Who wrote the Israelinational abthem?

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"Hatikva"

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It was written in the early 1880's by a Galician Jew named Naftali Herz Imber, it was originally a 9 stanza poem called Tikvatainu which means our hope. The tune was based on the Italian song "La Mantovana" The lyrics are:

Kol od baleivav p'nimah
Nefesh y'hudi homiyah
Ulfa'atei mizrach kadimah
Ayin l'tziyon tzofiyah

Od lo avdah tikvateinu
Hatikvah bat sh'not alpayim
Lihyot am chofshi b'artzeinu
Eretz tziyon viyrushalayim

The translation is:

As long as in the heart, within,
A Jewish soul is yearning,
And towards the end of the East
An eye still watches toward Zion

Our hope is not yet lost,
The hope of two thousand years,
To be a free nation in our own land,
The land of Zion and Jerusalem.

(I got the translation off of wikipedia... but I didn't really need it, I could have translated it by myself) Source(s): http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/hatikva...

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The anthem was written by Naftali Herz Imber, a secular Galician Jew, and who moved to what was then Palestine in the early 1880s. The anthem's underlying message is about "hope," which we all live for and the hope of the Zionists that they would someday attain national independence in the Land of Israel.
Naftali Hertz Imber wrote Hatikva

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