Arabic uses a completely different writing system. I suspect the Arab letters are borrowed from the Indian but I don't know it for a fact.
Arabic and Hebrew share many common roots and structural similarities. However they belong to different branches of the semitic language tree. Hebrew is west semitic and Arabic is east semitic, I think. Aramaic is more similar to Hebrew for example. But the closest languages to Hebrew (Phoenician , Canaanite, Edomite, Moabite ) are all extinct.