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Originally Posted by HarryT
As a matter of interest, why the Arabic numbers in the first two pictures above? Hebrew has its own number symbols, doesn't it?
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In Israel today, the decimal system of Hindu-Arabic numerals (ex. 0, 1, 2, 3, etc...) is used in almost all cases (money, age, date on the civil calendar). The Hebrew numerals are used only in special cases, like when using the Hebrew calendar, or numbering a list (similar to a, b, c, d, etc...).
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I guess it's the same story as with Japanese and Chinese: Arabic numerals are just much more convenient and easy to use.