הַתִּקְוָה - Hatikvah, "The Hope", arranged and performed by Mehmet Okonsar, piano

This is my own transcription of the Hatikvah, I performed and recorded.
I hope you'll enjoy. Please comment. Thank you.

[from Wikipedia]
Hatikvah (Hebrew: הַתִּקְוָה‎‎, Hatiq'vah, lit. The Hope) is the national anthem of Israel. The anthem was written by Naphtali Herz Imber, a secular Galician Jew from Zolochiv (today in Lviv Oblast),[1] who moved to the Land of Israel in the early 1880s.

The anthem's theme revolves around the nearly 2000-year-old hope of the Jewish people to be a free and sovereign people in the Land of Israel, a national dream that would eventually be realized with the founding of the modern State of Israel in 1948.

The text of Hatikvah was written by the Galician Jewish poet Naphtali Herz Imber in Zolochiv in 1878 as a nine-stanza poem named Tikvateynu (lit. "Our Hope"). In this poem Imber puts into words his thoughts and feelings in the wake of the establishment of Petah Tikva, one of the first Jewish settlements in Ottoman Palestine. Published in Imber's first book, Barkai (lit. "Morning Star"), the poem was subsequently adopted as the anthem of Hovevei Zion and later of the Zionist Movement at the First Zionist Congress in 1897. The text was later revised by the settlers of Rishon LeZion, subsequently undergoing a number of other changes.

The melody, from a common European folk tune, La Mantovana, was arranged by Samuel Cohen, an immigrant from Bessarabia.

The British Mandate government briefly banned its public performance in 1919, in response to an increase in Arab anti-Zionist political activity.
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[digedag999]

sounds very similar to "the moldau" by smetana

[mokonsar]

@digedag999 Thank you for commenting. Actually it is the same (anonymous) central European melody which has been used by B. Smetana, it is also sung in some Reformist Christian churches. An ages old melody carrying so much of human feelings in it...However it has the peculiarity of being one of the very few national anthems in MINOR mode.

[bobbiegirl10001]

I love it. It's glorious to listen to. G-d bless Israel.

[mokonsar]

@bobbiegirl10001 thank you for liking it...

[yisroel6]

Your awesome on that piece!

[mokonsar]

@yisroel6 thank you for your support I always appreciate it very much!

[HiawathaMohawk]

If only?

[IcedBlueTea]

God bless Israel: The Elect Nation.

[philinkuwait]

Beautiful piece of music and so well played. May God continue t prosper Israel.

[mokonsar]

@fissionesque thank you very much

[fissionesque]

Hi, I found your piece when I was looking up piano renditions of HaTikva in hopes of finding one with some inspiration. I believe I have found that inspiration. What a very emotive piece. I hope I can make mine as emotive as yours is.

[mokonsar]

thank you  very much! G-d bless Israel