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state-sponsored education, as well as variation in cultural exposure to the language). Israelis born from the 1980s onward generally have better English language skills than their parents and grandparents due to growing up with a higher level of exposure to the language in the media. "Proper" usage of the English language is considered a mark of good education among Israelis. In the past, several politicians, including
3673: 875: 3683: 927:, warnings and instructions were issued in at least seven languages. In 1991, a new radio station was erected, called "REKA", which is a Hebrew acronym for "Aliyah Absorption Network". At first, it broadcast exclusively in Russian, also containing programming aimed at teaching Hebrew, which included veteran Israel radio broadcasters recapping news in "easy Hebrew"; some years later, Amharic and 1540: 554:, who comprise a large national minority, and members of other minorities are also fluent in Hebrew. Historically, Hebrew was taught in Arab schools from the third grade onward, but it has been gradually introduced from kindergarten onward starting in September 2015. A Hebrew exam is an essential part of the matriculation exams for students of Israeli schools. The state-affiliated 631:
second to Hebrew, the use of Arabic should be much more extensive. Since then, all road signs, food labels, and messages published or posted by the government must also be translated into Literary Arabic, unless being issued by the local authority of an exclusively Hebrew-speaking community. As of December 2017, 40% of digital panels on public buses list their routes in both
728:. In addition, some Israeli schools also offer Russian language courses. The children of Russian immigrants to Israel generally pick up Hebrew as their dominant language, but most still speak Russian, and a majority still use Russian instead of Hebrew with family and Russian-speaking friends. As of 2017 there are up to 1.5 million Russian-speaking Israelis. 761:. In November 2007, a typical digital package included 45 channels in foreign languages, with 5 in Russian. At 2004 there were four dailies, 11 weeklies, five monthlies and over 50 local newspapers published in Russian in Israel, with a total circulation of about 250,000 during weekends. Daily radio services in Russian are also available throughout Israel. 406: 542:. Native Hebrew speakers comprise about 53% of the population. The vast majority of the rest speak Hebrew fluently as a second language. Native-born Israeli Jews are typically native speakers of Hebrew, but a significant minority of Israelis are immigrants who learned Hebrew as a second language. Immigrants who come under the 676:, for example, would become "Natzeret". The Transport Ministry said signs would be replaced gradually as necessary due to wear and tear. This has been criticized as an attempt to erase the Arabic language and Palestinian heritage in Israel. Israel's governmental names' committee unanimously rejected that suggestion in 2011. 830:
lost status. Today, English is the primary language for international relations and foreign exchange, but it is not sanctioned for use in Knesset debates or in drafting legislation. Some British Mandate laws are still formulated in English, and the process of their translation into Hebrew has been gradual.
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policy, which governed the Israel language policy in its early days, was gradually neglected during the late 1970s. While in the 1950s Israeli law banned Yiddish-language theaters and forced civil servants to adopt Hebrew surnames, the new policy allowed immigrants to communicate with the authorities
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was used as a diplomatic language, even though most state officials and civil servants were more fluent in English. During the late 1960s, the Israeli-French alliance was undermined, leading to a stronger Israeli-United States alliance and paving the way for the English language to regain much of its
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as a language with "a special status in the State" (Article 4). The law further says that it should not be interpreted as compromising the status of the Arabic language in practice prior to the enactment of the Basic Law, namely, it preserves the status quo and changes the status of Hebrew and Arabic
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Ashkenazi communities in Israel. However, despite state-sponsored initiatives for preserving Yiddish culture, the number of Yiddish-speaking Israelis is in decline as older generations of Ashkenazi Jews die. In addition, due to greater integration of Haredim, many families in Yiddish-speaking Haredi
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started teaching Russian in 1962. In public schools, the first Russian-language classes were opened in the 1970s in large cities. The number of students enrolled in these programs dropped in the 1980s as immigration from the Soviet Union slowed down. In the 1990s, a Russian-language program carried
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For many years, the Israeli authorities were reluctant to use Arabic, except when explicitly ordered by law (for example, in warnings on dangerous chemicals), or when addressing the Arabic-speaking population. This has changed following a November 2000 supreme court ruling which ruled that although
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lived in Israel by 2012. Additionally, it is estimated that 14,700 Romanian nationals worked in Israel as of 2010 (with or without a work permit). These figures do not include Moldovan-born Jews and Moldovan migrants, which in turn are listed as former Soviet. However, these numbers do not account
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In 1948, the newly independent state of Israel took over the old British regulations that had set English, Arabic, and Hebrew as official languages for Mandatory Palestine but, as mentioned, dropped English from the list. In spite of this, official language use has maintained a de facto role for
