What does have to happen for us to drop out of the EL ? <| sep |> One day comcast will go down the same way They are well on their way here in portland . Last month we Got a notice they where starting data caps and going to charge between $ 100200 for over 1 tb of usage . The same week we got a century link rep going around our neighborhood and found out they just started offering 1 gbps fiber for $ 70 a month , same price as we had been paying Comcast for 110 th the speed . <| sep |> I ' ll just say explicitly for the purposes of learning Israeli Hebrew , that in the Hebrew that most Israelis speak and that foreigners learn , both and are either silent or glottal stops , depending on where they come in a word and lazinessspeed of pronunciation . You don ' t need to worry about the pharyngeal fricative , which is generally only used by native speakers of a language in which this sound occurs such as Arabic or some NeoAramaic dialects i . e . Jews of the Arab world and Israeli Arabs . This is the same , as uspindlemoss pointed out , as r instead of , instead of , etc . Even the younger Israelis I ' ve met with parents and grandparents from Arab countries all use the Ashkenaziinfluenced ' Standard ' Hebrew pronunciation .