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The Academy of the Hebrew Language (Hebrew: הָאָקָדֶמְיָה לַלָּשׁוֹן הָעִבְרִית, ha-akademyah la-lashon ha-ivrit) was established by the Israeli government in 1953 as the "supreme institution for scholarship on the Hebrew language in the Hebrew University of Jerusalem of Givat Ram campus." [1]
Yeivin was a member of the Academy of the Hebrew Language from 1987 and member of the Israel Academy of Sciences since 1991. He transferred his private collection of micro-films of vocalizations, including parts of hidden archives of Genizah, in vocalization and accentuation to the Institute of Microfilmed Hebrew Manuscripts of the National ...
A Committee of the Hebrew Language was established. After the establishment of Israel, it became the Academy of the Hebrew Language. The results of Ben-Yehuda's lexicographical work were published in a dictionary (The Complete Dictionary of Ancient and Modern Hebrew, Ben-Yehuda Dictionary). The seeds of Ben-Yehuda's work fell on fertile ground ...
Spoken Language and Hebrew proficiency, by Sex in Israel according to the 1948 Census Israel: Day to Day Spoken Language, Among Non-Hebrew Speakers in the Jewish Population (1948) By the time Israel was established in 1948, 80.9% of Jews who had been born in Palestine spoke Hebrew as their only language in daily life, and another 14.2% of ...
The Academy of the Arabic Language, headquartered in Haifa, was established in December 2007. Among the founders is Sasson Somekh. [1] Its activities are governed by a Knesset Law approved in March 2007 and are largely parallel those of the Hebrew Language Academy. The president of the academy is Mahmoud Ghanayem. The academy works to promote:
Eliezer Ben‑Yehuda [a] (born Eliezer Yitzhak Perlman; [b] 7 January 1858 – 16 December 1922) [1] was a Russian–Jewish linguist, lexicographer, and journalist who immigrated to Jerusalem in 1881, when it was ruled by the Ottoman Empire.
As early as 1937, the president of Va'ad HaLashon ("The Language Committee", which later became the Academy of the Hebrew Language), Prof. Naftali Herz Tur-Sinai, [6] proposed the establishment of "a large endeavor which prepares an academic dictionary of our language, in all of the periods and evolutions that it has endured from the moment it is documented, until today."
In Israel, Jewish and Arab citizens lead largely separate lives, lacking meaningful opportunities to get to know one another, and overcome social and cultural barriers. This separation is particularly obvious in the K-12 public education system, which separates students into Arab and Jewish (secular, religious, and Orthodox ) tracks.