We Are Both from the Same Village

"We Are Both from the Same Village" (Hebrew: אנחנו שנינו מאותו הכפר, romanized: Anachnu Shnaynu Meoto Hakfar) is a memorial poem written in 1966 by the Israeli composer Naomi Shemer that she set to music in 1969 for it to be recorded by the Central Command Band.

It tells about the friendship between two friends from the same village, one of whom was killed in battle.

Both men in the song, who were born in 1927, worked on the same farm, fought side by side in the 1947–1949 Palestine war, and served in the 101st Moses Dayan Parachute Regiment and the Mossad.

During the Yom Kippur War, Zabel volunteered to join Ariel Sharon's 143rd Legion, which was fighting in the Sinai Peninsula.

When Zabel was killed by an Egyptian Army artillery shell on October 17, 1973, this poem came true.