Hatikvah
Lesson Brief
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On the occasion of Israel's 68th anniversary, you will be learning the lyrics to the country's national anthem, known as Hatikvah (The Hope). The actual text of the anthem was written in the late 1800s by Jewish poet Naftali Herz Imber, and reflects the two-thousand-year-old hope of the Jewish people to return their homeland. The attached video is of an entire Israeli soccer stadium singing the national anthem.