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ISRAEL AT WAR - DAY 642

Eliezer Ben-Yehuda

Dr. Doron Yaakov, head of the Jewish Oral Traditions collection at the Academy of Hebrew Language and researcher at the Historical Dictionary Project, at the Cultural and Educational Center on March 24, 2025. (Rossella Tercatin/Times of Israel)
April 15, 2025, 7:18 am
Research center works to save myriad Hebrew dialects shaped by millennia of wandering
Israel’s Academy of the Hebrew Language has been preserving a treasure trove of accents and pronunciations that are swiftly becoming lost by its own work to standardize language
By Rossella Tercatin
Modern-day photo of the Old City apartment above the Cotton Market that Eliezer and Dvora Ben-Yehuda once lived in. (Shmuel Bar-Am)
July 30, 2022, 8:08 am
If these walls could speak: Hebrew pioneer Ben-Yehuda’s legacy lives on in Jerusalem
The capital is rich with historical sites marking the life and work of Eliezer Ben-Yehuda and his family, who toiled to give the nascent Jewish state a language of its own
By Aviva and Shmuel Bar-Am
Museum visitors look at a sculpture made of sand of the 'Tower of Babel,' during the exhibit 'Tales in the Sand' at the Eretz Israel Museum several years ago (Nati Shohat/Flash 90)
June 23, 2022, 4:21 am
For Israel’s language czar, reviving Hebrew means bringing it down from the tower
Moshe Bar-Asher has brought the Academy of the Hebrew Language to the street with popular input and viral campaigns. But plans for a new home to crown his vision remain unrealized
By Tal Schneider
Gil Hovav in front of his childhood home in Jerusalem. (Jessica Steinberg/Times of Israel)
February 11, 2018, 10:16 am
Celebrated Israeli foodie blends grub and family in new memoir
In ‘Candies from Heaven,’ TV personality Gil Hovav reminisces about coming of age in Jerusalem, peppered with recipes from his childhood
By Jessica Steinberg
Gabriel Birnbaum, senior researcher at Historical Dictionary Project at Israel's Academy of the Hebrew Language in Jerusalem, shows an old Hebrew text on his personal computer at his office in Jerusalem, August 23, 2017. (AFP/MENAHEM KAHANA)
September 14, 2017, 4:42 pm
Epic quest is documenting the ‘miracle’ of the Hebrew language
Researchers are painstakingly building lexicon of every word in ancient tongue through to its modern incarnation
By Mike Smith
The ad from The Academy of the Hebrew Language, advertising the institution's contest to find a new Hebrew word for fidget spinners (Courtesy The Academy of the Hebrew Language)
May 14, 2017, 10:29 pm
Wordsmiths toy with Hebrew word for fidget spinner
The Academy of the Hebrew Language has challenged Israelis to find the right term for the popular revolving toy
By Jessica Steinberg
Jaffa street in Jerusalems city center. (Shmuel Bar-Am)
July 23, 2016, 3:13 pm
When Herzl wooed the emperor of Germany
Follow in the footsteps of Kaiser Wilhem II, whose 1898 visit to Jerusalem didn’t turn out as well as the father of Zionism had hoped
By Aviva and Shmuel Bar-Am
The building of the Academy of the Hebrew Language in Jerusalem. (Public domain/Wikipedia)
April 15, 2016, 7:47 pm
Now there are Hebrew words for hashtag, shaming
The Academy of the Hebrew Language, custodians of the evolving language, get to grips with social media, computers and tech
By ToI Staff
Eliezer Ben-Yehuda, credited with helping modernize the Hebrew language, at his desk in Jerusalem in 1912. (Shlomo Narinsky, first published 1918 in Jerusalem, via Wikimedia Commons)
January 12, 2015, 11:29 pm
Language of the Hebrew man
Celebrating Eliezer Ben-Yehuda’s 157th birthday with Hebrew Language Day
By Jessica Steinberg
Gil Hovav, standing second from right, and other Limmud FSU delegates at a ceremony in Glubokoe, Sept. 11, 2014. (Cnaan Liphshiz/JTA)
October 9, 2014, 9:30 pm
Belarus falls all over native son Eliezer Ben Yehuda
In the presence of his famous great-grandson, the father of the Hebrew language is honored in home town — complete with an all-female marching band
By Cnaan Liphshiz
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