Reading the Hebrew News Path

Confirm you can already read unpointed words slowly.

A fast alphabet pass; news has no nikud.

Know the sounds so you can guess ktiv male.

How modern spelling writes vowels with extra letters.

Government, army, and party shortenings in a byline.

Casualties, shekels, percents: as numerals and as words.

The number words that still appear in running text.

Street, city, north, government compound.

The army and police words that fill a front page.

Minister, doctor, teacher, worker: who did what.

Headlines that use a participle as a present.

What happened last night.

What a minister will do, according to the paper.

“Was arrested,” “was announced.”

Construct chains that drop small words.

Definite headlines vs bare ones.

Waw, aval, lamrot: how a lede is tied.

Cause lines in a two-sentence brief.

A short pointed-or-not news-style paragraph.

Acronyms, security nouns, and verbs.

Headline grammar and vocabulary.

Why a news desk does not sound like a cafe.

The questions a reporter’s lede is answering.

Copy one headline on the Hebrew keyboard.

For names you cannot yet parse.

The verbs that fill a crime or Knesset brief.

Parse one tricky headline verb.

When a source is quoted in street language.

Hebrew and civil dates on an article.

A second short article with yesterday’s tools.