* 1858 – Eliezer Ben-Yehuda, key figure in the revival of Hebrew as a spoken language ( d. 1922 )

* 1881 – Revival of the Hebrew language as Eliezer Ben-Yehuda and friends agree to use Hebrew exclusively in their conversations.

* January 7 – Eliezer Ben-Yehuda, Russian-born advocate of the Hebrew language ( d. 1922 )

; 1876: English novelist George Eliot publishes the widely read novel Daniel Deronda, later cited by Henrietta Szold, Eliezer Ben-Yehuda, and Emma Lazarus as having been highly influential in their decision to become Zionists.

Eliezer Ben-Yehuda, who founded the Hebrew Language Committee, coined thousands of new words and concepts based on Biblical, Talmudic and other sources, to cope with the needs and demands of life in the 20th century.

Eliezer Ben-Yehuda, known as the father of modern Hebrew, was a teacher in Rishon LeZion.

The Hebrew word " sevivon " comes also from the root " SBB " (" to turn ") and was invented by Itamar Ben-Avi ( the son of Eliezer Ben-Yehuda ) when he was 5 years old.

Eliezer Ben-Yehuda also immigrated during the first Aliyah.

Eliezer Ben-Yehuda was born Eliezer Yitzhak Perlman ( Yiddish אליעזר יצחק פערלמאן ), in Luzhki ( Belarusian Лужкі ( Lužki ), Polish Łużki ), Vilna Governorate of the Russian Empire ( now Vitsebsk Voblast, Belarus ).

Eliezer Ben-Yehuda, father of modern Hebrew

Eliezer Ben-Yehuda, the " father of modern Hebrew ", had instead used Yeshua for Jesus ( the name used in Maimonides and the expanded Josippon ) but, Kjaer-Hansen argues, this choice lost out to Yeshu as a result of Klausner's influential Hebrew work on Jesus titled Yeshu HaNotzri published in 1922.

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* Eliezer Ben-Yehuda ( Eliezer Yitzhak Perelman, 1858-1922 ), responsible for the revival of Hebrew as a spoken language

Eliezer Ben-Yehuda in particular worked to adapt Hebrew to the needs of the modern world, turning to Hebrew sources from all periods to develop a language that went beyond the sacred and was capable of articulating the modern experience.

The most prominent follower of this idea was Eliezer Ben-Yehuda, a linguist intent on reviving Hebrew as a spoken language among Jews ( see History of the Hebrew language ).

* 1948 – Eliezer Halfin, Israeli wrestler ( d. 1972 )

In some Israeli cities, street signs identify Esperanto's creator and give his birth and death dates, but refer to him solely by his Jewish name Eliezer ( a variant of which, El ' azar, is the origin of Lazarus ).

** Eliezer Halfin, Israeli wrestler ( b. 1948 )

The city's two main football clubs are Maccabi Haifa and Hapoel Haifa who both currently play in the Israeli Premier League and share the Kiryat Eliezer Stadium as their home pitch.

* Eliezer Shkedi ( born 1957 ), CEO of the Israeli national airline, El Al.

Eliezer Ben Yehuda is credited by many as being almost single-handedly responsible for the Zionist movement's revitalization of Hebrew as a modern spoken language, although in his book " Language in Time of Revolution " the Israeli linguist and literature researcher Benjamin Harshav diminishes Ben-Yehuda's role and attributes the success of the revival to a wider movement in the Jewish society.

Eliezer Feiler was tried and eventually sentenced to six months of community service and a 4, 000 Israeli lira fine.

* Eliezer Samson Rosenthal, 20th century Israeli Religious Zionist Orthodox rabbi and academic talmudist

The rejection of emigration from Israel is a central assumption in all forms of Zionism as a corollary of the The " Negation of the Diaspora " in Zionism which according to Eliezer Schweid was a central tenet of Israeli Zionist education until the 1970s when there was a need for the State of Israel to reconcile itself with the Jewish diaspora and its massive support of Israel following the Six-Day War.

Israeli sculptor Eliezer Weishoff said the memorial had to be moved 200 yards from the planned site to accommodate gazelle migration pathways.

קררי ) is an Israeli high school, named in honor of its first principal Eliezer Karary.

* Died: Luttif Afif and four other Palestinian terrorists ; David Mark Berger, 28, Israeli weightlifter ; Ze ' ev Friedman, 28, Israeli weightlifter ; Yossef Gutfreund, 30, Israeli wrestling referee ; Eliezer Halfin, 24, Israeli wrestler ; Amitzur Shapira, 30, Israeli athletics coach ; Kehat Shorr, 53, Israeli shooting coach ; Mark Slavin, 28, Israeli wrestler ; Andre Spitzer, 37, Israeli fencing coach ; Yakov Springer, Israeli weightlifting judge ( b. c. 1921 )

" ( The captain's family name is " Ben Yehuda "— the name of the noted Zionist linguist Eliezer Ben Yehuda who had a major share in transforming Hebrew, a purely liturgical language for many centuries, into a spoken language again.

" Early in the 20th century, Haredi Jews in Jerusalem were accused by the media of having recited the curse against the linguist Eliezer Ben Yehuda.

According to Netiva Ben-Yehuda, linguist and music historian, youths carried notebooks to jot down the songs they would sing with their friends.

* January 11 – Moshe Zvi Segal, Israeli linguist and Talmudic scholar, and Israel Prize recipient ( b. 1876 )

* September 23 – Moshe Zvi Segal, Israeli linguist and Talmudic scholar, and Israel Prize recipient ( d. 1968 )

** Yechezkel Kutscher, Israeli philologist and Hebrew linguist ( b. 1909 )

Tanya Reinhart (; July 1943 – March 17, 2007 ) was an Israeli linguist who wrote frequently on the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.

Yehoshua Bar-Hillel (; 1915 in Vienna – 1975 in Jerusalem ) was an Israeli philosopher, mathematician, and linguist at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, best known for his pioneering work in machine translation and formal linguistics.

The term " phono-semantic matching " was introduced by Israeli linguist Ghil ' ad Zuckermann.

* Ghil ' ad Zuckermann ( born 1971 ), Israeli linguist.

* 6 September-Moshe Goshen-Gottstein, German-born Israeli linguist ( died 1991 )

* Paul Wexler ( linguist ), Israeli linguist

According to linguist Ghil ' ad Zuckermann, the Hebrew existential construction employed to mark possession was reinterpreted in " Israeli " ( his term for " Modern Hebrew ") to fit in with the " habere " ( to have ) construction, requiring the direct object, which is predominant in Yiddish and other European languages such as English ( in " I have this book ", " this book " is the direct object of " have ").