t=36702 lyrics/translation]
|-
| [[Shir Megaresh et HaChoshech]] || გოგოვ შენ კი გენაცვალე || Georgian || You, Girl, My Beloved || Georgian folk
|| watch [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IVZJfIWJMrE here]; more information and other versions [[Shir Megaresh et HaChoshech | here]]
|-
| Siman She'Ata Tsa'ir || Whiskey in the Jar || English || || Irish folk || [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hlWTASnnft4 listen]
|-
| Simlatech Hashzurah || Молодежная || Russian || Youth || Vasily Lebedev-Kumach / Isaac Dunaevsky || [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=56TD1yd71Ng listen] [https://youtu.be/BfUu9wMvypo?t=2738 performed] in 1938 Russian movie Volga-Volga
|-
| [[Sonata]] || Tango to Évora || (instrumental) || || Loreena McKennit || the [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JedmQen0M50 original]; much more info [[Sonata|here]]
|-
| Susati Ve'Ani || Песня старого извозчика || Russian|| Old Coachman's song || Yaroslav Rodionov / Nikita Bogoslovsky, 1941 || [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eon09y3YZhk listen]
|-
| Tchol HaMitpachat || Синий платочек || Russian|| The Blue Handerchief || Yakov Galitsky / Yezhy Peterburgsky || [https://youtu.be/pefW8euBLuM listen]
|-
| Tni Li (partner) || Ελένη || Greek || Eleni (girl's name) || Nikos Karvelas || [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N7IF_BU62Tc sung] by Anna Vissi; [http://www.stixoi.info/stixoi.php?info=Lyrics&act=details&song_id=4880 lyrics]
|-
| Todah || Ολα καλα || Greek || It's All Good || Stavros Kougioumtzis || [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=32aaDJOgtMo listen]
|-
| Tzel Midbar || Анатема || Serbian || Anathema || (instrumental) / Aleksandar "Sanja" Ilić || [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XLcu1yDfELQ listen]
|-
| [[VeShuv Itchem]] || Sev Kardeşim || Turkish|| Brotherly Love || Şenay Yüzbaşıoğlu / Nurit Hirsh || [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m5EJIJMhVfw sung] by Şenay (with lyrics); [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xGKZ8Xho7Sg another version]; note that the original is Hebrew, so this is a "reverse" cover; [[VeShuv Itchem | more information]]
|-
| Yaldati (Pnei Malach) || Το τραγούδι μου || Greek || My Song || Stelios Fotiadis
| [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XeWNXpU7lqs sung] by Glykeria; [http://larry.denenberg.com/Songs/yaldati-greek.pdf lyrics/translation]
|-
| Yam HaMishalot || Και πώς να κοιμηθώ || Greek || And How Will I Sleep? || Nikos Vaksevanelis / Vasilis Kelaidis || [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qHnjw5G4Isk sung] by Christos Pazis
|-
| Zingarella || Zingarela || French || (girl's name) || [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Enrico_Macias Enrico Macias] || [https://lyricstranslate.com/en/enrico-macias-zingarela-lyrics.html lyrics]; [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IMH2WasnZGU sung by Macias] on top of [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gina_Lollobrigida Gina Lollobrigida] dancing in [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Hunchback_of_Notre_Dame_(1956_film) The Hunchback of Notre Dame]
|-
| Ziv Zeh || Γίνεται || Greek || It's Possible || [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pantelis_Pantelidis Pantelis Pantelidis] || [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MKY7IK8heQk sung] by Pantelidis; [https://lyricstranslate.com/en/ginetai-its-possible.html lyrics/translation]
|-
| Zman L'Chayech || Quiero Ser || Spanish || I Want to Be || Amaia Montero || [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=--7nGrJr4Yg Sung] by the artist (with Spanish lyrics)
|}

[[Category:Dances]]
[[Category:Dance Lists]]

Ayuma BeHar HaMor

2026-08-31T22:47:58Z

Larry: minor edit

Hebrew: איומה בהר המור

The phrase "Ayuma behar hamor" is the first line of several poems in the Diwan, the semi-sacred collection of poems and songs compiled and mostly or entirely written by Rabbi Shalom Shabazi, 1619–1720, who was known as the "Poet of Yemen". A list of dances whose music uses lyrics from the Diwan is [[Dances from the Diwan | here]], and more information on the Diwan is [[Diwan | here]].

The poems beginning with "Ayuma behar hamor" all begin with these lines:

<poem>
::::.איומה בהר המור, עלי לך ובשרי
::::.ונשיר בשיר מזמור. בנגון ליוצרי
::::Ayuma behar hamor, ali lach uvaseri.
::::Venashir beshir mizmor. Benigun leyotzeri.
</poem>

. . . after which they differ. Here are the dances whose music uses one or another of these poems:

* Ayuma BeHar HaMor, the most common, is an easy circle dance by [[Amnon Shauli]], 1983. The Diwan page containing this version is [[Media:Ayuma-behar-hamor.pdf | here]].

* Amalel Shir, circle dance by [[Shlomo Maman]], 1981. The Diwan page containing this poem is [[Media:Amalel-shir.png|here]]. (Only some of the lyrics appear, at the bottom.)

* Ayuma, individual dance (circle formation without handhold) by [[Moshiko HaLevy]], 1991. The Diwan pages containing this version are [[Media:Ayuma-moshiko.pdf | here]]. (The first and fifth verses are sung.)

* Sabaya, circle dance by [[Gadi Bitton]], 2022. It is not clear whether the song uses any lines other than the first two above; the other lyrics may not be from the Diwan. But there may be some words from the same poem as Ayuma BeHar HaMor. Although the word "sabaya" in Arabic can mean "young women", here it refers to a Yemeni layer cake (see link below).

The phrase "Ayuma behar hamor" is hard to translate. As we see in the notes on the page for Ayuma, "ayuma" refers to the Shechina, the immanent presence of God as experienced by humankind. Therefore it includes aspects of radiance and splendor, but also of awesomeness and even terror. (The words is sometimes translated as "disaster" but that doesn't seem appropriate.) Har HaMor, literally "the mountain of myrrh", may be Mount Moriah, but it may also be an allusion to Mount Sinai. And poetically it may be both at once.

A note on pronunciation: In the second line of the poem, the letter gimel of the word "nigun" contains a dagesh, a dot. (Reason: It comes from the verb לנגן in binyan pi'el, a so-called "heavy" binyan where the second letter receives a dagesh if possible.) Just as this dot in modern Hebrew makes the difference between "b" and "v" and between "p" and "f", dagesh in Yemenite Hebrew changes the "g" sound to "j". Furthermore, the prefix "ו", meaning "and", is pronounced not as "v" but as "w". So listen carefully to the singer. If in the second line you hear "w'nashir beshir mizmor, benijun leyotzri" you know that the singing is authentic.

=== External Links ===

{{AussieRokdim |359 |5abd2375db53327f3c8b4584}}

{{AussieLink|Amalel Shir|204}} at [http://www.israelidances.com israelidances.com]
 {{Rokdim|5abd2372db5332783c8b45ba}}
 [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jAAJsdxGU54 Sung] by Avner Gadasi
 Easier-to-read [https://larry.denenberg.com/Songs/amalel-shir.pdf lyrics]

{{AussieLink|Ayuma|1490}} at [http://www.israelidances.com israelidances.com]
 {{Rokdim|5abd23bcdb5332303a8b538d}}
 Easier-to-read [https://he.wikisource.org/wiki/%D7%90%D7%99%D7%95%D7%9E%D7%94_%D7%91%D7%94%D7%A8_%D7%94%D7%9E%D7%95%D7%A8 lyrics]

{{AussieLink|Sabaya|10917}} at [http://www.israelidances.com israelidances.com]
 {{Rokdim|631b609d4b20e09f144d16ea}}

A recipe for [https://www.jewishfoodsociety.org/recipes/sabaya-crispy-yemeni-layer-cake Sabaya]

[[Category:Dances]]

Ayuma BeHar HaMor

2026-08-31T22:23:47Z

Larry: rewording

Hebrew: איומה בהר המור

The phrase "Ayuma behar hamor" is the first line of several poems in the Diwan, the semi-sacred collection of poems and songs compiled and mostly or entirely written by Rabbi Shalom Shabazi, 1619–1720, who was known as the "Poet of Yemen". A list of dances whose music uses lyrics from the Diwan is [[Dances from the Diwan | here]], and more information on the Diwan is [[Diwan | here]].

The poems beginning with "Ayuma behar hamor" all begin with the following lines:

<poem>
::::.איומה בהר המור עלי לך ובשרי
::::.ונשיר בשיר מזמור. בנגון ליוצרי
::::Ayuma behar hamor ali lach uvaseri.
::::Venashir beshir mizmor. benigun leyotzeri.
</poem>

. . . after which they differ. Here are the dances whose music uses one or another of these poems:

* Ayuma BeHar HaMor, the most common, is an easy circle dance by [[Amnon Shauli]], 1983. The Diwan page containing this version is [[Media:Ayuma-behar-hamor.pdf | here]].

* Amalel Shir, circle dance by [[Shlomo Maman]], 1981. The Diwan page containing this poem is [[Media:Amalel-shir.png|here]]. (Only some of the lyrics appear, at the bottom.)

* Ayuma, individual dance (circle formation without handhold) by [[Moshiko HaLevy]], 1991. The Diwan pages containing this version are [[Media:Ayuma-moshiko.pdf | here]]. (The first and fifth verses are sung.)

* Sabaya, circle dance by [[Gadi Bitton]], 2022. It is not clear whether the song uses any lines other than the first two above; the other lyrics may not be from the Diwan. But there may be some words from the same poem as Ayuma BeHar HaMor. Although the word "sabaya" in Arabic can mean "young women", here it refers to a Yemeni layer cake (see link below).

The phrase "Ayuma behar hamor" is hard to translate. As we see in the notes on the page for Ayuma, "ayuma" refers to the Shechina, the immanent presence of God as experienced by humankind. Therefore it includes aspects of radiance and splendor, but also of awesomeness and even terror. (The words is sometimes translated as "disaster" but that doesn't seem appropriate.) Har HaMor, literally "the mountain of myrrh", may be Mount Moriah, but it may also be an allusion to Mount Sinai. And poetically it may be both at once.

A note on pronunciation: In the second line of the poem, the letter gimel of the word "nigun" contains a dagesh, a dot. (Reason: It comes from the verb לנגן in binyan pi'el, a so-called "heavy" binyan where the second letter receives a dagesh if possible.) Just as this dot in modern Hebrew makes the difference between "b" and "v" and between "p" and "f", dagesh in Yemenite Hebrew changes the "g" sound to "j". Furthermore, the prefix "ו", meaning "and", is pronounced not as "v" but as "w". So listen carefully to the singer. If in the second line you hear "w'nashir beshir mizmor, benijun leyotzri" you know that the singing is authentic.

=== External Links ===

{{AussieRokdim |359 |5abd2375db53327f3c8b4584}}

{{AussieLink|Amalel Shir|204}} at [http://www.israelidances.com israelidances.com]
 {{Rokdim|5abd2372db5332783c8b45ba}}
 [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jAAJsdxGU54 Sung] by Avner Gadasi
 Easier-to-read [https://larry.denenberg.com/Songs/amalel-shir.pdf lyrics]

{{AussieLink|Ayuma|1490}} at [http://www.israelidances.com israelidances.com]
 {{Rokdim|5abd23bcdb5332303a8b538d}}
 Easier-to-read [https://he.wikisource.org/wiki/%D7%90%D7%99%D7%95%D7%9E%D7%94_%D7%91%D7%94%D7%A8_%D7%94%D7%9E%D7%95%D7%A8 lyrics]

{{AussieLink|Sabaya|10917}} at [http://www.israelidances.com israelidances.com]
 {{Rokdim|631b609d4b20e09f144d16ea}}

A recipe for [https://www.jewishfoodsociety.org/recipes/sabaya-crispy-yemeni-layer-cake Sabaya]

[[Category:Dances]]

Sabaya

2026-08-31T22:17:45Z

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#REDIRECT [[Ayuma BeHar HaMor]]
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Amalel Shir

2026-08-31T22:17:28Z

Larry: Redirected page to Ayuma BeHar HaMor

#REDIRECT [[Ayuma BeHar HaMor]]
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Ayuma

2026-08-31T22:17:03Z

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#REDIRECT [[Ayuma BeHar HaMor]]
[[Category:Dances]]

Ayuma BeHar HaMor

2026-08-31T22:15:55Z

Larry: fix amalel-shir image link; minor comment

Hebrew: איומה בהר המור

The phrase "Ayuma behar hamor" is the first line of several poems in the Diwan, the semi-sacred collection of poems and songs compiled and mostly or entirely written by Rabbi Shalom Shabazi, 1619–1720, who was known as the "Poet of Yemen". A list of dances whose music uses lyrics from the Diwan is [[Dances from the Diwan | here]], and more information on the Diwan is [[Diwan | here]].

The poems beginning with "Ayuma behar hamor" all begin with the following lines:

<poem>
::::.איומה בהר המור עלי לך ובשרי
::::.ונשיר בשיר מזמור. בנגון ליוצרי
::::Ayuma behar hamor ali lach uvaseri.
::::Venashir beshir mizmor. benigun leyotzeri.
</poem>

. . . after which they differ. Here are the dances whose music uses one or another of these poems:

* Ayuma BeHar HaMor, the most common, is an easy circle dance by [[Amnon Shauli]], 1983. The Diwan page containing this version is [[Media:Ayuma-behar-hamor.pdf | here]].

* Amalel Shir, circle dance by [[Shlomo Maman]], 1981. The Diwan page containing this poem is [[Media:Amalel-shir.png|here]]. (Only some of the lyrics appear, at the bottom.)

* Ayuma, individual dance (circle formation without handhold) by [[Moshiko HaLevy]], 1991. The Diwan pages containing this version are [[Media:Ayuma-moshiko.pdf | here]]. (The first and fifth verses are sung.)

* Sabaya, circle dance by [[Gadi Bitton]], 2022. It is not clear whether the song uses any lines other than the first two above; the other lyrics may not be from the Diwan. But it's possible that there are some lyrics from the same poem as is used by Ayuma BeHar Hamor. Although the word "sabaya" in Arabic can mean "young women", in this context it refers to a Yemeni layer cake (see link below).

The phrase "Ayuma behar hamor" is very hard to translate. As we see in the notes on the page for dance Ayuma, "ayuma" refers to the Shechina, the immanent presence of God as experienced by humankind. Therefore it includes aspects of radiance and splendor, but also of awesomeness and even terror. (The words is sometimes translated as "disaster" but that doesn't seem appropriate.) Har HaMor, literally "the mountaiitn of myrrh", may be Mount Moriah, but it may also be an allusion to Mount Sinai. And poetically it may be both at once.

A note on pronunciation: In the second line of the poem, the letter gimel of the word "nigun" contains a dagesh, a dot. (Reason: It comes from the verb לנגן in binyan pi'el, a so-called "heavy" binyan, where the second letter receives a dagesh if possible.) Just as this dot in modern Hebrew makes the difference between "b" and "v" or between "p" and "f", dagesh in Yemenite Hebrew changes the "g" sound to "j". Furthermore, the prefix "ו", meaning "and", is pronounced not as "v" but as "w". So listen carefully to the singer. If in the second line you hear "w'nashir beshir mizmor, benijun leyotzri" you know that the singing is authentic.

=== External Links ===

{{AussieRokdim |359 |5abd2375db53327f3c8b4584}}

{{AussieLink|Amalel Shir|204}} at [http://www.israelidances.com israelidances.com]
 {{Rokdim|5abd2372db5332783c8b45ba}}
 [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jAAJsdxGU54 Sung] by Avner Gadasi
 Easier-to-read [https://larry.denenberg.com/Songs/amalel-shir.pdf lyrics]

{{AussieLink|Ayuma|1490}} at [http://www.israelidances.com israelidances.com]
 {{Rokdim|5abd23bcdb5332303a8b538d}}
 Easier-to-read [https://he.wikisource.org/wiki/%D7%90%D7%99%D7%95%D7%9E%D7%94_%D7%91%D7%94%D7%A8_%D7%94%D7%9E%D7%95%D7%A8 lyrics]

{{AussieLink|Sabaya|10917}} at [http://www.israelidances.com israelidances.com]
 {{Rokdim|631b609d4b20e09f144d16ea}}

A recipe for [https://www.jewishfoodsociety.org/recipes/sabaya-crispy-yemeni-layer-cake Sabaya]

[[Category:Dances]]

File:Amalel-shir.png

2026-08-31T22:14:15Z

Larry: Page 149 of the Diwan

== Summary ==
Page 149 of the Diwan
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Ayuma BeHar HaMor

2026-08-31T22:05:31Z

Larry: Created page with "Hebrew: איומה בהר המור The phrase "Ayuma behar hamor" is the first line of several poems in the Diwan, the semi-sacred collection of poems and songs compiled and mostly or entirely written by Rabbi Shalom Shabazi, 1619–1720, who was known as the "Poet of Yemen". A list of dances whose music uses lyrics from the Diwan is here, and more information on the Diwan is here. The poems beginning with "Ayuma behar hamor" al..."

Hebrew: איומה בהר המור

The phrase "Ayuma behar hamor" is the first line of several poems in the Diwan, the semi-sacred collection of poems and songs compiled and mostly or entirely written by Rabbi Shalom Shabazi, 1619–1720, who was known as the "Poet of Yemen". A list of dances whose music uses lyrics from the Diwan is [[Dances from the Diwan | here]], and more information on the Diwan is [[Diwan | here]].

The poems beginning with "Ayuma behar hamor" all begin with the following lines:

<poem>
::::.איומה בהר המור עלי לך ובשרי
::::.ונשיר בשיר מזמור. בנגון ליוצרי
::::Ayuma behar hamor ali lach uvaseri.
::::Venashir beshir mizmor. benigun leyotzeri.
</poem>

. . . after which they differ. Here are the dances whose music uses one or another of these poems:

* Ayuma BeHar HaMor, the most common, is an easy circle dance by [[Amnon Shauli]], 1983. The Diwan page containing this version is [[Media:Ayuma-behar-hamor.pdf | here]].

* Amalel Shir, circle dance by [[Shlomo Maman]], 1981. The Diwan page containing this poem is [[Media:Amalel-shir.pdf|here]]. (Only some of the lyrics appear.)

* Ayuma, individual dance (circle formation without handhold) by [[Moshiko HaLevy]], 1991. The Diwan pages containing this version are [[Media:Ayuma-moshiko.pdf | here]]. (The first and fifth verses are sung.)

* Sabaya, circle dance by [[Gadi Bitton]], 2022. It is not clear whether the song uses any lines other than the first two above; the other lyrics may not be from the Diwan. But it's possible that there are some lyrics from the same poem as is used by Ayuma BeHar Hamor. Although the word "sabaya" in Arabic can mean "young women", in this context it refers to a Yemeni layer cake (see link below).

The phrase "Ayuma behar hamor" is very hard to translate. As we see in the notes on the page for dance Ayuma, "ayuma" refers to the Shechina, the immanent presence of God as experienced by humankind. Therefore it includes aspects of radiance and splendor, but also of awesomeness and even terror. (The words is sometimes translated as "disaster" but that doesn't seem appropriate.) Har HaMor, literally "the mountaiitn of myrrh", may be Mount Moriah, but it may also be an allusion to Mount Sinai. And poetically it may be both at once.

A note on pronunciation: In the second line of the poem, the letter gimel of the word "nigun" contains a dagesh, a dot. (Reason: It comes from the verb לנגן in binyan pi'el, a so-called "heavy" binyan, where the second letter receives a dagesh if possible.) Just as this dot in modern Hebrew makes the difference between "b" and "v" or between "p" and "f", dagesh in Yemenite Hebrew changes the "g" sound to "j". Furthermore, the prefix "ו", meaning "and", is pronounced not as "v" but as "w". So listen carefully to the singer. If in the second line you hear "w'nashir beshir mizmor, benijun leyotzri" you know that the singing is authentic.

=== External Links ===

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{{AussieLink|Amalel Shir|204}} at [http://www.israelidances.com israelidances.com]
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 [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jAAJsdxGU54 Sung] by Avner Gadasi
 Easier-to-read [https://larry.denenberg.com/Songs/amalel-shir.pdf lyrics]

{{AussieLink|Ayuma|1490}} at [http://www.israelidances.com israelidances.com]
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{{AussieLink|Sabaya|10917}} at [http://www.israelidances.com israelidances.com]
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A recipe for [https://www.jewishfoodsociety.org/recipes/sabaya-crispy-yemeni-layer-cake Sabaya]

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Dror Yikra

2026-08-24T15:37:47Z

Larry: Moshiko says his Dror Yikra's "music is Yemenite from aden" (email 2026-08-24)

Dror Yikra (Hebrew: דרור יקרא, "He will proclaim freedom") is a poem by [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dunash_ben_Labrat Dunash HaLevi ben Labrat], poet and grammarian of
tenth-century Spain. (In the first three verses and the final verse, the
initial letters of the lines spell out "Dunash".) The poem
has become a piyyut traditionally sung on shabbat to any number of
melodies, including [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QnK4s9W9zGw The Sloop John B]
and [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=itIG4WU3WUc The Cups Song].
One melody transitions smoothly into the [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yfSLuEj99d0 Ballad of Gilligan's Island].

Of course, Israeli dances have been choreographed to many of these musical
settings:

* The most common, known as Dror Yikra, is a beginners' dance to a melody by Moshe Ben Mush, and is the [[First Creations | first dance choreographed]] by [[Eliyahu Gamliel]] (1972).

* In the same year, [[Moshe Eskayo]] created a more difficult dance for the same melody, played much faster. This dance is usually known as "Dror Yikra (fast)" to distinguish it from Gamliel's dance.

* The dance called Debka Dror (1987, [[David Alfassi]]) is done to a melody by Rachamim Chocima, with words from the piyyut.

* The music to [[Yankele Levy]]'s dance Shabbat Re'im (1982) also uses the lyrics from Dror Yikra, set to a completely different tune.

* Another dance called Dror Yikra with the same words was done in 2013 by [[Gadi Bitton]] with music by Yonatan Razel.

* The dance called Dror (2016, [[Tuvia Tischler]]) is another dance with the same words to a different melody by Yoni Ganot.

* [[Moshiko]] (like Dunash, a HaLevi) choreographed a partner mixer called Dror Yikra in 1970, to a Yemenite folk melody from Aden. The recording is instrumental and the words of the poem don't actually appear.

=== Links ===

All six verses of the original poem, in [https://shironet.mako.co.il/artist?type=lyrics&lang=1&prfid=6934&wrkid=31139 Hebrew] and in [https://www.hebrewsongs.com/song-droryikra.htm English translation/transliteration].

[http://www.israelidances.com/search.asp?S=&ChoreographerName=&intPageNo=1&OrderBy=&SearchThis=dror+yikra&Search=Search+the+Database Variants of Dror Yikra] at [http://www.israelidances.com israelidances.com]

[http://www.rokdim.co.il/rikudim/f_rikud.asp?rikudId=5850&mode=info Gamliel's dance] at [http://www.rokdim.co.il/ Rokdim]

[http://www.rokdim.co.il/rikudim/f_rikud.asp?rikudId=5813&mode=info Debka Dror] at [http://www.rokdim.co.il/ Rokdim]

[https://www.rokdim.co.il/dance/5abd23dadb5332cc3c8b4616 Shabbat Re'im] at [http://www.rokdim.co.il/ Rokdim]

[https://www.rokdim.co.il/dance/5abd2506db53322e3d8b45b4 Dror] at [http://www.rokdim.co.il/ Rokdim]

[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Yr51QMpSSUM Moshiko's partner mixer]

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Ya Abud

2026-08-24T04:25:59Z

Larry: Update no-longer-working link to Sabah Jeeb il-Mijwiz

Arabic: يا عبود ("O Abud!", male name). Circle/line debka in seven parts by [[Moshiko HaLevy]], 1974. Alternative title: Debka Abud.

Concerning debka in general and this dance in particular, Moshiko says:

<blockquote>
Arabic debka is a kind of prayer. The Arabs, by stamping strong on the
earth, are thanking the earth that's supporting them. Most of the songs
that accompany these dances are about love and women. Muslim leaders used
to be against young boys dancing debka, feeling that dance was only for
religious occasions, but after many years they realized that they cannot
control the young boys and began to use those dances for all kinds of
celebrations, like weddings, where it became popular.

I made this dance when I was working with a Druze group in Ossafiya in the
Karmel mountain. I observed their material, and after having all the
elements I made a choreography for their group. The elements are authentic
Arabic which I learned from one of the elder dancers in their group (too
long ago to remember his name---he was the instructor of the group until I
came). I decided to make a choreography from the elements so they could
perform them.<ref>Interview with Moshiko,
loosely translated, June 26 2020</ref>
</blockquote>

The music of Ya Abud is a combination of two different Lebanese tunes, both
popularized by [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sabah_(singer) Jeanette Gergis al-Feghali], universally known as Sabah, a hugely popular Lebanese singer who
lived from 1921 to 2014. The music of the first part of Ya Abud is the song
"Ah An-nadda An-nadda" (Arabic: ع الندا الندا, "Ah, The Dew, The Dew") and the music of parts
two through seven is "Jeeb il-Mijwiz Ya Abud" (Arabic: جيب المجوز يا عبود, "Take the
Mizwiz, O Abud!"; a mijwiz is a double flutelike instrument).

The recording we use for dancing, from Moshiko's third album (MIH-3), was created at a studio in New York City. The singer is Yusuf Kusub.<ref>Interview with Moshiko, June 28 2020; last name is uncertain</ref>

A parody sing-along set of lyrics known as Fred Abud, written and often improvised by [https://som.yale.edu/faculty/edward-h-kaplan Ed Kaplan], was popular in the northeast US, especially Boston.

==== Choreographic Notes (see also videos below) ====

* Although the original instructions call for arms on shoulders, the right way to do the dance is with hands joined down in parts 1, 2, and 3; hands joined shoulder height in parts 4, 5, and 6; and hands joined circling up to down in part 7.

* Part 5, bouncing on both feet, does ''not'' twist left and right or move forward. The bouncing is mostly in place, one long down and two quick up (international "mixed pickles" rhythm) with a slow progression around the circle LOD.

=== References and Links ===

<references/>

Moshiko [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4jZCLo78SnQ demonstrating] Ya Abud in 1982 (the credits incorrectly say that the music is Jordanian)

[[Media:Ya-abud.pdf | Lyrics/transliteration/translation]]

[[Media:Fred-abud.pdf | Lyrics/transliteration/translation]] of the Ed Kaplan parody

Sabah performing [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mJnrGxVv2qM Ah An-nadda An-nadda] with awesome authentic dancing

Sabah performing [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rWer-o9yoNs&t=37s Jeeb il-Mijwiz Ya Abud] in a dance performance

Photo of a [https://ar.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%A7%D9%84%D9%85%D8%AC%D9%88%D8%B2#/media/%D9%85%D9%84%D9%81:Mijwiz.jpg mijwiz]; the word means "dual"

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Unusual Meters

2026-08-23T13:53:55Z

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On this page you can find a collection of dances to songs with unusual meter, phrasing, or musical construction.

For our purposes "usual" means measures of two, three, four, or six beats, grouped in phrases of two, four, six, or eight bars.

A further explanation can be found below the lists of dances.

==== Asymmetrical Meters ====

Please keep this table in order by meter, then alphabetically by name of dance.

{| class="wikitable"
! Dance Name !! Main Meter(s) !! With a Few Measures In !! Notes on Meter and Phrasing
|-
| Eich Olam Mamshich || 5/8 (3-2) || ||
|-
| Machur Al Yevanit || 5/8 (3-2) || 2/4 || In the first part, the last measure of each phrase in the first part is in 2/4.
|-
| Ahava Shelanu || 7/8 (3-2-2) || ||
|-
| Bachulsha Shelcha || 7/8 (3-2-2) || || The pivots at the end of part 2 cut across measures, effectively making them 2-2-3.
|-
| Da'asa (Moshiko) || 7/8 (3-2-2) || ||
|-
| Da'asa (Yakovee) || 7/8 (3-2-2) || ||
|-
| Darbashiya || 7/8 (3-2-2) || 5/8 (3-2) || The third measure of the third part is 5/8.
|-
| Halleluya (Bitton) || 7/8 (3-2-2) || 4/4 || First and third sections in 7/8, middle section in 4/4.
|-
| [[Halleluyah L'Gal]] || 7/8 (3-2-2) || || The first and third part consist of phrases with five measures each.
|-
| Mecholot Damar || 7/8 (3-2-2) || 4/4 || First section in 4/4, second and third sections in 7/8.
|-
| Reiach Tapuach Odem Shani || 7/8 (3-2-2) || ||
|-
| Yesh Lanu Ketzev || 7/8 (3-2-2) || ||
|-
| Laz || 7/8 (2-2-3) || ||
|-
| Isha Al HaChof || 9/8 (3-2-2-2) || ||
|-
| Sovev Gal Gal || 12/8 (3-2-2-3-2) || || Could be counted as 6. Further discussion in [[Music vs Dance|Music vs Dance.]]
|-
| [[Yedidi Ro'i Mekimi]] || 14/8 (3-3-2-2-2-2) || ||
|}

==== Unusual Songs: Unusual Phrasing, Extra Beats, Changes in Meter ====

Many dances have an unusual meter which isn't asymmetrical or additive, or have unusual phrasing, extra or missing beats, changes in meter, etc. Due to the number of dances which exhibit multiple traits on this list, please keep this table in alphabetical order, and explain the musicality in the appropriate fields.

{| class="wikitable"
! Dance Name !! Main Meter(s) !! With a Few Measures In !! Notes on Meter and Phrasing
|-
| Anavai || 2/4 || 3/4 || The second part has a phrase of 8 followed by a phrase of 9, the last measure being 3/4 to give an extra beat. Music transcription [[Media:Anavai.pdf | here]]
|-
| BeLeilot HaKaitz HaChamim || 2/4 || || First part counted 4-4 and repeated, second part is counted 4-2-4-4 and repeated.
|-
| Chamsa || 4/4 || || The first section has (appropriately) five phrases of two measures each, and the last section is a phrase of nine measures.
|-
| Chazaka MeHaRuach || 4/4 || || Part I is simply a phrase of eight measures, repeated. Part II starts with a phrase of four measures, but instead of a simple repeat the phrase becomes nine measures.
|-
| [[Chof Shaket]] || 3/4 || || The first section has two phrases of eight measures each, while the second section is a phrase of nine measures.
|-
| Derech Eretz HaShaked || 2/3 & 2/4 || || First part has two phrases of 6-6-6-8, second part has phrases of 5-6-5-6 and then 6-6-6-8. The first group of 6-6-6 are made from 2/4 measures for a straight feel, the 6-6-6 in the second part is made from 3/4 measures for a waltz feel.
|-
| [[Dror Yikra]] (Gamliel) || 2/4 || 3/4 || First part counts 6-8, second part counts 9-6-8. The third measure of the second part is 3/4 (7-8-9 of the phrase).
|-
| Eretz Israel Yafa || 3/4 || 4/4 || Mostly in 3/4 - last phrase of the chorus ends in a measure of 4/4, giving an extra beat.
|-
| Et HaGeshem || 3/4 || 4/4 || Mostly in 3/4 - last measure of the first phrase is 4/4, giving an extra beat.
|-
| Gozi Li || 7/4 & 4/4 || || First part is in 7/4 (or one measure each of 4/4 and 3/4), second part is in 4/4.
|-
| HaChinanit || 4/4 || 2/4 || The second part has an extra measure of 2/4 at the end. However, the dance behaves differently, see [[Music vs Dance|Music vs Dance.]]
|-
| HaReshut || 4/4 || 2/4 || First three parts have 4 measures of 4 beats, last part has 10 measures of 2 beats.
|-
| [[Hashual]] || 4/4 || 3/4 || In the first section, three of the eight measures are in 3/4, feeling like a missing beat. (Perhaps better: The first section is four measures of 7/4, with an extra beat after the second measure.)
|-
| Hora Mamtera || 3/2 (6/4) & 4/4 || || First part is in 6/4, the rest in 4/4. The sheet music is written in 3/2, which is equivelant to 6/4, and it could be expressed either way. For the sake of keeping the dancer's beat the same, it makes more sense to count it as 6.
|-
| K'Agadat Rivka || 4/4 || 2/4 || First part is 4 measures of 4/4. Second part counts 4-4-4-2-4-4, then 4-4-4-4-4, that is, there's a measure of 2/4 inserted into the first repeat of a five-measure phrase.
|-
| Mezare Israel || 6/8, 2/4, 4/4, 3/4 || || First part counts 3-3-4, (one measure of 6/8, one of 2/4), and the second part counts 4-4-4-4-4-4-4-2 (three measures of 4/4, one of 3/4).
|-
| Mishal || 6/4 & 4/4 || || First part counts 6-6-6-6-6, second part counts 8-8-8-8. Dance is different, see [[Music vs Dance|Music vs Dance.]]
|-
| Mor VeKinamon || 2/4 & 3/4 || || First part counts 6-6-6-5, second part counts 8-7-8-8.
|-
| Nitzanim Niru Ba'Aretz || 2/4 || 3/4 || The last measure of the first section is in 3/4, giving an extra beat. The first section phrases as 6-7, the second section as 8-8.
|-
| [[Ozi V'Zimrat Yah]] (Uzi) || 7/4 & 6/4 || || First part is in 7, second part is in 6. Further discussion at [[Music vs Dance|Music vs Dance.]]
|-
| [[Shibolei Paz]] || 2/4, 3/4, 4/4 || || First part counts 4-4-4-2 and repeats, secound part counts 4-4-4-3-4-4-4-2
|-
| [[Shir HaHaflaga]] || 2/4 & 3/4 || || Eight phrases, with counds 10-12-9-11-13-12-13-12. The dance fits to this in a very complex way, see [[Shir HaHaflaga|here.]]
|-
| Shiru HaShir || 4/4 || 3/4 || The second measure of the first section is in 3/4, feeling like a missing beat.
|-
| Stav || 4/4 || || The first part has four phrases of four measures each; the second part is the same, except that the third phrase has only three measures. (The intro has two phrases of three measures each.)
|-
| Tikvateinu || 4/4 || || The first part is a phrase of seven measures.
|-
| VaYeven Uziyahu || 4/4 || 2/4 || In the second part, there's an extra measure of 2/4. First part counts 8-8, second part counts 8-2-8
|-
| VaYnikehu || 2/4 & 5/4 || || The first part counts 4-4-4-2, the second counts as 5-5-5-4
|-
| Ya Raya || 2/4 || || Every phrase in the song consists of five measures, for a count of 10 beats per phrase.
|-
| Zemer Ikarim || 5/4 || || Entirely in 5/4.
|}

==== Introduction to Meter ====

When counting music, the small repeating cycle of the percussion, bass, and sometimes melody which tells us where to start over and count again from 1 is known as the measure. Measures can be of different sizes; for example, most measures consist of four counts, or beats, but a waltz song will have only three beats to each measure. These measures can be described in time signatures, a pair of numbers which explains how many notes are in each measure. The bottom number tells you what size notes you're using, and the top number tells you how many are in each measure. A time signature is not the same thing as a meter. For example, the time signature 9/8 could express two or more different types of meter. Rhythm and meter are also related, but distinct - for example, a 7/8 with a metric construction of 3-2-2 could be accented to produce several different traditional rhythms. Meter, then, can be thought of as being halfway between time signature and rhythm. There are three major groups of meters: simple, compound, and asymmetrical, all of which have made their way into the music of Israeli dance. Meter can also be grouped by number; for example, all meters divisible by two are said to be duple meters, and meters divisible by three are triple.

==== Simple Meters ====

Simple meters are composed of quarter notes (so the base number will always be 4), with the number of beats in each measure being the top number, and the number we count to. A beat composed of one quarter note is called a simple beat, hence the name of the meter. The three most common simple meters are 2/4, 3/4, and 4/4.
*A simple 2/4 can be thought of as a "march," like Ahavat HaChayalim.
*A simple 3/4 can be though of as a "waltz," like Yedid Nefesh.
*A simple 4/4 is called common time, the most used meter both worldwide and in Israeli dance.
*We can also have "simple" meters of different numbers, for example 5/4 (like Zemer Ikarim), 6/4 (like the beginning of Hora Mamtera), or even higher.

==== Compound Meters ====

Compound meters are composed of eighth notes (so the base number will always be 8), with the total number of eight notes in each measure being the top number. A compound beat is composed of three eighth notes (making it 1.5 times the length of a quarter note). Compound beats are so named because they give both a triplet feel (by counting all three eighth notes) or a straight feel (by counting each group of three as one beat). Compound meters include 6/8 (like a Viennese waltz), 9/8 (like an Irish slip jig), and 12/8 (like an American swing or jazz song).
*Compound 6/8 can be counted as 123456123456 (like Ani Eshtagea), or as 1--2--1--2-- (like Yoreket Esh), with a swinging triplet feel.
*Compound 9/8 can be thought of as a "double waltz" - you have three big beats per measure, and each of those divides into three smaller beats. It's usually counted as 1&a2&a3&a, but you could technically count eight notes for 123456789. It doesn't occur in any Israeli dances (that we're aware of), but is often found in the slip jig genre of Irish dance.
*Compound 12/8 is almost always counted as 1&a2&a3&a4&a, and the main different between this meter and a plain 4/4 is that 12/8 has a swinging feel because each beat is a compound beat. Examples in Israeli dance include many swing style dances like Im Rak Tavoi BeChamesh, and arguably many Moroccan style songs like Malkat HaChatunot or Mabruk Aleikum.

==== Asymmetrical Meters ====

Asymmetrical or additive meters are composed of both simple beats (one quarter note, equal to two eighth notes) and compound beats (three eighth notes) within the same measure. This means that the beats of these meters are of unequal length, hence the name asymmetrical. Often, these meters are counted in groups of 2s for simple beats and 3s for compound beats, hence the alternative name additive. For example, one might count Isha Al HaChof as 3-2-2-2. Because the smallest unit used in these meters is always the eighth note, the base number is always eight. Usually, the top number is an odd number, such as 5/8, 7/8, or 9/8, but iterations of asymmetrical meters in 8/8, 10/8, and 12/8 also exist.
*Asymmetrical 5/8 is the simplest of its family, and can only be expressed as 3-2 or 2-3. Machur Al Yevanit, the only 5/8 Israeli dance, uses a 3-2 construction.
*Asymmetrical 7/8 is usually expressed as 3-2-2 or 2-2-3. Because of the Yemenite drum rhythm called da'asa, and because of the influence of Greek music (which often favors placing the compound beat at the beginning), most Israeli dances in 7/8 use a 3-2-2 construction, including Darbashiya, Da'asa (both Moshiko's and Yankalee's), Halleluya LeGal, and Reiach Tapuach Odem Shani. A notable exception is Moshiko's Laz, which takes it's music from the Laz region of northern Turkey and uses a 2-2-3 construction and a drum rhythm also called Laz.
*Asymmetrical 8/8 is an asymmetrical meter that, by its nature, adds up to 4/4, and is often counted as such. There are two rhythms in middle eastern music which use this meter, known as wahda and bolero. Bolero is a fairly common rhythm in Israeli dance, showing up in such songs as Al Na Tishal, Tzel Etz Tamar, Pireus, and Ma SheBenainu. Again, it's perfectly logical to count these songs in 4, since the 8/8 rhythms simplify to that number.
*Asymmetrical 9/8 is totally different to compound 9/8, and is usually constructed as 2-2-2-3 (especially in Turkish influenced music) or as 3-2-2-2 (more common in Greek tunes). The only Israeli dance to use an asymmetrical 9/8 is Isha Al HaChof, which, translated from a Greek song, uses the 3-2-2-2 construction of this meter.
*Asymmetrical 12/8 is a very uncommon meter, but does exist in the dance Sovev Gal Gal, in a 3-2-2-3-2 construction (possibly a variation of the Arabic Iqa called Warashan).
*There are many other rhythms and meters of the middle east which fall into this family, including the 10/8 rhythms of Arabia, Armenia, and Turkey (Samai al-Thaqil and Curcuna) and the Arabic iqaat and Turkish usuls. However, as yet, none seem to have been used for music extant in the Israeli dance tradition.

==== Changes in Meter ====

In addition to understanding all these meters, we have to take into account that some songs change meter, whether for major portions of the music or for a single measure. For example, Hora Mamtera begins in 6/4 (sometimes written as 3/2), but in the second part of the dance shifts into a more regular 4/4. Eretz Yisrael Yafa, on the other hand, has only one measure of 4/4 at the end of the chorus, producing an "extra beat." Dror Yikra has the same phenomenon, being a song in 2/4 with a single measure of 3/4 during the second part.

==== Changes in Phrasing ====

Finally, even if a song stays a consistent meter throughout, it might still throw dancers off their normal counts by having unusual phrasing. Most songs have phrases (combinations of measures) which are even, usually in groups of two or four. It's one of the reasons dancers often count to 8. However, particularly in middle eastern music, phrases are sometimes made of a strange number of measures. Halleluya LeGal, for example, is in 7/8 through the whole song, but has five measures in the first and third parts. Tikvateinu has seven measures of 4/4 in its verse, rather than a more typical 8 measures.

