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Rachel A Listener's avatar

This is great! You are viewing from above it all.

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teamwork86's avatar

I agree with most of your points, but my experience of most Israelis under the age of 40 is that English is certainly not as much of a priority as it was for their parents' generation. My parents remember visiting Israel in the 1980s and everyone spoke English. Now it is very difficult to find English speakers in Israel.

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Esser Agaroth's avatar

Afraid I am going to have to disagree with you. Where do you live? Because I live in Israel, and am witnessing it first hand. It's "cool" to speak English and throw English words and expressions into their Hebrew. Not so long ago when Naftali Bennett was Minister of Education implemented the first speaking program, expanding on the already required reading, listening, and writing requirements. I'm not a fan of his, but must admit the idea made sense at the time.

High Tech Nation also encourages English to work in high tech and to be able to deal with international companies, and foreign employees, like from India and Europe.

This post describes what I'm talking about, with a link to a long list of words which have been incorporated into English. https://esseragaroth.substack.com/p/parashat-noah-the-jewish-peoples

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Just plain Rivka's avatar

ככל הגוים ישראל

Asking for a king.

I don’t think that it’s about searching for legitimacy from non-Jews. I think it’s about caring what other Jews think, and they get their ideas from non-Jews. The call is coming from inside the house, so to speak. The foreign ideologies are held by our own people.

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Esser Agaroth's avatar

Well, maybe. But, I still think we both may be right.

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Rachel A Listener's avatar

Ooh. I like this —attitude!

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Esser Agaroth's avatar

Thanks to both of your comments!

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