Circulation has fallen because fewer English speakers are emigrating to Israel and it has a new competitor, an English version of Ha'aretz, a leading Hebrew paper.
The newspaper was founded in 1948, the year Israel became a state, by disgruntled journalists at Yediot Aharonot (Latest News), the leading Hebrew newspaper at the time, who walked out in a dispute over work conditions and journalistic principles.
W. D. McHardy, one of the world's leading Hebrew scholars and an important member of two teams that translated the Bible into British English, died on April 9 in Cullen, Scotland.
January 9, 1873 Radi, Ukraine July 4, 1934 Vienna Haim Naḥman Bialik, (born January 9 , 1873 Radi, Volhynia, Ukraine, Russian Empire died July 4, 1934, Vienna, Austria) a leading Hebrew poet, esteemed for expressing in his verse the yearnings of the Jewish people and for making the modern Hebrew language a flexible medium of poetic expression.
The program's initiator, Lilach Tzur Ben-Moshe, was working as a fashion writer and editor at a leading Hebrew news Web site and volunteering at the city's rape crisis center when, four years ago, she moved to the dilapidated Shapira Quarter near the bus station.
By the time of Taubenhaus's hiring, Beth Elohim was, according to the Brooklyn Eagle, "recognized as the leading Hebrew synagogue of Brooklyn".
In the early 1930s Agnon came to be considered the leading Hebrew prose-writer after he published many short stories and a few very significant novels concerning traditional Jewish life in Galicia at the beginning of the 19th century, the disintegration of the Jewish life in Poland between the two World Wars, and life in Israel after the beginning of the modern Zionist movement.
Agnon, in full Shmuel Yosef Agnon, pseudonym of Shmuel Yosef Halevi Czaczkes (born July 17 , 1888 Buczacz, Galicia, Austria-Hungary [now Buchach, Ukraine] died Feb. 17, 1970, Reḥovot, Israel), Israeli writer who was one of the leading modern Hebrew novelists and short-story writers.
One may cite here, also, the opinion of one of the leading French Hebrew scholars, M. André DuProfessorer, ProfeSemitic Semitic Languages and Civilizations at the Sorbonne and Director of Studies at the Ecole des Hautes Etudes, who has published two books on the scrolls.
It is not just Jews who are moved by the tale of Moses leading the Hebrews out of slavery, but also Christians and Muslims and even secularists, who (sans miracles) have drawn upon the story in movements against various forms of oppression, including America's own civil rights struggles.
