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Levi (Louis) Bellig
לוי ביליג
Born1897
London, England
Died22 August 1936 (aged 39)
Resting placeMount of Olives Jewish Cemetery
Known forpioneering Arabic studies in Hebrew
Scientific career
FieldsOriental studies, Arabic literature

Levi (Lewis) Billig (Hebrew: לוי ביליג; 1897 – 22 August 1936) was an Anglo-Jewish orientalist and scholar of Arabic. One of the pioneers of Arabic education in the Yishuv in Mandatory Palestine, Billig co-edited the first Arabic textbook for Hebrew-speaking students and was the first lecturer in Arabic language and literature at Hebrew University of Jerusalem.

Billig was murdered in 1936 by an Arab assassin in his home in the early months of the 1936-1939 Arab revolt in Palestine.

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