==== A Few Common Errors ====

A final consideration when dealing with unusual counts is that dancers sometimes ignore the actual meter and time signature, and count to four or eight. This can result in three phenomena in which dancers don't articulate the reality of the music very well.
*"Extra Beats" vs. Extra Measure - In a 4/4 song, you might have perfectly even phrasing - four beats to a measure, four measures to a phrase - but very often there's an extra measure at the end of a phrase as a way to transition musically (for example, between the verse and chorus of Tagidi Lo, or at the end of part A in Bimkom Prida). Dancers often mistakenly call this "extra beats," when in reality it would be better to say "extra measure." Extra beats would technically mean you have a measure of a greater size, like in Eretz Yisrael Yafa or Dror Yikra.
*"Missing Beats" - Missing beats can certainly exist, in the same way that extra beats can: for instance, if you had a song in 4/4 and you suddenly had a measure of 3/4, that could be thought of as a missing beat. However, often dancers refer to "missing beats" when there was no actual change in meter. For example, in a 2/4 song, dancers sometimes (read: almost always) count to either four or eight, and a phrase of three measures of 2/4 will feel like two measures of 4/4 with two beats suddenly missing.
*"False Changes in Meter" - Similarly the the "missing beats" described above, if a song which is actually in 2/4 is being counted in fours, and there is an extra measure of 2/4, it will seem as if there was a change of meter when actually, none occurred. Usually, the meter of a piece can be ascertained by listening for the smallest repeating pattern in the percussion and/or bass line.

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Dror Yikra

2026-08-23T13:52:05Z

Larry: Links to lyrics

Dror Yikra (Hebrew: דרור יקרא, "He will proclaim freedom") is a poem by [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dunash_ben_Labrat Dunash HaLevi ben Labrat], poet and grammarian of
tenth-century Spain. (In the first three verses and the final verse, the
initial letters of the lines spell out "Dunash".) The poem
has become a piyyut traditionally sung on shabbat to any number of
melodies, including [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QnK4s9W9zGw The Sloop John B]
and [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=itIG4WU3WUc The Cups Song].
One melody transitions smoothly into the [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yfSLuEj99d0 Ballad of Gilligan's Island].

Of course, Israeli dances have been choreographed to many of these musical
settings:

* The most common, known as Dror Yikra, is a beginners' dance to a melody by Moshe Ben Mush, and is the [[First Creations | first dance choreographed]] by [[Eliyahu Gamliel]] (1972).

* In the same year, [[Moshe Eskayo]] created a more difficult dance for the same melody, played much faster. This dance is usually known as "Dror Yikra (fast)" to distinguish it from Gamliel's dance.

* The dance called Debka Dror (1987, [[David Alfassi]]) is done to a melody by Rachamim Chocima, with words from the piyyut.

* The music to [[Yankele Levy]]'s dance Shabbat Re'im (1982) also uses the lyrics from Dror Yikra, set to a completely different tune.

* Another dance called Dror Yikra with the same words was done in 2013 by [[Gadi Bitton]] with music by Yonatan Razel.

* The dance called Dror (2016, [[Tuvia Tischler]]) is another dance with the same words to a different melody by Yoni Ganot.

* [[Moshiko]] (like Dunash, a HaLevi) choreographed a partner mixer called Dror Yikra in 1970, to a folk melody. The recording is instrumental and the words of the poem don't actually appear.

=== Links ===

All six verses of the original poem, in [https://shironet.mako.co.il/artist?type=lyrics&lang=1&prfid=6934&wrkid=31139 Hebrew] and in [https://www.hebrewsongs.com/song-droryikra.htm English translation/transliteration].

[http://www.israelidances.com/search.asp?S=&ChoreographerName=&intPageNo=1&OrderBy=&SearchThis=dror+yikra&Search=Search+the+Database Variants of Dror Yikra] at [http://www.israelidances.com israelidances.com]

[http://www.rokdim.co.il/rikudim/f_rikud.asp?rikudId=5850&mode=info Gamliel's dance] at [http://www.rokdim.co.il/ Rokdim]

[http://www.rokdim.co.il/rikudim/f_rikud.asp?rikudId=5813&mode=info Debka Dror] at [http://www.rokdim.co.il/ Rokdim]

[https://www.rokdim.co.il/dance/5abd23dadb5332cc3c8b4616 Shabbat Re'im] at [http://www.rokdim.co.il/ Rokdim]

[https://www.rokdim.co.il/dance/5abd2506db53322e3d8b45b4 Dror] at [http://www.rokdim.co.il/ Rokdim]

[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Yr51QMpSSUM Moshiko's partner mixer]

[[Category:Dances]]

{{Dancelists|[[Dances Played at the First Karmiel Festival]] {{·}}[["Double" dances]] {{·}}  [[First Creations]] {{·}}  [[Moshe Eskayo's dances]] {{·}}  [[Unusual Meters]]}}

Other sources of information

2026-08-22T14:15:03Z

Larry: folkdancenotes.com is gone; add Carnie's site

__NOTOC__
== {{SITENAME}} Pages ==
[[Logos|Gallery of logos]] used in the upper-left-hand corner

[[Comparison of DJ software]]

The [[Scribe]] system for informative displays during harkadot

[[Playlists of the MIT Folk Dance Club]], records of dances played going back decades

[[Irgun HaMarkidim]]

[[Steps In Time]], a dancer's helper

[[The Bible Project]], a resource connecting Hebrew songs and Israeli dances with their original sources in the tanach

An [[Video capture service | easy way]] to make videos available on the wiki

Various [[Lists of Dances|lists of dances]], including inter alia:
* The [[Original Music | source]] of music for various dances
* Dance music with [[Unusual Meters | interesting meter]]
* Dances that [[Music vs Dance | connect with their music]] in tricky ways

== Where to Dance ==

===== Sessions in Israel =====

[http://www.harokdim.org/search/choice.php harokdim.org] (Hebrew)

[http://www.rokdim.co.il/chugim/chugSearch.asp Rokdim] (Hebrew/English)

===== Sessions around the world =====

[http://www.jewishaustralia.com/?Page=dance-sessions-world Jewish Australia] (English)

[http://www.rokdim.co.il/chugim/chugSearchChul.asp Rokdim] (Hebrew/English)

===== Sessions in Germany, Austria, and Switzerland =====

[http://www.israeltanz.de/pagea80.html Israelisches Tanzhaus]

===== Camps and other events =====

[https://harkadaworld.uk Colin's List Of Worldwide Israeli Dancing Events]

== Useful External Links ==

[http://www.israelidances.com/search.asp IsraeliDances.com search engine]

[http://www.jsifd.com/heb_search.asp IsraeliDances.com search engine בעברית]

(folkdancenotes.com is gone; it now links to a site for men seeking foreign women)

Andrew Carnie's [https://folkdancemusings.blogspot.com/ large repository] of transcribed folkdances and video links (not just Israeli)

[http://www.folkdancecamp.org/syllabi Stockton Camp dance descriptions] (also not just Israeli)

The [https://sfdh.us/ Society of Folk Dance Historians], and their own [http://www.sfdh.org/wiki/index.php/Main_Page folkdance wiki]

[http://larry.denenberg.com/Songs/ Words, translations, and music] for selected dances, from [[Larry Denenberg]]'s website

Rokdim [http://www.rokdim.co.il/youtube/rokdim_youtube.asp video catalog] and [http://www.rokdim.co.il/rikudim/chipusRikudimOL.asp?main=Dances full catalog] (Hebrew/English)

MITFDC Israeli Playlists 1978--1981

2026-08-21T15:24:01Z

Larry: fix misnamed entry

Playlists of the Israeli session of the [[MIT Folk Dance Club]] from 5/17/1978 through 2/11/1981.
Other MITFDC playlists are accessible [[Playlists of the MIT Folk Dance Club | here]].

The table is sortable on any column; click the up/down arrows.

"Sala?" means that the session probably took place in the Sala de Puerto Rico in the MIT Student Center, but that fact wasn't noted on the playlist itself.

Previous book: [[MITFDC Israeli Playlists 1975--1978]]

{| class="wikitable sortable"
|-
! Date !! Page !! Programmer !! Location !! Notes
|-
| || {{fdcplaylists|78-81|frontcover|cover}} || colspan="2"| || cover
|-
| 1978-05-17 || {{fdcplaylists|78-81|1978-05-17|1}} || Cynthia Kagno || Lobby 13 ||
|-
| 1978-05-24 || {{fdcplaylists|78-81|1978-05-24|2}} || Barry Wilensky || Sala ||
|-
| 1978-05-31 || {{fdcplaylists|78-81|1978-05-31|3}} || Todd Quinto & Wayne Lewis (apprentice) || Sala ||
|-
| 1978-06-07 || {{fdcplaylists|78-81|1978-06-07|4}} || Tamar Rosenblum || Lobby 13 ||
|-
| 1978-06-14 || {{fdcplaylists|78-81|1978-06-14|5}} || Michael Abrahams || Sala ||
|-
| 1978-06-21 || {{fdcplaylists|78-81|1978-06-21|6}} || Barry Wilensky || Lobby 13 ||
|-
| 1978-06-28 || {{fdcplaylists|78-81|1978-06-28|7}} || Renee Myers || Sala ||
|-
| 1978-07-05 || {{fdcplaylists|78-81|1978-07-05|8}} || Todd Quinto || Sala ||
|-
| 1978-07-12 || {{fdcplaylists|78-81|1978-07-12|9}} || Janie Kornblau || Sala ||
|-
| 1978-07-19 || {{fdcplaylists|78-81|1978-07-19|10}} || Barry Wilensky || Sala ||
|-
| 1978-07-26 || {{fdcplaylists|78-81|1978-07-26|11}} || Renee Myers || Sala ||
|-
| 1978-08-02 || {{fdcplaylists|78-81|1978-08-02|12}} || Todd Quinto || Sala ||
|-
| 1978-08-09 || {{fdcplaylists|78-81|1978-08-09|13}} || Arnold Kling? || Sala ||
|-
| 1978-08-16 || {{fdcplaylists|78-81|1978-08-16|14}} || Ed Kaplan || Sala ||
|-
| 1978-08-23 || {{fdcplaylists|78-81|1978-08-23|15}} || Barry Wilensky || Sala ||
|-
| 1978-08-30 || {{fdcplaylists|78-81|1978-08-30|16}} || Janie Kornblau || Lobby 13 ||
|-
| 1978-09-06 || {{fdcplaylists|78-81|1978-09-06|17}} || Cynthia Kagno || Lobby 13 ||
|-
| 1978-09-13 || {{fdcplaylists|78-81|1978-09-13|18}} || Janie Kornblau || Sala ||
|-
| 1978-09-20 || {{fdcplaylists|78-81|1978-09-20|19}} || Todd Quinto || Sala || Beginners Night
|-
| 1978-09-27 || {{fdcplaylists|78-81|1978-09-27|20}} || Barry Wilensky || Sala ||
|-
| 1978-10-04 || {{fdcplaylists|78-81|1978-10-04|21}} || George Kirby || Sala ||
|-
| 1978-10-11 || {{fdcplaylists|78-81|1978-10-11|22}} || Cynthia Kagno || Sala || late start: Ne'ilah
|-
| 1978-10-18 || {{fdcplaylists|78-81|1978-10-18|23}} || Todd Quinto || Sala ||
|-
| 1978-10-25 || {{fdcplaylists|78-81|1978-10-25|24}} || Janie Kornblau || Lobby 13 ||
|-
| 1978-11-01 || {{fdcplaylists|78-81|1978-11-01|25}} || Barry Wilensky || Lobby 13 ||
|-
| 1978-11-08 || {{fdcplaylists|78-81|1978-11-08|26}} || George Kirby || Lobby 13 ||
|-
| 1978-11-15 || {{fdcplaylists|78-81|1978-11-15|27}} || Lisa Dames || Sala ||
|-
| 1978-11-22 || {{fdcplaylists|78-81|1978-11-22|28}} || Cynthia Kagno || Sala || Erev Thanksgiving
|-
| 1978-11-29 || {{fdcplaylists|78-81|1978-11-29|29}} || Janie Kornblau || Sala ||
|-
| 1978-12-06 || {{fdcplaylists|78-81|1978-12-06|30}} || Ed Kaplan || Lobby 13 ||
|-
| 1978-12-13 || {{fdcplaylists|78-81|1978-12-13|31}} || Cynthia Kagno || Sala ||
|-
| 1978-12-20 || {{fdcplaylists|78-81|1978-12-20|32}} || Barry Wilensky || Sala ||
|-
| 1978-12-27 || {{fdcplaylists|78-81|1978-12-27|33}} || Janie Kornblau || Sala ||
|-
| 1979-01-03 || {{fdcplaylists|78-81|1979-01-03|34}} || George Kirby || Sala ||
|-
| 1979-01-10 || {{fdcplaylists|78-81|1979-01-10|35}} || Barry Wilensky || Lobby 13 ||
|-
| 1979-01-17 || {{fdcplaylists|78-81|1979-01-17|36}} || Ed Kaplan || Sala || snow storm
|-
| 1979-01-24 || {{fdcplaylists|78-81|1979-01-24|37}} || Janie Kornblau || Sala ||
|-
| 1979-01-31 || {{fdcplaylists|78-81|1979-01-31|38}} || George Kirby || Sala ||
|-
| 1979-02-07 || {{fdcplaylists|78-81|1979-02-07|39}} || Cynthia Kagno || Sala ||
|-
| 1979-02-14 || {{fdcplaylists|78-81|1979-02-14|40}} || Janie Kornblau || Sala ||
|-
| 1979-02-21 || {{fdcplaylists|78-81|1979-02-21|41}} || Barry Wilensky || Sala ||
|-
| 1979-02-28 || {{fdcplaylists|78-81|1979-02-28|42}} || Judy Schwartz || Sala ||
|-
| 1979-03-07 || {{fdcplaylists|78-81|1979-03-07|43}} || George Kirby || Lobby 13 ||
|-
| 1979-03-14 || {{fdcplaylists|78-81|1979-03-14|44}} || Janie Kornblau || Lobby 13 ||
|-
| 1979-03-21 || {{fdcplaylists|78-81|1979-03-21|45}} || Barry Wilensky || Sala ||
|-
| 1979-03-28 || {{fdcplaylists|78-81|1979-03-28|46}} || Larry Denenberg || Sala || his first program
|-
| 1979-04-04 || {{fdcplaylists|78-81|1979-04-04|47}} || George Kirby || Sala ||
|-
| 1979-04-11 || {{fdcplaylists|78-81|1979-04-11|48}} || Martin Favorite || Sala? || international dancing due to first seder
|-
| 1979-04-18 || {{fdcplaylists|78-81|1979-04-18|49}} || Martin Favorite || Lobby 13 ||
|-
| 1979-04-25 || {{fdcplaylists|78-81|1979-04-25|50}} || Cynthia Kagno || Sala ||
|-
| 1979-05-02 || {{fdcplaylists|78-81|1979-05-02|51}} || Ed Kaplan || Sala ||
|-
| 1979-05-09 || {{fdcplaylists|78-81|1979-05-09|52}} || Janie Kornblau || Sala ||
|-
| 1979-05-16 || {{fdcplaylists|78-81|1979-05-16|53}} || Barry Wilensky || Sala || failed experimental couples hour
|-
| 1979-05-23 || {{fdcplaylists|78-81|1979-05-23|54}} || George Kirby & Judy Schwartz || Sala ||
|-
| 1979-05-30 || {{fdcplaylists|78-81|1979-05-30|55}} || Renee Myers || Sala ||
|-
| 1979-06-06 || {{fdcplaylists|78-81|1979-06-06|56}} || Janie Kornblau || Lobby 13 ||
|-
| 1979-06-13 || {{fdcplaylists|78-81|1979-06-13|57}} || Cynthia Kagno || Lobby 13 ||
|-
| 1979-06-20 || {{fdcplaylists|78-81|1979-06-20|58}} || Todd Quinto || Sala || Beginners Night
|-
| 1979-06-27 || {{fdcplaylists|78-81|1979-06-27|59}} || Ed Kaplan || Lobby 13 ||
|-
| 1979-07-04 || {{fdcplaylists|78-81|1979-07-04|60}} || Cynthia Kagno || Sala || with 4th of July special: Virginia Reel
|-
| 1979-07-11 || {{fdcplaylists|78-81|1979-07-11|61}} || Janie Kornblau || Lobby 13 ||
|-
| 1979-07-18 || {{fdcplaylists|78-81|1979-07-18|62}} || Renee Myers || Lobby 13 ||
|-
| 1979-07-25 || {{fdcplaylists|78-81|1979-07-25|63}} || Judy Schwartz || Sala ||
|-
| 1979-08-01 || {{fdcplaylists|78-81|1979-08-01|64}} || Todd Quinto || Sala ||
|-
| 1979-08-08 || {{fdcplaylists|78-81|1979-08-08|65}} || Cynthia Kagno || Sala || Ed Kaplan becomes coordinator
|-
| 1979-08-15 || {{fdcplaylists|78-81|1979-08-15|66}} || Renee Myers || Sala ||
|-
| 1979-08-22 || {{fdcplaylists|78-81|1979-08-22|67}} || Barry Wilensky || Sala ||
|-
| 1979-08-29 || {{fdcplaylists|78-81|1979-08-29|68}} || Larry Denenberg || Lobby 13 ||
|-
| 1979-09-05 || {{fdcplaylists|78-81|1979-09-05|69}} || Ed Kaplan || Lobby 13 ||
|-
| 1979-09-12 || {{fdcplaylists|78-81|1979-09-12|70}} || Herb Lin || Sala || Oldies Night
|-
| 1979-09-19 || {{fdcplaylists|78-81|1979-09-19|71}} || Todd Quinto || Sala || Beginners Night
|-
| 1979-09-26 || {{fdcplaylists|78-81|1979-09-26|72}} || Ken Kanagaki || Sala ||
|-
| 1979-10-03 || {{fdcplaylists|78-81|1979-10-03|73}} || Janie Kornblau || Lobby 13 ||
|-
| 1979-10-10 || {{fdcplaylists|78-81|1979-10-10|74}} || Ilene Fruman || Lobby 13 ||
|-
| 1979-10-17 || {{fdcplaylists|78-81|1979-10-17|75}} || Barry Wilensky || Lobby 13 ||
|-
| 1979-10-24 || {{fdcplaylists|78-81|1979-10-24|76}} || Eliot & Judy Jango-Cohen || Sala ||
|-
| 1979-10-31 || {{fdcplaylists|78-81|1979-10-31|77}} || Renee Myers || Lobby 13 ||
|-
| 1979-11-07 || {{fdcplaylists|78-81|1979-11-07|78}} || Larry Denenberg || Lobby 13 ||
|-
| 1979-11-14 || {{fdcplaylists|78-81|1979-11-14|79}} || Jerry Goldin || Sala ||
|-
| 1979-11-21 || {{fdcplaylists|78-81|1979-11-21|80}} || Ralph Jones || Sala ||
|-
| 1979-11-28 || {{fdcplaylists|78-81|1979-11-28|81}} || Ed Kaplan || Lobby 13 ||
|-
| 1979-12-05 || {{fdcplaylists|78-81|1979-12-05|82}} || George Kirby || Sala ||
|-
| 1979-12-12 || {{fdcplaylists|78-81|1979-12-12|83}} || Barry Wilensky || Sala ||
|-
| 1979-12-19 || {{fdcplaylists|78-81|1979-12-19|84}} || Renee Myers || Sala ||
|-
| 1979-12-26 || {{fdcplaylists|78-81|1979-12-26|85}} || Jerry Goldin || Sala ||
|-
| 1980-01-02 || {{fdcplaylists|78-81|1980-01-02|86}} || Larry Denenberg || Sala ||
|-
| 1980-01-09 || {{fdcplaylists|78-81|1980-01-09|87}} || Janie Kornblau || Lobby 13 ||
|-
| 1980-01-16 || {{fdcplaylists|78-81|1980-01-16|88}} || George Kirby || Sala ||
|-
| 1980-01-23 || {{fdcplaylists|78-81|1980-01-23|89}} || Todd Quinto || Sala || Beginners Night
|-
| 1980-01-30 || {{fdcplaylists|78-81|1980-01-30|90}} || Barry Wilensky || Sala ||
|-
| 1980-02-06 || {{fdcplaylists|78-81|1980-02-06|91}} || Renee Myers || Sala ||
|-
| 1980-02-13 || {{fdcplaylists|78-81|1980-02-13|92}} || Janie Kornblau || Sala ||
|-
| 1980-02-20 || {{fdcplaylists|78-81|1980-02-20|93}} || Larry Denenberg || Sala ||
|-
| 1980-02-27 || {{fdcplaylists|78-81|1980-02-27|94}} || Jerry Goldin || Sala ||
|-
| 1980-03-05 || {{fdcplaylists|78-81|1980-03-05|95}} || Barry Wilensky || Lobby 13 ||
|-
| 1980-03-12 || {{fdcplaylists|78-81|1980-03-12|96}} || Ed Kaplan || Lobby 13 || with "Early Esoterica"
|-
| 1980-03-19 || {{fdcplaylists|78-81|1980-03-19|97}} || Renee Rosenberg & Paul Okunieff || Sala ||
|-
| 1980-03-26 || {{fdcplaylists|78-81|1980-03-26|98}} || Renee Myers || Lobby 13 || with "Early Esoterica"
|-
| 1980-04-02 || {{fdcplaylists|78-81|1980-04-02|99}} || Murray Spiegel & Betsy Diamant || Sala || with "Early Esoterica"
|-
| 1980-04-09 || {{fdcplaylists|78-81|1980-04-09|100}} || Jerry Goldin || Lobby 13 ||
|-
| 1980-04-16 || {{fdcplaylists|78-81|1980-04-16|101}} || Suzanne Jagendorf || Sala ||
|-
| 1980-04-23 || {{fdcplaylists|78-81|1980-04-23|102}} || Larry Denenberg || Lobby 13 ||
|-
| 1980-04-30 || {{fdcplaylists|78-81|1980-04-30|103}} || Janie Kornblau || Sala ||
|-
| 1980-05-07 || {{fdcplaylists|78-81|1980-05-07|104}} || Barry Wilensky || Sala ||
|-
| 1980-05-14 || {{fdcplaylists|78-81|1980-05-14|105}} || George Kirby || Sala ||
|-
| 1980-05-21 || {{fdcplaylists|78-81|1980-05-21|106}} || Ed Kaplan || Sala ||
|-
| 1980-05-28 || {{fdcplaylists|78-81|1980-05-28|107}} || Renee Myers || Sala ||
|-
| 1980-06-04 || {{fdcplaylists|78-81|1980-06-04|108}} || Janie Kornblau || Sala ||
|-
| 1980-06-11 || {{fdcplaylists|78-81|1980-06-11|109}} || Todd Quinto || Sala || Beginners Night
|-
| 1980-06-18 || {{fdcplaylists|78-81|1980-06-18|110}} || Ed Kaplan || Sala ||
|-
| 1980-06-25 || {{fdcplaylists|78-81|1980-06-25|111}} || Jerry Goldin || Lobby 13 ||
|-
| 1980-07-02 || {{fdcplaylists|78-81|1980-07-02|112}} || Suzanne Jagendorf || Sala ||
|-
| 1980-07-09 || {{fdcplaylists|78-81|1980-07-09|113}} || George Kirby || Sala ||
|-
| 1980-07-16 || {{fdcplaylists|78-81|1980-07-16|114}} || Judy Schwartz || Sala ||
|-
| 1980-07-23 || {{fdcplaylists|78-81|1980-07-23|115}} || Renee Myers || Sala ||
|-
| 1980-07-30 || {{fdcplaylists|78-81|1980-07-30|116}} || George Kirby || Sala ||
|-
| 1980-08-06 || {{fdcplaylists|78-81|1980-08-06|117}} || Barry Wilensky || Sala ||
|-
| 1980-08-13 || {{fdcplaylists|78-81|1980-08-13|118}} || Janie Kornblau || Sala ||
|-
| 1980-08-20 || {{fdcplaylists|78-81|1980-08-20|119}} || Suzanne Jagendorf || Sala ||
|-
| 1980-08-27 || {{fdcplaylists|78-81|1980-08-27|120}} || Jerry Goldin || Lobby 13 ||
|-
| 1980-09-03 || {{fdcplaylists|78-81|1980-09-03|121}} || Ed Kaplan || Lobby 13 || includes Hora Workshop review
|-
| 1980-09-10 || colspan="3"| || no dancing; erev Rosh HaShanah
|-
| 1980-09-17 || {{fdcplaylists|78-81|1980-09-17|122}} || Todd Quinto || Sala? || Beginners Night
|-
| 1980-09-24 || {{fdcplaylists|78-81|1980-09-24|123}} || Murray Spiegel || Sala ||
|-
| 1980-10-01 || {{fdcplaylists|78-81|1980-10-01|124}} || Renee Myers || Sala ||
|-
| 1980-10-08 || {{fdcplaylists|78-81|1980-10-08|125}} || Jerry Goldin || Sala ||
|-
| 1980-10-15 || {{fdcplaylists|78-81|1980-10-15|126}} || Barry Wilensky || Sala ||
|-
| 1980-10-22 || {{fdcplaylists|78-81|1980-10-22|127}} || Ed Kaplan || Lobby 13 ||
|-
| 1980-10-29 || {{fdcplaylists|78-81|1980-10-29|128}} || Janie Kornblau || Sala ||
|-
| 1980-11-05 || {{fdcplaylists|78-81|1980-11-05|129}} || George Kirby || Lobby 13 || Danni Dassa workshop
|-
| 1980-11-12 || {{fdcplaylists|78-81|1980-11-12|130}} || Murray Spiegel & Betsy Diamant || Lobby 13 ||
|-
| 1980-11-19 || {{fdcplaylists|78-81|1980-11-19|131}} || Renee Myers || Sala ||
|-
| 1980-11-26 || {{fdcplaylists|78-81|1980-11-26|132}} || Jerry Goldin || Sala ||
|-
| 1980-12-03 || {{fdcplaylists|78-81|1980-12-03|133}} || Janie Kornblau || Lobby 13 ||
|-
| 1980-12-10 || {{fdcplaylists|78-81|1980-12-10|134}} || George Kirby || Sala ||
|-
| 1980-12-17 || {{fdcplaylists|78-81|1980-12-17|135}} || Ed Kaplan || Sala ||
|-
| 1980-12-24 || colspan="3"| || no dancing; Christmas Eve
|-
| 1980-12-31 || {{fdcplaylists|78-81|1980-12-31|136}} || Murray Spiegel || Lobby 13 ||
|-
| 1981-01-07 || {{fdcplaylists|78-81|1981-01-07|137}} || Larry Denenberg || Lobby 13 ||
|-
| 1981-01-14 || {{fdcplaylists|78-81|1981-01-14|138}} || George Kirby || Sala ||
|-
| 1981-01-21 || {{fdcplaylists|78-81|1981-01-21|139}} || Ed Kaplan || Lobby 13 ||
|-
| 1981-01-28 || {{fdcplaylists|78-81|1981-01-28|140}} || Renee Myers || Lobby 13 ||
|-
| 1981-02-04 || {{fdcplaylists|78-81|1981-02-04|141}} || ? || Sala? || Beginners Night
|-
| 1981-02-11 || {{fdcplaylists|78-81|1981-02-11|142}} || Murray Spiegel || Sala ||
|}

