Singer-songwriter Shemer was considered the “first lady of Israeli song.” She wrote “Jerusalem of Gold” (“Yerushalayim Shel Zahav”) for the 1967 Israel Song Festival, and it became the anthem for a united Jerusalem after the June 1967 war. She also translated famous songs and poems into Hebrew and performed them, including The Beatles’ “Let It Be” (a response to the 1973 war) and works by Walt Whitman. She put to music many poems by Rachel Bluwstein and was buried near her at Kvutzat Kinneret.