Hatikvah

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"Hatikvah" (Hebrew: הַתִּקְוָה [hatikˈva]; lit. 'The Hope') is the national anthem of the State of Israel. A work of 19th-century Zionist Jewish poetry, the romantic composition expresses the desire of Jews in diaspora to return to the Land of Israel in order to establish a Jewish nation-state there. The piece's lyrics are adapted from a work by Naftali Herz Imber, a Jewish poet from Złoczów, Austrian Galicia. Imber wrote the first version of the poem in 1877, when he was hosted by a Jewish scholar in Iași.

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