# I mean how many “Israeli’s” speak ,.,,,..,.,.,,.,,Hebrew--? **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [October 12, 2014, 1:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-mean-how-many-israeli-s-speak-hebrew/701079 "2014-10-12T01:10:21Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![tooldtocare](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/e19adc/32.png) [@tooldtocare](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/tooldtocare)\ **Post date:** [October 12, 2014, 1:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-mean-how-many-israeli-s-speak-hebrew/701079/1 "2014-10-12T01:10:21Z")
Just asking., [Universalknowledge.net](http://Universalknowledge.net) ? (:- ---
**Author:** ![Trinopus](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/2bfe46/32.png) [@Trinopus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Trinopus)\ **Post date:** [October 12, 2014, 1:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-mean-how-many-israeli-s-speak-hebrew/701079/2 "2014-10-12T01:15:44Z")
Morse code hidden in message? ---
**Author:** ![silenus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/silenus/32/166_2.png) [@silenus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/silenus)\ **Post date:** [October 12, 2014, 1:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-mean-how-many-israeli-s-speak-hebrew/701079/3 "2014-10-12T01:16:24Z")
Reported. For offenses against proper spelling, along with being a troll. ---
**Author:** ![bobot](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bobot/32/21622_2.png) [@bobot](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bobot)\ **Post date:** [October 12, 2014, 1:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-mean-how-many-israeli-s-speak-hebrew/701079/4 "2014-10-12T01:18:23Z")
I’m going to go out on a limb and say probably 4 or 5 of them do. If I understand your question, that is. (Do you mean _all_ Israelis? Well, then, sheesh, it’s a bunch.) ---
**Author:** ![chiroptera](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/df705f/32.png) [@chiroptera](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/chiroptera)\ **Post date:** [October 12, 2014, 1:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-mean-how-many-israeli-s-speak-hebrew/701079/5 "2014-10-12T01:18:43Z")
Is this yet another inept spam attempt? Reported, for stupid. ---
**Author:** ![Captain\_Amazing](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/6de8d8/32.png) [@Captain\_Amazing](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Captain_Amazing)\ **Post date:** [October 12, 2014, 1:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-mean-how-many-israeli-s-speak-hebrew/701079/6 "2014-10-12T01:26:32Z")
Almost all of them. About 73% of Israelis are proficient in Hebrew…90% of Israeli Jews, 60% of Israeli Arabs, and even most of the people not proficient speak some. ---
**Author:** ![susan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/susan/32/17537_2.png) [@susan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/susan)\ **Post date:** [October 12, 2014, 1:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-mean-how-many-israeli-s-speak-hebrew/701079/7 "2014-10-12T01:31:18Z")
I’m not Israeli, but I believe my Hebrew is better than your English. ---
**Author:** ![Kamino\_Neko](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kamino_neko/32/34_2.png) [@Kamino\_Neko](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kamino_Neko)\ **Post date:** [October 12, 2014, 2:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-mean-how-many-israeli-s-speak-hebrew/701079/8 "2014-10-12T02:02:28Z")
I can’t string together a sentence in Hebrew, and I’m sure my Hebrew’s better than the OP’s English. ---
**Author:** ![cochrane](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cochrane/32/10441_2.png) [@cochrane](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/cochrane)\ **Post date:** [October 12, 2014, 2:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-mean-how-many-israeli-s-speak-hebrew/701079/9 "2014-10-12T02:35:54Z")
Why the hell is this in Cafe Society? Reported for forum change, if the mods can figure out where to put it. ---
**Author:** ![vd](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/b19c9b/32.png) [@vd](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/vd)\ **Post date:** [October 12, 2014, 3:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-mean-how-many-israeli-s-speak-hebrew/701079/10 "2014-10-12T03:19:39Z")
Can anyone tell me what the website in the OP is? Somehow, I feel like I don’t want to give it more hits. ---
**Author:** ![Alessan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/alessan/32/465_2.png) [@Alessan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Alessan)\ **Post date:** [October 12, 2014, 7:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-mean-how-many-israeli-s-speak-hebrew/701079/11 "2014-10-12T07:00:27Z")
רובנו, הייתי אומר. אני מניח כמות מסויימת של עולים לא מצליחים ללמוד עברית, במיוחד המבוגרים ביניהם, ויש גם מספר קהלות חרדיות בהן עברית אינה מדוברת ברמה היום-יומית, אם כי אני מניח שמשתמשים בה למטרות דתיות. אם נניח את המקרים הללו בצד, הרוב המוחלט של היהודים באר. מדבר עברית, וגם רוב הלא-יהודים. ---
