• Reuters, Wednesday, July 13, 2011 10 AM

Israel's kosher cell phone market has a new model with a Yiddish interface meant to help devout Jews navigate a Talmudic passage between technology and tradition.

Last month, Israel's second-largest mobile provider, Partner, introduced what it hailed as the world's first Yiddish cell phone, manufactured by Alcatel-Lucent.

Israeli Accel Telecom imports and distributes mobile phones to all Israeli operators. The company had a special team of translators work for months to develop an interface entirely in Yiddish. There are 400,000 users in Israel and another 500,000 in the United States.

Kosher cell phones have no text-messaging capabilities, Internet access or camera and block calls to sex lines.

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