His words 'Lashuv le'eretz avotenu' (to return to the land of our forefathers) expressed its aspiration. The text of Hatikvah was written in 1878 by Naftali Herz Imber, a Jewish poet from Zolochiv (Polish: Złoczów), a city nicknamed 'The City of Poets', then in Austrian Poland, today in Ukraine. Problems playing this file? See media help.
