Source of Life and Guide toward Peace:
bless the people and the State of Israel,
the first flowering of our redemption.
Shield the Land with Your love,
and spread over it Your shelter of peace.
Send Your light and Your truth to its leaders and advisors,
and help them with Your good counsel.
Strengthen the hands of those who defend this sacred Land,
and the hands of those who seek peace and pursue it.
Grant them courage and resolve and hope,
and crown their efforts with success.
Grant harmony and tranquility in the Land,
and open the hearts of all, so that bloodshed
and violence
and the slaughter of innocents
may cease.
Bring peace, that elusive gift to the Land
and all its inhabitants
and bring too, O God,
everlasting joy to all who dwell on the Land.
May the children of Abraham, Sarah and Hagar,
the descendants of Ishmael and Isaac,
come to live together in harmony and well-being,
each people fulfilling its dream of “home.”
May shalom, salaam, come soon.
Do not delay, O God.
We need You.
We await You with wounded hearts
and hopeful souls.
