Hatikvah
Hatikvah (literally
"The hope") is the
national anthem of
Israel.
The text was composed by the
Galician poet Naphtali Herz Imber (
1856-
1909) in
Jassy in
1878. The music is based on an old
Moldavian folk song ("
Cucuruz cu frunza-n sus"), arranged by Samuel Cohen. It was orchestrated in
1897 by the composer Paul Ben-Haim and in
1897, on the first
Zionist congress, it became the hymn of Zionism, and on the creation of the state of Israel in
1948, it was proclaimed as the national anthem of Israel.
Here is the text in English.
- As long as deep in the heart
- The soul of a Jew is murmuring,
- And to the edges of the East
- And eye towards Zion is watching,
- Still our hope is not lost,
- The hope of two thousand years,
- To be a free people in our land:
- The land of Zion and Jerusalem.
Here is the text in
Hebrew.
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כל עוד בלבב פנימה
נפש יהודי הומיה,
ולפאתי מזרח קדימה
עין לציון צופיה -
עוד לא אבדה תקותנו,
התקוה בת שנות אלפים,
להיות עם חופשי בארצנו
ארץ ציון וירושלים.
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Kol od balevav
P'nimah -
Nefesh Yehudi homiyah
Ulfa'atey mizrach kadimah
Ayin l'tzion tzofiyah.
Od lo avdah tikvatenu
Hatikvah bat shnot alpayim:
Li'hyot am chofshi b'artzenu -
Eretz Tzion v'Yerushalayim.
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