NodeJS Express encodes the URL – how to decode

Update 16/03/18

escape and unescape are deprecated.

Use:
encodeURIComponent('אובמה') // %D7%90%D7%95%D7%91%D7%9E%D7%94

decodeURIComponent('%D7%90%D7%95%D7%91%D7%9E%D7%94') // אובמה

Old answer

unescape('%u05D0%u05D5%u05D1%u05DE%u05D4') gives "אובמה"

Try:

var querystring = unescape(query);