What was Eliezer Ben-Yehuda's significant role in Israeli society?
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Eliezer Ben-Yehuda was a Jewish linguist who is considered the father of the modern Hebrew language. He was born in Lithuania in 1858 and immigrated to Palestine in 1881. Ben-Yehuda believed that Hebrew should be revived as a spoken language, and he worked tirelessly to promote its use. He wrote dictionaries, grammar books, and textbooks, and he published a newspaper in Hebrew.
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