Hatikvah

Ireland’s football snub of Israel was more than a political protest - opinion

The Football Association of Ireland (FAI) and the players will undoubtedly insist that their actions concerned Gaza, not Jews or Israelis as people. But intentions do not erase consequences.

Republic of Ireland's Ryan Manning with teammates during the warm up before the match.
 THEN-PRESIDENT Shimon Peres sings ‘Hatikva’ with Israeli youngsters, 2008.

Israel should consider changing Hatikvah as its national anthem - opinion

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


WATCH: Miri Regev's historic visit to Abu Dhabi's grand mosque

The visit is part of a seemingly new chapter in warming Israeli ties with Dubai.

Miri Regev (C) visits Abu Dhabi's Sheikh Zayed Grand Mosque, October 29, 2018

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.