Dr. Fathen Ghattas, number 3 on the Joint List, said Sunday that his party has always called for changing Israel's national anthem, Hatikvah, and that legislation on the issue could be considered again.
Joint List Anthem Remarks
Joint List No. 3 Backs Changing Anthem
Dr. Fathen Ghattas, third on the Joint List's slate, told Makan that legislation on changing Hatikvah could be considered again.
"We have always called for changing the national anthem. It is certainly possible to rethink legislation on the matter," Ghattas said in an interview with Makan, the Arabic-language channel of Israel's public broadcaster.
Ghattas presented the demand to change the anthem as a position the Arab party has raised in the past, not as a new proposal. He did, however, explicitly raise the possibility of revisiting a legislative move on the subject.
