Arieh is both a given name and a surname. Arieh means lion in Hebrew. Notable people with the name include:
Sharon, also spelled Saron, is a given name as well as a Hebrew name.
Hillel is a Jewish masculine given name and a surname. It may refer to:
Yohananיוֹחָנָן, sometimes transcribed as Johanan is Hebrew male given name that can also appear in the longer form of יְהוֹחָנָן, meaning "YHWH is gracious".
Yitzhak( ) is a male first name, and is Hebrew for Isaac. Yitzhak may refer to:
Yaakov Dori, born Yaakov Dostrovsky, was the first Chief of Staff of the Israel Defense Forces (IDF). He was also the President of the Technion – Israel Institute of Technology.
Haim can be a first name or surname originating in Hebrew or derived from the Old German name Haimo.
Shlomo or Szlomo is the English form of שְׁלֹמֹה, the Hebrew name of the Israelite King Solomon. It is a popular name among Jews, especially in the State of Israel.
Ari is a given name in many languages and cultures, for both men and women. It also may be a nickname for a wide variety of unrelated names.
Amit is a male or female given name of Indian or Hebrew origin.
Leib is a given name, and a surname usually of Jewish origin. Leib often stems from לייב (leib), the Yiddish word for Hebrew "heart" לב and with the diminutives Leibel and Leibele, or from the Yiddish word for "lion". The Standard German word for lion is Löwe; other – partly dialectal – German forms of the word are Löw, Loew, Löb, Leb and Leib.
Arieh Warshel is an Israeli-American biochemist and biophysicist. He is a pioneer in computational studies on functional properties of biological molecules, Distinguished Professor of Chemistry and Biochemistry, and holds the Dana and David Dornsife Chair in Chemistry at the University of Southern California. He received the 2013 Nobel Prize in Chemistry, together with Michael Levitt and Martin Karplus for "the development of multiscale models for complex chemical systems".
The Solomon Bublick Award is an award made by the Hebrew University of Jerusalem to a person who has made an important contribution to the advancement and development of the State of Israel. The first award was made in 1949.
Israel is a Hebrew-language masculine given name. According to the Book of Genesis, the name was bestowed upon Jacob after the incident in which he wrestled with the angel. The given name is already attested in Eblaite and Ugaritic. Commentators differ on the original literal interpretation. The text of the Book of Genesis etymologizes the name with the verb śarah : שָׂרִיתָ עִם־אֱלֹהִים Modern scholars read the el as the subject, for a translation of "El persists/rules/shines forth/contends," or "El fights/struggles", and less often, readings with the adjective "just, right", "El (God) heals", "El judges" or "May El judge".
Margalit is a Hebrew-language given name and surname. Before the First Aliyah it was mainly used in this form by Sephardic Jews, while its variant Margulis was more common among Ashkenazis. It may refer to:
Benzion Netanyahu was a Polish-born Israeli encyclopedist, historian, and medievalist. He served as a professor of history at Cornell University. A scholar of Judaic history, he was also an activist in the Revisionist Zionism movement, who lobbied in the United States to support the creation of the Jewish state. His field of expertise was the history of the Jews in Spain. He was an editor of the Hebrew Encyclopedia and assistant to Benjamin Azkin, Ze'ev Jabotinsky's personal secretary.
Shoshana is a Hebrew feminine first name. It is the name of at least two women in the Bible and, via Σουσάννα, it developed into such European and Christian names as Susanna, Susan, Susanne, Susana, Susannah, Suzanne, Susie, Suzie, Sanna and Zuzana. In Ethiopia it became Sosie, Sosina, Sosena, while in North Africa it yielded Sawsen and Sawsan.
Ben-Zion is a Hebrew given name. Alternative spellings in English include Ben Zion, Benzion, and Bension. It may refer to the following people:
Aryeh is a transliteration of the Hebrew word אריה, which means lion. It is a common Hebrew masculine given name.
Ephraim is a masculine given name of Hebrew and Aramaic origin, first used by the Israelite patriarch of that name. In the modern English language it is typically pronounced. In Hebrew, the name means "fruitful, fertile and productive".
Avraham is a masculine given name, the Hebrew version of Abraham. It may refer to: