Israel Connections: Michail & Melanie Bantseev - Learning the Language of Our Fathers

Could the modern Jewish State of Israel have been born without the Hebrew language? Maybe, but what language would the Jews from many nations who returned to their homeland have chosen if not Hebrew? That’s why Eliezer Ben Yehuda labored for forty years to resurrect Hebrew as a modern language. Ben Yehuda lived to see Hebrew established as the language of what was then called British Mandatory Palestine in 1922. Today, Jewish people and their allies around the world continue to be blessed by ...