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Definition: Israeli |
IsraeliAdjective1. Of or relating to or characteristic of Israel or its people. Noun1. A native or inhabitant of Israel. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
| Domain | Definition |
Geography | Inhabitant of Israel. Source: European Union. (references) |
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Crosswords: Israeli |
| English words defined with "Israeli": Arab-Israeli War ♦ Begin, Ben Gurion, Buber ♦ Chaim Azriel Weizmann, Chaim Weizmann ♦ David Ben Gurion, David Grun, Dayan ♦ Golda Meir ♦ internet site, intifada, Israeli monetary unit ♦ Knesset, Knesseth ♦ Martin Buber, Meir, Menachem Begin, modern, Moshe Dayan ♦ new ♦ Pinchas Zukerman ♦ sabra, site, Six Day War ♦ web site, Weizmann ♦ Zukerman. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "Israeli": ICQ. (references) |
| Non-English Usage: "Israeli" is also a word in the following languages with English translations in parentheses. Afrikaan (Israeli, Israelian), German (Israeli). |
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Clever | The glue on Israeli postage stamps is certified kosher. (references; author: unknown) | |
Movie/TV Titles | Israeli Theatre 1967 (1967) | |
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 | Underway in Chesapeake Bay, 29 July 1967, upon her return from the Mediterranean Sea. She had been attacked and seriously damaged by Israeli air and surface forces while operating off the Sinai Peninsula on 8 June 1967, during the "Six-Day War", and was subsequently repaired at Malta. Credit: NAVY. |  | Israeli Premier Levi Eshkol, center, visiting the Ein-Gev settlement on the Sea of Galilee, April 8, 1967, to inspect damage from the previous day's border clash between Israel and Syria. At left is Gen. Yitzhak Rabin; Israeli chief of staff Brig. David E. Credit: Library of Congress. |
 | Bodies of Egyptian soldiers lying in the Sinai desert following Israeli advance; in the background a group of photographers inspect the scene. Credit: Library of Congress. |  | Poster showing Israeli Peace and Equality Movement initial and logo. Credit: Library of Congress. |
 | Stop Israeli terror against our refugee camps and villages. Credit: Library of Congress. | ||
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| Subject | Topic | Quote |
Business | The technology supplier is the Israeli Company Tadiran. (references) | |
Nablus and Jenin are the PA cities most visited by Israeli Arabs. (references) | ||
Over 1 million Israeli Arabs visit the PA, some on a regular basis. (references) | ||
Children | Israel and the occupied territories | The Attorney General's office agreed that the policy constituted impermissible discrimination but asked for 5 years to expand the program to Israeli Arab students. (references) |
Israel and the occupied territories | A petition was filed with the High Court of Justice in May 1997 charging that the Ministry of Education's refusal to provide this program to Israeli Arab students was discriminatory. (references) | |
Israel and the occupied territories | HRW reported that Arab schools are segregated from Jewish schools, that the Education Ministry allocates less money per Israeli Arab student than per Jewish student, and that Arab children overall receive an inferior education to that of Jewish children. (references) | |
Civil Liberties | Israel and the occupied territories | Comprehensive closures also are instituted regularly during major Israeli holidays. (references) |
Morocco | Moroccan Jewish emigres, including those with Israeli citizenship, freely visit the country. (references) | |
Israel and the occupied territories | Police officials and Israeli Arab leaders cooperated closely before each of the demonstrations. (references) | |
Discrimination | Israel and the occupied territories | Under the complex mixture of laws and regulations that apply to the occupied territories, Palestinians are disadvantaged under Israeli law and practices compared with the treatment received by Israeli settlers. (references) |
Economic History | Nicaragua | ORMAT, geothermal power generation, Israeli investment. (references) |
Israel | Israeli individual investors have no such restrictions. (references) | |
Human Rights | Israel and the occupied territories | Israeli officials maintained that the operation targeted Hamas military operatives. (references) |
Israel and the occupied territories | Two Israeli Arabs were killed in the incident and approximately 50 others were injured. (references) | |
Jordan | On August 6, unknown assailants shot and killed an Israeli businessman working in Amman. (references) | |
Minorities | Poland | The march culminated in a rally at which demonstrators burned the Israeli and EU flags. (references) |
Argentina | The investigation into the 1992 bombing of the Israeli Embassy in Buenos Aires has come to a virtual standstill. (references) | |
Israel and the occupied territories | In practice few Israeli Arabs serve in the military or work in companies with defense contracts or in security-related fields. (references) | |
Political Economy | West Bank | The process resumed again under the new Israeli government. (references) |
Israel | The current Knesset includes 19 parties, a new record for the Israeli legislature. (references) | |
Israel and the occupied territories | In September 1999, the Israeli Government and the PLO signed the Sharm el-Sheikh Memorandum. (references) | |
Political Rights | Israel and the occupied territories | Relatively small parties, including those whose primary support is among Israeli Arabs, regularly win seats in the Knesset. (references) |
Trade | West Bank | It is currently using Israeli regulations. (references) |
West Bank | Israeli banks do not operate in the West Bank and Gaza. (references) | |
Travel | West Bank | Israeli security authorities do not permit most Israeli and West Bank vehicles to enter Gaza. (references) |
Israel | All Israeli post offices offer calling cards in shekel denominations as well as some private vendors. (references) | |
West Bank | Israel retains responsibility for external security and for internal security and public order of Israeli settlements within the West Bank. (references) | |
Women | Israel and the occupied territories | In January 2000, the Knesset amended the Defense Service Law to state that women have the same right as men to serve in every profession in the Israeli military. (references) |
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Andrew Card | Well, I'm confident that Chairman Arafat has the ability to bring some level of reduction in violence in that area, and the charge is on him to meet that responsibility. We also know that the Israeli leadership has a responsibility as well. |
Dan Rather | In Jerusalem tonight, right at the dividing line between the Israeli west and the mostly Arab east Jerusalem, yet another suicide bombing. We had driven by only minutes before the bomb went off. |
Robert Novak | Mr. Speaker, this week we've seen further violence in the Middle East, Palestinian terrorists, suicide bombers, as well as the Israeli tanks moving in further and occupying the West Bank. |
Rush Limbaugh | That's why President Bush is trying to hold back House Republican plans to increase Israeli financial aid to show support for their fight against terrorism. |
Tom Brokaw | I think Beirut, probably. That was a very difficult place to be. Before the Israelis invaded, and then during the time of the Israeli invasion. Every sector was controlled by a different gang. |
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| "Israeli" is generally used as a noun (proper) -- approximately 78.56% of the time. "Israeli" is used about 1,277 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Noun (proper) | 78.56% | 1,003 | 7,340 |
| Adjective (general or positive) | 20.66% | 264 | 18,152 |
| Noun (singular) | 0.7% | 9 | 117,287 |
| Noun (plural) | 0.08% | 1 | 339,140 |
| Total | 100.00% | 1,277 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| Country | Name |
| Israel | American Israeli Paper Mills Limited |
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Source: compiled by the editor from Icon Group International, Inc.
Expressions using "Israeli": Actinomyces israeli ♦ Israeli monetary unit. Additional references. | |
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Beginning with "Israeli": israeli-administered, israeli-allied, israeli-american, israeli-arab, israeli-armed, israeli-backed, israeli-born, israeli-egyptian, israeli-iranian, israeli-jordanian, israeli-lebanese, israeli-made, israeli-managed, israeli-occupied, israeli-palestinian, israeli-plo, israeli-produced, israeli-proxy, israeli-sla, israeli-soviet, israeli-sponsored, israeli-syrian, israeli-trained, israeli-type, Israeli-us. | |
Ending with "Israeli": anti-israeli, Arab-israeli, pro-israeli, Syrian-israeli, us-israeli. | |
Containing "Israeli": Arab-Israeli War. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
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Afrikaans | Israelies (Israelian), Israeli (Israelian). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Albanian | Izraelit (hebrew, Israel). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Arabic | اللغة الإسرائيلية, إسرائيلي. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Bulgarian | "ражданин На Израел. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Chinese | 以色列 (Israel). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Czech | Izraelský (israelite), Izraelec. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Danish | israeler. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Dutch | Israëlisch (Israelian), Israëliër (Israelian), Israëli (Israelian). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Esperanto | izraelano, izraela. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Finnish | israelilainen (Israelian, Israelite). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
French | Israélien. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
German | israelisch (Israelian), Israeli. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Greek | Ισραηλινός, Ισραηλίτησ, ίάτοικοσ Του Ισραήλ. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hebrew | ֹשראלי. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hungarian | Izraeli (israelite). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Italian | Israeliano. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Korean | 이스라엘 (Israel). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Manx | Israelagh. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | israeliay Isreal, israelita (hebrew, hebrides, Israelite, issuance). (various references) Izraelian. (various references) Израильтянин. (various references) izraelski, izraelac. (various references) israelí (Israelian, israelite). (various references) Israel (Israel). (various references) เกี่ยวกับอิสราเอล, ชาวอิสราเอล, าษาอิสราเอล. (various references) Ýsrailli. (various references) ізраїльський (israelite), ізраїльтянка, ізраїльтянин (israelite). (various references) người Do thái (israelite). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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"Israeli" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Azrael, Irtelli, Isireli, Ismaeli, isreal, isreali. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-e-i-i-l-r-s" | |
-1 letter: ariels, liaise, resail, sailer, serail, serial. | |
-2 letters: aisle, ariel, arils, arise, arles, earls, lairs, lares, laris, laser, lears, liars, liers, liras, rails, raise, rales, reals, rials, riels, riles, serai, seral, slier. | |
-3 letters: ails, airs, ales, ares, aril, arse, earl, ears, eras, ilea, ilia, ires, iris, isle, lair, lari, lars, lase, lear, leas, leis. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-e-i-i-l-r-s" | |
+1 letter: airlines, ramilies, virelais. | |
+2 letters: aerialist, airfields, airliners, clarifies, clarities, eristical, falsifier, frailties, glairiest, grisaille, hairlines, imperials, irascible, laniaries, libraries, linearise, milliares, oralities, presidial, ramillies, realising, realistic, realities, resailing, rivalries, saintlier, serialise, serialism, serialist, serialize, solitaire, trailside, triskelia. | |
+3 letters: aerialists, alacrities, amplifiers, animaliers, argillites, aspergilli, axillaries, bairnliest, chivalries, clarifiers, classifier, clavierist, diableries, disclaimer, editorials, falsifiers, filariases, glazieries, grisailles, hilarities, idealizers, idolatries, lapidaries, larvicides, laticifers, liberalise, liberalism, liberalist, linearised, linearises, linearizes, literacies, literalism, literalist, luminaires, luminaries, militaries, militarise, milliaries, mineralise, molarities, moralities, plagiaries, plagiarise, polarities, qualifiers, radicalise, railleries, recitalist, regalities, relativism, relativist, reptilians, retailings, revitalise, revivalism, revivalist, ribaldries, ritualizes, ruralities, seignorial, serialised, serialises, serialisms, serialists, serialized, serializes, socializer, solitaires, solitaries, stabilizer, titularies, trailerist, triennials, triticales, trivialise, visualizer. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. SCRABBLE® is a registered trademark. All intellectual property rights in and to the game are owned in the U.S.A and Canada by Hasbro Inc., and throughout the rest of the world by J.W. Spear & Sons Limited of Maidenhead, Berkshire, England, a subsidiary of Mattel Inc. Mattel and Spear are not affiliated with Hasbro. | |
Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)49 73 72 61 65 6C 69 |
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Morse Code (1836) (references).. ... .-. .- . .-.. .. |
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01001001 01110011 01110010 01100001 01100101 01101100 01101001 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)I s r a e l i |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0049 0073 0072 0061 0065 006C 0069 |
| British Sign Language (Fingerspelling, BSL; 1992, British Deaf Association Dictionary of British Sign Language) (references)
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Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)43858467717875 |
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