Playground on Rothchild Blvd. Enjoy the music and the interesting way these young Israelis used the arts to support voting in this recent election.
With all the political clamor going on here and abroad about the out come of the Israeli elections we thought it appropriate to share some videos that reflect the “soul” of our nation through its collective understanding and appreciation of the miracle of the birth of the State of Israel.
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Michael Greilsammer’s version of Israel’s anthem with Uriel Sverdin and Shimrit Greilsammer. Filmed by Noam Revkin-Fenton. Inspired by Game of Thrones music theme by Ramin Djawadi.
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Israel National Anthem – HATIKVA ( FULL HD )
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“Hatikvah” (Hebrew: הַתִּקְוָה, HaTiqvah, lit. The Hope) is the national anthem of Israel. Its lyrics are adapted from a poem written by Naphtali Herz Imber, a Jewish poet from Złoczów, province of Galicia, Austro-Hungarian Empire, (today, Zolochiv, Ukraine). Imber wrote the first version of his poem in 1877 while being hosted as a guest by a Jewish scholar in the city of Iasi, Romania. The romantic anthem’s theme reflects the nearly 2000-year-old hope of the Jewish people to return to the Land of Israel—their ancient homeland—and to restore it and reclaim it as a sovereign nation.
The text of Hatikvah was written in 1878 by Naphtali Herz Imber, a Jewish poet from Złoczów, a city often referred to by its nickname, “The City of Poets” in the province of Galicia, Austro-Hungary, (today Zolochiv, Ukraine). N.H.Imber emigrated to Eretz Israel in the early 1880s and lived in two or more of the first Jewish colonies . The foundation of Hatikvah is Imber’s nine-stanza poem named Tikvatenu (lit: “Our Hope”). In this poem Imber puts into words his thoughts and feelings in the wake of the establishment of Petah Tikva, one of the first Jewish settlements in Ottoman Palestine. Published in Imber’s first book (Jerusalem, 1886) called Barkai (lit: “The Shining Morning Star”), the poem was subsequently adopted as an anthem by the “Hovevei Zion” and later by the Zionist Movement at the First Zionist Congress in 1897. The text was later revised by the settlers of Rishon LeZion, subsequently undergoing a number of other changes.
Israel Anthem Text
Hatikvah
As long as deep in the heart,
The soul of a Jew yearns,
And towards the East An eye looks to Zion,
Our hope is not yet lost,
The hope of two thousand years,
To be a free people in our land,
The land of Zion and
Jerusalem.
To be a free people in our own land- the land of Zion and Jerusalem!
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Jerusalem of Gold – Yerushalayim shel Zahav -Ofra Haza- with English Lyrics
“Jerusalem of Gold” (Hebrew: ירושלים של זהב, Yerushalayim Shel Zahav) is a popular Israeli song written by Naomi Shemer in 1967. The original song described the Jewish people’s 2000-year longing to return to Jerusalem; Shemer added a final verse after the Six-Day War to celebrate Jerusalem’s unification under Israeli control.
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