The Book of Ruth (; Sephardic, Israeli Hebrew: ; Ashkenazi Hebrew: ; Biblical Hebrew: Megilath Ruth " the Scroll of Ruth ") is one of the books of the Hebrew Bible, Tanakh, or Old Testament.

* " Israeli couscous " ( in Hebrew פתיתים ' flakes ' ), also called " ptitim ", is a larger, baked wheat product similar to the Italian orzo.

This pronunciation, in the form used by the Jerusalem Sephardic community, is the basis of the Hebrew phonology of Israeli native speakers.

Many synagogues in the diaspora, even though Ashkenazi by rite and by ethnic composition, have adopted the " Sephardic " pronunciation in deference to Israeli Hebrew.

* Izre ' el, Shlomo, " The emergence of Spoken Israeli Hebrew ", in: Benjamin Hary ( ed.

), The Corpus of Spoken Israeli Hebrew ( CoSIH ): Working Papers I ( 2001 )

This article is about the phonology of the Hebrew language based on the Israeli dialect.

In contrast to the varied development of these pronunciations is the relatively rapid development of modern Israeli Hebrew.

The two main pronunciations of Modern Israeli Hebrew are Oriental and Non-Oriental.

Below are the consonants of modern General Israeli Hebrew.

* Israeli ( newspaper ), a free Israeli Hebrew newspaper distributed between 2006 and 2008.

* The commentary by Rabbi Pinhas Kehati, which is written in Modern Israeli Hebrew and based on classical and contemporary works, has become popular in the late Twentieth Century.

* Israeli website ( in Hebrew )

The vowels of modern ( Standard ) Arabic and ( Israeli ) Hebrew from the phonemic point of view.

The vowels of Modern Standard Arabic and Israeli Hebrew from the phonetic point of view.

Head of the Government, Hebrew acronym: ;, Rais al-Hukuma ) is the head of the Israeli government and the most powerful political figure in Israel ( the position of President of Israel is largely honorary ).

Abba Eban, Israeli Foreign Minister and VP of the United Nations General Assembly, who studied Arabic and Hebrew as a Fellow at the College

* In Jewish folklore, rabbits ( shfanim שפנים ) are associated with cowardice, a usage still current in contemporary Israeli spoken Hebrew ( similar to English colloquial use of " chicken " to denote cowardice ).

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

A deer appears on the arms of the Israeli Postal Authority ( see Hebrew Wikipedia page ).

Unit 101 ( Hebrew: יחידה 101 ) was a special forces unit of the Israeli Defense Forces ( IDF ), founded and commanded by Ariel Sharon on orders from Prime Minister David Ben-Gurion in August 1953.

The conventions here are ISO 259, the UNGEGN system based on the old-fashioned Hebrew Academy system, and the modern common informal Israeli transcription.

* Hebrew uses a single vowel, the schwa ( though pronounced in Israeli Hebrew ).

For the vowel qamaẕ ָ, whether the vowel is long or short in Classical Hebrew affects the pronunciation in Academy or Israeli Hebrew, even though vowel length is not phonemic in those systems, and the difference is transliterated accordingly.

The new 2006 rules attempt to more closely follow Israeli Hebrew vowel habits ( such as the collapse of many shva na ), but stop short of adopting most of the informal transliteration patterns.

Many Israelis opposed the plan, and tensions were very high in Israel before and after the Disengagement Plan was approved by the Israeli Knesset on 16 February 2005.

The Israeli Declaration of Independence (, Hakhrazat HaAtzma ' ut or Megilat HaAtzma ' ut ), was made on 14 May 1948 ( 5 Iyar 5708 ), the day before the British Mandate was due to expire.

The Consulate General maintains two buildings in the city as they were established before the 1967 war, one building on what was the Israeli side and one on what was the Jordanian-annexed side of Jerusalem.

We would also encourage other filmmakers and actors invited to festivals to check for Israeli state backing before attending, and if so, to respect the boycott.

The absence of armed personnel had worried Israeli delegation head Shmuel Lalkin even before his team arrived in Munich.

On the evening of 4 September, the Israeli athletes enjoyed a night out, watching a performance of Fiddler on the Roof and dining with the play's star, Israeli actor Shmuel Rodensky, before returning to the Olympic Village.

* 1977 – Egyptian President Anwar Sadat becomes the first Arab leader to officially visit Israel, when he meets Israeli prime minister Menachem Begin and speaks before the Knesset in Jerusalem, seeking a permanent peace settlement.

See, for instance, the rabbinic category of Damages ( Jewish law ) ( note though that while a few aspects of this law are incorporated into Israeli law, tort law in Israel is technically similar to English tort law-as enacted by British Mandate of Palestine authorities in 1944 and taking effect in 1947, a year before Israel became a state ).

Recently declassified documents show that in early 1976, at a meeting with US Senator Adlai Stevenson III, Arafat suggested a " few kilometers " of Israeli withdrawal from parts of the West Bank and the Gaza Strip while transferring responsibility to the UN, and this, he claimed " would give him something to show his people before he could acknowledge Israel's right to exist ".

The Cave of the Patriarchs massacre took place on February 25, 1994 when Baruch Goldstein, an Israeli physician and resident of Kiryat Arba, opened fire on Muslims at prayer in the Ibrahimi Mosque, killing 29, and wounding 125 before the survivors overcame and killed him.

On 24 January 1984, Kohl spoke before the Israeli Knesset, as the first Chancellor of the post-war generation.

In fact this situation has only been historically realized temporarily such as in the Israeli kibbutz or the very early Soviets before the adoption of state capitalism and entrenchment of the communist party as a New Class, or in isolated or preliminary form such as in the final phase of the Second Spanish Republic, or various experimental utopian communities ; although in embryonic form.

Ambassador Goldberg told King Hussein that after taking into account legitimate Arab concerns and suggestions, the US would be willing to add the word " Israeli " before " Armed Forces " in first operative paragraph.

Israel and the Arab states have negotiated before the Israeli withdrawal.

Unit 131 operatives had been recruited several years before, when the Israeli intelligence officer Avram Dar arrived in Cairo undercover as a British citizen of Gibraltar called John Darling.

The Israeli historian Dan Michman found it likely that the commission, which considered the legal status and interactions of Jews and non-Jews before their emancipation, reached back to the Medieval Era for the term Judenräte.

Typically, shortly before major Jewish religious festivals, the group requests a permit from the Israeli police to enter the Temple Mount compound and conduct prayer services there.

* Ron Pundak — currently Director General of the Peres Center for Peace, formed first Israeli negotiating team with Hirschfeld, before official Israeli involvement.

This was a result of the on-going Israeli refusal to accept apples from Golan farmers ( reportedly due to over-supply ), which led to a plea by the farmers to the Syrian government to accept their produce before it became spoiled in order to prevent economic collapse.

In March 2002 an Israeli company sold riot control vehicles to the Mugabe government, shortly before the nation's 2002 elections.

Half of Jordan's prison population at the time consisted of people arrested for attempting to return to, or illegally enter, Israeli territory, but the number of complaints filed by Israel over infiltrations from the West Bank show a considerable reduction, from 233 in the first nine months of 1952, to 172 for the same period in 1953, immediately before the attack.

Secret meetings between King Hussein and Israeli foreign ministers Abba Eban and Golda Meir began on or before 1963.

# Mechina-For Israeli high-school graduates who wish to study for one year before entering the army.