We Left Slowly

"We Left Slowly" (Hebrew: יצאנו אט "Yatzanu at" or "Yatsanu at") is an Israeli song with verse of the poet and songwriter Haim Hefer (1946) and music by David Zehavi [he] (1947).

[1] It has become popular in Israeli society and is customarily played on occasions of commemoration events related to the struggle for the establishment of the state of Israel.

[3] The song has been covered by many singers[4] including Shoshana Damari (1968[4]), Esther Ofarim (1961[4]), Yafa Yarkoni (1964[4]), Arik Einstein (1966, 1971[4] also on album Jasmine, 1972[5]), Shlomo Artzi, Yishai Levi, Eyal Golan, and Danny Maseng.

Ve'at hayit yafa kishtey eynaich Et hadma'ot hayu ban atzurot We left slowly.

[7] In 1974, a children's newspaper Talk to the Children (דבר לילדים, Devar Lebedim) published new lyrics to the song by a ten-and-a-half-year old boy Or Ezer (אור עזר), titled "Tear and Victory" (דמעה וניצחון, dim'a venitzchon) which starts with the words "Twenty-six years have passed".