Gender | Male |
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Origin | |
Word/name | Hebrew |
Region of origin | Kingdom of Israel, Levant |
Other names | |
Related names | Saul, Saulo |
Shaul is a given name and a surname which may refer to:
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Shaul Mofaz is an Israeli former soldier and politician. He joined the Israel Defense Forces in 1966 and served in the Paratroopers Brigade. He fought in the Six-Day War, Yom Kippur War, 1982 Lebanon War, and Operation Entebbe with the paratroopers and Sayeret Matkal, an elite special forces unit. In 1998 he became the sixteenth IDF's Chief of the General Staff, serving until 2002. He is of Iranian Jewish ancestry.
Mizrahi Jews or Mizrahim (מִזְרָחִים), also referred to as Mizrachi (מִזְרָחִי), Edot HaMizrach, or Oriental Jews, are the descendants of the local Jewish communities that had existed in the Middle East and North Africa from biblical times into the modern era.
Eliahu or Eliyahu is a masculine Hebrew given name and a surname of biblical origin which may refer to:
The Jewish name Peretz may refer to the following people:
Lieberman, Liebermann, or Liberman are names deriving from Lieb, a German and Jewish (Ashkenazic) nickname for a person from the German lieb or Yiddish lib, meaning 'dear, beloved'. Many Lieberman families originally spelled the name in Hebrew or Cyrillic characters, so variations in the spelling occurred during transliteration to the Latin alphabet.
Mercaz HaRav is a national-religious yeshiva in Jerusalem, founded in 1924 by Ashkenazi Chief Rabbi Abraham Isaac Kook. Located in the city's Kiryat Moshe neighborhood, it has become the most prominent religious-Zionist yeshiva in the world and synonymous with Rabbi Kook's teachings. Many Religious Zionist educators and leaders have studied at Mercaz HaRav.
Yosef Dayan is a Mexican-Israeli Orthodox rabbi and right-wing Israeli monarchist and nationalist, who is considered by many leading rabbis of the Nascent Sanhedrin to be the most reputable heir to the Davidic line. He is the founder and director of Malchut Israel, a religious right-wing political party which advocates for a return of the monarchy in Israel. In 2004, Dayan became a founding member of the newly reconstituted Sanhedrin. He is the author of several books in Hebrew, Spanish, and Italian and has worked to translate modern Spanish literature into Hebrew.
Shlomo, meaning peaceable, is a common Hebrew male given name.
Yosef is a Hebrew male name derived from the Hebrew word yasaf. It is the Hebrew equivalent of the English name Joseph, and the Arabic name Yusif.
Moses, Moishe, Moshe, or Movses is a male given name, after the biblical figure Moses.
The Hebraization of surnames is the act of adopting a Hebrew surname in exchange for a diaspora name. For many diaspora Jews who migrated to Israel, taking a Hebrew surname was a way to erase remnants of their diaspora experience and to assimilate into a new shared Jewish identity with Mizrahi Jews and Palestinian Jews and later as Israeli Jews.
Events in the year 1999 in Israel.
Events in the year 1943 in the British Mandate of Palestine.
Ben-Zion, also spelled Ben Zion and Benzion is a Hebrew given name. It may refer to the following people:
Yair is a Hebrew given name, a variant of Jair. It may also be used as a surname. It may refer to:
Avraham is a masculine given name, the Hebrew version of Abraham. It may refer to: