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Yechiel
Yechiel ({{langx, he, יְחִיאֵל) is a Hebrew masculine given name meaning "May God live" or "God shall live". Several people in the Bible have this name. See Jehiel (biblical figure). Alternative spellings of Yechiel include Jehiel, Yehiel, Yechi'el, and Yiddish variants include Ichel, Ychel, Echiel, Cheil, and Chil may refer to: People *Yehiel Bar (born 1975), Israeli politician *Jehiel Brooks (1797–1886), American soldier and politician * Yehiel De-Nur (1909–2001), Israeli writer *Yehiel Dresner (1922–1947), Israeli paramilitary fighter *Yechiel Eckstein (1951–2019), American rabbi * Yechiel Fishel Eisenbach (1925–2008), Israeli rabbi * Jehiel R. Elyachar (1898–1989), American engineer *Yechiel Michel Epstein (1829–1908), Lithuanian rabbi *Yechiel Granatstein (1913–2008), Polish-born Jewish author and writer *Yehiel Lasri (born 1957), Israeli politician and mayor *Yechiel Leiter (born 1959), Israeli political scientist and civic leader *Yechiel Lere ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Yechiel Leiter
Yechiel "Michael" Leiter (; born October 1, 1959) is an American-born Israeli historian of philosophy, public policy analyst, rabbi and settlement activist. He is a resident scholar at the Herzl Institute in Jerusalem. On January 27, 2025, he assumed the position of Israeli ambassador to the United States. He previously served as chief of staff to Benjamin Netanyahu at the Israeli Ministry of Finance and as political assistant to Ariel Sharon in the Israeli parliament. An ordained rabbi, Leiter has written three books and numerous essays on the politics of the Middle East. He is affiliated with the Kohelet Policy Forum. Early life and education Yechiel Leiter was born on 1 October 1959 in Scranton, Pennsylvania. The newspaper ''Haaretz'' claimed that as a youth, Leiter was active in the far-right Jewish Defense League led by Rabbi Meir Kahane, and emigrated to Israel together with other activists from that organization. He arrived in Israel in 1978 at the age of eighteen, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Yechiel Eckstein
Yechiel Eckstein (; July 11, 1951 – February 6, 2019) was an Israeli American rabbi who founded International Fellowship of Christians and Jews in 1983 and led it for many years. The objectives of the organisation were to support Jews in need of financial help, to promote emigration of Jews to Israel, and to support poor soldiers in the Israel Defense Forces. In 2003, it was listed as the second-largest charitable foundation in Israel by ''Ha'aretz''. In 2010 ''Newsweek'' listed him in the Top 50 Most Influential Rabbis in America. He was awarded Hadassah's first ''Man of Distinction'' in 2010, and the Raoul Wallenberg Award in 2014. He was listed in the "Jerusalem Post's Top 50 Most Influential Jews" of 2014 and 2015. Early life and education Born in Winthrop, Massachusetts, Eckstein was the son of the Rabbi and psychologist Dr. Simon "Sy" Eckstein (1919–2016) and his wife Belle Eckstein (''née'' Hirschman) of Tampa, Florida. In 1952, when he was just a year old, Eckste ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Yechiel Shemi
Yechiel Shemi (; 1922-2003) was an Israeli sculptor. His environmental sculptures are displayed in open spaces around the country. Biography Yechiel Stizberg (later Shemi), was born to Moshe and Esther Stizberg. When he was two months old the family immigrated to Mandate Palestine and settled in Haifa. At the age of 14 he joined the Mahane Avoda youth movement and began to study art with Paul Henich. In 1938, he was one of the founders of Kibbutz Beit HaArava, located north of the Dead Sea. Alongside his agricultural work, Stizberg created landscape drawings and paintings, but then moved to sculpting. In 1942 he joined his friend Yitzhak Danziger's studio where he painted for 3 months. In 1945 he changed his last name to Shemi and joined the HeHalutz Movement as a courier, carrying out missions in Italy, France and Egypt. While on assignment in New York, he studied with Chaim Gross, who exposed him to modern art and art history. During the War of Independence, Kibbutz B ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jehiel (biblical Figure)
Yechiel ({{langx, he, יְחִיאֵל) is a Hebrew masculine given name meaning "May God live" or "God shall live". Several people in the Bible have this name. See Jehiel (biblical figure). Alternative spellings of Yechiel include Jehiel, Yehiel, Yechi'el, and Yiddish variants include Ichel, Ychel, Echiel, Cheil, and Chil may refer to: People *Yehiel Bar (born 1975), Israeli politician *Jehiel Brooks (1797–1886), American soldier and politician *Yehiel De-Nur (1909–2001), Israeli writer *Yehiel Dresner (1922–1947), Israeli paramilitary fighter *Yechiel Eckstein (1951–2019), American rabbi *Yechiel Fishel Eisenbach (1925–2008), Israeli rabbi * Jehiel R. Elyachar (1898–1989), American engineer *Yechiel Michel Epstein (1829–1908), Lithuanian rabbi *Yechiel Granatstein (1913–2008), Polish-born Jewish author and writer *Yehiel Lasri (born 1957), Israeli politician and mayor *Yechiel Leiter (born 1959), Israeli political scientist and civic leader *Yechiel Lerer ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Yechiel Michel Epstein
Yechiel Michel ha-Levi Epstein () (24 January 1829 – 25 March 1908), often called "the ''Aruch haShulchan''" after his magnum opus, '' Aruch HaShulchan'', was a Rabbi and ''posek'' (authority in Jewish law) in Lithuania. Biography Yechiel Michel Epstein was born on 24 January 1829 in Babruysk, Russian Empire (presently in Belarus) to Aharon Yitzchak and Rashka Epstein. His father Aharon Yitzchak Epstein was a builder and contractor who spend much of his time traveling for his work, which were often projects of the Czarist government. He had one brother, Benjamin Beinush Epstein, who lived in Saint Petersburg. The two brothers stayed in touch over the years, and when Epstein needed to travel to Saint Petersburg—usually to submit his writings to the Russian censor before publishing—he would stay at his brother's house. As a child, Epstein studied in a traditional Cheder. His original intent was to follow in his father's footsteps: to work as a merchant, while dedicatin ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Yechiel Fishel Eisenbach
Yechiel Fishel Eisenbach (; 1925 – 4 September 2008) was a Haredi Judaism, Haredi rabbi and long-time rosh yeshiva of Shaar Hashamayim Yeshiva in Jerusalem. He was widely regarded as one of the greatest Kabbalah, kabbalists in Israel, and was an expert in the writings of the Isaac Luria, Arizal and the ''siddur'' of the Shalom Sharabi, Rashash."HaRav Yechiel Fishel Eisenbach". ''Hamodia'', Israel News, September 11, 2008, p. A23. Early life He was born in Jerusalem to Rabbi Yosef Eisenbach, a ''sofer'' (scribe), and studied in the Talmud Torah and yeshiva of Shomrei HaChomot. He was also one of the first students of Yeshivat Beit Avraham-Slonim, which was then led by Rabbi Sholom Noach Berezovsky, the Rebbe of Slonim (Hasidic dynasty), Slonim. After his marriage in 1944 to the daughter of Rabbi Asher Zelig Margolios, a noted kabbalist, Rabbi Eisenbach studied at the Pressburg Yeshiva (Jerusalem), Pressburg Yeshiva under Rabbi Akiva Sofer (the Daas Sofer); the Toras Emes (Ch ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Yechiel Granatstein
Yechiel Granatstein (; June 6, 1913 – February 7, 2008) was a Polish-born Jewish author and writer in Yiddish and Hebrew, as well as a partisan fighter in World War II and a Jewish refugee activist following the Holocaust. Life Yechiel Granatstein was born in Lublin, Poland on June 6, 1913. Even before World War II, he had developed his skills as a writer, writing for ''Dos Yiddish Tagblat'' and various Agudah periodicals. While still young and single, he was drafted into the Polish army for military training. He lived in Łódź from 1936 to 1939. Following the Nazi–Soviet invasion of Poland at the outbreak of World War II he escaped from the Germans to Slonim, which was on the Russian side of the Molotov–Ribbentrop line, eventually entrapped in the Słonim Ghetto after Operation Barbarossa. In 1942 he escaped to the nearby forests and joined the partisans who were fighting the Nazis. He was accepted into the partisan unit because of his earlier training as a sold ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Yechiel Lerer
Yechiel Lerer (1910–1943) was a Yiddish poet. Lerer lived in the Warsaw Ghetto and participated in the ghetto literary activity. He was involved in the periodical '' Hamadrikh'' (Hebrew: "The Guide"). Yechiel was murdered in the Treblinka extermination camp Treblinka () was the second-deadliest extermination camp to be built and operated by Nazi Germany in occupied Poland during World War II. It was in a forest north-east of Warsaw, south of the village of Treblinka in what is now the Mas .... References {{DEFAULTSORT:Lerer, Yechiel 1910 births 1943 deaths Yiddish-language poets Warsaw Ghetto inmates Polish people who died in Treblinka extermination camp People from Mińsk County Polish Jews who died in the Holocaust ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Yehiel Lasri
Yechiel Lasri (; born 21 August 1957) is an Israeli physician and politician who serves as mayor of Ashdod.Lasri: A new sun will shine on the city Ynet, 11 November 2008 He previously served as a member of the for the Center Party, and . Biography Lasri was born in Morocco to a Jewish family, one of f ...[...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Yehiel De-Nur
Yehiel De-Nur (; ''De-Nur'' means 'of the fire' in Aramaic; also Romanized ''Dinoor, Di-Nur''), also known by his pen name Ka-Tsetnik 135633 (), born Yehiel Feiner (16 May 1909 – 17 July 2001), was a Jewish writer and Holocaust survivor, whose books were inspired by his time as a prisoner in the Auschwitz concentration camp. Biography Yehiel De-Nur was born in Sosnowiec, Poland. He was a pupil in Chachmei Lublin Yeshiva and later supported Zionism. In 1931, he published a book of Yiddish poetry, which he tried to destroy after the war. During World War II, De-Nur spent two years as a prisoner in Auschwitz. In 1945, he immigrated to Mandatory Palestine (now Israel). He wrote several books and essays in Modern Hebrew about his experiences in the camp using his identity number at Auschwitz, Ka-Tsetnik 135633 (sometimes "K. Tzetnik"). ''Ka-Tsetnik'' () is Yiddish for "Concentration Camper" (deriving from "ka tzet", the pronunciation of KZ, the abbreviation for ''Konzentrationsl ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Hebrew Masculine Given Names
Hebrew (; ''ʿÎbrit'') is a Northwest Semitic languages, Northwest Semitic language within the Afroasiatic languages, Afroasiatic language family. A regional dialect of the Canaanite languages, it was natively spoken by the Israelites and remained in regular use as a first language until after 200 CE and as the Sacred language, liturgical language of Judaism (since the Second Temple period) and Samaritanism. The language was Revival of the Hebrew language, revived as a spoken language in the 19th century, and is the only successful large-scale example of Language revitalization, linguistic revival. It is the only Canaanite language, as well as one of only two Northwest Semitic languages, with the other being Aramaic, still spoken today. The earliest examples of written Paleo-Hebrew alphabet, Paleo-Hebrew date back to the 10th century BCE. Nearly all of the Hebrew Bible is written in Biblical Hebrew, with much of its present form in the dialect that scholars believe flourish ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