Next book: [[MITFDC Israeli Playlists 1981--1984]]

Eponymous Dances

2026-08-17T01:03:30Z

Larry: link to my Kinor David

Dances named after specific human beings, either by the choreographer in choosing the dance name, or by the composer in naming the music.

==== Other than Biblical ====
{| class="wikitable sortable"
! Dance Name !! Eponym !! Choreographer !! Occasion !! Notes
|-
| Agilei Damar || Shoshana Damari ז″ל|| [[Shmulik Gov-Ari]] || Damari's 1988 Israel Prize || Song composed in '88, the dance later
|-
| Ahavat Itamar || Itamar Ben-Avi || [[Sefi Aviv]] || Itamar's once-hopeless love for his bride || son of Eliezer Ben-Yehuda; full story [[Ahavat Itamar | here]]
|-
| Ariel || Ariel || [[Moshiko Halevy|Moshiko]] || || [[Moshiko's descendants | Moshiko's grandchild]]
|-
| Bat Shlomo (Lital) || || [[Shlomo Maman]] || ||
|-
| Ben Ya || Ben Ya || Moshiko || || [[Moshiko's descendants | Moshiko's son]]
|-
| [[Bosmat]] || Bosmat ? || Moshiko || || [[Moshiko's descendants | Moshiko's first granddaughter]]
|-
| Bracha || Bracha || Moshiko || || Moshiko's sister
|-
| Chanita || Anne (Channah) Eskayo ז″ל|| [[Moshe Eskayo]] || || Moshe's wife
|-
| Debka Aliza || Aliza Mintz || Joshua Fields || ||
|-
| Debka Allon || Allon Weinstock || Moshe Eskayo || ||
|-
| Debka Ariel || Ariel Weinstock || Moshe Eskayo || ||
|-
| [[Debka Chaim]] || Chaim Gazuli ז″ל|| Moshe Eskayo || In memoriam ||
|-
| Debka Dassa || Dani Dassa || [[Dani Dassa]] || ||
|-
| Debka Dikla || Dikla Kadosh || [[Naftali Kadosh]] || || Naftali's daughter
|-
| Debka Dor || Dor ? || Moshiko || || [[Moshiko's descendants | Moshiko's grandson]]
|-
| Debka Eileen || Eileen Weinstock || Moshe Eskayo || ||
|-
| Debka Eilon || Eilon Swissa || [[Ilan Swissa]] || || Ilan's son
|-
| Debka Etti || Etti ? || Naftali Kadosh || || Naftali's ??
|-
| Debka Irit || Irit Eskayo Vaknine || Moshe Eskayo || || Moshe's daughter
|-
| [[Debka Larden]] || [[Larry Denenberg]] || Moshe Eskayo || Larry's 50th birthday || Commissioned by Larry's wife Rachael Rosner; possibly the first commissioned dance
|-
| Debka Li'el || Li'el Ben Sasson || Moshe Eskayo || || Moshe's first grandson, born May 19 1989
|-
| Debka Liya || Liya Tabashi[?] || [[Yuval Tabashi]] || || Yuval's daughter
|-
| Debka Moshe|| Moshe Eskayo || [[Tamir Scherzer]] || ||
|-
| Debka Irit || Irit Eskayo Vaknine || Moshe Eskayo || || Moshe's daughter
|-
| Debka Nufar || Nufar Kadosh || Naftali Kadosh || || Naftali's daughter
|-
| [[Debka Simonne (Harvey)]] || Simonne ? || Moshe Eskayo || || friend of Moshe and of Avner Naim; more info [[Debka Simonne (Harvey) | here]]
|-
| [[Debka Skayo]] || Moshe Eskayo || Moshe Eskayo || || More information [[Debka Skayo | here]]
|-
| [[Debka Uriah]] || Uriah Halevy || Moshiko || || [[Moshiko's descendants | Moshiko's first child]]
|-
| Eliezer Ben Yehuda || Eliezer Ben Yehuda || [[Yoram Sasson]] || || Revived Hebrew as a modern language in Israel
|-
| Gaaguim L'Skayo || Moshe Eskayo || [[Avner Naim]] || In memoriam ||
|-
| Gam Li El || Eliyahu Gamliel ז″ל || Moshiko || In memoriam ||
|-
| Habaal Shem Tov || Baal Shem Tov || [[Meir Shem Tov]] || || The founder of Chassidism
|-
| Halleli Or || Lior Yakovee || [[Israel Yakovee]] || Lior's birth || Yakovee's son
|-
| [[Halleluyah L'Gal]] || Gal ? || [[Se'adya Amishai]] || || Se'adya's grandson; orig. song name "Halleluyah"
|-
| Harikud Shel Pnina || Pnina ? || [[Tuvia Tishler]] || ||
|-
| [[Hora Agadati]] || Baruch Agadati || [[Baruch Agadati]] || || The first choreographed dance[[Hora Agadati|?]]; see also [[First Steps]]
|-
| Hora Chemed || Chemed || Moshiko || || [[Moshiko's descendants | Moshiko's son]]
|-
| Ima Bracha || Bracha ? || Israel Yakovee || || Yakovee's mother
|-
| Kino's Dance || Kino ? || Israel Yakovee || named by the composer, not the choreographer ||
|-
| Liat Li Liat || Liat Weinstock || Moshe Eskayo || Liat's birth ||
|-
| Libi || Libi || Moshiko || || [[Moshiko's descendants | Moshiko's daughter]]
|-
| Liya || Liya Vaknine || Moshe Eskayo || || Moshe's granddaughter
|-
| Mechol Ovadya|| Ovadya ? || [[Yardena Cohen]] || || The composer
|-
| Mizmor L'David (Adonai Ro'i) || Ro'i || Moshiko || || [[Moshiko's descendants | Moshiko's granddaughter]]
|-
| Mor || Mor || Moshiko || || [[Moshiko's descendants | Moshiko's grandchild]]
|-
| Moshiko || Moshiko || [[Moshe Telem]] || ||
|-
| [[Naomi]] || Naomi Vilan || Yoav Ashriel / Bentzi Tiram || || The girlfriend of the son of the lyricist's second husband; see [[Naomi|here]]
|-
| Natzer Mechake LeRabin || Gamal Nasser and Yitzchak Rabin || [[Yo'av Ashriel]] || During the Six Day War ||
|-
| Niguna Shel Shlomit|| Shlomit ?|| [[Boaz Cohen]] || ||
|-
| Niguno Shel Berel || Berel ?|| [[Shlomo Maman]] || ||
|-
| Niguno Shel Uri|| Uri Cohen || Shlomo Maman, [[Hagai Ramati]], [[Maurice Perez]] (3 versions) || || The composer
|-
| Niguno Shel Yossi|| Yossi Spivak|| [[Raya Spivak]] || || The composer
|-
| Omer || Omer || Moshiko || || [[Moshiko's descendants | Moshiko's grandson]]
|-
| Reichan Gruzini || Reichan || Moshiko || || [[Moshiko's descendants | Moshiko's grandchild]]
|-
| Rikud Eileen || Eileen Weinstock || Moshe Eskayo || ||
|-
| Rikudo Shel Uri || Uri Bar Or || [[Noa Bar Or]] || Uri's death in Gaza || Noa is Uri's mother
|-
| [[Rona]] || Rona Shukri || Sefi Aviv || || much more information [[Rona | here]]
|-
| Shai L'Ayla || Ayla Denenberg || Moshiko || Ayla's birth ||
|-
| Shir L'Ashriel || Yoav Ashriel|| Roni Siman Tov || Yoav's 80th birthday || music is Al Tityaesh
|-
| Shir L'Ophir || Ophir || Moshiko || || [[Moshiko's descendants | Moshiko's grandson]]
|-
| Shirat Oryana || Oryana Ashkenazi ז″ל || [[Oren Ashkenazi]] & [[Lena Ashkenazi-Stettler]] || In memoriam || Oren & Lena's daughter
|-
| Shmulke's Nigun || Shmulke ? || || ||
|-
| Tamar HaK'tana || Tamar || Moshiko || || [[Moshiko's descendants | Moshiko's granddaughter]]
|-
| Tfilat Michal || Michal Eskayo || Moshe Eskayo || || Moshe's daughter
|-
| Vals Le Miya-Ar|| Mia Arbatoba ז″ל || Moshiko || In memoriam || Moshiko's early dance teacher
|-
| Vals L'Ori || Ori || Moshiko || || [[Moshiko's descendants | Moshiko's great granddaughter]]
|-
| Vilner Gaon (Hagaon MeVilna) || The Vilna Gaon || [[Mitch Ginsburgh]] || || Also known as the GRA, Rabbi Elijah ben Shlomo Zalman Kremer
|-
| Yakir Menachem || Menachem Menachem ז″ל || Moshiko || In memoriam ||
|-
| Yiska || Yiska || Moshiko || || [[Moshiko's descendants | Moshiko's grandchild]]
|-
| Yonati || Yonah ? || Israel Yakovee || || Yakovee's grandmother
|-
| Yosifun || Yosifun ז″ל || Moshiko || In memoriam || A childhood friend
|-
| Yuvali Ninati || Yuvali || Moshiko || || [[Moshiko's descendants | Moshiko's great granddaughter]]
|}

==== Biblical ====
(For many more connections between Israeli dances and the Bible, with a wealth of details, visit [http://www.hebrewsongs.com/bible_songs.asp? The Bible Project].)
{| class="wikitable sortable"
! Dance Name !! Eponym !! Choreographer !! Citation !! Notes
|-
| Ahavat Shlomo Et Shulamit (Kishlomo Et Shulamit) || Solomon and Shulamit || Tzvi Fridhaber || ||
|-
| Avram Avinu || Abraham the patriarch || two versions || ||
|-
| Beohel Avraham || Abraham the patriarch || Levi Bar Gil || ||
|-
| Eved Avraham || Abraham the patriarch || Yoram Sasson || ||
|-
| David HaMelech Ba LaMesiba || King David|| [[Shmulik Gov Ari]] || ||
|-
| David Melech Israel || King David|| [[Shmulik Gov Ari]] || ||
|-
| David Melech Israel || King David|| [[Gurit Kadman]] || ||
|-
| David VeGoliyat || David and Goliath || Levi Bar Gil || 1 Samuel 17 ||
|-
| David Yafe Enayim || King David|| Benny Levy || ||
|-
| Eved Avraham || Abraham the patriarch || Yoram Sasson || ||
|-
| HaShir Shel Miriam || Miriam || Itzik Ben Dahan, Yaron Elfasy || ||
|-
| Joshua || Yehoshua Ben-Nun || Dani Dassa || Joshua ch. 1, 2, 10–12 || Specifics [http://hebrewsongs.com/?song=yehoshua here]
|-
| K'agadat Rivka || Rebecca, wife of Isaac || Vicki Cohen || Genesis 24 ||
|-
| Kedat Moshe Ve'Israel || Moses || Kobi Michaeli || ||
|-
| Kinor David || King David || Fredie Cohen || || [https://larry.denenberg.com/Songs/kinordavid.pdf Lyrics, transliteration, and translation]
|-
| Kismei Shaul || King Saul || Yankele Levy || 1 Samuel 28:5–19 ||
|-
| Magen David || King David || Asher Ellazam || ||
|-
| Mayim Ledavid || King David || Chilik Carmeli || ||
|-
| Mayim LeDavid HaMelech || King David || Giora Kadmon || ||
|-
| Mizmor LeDavid || King David || several versions || ||
|-
| Shir HaMaalot LeDavid || King David || Amnon Eilat || ||
|-
| [[Sulam Ya'akov]] || Jacob the Patriarch || Yonatan Gabai || ||
|-
| Torat Moshe || Moses || Israel Yakovee || ||
|-
| VaTikach Miryam || Miriam, sister of Moses || Sagi Azran || Exodus 15 ||
|-
| Vecherev Ein LeDavid || King David || Tamar Alyagor || ||
|-
| Vedavid Yafe Enayim || King David || several versions|| 1 Samuel, 16:11–12 and 18:7 ||
|}

[[Category:Dance Lists]]
[[Category:Dances]]

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"Double" dances

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"Double" dances are those where two or more choreographies exist to the same or to very similar music.
Israel Yakovee has posted many videos of double dances with the background and stories about them on his Facebook page.

(Discussion needed about how double dances arise, why they're a problem, attempts at solution, how opinions differ among markidim and choreographers and dancers.)
 Different dances to the same music were created for various reasons.
<ul>
<li>A choreographer might not know that another had created such a dance. This happened more so many years ago.</li>
<li>Also many years ago, dances choreographed outside of Israel were often not accepted as an "Israeli" dance, so a choreographer in Israel felt free to create another one.</li>
<li>In rare cases, two choreographers did not like each other. When one created a dance, the other might intentionally create another one to the same music.</li>
</ul>

=== List of double dances ===

Where appropriate, more details can be found at the individual page of each dance.

Please keep this list in alphabetical order.

