"... Zionism invented Hebrew as an everyday language, because no other language of the Jews committed them to the construction of a territorial state."
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Hebrew language
Hebrew is a Northwest Semitic language within the Afroasiatic language family. It served as the language of the Israelites, and was the language in which Jewish scriptures such as the Tanakh and the Torah were composed. After declining under the Roman Empire, it was revived in the 20th century as the official language of Israel.
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