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Hebrew

Noam Tsuriely is a 28-year-old Jewish Israeli hip-hop artist from Jerusalem, whose debut album will drop later this summer.
Planet Hip Hop
This Israeli rapper brings people together through multilingual lyrics
Linguists Arik Sadan (in his Israeli Army days) and Sobhi Bahloul. Sadan is an authority on the Arabic language. Bahloul authored the Hebrew curriculum for Gaza's Palestinians.
Culture
A tale of two linguists and the conflict that separates them
Ben and Jerry's ice cream in Israel is labeled "glida," the Aramaic word for frost. In modern Hebrew, it means ice cream.
Arts, Culture & Media
A history of Hebrew, told one word at a time
Gary Shteyngart
Arts, Culture & Media
The world according to Gary Shteyngart in four languages