{| class="wikitable"
! Dance !! Circle Dances !! Partner Dances !! Line Dances !! Notes
|-
| Ad Or Haboker || [[Yoav Ashriel]], [[Moshe Eskayo]] || || ||
|-
| Adama/ Adama Admati || || [[Dani Dassa]], [[Se'adia Amishai]] || ||
|-
| Adon Haselichot || [[Avner Naim]], [[Bonny Piha]] + [[Yoram Sasson]] || || [[Shlomo Bachar]] ||
|-
| Afilu Shesrefot || || [[Ran Hirsh]], [[Gadi Bitton]] || ||
|-
| Ahava Ktzara || || Gadi Bitton, [[Naftaly Kadosh]] || ||
|-
| [[Ahava Noshana]] || [[Amir Katz]] || [[Moshe Eskayo]] || || Eskayo's dance is Ahava Noshana, Katz's is [[SheHaShemesh Ta'avor Alai]]; identical music
|-
| Ahavat Hadassa || [[Rivka Sturman]], [[Eliyahu Gamliel]] || || ||
|-
| Ahavat Poaley Habinyan || [[Shlomo Maman]] || [[Mussa Ashkenazi et al]] || ||
|-
| Ahuvat Levavi || [[Shmulik Gov Ari]] || [[Chayim Shiryon]], [[Yair Menashe]]|| ||
|-
| Al Anfey Shita || || [[Eli Ronen ]], [[Marco Ben-Shimon]] || ||
|-
| Al Gemali || Moshe Eskayo || [[Tzvi Fridhaber]] || ||
|-
| Al Gvul Hayam Haacharon / Hayam Haacharon || [[Victor Gabay]] || Marco Ben-Shimon || || Victor's dance is called Al Gvul Hayam Haacharon, Marco's is called Hayam Haacharon - both are the same music
|-
|Al Harim || || || ||SEE El Haayin / Al Harim
|-
| Al Kol Eleh / Al HaDvash V'Al HaOketz || Rivka Sturman, Shlomo Bachar || || || Rivka's dance is Al HaDvash V'Al HaOketz, Shlomo's is Al Kol Eleh; same music
|-
| Al Tira Israel / Yaakov Hatamim || Dani Dassa, Eli Ronen || || ||
|-
| Anashim Tovim || [[ Raya Spivak ]], [[Uri Grafit]], Shlomo Maman || || ||
|-
| Ani Chozer Habaita || || Chayim Shiryon || [[Maurice Peretz]],[[ Teme Kernerman]] ||
|-
| Anshey Hageshem || [[Israel Shiker]] || [[Sefi Aviv]]|| ||
|-
| Ashbi'acha || [[Bentzi Tiram]] || [[Yankele Levy]] || ||
|-
|Ashlayot || || || ||SEE Tinten Banat / Ashlayot
|-
| At Vaani Veharuach || || [[Yankele Levy]], Rivka Sturman || ||
|-
| Ayelet Chen || || Se'adia Amishai, [[Israel Yakovee]], Shmulik Gov Ari, [[Nir Dor]] || ||
|-
| Ba-Pardess le-Yad ha-Shoqet || [[Aaron Raphaeli]] || [[Shalom Amar]] || ||
|-
| Banu Choshech Legaresh || Yoav Ashriel, [[Levi Bargil]] || || ||
|-
| Barcheni / Birkat Elohim || [[Eyal Ozeri]], [[Yom Tov Ochayon]], respectively || || || Dances are done to different recordings of the same song.
|-
| Barchi Nafshi || [[Eli Ronen]], [[Giora Kadmon]] || || ||
|-
| Bashana Habaa ||Raya Spivak || Dani Dassa, [[Danny Hyman]] || ||
|-
| Bat Arad || [[Danny Uziel]] || Bentzi Tiram || ||
|-
|Bat Teman || || || ||SEE Sapari / Bat Teman
|-
| Batayelet || [[Shimon David]], [[Yehuda Emanuel]], [[Yoram Rachmani]] || || ||
|-
| Basuka Shelanu || || [[Shulamite Kivel]] || Levi Bargil, [[Ayelet Bar Gil]] ||
|-
| Be'er Basade || Rivka Sturman, [[Ze'ev Chavatzelet]], [[Aryeh Fros]] || || ||
|-
| Behar Hagilboa || Sefi Aviv || [[Moti Elfasy]] || ||
|-
| Belev Echad || Yoav Ashriel, [[Vicki Cohen]], [[Raaya Spivak]], Avner Naim || || Shlomo Bachar ||
|-
| Beleilot Hakayitz Hachamim || [[Tuvia Tishler]] || [[Ron Nistal]] || ||
|-
| Bifat Hakfar || Moshe Eskayo, [[Tzvi Hillman]] || Yankele Levy || ||
|-
| Birkat Elohim || || || ||SEE Barcheni / Birkat Elohim
|-
| Chalomot / Chalomot Shel Etmol ||Gadi Bitton || Shlomo Bachar, [[Nir Harris]] || ||Moshiko's dance is to different music
|-
| Chanita / Frelach || [[Fred Berk]], Moshe Eskayo || || || The music is the same, though Chanita (Eskayo) is played faster than Frelach (Berk)
|-
| Chag Purim || [[Sara Levi Tanai]], Yoav Ashriel, [[Dvora Lapson]], [[Corinne Chochem]], [[Shirley Waxman]] || || ||
|-
| Chag Yovel || Yoav Ashriel, Shlomo Maman, Avner Naim || || ||
|-
| Chaki Li / Haraki'a Hashvii || || Moshe Eskayo, Sefi Aviv || || Eskayos's dance is called Chaki Li, Aviv's Haraki'a Hashvii
|-
| Chai ||Shlomo Maman, Vicki Cohen, [[David Swissa]], [[Avi Eliram]] || || Teme Kernerman and [[Rivka Atzmony]], Raaya Spivak ||
|-
| Churshat Haecalyptus || || Shlomo Bachar, Shlomo Maman || || Also by Boaz Gadasi, unknown type
|-
|Dan Vedana || || || ||SEE Nedunia / Dan Vedana
|-
| Dayagim || || [[Shalom Hermon]], Yoav Ashriel || || The dance by Yoav was a performance piece with a big fishing net, never danced off stage
|-
| Debka Bnot Hakfar || Eliyahu Gamliel, Moshe Eskayo, Vicki Cohen || || ||
|-
| Debka Irit / Hora Galil || Moshe Eskayo || Se'adia Amishai || ||
|-
| [[Debka Lahat]] / Mechol HaLahat || Danny Uziel || || Yankele Levy || More information [[Debka Lahat | here]]
|-
| Debka Oud || Moshe Eskayo, Bentzi Tiram || || ||
|-
|Derech ha-Meshi || || || ||SEE Shakharuth / Derech ha-Meshi
|-
|Dos Amantes || || || ||SEE Hamecharzim / Dos Amantes
|-
| [[Dror Yikra]] || Eliyahu Gamliel, Moshe Eskayo || || || Dances by Moshiko, Gadi Biton, Yankele Levy and David Alfassy are all to different melodies
|-
| Ein Li Eretz Acheret || Shlomo Maman, [[Benny Levy ]] || || ||
|-
| El Haayin / Al Harim || Rivka Sturman || Bentzi Tiram || || Rivka's is called Al Harim, Bentzi's El Haayin
|-
| Eleh Chamdah Libi || Shlomo Bachar, [[Eyal Bar Kayma (Eyal Levy)]] || Raaya Spivak || ||
|-
| Eretz Hatzabar || Raaya Spivak, Shmulik Gov Ari || Shmulik Gov Ari || ||
|-
| Eretz Zavat Chalav || Eliyahu Gamliel, Yoav Ashriel, Dani Dassa, Levi Bar Gil, Ayelet Bar Gil || || ||
|-
| [[Erev Ba]] || Yoav Ashriel, Rivka Sturman || || || Rivka stopped teaching her dance and did it years later to K'var Acharei Chatsot
|-
| Erev Shabbath || Shmulik Gov-Ari, Avner Naim || || ||
|-
| Erev Shel Shoshanim || Raaya Spivak, Shlomo Bachar || Tzvi Hillman, Dani Dassa, Eliyahu Gamliel || ||
|-
| Esa Einai || Shmulik Gov Ari, [[Ira Weisburd]] || || ||
|-
|Eshal Elohai|| || || ||SEE Geulim / Eshal Elohai
|-
| Etz Harimon || [[Folk]] || [[Gurit Kadman]], Moshe Eskayo || ||
|-
| Etz Hazayit || Shmulik Gov Ari, [[Moti Ben Ya'akov]] || || ||
|-
|Frelach || || || ||SEE Chanita / Frelach
|-
| Geulim / Eshal Elohai || [[Moshiko]] || Yankele Levy || ||
|-
| Golani Sheli || Gadi Bitton, Yehuda Emanuel || || ||
|-
|HaChassida || || || ||SEE Simchu Na / HaChassida
|-
| Hachevra Lehaganat Hateva ||Gadi Bitton || [[Tzipi Cohen]], Naftaly Kadosh || ||
|-
| Hadarim || Shlomo Bachar || Bentzi Tiram || ||
|-
| Hadegel Sheli || Shmulik Gov Ari, [[Teme Kernerman]] || || Raaya Spivak ||
|-
| Hair Beafor || Moshe Eskayo, Rivka Sturman || Dani Dassa || ||
|-
| Hamecharzim / Dos Amantes ||[[Gert-Jan Van Ammerkate]] || Yankele Levy || ||Yankele's dance is called Hamecharzim, Gert's Dos Amantes
|-
|Hanesharim || || || ||SEE Hayamim Habaim / Hanesharim
|-
|Hanigun || || || ||SEE Lo Nutka Hashalshelet / Hanigun
|-
|Haraki'a Hashvii || || || ||SEE Chaki Li
|-
| [[HaReshut]] || [[Margolit Oved]] || Moshiko || || Margolit's dance is often done to a slower version. She has taught it to be done very fast. See [[HaReshut]].
|-
| Hashachar || Shlomo Bachar, Dani Dassa, Moti Elfasy || || ||
|-
| Hatishma Koli / Zemer Nugeh ||Tuvia Tishler || Yankele Levy, Ira Weisburd, [[Eitan Avisar]] || ||
|-
| Hava Nagilla ||Moshe Eskayo, Yoav Ashriel, [[Jeff Subeck]] || [[Gertrud Kraus]] || Tsvi Hillman ||
|-
|Hayam Haacharon || || || ||SEE Al Gvul Hayam Haacharon / Hayam Haacharon
|-
| Hayamim Habaim / Hanesharim ||Naftaly Kadosh, Israel Shiker || || ||
|-
| Hayoshevet Baganim || [[Ayalah Goren]] || Yankele Levy, Moshe Eskayo || Tzvi Hillman ||
|-
| Hazmana Lachatuna ||Gadi Bitton || Shmulik Gov Ari || ||
|-
| Hevenu Shalom Aleichem || Yoav Ashriel || Dvora Lapson || Teme Kernerman ||
|-
| Heya Heya || [[Rafi Ziv]] || Victor Gabay || ||
|-
| Hi Lo Yoda'at || [[Ra'anan Mor]] || [[Gadi Bitton]] || || Music cut differently; can't do both simultaneously
|-
| Hineh Hastav Avar || Bentzi Tiram || Shalom Amar, Bentzi Tiram || ||
|-
| Hineh Lo Yanum || Dani Dassa, [[Amnon Amram]], Shlomo Bachar || || ||
|-
| Hineh Ma Tov || Rivka Sturman, Shlomo Bachar || || [[Silvio Berlfein]] || The line dance by Silvio Berlfein is to different music
|-
| Hora ||Yankele Levy, Shlomo Maman || || || Music by Avi Toledano
|-
|Hora Galil || || || ||SEE Debka Irit / Hora Galil
|-
|Hora Perach || || || ||SEE Mocher Prachim / Hora Perach
|-
| Hora Scharchoret || Raya Spivak, Etti Kadmi || [[Yaakov Dekel]] || ||
|-
| Ilu Tziporim ||[[Amnon Shauli]] || Moshe Eskayo || ||
|-
| Im Hashachar ||Margolit Oved || [[Hadassah Baduch]] || ||
|-
| Ken Yovdu || Gurit Kadman, Sara Levi Tanai || || ||
|-
| Ki Tavou El HaAretz || || Sara Levi Tanai, Dani Dassa || Rivka Sturman, Raaya Spivak ||
|-
| Kisufim || Shlomo Bachar || Moshiko || ||
|-
|Kmo Balada || || || ||SEE Zer Kotzim / Kmo Balada
|-
| Kmo She'at || || Eli Ronen, Chaim Shiryon || ||
|-
| Kol Rina Vishua || || Yoav Ashriel || Rivka Sturman ||
|-
| Kumi Ori || Shalom Hermon, Shulamit Kivel || || ||
|-
|K'var Acharei Chatsot || || || ||SEE Machol Shakeyt / K'var Acharei Chatsot
|-
| Lach Yerushalayim || Dani Dassa, Teme Kernerman || [[Moshe Telem]] || ||
|-
| Lamenatzeach ||Moshe Eskayo || Yankele Levy, Shlomo Bachar || ||trio dance by Rivka Sturman
|-
| Leil Emesh || || Shalom Amar, Yoav Ashriel || ||
|-
| Leorech Hasdera || [[Avi Perez]] || Moti Elfasy, [[David Ben David]] || ||
|-
|Li Lach || || || ||SEE Wai Wai Wai / Li Lach
|-
| Lo Nutka Hashalshelet / Hanigun || Bentzi Tiram, [[Israel Shabtai]] || || || Bentzi's dance is called Lo Nutka Hashalshelet, Israel's dance is called Hanigun
|-
| [[Machol Shakeyt]] / K'var Acharei Chatsot || Rivka Sturman, Shlomo Bachar, [[Yaakov Sheharabani]] || || ||
|-
| Malu Asameinu Bar || Yaakov Dekel, Levi Bargil || Ze'ev Chavatzelet || ||
|-
| Meohav Al HaMirpeset || || Sefi Aviv, Avi Perez || ||
|-
| Mezare Israel || Shalom Hermon || || || Also a trio dance by Gurit Kadman
|-
| Mi Li Yiten || Israel Yakovee || Se'adia Amishai || Silvio Berlfein ||
|-
| Mishehu Holech Tamid Iti || || Chayim Shiryon, [[Jonathan Gabay]] || ||
|-
| Mitzhalot || Naftaly Kadosh, Yoram Rachmani || || ||
|-
| [[Mocher Prachim]] / Hora Perach || David Swissa || Israel Yakovee || ||
|-
| [[Na'ama]] || || Marco Ben-Shimon, Bentzi Tiram, Moti Elfasy, [[Peri Shachaf]] || || Peri's dance might be to different music
|-
| Nedunia / Dan Vedana || Shmulik Gov Ari || Israel Yakovee || || Shmulik's dance is called Nedunia, Israel's dance is called Dan Vedana
|-
| Nigunim || || Bentzi Tiram, Yoav Ashriel || ||Yoav's dance is to faster music
|-
|Odem Shani || || || ||SEE Reaich Tapuach / Odem Shani
|-
| Omrim Yeshna Eretz ||Nir Dor, Gadi Bitton || || ||Dance by Amir Sela is to different music
|-
| Oneg Shabbat || Dani Dassa || || Bentzi Tiram ||
|-
| Or ha-Ganuz || Shmulik Gov-Ari || [[Matti Goldschmidt]] || || slightly different editing (circle: 1999, couple 2004)
|-
| [[Ozi V'Zimrat Yah]] / Uzi || Rivka Sturman, [[Leah Bergstein]] || || ||
|-
| Rachel || || Dani Dassa, Shlomo Bachar || ||
|-
| Rakefet || Dani Dassa, Raya Spivak, Shlomo Bachar || Yoav Ashriel || ||
|-
| Reaich Tapuach / Odem Shani || Yoav Ashriel || Moshe Eskayo || || Same music, but Eskayo's must be played much faster
|-
| Roeh VeRoah || Leah Bergstein || Yoav Ashriel, Eliyahu Gamliel || ||
|-
| Roni Vesimchi Bat Tzion || Rivka Sturman, Leah Bergstein, Teme Kernerman || || ||
|-
|Salach / Salach Shabati || || Moshe Eskayo || [[Menachem Menachem]] ||
|-
| Sapari / Bat Teman || Moshe Eskayo, Yankele Levy || || || Music cut differently; can't do both simultaneously
|-
| Shakharuth / Derech ha-Meshi || Matti Goldschmidt, [[Bonnie Piha]] || || || Same music, slightly different editing, Shakharut slightly faster than the original recording (2004, Matti), Bonnie 2013
|-
| Sharm A Sheich || Rivka Sturman, Dani Dassa || || ||
|-
| Shedemati || Dani Dassa || Bentzi Tiram || ||
|-
| [[SheHaShemesh Ta'avor Alai]] || || || || SEE [[Ahava Noshana]]
|-
| Shibolet Basadeh || Leah Bergstein || [[Yonatan Karmon]], Sara Levi Tanai || ||
|-
| [[Shibolei Paz]] || Rivka Sturman, Moshe Eskayo || [[Shoshana Dudai]] || ||
|-
| [[Shir HaShirim]] [VeSha'ashu'im] || Shlomo Bachar || Amnon Shauli, Shlomo Bachar || || More information [[Shir HaShirim | here]]
|-
| Shir Klulot || || [[Amir Sela]], Gadi Bitton || ||
|-
| Shir Lemaanech || || Victor Gabay, Eyal Bar Kayma (Eyal Levy) || ||
|-
| Shiru Hashir || Leah Bergstein || Yonatan Karmon || ||
|-
| Shlomit Bona Suka|| Shlomo Maman || Yoram Rachmani || ||
|-
| Shualim Ktanim || Rivka Sturman, Sara Levi Tanai || || ||
|-
| Simchu Na / HaChassida || Moshe Eskayo, Dani Dassa || Tzvi Fridhaber || || Also a circle-couple dance by Yonatan Gabay
|-
| Sisu Et Yerushalayim || Jonathan Gabay, Moshe Eskayo, Gurit Kadman, [[David Paletz]] || [[Yaacov Eden]] || ||
|-
| Sisu Vesimchu || Yoav Ashriel, Raaya Spivak || Rivka Sturman || ||
|-
| Sof Haolam / Sof Haolam Smola ||Gadi Biton, [[Jack Ochayon]] || || || Gadi's is called Sof Haolam, Ochayon's Sof Haolam Smola
|-
| Sof Hasipur || || [[Ra'anan Mor]], Nir Harris, [[Yehuda Fatahon]] || ||
|-
| Sovevuni || Yoav Ashriel || Dani Dassa and [[Mirit Mor]](?) || || The last part of circle dance has a faster ending than the partner dance. Dani co-choreographed partner dance with Mirit Mor(?)
|-
| Tidrechi || Zeev Chavatzelet || || Sara Levi Tanai ||
|-
| Tinten Banat / Ashlayot ||Se'adia Amishai || Moshiko || ||
|-
| Tni Lo Perach / Perach Yayin || || Ra'anan Mor, Moshe Eskayo || ||
|-
| Toda La'el|| Nir Dor, [[Ya'akov Ziv]], [[Yossi Perez]] || || ||
|-
| Tzama Tzama || Yoav Ashriel, [[Elie Falach]] || || || Moshiko's dance is to different music
|-
| Tzena Tzena || Dvora Lapson, Moti Elfasy, Rivka Shturman || || ||
|-
| Tzi El Hachalon ||Ya'akov Ziv, [[Yair Bino]], Benny Levy || Naftaly Kadosh, Yoram Sasson || Levy Bargil ||
|-
| Tziltzuley Paamonim ||Gadi Bitton, Shmulik Gov Ari || || ||
|-
|Uzi || || || ||SEE Ozi VeZimrat Yah / Uzi
|-
| Vayiven Uziyahu || Rivka Sturman, Yonatan Karmon || || ||
|-
| Vaynikehu || Dani Dassa, Raaya Spivak || || ||
|-
| Wai Wai Wai / Li Lach || Giora Kadmon, Israel Shiker || Dani Dassa || || Shiker's dance is called Wai Wai Wai, the other two are called Li Lach - all to the same music
|-
|Yaakov Hatamim || || || ||SEE Al Tira Israel / Yaakov Hatamim
|-
|Yachad ||[[Hila Emanuel]], Raaya Spivak || Israel Shiker, Levi Bargil || ||Composed by Kobi Oshrat. The circle dance by Dudu Barzalai is to music composed by Gili Liber
|-
|Yachad Beyachad ||[[Eli Segal]]-[[Oren Ashkenazi]]-[[Yaron Alfassy]]-[[Chen Shporen]] || || Levi Bargil ||Composed by Lehakat Shalhevet. The one circle dance is by all four choreographers
|-
| Yachad Shnayim || Naftaly Kadosh || [[Nona Malki]] || ||
|-
| Yevarechecha || Raaya Spivak, Giora Kadmon, Dani Dassa || || ||
|-
| Yevarechecha Hashem || [[Nurit Melamed]], Eli Ronen || || ||
|-
| Yisrael Yisrael || Yoav Ashriel, Shlomo Bachar || || ||
|-
| Yotzeh El Haderech ||Moti Elfasy, Avner Naim || Yair Menashe || ||
|-
| Zeh HaZman Lisloach || Moshe Eskayo, Sefi Aviv || || ||
|-
|Zemer Nugeh || || || ||SEE Hatishma Koli / Zemer Nugeh
|-
| Zer Kotzim / Kmo Balada || Israel Shiker, [[Meir Shem Tov]] || Meir Shem Tov || ||Israel's dance / Zer Kotzrim is done to slightly different recordings of the same song
|}

[[Category:Dance Lists|Double]]
[[Category:Dances|Double]]

SheHaShemesh Ta'avor Alai

2026-08-16T15:23:36Z

Larry: word change

Hebrew: שהשמש תעבור עלי (Let the Sun Pass Over Me). Circle dance by [[Amir Katz]], 1986.

Danced to exactly the same song: Ahava Noshana, Hebrew: אהבה נושנה (Old Love). Partner dance by [[Moshe Eskayo]], 1986.

Here we are concerned with the song rather than with either dance.

After the Six-Day War, a singing and dancing group from a church called Faith Bible Chapel in Denver Colorado visited Israel annually and performed for soldiers at IDF bases. One year, [[Yoram Taharlev]] was asked to help create a program for them. Tomi, the vocal soloist, asked Taharlev to create a song for her to describe her love for Israel, rooted in her Christian faith. He wrote the lyrics and gave them to [[Nurit Hirsh]] who was at the time located in the USA; she composed a tune, and Tomi recorded it on an album "Let the Sun Shine for Me".

