Print Styles

Bylines

- • Jerusalem Post Staff, no “By”

• Maariv, no “By”

- ISRAEL21c goes underneath the byline. At the end of the story, on a separate line, there also needs to appear www.israel21c.org in bold:

• By VIVA SARAH PRESS

       ISRAEL21c

- The Media Line goes underneath the byline in Title Case:

• By CHARLES BYBELEZER

       The Media Line

JTA must always be in byline

 • By RON KAMPEAS/JTA

• JTA

• Jerusalem Post Staff and The Media Line

- Wire stories (Reuters, TNS, etc) that don't have a dateline is: (name of agency) at the end of the story, (Layout will make it flush right). No more italics, and no more hyphens.

- Combined wire stories from two different agencies: No byline or dateline goes at the end as above

- Jerusalem Post reporters abroad get a “Jerusalem Post Correspondent” under their byline

• By MICHAEL WILNER

Jerusalem Post Correspondent

WASHINGTON -...

• By MICHAEL WILNER and TOVAH LAZAROFF

Jerusalem Post Correspondents

WASHINGTON -...

- Shared bylines with reporters here and abroad, or two different cities:

• By HERB KEINON and MICHAEL WILNER in Washington

(No dateline)

In shared bylines with agencies, staff always comes first, regardless of amount of contribution. (But consider putting staff in the contribution line if all they really did was add a line or two.)

• By AARON REICH and JTA (No dateline and no author for agency)

• By AARON REICH and Reuters (No dateline and no author for agency)

• By HERB KEINON in Paris and MICHAEL WILNER in Washington

Jerusalem Post Correspondents

• By Reuters and Jerusalem Post Staff

(No dateline)

- ANALYSIS, EXCLUSIVE, COMMENT, REPORTER’S NOTEBOOK, BACKGROUND, EXPLAINER, FACTBOX, PRIMER, INSIGHT etc. goes on top of the byline in the same BY 7pt font style

ANALYSIS

• By GIL HOFFMAN

Columnists’ bios

Aaron Katsman:

Aaron Katsman is the author of Retirement GPS: How to Navigate Your Way to A Secure Financial Future with Global Investing. www.gpsinvestor.com; aaron@lighthousecapital.co.il.

Datelines

- LONDON (Reuters), NEW YORK (JTA), WASHINGTON (TNS)

- LOS ANGELES (Variety.com/Reuters), BANFF, Alberta (Chicago Tribune/TNS)

- Don’t use datelines for stories from Israel, or for the West Bank. Cities in the Gaza Strip use datelines

-Don’t use datelines that are irrelevant to the story: i.e., a London correspondent (who is on a junket in Baku sponsored by the Azeri Tourism Ministry) filing a story on Brexit’s connection to Israel does not get a BAKU dateline

- Major cities do not need a country in the dateline: BUENOS AIRES, Argentina

- Double and triple datelines have a stroke separating them: BEIRUT/ANKARA/DUBAI (Reuters) 

-Countries, states, provinces et al are all spelled out in datelines (NO ABBREVIATIONS) - WOLLONGONG, New South Wales‎ and not WOLLONGONG, NSW; LONG BEACH, California and not LONG BEACH, Calif.

-Use well-known states, provinces and non-independent countries part of a greater union; for those that are not well-known just use the city and the country. Ex: KILMARNOCK, Scotland and not KILMARNOCK, United Kingdom; but SHENZHEN, China and not SHENZHEN, Guangdong

-Datelines with two or more cities, and one is well-known and the other is in the same country, do not need a country: GUWAHATI/MUMBAI

ALBUM TITLES, Movies, plays etc are italicized

SONGS are not italicized - but in double quotes

Ma’ariv reporters

-Ilana Shtotland

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1967 – There were no “1967 borders,” just 1949 armistice lines that were modified before 1967 at least once, on the Golan, where the Syrians encroached to the shore of the Sea of Galilee in the 1950s. We can quote some referring to the 1967 borders; otherwise it's usually the June 4, 1967, lines they mean, or perhaps the 1949 armistice lines. Also, the Green Line.

A

a, an, a before consonant sounds: a style guide; a history book, a historic occasion, a European; an before vowel sounds: an entry; an honorable man; an hour

a, per, both commonly used to mean each and for every. The use of per is common and  acceptable in economic and statistical writing; in most other cases, a is preferable

Abarbanel State Mental Health Center, Bat Yam

Abergil crime family

Abrams, Elliott

Absalom’s Pillar

Abuhatzeira, Ya’acov, 19th-century rabbi

Abuhatzeira, Yisrael, also known as the Baba Sali

Abu Marzouk, Musa (from Hamas)

Abu Mazen – Explain this means Mahmoud Abbas

Abu Rudaineh, Nabil

Accidents and attacks/injuries and wounds

People hurt in road and other accidents suffer injuries; people hurt by other people wielding weapons – such as criminals, terrorists, guerrillas or soldiers – suffer wounds.

People die of (not from) their wounds or injuries.

Injuries and wounds are not classified the same way as the condition of the victim, except in Hebrish or Engbrew. Thus, someone suffers light, medium or moderate, or severe/critical/fatal injuries or wounds; BUT is listed in the hospital as in good, satisfactory, serious or critical condition.

accomplice – There is a difference between being charged as an “accomplice” – מסייע – and the more serious charge of being a “partner” – שותף

accountant-general, plural accountants-general

Achilles’ heel

ACRI, Association for Civil Rights in Israel

actually is almost always an extraneous word that should be deleted, unless it’s in a quote.

Adam Teva V’Din – Israel Union for Environmental Defense. Second reference Adam Teva V’Din, or the NGO, etc.

administration – the US administration

administrator-general, (אפוטרופוס הכללי)

ad nauseam

adviser – but US National Security Advisor Jake Sullivan

advocate – use lawyer or attorney

African-American

after – people usually die when they are shot or drive into a tree etc., not after they are shot or drive into a tree etc.

agreed is always intransitive in American English (agree to or on a contract, not agree a contract). Write “The measures could be agreed upon by February 27,” not the British “The measures could be agreed by February 27.”

Agricultural Center (of the Histadrut)

Agrippas

AIPAC should be written in full on first reference – American Israel Public Affairs Committee – unless the first reference is in the lead, when it should be written out in second reference.

Airports Authority

airstrike – one word

AJC – The American Jewish Committee is abbreviated AJC, while the American Jewish Congress should be rendered AJCongress.

Akim (Israel Association for the Rehabilitation of the Mentally Retarded)

al-Aqsa Martyrs Brigades – part of Fatah

al-Aqsa Mosque, or al-Aqsa (the Aqsa Mosque, but never “the al-Aqsa Mosque”)

Al-Arabiya

AlawiteAliya

Alef – It’s “Alef,” not “Aleph.” When referring to someone whose name begins with Alef and is being kept confidential, write  <<A.>>

al-Golani, Abu Mohammed – see al-Julani, Abu Mohammed and al-Sharaa, Ahmed

Al-Hayat

al-Haram al-Sharif (explain: Muslims' term for Temple Mount, in English: The Noble Sanctuary)

aliyah

Al Jazeera – Qatari state-funded broadcaster, (no hyphen, an exception to our style)

Al-Jazirah, daily paper based in Saudi Arabia

al-Julani, Abu Mohammed – leader of the Syrian rebel group HTS. Use Ahmed al-Sharaa instead of al-Golani.

Allahu akbar  – doesn’t need translation

alleged/allegedly – Use the words “alleged” and “allegedly” only when there is suspicion that a crime has been committed, or an indictment spells out details of a possible crime. Once the person is convicted of a crime, he no longer has to be described as the “alleged murderer.” He becomes the convicted murderer.

However, the police arrest someone for murder, or another crime. Don’t write <police arrested x for allegedly committing murder.>

Allenby Street, Square

All for Peace Radio

Allon Plan, the

all right, not alright

Al-Quds Al-Arabi, London-based pan-Arab daily

al-Shabaab, Somalia-based Islamist group

amidst – The words amidst (as opposed to amid) and amongst (as opposed to among) are rare in American. Don’t use them except in a direct quote in English. (“In the midst” is a standard idiom in both American and British).

al-Nour – Salafi political party in Egypt

al-Qaeda

al-Sharaa, Ahmed – the head of the HTS rebel group in Syria and the new leader of Syria. Use instead of his nom de guerre, Abu Mohammed al-Julani.

Alsheich, Roni, former Israel Police commissioner

also – Often extraneous. If the sentence works without it, delete the word.

Alyn Orthopedic Hospital and Rehabilitation Center, Jerusalem (independent, but connected with Ilan)

ambassador – Don’t write “Thai Ambassador to Israel x” when “Thai Ambassador x” is clear. Don’t write “Israeli Ambassador to the US x” when “Ambassador to the US x” is clear.

Israeli ambassador to the UN, never capitalize "ambassador." The official title is Permanent Representative of Israel to the United Nation X X.

America-Israel Bank

the American Colony Hotel

American-Israel Public Affairs Committee, (second reference AIPAC) – the main pro-Israel lobby in Washington

American-Israeli Paper Mills Ltd. (Hadera)

Amidror, Yaakov

amongst – The words amongst (as opposed to among) and amidst (as opposed to amid) are rare in American. Don’t use them except in a quote in English.

Am Yisrael – use the Jewish people, which is singular, by the way. The Jewish people is

Anglo or Anglo-Saxon, don’t use unless you’re referring to descendants of the Angle or Saxon ethnic groups/peoples. Write English-speaking population (or English-speaking immigrants, community &c.), Anglophone community

Israel Antiquities Authority (abbreviated IAA), not the Antiquities Authority

antisemite, antisemitic, antisemitism

ANU - Museum of the Jewish People; ANU Museum (full name should appear somewhere near beginning of text) 

APC write out in first reference – armored personnel carrier

Arab Israelis (no hyphen)

Arafat, Yasser

aravot (willow), one of the Four Species used on Sukkot.

Arba Minim or Four Species used on Sukkot: lulav (palm branch), etrog (citron), hadassim (myrtle) and aravot (willow). Translate each into English at first reference.

archaeology etc. 

Arctic Circle, the Arctic, arctic weather

Argentinian – Not Argentinean or Argentine

Arlosoroff, Chaim (Zionist leader, 1899-1934)

Armageddon

Army Radio or IDF Radio - NOT Galei Tzahal (גלי צה”ל)

Arrow 3

artifact, not the British artefact

Asara Betevet (the fast of the 10th of Tevet, marking the day when Babylonian King Nebuchadnezzar laid siege to Jerusalem over 2,500 years ago

“Asbestonim” quarter (originally temporary immigrant housing built of asbestos) (Jerusalem)

Asharq al-Awsat

Ashdod Port

Ashkenazi - plural Ashkenazim

al-Assad, Bashar

al-Assad, Hafez

assist as a verb is usually overly formal. Try to use help.

Association for Civil Rights in Israel, second reference ACRI

asylum-seeker

Atarot Airport (Jerusalem)

Ateret Kohanim Yeshiva

attempt/try – Try to use “try,” it’s simpler and more direct.

attorney – don’t capitalize it in front of a name

attorney-general, attorneys-general

Attribution: All items must have attribution. In regular reports where there are shared bylines, the style is Walter Winchell, Chet Huntley and Yitzhak Itim. Post briefs have attributions in at the end of the item; wire briefs in the dateline. For pieces written up by the desk, the attribution should be Jerusalem Post Staff. This applies both to items in “News in Brief” boxes as well as independent pieces. When other contributors are included at the bottom of a report, they are listed in italics in the form of a full sentence, ending in a period: Walter Winchell, Chet Huntley and Yitzhak Itim contributed to this report.

The credit in an accompanying box to a story is usually given by the reporter’s initials in italics (if it is by the same person as the main piece) or by spelling out the name of the new writer in italics. For photo captions and credits, see Captions.

ATV all-terrain vehicle (NOT “tractoron”)

Augusta Victoria Hospital, Jerusalem

Automotive Industries Ltd. (Nazareth)

autopsies are conducted at the L. Greenberg Institute of Forensic Medicine at Abu Kabir

ax (not axe. Note: Murderers usually use hatchets; lumberjacks use axes.)

Aza Street

Abbreviations, Acronyms, etc.

The abbreviation for David Ben-Gurion is B-G; not B.G. or B.-G. Hence (in headlines) B-G Airport.

For reserve officers the form is Maj.-Gen. (res.) Uzi Blueyes. As in non-reserve ranks, don’t capitalize and don’t use the abbreviation except when the rank precedes the name as a title.

If John Brown has a son called John, the younger is John Brown Jr. (period, but no comma).

for committee: Use panel, not c’tte, if you need to shorten it for a headline.

Middle East is abbreviated in headlines only as Mideast. Never use ME or M-E.

Prime minister, foreign minister: Use PM and FM only in heads, without periods, and instead of the name (never: PM Barak)

for Knesset member: MK (MKs); used before the name.

In first reference: MK, IDF and PLO need not be spelled out even the first time. In general spell out the name of an organization the first time it is mentioned (without adding the acronym in parentheses immediately after). Do not abbreviate the names of political parties (e.g. UTJ) unless you have first spelled them out. Never use a Hebrew acronym that’s meaningless in English.

prisoner of war is POW (POWs); missing in action is MIA (MIAs); cost-of-living (as in index or allowance) is COL.

versus is vs (no period). For court cases, use v. Ex: Roe v. Wade; 

In general, however, lower-case abbreviations need periods (a.m., p.m., kg., i.o.u., f.o.b., c.o.d., km., mi., sq.km., sq.mi.), but uppercase ones do not. Exceptions: M.E., kph and mph (kilometers/miles per hour).

College degrees do not need periods: BA, BSc, DDS, PhD, LLD. Capitalize specific degrees (Bachelor of Arts, Master of Science), whether or not they directly precede or follow a name.

Mount: Spell out in Mount Herzl, Mount of Olives, Mount Scopus, Temple Mount, Mount Zion. Exceptions: In headlines, Mt. may be used except for Temple Mount, but only when it precedes name in heds. Otherwise, ALL mountains are Mount before the name. Mount Everest

Guidelines on abbreviations/acronyms:

1. Too many abbreviations will confuse the reader.

2. Please do not use an abbreviation that is unknown to the reader unless it is in a quote. In that latter case, insert the full name in square brackets after the abbreviation, unless the full name just appeared in the same or previous sentence.

3. If spelling out the name on first reference would overload the lead, for example for LGBT, spell it out on second reference.

4. Some abbreviations never need to be spelled out: US, UK, UN, FBI, CIA, IDF, PLO, AIDS, DDT, TNT, LSD, etc.

5. Watch out for abbreviations that are clear to Americans, but not to others, such as ASPCA. Also, be on the lookout for the use of Hebrew abbreviations. And make sure there are no abbreviations in parentheses if the organization isn’t referred to again in the article.

6. Use the abbreviation of an organization in parentheses at the first reference as little as possible. If the abbreviation is in the next line or so, the reader will figure it out, and the text will be much more attractive.

7. If the first use of the abbreviation is more than a paragraph below the full name of the organization, and the abbreviation is not well known, or if the abbreviation is not obvious from the name – for example, if it is based on the name in another language – we could use the abbreviation of an organization in parentheses at the first reference.

Don’t write “Palestinian Authority (PA).” Just write “Palestinian Authority”; the reader is smart enough to figure out what “PA” stands for, even if it is several paragraphs later. The same goes for “Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO),” except that PLO is fine on first reference.

8. If the abbreviation consists entirely of the first letters of the words, use all caps, unless it has become a word in its own right, for example “radar” or “snafu.”

9. Write acronyms consisting of the first initials and other letters with an initial capital: Interpol.

Acronyms:

AD, BC – Use CE, BCE, except in a direct quote from written material

Capitalize all the letters in abbreviated titles (UNDOF, UNEF).

