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Hatikvah

The lyrics of 'Hatikvah' above a half transparent flag of Israel
Title 
TranscriptionHaTiqṿah
English TitleThe Hope
CaptionThe lyrics of 'Hatikvah' above a half transparent flag of Israel
PrefixNational
CountryIsrael
AuthorNaphtali Herz Imber
Lyrics Date1878
ComposerSamuel Cohen
Music Date1888
Adopted1897 (First Zionist Congress)
1948 (unofficially)
2004 (officially)
SoundHatikvah instrumental.ogg
Sound TitleHatikvah (Instrumental)

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:For the political party, see Hatikva (political party). For the Tel Aviv neighbourhood, see Hatikva Quarter."Hatikvah" ( , HaTiq'vah, lit. The Hope) is the national anthem of Israel. The anthem was written 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 anthem's theme revolves around the nearly 2000-year-old hope of the Jewish people to be a free and sovereign people in the Land of Israel.


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