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Gila (given Name)
Gila is a feminine given name which is borne by: * Gila Almagor (born 1939), Israeli actress * Gila Finkelstein (born 1950), Israeli former politician * Gila Gamliel (born 1974), Israeli politician * Gila Golan (born 1940), Polish-born actress who immigrated to Israel in the 1950s * Gila Goldstein (1947–2017), Israeli actress, singer and transgender rights activist * Gila Hanna, Canadian mathematics educator and philosopher of mathematics * Gila Katsav (born 1948), Israel's first lady (2000–2007) * Gila Martow (born 1961), Canadian politician * Gila von Weitershausen Gisela "Gila" Freiin von Weitershausen (; born 21 March 1944) is a German actress. Born in Trebnitz (today Trzebnica), Lower Silesia Lower Silesia ( ; ; ; ; ; ; ; ) is a historical and geographical region mostly located in Poland with sma ... (born 1944), German actress {{given name Feminine given names ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Gila Almagor
Gila Almagor Agmon (; born Gila Alexandrowitz; July 22, 1939) is an Israeli actress, film star, and author. In Israel, she is known as "queen of the Israeli cinema and theatre". Biography Gila Alexandrowitz (Almagor) was born in Petah Tikva to Jewish emigrant parents from Europe. Her German-Jewish father Max Alexandrowitz was killed by an Arab sniper while working as a policeman in Haifa four months before she was born. Her mother Chaya was from a Polish Orthodox Jewish family. Almagor grew up caring for her mother, who was slowly losing her sanity after realising that all her family in Europe had been murdered in the Holocaust. When her mother was institutionalized in 1954, Almagor was sent to Hadassim youth village. Two years later, she moved to Tel Aviv, rented a room near Habima Theatre, and applied to acting school. Although she was underage, she was accepted. At the age of 17, Almagor debuted in Habima's production of ''The Skin of Our Teeth''. Her autobiographical books ' ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Gila Finkelstein
Gila Finkelstein (; born 22 September 1950) is an Israeli former politician who served as a member of the Knesset for the National Religious Party between 2003 and 2006. Biography Born Gila Margil in 1950 in Tel Aviv, Finkelstein studied at the Dizengoff religious state elementary school and then at in the city, before studying English and Israeli history at Tel Aviv University, where she gained a BA and a teaching certificate. She went on to gain an MA in educational management, and work as an English teacher and headmistress. In 2003 she was elected to the Knesset on the National Religious Party list, and was appointed a Deputy Speaker of the Knesset. Finkelstein was also chairwoman of the subcommittee for Learning Disabilities, and a member of the Education, Culture and Sports committee, the committee on the Status of Women, and the committee on the Rights of the Child. For the 2006 elections The following elections occurred in the year 2006. * Elections in 2006 * Elector ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Gila Gamliel
Gila Gamliel-Demri (; born 24 February 1974) is an Israeli politician who currently serves as Ministry of Science, Technology and Space, Minister of Science and Technology, and also as a member of the Knesset for Likud. She also previously served as Pensioner Affairs Minister of Israel, Minister for Social Equality and as Ministry of Environmental Protection (Israel), Minister of Environmental Protection. Early life and education Gamliel was born in Gedera. Her father Yosef Gameliel was born to a Yemenite Jewish family, and her mother Aliza was born to a Libyan Jewish family. Both her parents Aliyah, immigrated to Israel. After leaving school she did her national service in the Israel Defense Forces. She subsequently studied at the Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, where she was awarded a Bachelor of Arts, BA degree in Middle Eastern history and philosophy, and an Master of Arts, MA degree in philosophy. During her time as a student she was elected chairwoman of the university ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Gila Golan
Gila Golan () is an Israeli actress and former model. Early life Golan does not know when or where she was born. Her parents were murdered in the Holocaust and she was adopted by Zoshia Zawatcki, who saw her wandering the streets of Kraków. She was given the name Zoshia Zavatski by her Polish family and renamed to Mara Goldenberg in Israel. She also used the names Miriam Goldenberg and Gila Goldenberg. Golan attended a Youth Aliyah boarding school in Aix-les-Bains, France for two years before moving to Israel on January 14, 1948. She worked at a kibbutz for four years. Golan was not conscripted into the Israel Defense Forces due to her not knowing her age. Career Golan was spotted by an American photographer and appeared in the Israeli women's magazine '' LaIsha''. In 1960, she was the runner-up for Miss Israel behind Aliza Gur. She placed second in the Miss World 1960 competition and changed her name to Gila Golan to prevent the religiously conservative family she lived with ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Gila Goldstein
Gila Goldstein (; 18December 19475February 2017) was an Israeli sex worker, actress, singer and transgender rights activist. She was one of the first activists of the Aguda, the oldest and largest LGBT organization in Israel. She is considered Israel's second openly transgender star (after Ada Valerie-Tal) and is one of the most prominent icons of the LGBTQIA+ movement in Israel. Biography Gila Goldstein was born in Turin and assigned male at birth. After immigrating to Israel, she lived in Haifa. Goldstein realized she was transgender in 1960 and changed her name to Gila. She engaged in survival sex in Haifa before having gender affirming surgery in Belgium in 1965 – the first officially documented gender affirming surgery for an Israeli. In the early 1970s, Goldstein lived in Europe and worked as a dancer and striptease performer. When she returned to Israel, she performed in nightclubs and bars, including Bar 51. She served as the prototype of one of the characters in the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Gila Hanna
Gila Hanna is a Canadian mathematics educator and philosopher of mathematics whose research interests include the nature and educational role of mathematical proofs, and gender in mathematics education. She is professor emerita in the Department of Curriculum, Teaching and Learning at the University of Toronto, affiliated with the Ontario Institute for Studies in Education, the former director of mathematics education at the Fields Institute, and the founder of the ''Canadian Journal of Mathematics, Science and Technology Education''. Books Hanna is the author of ''Contact and Communication: An Evaluation of Bilingual Student Exchange Programs'' (OISE Press, 1980) and ''Rigorous Proof in Mathematics Education'' (OISE Press, 1983). Her numerous edited volume Editing is the process of selecting and preparing written language, written, Image editing, visual, Audio engineer, audible, or Film editing, cinematic material used by a person or an entity to convey a message or in ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Gila Katsav
Gila Katsav (; born 1948) is an Israeli public figure who served as the First Lady of Israel from 2000 until 2007 as the wife of former President Moshe Katsav. Biography Gila Katsav was born in Tel Aviv. She is of Polish-Jewish and Ukrainian-Jewish ancestry. One of her grandfathers was among the founders of Bnei Brak. In 1969, she married Moshe Katsav. The couple has five children, four sons and a daughter, and two grandchildren. Katsav is involved in personal volunteer activities for children who come from disadvantaged families as part of the efforts of “The Council for the Sheltered Child. She also volunteered for the Rehabilitation Department of Yad Sarah, a voluntary organization which specializes in providing home care and lending medical equipment without charge. Katsav served as the First Lady of Israel from 2000 until 2007 during the tenure of her husband. In May 2005, Katsav led U.S. First Lady Laura Bush on a tour of the Yad Vashem and a controversial visit to the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Gila Martow
Gila Deborah Gladstone-Martow ( Gladstone; born June 5, 1961) is a politician in Ontario, Canada. She has represented Ward 5 on Vaughan City Council since 2022. She previously represented the electoral district of Thornhill in the Legislative Assembly of Ontario as a member of the Ontario Progressive Conservative Party from 2014 to 2022. Martow did not seek re-election in the 2022 Ontario general election after unsuccessfully seeking the federal Conservative nomination in 2021. Martow returned to municipal politics in her successful election bid in the 2022 Vaughan Municipal Election. Background Originally from Chomedey, Quebec, Martow was an optometrist. She and her husband, an ophthalmologist, jointly ran an eye clinic at the Markham Stouffville Hospital.. Martow's maternal grandparents lived on a kibbutz organized by the Hashomer Hatzair Marxist- Zionist youth movement in the early 1930s in Mandatory Palestine (later to become Israel). Martow attended the socialist ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Gila Von Weitershausen
Gisela "Gila" Freiin von Weitershausen (; born 21 March 1944) is a German actress. Born in Trebnitz (today Trzebnica), Lower Silesia Lower Silesia ( ; ; ; ; ; ; ; ) is a historical and geographical region mostly located in Poland with small portions in the Czech Republic and Germany. It is the western part of the region of Silesia. Its largest city is Wrocław. The first ..., Germany (today Poland) into an aristocratic family, she has three brothers and two sisters and is the great-granddaughter of former Chancellor of Germany, German Chancellor Georg von Hertling, Georg Graf von Hertling. Gila von Weitershausen became popular in the late 1960s when she appeared in German comedy films, for example alongside Uschi Glas. One of the films from that period about Swinging Sixties Bavaria, ', gave her the nickname ''Engelchen'' ("Little Angel"), which was used by the tabloid press for decades. In one of her best-known roles, she played a prostitute in the 1971 film ''Murmur of ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
