The wikipedia [http://www.wikipedia.org/] describes Hebrew as ''a Semitic language of the Afro-Asiatic language family. What makes it unique, is that the original Bible, the Torah,... was written in Biblical Classical Hebrew... After the Fall of Jerusalem in 70 CE... it became primarily a literary language, used mostly in prayer... It was reborn as a spoken language during the late 19th and 20th century as Modern Hebrew, replacing Arabic, Ladino, Yiddish and other languages of the Jewish Diaspora as the spoken language of the majority of the Jewish people living in Israel.''

''Hebrew is the primary official language of the state of Israel, (Arabic also has official language status). The Hebrew name for the language is [עברית], or `Ivrit (pronounced EEvreet [[ivr\it]]).''

The standard ANSI codepage for Hebrew is 1255.

Points of interest for Tclers are :
   * [Unicode]
   * [Hebrew numbers]
   * [Heblish]
   * [bidi rendering]