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In Hebrew the name is Hebrew: ראש הממשלה החליפי, romanized: Rosh HaMemshela HaHalifi not חלופי. Using חלופי is wrong and here's why:
While it's stated חלופי in the Basic Law that the Knesset passed on May 7, the Academy of the Hebrew Language (which is the regulator of the Hebrew language) published on May 11 an article explaining that in proper Hebrew is should be חליפי, because חלופי has a different meaning than חליפי. Giving that Law passed before the academy published it, they couldn't fix the name in the law in time. They also can't fix it now because this means they should start a new legislating process to fix a typo, not very productive.
However, media outlets and others started to say חליפי instead of חלופי after the clarification from the academy(see examples: May 24, June 3, June 9). Even Gantz himself fixed it on his social media and write חליפי instead of חלופי (see his twitter bio and Facebook page).
So clearly everyone following the Hebrew Academy decision, and acknowledging the mistake, part from Wikipedia that resisting to hold the spelling of the law, which is a mistake. Legislators are not linguists, and they did not take it in consideration when they legislate a law that meant to end a year-long political dead-lock. We in Wikipedia should follow Gantz, the Hebrew academy and the Israeli news outlets and fix it to חליפי. The least we can do it to state this mistake in the article, and say its not proper Hebrew as ruled by the academy. We should state that everyone say חליפי and not חלופי although the law wrote חלופי, everyone except of course us in Wikipedia, because people should know that mistake. Sokuya (talk) 09:52, 12 June 2020 (UTC)[reply]
