42. Pŏnnaliya Pṟaśnam Vannu (Golden Aliyah)

A Zionist song from 1952 or later, set to Ponnarival (Golden Sickle), a tune from a popular Malayalam musical drama of the period. It celebrates the renewed possibility of immigration (aliyah) to Israel after a period of delay and mentions particular representatives to Kerala from the Jewish Agency: a doctor who was sent to administer and Shlomo Schmidt, who was an aliyah official in the early 1950s. health examinations

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Now the issue has been raised
Of the golden aliyah.
The flag of Sion flies on the pole.
It's flying in the air,
It's flying in the air.

Schmidt has come for immigration,
Doctor has come for examination.
We must go there, we must go there,
Go to Palestine.
We must go there, we must go there,
We must go there, we must go, go to Israel, go to Israel.
Take up a rifle, take a rifle, take a rifle,
A rifle for our land,
For our very own land.

(First stanza is repeated.)