Forward the Hebrew email. Read it in English.
The letter from the municipality, the bank, the landlord or the school arrives in Hebrew with a PDF attached. Forward it to baba and get back what it says and what it wants from you.
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How Do I Read a Hebrew Email in English?
Forward it. baba gives your account its own address; anything you send there is translated and comes back to the address you forwarded from, with the same message waiting in the app. The attachments come too, which matters more than it sounds: Israeli official mail usually carries the actual content in a PDF, and a translation that stops at the message body tells you nothing.
What comes back is not only the words. It is what the sender is asking for, so a letter from a bank or a municipality becomes something you can act on rather than something you have to take to a friend.
Three Steps, and Two of Them Are baba’s
The whole interaction on your side is pressing forward.
| Step | What happens | Detail |
|---|---|---|
| 1. Forward it | To your baba address | From the account you signed in with, or another address you add in settings. |
| 2. baba reads it | The message and its attachments | Including the PDF the letter was really about. |
| 3. You get it back | In English, in your inbox | A reply comes back to the address you forwarded from, and the message is waiting in the app too. |
Why Forwarding Beats Copying and Pasting
Because the part you cannot paste is usually the part that matters.
No copying and pasting
The email arrives in Hebrew, you forward it, and that is the whole interaction. Nothing to select, paste or reformat.
Attachments included
Israeli official mail usually carries the real content in a PDF. Those are read too, not skipped.
What it actually wants from you
Not only the words. A summary of what the sender is asking for, so a letter from a municipality or a bank turns into a thing you can act on.
Readable in either place
The translation comes back to your own inbox, and the same message is in the baba app if you would rather read it there.
When You Need to Write Back
This page is the incoming direction. For the outgoing one, the Hebrew email translator writes a business or official letter in Hebrew with the opening and closing Israeli correspondence actually uses, and Hebrew bureaucracy translation covers the forms and official language around it.
baba Email is opening to accounts in batches rather than all at once. Sign in and the app tells you whether yours is on; if it is not yet, you are connected and it opens when your batch does.
Frequently Asked Questions
How do I read a Hebrew email in English?
Forward it to your baba address. baba translates the message and its attachments, summarises what the sender is asking for, and sends the result back to the address you forwarded from. The same message is readable in the baba app.
Does it translate attachments too?
Yes. Israeli official mail tends to put the real content in an attached PDF, so the attachments are read along with the message body rather than ignored.
Can I use an address other than the one I signed up with?
Yes. Add and verify another address in settings, and mail forwarded from it is matched to your account.
Can I get it right now?
baba Email is opening to accounts in batches rather than all at once. Sign in to the app and it will tell you whether your account is switched on yet; if it is not, you are connected and it opens when your batch does.
What if I need to write a reply in Hebrew?
Use the Hebrew email translator, which handles the other direction: it writes a business or official letter in Hebrew with the opening and closing Israeli correspondence actually uses.
Is my mail kept private?
Forwarded mail is tied to your account and readable by you. Do not forward anything you would not want stored in a product account, in this or any other translation service.
Stop guessing what the letter said.
Forward it to baba and read it in English, attachments included.