“Hallelujah” became the anthem of the late field observer Roni Eshel—a song her parents cherished together while Roni was still in her mother’s womb. At the family’s request, Ran Danker attended Roni’s funeral, leaving his own one-month-old baby at home, and performed “Hallelujah.” “I found myself singing a cappella to 30,000 people, and the entire crowd joined in,” Danker recalls. “I thought about my daughter at home and the reality of our lives here. I don’t want to run away from it. Even though my daughter has just been born, I want to go out, meet people, embrace and be embraced. It melts away a piece of the fear.”
In the latest episode of “Song of Hope”, Danker reflects on how his music has taken on new meaning during the war. He delivers a moving performance of Shlomo Artzi’s “Come, Let’s Let It Go”, which he has come to see as a love song for his partner and their baby.
