Hatikvah, the Israeli national anthem, started long before Israel was a state.
It was written by poet Naftali Herz Imber in 1878, first arranged with music (based on a 16th-century folks song called “La Mantovana”) in 1888 by Samuel Cohen, and adopted as the anthem of the Zionist Movement at the Fi...
כָּל עוֹד בַּלֵּבָב פְּנִימָה
נֶפֶשׁ יְהוּדִי הוֹמִיָּה
וּלְפַאֲתֵי מִזְרָח קָדִימָה
עַיִן לְצִיּוֹן צוֹפִיָּה
עוֹד לֹא אָבְדָה תִּקְוָתֵנוּ
הַתִּקְוָה בַּת שְׁנוֹת אַלְפַּיִם
- לִהְיוֹת עַם חָפְשִׁי בְּאַרְצֵנוּ
אֶרֶץ צִיּוֹן וִירוּשָׁלַיִם
Hatikvah - הַתִּקְוָה was written by Naftali Hertz Imber - נפתלי הרץ אימבר & Traditional.
Samuel-cohen released Hatikvah - הַתִּקְוָה on Sun Jan 01 1888.