This song was written by Meir Ariel - one of Israel most profound and unique singer songwriters - in the early 70's as a soldier in the paratroopers force deployed near the city of Suez in the south of the Sinai Peninsula. it was recorded by an IDF radio reporter but was only released as part of an album in 1984. this beautiful touching song is la sort of a still picture displaying young Meir as a soldier in his routine far away from main Israel, reading a book - Islands in the stream - which affected him strongly, especially in his remote and lonely situation and being called to watch duty on the base guard tower. a boring and lonely task that many Israelis are too well familiar with. there, alone at this quite desert night he ponders. About the book he is reading and still resonates with him, his life and surrounding
