Even when he fled with his wife and young daughters on October 7 from Or HaNer, the kibbutz he calls home in southern Israel, Jimbo J could not yet imagine the magnitude of the disaster unfolding around him. Only months later, when he drove through the quiet forests on his way back to the kibbutz to pick up a microphone, did he begin to understand what had happened.
In this episode of Song of Hope, Israeli musician Jimbo J speaks about returning home to the Gaza envelope and performs a beautifully haunting version of “Nofel VeKam” (“I Fall and Get Up”) by the classic Israeli hip hop group Shabak Samech.
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