Hatikvah

Israel should consider changing Hatikvah as its national anthem - opinion

If we want everyone to sing Israel's national anthem with pride and a sense of belonging, we must agree to change.

 THEN-PRESIDENT Shimon Peres sings ‘Hatikva’ with Israeli youngsters, 2008.
YIVO'S EDDY Portnoy, who curated the exhibit "Jews Are Magic," with a reproduction of a High Holiday card featuring a Jewish palm reader, Warsaw c. 1910.

'Jews are Magic': Museum exhibit explores Jewish fascination with occultism

OPERA SINGER and cantor Sharon Azrieli.

Soothing the soul with hope and soprano Sharon Azrieli

Israel's Manor Solomon in action with Italy's Riccardo Orsolini, World Cup qualifying in Hungary's Debrecen, September 8, 2025.

Israel's soccer team loses 5-4 to Italy in close-fought FIFA World Cup qualifier


Nation-State Law and disorder

The trigger for the latest round of threatened diplomatic warfare was, of course, the passage on July 19 of Israel’s Nation-State Law.

Protests against the nation-state bill in Tel Aviv, July 14th, 2018

Jewish and democratic

Since its founding in 1948, Israel has grappled with the conundrum of being both a Jewish nation-state and a democracy. Is it even possible?

The Knesset building

Marketplace: Hatikvah – The real story behind Israel’s anthem

Naftali Herz Imber

How it really was: A Wolfe without a donkey

The cow jumped over the moon

The human spirit: Eye-opening journey to Ethiopia

A SIGN for a Jewish village in Ethiopia

Hope springs eternal

The cultural roots of 'Hatikva' are revealed in concert.

Moran Choir

‘Multicultural Israel’ bill responds to Jewish nation-state proposal

Bill seeks to make Israel a state of all its citizens and change anthem, flag and symbol to also reflect Arab culture; Likud MKs call it "Palestinian nation-state bill"

MK Yousef Jabareen.

Arab-Israeli Supreme Court justice said he won't sing the national anthem

'If one day the words of the national anthem are changed, I think I won’t have any problem singing it.'

Child with Israel flag 370

Israeli-Arab MK: I'd rather die than sing Israeli anthem

To Balad leader Jamal Zehalka, the Israeli flag is "worse than a rag."

Israeli Arab lawmakers from the Joint Arab List (from L to R) Osama Saadi, Ahmed Tibi, Ayman Odeh, Masud Ganaim and Haneen Zoabi stand in front of the Dome of the Rock during a visit to the Temple Mount in Jerusalem's Old City July 28, 2015.

Escape from Cyprus: The story of ‘Hatikva'

As the passengers sang loudly, the Palestinian sawed the lock from a hatch cover in the floor of their cage.

Hatikvah crew members in Cyprus (from left) Hugh McDonald, Sam Gordon, Harold Katz, Joe Gilden and Murray Greenfield.