Some common abbreviations

ACRI (Association for Civil Rights in Israel)

PLO (Palestine Liberation Organization)

AIPAC (America-Israel Public Affairs Committee)

POW (POWs) prisoner(s) of war

BIPAC (British-Israel Public Affairs Center)

SALT (Strategic Arms Limitation Treaty)

DDT (dichlor + diphenyl + trichlor)

SDI (Strategic Defense Initiative or “Star Wars” project)

EU (European Union, was EC)

SEATO (Southeast Asia Treaty Organization)

GATT (General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade)

SEC (US Securities and Exchange Commission)

GNP (gross national product)

SOS (distress signal in Morse code)

IATA (International Air Transport Association)

TB (tuberculosis)

ICAO (International Civil Aviation Organization)

TNT (trinitrotoluene, dynamite)

ICBM (Intercontinental ballistic missile)

TV (television)

IFALPA (International Federation of Airline Pilots’ Associations)

UHF (ultrahigh frequency)

ILO (International Labor Organization)

UN (United Nations)

IMF (International Monetary Fund)

UNDOF (UN Disengagement Observer Force)

IQ (intelligence quotient)

UNEF (UN Emergency Force)

KKK (Ku Klux Klan)

UNESCO (UN Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization)

MIA (MIAs) (missing in action)

UNIFIL (UN Interim Force in Lebanon)

NASA (National Aeronautics and Space Administration)

UNTSO (UN Truce Supervision Organization)

NATO (North Atlantic Treaty Organization)

UNOF (UN Force and Observers)

OAS (Organization of American States)

UNRWA (UN Relief and Works Agency)

OAU (Organization of African Unity)

VD (venereal disease)

OC (officer commanding); not O.C. or O/C (Example: OC Military Police Brig.-Gen. Meir Ohana)

WHO (World Health Organization)

OK (noun) okays, okayed (verb). He gave the OK; Cabinet okays ministers’ raises

WIZO (Women’s International Zionist Organization)

ORT (Organization for Rehabilitation through Training)

YMCA (YWCA) Young Men’s (Women’s) Christian Association)

PFLP (Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine)

Abbreviating weights and measures

The following abbreviations are acceptable, and do not need to be spelled out in first reference:

cm. (centimeters)

gr. (grams)

kg. (kilograms or kilos)

km. (kilometers)

m. (meters)

mm. (millimeters)

mg. (milligrams)

sq.km. (square kilometers)

sq.m. (square meters).

A space is required: 5 km.

The abbreviations m. and b. for million and billion are also used for money. In all other cases, except tables or lists, spell out million.

Spell out on first reference

cu.m. (cubic meters)

bcm (billion cubic meters)

Standard electrical abbreviations:

a amperes

W watts

MW megawatts

mw milliwatts

MWh megawatt-hours

kW kilowatts

kWh kilowatt-hours

v volts

Accent Marks

Use accents for all French, German and Spanish words that require them.

To do accents, find any website in the appropriate language, then copy-paste. If you use them frequently, consider saving them in an editworks file in your user queue so you can copy-paste from there.

Or copy from here:

French: É À à È è Ù ù Â â Ê ê Î Ô ô Û û

Capital letters are often left unaccented.

German: Ä ä Ö ö Ü ü

Spanish: Ñ ñ Ü ü Á á É é Í í Ó ó Ú ú ¿ ¡

Aircraft and Arms

Alouette II (helicopter)

Kalashnikov (assault rifle)

Arrow 2, Arrow 3

B-2 (stealth bomber)

Katyusha (rocket)

B-52

Kfir

B-52A

SHILavi

BAC-111

M-1, M-14 (rifles), M-16 (assault rifle)

Boeing 747 (jumbo jet is lowercase)

M-41, M-48, M-60, T-34, T-72 (tanks)

C-130 Hercules

MiG-23 (three MiGs)

CF-5 (fighter plane)

Mirage V

Convair 340

Phantom

DC-10

Sa’ar (class of missile boat)

F-15, F-15I, F-35

SA-3, SAM (missile battery)

F-16

SU-25

F-117, F-117A (known as the stealth fighter, US designation: Nighthawk)

(Sukhoi, Russian jet fighter)

Frog, Scud, Sagger, Styx, Grad (missiles)

Super Mystere

Galil assault rifle, Galilon (short version)

Uzi submachine gun

Airline Companies

Arkia Israel Airlines

Israir Airlines

El Al Israel Airlines (use El Al)

Agreements, declarations and resolutions

The Balfour Declaration, November 2, 1917

The Mandate for Palestine, July 24, 1922

UN General Assembly Resolution 181 (Partition Plan), November 29, 1947

The Declaration of the Establishment of the State of Israel, May 14, 1948

Protection of Holy Places Law, June 27, 1967

The Khartoum Resolutions, September 1, 1967

UN Security Council Resolution 242, November 22, 1967

Palestinian National Charter, July 17, 1968

UN Security Council Resolution 338, October 22, 1973

Separation of Forces Agreement between Israel and Syria, May 31, 1974

UN Security Council Resolution 425 (Withdrawal from Lebanon), March 19, 1978

Camp David Accords, September 17, 1978

Peace Treaty between Israel and Egypt, March 26, 1979

Basic Law: Jerusalem, Capital of Israel, July 30, 1980

US-Israel Memorandum of Understanding on Strategic Cooperation, November 30, 1981

The Golan Heights Law, December 14, 1981

Israel’s Peace Initiative, May 14, 1989

Invitation to Madrid Peace Conference, October 30, 1991

Israel-PLO Recognition, September 9-10, 1993

Israel-Palestinian Declaration of Principles, September 13, 1993

Israel-Jordan Common Agenda, September 14, 1993

Agreement on the Gaza Strip and the Jericho Area, May 4, 1994

The Washington Declaration (Israel-Jordan-US), July 25, 1994

Agreement on the Preparatory Transfer of Powers and Responsibilities (Israel-PLO), vAugust 29, 1994

Treaty of Peace between Israel and Jordan, October 26, 1994

Interim Agreement between Israel and the Palestinians, September 28, 1995

Summit of Peacemakers - Final Statement (Sharm el-Sheikh), March 13, 1996

Israel-Lebanon Ceasefire Understanding (Grapes of Wrath), April 26, 1996

Agreement on Temporary International Presence in Hebron, May 9, 1996

Protocol Concerning the Redeployment in Hebron, January 17, 1997

Agreement on Temporary International Presence in Hebron, January 21, 1997

The Wye River Memorandum, October 23, 1998

The Sharm el-Sheikh Memorandum (on Implementation Timeline of Outstanding Commitments of Agreements Signed and the Resumption of Permanent Status Negotiations), September 4, 1999

Protocol Concerning Safe Passage between the West Bank and the Gaza Strip, October 5, 1999

NOTE: In Oslo there were meetings, not agreements. The discreet venues in Norway where the “Gaza/Jericho first” plan was formulated in a series of secret meetings have included an isolated farmhouse, Foreign Ministry “safe houses,” and the home of Norway’s foreign minister. On one occasion, the entire floor of an Oslo hotel was taken over to ensure the privacy of participants and the secrecy of their mission. Fourteen meetings were held at the various locations from January through August 1993.

Place Names: A

Abda (Hebron) • Abirim (אבירים) • Abud (Ramallah) • Abu Dis (אבו דיס) • Abu Ghosh (אבו גוש) • Abu Hureira (Gaza) • Abu Irkayek • Abu Kabir (אבו כביר) (a place in Tel Aviv. The institution is the L. Greenberg Institute of Forensic Medicine [at Abu Kabir]) • Abu Shukheidim (אבו שח'ידם) (Ramallah) •  Abu Snan (אבו סנאן) (Acre) • Abu Sneina, a neighborhood in Hebron • Abu Tor (אבו תור) (Jerusalem) • Achziv (אכזיב) • Acre (עכו) • Adamit (אדמית) (the kibbutz; the Bedouin village next door is Idmit) • Adanim (עדנים) • Aderet (אדרת) • Adi (עדי) • Adirim (אדירים) • Adora (אדורה) • Afek (אפק) (kibbutz near Kiryat Bialik) • Afik (אפיק) (kibbutz on southern Golan) • Afikim (אפיקים) (kibbutz in Jordan Valley) • Afula (עפולה) • Agur (עגור) • Ahiezer (אחיעזר) • Ahihud (אחיהוד) • Ahisamach (אחיסמך) • Ahituv (אחיטוב) • Ahuzam (אחוזם) • Ahuzat Shoshana (אחוזת שושנה) • Aja (Jenin) • Ajul (Ramallah) • Ajur (Hebron) • Akbara (עכברה) • Akraba (Nablus) • Alfei Menashe (אלפי מנשה) • Alma (עלמה) • Almagor (אלמגור) • Almog (אלמוג) • Almon (עלמון) • Alonei Abba (אלוני אבא) • Alonei Habashan (אלוני הבשן) • Alonei Yitzhak (אלוני יצחק) • Alon Hagalil (אלון הגליל) • Alonim (אלונים) • Alon Shvut (אלון שבות) • Aluma (אלומה) • Alumim (עלומים) • Alumot (אלומות) • Amasa (עמשא) • Amatzya (אמציה) • Amiad (עמיעד) • Amihai (עמיחי) (for former residents of the Amona outpost) • Amihud (עמיהוד) • Amikam (עמיקם) • Aminadav (עמינדב) • Amioz (עמיעוז) • Amir (עמיר) • Amirim (אמירים) • Amitai (אמיתי) • Amka (עמקה) • Ammunition Hill (גבעת התחמושת) (Jerusalem) • Ammurya (עמוריה) (Nablus, Ramle) • Amnun (אמנון) • Amuka (עמוקה) • Anabta (ענבתא) (Tulkarm) • Anata (ענאתא) (Jerusalem) • Aniam (אניעם) • Anin (עאנין) (Umm el-Fahm) • Apollonia (אפולוניה - תל ארשף) (Rishpon) • Aqaba (עקבה) (not Akaba) • Aqua Bella but use Ein Hemed (עין חמד) • Ara (ואדי עארה) (Wadi Ara) (don’t use Nahal Irron) • Arabbuna (Jenin) • Arab el-Aramsha (ערב אל-עראמשה) • Arab el-Heib • Arab el-Hujeirat (Acre, Nazareth) • Arab el-Kuleilat (Acre) • Arab el-Masawi (Acre, Tiberias) • Arab e-Sabarija (Nazareth) • Arab e-Samniya (Acre) • Arab e-Sawa’id (Acre) • Arab e-Subeih (Acre, Nazareth) • Arab e-Suweitat (Acre) • Arab e-Tallawiya (Acre) • Arab e-Tahaya (Beersheba) • Arab Sukreir (Gaza) • Arab Wuheib (Tiberias) • Arad (ערד) • Arakib (Beersheba) • A-Ram (Jerusalem) • Arara (Haifa) • Arava, the • Arbel • Argaman • Ariel (אריאל) • Aroer • Arrabe (Lower Galilee) • Arrabe (Jenin) • Artas (Bethlehem) • Arugot • Arza • Asael (but Amotz Asa-El) • Aseret (עשרת) • Asfar • Ashalim • Ashdod (אשדוד) • Ashdod Port • Ashdot Ya’acov (Meuhad, Ihud) • Ashkelon (אשקלון) • Ashmura • Ateret (עטרת) • Atil (Tulkarm) • Atlit • Attara (Ramallah) • A-Tur • Atzmona • Avdat • Avdon (עבדון) • Avida • Aviel • Aviezer • Avigdor (אביגדור) • Avihayil • Avinoam • Avital (אביטל) • Avivim • Avnei Eitan • Avshalom (אבשלום) • Avtalyon • Avuka • Awarta (Nablus) • Ayelet Hashahar • Azariya (אלעיזריה) (use Eizariya, or Bethany) • Azarya (עזריה) • Azor (אזור) • Azriel • Azrikam • Azun (Nablus)

B

Ba’ath, the (ruling party of Syria, and formerly of Iraq)

the Bab al-Mandab Strait

bachelor’s degree

backbencher

Badatz (Eda Haredit Rabbinical Court)

Bagatz – use High Court of Justice

bagrut (use matriculation) Bagrut, if mentioned, is introduced in the first reference in italics, with matriculation in parentheses: bagrut (matriculation). Further references do not need italics.

Baha’i (plural Baha'is)

Bailiff, bailiff’s office. There is (still) no death penalty in Israel for indebtedness, hence no such thing as a “Chief Executioner’s Office,” a common mistranslation of hotza’a lafo’al. Bailiffs are appointed by the minister of justice and enforce the collection of checks, promissory notes, mortgages, etc. under the Execution of Court Decisions Law 5727-1967. “Victorious litigants may submit their judgments to any bailiff’s office for execution... The head of the bailiff’s office is empowered to issue an arrest or search warrant, an order barring an individual leaving the country... may also order the payment of a debt in installments, the detention or release of the debtor, and so on.” (source: Israel Government Yearbook)

Bais Yaakov schools

baksheesh (depending on context, a tip or bribe for service)

balabusta – Yiddish for traditional homemaker. Italicize and explain at first reference.

balagan – Russian via Persian for chaos, fiasco, mess. Italicize and explain at first reference.

Balfour, Lord Arthur James was not a lord until 1922, so when the Balfour Declaration was issued in 1917, he was Arthur James Balfour, not Lord Arthur James Balfour.

Bank Hapoalim

Bank Igud – use Union Bank

Ban Ki-moon, second reference Ban

Bank Leumi

Bank Mizrahi-Tefahot

Bar, Ben – Hebrew names that begin with Bar or Ben (except names from the Talmud that keep a lowercase “b”) get a hyphen (unless the owner of the name spells it without a hyphen).

bar Yochai, Shimon (a Tannaitic sage, not a Talmudic sage)

barbecue (not que)

Bardawil (lagoon)

Bar-Ilan University  

bar mitzvah, bat mitzvah

Barzilai Medical Center, Ashkelon

Basic Laws of the State of Israel

Basic Law:

Freedom of Occupation

The Government

Human Dignity and Liberty

The Israel Defense Forces

Israel Lands

Jerusalem, Capital of Israel

The Judiciary

The Knesset

President of the State

The State Comptroller

The State Economy

BDS should be written in full on first reference – Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions – unless the first reference is in the lead, when it should be written out on second reference.

Bedouin sing. and pl.

Begin, Bennie

Behaderey Haredim, the haredi website at www.bholworld.com

Beinisch, Dorit

Beitar for the sports teams, Betar for everything else

Beit Ha’am (public auditorium). For Jerusalem: Beit Ha’am (formerly The Gerard Behar Center)

Beit Hahayal (the same in every town)

Beit Hanassi (use the President’s Residence)

Beit Hatfutsot – The Museum of the Jewish People (formerly the Nahum Goldmann Museum of the Jewish Diaspora), now known as ANU Museum (see listing above)

Beit Liessin

Beit Loewenstein (rehabilitation hospital, in Ra’anana)

beit midrash on first reference: beit midrash (study hall)

Beit Yehonatan, not Beit Yonatan, building in capital’s Silwan neighborhood

Ben, Bar – Hebrew names that begin with Ben or Bar (except names from the Talmud that keep a lowercase “b”) get a hyphen, e.g., Ben-Yehuda, Bar-Ilan (unless the owner of the name spells it without a hyphen.)

Ben Ali, Zine el-Abidine (former president of Tunisia)

Ben-Gurion Airport, (not Ben-Gurion International Airport)

Ben-Gurion University of the Negev (BGU)

Ben-Zakai, Yohanan

Bezalel Academy of Arts and Design (Jerusalem)

Bezeq – The telecommunications company

Bible, biblical

Bikur Cholim Hospital, Jerusalem

bilateral – no hyphen

bin Laden, Osama not <<Bin>> except at start of a sentence

bin Salman, Mohammed, Saudi crown prince (abbreviated to MBS), not <<Bin>> except at start of a sentence

Binyenei Ha’uma, officially called the Jerusalem International Convention Center. Use this name.

bipartisan – no hyphen

Bir Zeit University, north of Ramallah

B’nai B’rith – Exception: B’nai Brith Canada

Bnei Akiva

Bnai Zion Hospital (Rothschild), Haifa

“bomb” (theater terminology). In Hebrew, it means a “hit,” a great success. In English, it means a failure, critical disaster, i.e. the two are exact opposites in sentences such as “The play was a bomb!” So don’t use it.

