This book, Israel , honors the memory of Professor Israel Yeivin – teacher, dear friend and colleague, meticulous and diligent scholar, a modest man who edified us with his noble character as well as his ideas. Israelis published by the Hebrew University Bible Project (HUBP), of which Prof. Yeivin was one of the first staff members. He worked in this capacity for many years, leaving his mark on the project. His scholarship focused on Masoretic manuscripts, particularly the Aleppo Codex. The fruits of his labors were published by the Bible Project and in his book on the Aleppo Codex. The wonderfully detailed notes he wrote for the Project on the thousands of erasures and corrections made in the text of the Aleppo Codex still remain unpublished. Most of these were made by the leading Masorete Aharon Ben-Asher.

One measure of the economic and cultural strength of a country is the level of its citizens' literacy since literacy is important for integration in the occupational and social world. In Israel, about one-third of the students exhibit literacy difficulties. Furthermore, literacy level gaps between the upper and the lower percentile are among the largest of 43 OECD countries. Israeli children, therefore, need support in literacy acquisition. Several public committees have discussed ways supporting education on these issues, basing their conclusion on current research. However, only two Hebrew books were published on the subject since the 1990's. This book attempts to address this scarcity. The book focuses on learners' literacy development and includes suggestions for intervention programs for supporting the literacy of children. It presents recent studies and programs of the best Israeli researchers on mono and bilingual learners, on children with normal development and those with special needs. This book is suitable for policy makers, psychologists, school teachers, kindergarten teachers, educational counselors, language and learning diagnosticians and therapists, teachers for reading rehabilitation, university, and college researchers, teachers and students. This book was written in honor of Prof. Iris Levin's (Tel Aviv University, Israel) retirement. Prof. Levin is a renowned and influential researcher, has studied early literacy for over 35 years, and has published in leading journals. She is among the leaders of the early literacy policy in Israel. The editors of the book, Dr. Dorit Aram and Dr. Ofra Korat, were Prof. Levin's students and are now her colleagues.

Cloze exercises are texts with missing words. These words have different roles in the sentence and have to be filled in by understanding the context. The student has to find the word that fits best based on its linguistic and semantic properties. The preface has tips for the student and answers to all the exercises are included. The exercises are organized from easier to more difficult.

The book Bein Ha'shurot is intended for advanced Hebrew students. The book is composed of different types of texts about a range of subjects. Every chapter focuses and introduces one main subject with texts and syntax. In addition to vocabulary and syntax exercises every chapter also has oral and written expression exercises.

Includes reading sections, conjugating tables, explanations, exercises, solutions (partial) and a dictionary (Hebrew/English/Arabic/French/Spanish/Russian). The "Sfatarbut" program of the division of Hebrew language instruction develops projects aimed at enabling students who are learning Hebrew to encounter various sectors of Israeli society, the Hebrew language and Israeli culture. One of the projects is the publication of books, including Verbs in Transition .

This book is intended for advanced (level 5) students who are learning Hebrew as a second language in universities and Ulpanim. Students who are learning Hebrew as a mother tongue can also benefit from this book. Subjects that are brought up in the book are family, memory, the name, myths in the Israeli society and science. The emphasis of this book is reading comprehension and the development of expression and linguistic enrichment. The book has many vocabulary and enrichment exercises. The syntax is also introduced and practiced for the advanced level. The book is accompanied by an audio CD that features the texts in the book.

This volume consists of a critical edition, English translation, and extensive introductory discussion of the Judaeo-Arabic commentaries on Ruth and Esther from the exegetical digest ( Kitāb al-bayān) of Tan ḥ um ben Joseph ha-Yerushalmi (d. 1291 CE), the last known exegete of the “rationalistic” school who wrote in Judaeo-Arabic. Although past scholarship has tended to regard Tan ḥ um’s exegetical contribution as little more than that of a compiler-abridger, our own assessment, as explored in the introduction, is that his role was in fact much more significant. Not only does he display the critical acumen and intellectual independence of a true exegete in his own right, but he also appears to have assimilated - and hence (like Abraham ibn Ezra) mediated into the continuum of Rabbanite exegesis - certain elements of Karaite exegesis, most notably, as developed by the tenth-century Karaite littérateur Yefet ben ‘ Eli, the role of the mudawwin in the composition and transmission of the biblical text.

This book is intended for the intermediate levels (advanced gimmel and dalet levels) and is based on texts taken from newspapers and websites. The book can be used in class as well as at home. Answers to all the exercises are added at the end of the book. The texts vary: economics, Judaism, traveling, nature and environmental issues, crime and more.

"I am Israeli" is an exciting sequel in a series of books designed to improve understanding of spoken Hebrew and experience authentic Israeli culture through stories about the daily experiences of a new immigrant. The stories are written in easy Hebrew and using common expressions not usually found in dictionaries or phrase books, readers will laugh and cry at the many amusing situations of adjusting to life in Israel as a new immigrant. The book is accompanied by a CD. There is a Hebrew-English dictionary at the end of the book.