In 1985, with the original song forgotten, Yardena Arazi asked Taharlev for a song; he still had the lyrics and gave them to her. She took them to Chanan Yovel who wrote the tune we know today.

Many years later, Taharlev told the story to musical detective [http://gavisho.com/ Ofer Gavish], but he had forgotten the details, including the name of the church, the singer, and the band. Gavish approached Nurit Hirsh, who remembered the incident but had no copy of the song and had also forgotten the names. Gavish continued to search and eventually found the Denver church and then the singer. He obtained from her a recording of the song with its original tune, which he was eager to publish.

But there was a problem. When Nurit Hirsh heard the recording, she pointed out that in two places the singer hits the wrong note, singing F rather than F# as composed. This completely changes the harmony, orchestration, and musical intention of the song in Hirsh's opinion, and she angrily forbade Gavish from publishing the song anywhere. However, the incorrect note appears only in the verses; the chorus is sung correctly and can be heard at the link below.

Chanan Yovel was not happy with the early performances of his version of the song; he considered them "stormy" and he wanted the song to be introspective, even prayerful. When he began to sing it himself, the song took on this tenor, and it is now performed in traditional communities in the style of prayer (link below). Those performers call the song "Rak Tfillah" or "Rak Tfillah Isha", phrases that (like "SheHaShemesh Ta'avor Alai" and "Ahava Noshana") come from the lyrics.

=== Links ===

The [https://lyricstranslate.com/en/shehashemesh-ta%E2%80%99avor-alai-may-sun-will-pass-over-me.html lyrics], with translation

Ofer Gavish's [https://www.gavisho.com/%D7%A9%D7%94%D7%A9%D7%9E%D7%A9-%D7%AA%D7%A2%D7%91%D7%95%D7%A8-%D7%A2%D7%9C%D7%99 blog post] on the song, which tells the story in greater detail and is the source of this page

The [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i6kw3IOv04k chorus] of the original Nurit Hirsh tune, sung by Tomi

A [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b_pnlCfEF1k performance] of the new tune by Avraham Fried and composer Chanan Yovel

{{AussieRokdim |930 |5abd2391db533242358b4ef7}}

[http://www.israelidances.com/dance_details.asp?DanceID=583 Ahava Noshana] at [http://www.israelidances.com israelidances.com]

{{Dancelists|[["Double" dances]]{{·}}  [[Moshe Eskayo's dances]]}}

[[Category:Dances]]

SheHaShemesh Ta'avor Alai

2026-08-16T15:18:56Z

Larry: wordsmithing

Hebrew: שהשמש תעבור עלי (Let the Sun Pass Over Me). Circle dance by [[Amir Katz]], 1986.

Danced to exactly the same song: Ahava Noshana, Hebrew: אהבה נושנה (Old Love). Partner dance by [[Moshe Eskayo]], 1986.

Here we are concerned with the song rather than with either dance.

After the Six-Day War, a singing and dancing group from a church called Faith Bible Chapel in Denver Colorado visited Israel annually and performed for soldiers at IDF bases. One year, [[Yoram Taharlev]] was asked to help create a program for them. Tomi, the vocal soloist, asked Taharlev to create a song for her to describe her love for Israel, rooted in her Christian faith. He wrote the lyrics and gave them to [[Nurit Hirsh]] who was at the time located in the USA; she composed a tune, and Tomi recorded it on an album "Let the Sun Shine for Me".

In 1985, with the original song forgotten, Yardena Arazi asked Taharlev for a song; he still had the lyrics and gave them to her. She took them to Chanan Yovel who wrote the tune we know today.

Many years later, Taharlev told the story to musical detective [http://gavisho.com/ Ofer Gavish], but he had forgotten the details, including the name of the church, the singer, and the band. Gavish approached Nurit Hirsh, who remembered the incident but had no copy of the song and had also forgotten the names. Gavish continued to search and eventually found the Denver church and then the singer. He obtained from her a recording of the song with its original tune, which he was eager to publish.

But there was a problem. When Nurit Hirsh heard the recording, she pointed out that in two places the singer hits the wrong note, singing F rather than F# as composed. This completely changes the harmony, orchestration, and musical intention of the song in Hirsh's opinion, and she angrily forbade Gavish from publishing the song anywhere. However, the incorrect note appears only in the verses; the chorus is sung properly and can be heard at the link below.

Chanan Yovel was not happy with the early performances of his version of the song; he considered them "stormy" and he wanted the song to be introspective, even prayerful. When he began to sing it himself, the song took on this tenor, and it is now performed in traditional communities in the style of prayer (link below). Those performers call the song "Rak Tfillah" or "Rak Tfillah Isha", phrases that (like "SheHaShemesh Ta'avor Alai" and "Ahava Noshana") come from the lyrics.

=== Links ===

The [https://lyricstranslate.com/en/shehashemesh-ta%E2%80%99avor-alai-may-sun-will-pass-over-me.html lyrics], with translation

Ofer Gavish's [https://www.gavisho.com/%D7%A9%D7%94%D7%A9%D7%9E%D7%A9-%D7%AA%D7%A2%D7%91%D7%95%D7%A8-%D7%A2%D7%9C%D7%99 blog post] on the song, which tells the story in greater detail and is the source of this page

The [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i6kw3IOv04k chorus] of the original Nurit Hirsh tune, sung by Tomi

A [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b_pnlCfEF1k performance] of the new tune by Avraham Fried and composer Chanan Yovel

{{AussieRokdim |930 |5abd2391db533242358b4ef7}}

[http://www.israelidances.com/dance_details.asp?DanceID=583 Ahava Noshana] at [http://www.israelidances.com israelidances.com]

{{Dancelists|[["Double" dances]]{{·}}  [[Moshe Eskayo's dances]]}}

[[Category:Dances]]

SheHaShemesh Ta'avor Alai

2026-08-16T15:14:18Z

Larry: Yovel's take, plus other wordsmithing

Hebrew: שהשמש תעבור עלי (Let the Sun Pass Over Me). Circle dance by [[Amir Katz]], 1986.

Danced to exactly the same song: Ahava Noshana, Hebrew: אהבה נושנה (Old Love). Partner dance by [[Moshe Eskayo]], 1986.

Here we are concerned with the song rather than with either dance.

After the Six-Day War, a singing and dancing group from a church called Faith Bible Chapel in Denver Colorado visited Israel annually and performed for soldiers at IDF bases. One year, [[Yoram Taharlev]] was asked to help create a program for them. Tomi, the vocal soloist, asked Taharlev to create a song for her to describe her love for Israel, rooted in her Christian faith. He wrote the lyrics and gave them to [[Nurit Hirsh]] who was at the time located in the USA; she composed a tune, and Tomi recorded it on an album "Let the Sun Shine for Me".

In 1985, with the original song forgotten, Yardena Arazi asked Taharlev for a song; he still had the lyrics and gave them to her. She took them to Chanan Yovel who wrote the tune we know today.

Many years later, Taharlev told the story to musical detective [http://gavisho.com/ Ofer Gavish], but had forgotten the details, including the name of the church, the singer, and the band. Gavish approached Nurit Hirsh, who remembered the incident but had no copy of the song and had also forgotten the names. Gavish continued to search and eventually found the Denver church and then the singer. He obtained from her a recording of the song performed in its original tune, which he was eager to publish.

But there was a problem. When Nurit Hirsh heard the recording, she pointed out that in two places the singer hits the wrong note, singing F rather than F# as composed. This completely changes the harmony, orchestration, and musical intention of the song in Hirsh's opinion, and she angrily forbade Gavish from publishing the song anywhere. However, the incorrect note appears only in the verses; the chorus is sung properly and can be heard at the link below.

Chanan Yovel was not happy with the early performances of his version of the song; he considered them "stormy" and he wanted the song to be introspective, even prayerful. When he began to sing it himself, the song took on this tenor, and it is now performed in traditional communities in the style of prayer (link below). Those performers call the song "Rak Tfillah" or "Rak Tfillah Isha", phrases that (like "SheHaShemesh Ta'avor Alai" and "Ahava Noshana") come from the lyrics.

=== Links ===

The [https://lyricstranslate.com/en/shehashemesh-ta%E2%80%99avor-alai-may-sun-will-pass-over-me.html lyrics], with translation

Ofer Gavish's [https://www.gavisho.com/%D7%A9%D7%94%D7%A9%D7%9E%D7%A9-%D7%AA%D7%A2%D7%91%D7%95%D7%A8-%D7%A2%D7%9C%D7%99 blog post] on the song, which tells the story in greater detail and is the source of this page

The [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i6kw3IOv04k chorus] of the original Nurit Hirsh tune, sung by Tomi

A [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b_pnlCfEF1k performance] of the new tune by Avraham Fried and composer Chanan Yovel

{{AussieRokdim |930 |5abd2391db533242358b4ef7}}

[http://www.israelidances.com/dance_details.asp?DanceID=583 Ahava Noshana] at [http://www.israelidances.com israelidances.com]

{{Dancelists|[["Double" dances]]{{·}}  [[Moshe Eskayo's dances]]}}

[[Category:Dances]]

First Creations

2026-08-16T14:54:54Z

Larry: Improve appearance of links to Rokdim-Nirkoda

The first dance choreographed.

Where possible, it's preferred to list the choreographer's own statement of which is his or her first dance, rather than to rely on a chronological list (which may be inaccurate or imprecise). "IDCD" as a source means the [http://israelidances.com israelidances.com] database.

Click on any column heading to sort by that column.

{| class="wikitable sortable"
! Choreographer !! First Dance !! Year !! Source / Notes
|-
| Seadia Amishai || Adama Admati || 1957 1959* || IDCD, Rokdim*
|-
| Yoav Ashriel || Ta'am Haman || 1950 || Yoav at Shorashim workshop, IDCD, Rokdim*
|-
| Dudu Barzilai || Bila Yanas || 1993 || IDCD
|-
| Michael Barzilai || Ima Sheli || 2015|| In [https://magazines.rokdim.co.il/en/article/3-114-005-2024-eng/ Rokdim ''Nirkoda'' #114]
|-
| Ze'ev Chavatzelet || Har VaKar || 1947 || IDCD, see also [[Hava Nirkoda (pamphlet)]]
|-
| Dani Dassa || Vaynikeyhu || 1955 || IDCD, uncertain
|-
| Moshe Eskayo || [[Ha'Ir Be'Afor]] || 1968 || Moshe's assertion, though dances with earlier dates appear in IDCD
|-
| Tzvi Fridhaber ||Bat HaKarmel|| 1950 || In ''[[Machol Ha'am]]'', 1978 by Fred Berk page 59, IDCD, Rokdim
|-
| Eliyahu Gamliel || [[Dror Yikra]] || ? 1970* 1972** || Eliyahu in 2007 film [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5GTF8vG4OcY Land of Milk and Honey (Eretz Zavat Chalav)], IDCD*, Rokdim**
|-
| Moshiko Halevy || [[Debka Uriah]] || 1959 || Moshiko's stories
|-
| Shalom Hermon || Bat Yiftach || 1950 1951* || Shalom quoted in ''[[Shorashim (Dance Perspectives 59)|Shorashim]]'', 1974 by Judith Brin Ingber page 41, IDCD, Rokdim*
|-
| Naftali Kadosh || Tal || 1985 || IDCD
|-
| Sara Levi-Tanai || El Ginat Egoz || 1944 || In ''Machol Ha'am'', 1978 by Fred Berk page 62, IDCD, Rokdim
|-
| Yankele Levy || [[Eten Bamidbar]] || 1957 || In ''Machol Ha'am'', 1978 by Fred Berk page 57, IDCD, Rokdim
|-
| Shlomo Maman || Tov Lalechet Badrachim || 1975 || In page 12 of [https://magazines.rokdim.co.il/wp-content/uploads/2025/04/3-117-2025-ENG.pdf Rokdim-Nirkoda 117]
|-
| Nona Malki || Chai Le’Ma’anech || 1996|| In [https://magazines.rokdim.co.il/wp-content/uploads/2026/04/3-120-2026-ENG-PDF.pdf Rokdim ''Nirkoda'' #120]
|-
| Israel Shiker || Shabbat Menucha || 1983 || IDCD
|-
| Roni Siman Tov || Teivat Ha'Zimra || 1983 || In [https://magazines.rokdim.co.il/en/article/3-114-005-2024-eng/ Rokdim ''Nirkoda'' #114]
|-
| Rivka Sturman || Hagoren || 1944 || Rivka quoted in ''Shorashim'', 1974 by Judith Brin Ingber page 17, Rokdim*
|-
| Tuvia Tishla || Kacha Ve’Kacha|| 1991|| In [https://magazines.rokdim.co.il/wp-content/uploads/2026/04/3-120-2026-ENG-PDF.pdf Rokdim ''Nirkoda'' #120]
|-
| Israel Yakovee || Shoshanat Teiman || 1977 || Yakovee's assertion, though dances with earlier dates appear in IDCD
|-
|}

[[Category:Dance Lists]]
[[Category:Dances]]

Dror Yikra

2026-08-16T00:58:02Z

Larry: Links to more versions

Dror Yikra (Hebrew: דרור יקרא, "He will proclaim freedom") is a poem by [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dunash_ben_Labrat Dunash HaLevi ben Labrat], poet and grammarian of
tenth-century Spain. (In the first three verses and the final verse, the
initial letters of the lines spell out "Dunash".) The poem
has become a piyyut traditionally sung on shabbat to any number of
melodies, including [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QnK4s9W9zGw The Sloop John B]
and [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=itIG4WU3WUc The Cups Song].
One melody transitions smoothly into the [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yfSLuEj99d0 Ballad of Gilligan's Island].

Of course, Israeli dances have been choreographed to many of these musical
settings:

* The most common, known as Dror Yikra, is a beginners' dance, to a melody by Moshe Ben Mush, and is the [[First Creations | first dance choreographed]] by [[Eliyahu Gamliel]] (1972).

* In the same year, [[Moshe Eskayo]] created a more difficult dance for the same melody, played much faster. This dance is usually known as "Dror Yikra (fast)" to distinguish it from Gamliel's dance.

* The dance called Debka Dror (1987, [[David Alfassi]]) is done to a melody by Rachamim Chocima, with words from the piyyut.

* The music to [[Yankele Levy]]'s dance Shabbat Re'im (1982) also uses the lyrics from Dror Yikra, set to a completely different tune.

* Another dance called Dror Yikra with the same words was done in 2013 by [[Gadi Bitton]] with music by Yonatan Razel.

* The dance called Dror (2016, [[Tuvia Tischler]]) is another dance with the same words to a different melody by Yoni Ganot.

* [[Moshiko]] (like Dunash, a HaLevi) choreographed a partner mixer called Dror Yikra in 1970, to another melody. The recording is instrumental and the words of the poem don't actually appear.

=== Links ===

[http://www.israelidances.com/search.asp?S=&ChoreographerName=&intPageNo=1&OrderBy=&SearchThis=dror+yikra&Search=Search+the+Database Variants of Dror Yikra] at [http://www.israelidances.com israelidances.com]

[http://www.rokdim.co.il/rikudim/f_rikud.asp?rikudId=5850&mode=info Gamliel's dance] at [http://www.rokdim.co.il/ Rokdim]

[http://www.rokdim.co.il/rikudim/f_rikud.asp?rikudId=5813&mode=info Debka Dror] at [http://www.rokdim.co.il/ Rokdim]

[https://www.rokdim.co.il/dance/5abd23dadb5332cc3c8b4616 Shabbat Re'im] at [http://www.rokdim.co.il/ Rokdim]

[https://www.rokdim.co.il/dance/5abd2506db53322e3d8b45b4 Dror] at [http://www.rokdim.co.il/ Rokdim]

[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Yr51QMpSSUM Moshiko's partner mixer]

[[Category:Dances]]

{{Dancelists|[[Dances Played at the First Karmiel Festival]] {{·}}[["Double" dances]] {{·}}  [[First Creations]] {{·}}  [[Moshe Eskayo's dances]] {{·}}  [[Unusual Meters]]}}

SheHaShemesh Ta'avor Alai

2026-08-15T23:47:55Z

Larry: fix spelling of Taharlev

Hebrew: שהשמש תעבור עלי (Let the Sun Pass Over Me). Circle dance by [[Amir Katz]], 1986.

Danced to exactly the same song: Ahava Noshana, Hebrew: אהבה נושנה (Old Love). Partner dance by [[Moshe Eskayo]], 1986.

Here we are concerned with the song rather than with either dance.

After the Six-Day War, a singing and dancing group from a church called Faith Bible Chapel in Denver Colorado visited Israel annually and performed for soldiers at IDF bases. One year, [[Yoram Taharlev]] was asked to help create a program for them. Tomi, a member of the band, asked Taharlev to create a song for her to describe her love for Israel, despite not begin Jewish. He wrote the lyrics and gave them to [[Nurit Hirsh]] who was at the time located in the USA; she composed a tune, and Tomi recorded an album "Let the Sun Shine for Me".

In 1985, with the original song forgotten, Yardena Arazi asked Taharlev for a song; he still had the lyrics and gave them to her. She took them to Chanan Yovel who wrote the tune we know today.

Many years later, Taharlev told the story to musical detective [http://gavisho.com/ Ofer Gavish], but had forgotten the details, including the name of the church, the singer, and the band. Gavish approached Nurit Hirsh, who remembered the incident but had no copy of the song and had also forgotten the names. Gavish continued to search and eventually found the church and the singer, and obtained a recording of the song being performed with the original tune, which he was eager to publish.

But there was a problem. When Nurit Hirsh heard the recording, she pointed out that in two places the singer hits the wrong note, singing F rather than F# as composed. This completely changed the nature of the song in Hirsh's opinion, and she angrily forbade Gavish from publishing the song anywhere. However, the incorrect note appears only in the verses; the chorus is sung properly and can be heard at the link below.

=== Links ===

Ofer Gavish's [https://www.gavisho.com/%D7%A9%D7%94%D7%A9%D7%9E%D7%A9-%D7%AA%D7%A2%D7%91%D7%95%D7%A8-%D7%A2%D7%9C%D7%99 blog post] on the song, which tells the story in greater detail and is the source of this page

The [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i6kw3IOv04k chorus], sung by Tomi, with the original Nurit Hirsh tune

A [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b_pnlCfEF1k performance] of the new tune by Avraham Fried and composer Chanan Yovel

{{AussieRokdim |930 |5abd2391db533242358b4ef7}}

[http://www.israelidances.com/dance_details.asp?DanceID=583 Ahava Noshana] at [http://www.israelidances.com israelidances.com]

{{Dancelists|[["Double" dances]]{{·}}  [[Moshe Eskayo's dances]]}}

[[Category:Dances]]

SheHaShemesh Ta'avor Alai

2026-08-15T23:45:04Z

Larry: fix a YouTube link to omit start time

Hebrew: שהשמש תעבור עלי (Let the Sun Pass Over Me). Circle dance by [[Amir Katz]], 1986.

Danced to exactly the same song: Ahava Noshana, Hebrew: אהבה נושנה (Old Love). Partner dance by [[Moshe Eskayo]], 1986.

Here we are concerned with the song rather than with either dance.

After the Six-Day War, a singing and dancing group from a church called Faith Bible Chapel in Denver Colorado visited Israel annually and performed for soldiers at IDF bases. One year, [[Yoram Tahar-Lev]] was asked to help create a program for them. Tomi, a member of the band, asked Tahar-Lev to create a song for her to describe her love for Israel, despite not begin Jewish. He wrote the lyrics and gave them to [[Nurit Hirsh]] who was at the time located in the USA; she composed a tune, and Tomi recorded an album "Let the Sun Shine for Me".

In 1985, with the original song forgotten, Yardena Arazi asked Tahar-Lev for a song; he still had the lyrics and gave them to her. She took them to Chanan Yovel who wrote the tune we know today.

Many years later, Tahar-Lev told the story to musical detective [http://gavisho.com/ Ofer Gavish], but had forgotten the details, including the name of the church, the singer, and the band. Gavish approached Nurit Hirsh, who remembered the incident but had no copy of the song and had also forgotten the names. Gavish continued to search and eventually found the church and the singer, and obtained a recording of the song being performed with the original tune, which he was eager to publish.

But there was a problem. When Nurit Hirsh heard the recording, she pointed out that in two places the singer hits the wrong note, singing F rather than F# as composed. This completely changed the nature of the song in Hirsh's opinion, and she angrily forbade Gavish from publishing the song anywhere. However, the incorrect note appears only in the verses; the chorus is sung properly and can be heard at the link below.

