- Population
- 40,000
- Location
- Tel Aviv metropolis, Haifa, Jerusalem, Netanya, Bnei Brak; heritage museum in Safed
Hungarian-speaking Jews in Israel, about 40,000 people, are survivors of the 1944 deportations and later emigrants from Hungary, Transylvania and Slovakia, with their children. They brought the coffee-house culture of Budapest, the satire of Ephraim Kishon and a Hungarian-language newspaper, Új Kelet, that has appeared in Tel Aviv since 1948, as well as strict Orthodox and Hasidic courts such as Kiryat Sanz in Netanya. Hannah Szenes, the poet-paratrooper executed in Budapest in 1944, is one of Israel's national heroes. Hungarian is now spoken mostly by the elderly.