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Halevi
Halevi, HaLevi, or Halévy (, ) means an Israelite man descended patrilineally from the tribe of Levi. Notable people with the surname include: *Rabbi Abraham ibn Daud ha-Levi *Rabbi Aaron ben Abba ha-Levi ben Johanan *Rabbi Aharon HaLevi (1235 – c. 1290; ) * Adolf Abraham Halevi Fraenkel * Dana Elazar-HaLevi, Israeli children's writer * Daniel Halévy, French historian *Rabbi David HaLevi Segal *Efraim Halevy (; born 1934) * Élie Halévy, French philosopher and historian * Élie Halévy (Chalfan), French Hebrew poet and author *Rabbi Eliezer ben Joel HaLevi * Fromental Halévy, French composer *Geneviève Halévy, French salonnière, daughter of Fromental Halévy and wife of Georges Bizet. * Herzl Halevi, Major General, Israel Defence Forces, Director of Israeli Military Intelligence. * Ilan Halevi (1943–2013), French-Israeli Jewish pro-Palestinian journalist and politician * Joseph Halévy, French Orientalist (Hebraist) and traveller * Léon Halévy, French author and d ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ilan Halevi
Ilan Halevi (; ; born Georges Alain Albert in France; 12 October 1943 – 10 July 2013) was a France, French-Palestinians, Palestinian journalist, politician and pro-Palestinian activist. He was one of the very few high-ranking Jewish members of the Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO). Halevi served in the Ministry of Foreign Affairs for the Palestinian government and the Palestine Liberation Organization, as well as a member of Fatah Revolutionary Council. He was a member of the Palestinian delegation in the 1991–93 negotiations in Madrid Conference of 1991, Madrid and Washington, and was Assistant Deputy Minister for Foreign Affairs in the Palestinian Government."Ilan Halevi" at Heinrich-Böll-Stiftung. Writing in both French and English, he was also a novelist and the author of non-fiction books. His publicatio ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Yihya Yitzhak Halevi
Yiḥya Yitzḥak Halevi, son of Moshe (Musa) Yitzḥak Halevi ( also commonly known as ''Mori'' Yiḥya Yitzḥak from the house of Yitzḥak Halevi) (1867 – 1932), was a Yemeni born rabbinical scholar who served as one of the last great scholars and chief jurists of the rabbinic court at Ṣan‘ā’, which post he held for nearly thirty years, a time interrupted only during the siege laid to the city (Dec. 1904—Jan. 1906) by loyal Yemeni forces under Imām Yaḥyā Ḥamīd ad-Dīn (1904—1948) in their bid to oust the Ottoman Turks who then controlled the city. The Rabbi, meanwhile, had fled with his family to Dhamar. Early life Yiḥya Yitzḥak Halevi was born in Ṣan‘ā’, the eldest of ten children born unto Musa Yitzḥak, a tanner of hides by profession, and a descendant of one of the city's more illustrious Jewish families. Yiḥya Yitzḥak received his early education from his maternal grandfather, the Rabbi and '' kabbalist'' Shalom Mansura, an ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Yehuda Halevi
Judah haLevi (also Yehuda Halevi or ha-Levi; ; ; c. 1075 – 1141) was a Sephardic Jewish poet, physician and philosopher. Halevi is considered one of the greatest Hebrew poets and is celebrated for his secular and religious poems, many of which appear in present-day liturgy. Judah haLevi was born in Tudela, in the region of Navarre, then part of Muslim Spain. Although little is known about his early life or education, it is clear that he was well-versed in Arabic, Hebrew, and classical sciences including medicine and philosophy. In his youth, he began composing Hebrew poetry, and his reputation eventually reached Moses ibn Ezra in Granada. After initial difficulties in traveling due to political shifts, haLevi was able to establish literary connections across major Jewish centers in al-Andalus. HaLevi's poetic corpus includes a wide array of genres, including panegyrics, friendship poems, wine songs, riddles, didactic verse, and wedding poems. However, he is best remembered ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Herzl Halevi
