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b'On this edition of The Israel Show\\n\\n"Yerushalayim Shel Zahav," a phrase that first appears in the Talmud, became the theme song of a nation, when it debuted, fifty years ago, on Israel Independence Day 1967.\\n\\nNaomi Shemer brilliantly wove phrases from Tanakh, Talmud, Medrash and Tefilla creating this haunting song, which has been called "Israel\'s second anthem".\\n\\n\\nThat very same night - 5 minutes away - Rabbi Tzvi Yehuda Kook spoke before his students at the festive Indepence Day celebration at Yeshivat Merkaz HaRav.\\n\\n\\nThree weeks later their words would become prophetic.\\n\\n\\nThe Israel Show celebrates 50 years of the return of The Jewish People to Jerusalem\\n\\nWe will analyze the holy sources of "Jerusalem of Gold" that make it a modern tefillah and\\n\\nhear excerpts from Rav Tzvi Yehuda Kook\'s famous words that went on to fuel a generation.'