what do israeli people speak?
Yiddish Language Hebrew Language Russian Language Arabic Language Aramaic language
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 For over sixteen centuries Hebrew was used almost exclusively as a liturgical language , and as the language in which most books had been written on Judaism , with a few speaking only Hebrew on the Sabbath . Hebrew was revived as a spoken language by Eliezer ben Yehuda , who arrived in Palestine in 1881 . It had not been used as a mother tongue since Tannaic times . Modern Hebrew is now one of the two official languages of the State of Israel along with Modern Standard Arabic . 

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 Hebrew and Arabic are the only official languages of the State of Israel . 

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 Russian and a number of other immigrant languages are widely used in Israel , because ethnic Jews from dozens of countries from all around the world have settled in the area . Russian is the major immigrant language of Jews living in Israel . Since 1967 , millions of Russian Jews have settled in the country , and a great influx of Jews from the post @-@ Soviet states took place in the 1990s . Today , Russian is used in cultural events , the educational system and other public domains . 

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 Biblical Hebrew after the Second Temple period evolved into Mishnaic Hebrew , which ceased being spoken and developed into a literary language around 200 CE . Hebrew continued to be used as a literary and liturgical language in the form of Medieval Hebrew , and Hebrew began a revival process in the 19th century , culminating in Modern Hebrew becoming the official language of Israel . Currently , Classical Hebrew is generally taught in public schools in Israel , and Biblical Hebrew forms are sometimes used in Modern Hebrew literature , much as archaic and biblical constructions are used in Modern English literature . Since Modern Hebrew contains many biblical elements , Biblical Hebrew is fairly intelligible to Modern Hebrew speakers . 

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 Hebrew as spoken in the northern Kingdom of Israel , known also as Israelian Hebrew , shows phonological , lexical , and grammatical differences from southern dialects . The Northern dialect spoken around Samaria shows more frequent simplification of / aj / into / eː / as attested by the Samaria ostraca ( 8th century BCE ) , e.g. ין ( 