Herzl "Herzi" Halevi (; born 17 December 1967) is a retired Israeli general who served as the Chief of the General Staff of the Israel Defense Forces from 16 January 2023 to 5 March 2025. He previously served as the commander of the Israeli Southern Command, the chief of the Military Intelligence Directorate, the commander of the 91st (Territorial) Division, the commander of the 35th Paratroopers Brigade, and the commander of the Sayeret Matkal. Halevi was the first practicing Orthodox Jew to serve as the head of Israeli military intelligence. Early life and education Herzl Halevi was born in Jerusalem. His father Shlomo was the son of Haim Shalom Halevi (Gordin), a member of the Irgun and the " Battalion for the Defence of the Language", and Tzila, the daughter of Rabbi and niece of Rabbi Abraham Isaac HaCohen Kook, the chief rabbi of Israel. He was named after his uncle who died in the battle for Jerusalem in the Six-Day War several months before his birth. Halevi's mot ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Shai Halevi
Shai Halevi (; born 1966) is a computer scientist who works on cryptography research at Amazon Web Services. Born in Israel in 1966, Halevi received a B.A. and M.Sc. in computer science from the Technion, Israel Institute of Technology in 1991 and 1993. He received his Ph.D. in computer science from Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 1997 and then joined IBM's Thomas J. Watson Research Center, where he was a principal research staff member until 2019. Between 2019 and 2023, he has been a research fellow at Algorand Foundation, a blockchain startup founded by Silvio Micali. Research Shai Halevi's research interests are in cryptography and security. He has published numerous original technical research papers, three of which were awarded the IBM Pat Goldberg memorial best-paper award (in 2004, 2012, and 2013). Notable contributions by Shai Halevi include: * Obfuscation. Halevi is a co-inventor of the first candidate general-purpose indistinguishability obfuscation schemes ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Odelya Halevi
Odelya Halevi (; born February 12, 1989) is an Israeli actress who appears on the American drama series ''Law & Order'' as Assistant District Attorney Samantha Maroun. She played Angelica in the American TV series ''Good Trouble (TV series), Good Trouble,'' and she also appeared on ''Good Girls Revolt''. She has made appearances in shows such as ''Mike & Molly'', ''New Girl'', ''NCIS (TV series), NCIS'', ''MacGyver (2016 TV series), MacGyver'', and ''Why Women Kill''. Early life Halevi is the second oldest of six children. She was born in Rosh HaAyin, Israel. Her parents are a teacher and a retired firefighter. She is a Yemenite Jew whose grandparents immigrated to Israel from Yemen. She attended Orthodox girls school as a child. She used to write and perform small plays each month for Rosh Chodesh. “I don’t remember a time when I didn’t want to be an actor,” she said. “It’s the need to be loved and liked, wanting people to look up to you in some way. It’s a validati ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Yemenite Jews
Yemenite Jews, also known as Yemeni Jews or Teimanim (from ; ), are a Jewish diaspora group who live, or once lived, in Yemen, and their descendants maintaining their customs. After several waves of antisemitism, persecution, the vast majority of Yemenite Jews aliyah, emigrated to Israel in Operation Magic Carpet (Yemen), Operation Magic Carpet between June 1949 and September 1950. Most Yemenite Jews in Israel, Yemenite Jews now live in Israel, with smaller communities in the United States and elsewhere. As of 2024, only one Jew, Levi Marhabi, remains in Yemen, although ''Ynet'' cited local sources stating that the actual number is five. Yemenite Jews observe a unique religious tradition that distinguishes them from Ashkenazi Jews, Sephardic Jews, and Jewish ethnic divisions, other Jewish groups. They have been described as "the most Jewish of all Jews" and "the ones who have preserved the Hebrew language the best". Yemenite Jews are considered Mizrahi Jews, Mizrahi or "Eastern ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tzachi Halevy
Tzachi Halevy (or Tsahi HaLevi; ; born ) is an Israeli film and television actor and singer. