HaTikvah (“The Hope”)
(Israel’s National Anthem)
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.
Kol ode balevav P’nimah—
Nefesh Yehudi homiyah
Ulfa’atey mizrach kadimah
Ayin l’tzion tzofiyah.
Ode lo avdah tikvatenu
Hatikvah bat shnot alpayim:
L’hiyot am chofshi b’artzenu—
Eretz Tzion v’Yerushalayim.
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