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>>1537133jews haven't spoken 'hebrew' (a recent name given to their Aramaic dialect) since they left the region, except in ritual settings like catholics use Latin. Almost no catholics actually speak Latin. yiddish was more common for them, and still more widely spoken in israel than 'hebrew'. The architects of jewish palestine had decided to make 'hebrew" the official state language, but given that the vocabulary was so limited, had to create thousands of new words to make it actually usable. At least they got some people to learn it, so attempting to revive it wasn't a complete failure.
