hadag nachash - bella bellissima

lyrics in english:
This is a story worth educating children with
This is a worthy story
Tuesday, 12th May, 1992
A woman steps out of her house in Jerusalem
Normal standard day nothing special like any other day
A load of kids in the streets there was a teachers strike
Same time exactly a revolting terrorist
Pulls out a kitchen knife and with it stabs two innocent kids
Another mad cruel attack
Another nationalist attack
He sets off running because a mob is in pursuit
And catches him after a few seconds in the carpark
tens of people kicking him they want to close the score
I dont judge them, its an irrational event
Its a flawed situation, awful, revolting, unclear
But then turns up the woman and alters the end of the story
Because she straight off throws herself on the terrorist and
protects with her body the terrorist who is also a human though without her body would have ended up a corpse
I dont understand, werent you afraid with that madman beneath you and the mob so close?
Wouldnt it have been easier to get up and leave?
She replied to the journalist that she didnt have time to think.
She replied to the journalist that she didnt have time to think.
Bella Bellissima
That incident with the woman is engraved in my head
Where did she get the strength to lie there without moving, without fear
I ask myself what I would have done in her place
If at the same moment I had been in the area
Its clear to me that I wouldnt have gone over to boot him
But to be fair and to tell the truth
I dont think I would have been capable of behaving like her
Much more typical for me to get up and run away
Or at the most to try to find a policeman or something
But she lay there until her strength waned
20 minutes she took all those kicks
Her kids watched and didnt stop crying.
Bella Bellissima
This lady did not turn into a symbol
And in effect her name has been erased from consciousness.
There is no stamp with her face
Perhaps because Israel is not yet ready and is not willing
To bring to its breast a hero
whose heroism is not war-like, a hero
whose heroism is not military, a hero
whose heroism is just moral
a hero who is a woman, and a haredit at that
Know this, dear woman, that I did not forget
The story of your heroism I promised to myself
That this story is worth educating children with
Its a story that is worth educating children with
Its a story that is worth educating children with
Its a story thats worthy
Bella Bellissima

link to an interview with the woman in the story: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q6vu5Nyoslw

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[Buffyvampireslater]

Ziva has good taste in music(: haha

[johnny22233323]

i love how pretty much everyone here found this song the exect same way I did. NCIS.

[ncisfreak151]

Love this song! Thank you Ziva for introducing me to this song!!

[sophamonster]

Am I the only person who heard this song before NCIS?

[qj90]

NCIS IS THE BEST!!!!!!!1 xDD Love that show

[JATskier]

@ZoraMalfoy Ok thanks for the clarification, I'll give the show a try.

[ZoraMalfoy]

@JATskier Probably. ;)

She's a character from NCIS. She was a liason for Mossad (Kinda like Israel's version of the CIA) working with the main NCIS team and then eventually became a full-fledged agent. It's a really good show! If you haven't seen it, I'd definitely recommend it!

The reason everyone's talking about her, was she was listening to this song on her ipod during one of the episodes. :)

[JATskier]

Am I the only one who has no idea who this Ziva is?

[callingmethere]

Ziva picks really great music ^_^

[TheNCISLVR]

NCIS.

[killingxgesture]

Ziva: breaching the cultural gap.