=== Links ===

Ofer Gavish's [https://www.gavisho.com/%D7%A9%D7%94%D7%A9%D7%9E%D7%A9-%D7%AA%D7%A2%D7%91%D7%95%D7%A8-%D7%A2%D7%9C%D7%99 blog post] on the song, which tells the story in greater detail and is the source of this page

The [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i6kw3IOv04k chorus], sung by Tomi, with the original Nurit Hirsh tune

A [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b_pnlCfEF1k performance] of the new tune by Avraham Fried and composer Chanan Yovel

{{AussieRokdim |930 |5abd2391db533242358b4ef7}}

[http://www.israelidances.com/dance_details.asp?DanceID=583 Ahava Noshana] at [http://www.israelidances.com israelidances.com]

{{Dancelists|[["Double" dances]]{{·}}  [[Moshe Eskayo's dances]]}}

[[Category:Dances]]

SheHaShemesh Ta'avor Alai

2026-08-15T23:43:19Z

Larry: link Ofer Gavish's blog post

Hebrew: שהשמש תעבור עלי (Let the Sun Pass Over Me). Circle dance by [[Amir Katz]], 1986.

Danced to exactly the same song: Ahava Noshana, Hebrew: אהבה נושנה (Old Love). Partner dance by [[Moshe Eskayo]], 1986.

Here we are concerned with the song rather than with either dance.

After the Six-Day War, a singing and dancing group from a church called Faith Bible Chapel in Denver Colorado visited Israel annually and performed for soldiers at IDF bases. One year, [[Yoram Tahar-Lev]] was asked to help create a program for them. Tomi, a member of the band, asked Tahar-Lev to create a song for her to describe her love for Israel, despite not begin Jewish. He wrote the lyrics and gave them to [[Nurit Hirsh]] who was at the time located in the USA; she composed a tune, and Tomi recorded an album "Let the Sun Shine for Me".

In 1985, with the original song forgotten, Yardena Arazi asked Tahar-Lev for a song; he still had the lyrics and gave them to her. She took them to Chanan Yovel who wrote the tune we know today.

Many years later, Tahar-Lev told the story to musical detective [http://gavisho.com/ Ofer Gavish], but had forgotten the details, including the name of the church, the singer, and the band. Gavish approached Nurit Hirsh, who remembered the incident but had no copy of the song and had also forgotten the names. Gavish continued to search and eventually found the church and the singer, and obtained a recording of the song being performed with the original tune, which he was eager to publish.

But there was a problem. When Nurit Hirsh heard the recording, she pointed out that in two places the singer hits the wrong note, singing F rather than F# as composed. This completely changed the nature of the song in Hirsh's opinion, and she angrily forbade Gavish from publishing the song anywhere. However, the incorrect note appears only in the verses; the chorus is sung properly and can be heard at the link below.

=== Links ===

Ofer Gavish's [https://www.gavisho.com/%D7%A9%D7%94%D7%A9%D7%9E%D7%A9-%D7%AA%D7%A2%D7%91%D7%95%D7%A8-%D7%A2%D7%9C%D7%99 blog post] on the song, which tells the story in greater detail and is the source of this page

The [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i6kw3IOv04k&t=4s chorus], sung by Tomi, with the original Nurit Hirsh tune

A [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b_pnlCfEF1k performance] of the new tune by Avraham Fried and composer Chanan Yovel

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[http://www.israelidances.com/dance_details.asp?DanceID=583 Ahava Noshana] at [http://www.israelidances.com israelidances.com]

{{Dancelists|[["Double" dances]]{{·}}  [[Moshe Eskayo's dances]]}}

[[Category:Dances]]

"Double" dances

2026-08-15T23:41:31Z

Larry: Link Ahava Noshana / SheHaShemesh Ta'avor Alai

"Double" dances are those where two or more choreographies exist to the same or to very similar music.
Israel Yakovee has posted many videos of double dances with the background and stories about them on his Facebook page.

(Discussion needed about how double dances arise, why they're a problem, attempts at solution, how opinions differ among markidim and choreographers and dancers.)
 Different dances to the same music were created for various reasons.
<ul>
<li>A choreographer might not know that another had created such a dance. This happened more so many years ago.</li>
<li>Also many years ago, dances choreographed outside of Israel were often not accepted as an "Israeli" dance, so a choreographer in Israeli felt free to create another one.</li>
<li>In rare cases, two choreographers did not like each other. When one created a dance, the other might intentionally create another one to the same music.</li>
</ul>

=== List of double dances ===

Where appropriate, more details can be found at the individual page of each dance.

Please keep this list in alphabetical order.

{| class="wikitable"
! Dance !! Circle Dances !! Partner Dances !! Line Dances !! Notes
|-
| Ad Or Haboker || [[Yoav Ashriel]], [[Moshe Eskayo]] || || ||
|-
| Adama/ Adama Admati || || [[Dani Dassa]], [[Se'adia Amishai]] || ||
|-
| Adon Hashlichot || [[Avner Naim]], [[Bonny Piha]] and [[Yoram Sasson]] || || [[Shlomo Bachar]] ||
|-
| Afilu Shesrefot || || [[Ran Hirsh]], [[Gadi Bitton]] || ||
|-
| Ahava Ktzara || || Gadi Bitton, [[Naftaly Kadosh]] || ||
|-
| [[Ahava Noshana]] || [[Amir Katz]] || [[Moshe Eskayo]] || || Eskayo's dance is Ahava Noshana, Katz's is [[SheHaShemesh Ta'avor Alai]]; identical music
|-
| Ahavat Hadassa || [[Rivka Sturman]], [[Eliyahu Gamliel]] || || ||
|-
| Ahavat Poaley Habinyan || [[Shlomo Maman]] || [[Mussa Ashkenazi et al]] || ||
|-
| Ahuvat Levavi || [[Shmulik Gov Ari]] || [[Chayim Shiryon]], [[Yair Menashe]]|| ||
|-
| Al Anfey Shita || || [[Eli Ronen ]], [[Marco Ben-Shimon]] || ||
|-
| Al Gemali || Moshe Eskayo || [[Tzvi Fridhaber]] || ||
|-
| Al Gvul Hayam Haacharon / Hayam Haacharon || [[Victor Gabay]] || Marco Ben-Shimon || || Victor's dance is called Al Gvul Hayam Haacharon, Marco's is called Hayam Haacharon - both are the same music
|-
|Al Harim || || || ||SEE El Haayin / Al Harim
|-
| Al Kol Eleh / Al HaDvash V'Al HaOketz || Rivka Sturman, Shlomo Bachar || || || Rivka's dance is Al HaDvash V'Al HaOketz, Shlomo's is Al Kol Eleh; same music
|-
| Al Tira Israel / Yaakov Hatamim || Dani Dassa, Eli Ronen || || ||
|-
| Anashim Tovim || [[ Raya Spivak ]], [[Uri Grafit]], Shlomo Maman || || ||
|-
| Ani Chozer Habaita || || Chayim Shiryon || [[Maurice Peretz]],[[ Teme Kernerman]] ||
|-
| Anshey Hageshem || [[Israel Shiker]] || [[Sefi Aviv]]|| ||
|-
| Ashbi'acha || [[Bentzi Tiram]] || [[Yankele Levy]] || ||
|-
|Ashlayot || || || ||SEE Tinten Banat / Ashlayot
|-
| At Vaani Veharuach || || [[Yankele Levy]], Rivka Sturman || ||
|-
| Ayelet Chen || || Se'adia Amishai, [[Israel Yakovee]], Shmulik Gov Ari, [[Nir Dor]] || ||
|-
| Ba-Pardess le-Yad ha-Shoqet || [[Aaron Raphaeli]] || [[Shalom Amar]] || ||
|-
| Banu Choshech Legaresh || Yoav Ashriel, [[Levi Bargil]] || || ||
|-
| Barcheni / Birkat Elohim || [[Eyal Ozeri]], [[Yom Tov Ochayon]], respectively || || || Dances are done to different recordings of the same song.
|-
| Barchi Nafshi || [[Eli Ronen]], [[Giora Kadmon]] || || ||
|-
| Bashana Habaa ||Raya Spivak || Dani Dassa, [[Danny Hyman]] || ||
|-
| Bat Arad || [[Danny Uziel]] || Bentzi Tiram || ||
|-
|Bat Teman || || || ||SEE Sapari / Bat Teman
|-
| Batayelet || [[Shimon David]], [[Yehuda Emanuel]], [[Yoram Rachmani]] || || ||
|-
| Basuka Shelanu || || [[Shulamite Kivel]] || Levi Bargil, [[Ayelet Bar Gil]] ||
|-
| Be'er Basade || Rivka Sturman, [[Ze'ev Chavatzelet]], [[Aryeh Fros]] || || ||
|-
| Behar Hagilboa || Sefi Aviv || [[Moti Elfasy]] || ||
|-
| Belev Echad || Yoav Ashriel, [[Vicki Cohen]], [[Raaya Spivak]], Avner Naim || || Shlomo Bachar ||
|-
| Beleilot Hakayitz Hachamim || [[Tuvia Tishler]] || [[Ron Nistal]] || ||
|-
| Bifat Hakfar || Moshe Eskayo, [[Tzvi Hillman]] || Yankele Levy || ||
|-
| Birkat Elohim || || || ||SEE Barcheni / Birkat Elohim
|-
| Chalomot / Chalomot Shel Etmol ||Gadi Bitton || Shlomo Bachar, [[Nir Harris]] || ||Moshiko's dance is to different music
|-
| Chanita / Frelach || [[Fred Berk]], Moshe Eskayo || || || The music is the same, though Chanita (Eskayo) is played faster than Frelach (Berk)
|-
| Chag Purim || [[Sara Levi Tanai]], Yoav Ashriel, [[Dvora Lapson]], [[Corinne Chochem]], [[Shirley Waxman]] || || ||
|-
| Chag Yovel || Yoav Ashriel, Shlomo Maman, Avner Naim || || ||
|-
| Chaki Li / Haraki'a Hashvii || || Moshe Eskayo, Sefi Aviv || || Eskayos's dance is called Chaki Li, Aviv's Haraki'a Hashvii
|-
| Chai ||Shlomo Maman, Vicki Cohen, [[David Swissa]], [[Avi Eliram]] || || Teme Kernerman and [[Rivka Atzmony]], Raaya Spivak ||
|-
| Churshat Haecalyptus || || Shlomo Bachar, Shlomo Maman || || Also by Boaz Gadasi, unknown type
|-
|Dan Vedana || || || ||SEE Nedunia / Dan Vedana
|-
| Dayagim || || [[Shalom Hermon]], Yoav Ashriel || || The dance by Yoav was a performance piece with a big fishing net, never danced off stage
|-
| Debka Bnot Hakfar || Eliyahu Gamliel, Moshe Eskayo, Vicki Cohen || || ||
|-
| Debka Irit / Hora Galil || Moshe Eskayo || Se'adia Amishai || ||
|-
| [[Debka Lahat]] / Mechol HaLahat || Danny Uziel || || Yankele Levy || More information [[Debka Lahat | here]]
|-
| Debka Oud || Moshe Eskayo, Bentzi Tiram || || ||
|-
|Derech ha-Meshi || || || ||SEE Shakharuth / Derech ha-Meshi
|-
|Dos Amantes || || || ||SEE Hamecharzim / Dos Amantes
|-
| [[Dror Yikra]] || Eliyahu Gamliel, Moshe Eskayo || || || Dances by Moshiko, Gadi Biton, Yankele Levy and David Alfassy are all to different melodies
|-
| Ein Li Eretz Acheret || Shlomo Maman, [[Benny Levy ]] || || ||
|-
| El Haayin / Al Harim || Rivka Sturman || Bentzi Tiram || || Rivka's is called Al Harim, Bentzi's El Haayin
|-
| Eleh Chamdah Libi || Shlomo Bachar, [[Eyal Bar Kayma (Eyal Levy)]] || Raaya Spivak || ||
|-
| Eretz Hatzabar || Raaya Spivak, Shmulik Gov Ari || Shmulik Gov Ari || ||
|-
| Eretz Zavat Chalav || Eliyahu Gamliel, Yoav Ashriel, Dani Dassa, Levi Bar Gil, Ayelet Bar Gil || || ||
|-
| [[Erev Ba]] || Yoav Ashriel, Rivka Sturman || || || Rivka stopped teaching her dance and did it years later to K'var Acharei Chatsot
|-
| Erev Shabbath || Shmulik Gov-Ari, Avner Naim || || ||
|-
| Erev Shel Shoshanim || Raaya Spivak, Shlomo Bachar || Tzvi Hillman, Dani Dassa, Eliyahu Gamliel || ||
|-
| Esa Einai || Shmulik Gov Ari, [[Ira Weisburd]] || || ||
|-
|Eshal Elohai|| || || ||SEE Geulim / Eshal Elohai
|-
| Etz Harimon || [[Folk]] || [[Gurit Kadman]], Moshe Eskayo || ||
|-
| Etz Hazayit || Shmulik Gov Ari, [[Moti Ben Ya'akov]] || || ||
|-
|Frelach || || || ||SEE Chanita / Frelach
|-
| Geulim / Eshal Elohai || [[Moshiko]] || Yankele Levy || ||
|-
| Golani Sheli || Gadi Bitton, Yehuda Emanuel || || ||
|-
|HaChassida || || || ||SEE Simchu Na / HaChassida
|-
| Hachevra Lehaganat Hateva ||Gadi Bitton || [[Tzipi Cohen]], Naftaly Kadosh || ||
|-
| Hadarim || Shlomo Bachar || Bentzi Tiram || ||
|-
| Hadegel Sheli || Shmulik Gov Ari, [[Teme Kernerman]] || || Raaya Spivak ||
|-
| Hair Beafor || Moshe Eskayo, Rivka Sturman || Dani Dassa || ||
|-
| Hamecharzim / Dos Amantes ||[[Gert-Jan Van Ammerkate]] || Yankele Levy || ||Yankele's dance is called Hamecharzim, Gert's Dos Amantes
|-
|Hanesharim || || || ||SEE Hayamim Habaim / Hanesharim
|-
|Hanigun || || || ||SEE Lo Nutka Hashalshelet / Hanigun
|-
|Haraki'a Hashvii || || || ||SEE Chaki Li
|-
| [[HaReshut]] || [[Margolit Oved]] || Moshiko || || Margolit's dance is often done to a slower version. She has taught it to be done very fast. See [[HaReshut]].
|-
| Hashachar || Shlomo Bachar, Dani Dassa, Moti Elfasy || || ||
|-
| Hatishma Koli / Zemer Nugeh ||Tuvia Tishler || Yankele Levy, Ira Weisburd, [[Eitan Avisar]] || ||
|-
| Hava Nagilla ||Moshe Eskayo, Yoav Ashriel, [[Jeff Subeck]] || [[Gertrud Kraus]] || Tsvi Hillman ||
|-
|Hayam Haacharon || || || ||SEE Al Gvul Hayam Haacharon / Hayam Haacharon
|-
| Hayamim Habaim / Hanesharim ||Naftaly Kadosh, Israel Shiker || || ||
|-
| Hayoshevet Baganim || [[Ayalah Goren]] || Yankele Levy, Moshe Eskayo || Tzvi Hillman ||
|-
| Hazmana Lachatuna ||Gadi Bitton || Shmulik Gov Ari || ||
|-
| Hevenu Shalom Aleichem || Yoav Ashriel || Dvora Lapson || Teme Kernerman ||
|-
| Heya Heya || [[Rafi Ziv]] || Victor Gabay || ||
|-
| Hi Lo Yoda'at || [[Ra'anan Mor]] || [[Gadi Bitton]] || || Music cut differently; can't do both simultaneously
|-
| Hineh Hastav Avar || Bentzi Tiram || Shalom Amar, Bentzi Tiram || ||
|-
| Hineh Lo Yanum || Dani Dassa, [[Amnon Amram]], Shlomo Bachar || || ||
|-
| Hineh Ma Tov || Rivka Sturman, Shlomo Bachar || || [[Silvio Berlfein]] || The line dance by Silvio Berlfein is to different music
|-
| Hora ||Yankele Levy, Shlomo Maman || || || Music by Avi Toledano
|-
|Hora Galil || || || ||SEE Debka Irit / Hora Galil
|-
|Hora Perach || || || ||SEE Mocher Prachim / Hora Perach
|-
| Hora Scharchoret || Raya Spivak, Etti Kadmi || [[Yaakov Dekel]] || ||
|-
| Ilu Tziporim ||[[Amnon Shauli]] || Moshe Eskayo || ||
|-
| Im Hashachar ||Margolit Oved || [[Hadassah Baduch]] || ||
|-
| Ken Yovdu || Gurit Kadman, Sara Levi Tanai || || ||
|-
| Ki Tavou El HaAretz || || Sara Levi Tanai, Dani Dassa || Rivka Sturman, Raaya Spivak ||
|-
| Kisufim || Shlomo Bachar || Moshiko || ||
|-
|Kmo Balada || || || ||SEE Zer Kotzim / Kmo Balada
|-
| Kmo She'at || || Eli Ronen, Chaim Shiryon || ||
|-
| Kol Rina Vishua || || Yoav Ashriel || Rivka Sturman ||
|-
| Kumi Ori || Shalom Hermon, Shulamit Kivel || || ||
|-
|K'var Acharei Chatsot || || || ||SEE Machol Shakeyt / K'var Acharei Chatsot
|-
| Lach Yerushalayim || Dani Dassa, Teme Kernerman || [[Moshe Telem]] || ||
|-
| Lamenatzeach ||Moshe Eskayo || Yankele Levy, Shlomo Bachar || ||trio dance by Rivka Sturman
|-
| Leil Emesh || || Shalom Amar, Yoav Ashriel || ||
|-
| Leorech Hasdera || [[Avi Perez]] || Moti Elfasy, [[David Ben David]] || ||
|-
|Li Lach || || || ||SEE Wai Wai Wai / Li Lach
|-
| Lo Nutka Hashalshelet / Hanigun || Bentzi Tiram, [[Israel Shabtai]] || || || Bentzi's dance is called Lo Nutka Hashalshelet, Israel's dance is called Hanigun
|-
| [[Machol Shakeyt]] / K'var Acharei Chatsot || Rivka Sturman, Shlomo Bachar, [[Yaakov Sheharabani]] || || ||
|-
| Malu Asameinu Bar || Yaakov Dekel, Levi Bargil || Ze'ev Chavatzelet || ||
|-
| Meohav Al HaMirpeset || || Sefi Aviv, Avi Perez || ||
|-
| Mezare Israel || Shalom Hermon || || || Also a trio dance by Gurit Kadman
|-
| Mi Li Yiten || Israel Yakovee || Se'adia Amishai || Silvio Berlfein ||
|-
| Mishehu Holech Tamid Iti || || Chayim Shiryon, [[Jonathan Gabay]] || ||
|-
| Mitzhalot || Naftaly Kadosh, Yoram Rachmani || || ||
|-
| [[Mocher Prachim]] / Hora Perach || David Swissa || Israel Yakovee || ||
|-
| [[Na'ama]] || || Marco Ben-Shimon, Bentzi Tiram, Moti Elfasy, [[Peri Shachaf]] || || Peri's dance might be to different music
|-
| Nedunia / Dan Vedana || Shmulik Gov Ari || Israel Yakovee || || Shmulik's dance is called Nedunia, Israel's dance is called Dan Vedana
|-
| Nigunim || || Bentzi Tiram, Yoav Ashriel || ||Yoav's dance is to faster music
|-
|Odem Shani || || || ||SEE Reaich Tapuach / Odem Shani
|-
| Omrim Yeshna Eretz ||Nir Dor, Gadi Bitton || || ||Dance by Amir Sela is to different music
|-
| Oneg Shabbat || Dani Dassa || || Bentzi Tiram ||
|-
| Or ha-Ganuz || Shmulik Gov-Ari || [[Matti Goldschmidt]] || || slightly different editing (circle: 1999, couple 2004)
|-
| [[Ozi V'Zimrat Yah]] / Uzi || Rivka Sturman, [[Leah Bergstein]] || || ||
|-
| Rachel || || Dani Dassa, Shlomo Bachar || ||
|-
| Rakefet || Dani Dassa, Raya Spivak, Shlomo Bachar || Yoav Ashriel || ||
|-
| Reaich Tapuach / Odem Shani || Yoav Ashriel || Moshe Eskayo || || Same music, but Eskayo's must be played much faster
|-
| Roeh VeRoah || Leah Bergstein || Yoav Ashriel, Eliyahu Gamliel || ||
|-
| Roni Vesimchi Bat Tzion || Rivka Sturman, Leah Bergstein, Teme Kernerman || || ||
|-
|Salach / Salach Shabati || || Moshe Eskayo || [[Menachem Menachem]] ||
|-
| Sapari / Bat Teman || Moshe Eskayo, Yankele Levy || || || Music cut differently; can't do both simultaneously
|-
| Shakharuth / Derech ha-Meshi || Matti Goldschmidt, [[Bonnie Piha]] || || || Same music, slightly different editing, Shakharut slightly faster than the original recording (2004, Matti), Bonnie 2013
|-
| Sharm A Sheich || Rivka Sturman, Dani Dassa || || ||
|-
| Shedemati || Dani Dassa || Bentzi Tiram || ||
|-
| [[SheHaShemesh Ta'avor Alai]] || || || || SEE [[Ahava Noshana]]
|-
| Shibolet Basadeh || Leah Bergstein || [[Yonatan Karmon]], Sara Levi Tanai || ||
|-
| [[Shibolei Paz]] || Rivka Sturman, Moshe Eskayo || [[Shoshana Dudai]] || ||
|-
| [[Shir HaShirim]] [VeSha'ashu'im] || Shlomo Bachar || Amnon Shauli, Shlomo Bachar || || More information [[Shir HaShirim | here]]
|-
| Shir Klulot || || [[Amir Sela]], Gadi Bitton || ||
|-
| Shir Lemaanech || || Victor Gabay, Eyal Bar Kayma (Eyal Levy) || ||
|-
| Shiru Hashir || Leah Bergstein || Yonatan Karmon || ||
|-
| Shlomit Bona Suka|| Shlomo Maman || Yoram Rachmani || ||
|-
| Shualim Ktanim || Rivka Sturman, Sara Levi Tanai || || ||
|-
| Simchu Na / HaChassida || Moshe Eskayo, Dani Dassa || Tzvi Fridhaber || || Also a circle-couple dance by Yonatan Gabay
|-
| Sisu Et Yerushalayim || Jonathan Gabay, Moshe Eskayo, Gurit Kadman, [[David Paletz]] || [[Yaacov Eden]] || ||
|-
| Sisu Vesimchu || Yoav Ashriel, Raaya Spivak || Rivka Sturman || ||
|-
| Sof Haolam / Sof Haolam Smola ||Gadi Biton, [[Jack Ochayon]] || || || Gadi's is called Sof Haolam, Ochayon's Sof Haolam Smola
|-
| Sof Hasipur || || [[Ra'anan Mor]], Nir Harris, [[Yehuda Fatahon]] || ||
|-
| Sovevuni || Yoav Ashriel || Dani Dassa and [[Mirit Mor]](?) || || The last part of circle dance has a faster ending than the partner dance. Dani co-choreographed partner dance with Mirit Mor(?)
|-
| Tidrechi || Zeev Chavatzelet || || Sara Levi Tanai ||
|-
| Tinten Banat / Ashlayot ||Se'adia Amishai || Moshiko || ||
|-
| Tni Lo Perach / Perach Yayin || || Ra'anan Mor, Moshe Eskayo || ||
|-
| Toda La'el|| Nir Dor, [[Ya'akov Ziv]], [[Yossi Perez]] || || ||
|-
| Tzama Tzama || Yoav Ashriel, [[Elie Falach]] || || || Moshiko's dance is to different music
|-
| Tzena Tzena || Dvora Lapson, Moti Elfasy, Rivka Shturman || || ||
|-
| Tzi El Hachalon ||Ya'akov Ziv, [[Yair Bino]], Benny Levy || Naftaly Kadosh, Yoram Sasson || Levy Bargil ||
|-
| Tziltzuley Paamonim ||Gadi Bitton, Shmulik Gov Ari || || ||
|-
|Uzi || || || ||SEE Ozi VeZimrat Yah / Uzi
|-
| Vayiven Uziyahu || Rivka Sturman, Yonatan Karmon || || ||
|-
| Vaynikehu || Dani Dassa, Raaya Spivak || || ||
|-
| Wai Wai Wai / Li Lach || Giora Kadmon, Israel Shiker || Dani Dassa || || Shiker's dance is called Wai Wai Wai, the other two are called Li Lach - all to the same music
|-
|Yaakov Hatamim || || || ||SEE Al Tira Israel / Yaakov Hatamim
|-
|Yachad ||[[Hila Emanuel]], Raaya Spivak || Israel Shiker, Levi Bargil || ||Composed by Kobi Oshrat. The circle dance by Dudu Barzalai is to music composed by Gili Liber
|-
|Yachad Beyachad ||[[Eli Segal]]-[[Oren Ashkenazi]]-[[Yaron Alfassy]]-[[Chen Shporen]] || || Levi Bargil ||Composed by Lehakat Shalhevet. The one circle dance is by all four choreographers
|-
| Yachad Shnayim || Naftaly Kadosh || [[Nona Malki]] || ||
|-
| Yevarechecha || Raaya Spivak, Giora Kadmon, Dani Dassa || || ||
|-
| Yevarechecha Hashem || [[Nurit Melamed]], Eli Ronen || || ||
|-
| Yisrael Yisrael || Yoav Ashriel, Shlomo Bachar || || ||
|-
| Yotzeh El Haderech ||Moti Elfasy, Avner Naim || Yair Menashe || ||
|-
| Zeh HaZman Lisloach || Moshe Eskayo, Sefi Aviv || || ||
|-
|Zemer Nugeh || || || ||SEE Hatishma Koli / Zemer Nugeh
|-
| Zer Kotzim / Kmo Balada || Israel Shiker, [[Meir Shem Tov]] || Meir Shem Tov || ||Israel's dance / Zer Kotzrim is done to slightly different recordings of the same song
|}