Books, Short Stories, Plays, Music, Poems and Art

Capitalize the principal words in the titles of books, periodicals, television and radio shows, operas, operattes, and plays, and give them in italics. Songs are also italicized, if the title is not English. Names of concerts are only capitalized.

The Courtship of Miles Standish

Blue Boy

All My Sons

The Saturday Evening Post

“Hatikvah”

Record albums are set in italics; individual songs are set off in quotes, as are the titles of short stories (unless it’s a collection, which goes in italics), chapters and articles. Episodes of TV, radio and podcast programs are set off in quotes. 

Seinfeld's "The Contest"

Star Trek's "The City on the Edge of Forever"

Lecture titles in quotes: He will speak on “Democracy at Work”

Poem and piyut (piyutim) titles in quotations

Italicize titles of art exhibitions, paintings, sculptures, names of photographs, 

For more, see Music

Border Police (the organization), Border Police officer, border policeman – never “Border Patrol”

Borough Park – a neighborhood in Brooklyn

Bosporus

Boutros Boutros-Ghali former UN secretary-general

Boyar School in Jerusalem’s Bayit Vagan; full name is Mae Boyar High School

Brand names are not to be used in news copy. Exception: when such an identifier may help solve a crime: “Police are searching for a white late-model Subaru which witnesses say ran over a little old lady yesterday at 4 p.m. at the crosswalk at the corner of Weizmann and Ben-Gurion in Petah Tikva...”

Breslov

Bridge of Strings: Use Chords Bridge

brit milah

Broadcasting Authority, former public broadcaster (first ref: Israel Broadcasting Authority, then IBA)

B’Tselem – The Israel Information Center for Human Rights in the Occupied Territories

Buffett, Warren

Bühler, Jürgen (his preferred spelling), international director of the International Christian Embassy Jerusalem. If spelled without umlauts, he wants Jurgen Buhler, never Juergen Buehler.

al-Buraq Wall/Plaza (Muslims' term for Western Wall)

burekas (singular and plural)

burka

“busha” translates not as “shame,” but as “scandalous”

business titles are lower case, e.g., chairman Henry Higgins, president John Smith

Place Names: B

Bab e-Zahara (באב א-זהרה) • Bahan (בחן) • Bahriya (Safed) • Baka (בקעה) (Jerusalem neighborhood) • Baka (Nablus) • Baka al-Gharbiya (באקה אל-גרביה) • Baka a-Sharkiya (באקה א-שרקייה) (Tulkarm) • Bala (Nablus) • Batei Mahasseh • Battir (בתיר) (not Betar, unless you’re referring to the suburb of Jerusalem) • Basmat Tabun (בסמת טבעון) • Batzra • Bat Ayin (בת עין) • Bat Yam (בת ים) • Bayit Vagan (בית וגן) • Bechora • Bedolah • Be’eri (בארי) • Be’eri Forest • Be’er Malka • Be’er Ora • Be’erotayim • Be’erot Yitzhak • Beersheba (באר שבע) • Be’er Tuviya • Be’er Ya’acov (באר יעקוב) • Beit Abba • Beit Alfa (בית אלפא) • Beit Amin (Kalkilya) • Beit Arif • Beit Aryeh (בית אריה) • Beit Berl (Labor Party college) • Beit Chabad (בית חבד) (near Beit Horon) • Beit Dagan (בית דגן) (not Dagon) • Beit Dajan (Nablus) • Beit El (בית אל) • Beit El Bet • Beit Elazari (בית אלעזרי) • Beit Ezra (בית עזרא) • Beit Fajar • Beit Furik (Nablus) • Beit Gamliel • Beit Guvrin • Beit Ha’arava • Beit Ha’emek • Beit Hagadi • Beit Hagai • Beit Hakerem (בית הקרם) (Jerusalem) • Beit Halevi • s) • Balata (Nablus) • Bani Naim (Hebron) • Bani Sueidan (Haifa) • Bani Suheila (Gaza) • Barak (ברק) • Banyas (בניאס) • Bar’am (the kibbutz; see also Kafr Bir’am • Bareket • Bar Giora • Barkai • Barta’a (Jenin) • Barzilai Medical Center, Ashkelon • Beit Hanan • Beit Hananya (בית חנניה) • Beit Hanina (בית חנינה) • Beit Hanun • Beit Hashita • Beit Hashmonai • Beit Herut • Beit Hilkiya • Beit Hillel (moshav near Kiryat Shmona) • Beit Horon (בית חורון) • Beit Iba (Tulkarm) • Beit Iksa (Jerusalem) • Beit Jala (בית ג'אלא) • Beit Jann (Acre) • Beit Jibrin (Hebron) • Beit Kahil (Hebron) • Beit Kama • Beit Keshet • Beit Lahiya (Gaza) • Beit Lehem Haglilit • Beit Lid (בית ליד) • Beit Likya (Ramallah) • Beit Meir (בית מאיר) • Beit Nehemia • Beit Nekofa • Beit Netofa Valley • Beit Nir (בית ניר) • Beit Oren (בית אורן) • Beit Oved (בית עובד) • Beit Raban • Beit Rima • Beit Rimon (בית רימון) • Beit Safafa (בית צפאפא) • Beit Safara • Beit Sahur • Beit She’an (בית שאן) (not Beisan) • the Beit She’an Valley (עמק בית שאן) • Beit She’arim • Beit Shemesh (בית שמש) • Beit Shikma • Beit Surik (Jerusalem) • Beit Ula (Hebron) • Beit Umar (Hebron) • Beit Umrin (Sebastia) • Beit Uziel (בית עוזיאל) • Beit Wazan (Nablus) • Beit Yannai (בית ינאי) • Beit Yatir • Beit Yehoshua (בית יהושוע) • Beit Yitzhak (בית יצחק) • Beit Yosef (בית יוסף) • Beit Zayit • Beit Zera • Beit Zvi (בית צבי) • Beita (Nablus) • Beitin (Ramallah) • Beitunya (Ramallah) • Bekaa (Lebanon) • Bekaot (בקעות) • Bekoa • Benaya • Ben-Shemen (בן-שמן) • Ben-Zakai • Berechya • Betar Illit (ביתר עילית) • Bethlehem (בית לחם) • Betzet • Bidya (Arab town east of Rosh Ha’ayin) • Bil’in (Ramallah) • Binyamina (בינימינה) • Bint Jbail (Lebanon) • Bir al-Maksur (Bedouin village, Lower Galilee) • Bir’am (see Kafr Bir’am) • Biriya • Bir Zeit (Ramallah) • Bitan Aharon (near Netanya) • Bit’ha (moshav near Ofakim) • Bitzaron • Bnei Atarot (בני עטרות) • Bnei Ayish • Bnei Atzmon (בני עצמון) • Bnei Brak (בני ברק) • Bnei Brit (Moledet) (but the organization is B’nai B’rith) • Bnei Zion (בני ציון) • Bnei Darom (בני דרום) • Bnei Dror • Bnei Netzarim (בני נצרים) • Bnei Re’em • Bnei Yehuda (בני יהודה) • Bror Hayil • Brosh • Brukhin (Israeli settlement) (ברוכין) • Bruqin (ברוקין) • Budrus (Ramallah) • Bueina (Nazareth) • Bukata • Bukeia • Bukhara • (the) Bukharan Quarter (Jerusalem) • Burgeta • Burin (בורין) (Nablus) • Burka (בורקה) (Ramallah) • Burkin (בורקין) (Jenin) • Bustan Hagalil

C

cabinet, security cabinet, housing cabinet, inner cabinet – lowercase

cabinet/government think about which one to use, it’s the same word in Hebrew

Cameri Theatre

canceled, canceling, cancellation

canion (kenyon, or any other Hebrew variation thereof): use mall

Cape Town stands alone in datelines.

Capitalization: Short Stories, Books, Plays, Music, Video Games and Art

Capitalize the titles of books, periodicals, television and radio shows, video games, podcasts and plays (according to the way they want it to be capitalized), and put them in italics. 

Songs are italicized if the title is not English; otherwise they are only in quotes. 

The Courtship of Miles Standish

Blue Boy

All My Sons

The Saturday Evening Post

“Hatikvah”

 "Hey Jude"

Record albums are set in italics; individual songs are set off in quotes, as are the titles of short stories (unless it’s a collection, which goes in italics), chapters and articles.

Lecture titles in quotes: He will speak on “Democracy at Work”

Capitalize the titles of musical compositions (no italics):

Brahms’s Symphony No.1, or

Beethoven’s Serenade for Flute, Violin and Viola (Op. 25)

Brahms’s First Symphony

Beethoven’s Sonata in E flat

Put nicknames and true titles in italics:

Beethoven’s Eroica Symphony

the Moonlight Sonata

Symphonie Fantastique

Mozart’s Coronation Concerto

Dvorak's Symphony No. 9, the New World Symphony

Lowercase in second reference and when not using the full title:

the concerto

a Mozart serenade

Capitalize the name of a movement:

the Scherzo

the Andante

but lowercase if the movement is referred to by its place in the sequence:

the third movement

the finale

Names of musical works such as operas and ballets go in italics. La Traviata, Swan Lake (same as plays and movies)

Individual dances such as the tango or the samba are not italicized or put in quotes, but dances in other languages (such as the hora) are italicized. Dances that are proper nouns are capitalized, such as the Charleston. 

Capitalization – General

Capitalize the names of specific structures and institutions:

Tel Aviv City Hall

the Tel Aviv Hilton Hotel

Ayalon Prison, Ramle (NOT Ramle Prison)

America House

Hechal Shlomo

the Israel Museum

Also: the Oval Room, the Blue Room

Jerusalem Magistrate’s Court, but the magistrate’s court

Tel Aviv District Court, but the district court

but lowercase jail, police station, post office, bus station, central bus station (except main stations; e.g. Jerusalem or Tel Aviv Central Bus Station)

First reference (or official name); second reference (or alternative term):

the British Commonwealth, the Commonwealth

the British Mandate or the Mandate, also Mandatory Palestine

the Citrus Marketing Board, the board

the City of Jerusalem, the city

the Clinton administration, the administration

the Dimona Municipal Council, the council

the East Coast (of the US), the coast                                                                                  

the Finance Ministry, the ministry, the Treasury                                                                              

the General Assembly, the assembly

the Gulf War, the First Gulf War, the Second Gulf War, Gulf states, the Gulf

Haifa Labor Court, the court, the labor court

the Haifa Labor Council, the labor council, the council, the local labor council

Haifa Municipality, the municipality

Haifa Port, the port

the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Hebrew University, the university

the Herut central committee, the committee

the High Court of Justice, the High Court, the court, the bench

the Histadrut labor federation, the labor federation

the House of Representatives, the House (also: a House committee)

the Israel Air Force, the IAF, the air force, the Israeli air force

the Israel Bar Association, the Bar

the Israel Broadcasting Authority, the authority, the IBA

the Israel Cancer Association, the association

the Israel Electric Corporation, the corporation, the company

the Israeli embassy, the embassy, the Embassy of Israel

the Israel Defense Forces, the IDF, the army

the Israeli government, the government

the Israel Navy, the navy

Israel Radio or Kol Yisrael, the radio

Israel Shipyards, the shipyard, the yard

the Jewish Agency, the agency. Use The Jewish Agency for Israel on first mention. Do not abbreviate as JAFI

the Jordan River, the river, the Jordan

the Knesset (Knesset member), the House, parliament

the Knesset Finance Committee, the committee, the panel

the Knesset Foreign Affairs and Defense Committee

the Labor Party, the party

the Labor Party leadership bureau, the leadership bureau, the bureau

Lake Kinneret (the Sea of Galilee), the lake, the Kinneret

the Liberal Party executive, the executive

Ma’alot-Tarshiha Local Council, the council, the local council

the National Assembly, the assembly

the National League, the league

Parliament (use in caps only if it is the official name of the legislature)

the Prime Minister’s Office, the office

the Rotary Club, the club

Scotland Yard, the Yard

the Security Council, the council

Security Council Resolution 242, the resolution, Resolution 242

the State of California, the state

the State Department, the department

the State of Israel, the state

the Supreme Court, the court, the bench

Tel Aviv City Hall, city hall

the Tel Aviv District Court, the court, the district court

the Tel Aviv Stock Exchange, the exchange, the stock exchange, TASE

Temple Mount, the Mount

the Trade Union Department, the department

the US Army, the army

the US Senate, the Senate

the West Coast (of the US), the coast

World War I, the Great War; not World War One

World War II or Second World War; not World War Two

the World Zionist Organization (WZO) Executive, the executive

the Yom Kippur War, the October War

 Captions and Credits

Captions

-The first two words of a caption should be in all caps. Exceptions should be made up to four words to allow for a more graceful caption. Ex: FORMER PRIME MINISTER Theresa May and not FORMER PRIME minister Theresa May. Occasionally a caption could have but one word in all caps: EFRAT. TripAdvisor has stood firm in its refusal to delist properties in Judea and Samaria. 

 -Rarely is the “Israeli” or “IDF” needed when describing our defense and security forces. Just write: SOLDIERS PATROL near the border...

-Do not write leaders “shake hands” or the minister “holds a press conference.” Write “meet” or “address the media.” 

-Captions should always have a verb (save for certan situations)

-As in datelines, well-known cities do not need their country appended. Simply write: ...during a rally in Beirut marking al-Quds Day.

-The official residences of the prime minister and president, the Supreme Court, the Knesset, parliaments in capitals that are well-known (following the guidelines of datelines) as well as well-known residences (Ex: the White House, 10 Downing Street) and landmarks (Western Wall, Eiffel Tower &c.) do not need a city in the caption. GERMAN CHANCELLOR Angela Merkel attends a swearing-in ceremony in July in the Bundestag.  

-Our prime ministers and presidents need no directional identification (first left, &c.). The same is true for well-known leaders, ex: Kim, Trump, Merkel, Johnson &c. 

-Captions are in the simple present (walks, meets, &c.)  when they are describing the action in the photo. 

-When a file photo is used to preview an event or is used to describe an event from the past, simple present is used with a second sentence giving more detail from the story. 

Ex: The photo is of Paul McCartney in his Tel Aviv performance in 2008. 

Caption: PAUL MCCARTNEY performs in Tel Aviv in 2008. He will be performing in the City that Never Sleeps in December.  

If the graphic designer makes it aware that there is extremely limited space just describe the action (sometimes a verb may not even be necessary due to space constraints)

Caption: PAUL MCCARTNEY in Tel Aviv in 2008.  

Credits

Mark Neyman/GPO (per him, despite what it says on the GPO site)

For standalones that are more than just a basic caption: (Text: Alex Winston; Photo: Kobi Gideon/GPO) ; otherwise (Reuters) will suffice. 

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caracal – as in the IDF’s Caracal Battalion or the animal

caregiver

Carmel Government Hospital, Haifa

Carmel Winery

catalog

cave in, never just “cave” except in a direct quote in English

Cave of the Patriarchs, Tomb of the Patriarchs, not Cave of Machpela, and not Ma’arat Hamachpela

CD-ROM

ceasefire (noun), cease fire (verb)

cellphone

Central Bus Station Jerusalem, Tel Aviv, Haifa, etc., but central bus station without location name

central committee, lowercase, e.g., the Likud central committee

Central Conference of American Rabbis (Reform)

Central Elections Committee

Central Europe

Chabad

Chabad shliach (m.)/shlucha (f)., (emissary); pl. shluchim (m.)/shluchot or shluchos (f.); shlichut or shlichus (mission) - their spelling, with a “ch” and no schwa

chairman, chairwoman (not chairperson, not chair) – Bayit Yehudi chairman Naftali Bennett, Knesset State Control Committee chairwoman Shelly Yachimovich (note Lowercase “chairman” for party and committee heads; Coalition Chairman/woman is an exception

challah, challot

Chamber of Commerce (caps when preceded by name of city: Ramallah, Tiberias, wherever)

channels  – TV channels are given in numerals: Channel 1, Channel 2, etc.

