Culture

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  CULTURE: Literature

  From some 8,000 words in biblical times, Hebrew vocabulary has expanded to more than 120,000 words.

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  CULTURE: Museums

  Some 200 museums around the country receive millions of visitors annually.

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  CULTURE: Dance

  Dance as an art form was introduced in Israel in the 1920s by newly arrived teachers and devotees of dance from the cultural centers of Europe.

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  CULTURE

  Israel is an old-new country, small in size, but with a culturally active, heterogeneous population.

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  CULTURE: Archeology

  Archeological investigation in the Land of Israel began in the middle of the 19th century, when biblical scholars surveyed the area in search of remains of places mentioned in the Bible.

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