Hebrew script is used. Jerusalem and Tel-Aviv area mainly. Originally Iranian Azerbaijan and southeast Turkey. Afro-Asiatic , Semitic, Central, Aramaic, Eastern, Central, Northeastern. Many loanwords from Kurdish, Turkish, Arabic, Persian, Hebrew, and several European languages.
Speakers are bilingual in Hebrew, and some are multilingual.
Most speakers are older than 50, few below 40. Many are married to nonspeakers. Northern dialects are like Urmi, southern ones like Naghada, Mahabad. Hebrew script is used. Sometimes erroneously called 'Judeo-Kurdish' or 'Azerbaijani Kurdish'.