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This is an archive of prayers composed for, or relevant to, Yom ha-Atsma’ut, a civic day in the State of Israel celebrating the nation's declaration of independence on the 5th of Iyyar. (The day may be commemorated one or two days before or after the 5th of Iyar on years when it, or Yom haZikaron, falls on or adjacent to Shabbat).

If you have composed a prayer or prayer-poem for Yom ha-Atsma'ut, please share it here.

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מָעוֹז צוּר | Maoz Tsur for Yom ha-Atsma’ut, a complete poetic translation with an added stanza for the State of Israel’s Independence Day by Isaac Gantwerk Mayer

This is a complete poetic rhyming translation of Maoz Tsur with all six of its stanzas including a seventh, final stanza written by Isaac Gantwerk Mayer specifically for Yom ha-Atsmau’ut.

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🇮🇱 Yom ha-Atsma'ut (5 Iyyar)

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13th century C.E., 21st century C.E., 51st century A.M., 58th century A.M., Acrostic signature, High Middle Ages, Mainz, מעוז צור Maoz Tsur, פיוטים piyyuṭim, rhyming translation

Contributor(s):

Mordekhai ben Yitsḥaq ha-Levi, Isaac Gantwerk Mayer and Isaac Gantwerk Mayer (translation)

הַתִּקְוָה | Hatiḳvah (the Hope), by Naphtali Herz Imber (1878)

The poem, Hatiḳvah, in its original composition by Naphtali Herz Imber, later chosen and adapted to become the national anthem of the State of Israel, with a full English translation, and the earliest, albeit abbreviated, Yiddish translation

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🇮🇱 Yom ha-Atsma'ut (5 Iyyar), 🇮🇱 Medinat Yisra'el (the State of Israel)

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19th century C.E., 57th century A.M., Early Religious Zionism, מדינת ישראל Medinat Yisrael, national anthems, Yiddish translation

Contributor(s):

Hillel Meitin (translation), the Ben Yehuda Project (transcription), Naphtali Herz Imber, Aharon N. Varady (translation) and Aharon N. Varady (transcription)

בִּרְכַּת עָם (תֶחֱזַקְנָה)‏ | The People’s Blessing (a/k/a Teḥezaqnah), by Ḥayyim Naḥman Bialik (1894)

Before HaTikvah was chosen, Ḥayyim Naḥman Bialik’s “People’s Blessing” (בִּרְכַּת עָם, also known by its incipit תֶחֱזַֽקְנָה Teḥezaqnah) was once considered for the State of Israel’s national anthem. Bialik was 21 years old when he composed the work in 1894. It later was chosen as the anthem of the Labor Zionist movement. We hereby present the first ever complete English translation of this poem.

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🇮🇱 Yom ha-Atsma'ut (5 Iyyar)

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19th century C.E., 57th century A.M., Early Religious Zionism, Labor Zionism, national anthems, physical labor, Prayers as poems, תחזקנה Teḥezaqnah

Contributor(s):

Eugene Kohn, the Ben Yehuda Project (transcription), Ḥayyim Naḥman Bialik and Aharon N. Varady (transcription)

שיר האמונה | Song of Faith, by Rabbi Avraham Yitsḥaq haKohen Ḳooḳ (ca. 1919)

A religious Zionist national anthem composed by Rav Kook in response to the secular Zionist Hatikvah.

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🇮🇱 Yom ha-Atsma'ut (5 Iyyar), 🇮🇱 Medinat Yisra'el (the State of Israel)

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20th century C.E., 57th century A.M., Early Religious Zionism, national anthems, Needing citation references, Needing Source Images

Contributor(s):

Avraham Yitsḥaq haKohen Quq and Aharon N. Varady (transcription)

שִׁיר לְצִיּוֹן | Shir l’Tsiyōn — a hymn celebrating the reïfication of the Balfour Declaration at the culmination of the San Remo conference on 11 May 1920 by Rabbi Jacob Gerstein

In this song written in rhymed Yiddish verse, Rabbi Gerstein celebrates the day of 11 May 1920, the date upon which determined the fate of the Ottoman Empire after World War Ⅰ was concluded and the Balfour Declaration of 1917 reïfied in favor of Jewish national objectives in the Land of Israel.

