{"id":4429,"date":"2021-11-25T07:33:08","date_gmt":"2021-11-25T07:33:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/new2022.foz.co.il\/?p=4429"},"modified":"2022-11-17T09:20:47","modified_gmt":"2022-11-17T09:20:47","slug":"israels-national-anthem","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/fozmuseum.com\/blog\/israels-national-anthem\/","title":{"rendered":"How Israel\u2019s National Anthem Came To Be"},"content":{"rendered":"\t\t<div data-elementor-type=\"wp-post\" data-elementor-id=\"4429\" class=\"elementor elementor-4429\" data-elementor-post-type=\"post\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<section class=\"elementor-section elementor-top-section elementor-element elementor-element-d5e9a15 elementor-section-boxed elementor-section-height-default elementor-section-height-default\" data-id=\"d5e9a15\" data-element_type=\"section\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-container elementor-column-gap-default\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-column elementor-col-100 elementor-top-column elementor-element elementor-element-3f1c2a2\" data-id=\"3f1c2a2\" data-element_type=\"column\">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-wrap elementor-element-populated\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-1f902cf elementor-widget elementor-widget-text-editor\" data-id=\"1f902cf\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"text-editor.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<p>\u201cHatikvah\u201d (The Hope), Israel\u2019s national anthem, made its appearance long before the State of Israel was officially declared. The words were written by a well-travelled 19th-century poet and linguist, Naftali Herz Imber<strong>,<\/strong> who was born in what is now Ukraine, but for a time lived as a secretary to the renowned Christian Zionist Laurence Oliphant. Oliphant with his wife Alice emigrated to what was then Ottoman-ruled Palestine in October 1882. Learn more about the Oliphants at the Friends of Zion <a href=\"https:\/\/fozmuseum.com\/\">Museum in Jerusalem<\/a><\/p><p><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-4437\" src=\"https:\/\/fozmuseum.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/KOL_OD.jpg\" alt=\"Hatikvah\" width=\"630\" height=\"465\" srcset=\"https:\/\/fozmuseum.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/KOL_OD.jpg 630w, https:\/\/fozmuseum.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/KOL_OD-300x221.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 630px) 100vw, 630px\" \/><\/p><p>In 1886, Imber published a collection of his poems (including one called \u201cOur Hope\u201d). He dedicated the book to the Oliphants. \u201cOur Hope\u201d was set to music by Samuel Cohen, and as \u201cHatikvah\u201d became the theme song in abbreviated form of the growing Zionist movement, it was chosen as the anthem of the\u00a0First Zionist Congress\u00a0in Basel, Switzerland, in 1897 and became the unofficial national anthem of the new State of Israel in 1948. In 2004 it was designated officially as the anthem by parliamentary decree. In its modern rendering, the official text of the anthem incorporates only the first stanza and refrain of the original poem.<\/p><p>The melody for \u201cHatikvah\u201d derives from \u201cLa Mantovana,\u201d a 16th-century Italian song, composed by Giuseppe Cenci. This melody gained wide currency in Renaissance Europe under various titles. The melody was used by the Czech composer Bedrich Smetana in his set of six symphonic poems celebrating Bohemia, namely in the second poem named after the river Vltava, which flows through Prague. The piece is also known under its German title as \u201cDie Moldau.\u201d<\/p><p>The harmony of \u201cHatikvah\u201d follows a minor scale, which is often perceived as mournful in tone and is uncommon in national anthems. But, as the title \u201cThe Hope\u201d and the words suggest, the import of the song is optimistic and the overall spirit uplifting, expressing the fulfilment of \u201cthe hope of\u00a0 2000 years \u2013 to be a free people in our land, the\u00a0Land of Zion, Jerusalem.\u201d<\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/section>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cHatikvah\u201d (The Hope), Israel\u2019s national anthem, made its appearance long before the State of Israel was officially declared. 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