HaEmunah

L'ad chaya bilvaveinu
HaEmunah HaNe'emanah
LaShuv l'eretz kodsheinu
Ir ba David chanah.
L'ad...
Shamah na'amod l'goraleinu
Av hamon kanah
Shamah nichyeh chayeinu
Chayei adat mi manah.
L'ad...
Shamah na'avod Elokeinu
B'chedvah b'gilah u'virnanah
Shamah na'aleh lirgaleinu
Shalosh pa'amim bashanah.
L'ad...
Torat chayim chemdateinu
Mipi elyon nitanah
Netzach hi nachlateinu
M'midbar matana

Eternally lives in our hearts,
the loyal faith [Haemunah]
to return to our holy land,
the city where David settled.

There we shall work our inheritance,
[which the] father of many [nations] acquired,
there we shall live our life
the life of the innumerable community.

There we shall serve our God
with joy, happiness and song
there we shall pilgrimage
three times a year.

Torah of life is our desire,
given from heavenly mouth
forever it is our heritage
from the desert it was given.

HaEmunah • David Raphael Ben-Ami and the groupe Jerusalem Yeshiva for Youth • Yashlatz;
Translation from Wikipedia; available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike License.

In opposition to the secular nature of HaTikvah as the Israeli national anthem, Rav Avraham Yitzchak HaCohen Kook composed HaEmunah, "The Faith." Written in the late 19th, this alternate national anthem for the State of Israel places the Torah as the central component of the Jewish People's return to its land (Eretz Yisrael), and sees this process as a bigger step for the redemption of Israel, and by extension, the world.