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🇮🇱 Yom ha-Atsma'ut (5 Iyyar), 🇮🇱 Medinat Yisra'el (the State of Israel)

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20th century C.E., 57th century A.M., Balfour Declaration, Early Religious Zionism, Ottoman Empire, San Remo conference, שיר Shir, Yiddish vernacular prayer

Contributor(s):

Aharon N. Varady (transcription), Aharon N. Varady (translation) and Jacob Gerstein

Prayer for the Success of the Conference on Palestine Convened by His Majesty’s Government (Office of the Chief Rabbi of the United Hebrew Congregations, 19 February 1939)

A prayer for the success of the London Conference of 1939 which ultimately resulted in the publication of the 1939 White Paper.

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🇮🇱 Yom ha-Atsma'ut (5 Iyyar), 🇮🇱 Medinat Yisra'el (the State of Israel)

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20th century C.E., 57th century A.M., British Empire, British Jewry, London Conference of 1939, Mandatory Palestine, Religious Zionism

Contributor(s):

Joseph Herman Hertz, Office of the Chief Rabbi of the United Hebrew Congregations and Aharon N. Varady (transcription)

Prayer of the Guest Chaplain of the U.S. House of Representatives: Rabbi Dr. Karl Applbaum on 30 April 1952

This prayer of the guest chaplain was offered in the fourth month of the second session of the 82nd US House of Representatives, and published in the Congressional Record, vol. 98 part 4 (30 April 1952), p. 4574.

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🇮🇱 Yom ha-Atsma'ut (5 Iyyar), 🇺🇸 United States of America, Opening Prayers for Legislative Bodies

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82nd Congress, 20th century C.E., 58th century A.M., Cold War (1947–1953), English vernacular prayer, U.S. House of Representatives, Prayers of Guest Chaplains, תחינות teḥinot

Contributor(s):

Aharon N. Varady (transcription), Karl Applbaum and the Congressional Record of the United States of America

Prayer of the Guest Chaplain of the U.S. House of Representatives: Rabbi Israel Goldstein on 23 April 1958

The Opening Prayer given in the U.S. House of Representatives on 23 April 1958 on the 10th anniversary of the establishment of the State of Israel.

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🇮🇱 Yom ha-Atsma'ut (5 Iyyar), 🇮🇱 Medinat Yisra'el (the State of Israel), 🇺🇸 United States of America, Opening Prayers for Legislative Bodies

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85th Congress, 20th century C.E., 58th century A.M., English vernacular prayer, U.S. House of Representatives, Israel, Prayers of Guest Chaplains, תחינות teḥinot

Contributor(s):

Israel Goldstein, the Congressional Record of the United States of America and Aharon N. Varady (transcription)

Prayer of the Guest Chaplain of the U.S. Senate: Rabbi Philip S. Bernstein on 23 April 1958

The Opening Prayer given in the U.S. Senate on 23 April 1958 on the 10th anniversary of the establishment of the State of Israel.

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🇮🇱 Yom ha-Atsma'ut (5 Iyyar), 🇮🇱 Medinat Yisra'el (the State of Israel), 🇺🇸 United States of America, Opening Prayers for Legislative Bodies

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85th Congress, 20th century C.E., 58th century A.M., English vernacular prayer, Israel, Prayers of Guest Chaplains, U.S. Senate, תחינות teḥinot

Contributor(s):

Philip S. Bernstein, the Congressional Record of the United States of America and Aharon N. Varady (transcription)

Prayer of the Guest Chaplain of the U.S. House of Representatives: Rabbi Alex J. Goldman on 20 April 1961

The Opening Prayer given in the U.S. House of Representatives on 20 April 1961.

