Yakir is a Hebrew name. Notable people with the name include:
Iona Emmanuilovich Yakir was a Red Army commander and one of the world's major military reformers between World War I and World War II. He was an early and major military victim of the Great Purge, alongside Mikhail Tukhachevsky. He was rehabilitated in 1957 by Nikita Khrushchev.
Yakir Gueron or Preciado Gueron was a Turkish rabbi. He was the sixth rabbi of Adrianople descended from the Gueron family. He became rabbi in 1835 at the age of twenty-two, and eleven years later met Sultan Abd al-Majid, whom he induced to restore the privileges formerly conceded to the non-Muslim communities. Gueron, with the rabbis of İzmir and Seres, was made an arbitrator in a rabbinical controversy at Constantinople, and was chosen acting chief rabbi of the Turkish capital in 1863. Both Abdulmecid I and his successor Abdülaziz conferred decorations upon him.
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Mordecai Ardon was an Israeli painter.
Yuliy Chersanovich Kim is one of Russia's foremost bards, composer, poet, songwriter for theater and films. His songs, encompassing everything from mild humor to biting political satire, appear in at least fifty Soviet movies, including Bumbarash, The Twelve Chairs, and An Ordinary Miracle, as well as the songs "The Brave Captain," "The Black Sea," "The Whale-Fish," "Cursed Lips," "Captain Bering," and "Baron Germont Went to War." Since 1998, he has been living in Israel and has made periodic tours through Russia, Europe, and the United States.
Revava, is an Orthodox Jewish Israeli settlement in the West Bank. Located between Barkan and Karnei Shomron, it falls under the jurisdiction of Shomron Regional Council. In 2017 it had a population of 2,389.
Yakir Aharonov is an Israeli physicist specializing in quantum physics. He is a Professor of Theoretical Physics and the James J. Farley Professor of Natural Philosophy at Chapman University in California. He is also a distinguished professor in the Perimeter Institute and a professor emeritus at Tel Aviv University in Israel. He is president of the IYAR, The Israeli Institute for Advanced Research.
Yakir Yerushalayim is an annual citizenship prize in Jerusalem, Israel, inaugurated in 1967.
Zerach Warhaftig was an Israeli lawyer and politician. He was a signatory of Israel's Declaration of Independence.
The Bnei Akiva Schools of Toronto consist of two Orthodox Jewish high schools, namely Yeshivat Or Chaim boys school and Ulpanat Orot girls school that are affiliated with Bnei Akiva, located in Toronto, Canada.
Shlomo Yosef Zevin was one of the most prominent Orthodox, Religious Zionist rabbis of the 20th century. He founded the Encyclopedia Talmudit, a Hebrew Halachic Encyclopedia, of which he was chief editor until his death.
Zev Vilnay was an Israeli geographer, author and lecturer.
Professor Nathan J. Saltz was an American-born Israeli doctor who is considered the father and founder of modern surgical medicine in Israel.
Havot Yair is an Israeli outpost in the West Bank. Located near Nofim and Yakir, it falls under the jurisdiction of Shomron Regional Council. It is home to around 70 families.
Yakir Shina is an Israeli footballer who plays for Liga Leumit club Hapoel Rishon LeZion. He had been loaned to Hapoel Ramat Gan, Hapoel Acre, Maccabi Ahi Nazareth and played for Beitar Tel Aviv Ramla, Hapoel Bnei Lod and Hapoel Ra'anana, and is a defender.
Victor Aleksandrovich Krasin was a Russian human rights activist, economist, a former Soviet dissident and a political prisoner. At the time of his death Krasin was a US citizen.
The two-state vector formalism (TSVF) is a description of quantum mechanics in terms of a causal relation in which the present is caused by quantum states of the past and of the future taken in combination.
The following lists events that happened during 1937 in the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics.
The Initiative or Action Group for the Defense of Human Rights in the USSR was the first civic organization of the Soviet human rights movement. Founded in 1969 by 15 dissidents, the unsanctioned group functioned for over six years as a public platform for Soviet dissidents concerned with violations of human rights in the Soviet Union.
Hamakor was an Israeli Jewish rock band from Mevo Modi'im. They were formed in 2006 by lead singer Nachman Solomon and released two albums, The Source (2007) and World On Its Side (2010).