They spend hours with American content on YouTube and TikTok, are swallowed up in a world of books, gaming and chats with people worldwide – and prefer to speak English with their local friends. These Israeli teens are gradually shedding their Hebrew
When Be'eri Hareven Epshtain and his friends first heard Bezalel Smotrich's "grandmeiser" speech – in which the finance minister, on an official visit to the United States last year, displayed a surprisingly poor command of spoken English – they didn't know whether to laugh or cry. So they did both..
