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  2. Languages of Israel - Wikipedia

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    Israeli Sign Language is the main language amongst deaf Israelis. [56] It comes from Jewish educators of the Deaf from Germany who relocated to start the first school for the deaf in Israel. [57] Russian Sign Language, used by the immigrant community; and several village sign languages, [58] Ghardaia Sign Language, AKA Algerian Jewish Sign Language

  3. Hebrew language - Wikipedia

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    Hebrew is the most widely spoken language in Israel today. In the Modern Period, from the 19th century onward, the literary Hebrew tradition revived as the spoken language of modern Israel, called variously Israeli Hebrew, Modern Israeli Hebrew, Modern Hebrew, New Hebrew, Israeli Standard Hebrew, Standard Hebrew and so on.

  4. Category:Languages of Israel - Wikipedia

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    Main page; Contents; Current events; Random article; About Wikipedia; ... Pages in category "Languages of Israel" The following 34 pages are in this category, out of ...

  5. Modern Hebrew - Wikipedia

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    The rest is split: 2 million are immigrants to Israel; 1.5 million are Israeli Arabs, whose first language is usually Arabic; and half a million are expatriate Israelis or diaspora Jews. Under Israeli law, the organization that officially directs the development of Modern Hebrew is the Academy of the Hebrew Language , headquartered at the ...

  6. Israel - Wikipedia

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    Israel, [a] officially the State of Israel, [b] is a country in West Asia. It is situated in the Southern Levant of the Middle East ; and shares borders with Lebanon and Syria to the north, the West Bank and Jordan to the east, the Gaza Strip and Egypt to the southwest, and the Mediterranean Sea to the west. [ 21 ]

  7. List of countries and territories where Arabic is an official ...

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    The Arabic language (alongside Hebrew) also remained as an official language in the State of Israel for the first 70 years after the proclamation in 1948 until 2018. The Knesset canceled the status of Arabic as an official language by adopting the relevant Basic Law: Israel as the Nation-State of the Jewish People on 19 July 2018.

  8. Arabic language in Israel - Wikipedia

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    After Israel's establishment in 1948, English was removed as an official language, leaving Hebrew and Arabic as co-official languages. The 2018 Nation-State Law declared Hebrew as the "state's language" and Arabic as a language that has "a special status in the state" whose use "in state institutions or by them will be set in law." It also ...

  9. Israelis - Wikipedia

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    This page is subject to the extended confirmed restriction related to the Arab-Israeli conflict. Ethnic group Israelis ישראלים ‎ إسرائيليون ‎ Flag of Israel Map of the Israeli diaspora Regions with significant populations Israel c. 9.8 million (including occupied territories) United States 106,839 – 500,000 Russia 100,000 (80,000 in Moscow) [6] India 40–70,000 [7 ...