In Israel, where official announcements are often trilingual, this letter is used as the letter gīm on roadsigns to represent , when transcribing Hebrew or foreign names of places, since Palestinian Arabic does not have a  in its phonemic inventory.
In Israel, where official announcements are typically trilingual, this letter is used as the letter gīm on roadsigns to represent , when transcribing Hebrew or foreign place names, considering that Palestinian Arabic lacks a  in its phonemic system.