Channel 11 (former Channel 1) or KAN 11. See entry for KAN for more information

Channel 12, (formerly Channel 2); N12 news site on first reference, then N12. Do not use Keshet 12

Channel 13, (formerly Channel 10), Channel 13 News. Do not use Reshet 13

check, never the British “cheque”

Cherlow, Yuval – head of the Petah Tikva Hesder Yeshiva and one of the founders of Tzohar, an organization of National-Religious rabbis.

(IDF) chief of staff

Chief Rabbinate (of Israel), the rabbinate

chief scientist – There is no “chief scientist of the State of Israel,” but rather a chief scientist in each of the following ministries and government bodies: Agriculture Ministry, Central Bureau of Statistics, Communications Ministry, Defense, Education, Environment, Health, Public Security, National Infrastructure, Public Works Department, Survey of Israel. The first reference should be “Soandso, chief scientist of the Whatever Ministry, said...” and the subsequent references just need to refer to the person’s last name. The office in the Economy Ministry is now called the Israel Innovation Authority.

child allotments (paid monthly by NII; not allowances or endowments)

childcare, one word

Children’s Medical Center of Israel, use Schneider Children’s Medical Center for Israel, Petah Tikva

Church of All Nations (preferable to Basilica of the Agony)

Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints Its followers are Mormons

Church of the Holy Sepulchre

chutzpah

Cinema – use movie theater unless it's the name of the specific movie theater, i.e. Cinema City, or if the theater is referred to as a cinematheque, i.e. the Jerusalem Cinematheque

Citadel (note: David’s Tower is only a part of the Citadel and is in itself a misnomer)

CityPass – The consortium that built and runs the first line of the Jerusalem Light Rail

Civil Administration (full title: Civil Administration of Judea and Samaria)

Civil Guard (Mishmar Ezrahi; use Civil Guard)

Civil Service, Civil Service Commission

claimed – only if what the person is saying is in some way contentious. “I like playing football,” he claims. If there is no reason to dispute it, he SAYS it.

Clal, Israel Investment Company Ltd.

Clore, Charles

CMCC -- Civilian -Military Coordination Center, the CENTCOM-led task force in Gaza

coalition, the

coalition chairman/chairwoman – Uppercase before name

Coastal Aquifer

Coastal Plain

Coastal Police (not Coast Guard; but: the police, a coastal policeman)

Coca-Cola

COGAT - this is the abbreviation for the Coordinator of Government Activities in the Territories. It is NOT Coordination. 

co-founder

Cohen, She’ar Yashuv

Coins and Medals Corporation (full name: the Israel Coins and Medals Corporation)

Commando Brigade, or Oz Brigade, comprised of Maglan, Egoz, and Duvdevan special units

commandos

commas – We use the Oxford comma. In other words, in a sequence, “and” does take a comma: “...reporters, editors, and readers.”     

Use trailing commas, e.g., the June 4, 1967, lines; the firm, based in Albany, New York, was founded in 1960. But June 1967 (if not a specific date).

Use commas to set off nonrestrictive (also called nondefining or nonlimiting) descriptors:

For example: Haim spoke with his mother, Miriam, father, Ya’acov, wife, Rachel, daughter Sara, and son Ze’ev. (This indicates that he has more than one daughter and more than one son).

Commerce Federation (Hebrew: Igud Artzi Lemischar; a retailers’ organization, not to be confused with the General Merchants’ Association)t

Congo make sure you’re referring to the right country : Democratic Republic of Congo or Republic of Congo; on second reference either can be referred to as the Congo, in pieces that mention both countries establish the acronyms of DRC and ROC for second reference

the Conservative movement - Movement is uppercase in some proper nouns, such as the Masorti Movement in Israel

consulate – The British Consulate, but the consulate

consulate-general

Company for the Reconstruction and Development of the Jewish Quarter

concentration/death camps – For World War II camps in countries occupied by Nazi Germany, do not use phrases such as Polish death camps that confuse the location and the perpetrators. Use instead, for example, death camps in German-occupied Poland.

Conference of Presidents of Major American Jewish Organizations (or Presidents Conference)

Congress, congressional

• Abbreviate senator and representative at the beginning of one’s name: Ex: Rep. Tom Lantos; but former representative Rashida Tlaib

Always prefer the title and party of a senator or congressperson to be spread out over multiple graphs. 

• Ex: …, said Rep. Joseph Kennedy on Tuesday. 

The Democratic member of Congress from Massachusetts said... 

•If not possible, put it before the name, ex: Massachusetts Democratic Rep. Joseph Kennedy. 

•If space is limited and multiple members of Congress need to be listed with their party and state, abbreviate the party and spell out the state in full, including the more well-known ones: Joseph Kennedy (D-Massachusetts). Having said that, most of the time it is not necessary to give this abbreviation. It makes the text clunky and has very little significance to us in Israel. Use your judgment.   

consumer price index (CPI)

Consumers’ Council – a public body that coordinates the activities of the Consumers’ Association (independent), the Central Consumer Authority (Histadrut) and the Better Business Bureaus of Haifa and Tel Aviv

controversial – often extraneous, obvious from the context

One convinces another of something, but persuades another to do something.

Coordinating Bureau of Economic Organizations

Corrections

We have an obligation to publish corrections in the paper if the error is liable to:

inconvenience the reader (wrong information of concert dates, places and the like);

mislead him/her (wrong prices, other financial data and so on);

needlessly harm any innocent person (wrong name in a criminal case, for example);

or seriously embarrass a writer or a source (through distortion of his words).

Before a correction is published, the responsible editor of the section in which the error appeared must be consulted on the need for the correction and on its contents.

In no case should any particular department of the paper (reporters, editors, press, proofs, ads) be blamed for the error; just point out when and where the error was made.

However, where the source of the error is an outside body, such as a news agency, this should be mentioned, unless the error was such as we could reasonably have been expected to correct.

Where readers may be seriously inconvenienced or some person seriously embarrassed or hurt, the correction should include our regrets, or apology.

Where the correction is put in mainly to placate a wronged person rather than to correct a public impression, it should be headed APOLOGY.

co-sponsor 

Council for a Beautiful Israel, the

council, regional – Note: A rocket hit in the Eshkol region (or near Kibbutz Nir Oz, for example), not in the Eshkol Regional Council.

counterterrorism

co-worker

acceptable usages of coronavirus: "the coronavirus," "COVID-19," "COVID," ; the virus, the pandemic. "Corona" is not, nor has it ever been, an acceptable term to use.

-“The coronavirus” is now acceptable on first reference, even though it incorrectly implies there is only one coronavirus. “New coronavirus” or “novel coronavirus” no longer needs to be used, since the pandemic is almost two years old. 

-If you use “COVID-19” on first reference, feel free to use COVID on second or to save space in headlines. 

-capitalize names of variants: Alpha variant, Delta variant...

-the WHO and WHO are both acceptable on second reference for World Health Organization

Crime and Punishment

Some reminders:

Police arrest suspects who allegedly committed a crime. Don’t convict them in the headline or story without benefit of trial.

By law, the suspect cannot be identified by name until he or she is remanded by a court. This usually occurs within 48 hours of arrest. In some circumstances, a court will bar publication of the suspect's name even after the remand hearing (particularly in cases involving minors or a suspect in a sensitive position). The police and the courts regularly issue notices barring the publication of certain suspects’ names. These should be on file with the news editor.

When a suspect has been charged with or indicted for a crime, he or she becomes the accused or the defendant. If the court finds the person guilty as charged, then the description of the crime no longer refers to it as “alleged.”

criteria is plural. The singular is criterion. Don’t write “a criteria.”

crossing – the Erez crossing

c’tee – Don’t use, use panel instead.

curb, not the British kerb

currently – Take it out. He is currently mayor of Givatayim. No, he is mayor of Givatayim.

Cushmaro, Dany Channel 12 anchor, not Kushmaro

cyberattack

cyber attackers

cyberbully

cybercrime

cyberdefense

cyberhate

cyber intelligence

cyber investments

cybernetwork

cyberoperations

cybersecurity

cyberspace

cyberstalk

cyberterrorism, cyberterrorists

cyberunit

cyberwarfare

cylinder, of gas, or gas cylinder; preferably gas canister (not the Hebrish “gas balloon”)

czar - use quote marks: cyber “czar”, in Russian context use tsar

Currency 

Symbols/text that we use:

NIS New Israeli Shekel, NIS 10,000, millions of shekels, agorot, 10 agorot,

$ US dollar, $10,000, millions of dollars

A$ Australian dollar

C$ Canadian dollar

CHF  Swiss franc,

  €  euro

  £  pound

¢ 1⁄100 of the basic monetary unit

All other currencies, including those who use a similar name (i.e. Egyptian pound, Bahamian dollar) or a similar symbol (i.e. $ for Argentinian pesos) should be spelled out each time. For more, see “Numbers” section.

Place Names: C

Caesarea (קיסריה) • Calvary, or Golgotha (hill where Jesus was crucified) • Capernaum (or Kfar Nahum); in a specifically Christian context use Capernaum • Carmel (כרמל) (mountain, also moshav in Judean mountains) • Carmiya (כרמיה) • Carmon • Castel (קסטל)

D

Dahlan, Mohammad – per his website

Dash (Israeli political party in 1970s), use Democratic Movement for Change

data, plural of datum, takes plural verb or pronoun

dati – When drawing a contrast with haredi, dati should be translated as National-Religious, not religious or Orthodox

Damon Prison

daven should be used only in an English-language quotation (and then explained on first reference) or in a humorous Yiddish context (and again made comprehensible).

daycare, one word, and not as in the dictionary

day-long

“Deal of the Century,”  Trump administration’s Middle East peace plan, “Peace to Prosperity” economic workshop,  “Peace to Prosperity” economic plan

decision-maker

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Defuse vs diffuse

“defuse” means to remove the fuse from a bomb, to make something less dangerous, tense.

“diffuse” means “to pour out and spread, as a fluid; to spread or scatter widely or thinly; disseminate.”

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delegitimization – no hyphen

demonstrator

Denver Boot

Deri, Arye

desaparecidos (those “disappeared” by the government of Argentina from 1976-83)

dialogue, except in a Dialog poll

Diaspora (uppercase if the Jewish Diaspora, anyone else’s is lowercase)

different is often redundant. Don’t write “seven different countries.” Write “seven countries.”

diplomatic-security bureau in the Defense Ministry

Director-General, Dir.-Gen., directors-general – Distinguish among director-general (the executive head of a public body) and managing director (head of a business company and a member of its board), and general manager (the executive head of a company who may also be a member of the board). Always uppercase before a name.

Discount Bank (never IDB in first reference)

Disengagement from the Gaza Strip (2005)

Disinterested means neutral, having no vested interest in one side or the

other (Example: Only a disinterested party can judge the rights and wrongs

of this case.)

Dome of the Rock (NOT: Mosque of Omar; because it’s not a mosque, but a shrine)

Donbas

Dormition Abbey (Jerusalem)

Dow Jones Index (Indices)

Down syndrome

Down Under

draft dodger

dreidel(s)

drown In English, if you drowned, you’re dead; in Hebrew, you might have survived. Don’t write <<drowned to death>>

drug abusers rather than users (drug abuse)

Druze sing. and pl. (not Druse)

dunam(s) – Don’t use dunams (except in a direct quote). Use hectares (10 dunams = 1 hectare), and in first reference give the equivalent in acres: “...covering 1,000 hectares (2,471 acres)...” Actually, it’s 2,471.053 acres, but that should usually be rounded off.  (Before 1928 the dunam was smaller.)

Place Names: D

Daburiya (דבורייה) (Nazareth) • Dafna (דפנה) • Dahiniye (“collaborator” camp in Gaza Strip) • Dahiyeh (in Beirut) (דאחייה) • Daliat al-Carmel (דלית אל-כרמל) • Daliya • Dalton • Damiya (Nablus) • Damun (Arab village, Haifa-Acre) • Dan (דן) • Davidka, Square (כיכר הדוידקה) (Jerusalem) • Davrat • Deganim • Deganya (Alef and Bet) • Dehaishe • Deir Ayub (דיר איוב) (Jerusalem) • Deir el-Asad (דיר אל-אסד) • Deir el-Balah (דיר אל-בלח) • Deir Ghassana (Ramallah) • Deir el-Ghusun (Tulkarm) • Deir Ghazala (דיר ע'זאלה

) (Jenin) • Deir Hanna (Acre) • Deir Istya (Nablus) • Deir Yasin (דיר יאסין) • Deir Jarir (Ramallah • Dekel • Denmark, Square (use Danya, Square) (Jerusalem) • Devira • Devora • Dhahiriya (Hebron) • Dimona (דימונה) • Dishon • Di-Zahav (use Dahab) • Dor • Dorot • Dotan • Dovev • Dura (Hebron)

E

The E1 area – the undeveloped area in Ma’aleh Adumim. Located between the developed part of Ma’aleh Adumin and Jerusalem.

East(ern) and West(ern) are political and cultural, east(ern) and wes(tern) are geographical. They adhere to Western cultural norms.

East Africa

Eastern Europe

Eastern Mediterranean

Eastern Mediterranean Gas Forum 

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east Jerusalem

Readers often complain when we use the term “east Jerusalem” for every neighborhood, street or location in town that is over the Green Line. It is indeed silly to say that Ramot is in “east Jerusalem.”

When the story is not political in nature, we should move to a solely geographical approach that steers clear of the term “east Jerusalem” by saying eastern Jerusalem for those parts over the Green Line that are more in the center (e.g., Wadi Joz, Nablus Road, Silwan), northern Jerusalem (Ramot Allon, Ramot Shlomo, Bir Neballa), northeastern Jerusalem (Neveh Ya’acov, Pisgat Ze'ev, Beit Hanina, French Hill, Ramat Eshkol), southeastern Jerusalem (eastern Abu Tor, East Talpiot, Jebl Mukaber, Sur Bahir, Har Homa) and southern Jerusalem (Gilo).

Only if there is a need to identify any of these places politically would we say they are beyond the pre-1967 line or Green Line or whatever.

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economic – We often write economic when the correct word is financial.

Ecstasy (recreational psychoactive drug)

editor-in-chief

Educational Television (ETV)

Eilat Port

Eisenkot, Gadi – former IDF chief of staff. See "Ranks"

Eitanim (state psychiatric hospital near Jerusalem)

Elad – Use The Ir David Foundation (Elad), then the Ir David Foundation or the foundation. Use City of David for general reference to the neighborhood/archaeological site 

Elaraby, Nabil

ElBaradei, Mohamed

Standard electrical abbreviations:

a amperes

W watts

MW megawatts

mw milliwatts

MWh megawatt-hours

kW kilowatts

kWh kilowatt-hours

v volts

Election Day, election night

electrocute – In English, if you were electrocuted, you’re dead; in Hebrew, you might have survived.

El Hama’ayan – the Shas educational organization

elite – usually extraneous. The reader knows the General Staff Reconnaissance Unit is elite; we don’t need to spell it out. Same for the Iranian Revolutionary Guards Corps.

ellipsis He ran… to the store…. Then he sat down.

email

embassy – Embassy is always lowercase unless used in its official name, meaning Embassy of Israel, but Israel Embassy.

Emergency standby squads – How we refer to Kitot Konenut כיתות כוננות. Can be shortened to standby squads in headlines if necessary.

emigrate from

emissary, emissaries – In news pieces, no need to use the Hebrew or Yiddish words. Op-eds and features can have them, just make sure they’re explained properly.  

Employment Service

Emunah (NRP-affiliated women’s organization)

England - Do not use England as a synonym for Britain or the United Kingdom. Britain comprises England, Scotland and Wales. The United Kingdom comprises Britain and Northern Ireland. Use Britain unless the Irish context is important (from Reuters Handbook) 

Englman, Matanyahu, state comptroller

enormity means horribleness not bigness. (Monstrous can be huge, not necessarily horrible)

enquiry – Use inquiry

entitled – Save “entitled” for when it’s needed. A report is titled “xxx.” A book is titled yyy.

epicenter is the point on the Earth’s surface that is directly above the point where an earthquake or underground explosion originates. It doesn’t mean “center.”

