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No. See the following points:
-- Hebrew is the original language of the Torah; and modern Hebrew is one of the official languages of Israel today. (The other one is Arabic.)
-- There is no such language as 'Israeli'. Israeli is a national term to refer to a citizen of Israel, not a language. (It is the same way that Canadian is a national term to refer to a citizen of Canada.)
-- Yiddish is the language of the [mostly former] Jewish communities of Germany, Eastern Europe, and Russia. It's spoken in enclaves of population descended from those communities, found today in Israel, the US, Canada, South Africa, Argentina, Australia, and many other countries.
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∙ 6y agoNo, not at all.
- Hebrew is a Semitic language, related to Arabic and Aramaic.
- Yiddish is a Germanic language, related to German and English. On paper it looks somewhat like Hebrew, because it uses the same alphabet as Hebrew.
- There is no such language as Israeli. The languages spoken in Israel are Hebrew and Arabic.
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