Songs Of The Future

Why the songs we sing in times of struggle become the anthems we sing in times of triumph

In 2007, Daniel Zamir, the Jerusalem-based saxophonist, improviser, and composer, was given an opportunity to redo “Hatikvah,” Israel’s national anthem. 

“It was not my idea at all actually,” he said when I spoke with him last November. “There’s a news website, the biggest in Israel, called Ynet, and they had a project for Israel’s Independence Day … The…