I remember how few years ago a Linux update broke my system because they added en_IL locale. Which, apparently, meant that someone believed that English spoken

I remember how few years ago a Linux update broke my system because they added en_IL locale. Which, apparently, meant that someone believed that English spoken by expats in Israel was different enough from the rest of English variants in the world. But then it turned out that it sort of made sense. Especially since some services in Israel can also be provided in English, they need a locale to deal with stuff like calendar, currency etc. I don't think though anyone recognizes the language spoken by English speakers in Israel as a separate language. Even though it's usually augmented with hard-to-translate Hebrew words that relate to local realities (eg. "oleh" which is usually translated as "repatriate" (noun), but it only applies to those who repatriate to Israel, not any other country, or "ascent" (a pilgrim, only in religious context) again, only in the context of coming to Israel or more specifically, Jerusalem). There are also plenty of second and third generation English speakers who depart very far from the dialect of English their parents came with. Usually, the drift is towards American English, with a lot of borrowings from Hebrew (and by proxy, from Arabic). So, I don't know, maybe at some point there will be an actual Israeli dialect in the same way.