how to say “(the) debate” in Hebrew
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With two weeks to go before the 2012 United States presidential elections, the two candidates engaged the other night in the third and final presidential debate in their campaigns.
If you enter debate into the Morfix online dictionary, you’ll see several translations of the word into Hebrew, none of which is the word I’m introducing here.
Perhaps for the sake of dramatic flair, the word you’ll find in the Israeli media referring to the debate in question is עִמּוּת.
An עימות is, more accurately than a debate, a confrontation. To confront someone is לְהִתְעַמֵּת (leh-heet-ah-MET).
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