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June 2011

HA’TIKVAH: NATIONAL ANTHEM OF ISRAEL….THE MEANING AND THE HISTORY

Ha’Tikvah By Nurit Greenger Tikvah in the Hebrew language means hope. The title of the state of Israel national anthem is ‘ Ha’Tikvah’ – which mans, ‘The Hope’. The text of Ha’Tikvah was written in 1878, in Zolochiv, Galicia, a historical region in Eastern Europe, by the Jewish poet Naphtali Herz Imber. Originally it was […]