Ben Yehuda always wrote and for some years was editor-in-chief of the local newspaper “Hahavatzelet”, owned by Israel Dov, and used this to promote the teaching and use of Hebrew.

At heart a writer and journalist rather than a teacher, Ben-Yehuda founded his first newspaper on October 24, 1884. It was called “HaZvi” (The Gazelle).

Eliezer Ben Yehuda (1858-1922), the “Father of the Modern Hebrew Language,” is almost single-handedly responsible for one of the greatest socio-linguistic events in world history: the revival ...

H is son, Ittamar Ben-Avi, also was passionate about the language, helping write the first modern Hebrew dictionary. Eliezer Ben-Yehuda at his desk in Jerusalem, circa 1912. (Wikimedia Commons) ...

The Deer (HaZvi in Hebrew) was a newspaper founded by Eliezer Ben-Yehuda, the leading proponent of making Hebrew into the language of the Jewish homeland. The Deer series on KAN.