Erdogan, Recep Tayyip (always use three names on first reference) - DO NOT USE ğ character. InCopy does not read it

esports

estimate is for numbers, otherwise use “said,” “believe” etc

Ethiopian-Israelis

etrog(im)

Etzel – Use Irgun

Evangelical, both noun and adjective

Even-Sa’ar, Geula

explosive device – This is jargon. It’s called a bomb.

Expo Tel Aviv, the Expo, formerly the Tel Aviv Fairgrounds

extermination camp – Use death camp

Ezrahut Kavod So and so was given the Freedom of (Anyplace), or made a Freeman of (Anyplace); Yakir Yerushalayim is a Distinguished Citizen of Jerusalem

Place Names: E

Eastern Europe • eastern, east Jerusalem (don’t refer to it as the Old City unless you mean only those parts inside the walls) • eastern Mediterranean • Ebel e-Saki (Lebanon) • Efrat (אפרת) (Gush Etzion) • Eilabun (not Ilabun) • Eilat (אילת) (the town) • Eilat Port (but the port, the port manager – lowercase) • Eila Valley (Boccit Shemesh) • Eilon • Eilon Moreh (Gush Emunim settlement at Rejeib, then Jebl Kabir) • Eilot (the kibbutz) • Einabus (Nablus) • Einan • Einat • Ein Avrona (Arava peace-talks venue) • Ein Ayala • Ein Bokek • Ein Carmel • Ein Dor • Ein Eila • Ein el-Asad (Acre) • Ein Fash’ha • Ein Gedi (עין גדי) • Ein Gev • Ein Ha’emek • Ein Hahoresh • Ein Habesor • Ein Hamifratz • Ein Hanatziv • Ein Harod • Ein Hashlosha (עין השלושה) • Ein Hashofet • Ein Hatzeva • Ein Hemed (also known as Aqua Bella, but use Ein Hemed) • Ein Hod • Ein Hud • Ein Irron • Ein Kerem (עין קרם) • Ein Kuniya (עין קנייא‎) • Ein Mahil • Ein Nakuba • Ein Netafim • Ein Rafa (Jerusalem) • Ein Sarid • Ein Shemer • Ein Tamar • Ein Tzurim • Ein Vered • Ein Ya’acov (עין יעקוב) • Ein Yabrud • Ein Yahav • Ein Zeitim • Ein Zeitun (Safed) • Ein Zivan • Eitan (איתן) • Eitarun (Safed) • Eizariya (not Azariya), also Bethany • Elad (אלעד) • El-Arish • El-Attara (Tulkarm) • Elazar (אלעזר) (Gush Etzion) • El-Balawina (Haifa) • El-Barid (Jenin) • El-Bina (Acre) • El-Bireh (Ramallah) • El-Bureij (Gaza) • El David (no hyphen, it’s Hebrew, not Arabic) • El-Hamma (Tiberias) • Eliav  • El-Jalud (Beit She’an) • El-Jib (Jerusalem) • El-Judeida (Acre) • El-Jura (Gaza, Jerusalem) • El-Kabu (Jerusalem) • El-Khader (Bethlehem) • El-Khalasa (Beersheba) • El-Khalisa (Safed) • El-Khiam (Lebanon) • El-Kubab (Ramle) • El-Kudeiriya (Safed) • El-Kubeiba (Ramle, Hebron, Jerusalem) • El-Malikiya (Safed) • El-Ukeiba (Safed) • Elei Sinai • Eli (עלי) • Eli Al • Elifaz • Elifelet • Elisha • Elishama • Elkana (אלקנה) • Elkosh • Elroi • Elrom • Elyakhin (אליכין) (village south of Hadera) • Elyakim (moshav near Yokne’am) • Elyashiv • Emmanuel • Emmaus (not Imwas) • Emunim • Enav • E-Rashayida (Bethlehem) • Erez (ארז) (Erez crossing) • Eruvin • E-Safiriya (Jaffa) • E-Samakiya (Tiberias) • E-Samiriya (Beit She’an) • E-Sautariya (Ramle) • E-Sawiya (Nablus) • E-Shajara (Tiberias) • Eshbol • Eshed Kinrot • Eshel Hanassi • Esh’har • Eshkol (אשכול) • Eshkolot • Eshtaol • Eshtemoa or Samua • Etz Ephraim (עץ אפריים) • Even Menahem (אבן מנחם) • Even Sapir (אבן ספיר) • Even Shmuel (אבן שמואל) • Even Yehuda (אבן יהודה) • Even Yitzhak (אבן יצחק) • Evron • Evyatar (אביתר) • Eyal • Ezer • Ezuz

F

FADC – Don’t use for Knesset Foreign Affairs and Defense Committee. FADC is gibberish. It’s better to say Knesset panel, foreign affairs panel, defense panel, MKs, the committee, the panel, the full name .

Fahrenheit, don’t use. Only use Celsius (see temperature)

Falash Mura Ethiopian Jews whose ancestors converted to Christianity

fall, autumn, summer, spring, winter – lowercase

Fatah al-Islam, a radical Sunni Islamist group

Fayyad, Salam

Federation of Building Contractors Associations

Federation of Local Authorities in Israel, formerly called the Union of Local Authorities in Israel

falafel

Filipino male person from the (Republic of the) Philippines; feminine form is Filipina; plural Filipinos; adj. Philippine, not Filipino

“Final Solution” 

final status – Hyphenate final-status agreement, final-status deal, final-status issue etc.

Fire and Rescue Authority (Not fire department or brigade; formerly Fire and Rescue Service; use firefighters and rescue workers for its personnel.)

first degree – Don’t use this Hebrish term, write bachelor’s degree.

First (and Second) Intifada

first lady – It’s an unofficial title, so first lady Nechama Rivlin, first lady Melania Trump – title is lowercase, even before a name.

First Lebanon War (1982)

First Temple

flag march (takes place on or near Jerusalem Day)

flaunt means to show off, flout means to defy or to show contempt for.

Florentin neighborhood of Tel Aviv, named after David Florentin

Foreign Affairs and Defense Committee (uppercase)

foreign terms (avoid if possible; use itals at first reference if not in dictionary ay https://www.merriam-webster.com; use accent marks if from French, Spanish or German)

forgo means to do without, forego means to precede.

for his part is usually extraneous.

former Soviet Union in first reference, then FSU

Formica (a brand name and not a generic term, used only when we mean a “decorative laminate product” made by the Formica Corporation.) Use “laminated plastic finish.”

Forum of Arab Council Heads

Fraenkel, Naftali – The yeshiva students Hamas abducted at the bus/hitchhiking stop at Alon Shvut on June 12, 2014, and murdered were: Eyal Yifrah, Gil-Ad Shaer and Naftali Fraenkel. 

free world

front-runner

Fuchs, Camil

fulfill, not fulfil

fundraiser

furor, not the British furore

future – often redundant. If you’re writing in the future tense, it is usually understood.

Financial Copy

Bank of America

Marshall Plan

Bank of England

Most Favored Nation (MFN)

Bank of France

Multilateral Trade Negotiations

Bank for International Settlements (BIS) (Basel)

NIS (New Israeli Shekel)

Bank of Israel, the central bank

Numerals: 7%; the stock dropped 4 points; IBM registered gained 6 (in other words, the rule of 10 does not apply in these cases)

Brookings Institution

OECD (Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development)

Business Week

OPEC (Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries)

CDs, certificates of deposit

percent (one word), but use % with numbers that don’t begin a sentence, even on first use

Citibank, a division of Citicorp

Reuters index (no apostrophe)

EMS (European Monetary System)

Royal Exchange (London)

Special Drawing Rights (SDRs) (see IMF)

euro zone

First International Bank of Israel (FIBI)

Third World

GAB (General Arrangement to Borrow)

Treasury paper, note

GATT (General Agreement on Trade and Tariffs)

US Federal Reserve Bank (in New York)

German Bundesbank

value-added tax (VAT)

Gresham’s Law (“Bad money drives out good”)

Voluntary Foreign Credit Restraint (VFCR)

International Monetary Fund, Special Drawing Rights – SDR(s) of the IMF

Wall Street (spell it out)

Israel Antitrust Authority

wholesale price index (WPI)

LDCs (Less Developed Countries)

World Bank

London Inter-Bank Offered Rate (Libor)

Yankelovich

business titles are lower case, e.g., chairman Henry Higgins, president John Smith

Food (note: no italics for names of foods)

It is not necessary to follow M-W for capitalization of foods, which is inconsistent. Ex: champagne v Bordeaux. 

Capitalize foods when they are named after proper names or characters, and specific regions in their literal sense. i.e.: wiener (American term for sausage), but Wiener Würstchen (a sausage originating and still found in Vienna and surrounding areas). Use legally binding Geographical Indications to help make a decision.

borsht

burekas (singular and plural)

challa, challot

cholent

falafel

filet mignon

fillet steak

ful

Halloumi , only use when cheese is from Cyprus; otherwise use halloumi-style cheese 

Hamin

haroset

Hawayej

helmit or hubeza (mallow), known for its important role during the Siege of Jerusalem

hilbe

hummus

Jerusalem mixed grill (meorav Yerushalmi)

kanafeh

karpas

kebab

kneidlach

kubaneh

kreplach

kubbeh

labaneh

Malabi

mallow 

maror

mejadra

melawah (Yemenite pancake bread)

meze (selection of Middle Eastern salads)

pâté de foie gras

petit four, petits fours

phyllo dough

pita

ptcha (jellied calves’ foot)

rogelach

Sahlab

sambusak

schnitzel

Seven Species, the: pomegranate, olives, grapes, (date) honey, fig, barley, wheat

shishlik

s’hug

shwarma

strudel

Sufganiyot Entin 

teiglach

tehina

za’atar

zhug

Place Names: F

Fahma (פחמה) (Jenin) • Fakua (פקועה) (Jenin) • Faluja (אל-פאלוג'ה) (Gaza) • Fara’ata (פרעתא) (Nablus) • Fassuta (פסוטה‬) (Acre) • Fawwar (אל-פוואר) (Hebron) • Firim (Safed) • Florentin (פלורנטין) (Tel Aviv) • French Hill (גבעת צרפתית) (Jerusalem) (preferable to Givat Shapiro) • Fureidis (פוריידיס) (Haifa)

G

Gaddafi, Muammar, Saif al-Islam

Galgalatz, a popular music station operated by the IDF

the Galilee, Galilean

Galilee Medical Faculty in Safed of Bar-Ilan University

gas cylinder – Use canister

Gates of Jerusalem’s Old City:

Damascus Gate (שער שכם)

Jaffa Gate (שער יפו)

Dung Gate (שער האשפות)

Lions’ Gate (or St. Stephen’s Gate) (שער האריות)

Golden Gate (שער הרחמים)

New Gate (השער החדש)

Herod’s Gate (שער הפרחים)

Zion Gate (שער ציון)

Gaydamak, Arcadi is not an “oligarch,” as he didn’t make his money in the Soviet Union/Russia, and he is not a Russian tycoon, but an Israeli-Russian one.

gay pride parade, (Official titles: Jerusalem March for Pride and Tolerance; Tel Aviv Pride Parade, Tel Aviv Pride Week)

Gaza, Gaza Strip -- Use "the Strip" only if absolutely necessary and only on second mention. NEVER in a headline or first paragraph.

Gaza border communities (יישובי עוטף עזה )

Gaza/Jericho First         

General Merchants Association (a retailers organization, not to be confused with the Commerce Federation)

General Mortgage Bank (Bank Apotekai)

General Security Service, don’t use this term. Instead use Shin Bet (Israel Security Agency) on first reference, then Shin Bet (never “Shabak” except in a direct quote in English)

genocide; Armenian Genocide, Darfur Genocide, Rwandan Genocide  ...

gentile (anyone not a Jew) (but capitalize Righteous Gentile)

Geocartography Institute

Ghajar, the Alawite-Arab village astride the border between Lebanon and the Israeli Golan

Gilead, Amos

Givat Haviva Seminary (the Jewish-Arab Center for Peace)

glamour

Glick, Yehudah – and he is not a rabbi

global jihad

God, don’t write G-d, the prohibition only applies to Hebrew.

Golan Heights – something is “on” the Golan Heights. Israel did not annex the Golan, it extended Israeli law to the Golan, in 1981.

Goldin, Hadar – Lt. Hadar Goldin, 23, from the Givati Brigade, was killed in Rafah, the Gaza Strip, on August 1, 2014, during Operation Protective Edge, and his body was snatched by Hamas.

Goldstone Report (2009)

goodbye – and not as in dictionary

government – lowercase

government/cabinet Think about which one to use, as it’s the same word in Hebrew

government/state Think about which one to use. Land and public companies belong to the state, not to the government, even though the latter are under the Government Companies Authority in the Finance Ministry.

Government House (Armon Hanatziv in Hebrew, but nearby Jerusalem neighborhood is East Talpiot)

XXth Government, the  

grassroot(s)

gray, not grey

Great March of Return

the Green Line

Green Line/Seam Line

Green Line and Seam Line are often used interchangeably for the line between Israel and the West Bank, but there are differences.

The Green Line refers to the line between pre-1967 Israel and the West Bank. Israel does not officially recognize the Green Line, as it does not recognize a border between Israel and the West Bank.

Similarly, the Seam Line refers to the line between Israel and the West Bank, but is more typically used in reference to areas between towns and cities inside Israel and Palestinian areas in the West Bank.

guarantee, not guaranty

Guardian of the Walls, Operation May 2021 operation in Gaza

guerrilla (someone who attacks military targets. Hezbollah guerrillas attack IDF and/or SLA positions in the security zone; Hezbollah terrorists were killed by IDF troops on their way to attack civilians in Israel. When in doubt, ask. See terrorist.

gun battle, two words

gunfight

Gymnasia Herzliya (Tel Aviv high school)

Gymnasia Rehavia (Jerusalem high school)

 gypsy,  Do not use when referring to the Roma people. See Roma. Do not capitalize when used generically to describe someone who is constantly on the move, e.g. She led the life of a gypsy. (Reuters)

Place Names: G

Ga’ash (געש) • Ga’aton (געתון) • Gada • Gadid (גדיד) • Gadish (גדיש) • Gadot (גדות) • Galed • the Galilee (הגליל) (the Galilee Panhandle, the Lower Galilee, the Upper Galilee, the Western Galilee) • Galon (גל און) • Ganei Am • Ganei Modi’in (גני מודיעין) • Ganei Tal (גני טל) • Ganei Tikva (גני תקווה) • Ganei Yehuda (גני יהודה‎) • Ganei Yohanan (גני יוחנן) • Gan Hadarom (גן הדרום) • Gan Haim (גן חיים) • Gan Hashlosha (גן השלושה) (also Sakhne) • Gan Or (גן אור) • Gan Raveh • Gan Shmuel (גן שמואל) • Gan Shomron (גן שומרון) • Gan Shlomo (גן שלומו) • Gan Sorek (גן שורק) • Gan Yavne (גן יבנה) • Gan Yoshiya • Ganim • Ganot • Ganot Hadar • Garden Tomb Jesus’s burial place (Jerusalem) • Gat (גת) • Gavriel • Gaza (עזה) • Gaza Strip • Gazit • Geha • Ge’alya • Gedera (גדרה) • Gefen • the German Colony (Jerusalem and elsewhere) • Gesher (גשר) • Gesher Haziv • Geshur • Gethsemane (site where Jesus rose to heaven) (Mount of Olives, Jerusalem) • Geula (Jerusalem) • Geulei Teiman (גאולי תימן) • Geulim • Geva Binyamin (also known as Adam) • Geva • Geva Carmel (גבע כרמל) • Gevim • Gezer (גזר) • Ghabbatiya (Safed) • Ghajar (ע'ג'ר) • Ghuraba (Safed) • Gibton (גבתון) • Gid’ona (גדעונה) • Gilad Farm • Gilat • Gilgal • Gilo (Jerusalem) • Gilon • Gimzo (גמזו) • Ginat • Ginaton • Ginegar • Ginossar • Gitit • Givat Ada • Givat Assaf (גבעת אסף) • Givat Brenner (גבעת ברנר) • Givat Chen (גבעת חן) • Givat Ela • Givat Hadagan • Givat Haim (גבעת חיים) • Givat Hamatos (Jerusalem) • Givat Hamivtar (גבעת המבתר) • Givat Hamoreh • Givat Hananya • Givat Hashlosha (גבעת השלושה) • Givat Haviva (גבעת חביבה) • Givat Koah (גבעת כ"ח) • Givat Michael • Givat Nili (גבעת ניל"י) • Givat Olga (גבעת אולגה) • Givat Shapira (גבעת שפירא) • Givat Shaul (גבעת שאול) • Givat Shmuel (גבעת שמואל) • Givat Washington (גבעת וושינגטון) • Givat Ye’arim • Givat Yeshayahu (גבעת ישעיהו) • Givat Yoav (גבעת יואב) • Givat Ze’ev (גבעת זאב) • Givatayim (גבעתיים) • Givat Hamatos (neighborhood in Jerusalem) • Givati • Giv’olim • Givon • Givon Hahadasha • Givot Bar • Glil Yam • Golan Heights (רמת הגולן) (not Ramat Hagolan); on the Golan; second reference, the Heights • Gonen • Goren • Granot Hagalil • Greek Colony (Jerusalem) • Green Line (the armistice lines of 1949-67) • Grofit • Gush Dan (גוש דן) • Gush Etzion (גוש עציון) • Gush Halav (ancient settlement where Jish is today) • Gvaram • Gvat • Gvulot (גבולות)

Note: “The territories” and “beyond the Green Line” are not the same. While Judea, Samaria and the Gaza Strip are territories beyond the Green Line, this usage does not apply to Jerusalem neighborhoods created after the Six Day War.

H

Haaretz

Haas Promenade

Habima Theatre 

Hadassah Academic College, Jerusalem

Hadassah (Balfour) Hospital, Tel Aviv

Hadassah-University Medical Center, in Jerusalem’s Ein Kerem

Hadassah-University Medical Center, on Jerusalem’s Mount Scopus

hadassim (part of lulav)

haftarah, depending on the audience, should be explained somewhere close by:  the portion from the Prophets read on Shabbat (and holidays and fast days) following the reading of the Torah portion. (For example: news section vs Magazine dvar Torah)

Haifa University– don’t use. School’s title is: University of Haifa

Hakfar Hayarok (agricultural school; not Kfar Hayarok)

Haga (formerly Civil Defense, replaced by IDF Home Front Command)

Hagana

Haggadah (Haggadot)

Hague, The (always uppercase “The”)

Haifa Port

Hajj

haji, a Muslim who has made his pilgrimage (haji) to Mecca

Hakibbutz Ha’artzi (the Mapam kibbutz movement) You may refer to a member kibbutz as a Kibbutz Artzi community

Hakibbutz Hadati (the NRP kibbutz movement) You may refer to a member kibbutz as a Kibbutz Dati community

Hakibbutz Hame’uhad (the United Kibbutz Movement, UKM) – the Kibbutz Meuhad leadership, a Kibbutz Me’uhad community

Halacha, halachic, halachicly (this last is better rendered as “according to Halacha” or )

Halevi, Herzi, IDF chief of staff

Hallel

hallelujah

Hamas (never “the Hamas,” even in a direct quote)

Hamas Health Ministry – use this, or Hamas-run Gaza Health Ministry. Never use Gaza Health Ministry. You can, however, use Gaza health officials.

Hamashbir Lazarchan

Hamesila Park along the old railway track in Jerusalem

Hamoetza Lehesder Himurim Basport – use Israel Sports Betting Board

Hanegbi, Tzachi

Haniyeh, Ismail

Hano’ar Ha’oved Vehalomed (Histadrut) – or the Noar Oved movement

Hanukkah, hanukkiah, hanukkiot

Hardal, a Hebrew portmanteau for ultra-Orthodox and nationalist; on first reference, can write Hardal (nationalist ultra-Orthodox), or else explain somewhere high up in the story

hard disk, hard drive, HD, HDD

hardline/r - not like M-W

haredi(m) – on first reference, write haredi (ultra-Orthodox).

Har Hamenuhot Cemetery

Hariri, Rafik

hasbara – explain at first reference as public diplomacy. Second reference is not italicized.

Hashomer Hatza’ir (Zionist-socialist pioneering youth movement)

Haskala, (the Enlightenment movement; beginning 1770s)

United Hatzalah

Hassan-Nahoum, Fleur

hassid(im) (when referring to a specific sect, uppercase: Belz Hassidim, Chabad Hassidim, Toldos Aharon &c.; -Gur (when adjective, becomes Gerrer): the Gerrer Rebbe, Gerrer Hassidim, rabbis of Gur ; Vizhnitz Hassidic dynasty); use the preferred spelling of each sect, which will most likely contradict JPost's Sephardi-Hebrew spelling,: i.e. Toldos Avrohom Yitzchok, and not Toldot Avraham Yitzhak 

hassidic

Hassidism - refers to the movement in general

“Hatikvah”

Hatzalah – United Hatzalah

havdalah

Hayarkon Park

Hayʼat Tahrir al-Sham (HTS)

hazan or cantor or officiant

hazanut, Needs to be defined: cantorial music

head scarf, two words

Heat wave, two words

Clalit Health Services

Maccabi Healthcare Services

Meuhedet Health Maintenance Organization

Leumit Health Care Services

Hebrew Book Week

Hebrew Immigrant Aid Society (HIAS)

the Hebrew University of Jerusalem (the Hebrew U., HU in headlines)

Heichal Shlomo the former seat of the Chief Rabbinate of Israel. The building in Jerusalem currently contains the Jewish Heritage Museum, Renanim Synagogue, office space and an auditorium.

Heichal Hatarbut – many cities have them; Tel Aviv’s is the Charles Bronfman Auditorium, formerly the Mann Auditorium

Heftsiba Ltd.

hegira, the Prophet Muhammad’s flight from Mecca to Medina on July 16, 622 CE, from which date the Muslim era is reckoned

Herzliya Gymnasia (use Gymnasia Herzliya)

Herzl, Theodor

Herzog, Isaac; nicknamed: "Bougie"

Herzog Medical Center, Jerusalem (formerly Ezrat Nashim)

hesder yeshiva 

Hevrat Ha’ovdim

Hezbollah

HIAS (Hebrew Immigrant Aid Society)

High Court of Justice (see Supreme Court)

High Holy Days (not High Holidays)

Hillel Yaffe Medical Center, Hadera

Hirchson, Avraham

Histadrut labor federation, second reference Histadrut

Hi-tech terms

CD-ROM

KB, kilobyte

cellphone

Kbit, kilobit (never K)

email

MB, megabyte

hard disk, hard drive, HD, HDD

Mbit, megabit (never M)

hi-tech

online

Internet

RAM

GB, gigabyte

URL

Gbit, gigabit (never G)

World Wide Web, the Web, but website

Hitorerut B’yerushalayim, not Hitorerut (Awakening).

Ho means river in Chinese. Use either Hwang Ho or Hwang River, but never Hwang Ho River. Kiang also means river, so the same rule applies.

Hol Hamoed – the intermediate days of the holiday

Holidays

Capitalize all religious and secular holidays and special events:

Election Day

Hanukkah

Holocaust Remembrance Day (formerly Holocaust Martyrs’ and Heroes’ Remembrance Day) and International Holocaust Remembrance Day. NEVER “Holocaust Day” or Yom Hashoah)

Eid al-Adha (Feast of the Sacrifice) Muslims believe the festival commemorates God’s sparing Abraham’s son, IsJerumail, after the patriarch was about to sacrifice him to prove his faith. Jews and Christians believe it was Abraham’s younger son, Isaac, who was saved.

Eid al-Fitr (festival ending Ramadan)

Independence Day, not Yom Ha’atzma’ut

Lag Ba’omer

Mother’s Day

National Safety Week

New Year’s Day, New Year’s Eve (but: what will the new year bring?; at the start of the new year)

Passover

Purim

Ramadan (ninth month in the Islamic calendar; observance includes fasting from dawn till sunset)

Remembrance Day – (formerly Remembrance Day for the Fallen of Israel’s Wars) But if in the context it is necessary to distinguish it from Holocaust Remembrance Day, write <<on Holocaust Remembrance Day and Remembrance Day for the Fallen of Israel’s Wars

Rosh Hashanah

Shavuot

Sigd (Ethiopian Jewish observance; see main entry)

Simchat Torah

Sukkot

Tisha B’Av

Tu B'Av

Tu Bishvat

Holland, see the Netherlands

Holot detention center

Home Front Command (replaced Haga)

Hoshana Raba

Hospitals

Abarbanel State Mental Health Center, Bat Yam (המרכז הרפואי לבריאות הנפש ע"ש יהודה אברבנאל)

ALYN Orthopedic Hospital and Rehabilitation Center, Jerusalem (independent, but connected with Ilan) (בית חולים אלי"ן)

Awda Hospital, Jabalya in Gaza

Shamir Medical Center, Tzrifin (המרכז הרפואי שמיר, aka אסף הרופא)

Samson Assuta Ashdod University Hospital (בית החולים האוניברסיטאי אסותא אשדוד על שם סמסון)

Assuta Medical Center, Ashkelon

Assuta Medical Center, Beersheba

Assuta Medical Center, Haifa

Assuta Medical Center, Petah Tikva

Assuta Medical Center, Rishon Lezion

Assuta Medical Center, Tel Aviv

Augusta Victoria Hospital, Jerusalem (מתחם אוגוסטה ויקטוריה)

Barzilai Medical Center, Ashkelon (מרכז רפואי ברזילי)

Beilinson (see Rabin below)

Beit Loewenstein (rehabilitation hospital, in Ra’anana)

Bikur Cholim Hospital, Jerusalem (בית החולים ביקור חולים)

Bnai Zion Hospital (Rothschild), Haifa (מרכז רפואי בני ציון)

Carmel Medical Center, Haifa

Emek Medical Center, Afula (מרכז רפואי העמק)

EMMS Nazareth Hospital, also known as Scottish Hospital and English Hospital

The Galilee Medical Center (formerly Western Galilee Hospital, the government hospital in Nahariya)

Hadassah (Balfour) Hospital, Tel Aviv

Hadassah-University Medical Center, in Jerusalem’s Ein Kerem (מרכז רפואי הדסה)

Hadassah-University Medical Center, on Jerusalem’s Mount Scopus

Herzog Medical Center, Jerusalem (formerly Ezrat Nashim) (בית חולים הרצוג)

Hillel Yaffe Medical Center, Hadera (המרכז הרפואי הלל יפה)

Indonesian Hospital, Beit Lahiya in Gaza

Joseftal Hospital, Eilat 

Kaplan Medical Center, Rehovot (מרכז רפואי קפלן)

Kirya Maternity Hospital, Tel Aviv

Laniado Hospital, Netanya (בית החולים לניאדו)

Mayanei Hayeshua Medical Center, Bnei Brak (מרכז רפואי מעיני הישועה)

Martyr Khalil Suleiman Hospital, Jenin

Meir Medical Center, Kfar Saba

Misgav Ladach Hospital, Jerusalem (משגב לדך)

Mizra Psychiatric Hospital, Acre

Makassed Hospital, Jerusalem

National Poison Control Center (in Haifa’s Rambam Health Care Campus)

Tzafon Medical Center (Poriya) (near Tiberias), formerly known as Baruch Padeh Medical Center (מרכז רפואי צפון – פוריה)

Rabin Medical Center-Beilinson Campus, Petah Tikva (מרכז רפואי רבין/בית חולים בילינסון)

Rabin Medical Center-Hasharon Campus, Petah Tikva (כז רפואי רבין/בית חולים גולדה השרון)

Rambam Health Care Campus, Haifa (includes Ruth Rappaport Children’s Hospital and Sammy Ofer Fortified Underground Emergency Hospital) (formerly Rambam Medical Center) (רמב"ם - הקריה הרפואית לבריאות האדם)

Rantisi Pediatric Hospital, Gaza City

St. John’s Ophthalmic Hospital, Jerusalem

Schneider Children’s Medical Center for Israel, Petah Tikva

  Shaare Zedek Medical Center, Jerusalem (מרכז רפואי שערי צדק‎)

Shalvata Mental Health Center, Be’er Ya’acov

Sheba Medical Center, Tel Hashomer (includes Safra Children’s Hospital) (המרכז הרפואי ע"ש חיים שיבא – תל השומר)

Shifa Hospital, Gaza City

Shmuel Harofeh Geriatric Hospital, Be’er Ya’acov

Sourasky Medical Center (includes Ichilov Hospital, Dana-Dwek Children’s Hospital, Lis Maternity Hospital), Tel Aviv (המרכז הרפואי תל אביב ע"ש סוראסקי/ בית החולים איכילוב)

Soroka Medical Center, Beersheba (המרכז הרפואי סורוקה)

Wolfson Medical Center, Holon (מרכז רפואי וולפסון)

Ziv Medical Center, Safed, which used to be called Rebecca Sieff Hospital (בית החולים רבקה זיו)

Hot, television network, Hot 3 HD, Hot HBO, Hot VOD

hotline, one word, and not as in the dictionary

Hotza’a lapo’al (see Bailiff’s Office)

Bailiff’s Office – There is (still) no death penalty in Israel for indebtedness, hence no such thing as a “Chief Executioner’s Office,” a common mistranslation of hotza’a lafo’al. Bailiffs are appointed by the minister of justice and enforce the collection of checks, promissory notes, mortgages, etc. under the Execution of Court Decisions Law 5727-1967. “Victorious litigants may submit their judgments to any bailiff’s office for execution...The head of the bailiff’s office is empowered to issue an arrest or search warrant, an order barring an individual leaving the country...may also order the payment of a debt in installments, the detention or release of the debtor, and so on.” (source: Israel Government Yearbook)

House of Quality (Jerusalem)

housing starts – Don’t write “new housing starts,” it’s redundant, starts are new.

hummus (chickpea paste)

humus (decomposed plant and/or animal matter that forms the organic portion of soil)

huppah – italicize first reference

Place Names: H

Hable (Kalkilya) • Habonim • Hadar Am • Hadassim • Hadera (חדרה) • Hadid (חדיד) • Had-Nes (Golan Heights settlement whose name is an acronym for Haruvit, Dikla and Neot Sinai) • Hafetz Haim • Hagai (חגי) • Hagor • Hagoshrim • Hahotrim (kibbutz south of Haifa) • Haifa (חיפה) • Haifa Bay, the bay area, the bayside • Haifa Port (but the port, the port manager – lowercase) • Halhoul • Hama’apil • Hamadiya (חמדיה) • Hamat Gader • Hamdun (Haifa) • Hamra • Hanaton (חנתון) • Haniel • Hanita (חניתה) • Hanuta (Acre) • Ha’ogen • Ha’on • Har Adar • Hararit • Harashim • Harduf • Harel • Har Gilo • Har Hamenuhot (the cemetery) (Jerusalem) • Har Homa (הר חומה) • Har Hotzvim • Harish (חריש) • Hartuv • Harutzim • Haruvit • Hashmonaim (חשמונאים) • Hasolelim • Hispin (not Haspin) • Hatta (Gaza) • Hatzav • Hatzerim (חצרים) • Hatzeva • Hatzor (חצור) • Hatzor Ashdod (חצור אשדוד) (kibbutz) • Hatzor Haglilit • Havatzelet Hasharon • Hayogev • Hazorea • Hazor’im • Hebron (חברון) • Hebron Hills • Heftziba (חפציבה‎) • Heiran • Heletz • Hemed • Hermesh • Herut • Herodion (Herod’s fortress near Bethlehem) • Herzliya (הרצליה) • Herzliya Pituah (part of Herzliya) • Hetzron • Hezayel (Bedouin site) • Hibat Zion • Hila • Hinanit • Hinnom Valley (גיא בן הינום) (Jerusalem) • Hittin (Tiberias) • Hizma (חיזמה) (Jerusalem area) • Hodayot • Hodeidah (אל-חודיידה) (in Yemen. Do NOT translate as Al Hudaydah, or Hodeda, Hodeida, or Hudaida) • Hod Hasharon • Hodiya • Hofit • Hogla • Holit (חולית) • Holon (חולון) • Holon University of Technology • Holy Land, the (ארץ הקודש) the Promised Land • Homesh (חומש) • Horshat Tal • Horshim (חורשים) • Hosen • Hoshaya • Hostage Square (כיכר חטופים) (in Tel Aviv) • Hoter • Hujeirat (Haifa) • Hula (Lebanon) • Hula Valley (עמק החולה) (not Huleh) • Houla (Syria) • Hukok (חוקוק) • Hulata (חולתה) • Hulda • Huliyot • Hura (חורה) •

Hurfeish (Druze village, the Upper Galilee) • Husan (Bethlehem) • Huseiniya (Safed) • Huwara (חווארה) (Nablus)

I

Ibn Gvirol Street

ICCY (International Cultural Center for Youth, Jerusalem)

Ichilov Hospital, Tel Aviv, part of Sourasky Medical Center

identikit (composite police sketch for criminal identification)

IDF Spokesperson’s Unit,  - IDF is enough, for example in photo credits, or instead of “the IDF’s Spokesperson said in a statement,” - just write the IDF said. This applies to all spokesperson offices/media relations branches. They are not separate entities from the organization they are representing. They are the organization itself.

Don’t write the redundant <IDF forces>

iftar

Ihud Hakvutzot Vehakibbutzim (Mapai kibbutz movement. Refer to a member kibbutz as an Ihud Hakvutzot Vehakibbutzim community.)

Ilan (Israel Foundation for Handicapped Children)

imam, Muslim priest

immigrate to

impact – try to use affect, but only if you know how to use affect and effect. If it has an impact it is an EFFECT

importantly / Write <<important>> when it’s a sentence modifier, i.e., when it means marked by or indicative of significant worth or consequence: valuable in content or relationship.

Inauguration Day

Independence Day

Independence Park

indict – Courts don’t and cannot indict people. The state attorney indicts people. An indictment is an accusation not a court decision.

infiltrate Someone infiltrates Israel, not into Israel

in order to Most of the time, just write <<to>>

inshallah, God willing

Interministerial Economic (or other) Committee

International Christian Embassy Jerusalem

International Cultural Center for Youth (ICCY), Jerusalem

Internet

An interpreter translates spoken words whereas a translator translates written words.

intifada (not ital.), First Intifada, Second Intifada

Iran, the Islamic Republic (always capitalize: the Islamic Republic)

Iran-Iraq War (began 1980, ended 1988; also the Iraq-Iran War)

Iron Shield, Operation: The IDF operation to thwart the barrage of Iranian drones and missiles fired at Israel on April 13-14, 2024

Islamic State or ISIS, never IS

Islamophobia 

Israel Aerospace Industries (second ref. IAI)

Israel Air Force, air force, IAF; Israel Navy, navy; IDF, army

Israel Antitrust Authority

Israel Bar Association (second ref. the Bar)

Israel Bonds (State of Israel Bonds, the Bond drive, Israel Bonds Organization

Israel Broadcasting Authority or Broadcasting Authority (IBA)

Israel Cancer Association

Israel Defense Forces (or IDF, even in first reference)

Israel Electric Corporation (second ref. IEC)

Israeli embassy (in Cairo, Washington, etc) - official name is Embassy of Israel

Israel Foundation for Handicapped Children (Ilan)

Israel Hayom

Israel-Hamas War - not Gaza war, and not Israel-Hamas war, and not October 7 war. Also not Swords of Iron war, but was originally called Operation Swords of Iron.

Israel Innovation Authority, until 2016 known as the Office of the Chief Scientist in the Economy Ministry. Every ministry has/had a chief scientist, but they usually meant the one in the Economy Ministry.

Israel Lands Authority, second reference ILA, formerly the Israel Lands Administration, but it still functions under the Israel Lands Administration Law

Israel Military Industries, not TAAS-Israel Industries

Israel Museum (Jerusalem)

Israel National Cyber Directorate

Israel National Roads Company, see Netivei Israel

Israel Nature and Parks Authority (INPA)

Israeli Opera

Israel Philharmonic Orchestra (IPO)

Israel Police (takes plural verb) For ranks, see Ranks. National Fraud Squad; Serious and International Crime Unit (based in Lod). Regional police branches are substations, subordinate to the National Headquarters. Ex: Jerusalem District police chief … not Jerusalem Police chief

Israel Ports Development & Assets Company, which has subsidiaries Haifa Port Company, Ashdod Port Company and Eilat Port Company

Israel Postal Company

Israel Prison Service – IPS on second mention

Israel Radio, or Kol Yisrael

Israel Railways

Israel Securities Authority

Israel Television (ITV)

italics Refer to Merriam-Webster’s (http://www.merriam-webster.com/) on italicizing foreign words. Italicize names of ships, boats (including space shuttles, but don’t italicize unmanned probes, moon landers etc.), titles of books, periodicals/academic journals, print and online news outlets (not TV channels), plays, record albums, and works of art (see Capitalization for detailed explanation). Don't italicize words in the main body of the dictionary. Terms such as <<in vitro>>, <<joie de vivre>>, <<de facto>> have been used in English for centuries and don’t need to be italicized.

IUD intra-uterine contraceptive device (also IUCD)

Izzadin al-Qassam or the Izzadin al-Qassam Brigades (So-called “military” wing of Hamas, named for Arab Islamic leader who fought Jews and British and was killed by British Mandatory forces in 1935.)

Place Names: I

Ibdar • Ibdis (Gaza) • Ibillin (Haifa) • Ibim • Ibthan (Tulkarm) • Ibtin • Ibwein (Ramallah) • Idan • Idmit (see also Adamit) • Idna (Hebron) • Ijlil (use Jalil) • Ikrit • Iksal (Nazareth) • Iktaba (Tulkarm) • Ilaniya • Ilanot • Ilut (Nazareth) • Immatin (Nablus) • Imwas (use Emmaus) • Inbar • Innaba (Ramle) • Irak Suweidan (Gaza) • Ir Ganim (Jerusalem) • Ir Ovot • Irron (but Wadi Ara) • Irtah (Tulkarm) • Isawiya (Jerusalem) NOT ISSAWIYA, ESSAWIYA, OR ESAWIYA 

J

Ja’bari, Ahmed (from Hamas’s Izzadin wing)

JD Vance - not J.D. Vance, or J. D. Vance, or J D Vance

Jehovah’s Witnesses

Jerusalem Artists’ House (at Bezalel)

Jerusalem Day

Jerusalem District Electricity Company (in eastern Jerusalem)

Jerusalem Forest

Jerusalem International Convention Center, the official name of Binyenei Ha’uma. Use this name.

Jerusalem (or other) Licensing Bureau (use instead of Misrad Harishui)

Jerusalem Light Rail They are light rail cars in a technical or specific sense. A light rail car is xxx meters long. The things trundling down Jaffa Road are trains (assuming we know the context is the light rail), or you could call them trams. The light rail is the entire outfit. The light rail cost xxx million dollars to build. xxx people rode on the light rail on its first day of operation. Names of lines are capitalized : Red Line, Purple Line &c.

Jerusalem Payis Arena

Jerusalem Police Tourists’ Unit or Jerusalem tourist police

The Jerusalem Post Diplomatic Conference – no italics

The Jerusalem Post Annual New York Conference – no italics

The Jerusalem Post Group – no italics; The Jerusalem Post Group Election Conference – no italics

Jerusalem Symphony Orchestra (JSO; formerly the Broadcasting Authority Symphony Orchestra)

Jerusalem Theatre (their spelling)

Jew-hater, Jew-hatred

Jewish Agency (capitalize department names)

Jewish National Fund, use Keren Kayemeth LeIsrael-Jewish National Fund

job-seeker

Johannesburg stands alone in datelines.

the Joint Distribution Committee, JDC, the Joint, or the American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee. No Malben in the name.

Joseftal Hospital, Eilat

J Street

“judenrein,” (literally “clean of Jews”) may need an explanation if not in context of Holocaust 

Judicial Selection Committee

Judicial reform – not, not judicial revolution, not judicial coup. Judicial overhaul can be used in headlines for print, not web, and can be used lower in the text. Must always be judicial reform in the lede.

judges’ names – Go to https://judgescv.court.gov.il/

Find the Hebrew entry on the judge, which will have his or her name in English. 

 For retired judges just toggle the first bar from "serving" to "retired."

Note: The mandatory retirement age for judges is 70, but they can continue to work on cases they started before their 70th birthdays.

judgment, not judgement

junction – e.g. the Kalandiya junction

Justice Ministry’s Police Investigation Department (PID) (investigates allegations of police misconduct)

Place Names: J

Jaba (Nablus) • Jabalya (Gaza Strip town and refugee camp 2 km. away) • Jabal al-Druze (הר הדרוזים) (in Syria. Also known as Jabal al-Arab or Jabal Hauran, but don't use thse names. Called Har Hadruzim in Hebrew) • Jabaris (Nablus) • Jabbul (Beit She’an) • Jaffa (יפו) • Jahula (Safed) • Jaiyus (Tulkarm) • Jalaiya (Gaza) • Jalama (town near Jenin and Kishon Police Station) • Jalik (Jaffa, Acre) • Jalil • Jaljulya • Jalud (Nablus) • Jarak (Haifa) • Jarash (Hebron) • Jatt (Tulkarm) • Jatun (Druze village near Acre, sometimes also called Jatt) • Jebl Moussa (Accepted by Roman-Byzantine tradition as Mount Sinai; use Jebl Moussa.) • Jebl Mukaber • Jeida (Haifa) • Jenin (ג'נין) • Jericho (יריחו) • Jerusalem* (western, eastern, northern, southern, or even east Jerusalem; but never “East Jerusalem,” except in the name of an organization if that’s what it’s called) • Jerusalem Corridor • Jerusalem Hills • Jezreel Valley (but Kibbutz Yizre’el) • Jibit (Nablus) • Jiljilya (Ramallah) • Jimzu (Ramle) • Jish (ג'ש) (site of ancient Gush Halav) • Jisr e-Zarka • Jit (Kalkilya) • Jordan, the (הירדן) (the Jordan River) • Jordan Valley • Jounieh (Lebanon) • Judea • Judean Desert • Judean Hills • Judeida (with Makr near Acre and Jenin) • Judeira (Jerusalem) • Julis (Acre) • Juneid (Nablus) • Juseir (Gaza)

Note: Consistent with the Post’s long-standing belief that Jerusalem is Israel’s united capital, we have stubbornly fought to maintain certain distinctions in our use of several geopolitically loaded terms – distinctions not observed by the foreign press, particularly the wire services, and most particularly wire photo captions. Two such distinctions have become blurred, for example, in stories and captions about Ateret Kohanim and Silwan: the use of the term “East Jerusalem” and descriptions of “settlers” buying or using property inside the city limits.

There is no designation “East Jerusalem” (with a capital E). Jerusalem has northern, southern, western and eastern areas, but there is no North Jerusalem, West Jerusalem, South Jerusalem, or East Jerusalem. No Upper West Side nor Lower East Side. In eastern Jerusalem, or even east Jerusalem, there are a number of neighborhoods; some of them predominantly Jewish, some mostly Arab, some mixed. The use of “East” as if it were a separate geographical entity serves to further and to perpetuate a tendentious political argument that indeed seeks to redivide the city.

Settlers settle settlements. In the territories. A person cannot buy property in a central neighborhood of the capital – or any other neighborhood – and be referred to as a “settler.” A Jewish person who buys a plot in Rehavia or Silwan, in Ramot Eshkol or San Simon, in the Jewish Quarter or the Muslim Quarter, is not a settler. He or she is a land owner, property buyer, maybe even troublemaker – but calling such a person a “settler” indirectly impugns Jerusalem’s sovereignty all over again.

There are no “villages” in Jerusalem, except in a quote or an opinion piece.

One is also not a "settler" if they live in the Gaza border area, or if they live in the Golan Heights. Both areas are considered sovereign Israel (the Golan Heights at least by Israel). One is only a "settler" if they live in the West Bank, aka Judea and Samaria. Anyone who lives in Karnei Shomron or Efrat, or Itamar or Elazar, can be considered a settler, though other terms are also acceptable in text such as "Efrat residents" or "West Bank residents." 

K

Kabbalah

Kadoorie Agricultural School (but Rabbi Yitzhak Kadourie)

Kahane, Meir – assassinated Member of Knesset from Kach party

Kamm, Anat

KAN (Hebrew: lit. 'Here'), is the trade name of the Israeli Public Broadcasting Corporation (IPBC) established in 2017 to replace the Israel Broadcasting Authority (IBA). Use KAN News for news articles/TV reports, KAN Reshet Bet and KAN Reshet Gimel for radio interviews and reports, and KAN 11 for when something not news-related airs on the TV channel.

Kaplan Medical Center, Rehovot

kapparot

kashrut

kebab (not kabab)

keffiyeh

Amir Shneider

Keren Hayesod – use United Israel Appeal (check: the appeal has different names in some countries; e.g., in Britain it is the Joint Israel Appeal)

Keren Kayemeth LeIsrael-Jewish National Fund, second reference KKL-JNF. JNF is KKL-JNF’s branches around the world, for example JNF-USA or JNF-Australia, and the Israeli branch is KKL-JNF – they have different leaders and different boards.

ketubah, ketubot

Kfar Maccabiah (hotel/convention center in Ramat Gan)

Katsav, Moshe

kehillah - use congregation or community or the like. For names of synagogues without a definite English transliteration, use Kehillah or Kehillat. 

kess, kessim first reference kessim (spiritual leaders of the Ethiopian Jewish community)

kibbutz, kibbutzim

kiddush

killed/wounded/injured – people are killed/wounded/injured “when,” not “after,” something bad happens to them.

kilowatt – A kilowatt of generating capacity is a kilowatt – there is no such thing as “kilowatts per hour” or “kilowatts per day.” There are kilowatt hours – if you leave a generator or solar installation with a capacity of 100 kilowatts running for two hours, it can produce 200 kilowatt hours of energy.

Kinneret – on first reference: Lake Kinneret (the Sea of Galilee)

kippah (kippot) or skullcap, or yarmulke. Note: “Kippah seruga” is a crocheted, not knitted, kippah.

Kirya Maternity Hospital, Tel Aviv

Kirya, the (In Jerusalem: Kiryat Ben-Gurion or the government complex; in Tel Aviv: the Kirya military headquarters, which includes the General Staff Headquarters), nickname is “the pit”

Knesset

Permanent Committees:

Constitution, Law, and Justice Committee (Law Committee is short form)

Committee on the Status of Women

Economic Affairs Committee

Education, Culture, and Sports Committee

Finance Committee

Foreign Affairs and Defense Committee

House Committee

Immigration, Absorption, and Diaspora Affairs Committee

Internal Affairs and Environment Committee

Labor, Welfare, and Health Committee

Science and Technology Committee

State Control Committee

For other Knesset committees, go to www.knesset.gov.il/description/eng/eng_work_vaada.htm

For names of Knesset members, go to the 20th [or most recent, may no longer be 20th by the time you do it] Knesset list. Lists for the 15th through 19th Knessets are also available.

knot – A knot is a unit of speed equal to 1 nautical mile per hour. Don’t write “5 knots per hour,” just “5 knots.”

Kohavi, Aviv IDF chief of staff

kohen (kohanim), lowercase (a member of the priestly line)

Koran – Use Quran

Kotel – use Western Wall. Don’t use Kotel except in a direct quote, and translate on first reference.

Kol Nidre

Koor Industries Ltd.

