Few things express the nature of Israel as well as its national anthem, HaTikvah - The Hope. Far from the bellicose triumphalism of some other anthems, it is as its name, an expression of hope. What is this hope that is 2000 years old? "To be a free people, in our Land, the land of Zion and Jerusalem." Click here to see the words in English, in Hebrew, and transliterated from Hebrew to English; you can even click and hear an MP3 of the melody.