Setting: Poland/Israel, 1980s ( Read more... )

The following table has the top 500 last names in Israel in 2013, sorted by prevalence. The list includes both Jewish and Arab last names. Data is from the Populace Census Office ( Read more... )

The following table has the Israeli (Hebrew) top 50 baby names for boys and for girls, from 1948-2007. Data is from the Populace Census Office, and sorted by year and rank.

The table is in Hebrew, so if you need help with the language comment here and I'll help. Additionally, if you want the name for an actual Israeli character in a real-world or ( Read more... )

Does anyone have a list (or can anyone come up with a list of) common secular names for adults in Israel? Anything I've found googling combinations of 'common Israeli names' and a year or 'by year' doesn't find much prior to 2002, and most characters who need names are in their thirties (with a few older), so I don't want to accidentally give them ( Read more... )

My sources, mostly Behind the Name, tell me that the name Moriah for girls (as opposed to for the place) is mostly just used in the US. I have two questions: one, would it be out of the question for a Israeli girl to be named that? And two, if it was used for a girl in Israel, how would it most likely be spelled in Roman letters? (I've only seen " ( Read more... )

I'm looking for endearments an Israeli woman living in the US might use for (1) children, both male and female, in her care and (2) her much younger, but now grown, sister. (She still thinks of her sister as being about twelve, so it's okay if it's something you would mostly use for children.) My problem is that none of the stuff I can find is ( Read more... )

Setting: Ancient Israel ( Read more... )

There is a bombing in Israel, an American dies. They find some sort of identification on her-- who calls the family? The American Embassy in Israel? A cop? A soldier? A doctor?

Can anyone tell me when it actually blooms? I did some research into Jerusalem, the city, and it said that a lot of people grow it. I looked into the plant itself and most sites seem to say if you cut it back it comes back over and over ( Read more... )

Writing a screenplay/play right now and one of the major focuses is about an Isreali and a Palestinian talking about atrosities that either side has commited (Sort of a 'Dinner with Andre' type thing). Would love to know if there is a website out there that goes case by case what acts where commited, when and why, the reactions, so on and so forth ( Read more... )