When a career as a lyricist ends up totaling around 1,250 songs, one might think that massive output would dwarf the importance of any individual piece. One would be wrong, of course. Ehud Manor, one of Israel’s greatest songwriters, was capable of producing deeply personal and meaningful words. Such is the case with his 1970 hit “Bashanah Haba’ah” (“Next Year”). Ehud had lost his younger brother two years earlier when Yehuda was killed during the 1968 War of Attrition between Israel and Egypt, and he wrote his lyrics in Yehuda’s memory. What would Ehud love to do if he had his brother back again? Here’s what he wrote: