After moving to Israel, some fellow new immigrants and I played a game: renaming places in Israel with famous names from our home cities. So, Derech Yigal Alon, the main highway in Tel Aviv, became our Sunset Boulevard and Dizengoff Square turned into Place du Tertre, and so on.

One friend disliked this game, saying it was too nostalgic. While he might be right about the nostalgia, it also felt, well, maybe a very Jewish tendency?

Haven’t checked this, but I prefer to believe the same thing explains why France in Hebrew is Tzarfat (a town in Lebanon) and Spain is Spharad (probably a place in Turkey).

A fun way to understand the political climate in the current state and time.

We can call it Government/Commandments rate.

Here are some examples:

#Israel #judaism

Is it just me or too filters in modern search engines do not show any discussions on the background of 1488 becoming a unicode for symbol א, aleph? Someone must have tried to dig this story up.

But all I see is a single post on Medium:
https://medium.com/@wimahl/unicodes-nazi-problem-58fbd4291a7f

#hebrew #israel