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English is not considered official but it plays a dominant role in the educational and public life of Israeli society. ... It is the language most widely used in commerce, business, formal papers, academia, and public interactions, public signs, road directions, names of buildings, etc. English
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Although English does not enjoy the same status as Hebrew and Arabic do, English proficiency is a core requirement in the public education system and road signs are generally written in English after Hebrew and Arabic. English is taught in public schools from the third grade to high school, and
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In terms of English, there is no connection between the declared policies and statements and de facto practices. While English is not declared anywhere as an official language, the reality is that it has a very high and unique status in Israel. It is the main language of the academy, commerce,
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for the immigrant reader. In 1989, there was only one daily in Russian, and 6 in 1996. Since the 2000s, the number of Russian-language newspapers started to decline due to the increasing number of television and online media. Israeli television provides daily translation in Hebrew, Arabic, and
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Most Israelis can converse in and read English on at least a basic level, and secular Israelis who are of a high social and economic status usually possess greater capabilities in English than those who are of a lower social and economic status (this is mostly due to differing levels of
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were highly educated with almost 45 percent of them having some kind of higher education. Despite the fact that the native language of a significant part of the country's population is Russian, the language occupies a modest role in Israel's education system.
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Jewish language and the third most widely spoken Jewish language, Ladino is a variant of medieval Spanish, intermixed with Hebrew and with vocabulary from various other languages where Jews emigrated after being expelled from Spain. It is spoken by many
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has been massive in Israel in recent decades, and foreign language television shows are generally presented in the original language with Hebrew subtitles rather than dubbed, which means that there is a high level of exposure to English in the media.
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showed that 38% of Israelis ages 16 to 65 said they lacked basic English skills like speaking, reading, or writing and 13% reported that they do not know any English whatsoever. English retains a role comparable to that of an official language.
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communities have switched to using primarily Hebrew at home, which has led to the launch preservation campaigns among these communities. In a 2013 survey, about 2% of Israelis over the age of 20 recorded Yiddish as their native language.
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All Ordinances, official notices and official forms of the Government and all official notices of local authorities and municipalities in areas to be prescribed by order of the High Commissioner, shall be published in English, Arabic and
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in schools and universities, for both Hebrew and Arabic-speaking students. Despite the country's history of British mandatory rule, written English in Israel today uses primarily American spelling, punctuation, vocabulary, and grammar.
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Due to immigration from English-speaking countries, a small but significant minority of Israeli Jews are native English speakers. One survey found that about 2% of Israelis spoke English as their native language.
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is known as a foreign language by a significant proportion of the Israeli population as English is used widely in official logos and road signs alongside Hebrew and Arabic. In addition, the 19th edition of
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alongside Hebrew, but only rarely have Arabic-speaking Knesset members made use of this privilege as while all Arabic-speaking MKs are fluent in Hebrew, fewer Hebrew-speaking MKs can understand Arabic.
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In addition, a significant number of Israeli Jews know spoken Arabic, although only a very small number are fully literate in written Arabic. Arabic is the native language of older generations of those
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communities. Yiddish is a Germanic language, but incorporates elements of Hebrew. Yiddish saw a decline in its prevalence among the Israeli population in the early statehood of Israel, due to
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ruled that English, Arabic and Hebrew were inherited as official languages by Israel, but that English had been removed by the Law and Administration Ordinance of 1948. The Ordinance said:
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from Argentina and Venezuela, broadcast in Spanish with Hebrew subtitles by Viva in the 1990s, has extended a passive understanding of the language to some of the TV viewers.
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and their families, who immigrated from Turkey in the second half of the 20th century and also by foreign workers. Many of the Turkish speakers in Israel also speak Ladino.
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In 2008, a group of Knesset members proposed a bill to remove Arabic's status as an official language, making it an "official secondary language". That bill did not pass.
