Hebrew & Arabic on GMail

hurray !!

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Fonebrew - Traduction français hébreu

this one for all you froggies out there...

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Fonebrew - Traduction français hébreu

israeli CHUTZPA workshop

what is Chutzpa you might ask.... well, I'll try to make sense of something that is senseless:
Chutzpa cannot be directly translated to English - here is the Wikipedia translation and it originates from Yiddish (Eastern European Jewish dialect).
anyways, Chutzpa is very characteristic to Israelies and usually deters Europeans/Americans.
however, as I see it, Chutzpa also has a very positive side - Chutzpa is the reason for so many new Israeli hi-tech start-up companies who are redefining so many technological fields. An amazing fact: Israel has more start-up companies investments per year than the whole european continent. RESPECT !

here is a well-designed internal joke about Israeli Chutzpa.