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Why Israeli Road Signs Still Spell It "Tiqwa
Why does an Israeli highway sign say Petah Tiqwa when the Academy of the Hebrew Language killed the Q back in 2006? This episode digs into a century of transliteration fights — from the British Mandate's first trilingual name list in 1930, through the Academy's letter-faithful 1957 rules and the UN's 1977 adoption, to the 2006 reform that swapped Q for K and W for V, and the UN's 2007 endorsement. Then there's the 2009 push to make signs transliterate Hebrew directly — Yerushalayim instead of Jerusalem — and the 2012 compromise that gave Jewish and Arab place names different source languages…
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