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Hatikvah (Hebrew: הַתִּקְוָה, romanized: hattiqvā, ; lit. ' The Hope ') is the national anthem of the State of Israel.Part of 19th-century Jewish poetry, the theme of the Romantic composition reflects the 2,000-year-old desire of the Jewish people to return to the Land of Israel in order to reclaim it as a free and sovereign nation-state.
During the Israel-Hamas war, The Forward, a major Jewish news organization, placed "Am Yisrael Chai" second only to Hatikvah, the national anthem of Israel, as "an anthem of the Jewish people". [7] Judaic scholar Arnold Eisen has called "Am Yisrael Chai" the "civil religion" of American Jewry. [22]
The words of Israel's national anthem, "Hatikvah" "Hatikvah" is the national anthem of Israel. The anthem was written in 1878 by Naphtali Herz Imber, a secular Galician Jew from Zolochiv (today in Lviv Oblast), who moved to the Land of Israel in the early 1880s. The music to Hatikvah was composed by Samuel (Shmuel) Cohen, adapted from a ...
Naftali Herz Imber (Hebrew: נפתלי הרץ אימבר , Yiddish: נפתלי הערץ אימבער ; December 27, 1856 – October 8, 1909) was a Jewish Hebrew-language poet, most notable for writing "Hatikvah", the poem that became the basis for the Israeli national anthem.
May 14, 1948, Hatikvah was played at the conclusion of the Israeli Declaration of Independence ceremony. November 2004, Imber-Cohen's Hatikvah was formally adopted through Israel's Flag, Coat-of-Arms, and National Anthem Law .
About 1,500 to 2,000 attended a 'Walk the Zoo" event held by Jewish groups celebrating Israel at the Detroit Zoo on May 28. ... The students sang Israel's national anthem, Hatikvah, with the crowd ...
Samuel Cohen, a nineteenth-century Jewish settler in Ottoman Palestine (now, Israel) who was born in Moldavia, adapted a Romanian variation of "La Mantovana" – "Carul cu boi" – to set Naftali Herz Imber's poem, "Hatikvah"; which later became the Israeli national anthem.
Torch-lighting ceremony (Hebrew: טקס הדלקת המשואות) is the official ceremony that marks the closure of the Yom Hazikaron commemorations and the opening of the Independence Day celebrations in Israel. The Ceremony is held annually at the burial site of Theodor Herzl, the Mount Herzl in Jerusalem, and is officiated by the Speaker ...