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🇮🇱 Yom ha-Atsma'ut (5 Iyyar), 🇺🇸 United States of America, Opening Prayers for Legislative Bodies

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87th Congress, 20th century C.E., 58th century A.M., English vernacular prayer, U.S. House of Representatives, Prayers of Guest Chaplains, תחינות teḥinot

Contributor(s):

Alex J. Goldman, the Congressional Record of the United States of America and Aharon N. Varady (transcription)

Prayer of the Guest Chaplain of the U.S. House of Representatives: Rabbi Karl Applbaum on 29 April 1963

The Opening Prayer given in the U.S. House of Representatives on 29 April 1963 in the event of the 15th anniversary of the establishment of the State of Israel.

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🇮🇱 Yom ha-Atsma'ut (5 Iyyar), 🇮🇱 Medinat Yisra'el (the State of Israel), 🇺🇸 United States of America, Opening Prayers for Legislative Bodies

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88th Congress, 20th century C.E., 58th century A.M., English vernacular prayer, U.S. House of Representatives, Prayers of Guest Chaplains, prayers of military chaplains, תחינות teḥinot

Contributor(s):

Karl Applbaum, the Congressional Record of the United States of America and Aharon N. Varady (transcription)

Prayer of the Guest Chaplain of the U.S. Senate: Rabbi Milton Richman on 20 April 1964

The Opening Prayer given in the U.S. Senate on 20 April 1964.

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🇮🇱 Yom ha-Atsma'ut (5 Iyyar), 🇺🇸 United States of America, Opening Prayers for Legislative Bodies

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88th Congress, 20th century C.E., 58th century A.M., English vernacular prayer, Prayers of Guest Chaplains, U.S. Senate, תחינות teḥinot

Contributor(s):

Milton Richman, the Congressional Record of the United States of America and Aharon N. Varady (transcription)

Prayer of the Guest Chaplain of the U.S. Senate: Rabbi Dr. Joachim Prinz on 6 May 1965

The Opening Prayer given in the U.S. Senate on 6 May 1965 on the occasion of the 17th anniversary of the establishment of the State of Israel.

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🇮🇱 Yom ha-Atsma'ut (5 Iyyar), 🇮🇱 Medinat Yisra'el (the State of Israel), 🇺🇸 United States of America, Opening Prayers for Legislative Bodies

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89th Congress, 20th century C.E., 58th century A.M., English vernacular prayer, Prayers of Guest Chaplains, U.S. Senate, תחינות teḥinot

Contributor(s):

Joachim Prinz, the Congressional Record of the United States of America and Aharon N. Varady (transcription)

Prayer of the Guest Chaplain of the U.S. House of Representatives: Rabbi Edward T. Sandrow on 20 April 1966

The Opening Prayer given in the U.S. House of Representatives on 20 April 1966.

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🇮🇱 Yom ha-Atsma'ut (5 Iyyar), 🇺🇸 United States of America, Opening Prayers for Legislative Bodies

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89th Congress, 20th century C.E., 58th century A.M., English vernacular prayer, U.S. House of Representatives, Prayers of Guest Chaplains, תחינות teḥinot

Contributor(s):

Edward T. Sandrow, the Congressional Record of the United States of America and Aharon N. Varady (transcription)

Prayer of the Guest Chaplain of the U.S. Senate: Rabbi Morris A. Landes on 2 May 1968

The Opening Prayer given in the U.S. Senate on 2 May 1968 on the occasion of the 20th anniversary of the establishment of the State of Israel.

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🇮🇱 Yom ha-Atsma'ut (5 Iyyar), 🇮🇱 Medinat Yisra'el (the State of Israel), 🇺🇸 United States of America, Opening Prayers for Legislative Bodies

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90th Congress, 20th century C.E., 58th century A.M., English vernacular prayer, Prayers of Guest Chaplains, U.S. Senate, תחינות teḥinot

Contributor(s):

Morris A. Landes, the Congressional Record of the United States of America and Aharon N. Varady (transcription)

Prayer of the Guest Chaplain of the U.S. House of Representatives: Rabbi Saul Israel Wisemon on 2 May 1968

The Opening Prayer given in the U.S. House of Representatives on 2 May 1968 in the event of the 20th anniversary of the establishment of the State of Israel.

