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Jenni Frazer

ByJenni Frazer, Jenni Frazer

Opinion

A mystery

May 27, 2009 08:43
1 min read

I have just tried to find an Israeli residential phone number via international directory inquiries.

I was in the middle of spelling the town name when the (very nice) operator stopped me. "I'm sorry," she said, "but I can't look it up. It's all in Hebrew. Business numbers are in English, residential numbers are in Hebrew." And, she added, trying to be helpful, "Hebrew is a very difficult language."

Is this a new development? And if so, at whose instigation?
I'd like to be told.