[Sca-cooks] language of Isreal

[Yehoshua ben Haym]

Hebrew is the language of Israel, however a lot of people here speak
English. And there is a very large "Anglo" community here, esp in
Jerusalem Tel Aviv and Haifa. Arabic is also common as about 900,000 jews
came from the Arab world after '48 as well as many local arabic speakers.
You also hear Russian, French, Amharic, Spanish, Yiddish and a number of
other languages. I can get by in english most of the time, but I am
planning to spend the next 5 months in a very intensive herbrew class.

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Yehoshua ben Haym haYerushalmi
Senischal soon to be Shire of Beit Aryeh
MKA Zachary Kessin Jerusalem, Israel
zkessin at cs.brandeis.edu IM:ZachKessin LiveJournal: zachkessin

On Tue, 16 Dec 2003, Harris Mark.S-rsve60 wrote:

> Yehoshua ben Haym haYerushalmi commented:
> My hebrew speeking friends all say that its not couscous. Since they speak
> hebrew and I don't at least on that front I will go with what they say.
> <<<
> Okay, a question from an ignorant American.
> I thought Hebrew was the language of Isreal. If it isn't, what is? Or do you manage to get by with English (or another language) since there are a lot of people there that speak it? Or is there no single language with the Isreali Arabs speaking one language and others speaking several different languages depending upon what they know?
>
> Stefan
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