Explore popular quotes and sayings by a scientist Eliezer Ben-Yehuda.
Last updated on April 14, 2025.
Eliezer Ben‑Yehuda was the lexicographer of the first Hebrew dictionary, and the editor of HaZvi, one of the first newspapers in the Land of Israel / Palestine. He was the driving force behind the revival of the Hebrew language.
If we wish that the name Israel be not extinguished, then we are in duty bound
to create something which may serve as a center for our entire people, like the
heart in an organism, from which the blood will stream into all the arteries of
the national body and fill it with life.
The Hebrew language will go from the synagogue to the house of study, and from the house of study to the school, and from the school it will come into the home and... become a living language