Battalion of the Defenders of the Language

The Battalion of the Defenders of the Language (Hebrew: גדוד מגיני השפה, romanized: G'dud meginei ha-safa) was a small militant body established by Jewish students at the Herzliya Hebrew Gymnasium in Tel Aviv in the 1920s to urge Jews in then Mandatory Palestine to use only the Hebrew language. The Battalion campaigned against the use of other languages under the slogan עברי, דבר עברית (Ivri, daber ivrit; "Hebrew [i.e.

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