Hebrew

Phrases

1) Hello

How are you doing?

Shalom Ma Ni-sh-ma? (Ma nish mah?)

2) What is your name?

 
Ma Shi-m-cha? (Mah sheem [k] ha?) (masculine) Ma Smerh? (feminine)  

3) Thank you

You are Welcome

Toda. (Todah) A-lo-da-var (Al lo DAVAR)

4) Please

Excuse me

Be-Va-Ka-Sha (Bay VAH Kasha) S-li-ha (SLEE [k] ha)

5) Goodbye

 
Le-hit-ra-ot (Lay Hee T[h] ra oat)  

"Colorful Facts"

Israel was founded in 1948 as a homeland for Jewish people from all parts of the world. Even Jewish people who live elsewhere consider Israel as their spiritual home. Israel makes up most of the Biblical Holy Land. According to the Bible, Abraham, the father of the Jewish people, established a Semitic population in the Holy Land.

Location: A small country that occupies a narrow strip of land on the eastern shore of the Mediterranean Sea.

Capital: Jerusalem

Offical Language: Hebrew and Arabic

Geography: Mountains, arid but green desert, home of the Dead Sea.

Population: Estimated 2006 -- 6,352,117

Foods: Chopped liver, chicken soup, gelfilte fish are common. All government buildings and most hotels and restaurants serve only kosher foods, which are prepared according to Jewish dietary laws.

(Primary Source) World Book Encylopedia, 2006.