**Author:** ![Atomic\_Alex](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/atomic_alex/32/175_2.png) [@Atomic\_Alex](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Atomic_Alex)\ **Post date:** [October 12, 2014, 9:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-mean-how-many-israeli-s-speak-hebrew/701079/12 "2014-10-12T09:07:23Z")
> [@Alessan](#): > > רובנו, הייתי אומר. אני מניח כמות מסויימת של עולים לא מצליחים ללמוד עברית, במיוחד המבוגרים ביניהם, ויש גם מספר קהלות חרדיות בהן עברית אינה מדוברת ברמה היום-יומית, אם כי אני מניח שמשתמשים בה למטרות דתיות. אם נניח את המקרים הללו בצד, הרוב המוחלט של היהודים באר. מדבר עברית, וגם רוב הלא-יהודים. You know, as an aside, people like to rail on Google Translate but I’ve always found it very useful. It rendered the above into English perfectly coherently. ---
**Author:** ![FriarTed](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/friarted/32/1052_2.png) [@FriarTed](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/FriarTed)\ **Post date:** [October 12, 2014, 9:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-mean-how-many-israeli-s-speak-hebrew/701079/13 "2014-10-12T09:11:07Z")
> [@Disposable Hero](#): > > You know, as an aside, people like to rail on Google Translate but I’ve always found it very useful. It rendered the above into English perfectly coherently. I was curious as to what was written & wow, it is pretty good! ---
**Author:** ![Alessan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/alessan/32/465_2.png) [@Alessan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Alessan)\ **Post date:** [October 12, 2014, 9:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-mean-how-many-israeli-s-speak-hebrew/701079/14 "2014-10-12T09:34:42Z")
Even with my typos? I have to say, as someone who gets paid to translate from Hebrew to English, I find that… troubling. ---
**Author:** ![galen\_ubal](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/galen_ubal/32/4440_2.png) [@galen\_ubal](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/galen_ubal)\ **Post date:** [October 12, 2014, 9:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-mean-how-many-israeli-s-speak-hebrew/701079/15 "2014-10-12T09:39:28Z")
> [@Alessan](#): > > רובנו, הייתי אומר. אני מניח כמות מסויימת של עולים לא מצליחים ללמוד עברית, במיוחד המבוגרים ביניהם, ויש גם מספר קהלות חרדיות בהן עברית אינה מדוברת ברמה היום-יומית, אם כי אני מניח שמשתמשים בה למטרות דתיות. אם נניח את המקרים הללו בצד, הרוב המוחלט של היהודים באר. מדבר עברית, וגם רוב הלא-יהודים. Most of us , I’d say . I guess a certain amount of immigrants fail to learn Hebrew , especially among adults , there are also a number of Orthodox communities in which Hebrew is spoken daily level , although I suppose that is used for religious purposes . If we put these cases aside , the vast majority of Jews in Israel. Speak Hebrew , and most of the non -Jews . Not bad at all. ---
**Author:** ![Alessan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/alessan/32/465_2.png) [@Alessan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Alessan)\ **Post date:** [October 12, 2014, 9:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-mean-how-many-israeli-s-speak-hebrew/701079/16 "2014-10-12T09:46:08Z")
I’m starting to feel like John Henry here, Lawd, Lawd. ---
**Author:** ![Ranger\_Jeff](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ranger_jeff/32/2065_2.png) [@Ranger\_Jeff](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ranger_Jeff)\ **Post date:** [October 12, 2014, 10:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-mean-how-many-israeli-s-speak-hebrew/701079/17 "2014-10-12T10:39:04Z")
I understand that some of the more orthodox Jews in Israel won’t use Hebrew conversationally. They only use it in prayer or religious study. ---
**Author:** ![JKilez](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/e5b9ba/32.png) [@JKilez](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JKilez)\ **Post date:** [October 12, 2014, 11:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-mean-how-many-israeli-s-speak-hebrew/701079/18 "2014-10-12T11:43:22Z")
> [@Ranger\_Jeff](#): > > I understand that some of the more orthodox Jews in Israel won’t use Hebrew conversationally. They only use it in prayer or religious study. What language do they use conversationally? English? Yiddish? ---
**Author:** ![Alessan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/alessan/32/465_2.png) [@Alessan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Alessan)\ **Post date:** [October 12, 2014, 11:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-mean-how-many-israeli-s-speak-hebrew/701079/19 "2014-10-12T11:47:16Z")
> [@JKilez](#): > > What language do they use conversationally? English? Yiddish. There are deeply fundamentalist Ashkenazi (European Jewish) sects who avoid speaking Hebrew for “secular purposes”, both for religious reasons and to force members to remain separate from the modern, non-religious world. ---
**Author:** ![John\_Mace](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/john_mace/32/185_2.png) [@John\_Mace](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/John_Mace)\ **Post date:** [October 12, 2014, 1:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-mean-how-many-israeli-s-speak-hebrew/701079/20 "2014-10-12T13:53:21Z")
> [@Alessan](#): > > Yiddish. There are deeply fundamentalist Ashkenazi (European Jewish) sects who avoid speaking Hebrew for “secular purposes”, both for religious reasons and to force members to remain separate from the modern, non-religious world. You mean the “modern” folk who speak a revived, ancient language? 😃 [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-mean-how-many-israeli-s-speak-hebrew/701079.md?page=2)