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can understand Arabic and 10% can speak it fluently, but only 2.5% can read an article in the language, 1.5% can write a letter in it, and 1% can read a book in it.
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branch opened in Tel Aviv. By 2006, increasing numbers of Israelis were studying German, and at the time four Israeli schools offered German as an elective course.
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Israeli Immunization Cards. The left one is in Hebrew and French and was printed in 1983. The right one is in Hebrew, Arabic and English and was printed in 1991.
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in their language of origin and encouraged them to keep their original language and culture. This new practice has become evident since the early 1990s with
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is the official language used in government, commerce, court sessions, schools, and universities. It is the language most commonly used in everyday life in
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are actually Ashkenazim. Spanish has never been part of the curriculum in Israel, and Spanish is only taught as a foreign language in universities and
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in Eastern Europe and the second most widely spoken Jewish language after Hebrew. Currently, it is spoken by approximately 200,000 Israelis, mostly in
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policy, where every immigrant was required to study Hebrew and often to adopt a Hebrew surname. Use of Yiddish, which was the main competitor prior to
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is by far the most widely spoken non-official language in Israel. Over 20% of Israelis are fluent in Russian after mass Jewish immigration from the
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in theatres, movies and other cultural activities. It has undergone a cultural revival in recent years. Yiddish is the primary language in some
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The Israeli Census Bureau only counts as second generation Jews those persons whose father was born aboard, regardless of their mother's origin
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in the runup to the 1967 Six-Day War, leading to decreased use of French. Israeli passports switched from French to English during the 1990s.
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in the 1970s, 1990s, and 2000s. The government and businesses often provide both written and verbal information in Russian. There is also an
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stated that graduates who lacked English proficiency were effectively "handicapped" in today's economy. An October 2017 report by the
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across the country, and, starting in 2015, Arabic has been increasingly featured in signs along highways and in railway stations.
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Israelis. It comes from Jewish educators of the Deaf from Germany who relocated to start the first school for the deaf in Israel.
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is the country's official language, and almost the entire population speaks it either as a first language or proficiently as a
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Before the enactment of this Basic Law, the status of official language in Israel was determined by the 82nd paragraph of the
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for actual language speakers but only nationality, as there is no recent data on the number of Romanophones living in Israel.
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An Israeli road sign in Hebrew, Arabic, and English. On some road signs (such as the ones above), the Arabic and English are
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from other Spanish-speaking countries, as well as by some Sephardi groups. Spanish is not restricted to Sephardim, as most
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communities worldwide, and is sometimes the first language for the members of the Hasidic branches of such communities.
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The linguistic dualism between Hebrew and Yiddish was similar to that of Hebrew and Aramaic in former generations.
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Spoken Language and Hebrew proficiency, by Sex in Israel according to the 1948 Census, male: black, female: brown
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until the 1990s, even though most state officials and civil servants were more fluent in English. However, the
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is spoken by about 20% of the Israeli population, mainly due to the large immigrant population from the former
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was used as a diplomatic language in Israel, and was also used alongside Hebrew on official documents such as
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included some 1,500 students. In 1997, about 120 schools in Israel taught Russian in one way or another.
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were proficient or highly proficient in Hebrew, while 17% could not read it and 12% could not speak it.
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Social Survey of Israelis over 20 years of age, 49% report Hebrew as their native language, Arabic 18%,
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Russian. In 2002, the Israeli Russian-speaking commercial Channel 9 was launched. It is also known as
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Traditionally, Russian speakers read newspapers and listen to radio more often than Hebrew speakers.
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A multilingual sign at a beach, in Hebrew, English, Arabic and Russian, stating "swimming forbidden"
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A sign at the Ministry of the Interior/Ministry of Immigrant Absorption at the Government Complex,
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In practice, the use of English decreased dramatically during the state's early years. At first,
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in 1922, and the 1922 Palestine Order in Council were the first in modern times to acknowledge
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of the Hebrew place names. On others, the local Arabic or conventional English names are used.
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As described by the Yiddish-speaking actor Nathan Wolfowicz in the Israeli Yiddish newspaper
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Israel: Day to Day Spoken Language, Among Non-Hebrew Speakers in the Jewish Population (1948)
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during the 1950s and 1960s. There is a Judeo-Moroccan Arabic radio program on Israeli radio.
