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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.
Am Yisrael Chai (Hebrew: עם ישראל חי; meaning "The people of Israel live") is a slogan of Jewish solidarity, popularized by several different songs which incorporate it. The Forward has placed "Am Yisrael Chai" second only to "Hatikvah", the current national anthem of Israel, as "an anthem of the Jewish people".
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.
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.
Biography Samuel Cohen, November 1938, (Hebrew) published in the Bustanei, (the Farmers of the Land of Israel), Central Zionist Archives, Jerusalem. "The Second Death of Shmuel Cohen, the Hatikvah's Composer". "Hatikvah, the National Anthem of Israel". My Jewish Learning "Hatikva - National Anthem of the State of Israel".
Supporters of the English football club Tottenham Hotspur commonly refer to themselves as "Yids" and say they are strongly associated with Jewish symbolism and culture. "Hava Nagila" has been adopted as an anthem of sorts by the club, and was one of the most frequently sung songs at the team's former stadium at White Hart Lane. [30] [31]
An example of this is the song that became Israel's national anthem, "Hatikvah". [25] The words, by the Hebrew poet Naftali Herz Imber, express the longing of the Jewish people to return to the land of Zion. The melody is a popular eastern European folk melody.
"Himnon Hapoel Yerushalayim" (Hebrew: המנון הפועל ירושלים, "Hapoel Jerusalem F.C. anthem") by Dudu Barak "Hineh ani ba" (Hebrew: הנה אני בא, "Here I Come", on the conflict of everyday life in Jerusalem vs. Tel Aviv) by Hadag Nahash "Hineni kan" (Hebrew: הנני כאן, "Jerusalem, here I am") by Yehoram Gaon and Harel ...