what is the primary language of israel?
Hebrew Language Arabic Language
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 Hebrew and Arabic are the only official languages of the State of Israel . 

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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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 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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 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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 Hebrew is the liturgical language of Judaism ( termed lashon ha @-@ kodesh , " the holy tongue " ) , the language in which most of the Hebrew scriptures ( Tanakh ) were composed , and the daily speech of the Jewish people for centuries . By the 5th century BCE , Aramaic , a closely related tongue , joined Hebrew as the spoken language in Judea . By the 3rd century BCE , some Jews of the diaspora were speaking Greek . Others , such as in the Jewish communities of Babylonia , were speaking Hebrew and Aramaic , the languages of the Babylonian Talmud . These languages were also used by the Jews of Israel at that time . 
