This song about the battle for Ammunition Hill should be heard by everyone. Its poetic verses take you on a meaningful journey into the past.
The Battle for Ammunition Hill in 1967
In the battle for Ammunition Hill in the Six Day War against the Jordanians, 37 paratroopers were killed from our forces. Remember them.
Song Lyrics – Spoken
It was morning of the second day of the war in Jerusalem.
The horizon was pale in the east, were at the height of the battle for Ammunition Hill.
We’ve been fighting for three hours.
A stubborn, lethal battle was in progress, the Jordanians were fighting stubbornly.
It was an unusually fortified destination.
At a certain stage of the fighting there were just four soldiers left next to me.
We emerged from there with the power of two companies.
I didn’t know where the others were, because communication with Dudik the company commander was severed yet at the start of the battle.
At that moment I thought that everyone had been killed.
Singing Begins
By two, two and thirty
We entered via the rocky ground
To the field of fire and mines
Of Ammunition Hill
Against the fortified bunkers
And the canons one hundred and twenty
One hundred and some boys
On Ammunition Hill
The column of dawn has still not risen
Half of the company is lying in blood
But we have already been there
At Ammunition Hill
Between the fences and the mines
We left only the medics behind
And we ran with lost senses
To Ammunition Hill
At seven, twenty past seven
The sun rose in the east
We returned to the city seven
From Ammunition Hill
We descended into the trenches
To the niches and the tracks
And to the death in the burrows
On Ammunition Hill
And no-one nowhere asks
Who went first and fell
You needed a lot of luck
On Ammunition Hill
Anyone who fell was pulled back
So he did not stop us passing
Until the next one fell
On Ammunition Hill
Perhaps we were lions
But whoever still wanted to live
He could not be present
On Ammunition Hill
We returned to the city seven
Smoke rising from the hill
The sun rose in the east
On Ammunition Hill
About the fortified bunkers
And about our brothers
Who remained there aged twenty
On Ammunition Hill