![]() ![]() ![]() And here’s a nice version with the public singing along with a chorus and the military. The YouTube notes are these: “Barbra Streisand at the conclusion of the 1978 Stars Salute Israel show.” You can find a longer version on YouTube in which Babs precedes this performance with an online conversation with Golda Meir. The lyrics are adapted from the poem Tikvatenu (Our Hope) written by Naphtali Herz Imber, poet from Zolochiv, Ukraine. Compare “Deutschland Über Alles”! And as for musicality, it’s way ahead of our clunky and hard-to-sing “Star-Spangled Banner” (They really should make “America the Beautiful” our national anthem.)Īnd, of all the versions I’ve heard, this one’s the best, because it’s Streisand, and she’s a belter. It is musical, lovely, and not militaristic (see words below), and it’s about the hope of an oppressed people to return to their land. So I like this one, and not just because it’s Israeli. I never really heard Israel’s national anthem, “ Hatikvah,” (“The Hope”) until I was in Israel in September, and then realized that I’d heard it often before but didn’t know what it was. Bind them as a sign on your hand and let them serve. Recite them when you stay at home and when you are away, when you lie down and when you get up. Take to heart these instructions with which I charge you this day. National anthems tend to be a dire species of music, often clunky and militaristic. The title of the Israeli national anthem is Hatikvah, which means The Hope in Hebrew. You shall love Adonai your God with all your heart, with all your soul, and with all your might. ![]()
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