Hatikvah, meaning The Hope, is the national anthem of Israel. Its words come from a poem written in 1878 by Naftali Herz Imber, a Jewish poet from Galicia, and which expresses the hope of the Jewish people to return to the land of Zion. The melody was adapted by Samuel Cohen from a Romanian-Moldavian folk tune, which is also the source of the theme in Smetana's Vltava. The song was adopted by the Zionist movement and sung at its congresses, and it was widely used as an anthem before the state of Israel was founded in 1948. It was given official status in a law in 2004, and some Arab citizens of Israel have criticized its text.
Before and after
- 12 August 1877Discovery of Deimos
- 17 August 1877Discovery of Phobos
- 9 November 1877Birth of Muhammad Iqbal
- 1878Construction of Herrenchiemsee
- 1878Publication of Hatikvah
- 1878Discovery of holmium
- 1878Discovery of ytterbium
- 1878Founding of Manchester United F.C.
- 1878Founding of West Bromwich Albion F.C.
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