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as an official language of a political entity. This was a significant achievement for the
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Jews. Today there is a state-supported authority for preserving the Ladino culture –
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Many other languages are used by large sectors of the Israeli population, including:
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which comprises about one-fifth of the population. Arabic has a special status under
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were proficient in Hebrew and 70% were highly proficient. It also found that 60% of
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was the major Russian-newspaper in Israel during the 1970s, when it competed with
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In March 2007, the Knesset approved a new law calling for the establishment of an
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dramatically increased with massive arrivals of Jewish immigrants from the former
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Israeli Sign Language and Hebrew are the languages of the Israeli Deaf community
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A survey by the Central Bureau of Statistics released in 2013 found that 90% of
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as the national language of the Jewish people and discouraged the use of other
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Any provision in the law requiring the use of the English language is repealed.
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immigrants can also speak Russian, they converse among themselves in Georgian.
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Perspectives on Language and Development: Essays in Honor of Ruth A. Berman
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passing an English oral and written test is a prerequisite for receiving a
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in the Israeli official gazette (publication no. 2092 from 28 March 2007).
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extensively when communicating with these new immigrants. During the 1991
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was particularly popular among new Jewish Zionist immigrants who came to
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and other French-speaking countries, as well as by foreign workers from
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in Israel. This confusing situation has led to several appeals to the
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supports French studies in Israeli schools. Israel has tried to join
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behaves 'as if' it were the second and official language in Israel.
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Modern Yiddish culture: the story of the Yiddish language movement
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Arabic was always considered a legitimate language for use in the
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Weil Shalva (1977). "Verbal Interaction among the Bene Israeli".
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time slots were introduced. Just as news in Arabic existed on
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Several laws determine the official status of languages and
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Meir, Irit; Sandler, Wendy; Padden, Carol; Aronoff, Mark.
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Jews in Israel: contemporary social and cultural patterns
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The languages of Israel: policy, ideology, and practice
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Halbfinger, David M.; Kershner, Isabel (19 July 2018).
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lists 36 languages and dialects spoken through Israel.
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population is linguistically and culturally diverse.
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Encyclopedia of bilingualism and bilingual education
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The Languages of the Jews: A Sociolinguistic History
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Today, it is somewhat common in Polish 250:1.6%, and 10% other languages (including 2556:CBS, STATISTICAL ABSTRACT OF ISRAEL 2013 2392:English, after Hebrew but before Arabic. 873: 832:English is required as a second language 571: 196:, is the main medium of life in Israel. 2552:"JEWS, BY COUNTRY OF ORIGIN(1) AND AGE" 2376:Round Table on Language and Linguistics 2339:Rabinowitz, Aaron (23 September 2017). 1900: 1898: 1896: 1595: 1575: 1428:in two villages in the north of Israel. 1158:Agence universitaire de la Francophonie 772:has been traditionally the language of 444:articles, issued by the Council of the 3021:. Clevedon, UK: Multilingual Matters. 2994:Rebhun, Uzi; Waxman, Chaim I. (2004). 2956:LeVine, Mark; Shafir, Gershon (2012). 358:This law, like most other laws of the 28: 2979:. Amsterdam: John Benjamins Pub. Co. 2358:Arutz Sheva Staff (2 February 2018). 2284: 2245: 1721: 1719: 1644: 1642: 985:: Spoken by most of Israel's 130,000 941:the first Russian-language TV channel 266:have a good understanding of Hebrew. 7: 870:Policy towards immigrants' languages 546:are entitled to a free course in an 2838:"Association of the Deaf in Israel" 2707:olim from french speaking countries 2588:Israel Central Bureau of Statistics 2560:Israel Central Bureau of Statistics 2412:; Bat-Zeev Shyldkrot, Hava (eds.). 1905:Druckman, Yaron (21 January 2013). 1650:Israel Central Bureau of Statistics 1484:, AKA Algerian Jewish Sign Language 1318:is the traditional language of the 803:Israel Central Bureau of Statistics 335:Constitution of Mandatory Palestine 2960:. University of California Press. 2939:Critical issues in Israeli society 2922:. 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Index

Language policy in Israel

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German
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