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🇮🇱 Yom ha-Atsma'ut (5 Iyyar), 🇮🇱 Medinat Yisra'el (the State of Israel), 🇺🇸 United States of America, Opening Prayers for Legislative Bodies

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90th Congress, 20th century C.E., 58th century A.M., English vernacular prayer, U.S. House of Representatives, Prayers of Guest Chaplains, תחינות teḥinot

Contributor(s):

Saul Israel Wisemon, the Congressional Record of the United States of America and Aharon N. Varady (transcription)

Prayer of the Guest Chaplain of the U.S. House of Representatives: Rabbi Laurence A. Kotok on 2 May 1979

The Opening Prayer given in the U.S. House of Representatives on 2 May 1979 in the event of the 31st anniversary of the establishment of the State of Israel.

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🇮🇱 Yom haShoah (27 Nisan), 🇮🇱 Yom ha-Atsma'ut (5 Iyyar), 🇮🇱 Medinat Yisra'el (the State of Israel), 🇺🇸 United States of America, Opening Prayers for Legislative Bodies

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96th Congress, 20th century C.E., 58th century A.M., English vernacular prayer, U.S. House of Representatives, Prayers of Guest Chaplains, תחינות teḥinot

Contributor(s):

Laurence A. Kotok, the Congressional Record of the United States of America and Aharon N. Varady (transcription)

על הניסים ליום העצמאות | Al Hanissim for Yom ha-Atsma’ut: Theological & Liturgical Reflections, by Yehonatan Chipman (2003)

Every year on Yom ha-Atzmaut I feel a certain sense of frustration about its liturgy, and the failure of Religious Zionism to shape the holiday into one that would make a clear and definite religious statement. The “festive” prayer for Yom ha-Atzmaut is a hotchpotch of Yom Kippur, Kabbalat Shabbat, Shabbat Mevarkhim, and Pesaḥ. One gets a sense that there is an avoidance of hard issues. Even such a simple thing as saying Hallel with a blessing is not yet self-evident, but a subject of constant debate. Every year, there seem to be more leading rabbis, who adopt crypto-Ḥaredi stances, issuing pronunciamentos as to why one must not enter into the doubt of saying a brakha levatala, an unnecessary blessing, in this case. (As I was typing these words, I was interrupted by a phone call from a friend with this very question!) Bimhila mikvodam (no affront to the honor due them intended), but what on earth do they think the Talmud is talking about when it says that “On every occasion that Israel are in distress and then delivered, they are to recite the Hallel” (Pesaḥim 116a), if not the likes of Yom ha-Atzmaut?

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Liturgical traditions, 🇮🇱 Yom ha-Atsma'ut (5 Iyyar)

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מדינת ישראל Medinat Yisrael, מודים Modim, Religious Zionism, thankfulness

Contributor(s):

Yehonatan Chipman

על הניסים ליום העצמאות | Al haNissim for Yom ha-Atsma’ut, by Dr. Avi Shmidman and Rabbi Ben-Tzion Spitz (2009)

An al-hanissim prayer for Yom ha-Atsma’ut.

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🇮🇱 Yom ha-Atsma'ut (5 Iyyar)

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21st century C.E., 58th century A.M., על הנסים al hanissim, מדינת ישראל Medinat Yisrael, מודים Modim, נודה לך Nodeh L'kha

Contributor(s):

Avi Shmidman and Ben-Tzion Spitz

על הניסים ליום העצמאות | Al haNissim for Yom ha-Atsma’ut, by Amos Ḥakham (2012)

An al hanissim formulation for Yom Ha-Atsma’ut by the scholar Amos Hakham.

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🇮🇱 Yom ha-Atsma'ut (5 Iyyar)

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21st century C.E., 58th century A.M., על הנסים al hanissim, מדינת ישראל Medinat Yisrael, מודים Modim, נודה לך Nodeh L'kha

Contributor(s):

Amos Ḥakham and Aharon N. Varady (translation)

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