---
title: "The American\\Israeli Culture Dictionary"
url: "https://osherove.com/blog/2007/12/4/the-americanisraeli-culture-dictionary.md"
canonical: "https://osherove.com/blog/2007/12/4/the-americanisraeli-culture-dictionary.html"
published: "2007-12-04T07:01:07"
updated: "2007-12-04T07:01:07"
tags: []
author: "Roy Osherove"
description: "Itay Braun does it again with another interesting post. this time he has a short dictionary when interacting between Israelis and Americans. Reading it I highly agree with 99% of it, except the \"blaming\" part where if I…"
usage: "Licensed under CC BY 4.0 — reuse, quote and adapt with attribution (Roy Osherove, link to the original page)."
license: "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/"
---

# The American\\Israeli Culture Dictionary

By Roy Osherove December 4, 2007

**Historical article** · Originally published December 4, 2007; technical details may be outdated.

[Itay Braun does it again](http://blogs.microsoft.co.il/blogs/itaybraun/archive/2007/12/04/working-in-microsoft-uk-what-they-think-about-the-israelis.aspx) with another interesting post. this time he has a short dictionary when interacting between Israelis and Americans.

Reading it I highly agree with 99% of it, except the "blaming" part where if I say "you did this" I'm not necessarily saying "It wasn't my fault"..


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