"Hatikvah"
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- As long as the Jewish spirit is yearning deep in the heart
- With eyes turned toward the East, looking toward Zion
- Then our hope - the two-thousand-year-old hope - will not be lost
- To be a free people in our land/ The land of Zion and Jerusalem.
- Central Bureau of Statistics (Israel)
- CIA World Factbook: Israel
- Haaretz Newspaper (English)
- Israel Ministry of Tourism
- Israel Museum (Jerusalem)
- Israel-Palestine Center for Research and Information
- Israeli Defense Forces
- Israel Export & International Cooperation Institute
- Israeli Ministry of Foreign Affairs
- Israeli Knesset
- Israel.com
- Jerusalem Post: Internet Edition
- Jewish Viritual Library
- Yad Vashem Holocaust Museum
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Brief History of Hatikvah: The words to Israel's national anthem were written
in 1886 by Naphtali Herz Imber, an English poet originally from Bohemia. The melody
was written by Samuel Cohen, an immigrant from Moldavia. Cohen based the melody
on a musical theme found in Bedrich
Smetana’s Moldau.
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