Official – Medinat Yisra’el (Meh-deen-aht Yis-ray-el) (Hebrew)
Official – Dawlat Isra’il (Daw-laht Is-ray-ill) (Arabic)
Other – Yisra-el, Israel
Citizens – Israelis (native born are sometimes called “sabras”)
Languages – Hebrew (leev-reet) and Arabic (ara-bee) Neither uses the Roman alphabet. Hebrew is written in the Hebrew alphabet, Arabic is written in the Arabic alphabet (these are very similar but not necessarily mutually intelligible)
Capital – Jerusalem – Yerushalayim (Yer-roosh-a-lie-yeem) (Hebrew) al-Quds (all-Cood) (Arabic)
Radio – 102FM – (Hebrew) http://www.102fm.co.il/

Hebrew – Hebrew was rarely used in the world, outside of worship and religious study, for over 1,500 years, until revived as a “living language” by the Zionist movement that began in Germany in the 19th Century.