Eliezer Ben-Yehuda was the father of modern Hebrew. He was also the father of Ittamar Ben-Avi, who had his own ideas. Eliezer Ben-Yehuda, the late inventor of modern Hebrew, was feted recently in his ...

Anton Fjortoft wrote that the modern Hebrew alphabet was virtually invented by a Jewish professor around 1948 (26 July, p 25). I don’t know which professor he is referring to, but the Hebrew alphabet ...