MISPARIM
echad hu mispar hamedinot
bein hayarden layam
shtayim - mispar hamedinot
sheyom echad yihiyu kan
shalosh shanim vearba chodashim
hu hazman shenatati letzahal,
lo ha'iti bekeva, haiti banachal
chamisha shkalim ola nesia beotobus ironi
be'etzem arba tishim
aval ad shehadisk yetz'e
notru od kama chodashim
ha'iti ben shesh kshesadat ba la'aretz
ben sheva kshechatmu al haheskemim
shmon'e hu hamispar shel uri malmilian,
shehu bli shum safek gibor yalduti
tesha pe'amim haiti karov midai lepigua,
lefachot nachon leachshav
eser - hatshuva hachi yisraelit
lashe'ela "ma hamtzav"?
gam ani kmo kol hayehudim asuk bemisparim
esrim vearba sheva shteim esre chodashim X4
ishti bat esrim vesheva, ani ben shloshim,
mikarev meod harega bo
nirtze lehavi yeladim
aval nirtze gam sheyihiye lahem hakol
ochel, bgadim, kaduregel, mischakim
et mankal bank hapo'alim
ze lo matrid
ki hu mevi habayta kol yom
esrim vetesha elef shmone me'ot veshesh esre shkalim
kol yom? yina'al rabak
techalku et ze be shtayim, bechamesh be'eser
vezo adain maskoret chodshit dei yafa lehayom
yaskimu iti alfei mefutarei mifalei hatekstil
beyeshuvei hadarom
hatzmicha beyisrael bealpayim veachat
hayta minus efes nekuda shesh achuz
anashim she'ad etmol hayta lahem avoda
ro'im agvania bapach vechoshvim
"eize bizbuz"
matzav hameshek hayisraeli hu hachamur beyoter
barbayim veshomne hashanim ha'achronot
arbayim veshmone?
mukar li hamispar haze!
me'eifo leazazel?!
arbe chevrot selolar micharot al ha'ozen
shel shiv'im vechamesh achuz mehayisraelim
mankal selkum
holech labank pa'am bechodesh
mafkid maskoret
shesh me'ot shiv'im vearba elef shkalim
yesh reva miliyon muvtalim
shloshim veshesh elef mehem nosfu hashana
kanir'e sheli luzon shar...
gam ani kmo kol hayehudim asuk bemisparim
esrim vearba sheva shteim esre chodashim X4
zayfanim metzi'im be'asara shkalim
disk she'avadnu alav arba shanim
hadolar ala beasrot agorot
toch shlosha shavu'ot heznik et schar hadira
le'me'ot alfei anashim
bakis ein maspik
lesifrei limud vetitulim
ma asta hamemshala betguva?
kitzetza shteim esre achuz mekitzba'ot hayeladim
kshe'isha telech la'avoda
hi tavi kol sha'a
sheva shekel ve'esrim agorot
bememutza pachot
mima shegever be'ota avoda haya mavi
ve'ani lo navi
aval bein chamesh me'ot leshesh me'ot ish
yamutu hashana bakvish
adoni kvod sar hatachbura,
eich hanatun haze gorem lecha lehargish?
veadayin hamispar hachi gadol ad hayom
shemegalem et hatikva aval mamchish et ha'ason
hu ze cheomrim oto
kol adam shafu'i over ledom hu...
shesh miliyon
gam ani kmo kol hayehudim asuk bemisparim
esrim vearba sheva shteim esre chodashim X4
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NUMBERS
One – is the number of countries
between the Jordan River and the sea
Two – The number of countries
that will be here one day
Three years and four months
I gave to the IDF –
I didn’t sign on I was in the Nahal
It costs five shekels to ride the bus,
well actually four ninety
but you have a few months
till the CD comes out.
I was six when Saadat came to Israel,
seven when they signed the agreements
Eight is Uri Malmilian’s number
who was definitely my childhood hero
Nine times I was to close to a terrorist attack
up to now
Ten – is the most Israeli answer
to the question ‘ what’s up?’
I am too, like all Jews, obsesses with numbers
twenty-four - seven, twelve months X4
My wife is twenty-seven year’s old, I’m thirty.
The moment when we will want to have children
is getting near.
But we will want them to have it all:
food, clothes, soccer, games.
This doesn’t bother
the executive director of Hapoalim Bank –
he brings home every day
twenty nine thousand eight hundred and sixteen shekels.
Every day? God damm it!
Divide it by two or fifteen
and it’s still a pretty good monthly salary for today – thousands of the fired workers from the textile factories
in the south will agree with me.
The growth in Israel in two thousand and one
was minus zero point six percent.
People that up until yesterday had a job
see a tomato in the trash and think
‘what a waste’.
The state of Israel’s economy is the worst it’s been
in the last forty-eight years.
Forty-eight –
that number’s familiar!
Where from…?
Four cellular companies compete over the ears
of seventy five percent of Israelis.
The executive director of Cellcum
goes to the bank once a month
and deposits a salary
of six hundred and seventy four thousand shekels.
There are a quarter of a million people who are unemployed; thirty six thousand were added this year.
I guess Elli Luzon is right when he sings …
I am too, like all Jews obsessed with numbers…
twenty-four - seven, twelve months X4
Forgers offer, for ten shekels,
a CD that we worked on for four years.
The Dollar went up in tens of Agurot in three weeks
that boosted up the rent
for hundreds of thousand of people.
In your pocket you don’t have enough
for schoolbooks and diapers
and what did the government do in response?
Cut twelve percent off the child support.
When a woman goes to work
she makes per hour
a shekel and seventy agurot less,
on average,
than what a man would make in the same job
and I am not a prophet
Between five hundred and six hundred people
will die on the streets this year –
Dear transportation minister –
how do those numbers make you feel?
And still the biggest number, until today,
that holds hope but represents a disaster,
is one that makes every sane person
stand still
– is six million
I am too, like all Jews obsessed with numbers…
twenty-four - seven, twelve months X4
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