[3] At the time, she did not have any aspirations to be a songwriter or poet, but she did send her songs to popular children's magazines to be published under a pseudonym.

Shapira had written the song in memory of Eldad Kravek, a fellow member of her kibbutz who had fallen in that war at the age of 21.

[6] Yair Rosenblum, musical director of the Israeli Navy Band, saw the booklet at the kibbutz guest house where he had come to recuperate after an automobile accident.

[3][5] In 1971 Shapira released her first joint song with Israeli composer Moni Amarillo, "Tzipur Bageshem" ("Bird in the Rain").

[4] Performers include Israeli singers Ilanit, Ruhama Raz, Gali Atari, Yardena Arazi, Anat Atzmon, Riki Gal, Margalit Tzan'ani, and Dani Litani,[7] and Hakol Over Habibi, Orna and Moshe Datz, and Hofim.

[3] In an interview she explained: I think I like personal ballads, songs of crisis that describe confrontation with a group, especially – but not only – by a female character.