hatikvah

• ibranicesi:
  kol od balevav penimah
  nefesh yehudi homiyah,
  ulfaatei mizrach kadimah
  ayin lezion zofiyah.
  od lo avdah tikvatenu
  hatikvah bat shnot alpayim,
  lehiyot am chofshi bearzeinu,
  erez zion viyerushalayim.
  lehiyot am chofshi bearzeinu,
  erez zion viyerushalayim.
  
  the hope
  while yet within the heart - inwardly
  the soul of the jew yearns,
  and towards the vistas of the east-eastwards
  an eye to zion looks.
  'tis not yet lost, our hope,
  the hope of two thousand years,
  to be a free people in our land
  in the land of zion and jerusalem,
  to be a free people in our land
  in the land of zion and jerusalem