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Easy Hebrew reading for learners: news, stories and newspapers

Reading is where the vowels disappear, so start with texts that keep them or keep it simple. Ten minutes of easy news is worth more than one paragraph of a real newspaper you gave up on.

Picked and annotated by the teachers of the Israeli Hebrew Institute. Every entry links to the people who made it; nothing here is hosted by us. How this list is put together.

• Hadshon: the news in easy Hebrew

  חדשון בעברית קלה

  Israel's Ministry of Education

  BeginnerIntermediatefree

  The day's news rewritten in simple Hebrew, with word lists, by the ministry that runs the ulpanim. Free, daily, and the best reading habit on this page.

  The site ↗

• The word of the day

  המילה של היום

  Israeli Hebrew Institute

  BeginnerIntermediatefree

  Ours. One word with its vowels, a sentence an Israeli would say, the mistake English speakers make with it and a quiz, every posting day, with an archive you can read from the beginning.

  All the wordsThe mistakes

• Bereshit and Yanshuf

  בראשית · ינשוף

  Hebrew Today

  BeginnerIntermediatepaid

  Two newspapers written for learners, with vowels, glossaries and audio: Bereshit for beginners, Yanshuf for intermediate. A subscription, used by ulpanim for decades.

  The site ↗

• Dvash

  דבש
  BeginnerIntermediateAdvancedfreemium

  An app with news articles at three levels of Hebrew and a tap-to-translate dictionary. Read the same story at your level today and one level up next month.

  The app ↗

• Sefer-Li: children's stories

  ספר לי
  Beginnerfree

  Hundreds of illustrated Hebrew children's stories, free to read. Short sentences, pictures that tell you the word, and no shame: this is how Israelis learned to read too.

  The library ↗

• Ynet

  the most read news site in Israel

  Advancedfree

  The real thing: no vowels, headlines built to be short, and the words Israel is using this morning. Read the headlines only, every day, and one article a week.

  The site ↗