In contrast to English (and many other languages), proper names in Hebrew are not capitalized.
the following homographs may be interpreted as either a proper name, a noun, or a verb: One usually distinguishes between two types of transliteration (Knight and Graehl, 1997): Forward transliteration, where an originally Hebrew term is to be transliterated to English; and Backward transliteration, in which a foreign term that has already been transliterated into Hebrew is to be recovered.