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Itamar Ben-Avi
Wikipedia's first sentence called it “son of eliezer ben-yehuda”. Today it says “first native speaker of hebrew in modern times”. The one-line description Wikipedia serves to search engines and AI systems read “Journalist and Zionist activist (1882–1943)”. It now reads “Palestinian-Jewish journalist and activist (1882–1943)”.
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Itamar Ben-Avi, 1933 Itamar Ben-Avi (Also Ittamar , ; born Ben-Zion Ben-Yehuda , בן-ציון בן-יהודה on 31 July 1882, died 8 April 1943) was the son of Eliezer Ben-Yehuda . Eliezer is credited with reviving the Hebrew language and brought up Itamar to be the first native speaker of Hebrew in the modern era. Ben-Avi worked as a journalist (starting with his father's newspaper HaZvi ), and as a Zionist activist.1
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Wikipedia's first sentence called it “son of eliezer ben-yehuda”. Today it says “first native speaker of hebrew in modern times”. The one-line description Wikipedia serves to search engines and AI systems read “Journalist and Zionist activist (1882–1943)”. It now reads “Palestinian-Jewish journalist and activist (1882–1943)”. Read the current article and compare.
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son of eliezer ben-yehuda
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first native speaker of hebrew in modern times
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