The Board of Deputies has welcomed a commitment to safeguard the teaching of biblical and modern Hebrew in schools.
There had been fears that exam boards would stop offering GCSEs and A-levels in a number of languages where take-up was small.
But Hebrew will be now protected, along with Arabic, Japanese and Turkish among others.
Board of Deputies vice-president Sheila Gewolb was pleased that modern and biblical Hebrew “are to be safeguarded at both GCSE and A-Level. The Board has long campaigned to protect modern and biblical Hebrew, which are languages of our faith and culture, and of the modern state of Israel.”
