ISRAEL

Israel

Visit Bialik's house in Tel Aviv. The house, home of the national poet, contains architectural features such as a tiled fireplace with biblical motifs.

Display cases hold little models of theatre sets of Bialik's plays and his books of illustrated children's stories. Also banknotes featuring Bialik. Newscuttings and photos show his huge funeral.

Bialik pushed for the introduction of modern Hebrew as the national language. I am sorry that Yiddish was not made the national language, or one of three national languages, or four, the other three being Hebrew, Arabic and Sephardi.

Read: Bialik's biography.