At Least Know Your Hebrew

In a previous post, I had commented on Yonatan Mendel who flayed forth in the London Review of Books, getting all frothy and stuff.

Doesn't aprpeciate Israel's presence in the territories and misrepresented a few things.

Yael Lotan is very lefty but even she couldn't hold back on this translation corruption:

Language of Occupation

Yonatan Mendel translates the verb keter as ‘crowning’ (LRB, 6 March). Keter does mean ‘crown’, but the root verb ktr means ‘circle’, and the verb used in the military sense (lekhater) means ‘to encircle’, not ‘to crown’ (which would be lehakhtir).

Yael Lotan
Givatayim, Israel