Yeled Ekhad

  • Lyrics: Bezalel Aloni
  • Music: Ilan Wirzberg
  • Arrangements: Ilan Wirzberg
  • Album: Kol HaNeshama (1994)

Ofra: “This is a song that was written after the hard sights I saw around the world – homeless families. The hardest thing was seeing the small children being dragged along with them. A person’s whole character is shaped at home, and depends on the warmth they receive. Those children, with the dreams they surely carry deep inside them, tear your heart apart.”
  • Transliteration
  • Translation

Yeled Ekhad
Meshotet, to-he, nikhzav
Ekhad ve-od ekhad
Over va-shav
Al yad khayav
Al yad khayav

Meshotet, mukeh, nikhzav
Ekhad ve-od ekhad
Hu levad ve-hem ekhad
Ve-hem levad

Yeladim ovdim betokh ha-layla
Yeladim shokhvim al midrakha
Yeladim to-him im sham le-ma‘ala
Ro’im mal’akh ba-khashakha

Yeladim ovdim betokh ha-layla
Yeladim kholmim al ma she-ba
U-metsayrim betokh ha-layla
Tsurot shel or ba-khashakha

Ke-tipot shel geshem rav
Noflim ekhad ekhad
Nishbarim
Ben kav le-kav
Ve-hem rabim

Zeh la-zeh sogrim akhshav
Et sipur khayav
Sipur ekhad shel yeled
Yeled ekhad

Yeladim ovdim betokh ha-layla
Yeladim shokhvim al midrakha
Yeladim to-him im sham le-ma‘ala
Ro’im mal’akh ba-khashakha

Yeladim ovdim betokh ha-layla
Yeladim kholmim al ma she-ba
U-metsayrim betokh ha-layla
Tsurot shel or ba-khashakha

Yeladim to-him im sham le-ma‘ala
Ro’im mal’akh ba-khashakha

Meshotet, to-he, nikhzav
Ekhad ve-od ekhad
Over va-shav
Al yad khayav