Jacob became known as Israel in the Book of Genesis.
It became an official language in 1948, when the government of Israel voted on it.
There is no Hebrew word for Cainan. Cainan is not a Hebrew word. but if you mean Canaan, the country that later became Israel, its ×›× ×¢×Ÿ (pronounced k'nah-ahn)
Eliezer ben-Yehuda revived Hebrew into a spoken language starting in the 1880s. It became one of the official languages of Israel along with Arabic. Today there are over 7 million native speakers of Hebrew.
Declared as a Jewish language? An odd turn of phrase. Hebrew is and has always been the language of the Hebrew Bible and Jewish prayer. A century ago, Hebrew was to Judaism as Latin was to the Catholic Church, but around that time, a group of Jews in Palestine decided to speak only Hebrew in their homes, and as a result, a generation of Palestinian Jews grew up speaking Hebrew as their native language. As the Palestinian Jewish community grew and then became the modern state of Israel, Hebrew became an official language of Israel, alongside Arabic. Much more recently, right-wing element in Israel have pushed to reduce the use of Arabic in Israel as a nationalist measure to de-legitimize Israel's large Arab minority.
There is no country called "Hebrew" - the Hebrew people are Israelis (people who live in Israel). The capital of Israel is Jerusalem.
The land of Israel (ישראל)
The correct transliteration of the Hebrew word is 'Yisroel'. Israel is the anglicised version of the Hebrew.
Hebrew Writers Association in Israel was created in 1921.
Most literature written in Israel is in Hebrew. Hebrew is the main national language of Israel.
Hebrew is the language spoken in Israel
No. Ancient Hebrew is a language, and Ancient Israel is nation.