JTA — When Liron Lavi Turkenich designed a writing system combining Hebrew and Arabic characters as a final project in college, she probably could not have imagined that her script would become the ...

"A truly beautiful letter," writes the Israeli artist Izzy Pludwinski in his new book, "The Beauty of the Hebrew Letter," "will possess a dynamism, an internal lifeforce." "Letters," he adds, "are the ...

Five lines of ancient script on a shard of pottery could be the oldest example of Hebrew writing ever discovered, an archaeologist in Israel says. The shard was found by a teenage volunteer during a ...

A 2,800-year-old jar inscribed in Hebrew with the Yahwistic name "Benayo" has been discovered at Abel Beth Maacah, a site in northern Israel that is mentioned numerous times in the Hebrew Bible. Since ...

ON the return to England of the members of the Marston-Wellcome Archaeological Expedition to Lachish at the close of excavations for the season 1937–38, further discoveries of examples of early Hebrew ...

The Hebrew language is being adopted by Arab merchants for their display signs. This practice has penetrated to Nablus, known as an anti-Zionist stronghold, where a number of Arab merchants have ...