They were led by "Rosewater", an incognito Revolutionary Guardsman who insisted Bahari's Sopranos DVDs were really "pornos", and that the Cambodian visa in his passport was written in Hebrew.
"Justice is, in the Hebrew scriptures of the Bible, defined as when you're an advocate for a person who cannot be an advocate for themselves.
In these journeys to obscure corners of the Middle East in search of poetics ancient and modern, he cites sources in Hebrew, Arabic, Greek and French that make you realise you are not as well read as you thought.
In February, Younesi announced that Jewish students officially no longer had to go to school on Saturdays, the sabbath day in the Hebrew calendar.
Though signposts are in Arabic as well as Hebrew, they are often spelt wrong.
The iron-and-carbon-based ink used in one of the oldest Hebrew commentaries on the Old Testament is an example of this.
It asked where they got their news, whether they spoke Arabic or Hebrew, what ties they and their friends and family had to the Middle East, and whether they knew any victims of terrorism, including the various attacks on New York.
Having lost their locus of holiness, Jews were dispersed even more extensively than before across the Mediterranean world; some members of the widening Jewish diaspora embraced the Christian understanding of the Hebrew scriptures while others rejected it.
In America, Greek and Hebrew are standard parts of a Master of Divinity degree necessary to become a minister in most respectable Protestant denominations.
The wording is problematic in Hebrew as well, which is one reason why one alternative proposal was to refer to Israel as "the homeland for the Jewish people", something Lord Balfour proclaimed in 1917.In any case, the issue is still provoking heated debate in Israel.
"No Syrian soldiers will splash their feet in the Kinneret," Mr Barak repeatedly pledged in his election campaign last year, using the Hebrew name for the small lake that provides some 40% of Israel's water.This week he confirmed that "control of the Kinneret" is the key sticking-point.
