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The Hebrew equivalent of the letter "R" would be "Resh" (ר).

Resh means "head" in Common Semitic (in Arabic it is "Ra'is"). In Biblical (reconstructed), Sephardi (Spanish/North African/Turkish), and Mizrahi (Middle Eastern) Hebrew dialects, this letter is trilled like in Arabic, a little less trilled than in Spanish. Because the first Jews to migrate to the State of Israel were primarily of Central and Eastern European extraction, they spoke Judeo-German (aka Yiddish) which had adopted the French/German guttural R. If you go to Israel, you will hear a lot of this guttural R. If you watch old Israeli movies, you will hear a trilled R.

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