[[Category:Dance Lists|Double]]
[[Category:Dances|Double]]

Moshe Eskayo's dances

2026-08-15T23:39:54Z

Larry: link Ahava Noshana

This is a list of [[Moshe Eskayo]]'s dances, originally prepared for [[Hora Shalosh]].

Several of Moshe's dances have been lost: There is no video, nobody remembers them (it seems), and the only record of their existence is their appearance on one of his old vinyl albums. In a few cases, it's questionable whether the dance was ever actually taught and danced in a harkada. Further information is in the notes.

All links in the first column go to the dance's page at [http://www.israelidances.com israelidances.com].
If there is a HoraWiki page for the dance, it is linked in the last column.

[[Rak Ata]] does not appear on this list. See why [[Rak Ata | here]].

{| class="wikitable sortable"
! Dance Name !! שם הריקוד !! Type !! Year !! Notes/Links
|-
| [https://www.israelidances.com/dance_details.asp?DanceID=5696 Liya] || ליה || circle || 2007 || [[Eponymous Dances | Named for Moshe's granddaughter]]
|-
| [https://www.israelidances.com/dance_details.asp?DanceID=5493 Debka Micah] || דבקה מייקה || circle || 2006 || [[Eponymous Dances | Named for Micah Weinstock]]
|-
| [https://www.israelidances.com/dance_details.asp?DanceID=4941 Debka Larden] || דבקה לרדן || circle || 2004 || [[Debka Larden | More information]]
|-
| [https://www.israelidances.com/dance_details.asp?DanceID=4786 Tirkedi Iti] || תרקדי איתי || circle || 2003 ||
|-
| [https://www.israelidances.com/dance_details.asp?DanceID=4273 Bukra] || باكرا || circle || 2002 || [http://larry.denenberg.com/Songs/bukra.pdf Lyrics & translation]
|-
| [https://www.israelidances.com/dance_details.asp?DanceID=4104 HaYadata Et HaDerech] || הידעת את הדרך || circle || 2001 ||
|-
| [https://www.israelidances.com/dance_details.asp?DanceID=1044 Machur Al Yevanit] || מכור על יוונית || circle || 2001 || [[Unusual Meters | Five beats per measure]]
|-
| [https://www.israelidances.com/dance_details.asp?DanceID=4209 Klum Lo Ya'azor] || כלום לא יעזור || partner || 2000 ||
|-
| [https://www.israelidances.com/dance_details.asp?DanceID=4075 Debka Ariel] || דבקה אריאל || circle || 1999 || [[Eponymous Dances | Named for Ariel Weinstock]]
|-
| [https://www.israelidances.com/dance_details.asp?DanceID=3715 Shalom Lach Yaldonet] || שלום לך ילדונת || circle || 1998 ||
|-
| [https://www.israelidances.com/dance_details.asp?DanceID=9912 Kmo Yayin] || כמו יין || circle || 1996 ||
|-
| [https://www.israelidances.com/dance_details.asp?DanceID=2962 Tagidi] || تا گدي || circle || 1996 || [http://larry.denenberg.com/Songs/tagidi.pdf Lyrics & translation]
|-
| [https://www.israelidances.com/dance_details.asp?DanceID=2162 Eileen] || דבקה איילין || circle || 1996 || [[Eponymous Dances | Named for Eileen Weinstock]]
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| [https://www.israelidances.com/dance_details.asp?DanceID=881 Yaldati] || ילדתי || circle || 1995 || [http://larry.denenberg.com/Songs/yaldati-greek.pdf Original lyrics & translation]
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| [https://www.israelidances.com/dance_details.asp?DanceID=3266 Rikud L'Eileen] || ריקוד לאיילין || circle || 1995 || [[Eponymous Dances | Named for Eileen Weinstock]]
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| [https://www.israelidances.com/dance_details.asp?DanceID=2956 Cotton Eye Joe] || || line || 1995 ||
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| [https://www.israelidances.com/dance_details.asp?DanceID=1665 Debka Simonne (Harvey)] || דבקה סימון || circle || 1995 || [[Debka Simonne (Harvey) | Explanation of the name]]
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| [https://www.israelidances.com/dance_details.asp?DanceID=228 Debka Keff] || דבקה כיף || circle || 1994 || [[Debka Keff | Caused Moshe to be hauled before a judge!]]
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| [https://www.israelidances.com/dance_details.asp?DanceID=142 Liat Li Liat] || ליאת לי ליאת || line || 1994 || [[Eponymous Dances | Named for Liat Weinstock]]
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| [https://www.israelidances.com/dance_details.asp?DanceID=127 Debka Gid] || דבקה גיד || circle || 1993 || [[Debka Gid | Watch the dance get its name!]]
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| [https://www.israelidances.com/dance_details.asp?DanceID=627 Zeh HaZman Lisloach] || זה הזמן לסלוח || circle || 1992 ||
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| [https://www.israelidances.com/dance_details.asp?DanceID=216 Debka Allon] || דבקה אלון || circle || 1991 || [[Eponymous Dances | Named for Allon Weinstock]]
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| [https://www.israelidances.com/dance_details.asp?DanceID=1562 Mila V'Od Mila] || מילה ועוד מילה || partner || 1991 ||
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| [https://www.israelidances.com/dance_details.asp?DanceID=569 Zingarella] || זינגרלה || circle || 1990 || [[Original Music | Originally French]]
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| [https://www.israelidances.com/dance_details.asp?DanceID=562 Lo Alecha] || לא עליך || circle || 1990 ||
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| [https://www.israelidances.com/dance_details.asp?DanceID=213 Hora Keff] || הורה כיף || circle || 1990 || [[Hora Keff (dance) | What about part 2?]]
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| [https://www.israelidances.com/dance_details.asp?DanceID=492 Chaki Li] || חכי לי || partner || 1989 ||
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| [https://www.israelidances.com/dance_details.asp?DanceID=2853 Oleh Oleh] || עולה עולה || circle || 1989 ||
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| [https://www.israelidances.com/dance_details.asp?DanceID=2093 Debka Li'el] || דבקה ליאל || circle || 1989 || [http://larry.denenberg.com/Songs/liel.pdf Lyrics & translation]
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| [https://www.israelidances.com/dance_details.asp?DanceID=604 Holech U'Va] || הולך ובא || circle || 1988 ||
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| [https://www.israelidances.com/dance_details.asp?DanceID=2852 Olam Chadash] || עולם חדש || circle || 1988 ||
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| [https://www.israelidances.com/dance_details.asp?DanceID=1462 Almat Chen] || עלמת חן || partner || 1988 ||
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| [https://www.israelidances.com/dance_details.asp?DanceID=1437 Perach Yayin] || פרח יין || partner || 1987 ||
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| [https://www.israelidances.com/dance_details.asp?DanceID=96 Ramot] || רמות || circle || 1986 || [[Ramot | More information]]
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| [https://www.israelidances.com/dance_details.asp?DanceID=583 Ahava Noshana] || אהבה נושנה || partner || 1986 || [[Ahava Noshana | Backstory of the song]]
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| [https://www.israelidances.com/dance_details.asp?DanceID=2464 Hora Gilad] || הורה גלעד || partner || 1984 ||
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| [https://www.israelidances.com/dance_details.asp?DanceID=1415 El Ali] || אל עלי || circle || 1983 ||
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| [https://www.israelidances.com/dance_details.asp?DanceID=1113 Ilu Tziporim] || אלו ציפורים || partner || 1983 || [[Original Music | Si tous les oiseaux]]
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| [https://www.israelidances.com/dance_details.asp?DanceID=1119 Yalel Ha'awa] || ילל הווה || circle || 1982 || [[Yalel Ha'wah | More information]]
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| [https://www.israelidances.com/dance_details.asp?DanceID=1115 Chanita] || חניתה || circle || 1982 || [[Eponymous Dances | Named for Moshe's wife]]
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| [https://www.israelidances.com/dance_details.asp?DanceID=2525 Laila Laila] || לילה לילה || partner || 1979 ||
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| [https://www.israelidances.com/dance_details.asp?DanceID=2450 Ahava] || אהבה || partner || 1979 ||
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| [https://www.israelidances.com/dance_details.asp?DanceID=1117 Debka Chaim] || דבקה חיים || circle || 1979 || [[Debka Chaim | Much more information]]
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| [https://www.israelidances.com/dance_details.asp?DanceID=10695 Erev Shach] || ערב שח || circle || 1979 ||
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| [https://www.israelidances.com/dance_details.asp?DanceID=589 BaKramim] || בכרמים || circle || 1978 ||
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| [https://www.israelidances.com/dance_details.asp?DanceID=2922 Yedid Nefesh] || ידיד נפש || circle || 1974 ||
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| [https://www.israelidances.com/dance_details.asp?DanceID=2901 Shalom] || שלום || line || 1974 ||
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| [https://www.israelidances.com/dance_details.asp?DanceID=2632 Simchat HeAmel] || שמחת העמל || circle || 1974 ||
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| [https://www.israelidances.com/dance_details.asp?DanceID=2169 Shir HaChatuna] || שיר החתונה || partner || 1974 ||
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| [https://www.israelidances.com/dance_details.asp?DanceID=1518 Simcha] || שמחה || partner || 1974 ||
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| [https://www.israelidances.com/dance_details.asp?DanceID=2448 HaYoshevet BaGanim] || היושבת בגנים || partner || 1973 ||
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| [https://www.israelidances.com/dance_details.asp?DanceID=618 Reiach Tapuach] || ריח תפוח || circle || 1972 || [[Unusual Meters | Seven beats per measure]]
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| [https://www.israelidances.com/dance_details.asp?DanceID=4391 Sisu Et Yerushalayim] || שישו את ירושלים || circle || 1972 ||
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| [https://www.israelidances.com/dance_details.asp?DanceID=283 HaShir Sheli] || השיר שלי || circle || 1972 ||
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| [https://www.israelidances.com/dance_details.asp?DanceID=2099 Etz HaRimon] || עץ הרימון || partner || 1972 ||
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| [https://www.israelidances.com/dance_details.asp?DanceID=1450 Tfilat Michal] || תפילת מיכל || partner || 1972 || [[Eponymous Dances | Named for Moshe's daughter]]
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| [https://www.israelidances.com/dance_details.asp?DanceID=1413 Debka Irit] || דבקה אירית || circle || 1972 || [[Eponymous Dances | Named for Moshe's daughter]]
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| [https://www.israelidances.com/dance_details.asp?DanceID=1120 LaMenatzeach] || למנצח || circle || 1972 ||
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| [https://www.israelidances.com/dance_details.asp?DanceID=1919 Ladino] || לדינו || circle || 1971 ||
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| [https://www.israelidances.com/dance_details.asp?DanceID=714 Ad Or HaBoker] || עד אור הבוקר || circle || 1970 ||
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| [https://www.israelidances.com/dance_details.asp?DanceID=620 Shibolei Paz] || שיבולי פז || circle || 1970 || [[Shibolei Paz | More information]]
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| [https://www.israelidances.com/dance_details.asp?DanceID=428 Al Gemali] || על גמלי || circle || 1970 ||
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| [https://www.israelidances.com/dance_details.asp?DanceID=2897 Salach] || סלח || partner || 1970 ||
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| [https://www.israelidances.com/dance_details.asp?DanceID=2847 Nitzanim Nir'u BaAretz] || ניצנים נראו בארץ || partner || 1970 ||
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| [https://www.israelidances.com/dance_details.asp?DanceID=2636 Simchu Na] || שמחו נא || circle || 1970 || [["Double" dances | Same music as HaChassida]]
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| [https://www.israelidances.com/dance_details.asp?DanceID=2623 Shtei Yonim] || שתי יונים || circle || 1970 ||
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| [https://www.israelidances.com/dance_details.asp?DanceID=2551 Ma Avarech] || מה אברך || partner || 1970 || [[Ma Avarech | More information]]
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| [https://www.israelidances.com/dance_details.asp?DanceID=2405 HaKormim] || הכורמים || partner || 1970 ||
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| [https://www.israelidances.com/dance_details.asp?DanceID=2329 Debka B'not HaKfar] || דבקה בנות הכפר || circle || 1970 ||
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| [https://www.israelidances.com/dance_details.asp?DanceID=2284 B'Fat HaKfar] || בפאת הכפר || circle || 1970 ||
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| [https://www.israelidances.com/dance_details.asp?DanceID=2167 Sapari] || ספרי || circle || 1970 || [[Diwan | Lyrics from the Diwan]]
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| [https://www.israelidances.com/dance_details.asp?DanceID=2159 Debka Oud] || דבקה עוד || circle || 1970 ||
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| [https://www.israelidances.com/dance_details.asp?DanceID=1554 Dror Yikra] || דרור יקרא || circle || 1970 || [[Dror Yikra | Many versions]]
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| [https://www.israelidances.com/dance_details.asp?DanceID=1265 Debka Skayo] || דבקה סקיו || circle || 1970 || [[Debka Skayo | More information]] (including video)
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| [https://www.israelidances.com/dance_details.asp?DanceID=1116 Na'arah] || נערה || partner || 1970 ||
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| [https://www.israelidances.com/dance_details.asp?DanceID=1114 Livavtini] || לבבתיני || partner || 1970 || [[Livavtini | More information]]
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| [https://www.israelidances.com/dance_details.asp?DanceID=597 Ha'Ir Be'Afor] || העיר באפור || circle || 1968 || [[Ha'Ir Be'Afor | More information]]
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Ahava Noshana

2026-08-15T23:37:24Z

Larry: Redirected page to SheHaShemesh Ta'avor Alai

#REDIRECT [[SheHaShemesh Ta'avor Alai]]
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SheHaShemesh Ta'avor Alai

2026-08-15T23:36:03Z

Larry: First cut

Hebrew: שהשמש תעבור עלי (Let the Sun Pass Over Me). Circle dance by [[Amir Katz]], 1986.

Danced to exactly the same song: Ahava Noshana, Hebrew: אהבה נושנה (Old Love). Partner dance by [[Moshe Eskayo]], 1986.

Here we are concerned with the song rather than with either dance.

After the Six-Day War, a singing and dancing group from a church called Faith Bible Chapel in Denver Colorado visited Israel annually and performed for soldiers at IDF bases. One year, [[Yoram Tahar-Lev]] was asked to help create a program for them. Tomi, a member of the band, asked Tahar-Lev to create a song for her to describe her love for Israel, despite not begin Jewish. He wrote the lyrics and gave them to [[Nurit Hirsh]] who was at the time located in the USA; she composed a tune, and Tomi recorded an album "Let the Sun Shine for Me".

In 1985, with the original song forgotten, Yardena Arazi asked Tahar-Lev for a song; he still had the lyrics and gave them to her. She took them to Chanan Yovel who wrote the tune we know today.

Many years later, Tahar-Lev told the story to musical detective [http://gavisho.com/ Ofer Gavish], but had forgotten the details, including the name of the church, the singer, and the band. Gavish approached Nurit Hirsh, who remembered the incident but had no copy of the song and had also forgotten the names. Gavish continued to search and eventually found the church and the singer, and obtained a recording of the song being performed with the original tune, which he was eager to publish.

But there was a problem. When Nurit Hirsh heard the recording, she pointed out that in two places the singer hits the wrong note, singing F rather than F# as composed. This completely changed the nature of the song in Hirsh's opinion, and she angrily forbade Gavish from publishing the song anywhere. However, the incorrect note appears only in the verses; the chorus is sung properly and can be heard at the link below.

=== Links ===

The [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i6kw3IOv04k&t=4s chorus], sung by Tomi, with the original Nurit Hirsh tune

A [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b_pnlCfEF1k performance] of the new tune by Avraham Fried and composer Chanan Yovel

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[http://www.israelidances.com/dance_details.asp?DanceID=583 Ahava Noshana] at [http://www.israelidances.com israelidances.com]

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