The Israeli NB had asked ISO to cancel this standard. I doubt it will make aThis is not a matter in which the views of the Israeli NB should be decisive. It is of course true that the characters in question are not used in modern Israeli Hebrew. But they are used in ancient texts, there is good evidence for them (at least for some of them), and they are important for scholars. For this reason they have a place in the Unicode standard, along with many other historic characters in every script.
case to the contrary.
Jony
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