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This probably isn't particularly interesting (to anyone but me) but when Rabbi Lapin spoke at our daughter's wedding I chatted with him afterward.  The wedding featured some pretty good music, and --en passant -- I mentioned to him that if I'd been asked, I might have brought my accordion and played "hatikvah" for the service.  Rabbi said, "I'm glad you didn't!" I said, "you don't like accordion music?"  His reply startled me a bit.  It was, "I can't stand a national anthem for Israel that doesn't -- even once -- mention G-d.  To me, Hatikvah is a haunting piece of music that I thoroughly enjoy playing regardless of it's shortcomings (if it has any, that is).

You have to remember that the Labor Zionists who founded the State of Israel were all communists and atheists.  They even prevented the name of G-d from appearing in the Declaration of Independence [although an oblique reference was forced in at the last minute].  Of course, in the light of the last sixty-odd years of Zionist history, one might say that the Omnipresent was.... uh, present.