How Israel Revived the 3K year old language of Hebrew

Eliezer Ben‑Yehuda, 7 Jan 1858 – 16 Dec1922, was a

Russian-Jewish linguist, and journalist renowned as the

lexicographer of the first Hebrew dictionary and also as

the editor of Jerusalem-based HaZvi, one of the first

Hebrew newspapers published in the Land of Israel.

Ben-Yehuda was the primary driving force behind the

revival of the Hebrew language which had not been

spoken for more than 2.500 years.