The lyrics for "Hatikvah" (Israel's national anthem) were originally written as a poem in 1877 by Jewish poet Naphtali Herz Imber while he was living in Romania. It was later published as a nine-stanza poem titled “Tikvatenu” (Our Hope) in 1886 in Jerusalem.
The text reflects the enduring Jewish desire to live as a free people in Zion and Jerusalem.
Jewish immigrant Samuel Cohen, living in Ottoman-ruled palestine, set Imber's words to a melody derived from a Moldavian folk song. This tune traces its roots back to a 16th-century Italian song, La Mantovana.
The song became the rallying anthem at the Sixth Zionist Congress in Basel, famously sung by delegates opposing the Uganda Proposal to highlight their commitment to returning directly to Israel.
During the Holocaust, Hatikvah provided solace and defiance. It was sung by Czech Jews entering the gas chambers at Auschwitz-Birkenau in 1944.
When the State of Israel was established, the song was embraced as the country's anthem, though it was not formally codified at that time.
On November 10, 2004, the Knesset formally passed an amendment to the Flag and Coat-of-Arms Law, officially declaring Hatikvah as the national anthem of Israel.
𝐴𝑠 𝑙𝑜𝑛𝑔 𝑎𝑠 𝑖𝑛 𝑡ℎ𝑒 ℎ𝑒𝑎𝑟𝑡 𝑤𝑖𝑡ℎ𝑖𝑛,
𝑇ℎ𝑒 𝐽𝑒𝑤𝑖𝑠ℎ 𝑠𝑜𝑢𝑙 𝑦𝑒𝑎𝑟𝑛𝑠,
𝐴𝑛𝑑 𝑡𝑜𝑤𝑎𝑟𝑑 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝑒𝑎𝑠𝑡𝑒𝑟𝑛 𝑒𝑑𝑔𝑒𝑠, 𝑜𝑛𝑤𝑎𝑟𝑑,
𝐴𝑛 𝑒𝑦𝑒 𝑔𝑎𝑧𝑒𝑠 𝑡𝑜𝑤𝑎𝑟𝑑 𝑍𝑖𝑜𝑛.
𝑂𝑢𝑟 ℎ𝑜𝑝𝑒 𝑖𝑠 𝑛𝑜𝑡 𝑦𝑒𝑡 𝑙𝑜𝑠𝑡,
𝑇ℎ𝑒 ℎ𝑜𝑝𝑒 𝑡ℎ𝑎𝑡 𝑖𝑠 𝑡𝑤𝑜-𝑡ℎ𝑜𝑢𝑠𝑎𝑛𝑑 𝑦𝑒𝑎𝑟𝑠 𝑜𝑙𝑑,
𝑇𝑜 𝑏𝑒 𝑎 𝑓𝑟𝑒𝑒 𝑛𝑎𝑡𝑖𝑜𝑛 𝑖𝑛 𝑜𝑢𝑟 𝑙𝑎𝑛𝑑,𝑇ℎ𝑒 𝐿𝑎𝑛𝑑 𝑜𝑓 𝑍𝑖𝑜𝑛, 𝐽𝑒𝑟𝑢𝑠𝑎𝑙𝑒𝑚.
On April 15, 1945, British troops liberated the Bergen-Belsen concentration camp in Germany. The surviving 60,000 prisoners had seen and suffered unbelievable horrors. But they still had hope. Five days after liberation, the Jewish prisoners held a Shabbat service in the camp. It was the first time many of them had taken part in a Jewish service in six years. With what little energy they had left, they sang Hatikvah.
🕯️Gaya Halifa (24)
Her father, Avi, was on the phone with Gaya and believes he heard her last breaths when she attempted to flee the October 7th Hamas invasion by car, according to Times of Israel.
The moment was captured on the car’s dashcam as terrorists opened fire at the vehicle, peppering the windshield with bullets.
In the footage, the car slows and crashes into another vehicle on the side of the road, TOI reported.
“Then there were two deep breaths, as if she had no oxygen, as if she couldn’t breath, and then a deep, deep silence,” Avi Halifa told news of her daughter's death.
After the funeral, Gaya’s whole family — Avi, Sigal, Ido, and her sister Noga — each got a tattoo identical to Gaya’s: of a gramophone with a heart built in so she could “stay close."
Her parents added the date 7.10.2023.
May Gaya's memory be a blessing 🎗️
Her name was Liana, she was a 16-year-old Ukrainian refugee living in Germany.
She was walking home from her apprenticeship when a migrant began sexually harassing her.
Terrified, Liana called her grandfather for help, telling him that a migrant was chasing her and sexually assaulting her. Her grandfather heard her scream… then silence. He never saw her again.
Authorities later told her parents she had been hit by a train. “Suicide. Case closed.” It looked like a cover-up.
But her family refused to give up. With strong pressure from the AfD demanding a real investigation, the truth finally emerged:
Liana was murdered. She was deliberately pushed onto the tracks by an Iraqi migrant.
The man was identified and arrested, but the outrage didn’t stop there.
He had an active deportation order since January 2025 that was never carried out. If the authorities had done their job, Liana would still be alive.
And it gets worse.
Liana’s mother knew there would be no real justice, and she was right.
A German court has now ruled that the Iraqi migrant who killed her will serve no prison time, claiming he suffers from “mental health issues.” He will instead stay in a comfortable psychiatric facility, paid for by German taxpayers.
Ce monstre est un "médecin" de l'hôpital Al Shifa à Gaza.
Cette innocente est Noa Marciano, kidnappée le 7 octobre.
Blessée, ils l'ont transportée à l'hôpital, non pas pour la soigner, mais pour lui imposer une mort atroce: en lui injectant de l'air dans les veines.
Et dans un sadisme propre à ces barbares, il a envoyé à la famille de Noa la vidéo du supplice en direct:
son agonie, suppliant pour sa vie. Puis sa mort.
Et puis vous avez des connards de dirigeants qui nous bassinent avec "la solution à deux États, pour une paix durable".
Mieux encore:
Ils récompensent ces meurtriers de la reconnaissance d'un Etat🇵🇸.
Mieux encore:
Un connard, maire de Paris, leur octroie la citoyenneté d'honneur!
En fait, vous détestez Israël pour ce qu'il fait.
Il est le seul pays au monde à se battre frontalement contre ceux devant qui vous rampez: des sadiques fondamentalistes islamistes, des pervers de la torture, des fétichistes de la mort.
Allez, continuez! Et pendant que vos ponts et vos frontières s'effondrent, Israël consolide les siens.
Hamas murdered Shiri Bibas’s parents, Yossi and Margalit, on October 7th.
The remains of their burned bodies were found in the ashes 3 weeks later.
Three generations erased simply because they were Jewish.
I’ll never let the world forget.
از تمام حمایتها و پشتیبانیهایی که از شما دریافت میکنم، از صمیم قلب سپاسگزارم.
با تمام وجود دوستتان دارم و شما را خانوادهی خودم میدانم. تا ابد در کنارتان خواهم ایستاد.
و لطفاً از من تشکر نکنید. برای کاری که از نظر من وظیفهی اخلاقی هر انسانی است، نیازی به تشکر نیست.
ما با هم هستیم. این پیمانی ابدی است.
SPAIN: A man was beaten to death in Barcelona by 3 Moroccan immigrants after he tried to rescue a 15-year-old girl they were attempting to rape.
So Spaniards surrounded the mosque attended by the immigrants and demanded its closure!