FOLLOWING THE KINERET POETS, RACHEL & NAOMI SHEMER - A SINGING TOUR 2025-2026

Event Description

A Singing Tour is a regular tour, but the guidance is combined with tales, songs and guitar playing, and singing along.
Near the Sea of Galilee, two famous poets lived.
A hundred years ago, Rachel (Blushtein), the poet of the pioneers, studied agronomy in the agricultural school of Hana Maizel, in the Moshava Kinnerent. Rachel did not write songs back than, but later, when she lived in Tel Aviv, she wrote many songs in which she yearned to be back in Kinneret. Rachel was buried in the old Kineret cemetery.

Another famous poet, Naomi Shemer, was born in Kibbutz Kineret in 1930. Neomi Shemer was one of the most productive and influential poets of Israel, wring both lyrics and melodies for more than 50 years. She was also buried in the Kineret Cemetery.

In our tour, we will visit Hatzar Kinneret where Rachel studied, we will tell about the pioneers' history and Rachel's life, will sing some of her songs and continue to the Eucalyptus Scrub near Kibbutz Kinneret.

This scrub is mentioned in one of the most famous songs of Naomi Shemer. In the scrub, Naomi Shemer's life history will be presented combined with some songs.
From the Eucalyptus scrub we will walk through the old fish ponds to the Kinneret old cemetery and visit the poets' graves accompanying the visit with some more of their most beloved songs.

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