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[Rick Moen]

Quoting Ehud Kaldor (ehud.kaldor at gmail.com):

> not to belittle your Hebrew, Rick, but Itzik is not exactly laughter.
> however, Itzik is a nickname for Issac. Issac, in turn, is pronounced
> "Itz-hak", which literally is the male form of 'will laugh'. Amit is
> literally 'colleague'.

Eh, one tries.  ;->  

I did know that Itzik is a nickname for Isaac, but my Ivrit is strictly
tourist-grade and totally unused for decades.  (I was a volunteer on
Kibbutz Ramot Menashe in 1980, which is astonishingly long ago.)

> and if you're into that, you should know that Rick is the Hebrew word for
> void or vacuum.

_This_ I did know.