Word: hatikvah
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...Haganah Bren-gunners. The 13 men who would rule the new Jewish state sat down at a long table on a raised dais. Over their heads were white Zionist flags bearing two pale blue stripes and a blue Star of David. The assemblage rose to sing the Zionist anthem Hatikvah-"The ancient longing will be fulfilled, to return to the land . . . of our fathers...
...were joined by an equal number of Israelis. As 6,000 candles flickered-each representing a thousand Jewish victims-Prime Minister Menachem Begin made an impassioned Zionist plea to the visitors to "come and bring your children to Israel." With that, the survivors dispersed, singing the Israeli national anthem, Hatikvah-The Hope. -By Patricia Blake, Reported by Marlin Levin/Jerusalem
...Suez Canal in 1973 stood at attention next to the old Irgun guerrilla whose name has been a dark legend to Palestinian Arabs for 30 years. An Israeli military band played first the Egyptian national anthem, By God of Old, Who Is My Weapon, and then the Israeli Hatikvah. In a hushed, deeply moving tableau, Sadat walked along the receiving line with Israeli Premier Menachem Begin to greet the old and resolute enemies: former Premiers Yitzhak Rabin and Golda Meir, Foreign Minister Moshe Dayan, Ariel Sharon, "Israel's Patton," who thrust Israeli armor deep into Egypt in the October...
...they were seeing. Egypt has been an implacable enemy in four bitter Arab-Israeli wars that have cost countless thousands of lives and casualties on both sides, yet there was Anwar Sadat standing solemnly at attention as a military band played both the Egyptian national anthem and the Israeli Hatikvah. In the background, gunners fired off a 21-gun salute...
...guerrilla peering out from a half-open door of the apartment house. "If you give yourselves up," she called to him in English, "nothing will happen." He answered gruffly in the same language: "No." A chorus of a hundred young Jews broke through police cordons and loudly sang the Hatikvah, Israel's national anthem, followed by the U.S. civil rights hymn We Shall Overcome. "We've got to let them know in there that we are with them, that they're not alone," explained one. The eerie wah-wah, wah-wah of police sirens echoed everywhere while...