"Protect You" Original Music Video

In a bomb shelter in Israel, a father in the Israel Defense Forces (IDF) reserves assures his daughter that he will keep her safe. But what happens after he puts on his IDF uniform? Watch "Protect You" to find out.

In an original music video brought to you by Orit "Settler Miley" Arfa of "Jews Can't Stop" fame, "Protect You" is a family-friendly production that can be used as an educational tool for children about the horrors of war and a fake peace. 

Lyrics/music: Orit Arfa and Sharon Arfa (sisters)
Father: Isaac Nagel
Daughter: Shyelle Nagel
Mother: Aviva Nagel
Artwork: Aliya Nagel
Musical arrangement: Mendy Portnoy
Music recording: Little Apple Studio
Video production/direction: Orit Arfa
Video editing: Maor Winetrob

LYRICS

Girl: 
Daddy, I keep having a bad dream 
It's dark outside and bad guys are chasing me 

Father:
Let me put my arms around you 
Protect you from harm they want to do 
Tomorrow I'll be gone for a little bit 
I'll fight so that we won't get hit

Girl:
I'll wait for you in this shelter

Father:
I'll keep my girl out of danger

Father, Girl:
Oh, when can we go back to our home, the life we know 
Stop our cries, who hears our plight?

CHORUS
Girl:
Make this go away now 
Daddy, find a way out 
I don't want them to hurt us 
I trust you to protect us

Daddy: 
My sweet, I will protect you 
So now I need to leave You
It's always for you that I fight
So you sleep sound tonight

VERSE II

Girl/Father Harmony:
I used to dream of a future bright
Can I go back to see the light?
The fear that you feel on this cold floor 
This shelter won't be home anymore 

I used to be scared when you'd leave
But now I know you're fighting just for me
I'm the one who hates to leave you 
But I'm the one who has to see this through

Oh, when can we go back to our home, the life we know
Stop our cries, who hears our plight?

CHORUS
Girl:
Make this go away now 
Daddy, find a way out
I don't want them to hurt us 
I trust you to protect us

Father: 
My sweet, I will protect you 
So now I need to leave you
It's always for you that I fight
So you sleep sound tonight

BRIDGE
Girl: For too long, I wanted this to end
Father: I'll be back soon, I just can't tell you when
So now I'll go, put on my uniform
And once and for all, you'll feel safe and warm

MUSICAL BREAK

VERSE III

Girl: 
Daddy, is the nightmare over?
You're back so soon, and it's just tomorrow

Daddy:
Let me put my arms around you 
Girl: Protect me from harm they want to do?

Daddy: Turns out I won't be gone for a little bit
They signed a deal. 

Girl:
So we won't get hit
Can we now leave this shelter?

Daddy
(whisper) I can't tell her we're still in danger

Daddy:
Oh, when can we go back to our home, the life we know
Stop our cries, who hears our plight?

Make this go away now 
Who will find a way out?
I know they want to hurt us 
God, who will protect us?

Lazer Lloyd- The Bomb Shelter Blues

The UN EU and everybody else can go you know where because they have no idea about what's going on in Israel nor the world, your all just trying to keep stuffing yourselves hoping we're going to pay the bill. The Lord's got his eye's on you and your time is running out. Lot's of bad stuff physically and financially has been happening around the world and it's happening to all the people who didn't stand up and say loud and clear "Let my people go" "Let the Jewish people have their homeland-everybody else has got their's including more than 22 Arab states..."

United with Israel Installs Bomb Shelters Near Ashkelon

If you are in Israel, please join us for this very special event. Two above-ground shelters will be delivered and “dropped down” by a crane in the town of Nitzan. The children of Nitzan along with other children who attend the event, will decorate the shelters with hand-painted murals. A professional mural artist will be on hand to supervise the painting. All of the art supplies will be provided, as well as snacks and drinks!

Nitzan is a community of refugees from the once thriving Jewish communities of Gush Katif (in the Gaza Strip). Nearly 10,000 Jewish residents were forced to abandon their homes during one of the most painful and tragic episodes in Israel’s history, the 2005 Disengagement from Gaza. Instead of leading to peace, the Disengagement led to a sharp increase in rocket attacks into southern Israeli towns.

Many of the Gush Katif evacuees are still living in temporary dwellings. And some, like the families in Nitzan who live in close proximity to Gaza, still live with constant fear of sirens blaring and missiles landing in their communities. While they yearn for the day when they can live in peace with security, the realistic assessment is that attacks will intensify.

In Nitzan, there are two adjacent kindergartens that need shelters immediately. When asked if one shelter could be installed first, the reply was a resounding NO! The children and teachers expressed the incredible emotion that they “would prefer to suffer an attack and die together“, rather than choose which kindergarten would get the first shelter. “They must be installed together, at the very same moment”, we were told.

Back in April 2012, with the help of our strong global community of Israel supporters, United with Israel installed 2 shelters for infirmaries in the towns of Brachia and Hodaya, on the outskirts of Ashkelon. In less than 3 weeks from when the campaign was initiated, new bomb shelters were purchased, delivered and installed.

Bomb Day Washington Square Park

From 1pm until 4pm on March 28th , THE BOMB SHELTER, an immersive multi-media installation exhibit was open to the public. A periodic siren will sound and participating park goers will have 15 seconds to get from where they are in Washington Square to the shelter - the same length of time that those facing rocket attacks in Israel have to reach safety.

"The artists wanted New Yorkers to viscerally feel what Israelis went through this week during the bombing of a Jerusalem bus stop and repeated rocket strikes," says Craig Dershowitz, President of Artists 4 Israel, the non-profit that created the installation.

As soon as visitors line up to enter the shelter, the deceptively calm Tzeva Adom warning begins to sound. This is the same siren that gives residents of Sderot in southern Israel notice that they have just 15 seconds to find shelter before the rockets launched from Gaza by Hamas begin falling. Then, like in Sderot, visitors will hear the sound of explosions. As they rush into the shelter amidst the blasts, immersive video continues the heart pounding experience as an actual Qassam barrage hitting Sderot unfolds around them - all from the perspective of being in the crowd suffering through the attack.

"The students who have gone on Birthright Israel trips have developed life-long friendships with Israelis and are deeply concerned for them," says Natalie Solomon, Associate Director of the Birthright Israel Alumni Community who is sponsoring the exhibit. "After so many years, it becomes easy for Americans to just read past the headlines. We hope this will help people better understand what it is like to live under terror and renew their passion to see it end."

The bomb shelter exhibit is also a message of hope. It serves as a museum for works of art created by the children of Sderot who have endured more than 10,000 rocket strikes. "You'll see how the kids turned getting to the nearest bomb shelter into a racing game, and hear the song parents made up to help young ones be prepared to move quickly when they hear the siren. The ability of the people to continue to hope in the face of fear and pain is what inspired our artists the most when they visited Sderot last April," says Dershowitz.

Inspired by the resiliency of the children who have suffered through terrorism and how they combat it with art, some of New York's top graffiti artists will cover the outside of the bomb shelter with uplifting images. "It is our way of covering hate with something better," says Solomon.

THE BOMB SHELTER exhibit was open to the public free of charge from 1pm-4pm in Washington Square Park and will next travel to college and university campuses.