{"id":5273,"date":"2018-10-21T09:13:51","date_gmt":"2018-10-21T07:13:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/kol-ami.kulam.org\/2018\/10\/21\/hatikvah-a-controversial-arab-folk-music-version-of-the-israeli-national-anthem"},"modified":"2019-03-13T22:23:28","modified_gmt":"2019-03-13T20:23:28","slug":"hatikvah-a-controversial-arab-folk-music-version-of-the-israeli-national-anthem","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kol-ami.kulam.org\/en\/2018\/10\/21\/hatikvah-a-controversial-arab-folk-music-version-of-the-israeli-national-anthem\/","title":{"rendered":"Hatikvah: A Controversial Version of the Israeli National Anthem in Arabic Musical Style"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><div class=\"embed\"><iframe width=\"1170\" height=\"658\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/ywq1wXU_HZs?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div><\/p>\n<p><em>Released in honor of the 70th anniversary of the founding of the State of Israel, <a href=\"https:\/\/youtu.be\/ywq1wXU_HZs\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">this controversial version of Israel&#8217;s national anthem<\/a> was produced by Israeli artist, Daniel Saadon, in a traditional Arabic musical style. Criticized by some as cultural appropriation and celebrated by others as an example of how music can bring unity, the song raises questions of\u00a0<\/em><em>how Israel&#8217;s Arab citizens can relate to the lyrics of their national anthem, which expresses the eternal Jewish yearning for the Land of Israel and Jerusalem. To see a short news segment highlighting\u00a0the discussions of this song on social media, see the following video from <a href=\"https:\/\/www.i24news.tv\/en\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">i24News<\/a>.\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n<p><div class=\"embed\"><iframe width=\"1170\" height=\"658\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/qtMhYQoEgCs?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Released in honor of the 70th anniversary of the founding of the State of Israel, this controversial version of Israel&#8217;s national anthem was produced by Israeli artist, Daniel Saadon, in a traditional Arabic musical style. Criticized by some as cultural appropriation and celebrated by others as an example of how music can bring unity, the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":80,"featured_media":5274,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"video","meta":[],"categories":[91],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kol-ami.kulam.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5273\/"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kol-ami.kulam.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kol-ami.kulam.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post\/"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kol-ami.kulam.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/80\/"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kol-ami.kulam.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments\/?post=5273"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/kol-ami.kulam.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5273\/revisions\/"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7897,"href":"https:\/\/kol-ami.kulam.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5273\/revisions\/7897\/"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kol-ami.kulam.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5274\/"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kol-ami.kulam.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/?parent=5273"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kol-ami.kulam.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories\/?post=5273"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kol-ami.kulam.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags\/?post=5273"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}