Hebrew AI Models: A Comprehensive Catalog

A comprehensive catalog of AI models for the Hebrew language, covering LLMs, speech-to-text, text-to-speech, NLP, embeddings, translation, and more. This is a community resource maintained on GitHub.

GitHub: danielrosehill/Hebrew-AI-Models

Large Language Models (LLMs)

dicta-il (Israel Center for Text Analysis)

• DictaLM-3.0-24B — Latest generation Hebrew LLM, 24B parameters with Base, Instruct, and Thinking variants

• DictaLM-3.0-Nemotron-12B — Nemotron-based Hebrew LLM with Base and Instruct variants

• DictaLM-3.0-1.7B — Compact Hebrew LLM with Base, Instruct, and Thinking variants

• DictaLM 2.0 — Previous-gen Hebrew LLM (Mistral-based), 7B with Instruct variant

• BEREL 3.0 — Biblical/Rabbinic Hebrew language model

yam-peleg

• Hebrew-Gemma-11B-V2 — Hebrew-adapted Gemma 11B with V2, Instruct, and Base variants

• Hebrew-Mistral-7B — Hebrew-adapted Mistral 7B, including 200K extended context version

Other Hebrew LLMs

• Hebrew_Nemo — Hebrew fine-tune of Mistral Nemo 12B

• HebrewGPT (Slasky) — Hebrew-native GPT trained from scratch in 1B and 296M sizes

• hebrew-math-tutor-v1 (Intel) — Hebrew math tutoring model, 4B

• Llama-3.2-3B-Hebrew-Master — Hebrew fine-tune of Llama 3.2

Speech-to-Text / ASR

ivrit-ai

The leading Hebrew ASR project, community-driven. GitHub: ivrit-ai/ivrit.ai

• whisper-large-v3-turbo-ct2 — Top Hebrew ASR model, CTranslate2 optimized (22K+ downloads)

• whisper-large-v3 — Hebrew fine-tuned Whisper large-v3

• pyannote-speaker-diarization-3.1 — Hebrew speaker diarization

imvladikon

• wav2vec2-xls-r-300m-hebrew — Most downloaded Hebrew model (144K downloads)

• wav2vec2-xls-r-1b-hebrew — Hebrew fine-tuned XLS-R 1B

Text-to-Speech (TTS)

An emerging area for Hebrew with active research:

• HebTTS (Technion) — Diacritic-free Hebrew TTS research

  slp-rl/HebTTS ★ 108

  The official implementation of "A Language Modeling Approach to Diacritic-Free Hebrew TTS"

  Python15 forksUpdated Jun 2025
  aihebrewslmstts

• israwave — Hebrew TTS project

  thewh1teagle/israwave ★ 39

  Mission to create a Hebrew TTS model as powerful and user-friendly as WaveNet

  Python9 forksUpdated Jan 2025
  hebrewisraelpytorchtts

• Zonos-Hebrew — Hebrew variant of Zonos TTS

• hebrewTTS-orpheus3b — Hebrew Orpheus TTS 3B

• phonikud — Hebrew diacritization/phonemization for TTS pipelines

• mms-tts-heb — Hebrew MMS TTS

NLP Models

BERT-based Foundation Models

• AlephBERT-base (onlplab/BIU) — Foundational Hebrew BERT (29.6K downloads)

• heBERT — Hebrew BERT with NER and sentiment analysis variants

• DictaBERT — Comprehensive Hebrew NLP toolkit with NER, sentiment, morphology, parsing, diacritization

• HeRo — Hebrew RoBERTa with long-context variant

Embeddings and Translation

• neodictabert-bilingual-embed — Bilingual Hebrew-English embeddings

• sentence-transformers-alephbert — Hebrew sentence embeddings (4.9K downloads)

• opus-mt-en-he (Helsinki-NLP) — English to Hebrew translation

• opus-mt-tc-big-he-en (Helsinki-NLP) — Hebrew to English, large model

Key Organizations

• dicta-il — Israel Center for Text Analysis. Most comprehensive Hebrew NLP toolkit

• ivrit-ai — Leading Hebrew speech recognition, community-driven

• onlplab (Bar-Ilan University) — AlephBERT foundational model

• slprl (Technion) — Speech Processing Lab, TTS research

• imvladikon — wav2vec2 Hebrew (144K downloads), sentence transformers

• Helsinki-NLP — OPUS-MT Hebrew translation models

The full catalog includes OCR/vision models, speech foundation models, summarization, curated Hugging Face collections, and more. Visit the GitHub repository for the complete list.