שלום לך ארץ נהדרת [Shalom Lach Eretz Nehederet] [English translation]

I have been in Paris and also in Rome

I have seen the seven wonders of the world

The North Pole and also the South Pole

But there is no place like the land of Israel.

And like postcards of beautiful scenery

Pictures in my memory fly,

Like in the camera's lens

In the backpack I will carry

In every place, on every journey

Mosaic fragments from a complete picture.

Hello you wonderful country,

Your poor servant sings you a song

Even if I sometimes wander on my way,

It's good to wander but better to return.

The spiers of the towers in Jerusalem

And the alleys of the colorful market

The tiled roofs of Givatayim

Staring through my window.

The spring in Tel Aviv,

My grandmother and grandfather,

The challah and the Shabbat candles,

The Dead Sea in opposite the Red

And Lot's wife looking over Sodom

And the summer toward Eilat.

Hello you wonderful country......

The blue waters of lake Kinneret

And matching sky above.

And the familiar feeling of home

Flows in my arteries like electricity.

The Galilean Mountains and the Shomron,

The orchards in the Sharon,

And the children in the garden of the settlements

The Carmel and the sea

One by one and all together

Always winking, saying welcome

Hello you wonderful country...