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Remains of “hatikvah” Author to Be Shipped Today to Israel

March 5, 1953
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The remains of Napthali Herz Imber, poet and author of “Hatikvah,” the State of Israel’s national anthem, will be shipped to Israel tomorrow on the American-Israeli Line’s S. S. Tel Aviv for re-internment in the Tel Aviv National Cemetery, burial site of many Zionist immortals. Mr. Imber, who died in 1909, is buried in the Mt. Zion Cemetery of Long Island. He was born in 1856 in the small Galician town of Zlotchev, and came to America in 1892.

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