Hebrew is an abjad - a writing system where you (mostly) only write the consonants. It's true that, like other very ancient writing systems such as Egyptian and Mayan hieroglyphs, the letters are pictoral, but functionally it's still more like an alphabet than anything else.

Far from being like this, the only major kind of writing that Japanese doesn't use is an abjad. It uses logograms (kanji, like what this article shows), two different kinds of syllabary (hiragana and katakana), and an alphabet (romaji - the Latin alphabet).