(Lived here in the 'Iron Swords' war) - The song written by Ofir Harush from the Carmel Castle was created after she listened to the last conversation between the late Sergeant Ram Meir Batito and his mother, Dekla Danino Meman. The song "A boy who wanted to return" was written by the killed soldier turning to his beloved mother. A moving and unimaginable story.
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"The song is like a last message from Ram"
Sergeant Ram Meir Batito the late was a fighter in the 51st Battalion in the Golani Brigade. On the seventh of October - the Black Sabbath when the "Iron Swords" war broke out, Ram fought for long hours against the terrorists.
At 16:00 that afternoon, Ram managed to call his mother, Dekla Danino-Meman, a conversation that became the farewell conversation between the two, and later inspired the singer Ofir Harush, who wrote a song about Ram and that conversation between the mother and her son. Shortly after the conversation, Ram was killed in battle.
"The song came to me"
The singer Ofir Harosh, 21 years old from Tirat Carmel, describes the process of the birth of the song: "I wrote the song after hearing Ram's conversation with his mother. The song came to me like a message, I wrote it in seconds. I didn't know the family before writing the song. I wrote the song From the point of view of the boy, of Ram. The boy tells his mother about what he went through in the last moments. After two months I went to the producer and without making any changes to it, we recorded it, which is a very unusual thing.
In the beginning, we uploaded only Beit and Pizmon to the networks. I uploaded the song to my Instagram and Tik Tok and wrote that it was written to commemorate the soldier.
She waited for a message from Ram
When Shabbat came out, I saw that the song had reached 200,000 views on TikTok and 100,000 views on Instagram. On Saturday night, Ram's mother also called me, even before that the mother's sister sent me a message.
"Ram's mother told me that she was waiting for a message from her son," Ofir continues, "and for her this song is like a message that came from him. She said that she was with a rabbi on Shabbat and that she told the rabbi that she was waiting for a message from Ram, then she heard the song and from that moment on she didn't leave it.
Friday 9/2/24 will be Ram's birthday, and it was important for us to release the song for the birthday. The song was shared by a lot of people, I don't even know where it ended up with so many shares, 3 million people heard it just for me."
Bereaved mothers connected to the song
"More bereaved parents contacted me and asked me to come perform at ceremonies in memory of their loved ones, or asked permission to use the song. I was contacted mainly by many mothers who really connected to the song and I am supposed to participate in the ceremonies in which I was invited to sing."
Lior Harpaz tells about her first acquaintance with Ofir, after which they started working together: "I met Ofir by chance, about two years ago I had a business meeting at an ice cream cafe in the Carmel Castle, where Ofir worked and we formed a very personal relationship. I also saw her posting on Instagram, we started talking And the rest is history. She has a real nightingale voice. At first she was very modest, she worked in an ice cream cafe and I told her that she should not be there, but perform. Before the war, she performed a lot."
"He asked me to complete the task"
"I started singing at a very young age," says Ofir. "I was in the next star at the age of 16. It was an amazing experience and I reached a relatively high level. I was very young and it was an extraordinary experience for me. I enlisted in a military band after very difficult selections, I participated in many ceremonies with the military band and sometimes I was also sent to perform alone.
I was released a year and a half ago and opened my Tik Tok account and started gaining momentum. My account stands at 50,000 followers and about 42 million page views. I decided to use this power to immortalize the soldier, Ram. For two weeks after I released the song, I dreamed about it.
In the dream I go to look for him together with his mother, we find him in a spring and his mother takes him out of the spring and tries to wake him up. So he tells me I have to complete the task. It seems to me that what he meant to tell me is that he wants me to release the song already and thus immortalize him."
"After fighting for hours, he went into another operation and was killed"
Ram's mother, Dekla Danino-Meman, talks about her son and the messages she received through the song: "My son, Ram Meir Batito 5, is a gifted child. He studied at the military boarding school of the Reali School in a very unique major - he studied 5 credits of physics, 5 credits of mathematics and 3 credits of English. After finishing the course, he enlisted in a pilot course and stayed there for six months. After dropping out of the course, Entered the Golani patrol, where he was for almost a year, until XNUMX weeks before the end of the course.
