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Surname spelling

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Perah is the correct spelling according to WP:HEBREW and apparently the common name judging Ghits (3,700 for Perah, 595 for Perach).

An example of a contemporary English source here calls him "Perah". Number 57 14:12, 9 June 2015 (UTC)[reply]

His name as written on his 1975 Ph.D. thesis in Yehuda Perach. Saw it with me own eyes. It isn't the most modern transliteration of the letter ח but that is exactly how he wrote it. DGtal (talk) 22:48, 13 June 2015 (UTC)[reply]
P.S. Perach is also the spelling in the Knesset website in English. DGtal (talk) 22:53, 13 June 2015 (UTC)[reply]
The Knesset website is notoriously unreliable and inconsistent for spelling, so should not be used under any circumstances to determine someone's name. WP:COMMONNAME and WP:HEBREW still apply regardless. Number 57 22:57, 13 June 2015 (UTC)[reply]
It's easy to say an official site is "notoriously unreliable and inconsistent for spelling" but can you prove it?
Ghits here are irrelevant if you bother checking the results. Most results are either the transliteration of a street name (no clear majority) and mirrors and deriviants of wikipedia (naturally using current spelling and proving nothing).
In the google results you can also find Perach in contemporary and newer publications (The Age 1982, 2004 book in German, a 1980 ZOA convention publication) and the number of real results under Perah is not much greater. WP:COMMONNAME is relevant when a name is common. Here no name is common in English, so the official name spelling should be prefered. WP:HEBREW is relevant for transliteration of Hebrew texts, but here you know how he wrote the name (I can upload the Ph.D. title page if needed). DGtal (talk) 08:15, 14 June 2015 (UTC)[reply]
Yes, it can be easily proved. Take, for example, the name Ya'akov. The Knesset has multiple varieties of it: Yaakov, Yakov, Yacov and Yaacov. Why not just start an RM if you are so convinced? Number 57 19:35, 14 June 2015 (UTC)[reply]