Krayot – use Haifa’s bayside suburbs

Kristallnacht

kudos is singular. Don’t write “many kudos” or “kudo.”

kV, kilovolt, kW, kilowatt, kWh, kilowatt-hour

 Kyiv, not Kiev, This spelling more accurately reflects the transliteration from Ukrainian. Same applies for Lviv, not Lvov; and others

Place Names: K

Ka’at el-Kurein (Beersheba) • Kababir (Carmel) • Kabalan (Nablus) • Kabatiya (Jenin) • Kabri (כברי) (kibbutz near Nahariya) • Kabul (Acre) • Kadarim • Kadas (Safed) • Kaddum (also Kafr Kaddum) • Kadim • Kadima • Kafra (Beit She’an) • Kafr Abbush (Tulkarm) • Kafr Akab (Jerusalem neighborhood) • Kafr Ana (Jaffa) • Kafr Bara (Sharon) • Kafr Bir’am (former Maronite-Arab village, where Kibbutz Bar’am is now) • Kafr Ein (Ramallah) • Kifl Haris • Kafr Inan (Acre) • Kafr Jammal (Tiberias) • Kafr Kaddum (Nablus) • Kafr Kallil (Nablus) • Kafr Kama (Lower Galilee) • Kafr Kanna (Nazareth) • Kafr Kara • Kafr Kassem • Kafr Kila (Lebanon) • Kafr Kud (Jenin) • Kafr Kus (Nablus) • Kafr Lakif (Nablus) • Kafr Lam (Haifa) • Kafr Malik (Ramallah) • Kafr Manda (Nazareth) • Kafr Misr • Kafr Nima (Ramallah) • Kafr Rai (Jenin) • Kafr Rumman (Tulkarm) • Kafr Saba (Tulkarm; distinct from Kfar Saba) • Kafr Sabya (Tulkarm) • Kafr Sumeia • Kafr Thulth (Nablus) • Kafr Tut (Ramallah) • Kafr Yasif (Acre) • Kafr Zibad (Tulkarm) • Kahal • Kalandiya (Jerusalem) • Kalanit • Kalansuwa • Kalkilya • Kalunya (Jerusalem) • Kalya (Dead Sea kibbutz, formerly Nahal Kalya) • Kamon • Kannir (Haifa) • Kanot • Kammuna (Nablus) • Karawa (Nablus) • Karawat Bani Zeid (Ramallah) • Karei Deshe • Karei Na’aman • Karkom • Karkur • Karmei Yosef • Karmei Tzur • Karmiel (not Carmiel) • Karmit • Karmiya • Karnei Shomron (קרני שומרון) (includes Ginot Shomrom, Neveh Menahem and Alonei Shiloh) • Kasif • Kasla (Jerusalem) • Kastina (Ashkelon) • Katamon (קטמון) (Jerusalem) (NOT “Old Katamon”) • Katamon Tet, Het, Vav, etc. – collectively, the Katamonim • Katanna (Jerusalem) • Katif • Katra (Gaza) • Katyusha • Katzir • Katzrin • Kaufakha (Gaza) • Kaukab (Nazareth) • Kazaza (Ramle) • Kedar • Kedma • Kedumim • Kefira • Keitiya (Safed) • Kela • Kelahim • Keramim • Kerem Ben-Zimra • Kerem Maharal • Kerem Shalom (קרם שלום) • Keren • Keshet (קשת) • Kessalon • Ketura • Ketziot • Kfar Adumim (כפר אדומים) • Kfar Ahim • Kfar Aviv (כפר אביב) • Kfar Aza (כפר עזה) (kibbutz near Gaza Strip) • Kfar Azar (moshav near Ramat Gan) • Kfar Baruch • Kfar Batya • Kfar Bialik • Kfar Bilu • Kfar Bin-Nun • Kfar Blum • Kfar Chabad (כפר חבד) • Kfar Daniel (כפר דניאל) • Kfar Darom • Kfar Etzion (כפר עציון) • Kfar Gid’on • Kfar Giladi • Kfar Glickson • Kfar Habaptistim • Kfar Hahoresh • Kfar Haim (כפר חיים) • Kfar Hamaccabi (Kiryat Ata) • Kfar Hanagid • Kfar Hananya • Kfar Hanassi (כפר הנשאי) • Kfar Harif • Kfar Haroeh • Kfar Haruv (Golan) • Kfar Hassidim (כפר חסידים) • Kfar Havradim • Kfar Hess • Kfar Hittim • Kfar Kisch • Kfar Korazim • Kfar Maimon • Kfar Malal • Kfar Masaryk • Kfar Menahem • Kfar Monash • Kfar Mordechai (כפר מורדכי) • Kfar Netter • Kfar Pines • Kfar Rosh Hanikra • Kfar Ruppin • Kfar Ruth (כפר רות) • Kfar Saba (כפר סבא) (not Sava) • Kfar Shammai • Kfar Shmaryahu (כפר שמריהו) • Kfar Shmuel (כפר שמואל) • Kfar Syrkin • Kfar Szold • Kfar Tapuah (כפר תפוח) • Kfar Tavor (but Mount Tabor) • Kfar Truman • Kfar Uriya • Kfar Vitkin • Kfar Warburg • Kfar Yavetz • Kfar Yehezkel (כפר יחזקל) • Kfar Yehoshua (כפר יהושוע) • Kfar Yona (כפר יונה) • Kfar Yuval (כפר יובל) (not Yovel) • Kfar Zeitim • Khadr (Golan) • Khan al-Ahmar • Khan, the (Jerusalem) • Khan e-Duweir (Safed) • Khan Yunis • Kharas (Hebron) • Kharbata (Ramallah) • Khirbat Katana (Safed) • Khirbat Ka’un (Beit She’an) • Khirbat Alya (Bethlehem) • Khirbat Alyata (Nablus) • Khirbat Lauz (Jerusalem) • Khisas (Safed, Gaza) • Khulda (Arab village near Kibbutz Hulda) • Khuneifis (Nazareth) • Kibya (Ramle) • Kidmat Zvi • Kidron • Kidron Valley • Kinneret (Lake Kinneret (Sea of Galilee), Kvutzat Kinneret and Moshavat Kinneret) • Kira (Nablus) • Kiryat Anavim • Kiryat Arba (קרית ארבע) • Kiryat Ata • Kiryat Bialik • Kiryat Ekron • Kiryat Gat (קרית גת) • Kiryat Haim (קרית חיים) • Kiryat Haroshet • Kiryat Hayovel (קרית היובל) (Jerusalem) • Kiryat Malachi • Kiryat Mattersdorf (Jerusalem) • Kiryat Menahem (Jerusalem) • Kiryat Moshe (קרית מושה) (Jerusalem) • Kiryat Motzkin • Kiryat Netafim • Kiryat Ono (קרית אונו) • Kiryat Shmona (קרית שמונה) • Kiryat Shmuel (קרית שמואל) (Jerusalem) • Kiryat Tivon • Kiryat Yam (קרית ים) • Kiryat Ye’arim (Telz-Stone) • Kishon auxiliary harbor • Kishon River • Kishor (Nahal Kishor) • Kishorit (כישור) • Kisra (Acre) • Kissufim (כיסופים) • Klea (Lebanon) • Klil • Kobar (Ramallah) • Kochav Hashahar • Kochav Michael • Kochav Ya’acov (כוכב יעקוב) • Kochav Yair • Kochav Yair-Tzur Yigal (merged in 2003) • Komemiyut • the Krayot (use Haifa’s bayside suburbs) • Kubeiba (Ma’aleh Hahamisha) • Kumran, use Qumran • Kur (Tulkarm) • Kuran (Jaffa) • Kureish (Nablus) • Kuseifa (Beersheba) • Kuskus (Nazareth) • Kusin (Nablus) • Kusra (Nablus) • Kuwait • Kuza (Nablus) • Kvutzat Kinneret (קבוצת כנרת) • Kvutzat Yavne

L

labor court – Tel Aviv Labor Court, not Tel Aviv Regional Labor Court

Labour Party (in UK)

Lag Ba’omer

 “laid to rest” – Don’t use this euphemism in a news story unless it’s in a direct quote in English. Use “buried,” or “funeral was held.”

lambaste

Land Day (Commemorates the March 30, 1976, slaying by border policemen of six Arab Israelis during riots protesting against the confiscation of land.)

Land of Israel

Land of Milk and Honey

Laniado Hospital, Netanya

large-scale – Most of the time, this should be changed to “large” or another synonym for big.

Latter-Day Saints (Mormons’ name for themselves)

launched – Overused, try to use another word, such as fired, opened, started, began.

laureate – Always lowercase, unless it begins a sentence.

Lau, Yisrael Meir

LAW (Light Anti-tank Weapon) missiles

lawyers’ names and phone numbers – try https://www.israelbar.org.il/english_index.asp

Laws

Bills, laws and how they are made

The initiative for a bill can come from the government, individual MKs (private members’ bills), or Knesset committees. A bill can contain a totally new law, or be a proposal to amend or cancel an existing law. Every reading of a bill is adopted or rejected in a vote by the MKs present.

Government bills

A government bill is presented to the Knesset Speaker by the minister concerned. During the debate that accompanies the first reading, the minister, or a deputy minister in his ministry, explains the bill. At the end of the debate the plenum can decide to reject the bill or to send it to committee for preparation for second reading.

The committee designated to deal with a bill is entitled to propose any changes that it might see fit, as long as these changes do not diverge from the subject matter of the bill. With the approval of the House Committee the committee can merge bills, or break up one bill into two or more bills. Once the committee has completed its work, it returns the bill to the plenum for a second and third reading.

The debate on the second reading is opened by the chairman of the committee that dealt with it, or a member of it. The second reading is carried out article by article. At this stage the bill can be returned to the committee if there is a need to draft the reservations adopted in second reading, or to place it immediately for third reading. Up to the point where the bill has been adopted in third reading, the government may withdraw it.

Private member’s bills

A bill proposed by one or more MKs is presented to the Knesset Speaker by the proposer(s). The Knesset Presidium decides whether to approve its being placed on the Knesset’s agenda. A bill that is racist in its essence or denies the existence of the State of Israel as the state of the Jewish people will not be approved. A bill that has been approved is passed on to the plenum for preliminary reading. The plenum can remove it from its agenda or pass it on to a committee for preparation for first reading.

From this stage onward the legislative process is similar to that of government legislation. A private member’s bill can be withdrawn until the end of the deliberations in the committee after the first reading. At the beginning of every Knesset year it is decided how many private members’ bills and motions for the agenda every parliamentary group may bring in the course of the session.

Committee bills

Committee bills have a similar status to that of government bills. However, unlike government bills and private members’ bills, these can only deal with Basic lLaws and laws connected with the Knesset, general elections, Knesset members or the state comptroller.

Capitalize the names of specific legislation, such as

the Basic Law: The Government (see Basic Laws)

the Fair Trade Act

the Fifth Amendment

but lowercase bills (draft legislation) such as the national health insurance bill. Also: the Jackson amendment (not its official nameless two-State ).

learn – Don’t use the Yeshivish <<learn>> when English demands <<study,>> except in a quote in English.

Leef, Daphni (social protest organizer)

the (political) Left, left wing, far Left (two words), Center-Left but: left-wing party, left-winger, on the Left

Lehi – Call it the Stern Group in parentheses on first mention.

 Lesbos – the Greek island. Do not use Lesvos.

less/fewer – Less applies to singular nouns (less soda water, please) or units of measure (less than a kilogram of cheese). Fewer applies to plural nouns (fewer MKs were present than expected) or numbers of things (the club has seven fewer members this year).

Exceptions: Fewer is not used when count nouns essentially function as mass nouns because the units are so very numerous or they aren’t considered discrete items and the idea of individual units becomes meaningless. So less is used with time and money.

Leviticus, abbr. Lev.

Levy, Chezy Health Ministry director-general

Lewinsky Park, near the Tel Aviv Central Bus Station

lex talionis, “an eye for an eye”

Leyad Ha’universita High School, The Hebrew University Secondary School

LGBT should be written in full on first reference – lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender – unless the first reference is in the lead, when it should be written out on second reference.

life-support – don’t write “on life-support,” write “on a respirator” or “on a ventilator”

Lindenstrauss, Micha (former state comptroller)

Lion, Moshe Jerusalem mayor

Lions’ Den (Palestinian militia)

Lions’ Gate (Old City, Jerusalem)

literally is usually extraneous. Delete it.

Little Western Wall or Little Kotel

lone soldier – a soldier with no close relatives in Israel who can help him or her

Lord’s Prayer

Lotto

low-water mark, or the Kinneret’s red line

LAU missiles are fired from aircraft. In our paper, they’re usually LAW (Light Anti-tank Weapon) missiles, shoulder-fired ordinance used by infantry and mobsters.

lulav (lulavim)

ly No hyphens after adverbs, i.e. after “ly.” So the “newly-passed bill” should be the “newly passed bill.”

lynch - the Hebrish definition of this word means a mob attack, which may or may not include the killing of the victim; the English definition is "to put to death (as by hanging) by mob action without legal approval or permission." Without the killing of the victim it is an attack, mob attack or an attempted lynching, attempted murder

Place Names: L

Lachish • Lahav • Lahavot Habashan • Lahavot Haviva • Lakiya (Beersheba) • Lapidot • Latrun • Lavi • Lavon • Lazzaza (Safed) • Lehavim • Lifta (Jerusalem) • Liman • Li’on • Livnim • Lod (לוד) (not Lydda) • Lohamei Hagetaot, Kibbutz • Lotan • Lubban Sharkiya (Nablus) • Lubya (Tiberias) • Luzit 

M

Ma’an news agency

Maariv, Maariv Hashavua, Maariv Shof Hashavua

Ma’asiyahu Prison in Ramle

Marrakesh – a city in Morocco

Mashaal, Khaled

ma’abara (transit camp for new immigrants)

Maccabi Healthcare Services 

The sports organization is Maccabi; the beer is Maccabee; the Hasmoneans are referred to as Maccabees or Maccabeans.

McDonald’s

Mada (Hebrew abbreviation for Democratic Arab Party, use full name)

Magen David – use Star of David

Magen David Adom spell out in first reference, second reference MDA

magistrate’s courts in Israel are presided over by judges, not magistrates. So it’s Jerusalem Magistrate’s Court Judge Joe Blo.

Mahal - volunteers from abroad who fought in the War of Independence

Mahkame The Border Police command post in Jerusalem’s Old City.

Makassed Hospital, Jerusalem

Malki, Riad Palestinian politician

Makuya (the Japanese “New Zionists”)

Malben/JDC (Joint Distribution Committee)

Malraz (the Council for the Prevention of Noise and Air Pollution)

Manufacturers Association (abbreviated MAI)

Mar Elias (monastery between Jerusalem and Bethlehem)

marshal, not marshall, as in Field Marshal Mohamed Hussein Tantawi

Mashaal, Khaled

Masorti Movement (Conservative Judaism in Israel)

MasterChef – television competitive reality cooking show franchise with shows in several countries

master’s degree

matzah, matzot

mazal tov (not as in M-W: mazel tov); however exception should be granted in opinion pieces, see transliteration rules; and in news section, in quotes in English where Ashkenazi pronunciation is used

Mazuz, Menahem

Mazza, Eliahu

Measurements

Can be flexible in using non-metric, can use both for recipes (use volumes if possible), temperatures, can leave non-metric measurements for things such as the dimensions of Jefferson’s house.

Use numerals for measurements, even under 10, e.g. 5 km., 7 kg.

Note: must always give metric as well. Exception: inches for TV and computer screens (which is how they are sold even in Israel) and nautical miles

Abbreviating weights and measures

The following abbreviations are acceptable, and do not need to be spelled out in first reference:

cm. (centimeters)

cu.m. (cubic meters)

gr. (grams)

kg. (kilograms or kilos)

km. (kilometers)

m. (meters)

mm. (millimeters)

mg. (milligrams)

sq.km. (square kilometers)

sq.m. (square meters).

A space is required: 5 km.

The abbreviations m. and b. for million and billion are also used for money. In all other cases, except tables or lists, spell out million (510m. means 510 meters; if you mean 510 million – say so).

Standard electrical abbreviations:

a amperes

W watts

MW megawatts

mw milliwatts

MWh megawatt-hours

kW kilowatts

kWh kilowatt-hours

v volts

mechitza (partition), first reference in italics, with partition in parentheses

media is plural – the media are

medini can mean political or diplomatic. Consider whether it has been correctly translated into English.

megillah

Meir Medical Center, Kfar Saba

the Mekorot national water company

mekorot medini’im means official sources or government sources, not diplomatic sources. If the source is in the Foreign Ministry or the Foreign Service of any nation, then by all means say <<diplomatic.>>

melaveh malka  meal immediately after Shabbat, literally “escorting the queen” 

Melbourne stands alone in datelines.