"As far as he was concerned," the mother continues, "his essence was to be a commander. When he realized that he would not go to the military training course, he chose to go down to the battalions, in order to improve them. He gave up the ego of the patrol and went to improve the battalions, that's how he got to the 51st battalion in Golani. They welcomed him there warmly, and immediately identified his abilities and strengths. Ram had a commander named Uri Shani, who was killed along with him. They had a very good commander-in-command relationship. He was part of the standby team, Carmel A."
"Fought like lions"
When the attack began on the first day of the war, Ram was outside the outpost, because those who stayed in the outpost on Shabbat were the standby teams. Usually, in such situations, they get up at 4:30 in the morning and go on patrol, so they were the first to notice the infiltration of the terrorists. They didn't run away, they fought the terrorists from 5 am. Ram was the number 2 of his commander, Uri, and from 5 o'clock they fought, and returned at 16:00 p.m. safe and sound to the base, after an intense battle with the terrorists. All day long they fought like lions.
"He knew how much I cared about him"
When the Carmel A team arrived at the base there was tremendous excitement. As soon as they came back Ram spoke to me, I strongly encouraged him in this conversation. Later I realized that it was a farewell call... I had a very special relationship with Ram, he was my weak point and I was his weak point... He knew how much I cared for him.
His major was here last week. He told me that there was another soldier who was afraid to go on an activity and Ram asked to go on a mission in his place. In our last conversation I did not hear fear, otherwise he would not have immediately volunteered to go on a mission. He was a heroic boy, who was not afraid to go on a mission.
The task was to bring ammunition, Ram went out with Uri, then without any warning, a fire brigade arrived from the direction of Gaza and they were killed. He was supposed to celebrate his 20th birthday this Friday."
"I believe Ram will come back to me"
"Weekends are very difficult for me," Dekla shares. "I am constantly waiting for messages from him. I was at my parents' the weekend when Ofir released her song. When I returned home they sent me the video with the song. When I heard it I felt as if it had come from Ram. Throughout the first month of the war I had the feeling that what he went through In my mind during the conversation with me is: "Oh mother, how did this happen..." When Ofir told me that she wrote the song without any effort on her part, that the words just came out of her at once, I felt that this was a clear message from my son.
I believe that the souls communicate with us. They can communicate and they also come in dreams. I believe that Ram will return, this is also stated unequivocally in the song. I believe in the coming of the Messiah and that Ram will return to me, it's just a matter of time."
"Ofir is a great singer and a charming girl, she has a stunning way and I have no doubt that she will be one of the most well-known singers in Israel. She is an angelic person. I am grateful that I was given the privilege and that this message is conveyed to me. My heart aches."
A rare mother and child, I'm watching while you wrote the article and don't stop crying! I know what it is to lose a child and how sometimes the behavior of the hero and conveying that everything is fine comes from you without even intending or realizing that it is so. May the memory of Ram be blessed and the memory of all the heroic children in the IDF and outside it, and aspire to all the heroic mothers and fathers.
Ram enters the heart and does not leave there. meteor boy A rare mother. My heart was shattered by this story. I can't get the last conversation out of my head. Be strong, the whole family. It hurts so much, may God raise his blood. Long live the name and memory of the murderers.
Ram, not a day goes by that I don't think of you
what a pain
Sad about your mom
Heartbreaking, this is how the hero troop takes a gifted person and there in the fighting everything is upside down and unplanned, this boy should have been in a completely different role to take advantage of his high abilities, what a sorrow, how much heartache, what a disaster this country is consuming its sons, a disaster
What a charming boy and a hero, what a heartbreaking song...
Thanks Ofir
exciting
Ram was with my son in class
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If after this destruction of the lives of thousands of families living in the south and the families of IDF fighters, once again the IDF stops in the middle and does not reach the Philadelphia axis and eliminate Hamastan, then Israel is lost. The crisis of trust vis-à-vis the IDF will not be resolved if once again there is an escape from Gaza and once again Hamastan stands on the fence like Hezbollah after the Second Lebanon and they mark us with a "V" and wave the enemy's flags at us. This must be broken once the lesson is internalized that such a massacre will not lead to any political achievements. the basis of everything.
The abductees is a painful issue, but without clarifying the basis of a lesson from the massacre, we did nothing and there will be another such massacre. In the north, in the Bekaa, in Jerusalem. We must explain - this is the watershed, an existential matter. Without a decision, Israel was decided.