The Hebrew alphabet

Most adults read the letters within a week or two of short daily sessions; the alphabet itself is small, and several letters share sounds in modern Hebrew (kaf/kuf, tet/tav, chet/khaf), which shortens the list of sounds you actually need to learn. Reading unvowelled text quickly and confidently takes longer, because it is a fluency skill built by reading, not a fact about the alphabet.

Handwriting is a separate step. Israeli schools teach the cursive forms directly after print, and several letters change shape enough between the two that they are worth learning as their own thing: see the notes on each letter below, or the print-versus-handwriting comparison on the cursive page.