how to say “magician” in Hebrew

[audioclip url=”https://archive.ulpan.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/10/מחתרת-1.mp3″ /]מַחְתֶּרֶת I’m not referring here to the London Underground. Rather, I’m referring to illegal activity done in secret. The word is מַחְתֶּרֶת[audioclip url=”https://archive.ulpan.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/10/מחתרת-1.mp3″ /], which nowadays refers to an underground force. For example: [audioclip url=”https://archive.ulpan.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/10/מחתרת-2.mp3″ /]לִפְנֵי שֶׁהָיָה צה”ל, הָיוּ הַמַּחְתָּרוֹת. Before there was the IDF, there were the underground forces. This word first…

[audioclip url=”https://archive.ulpan.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/05/מרכז-העיר-1.m4a” /]מֶרְכַּז הָעִיר Growing up in LA where Downtown is not exactly the center of the action, I wasn’t exposed to the concept of a city center until I traveled as an adult. Even visiting Tel Aviv, there was Dizengoff, but a city center? I didn’t quite get the concept until I saw Europe. In Hebrew,…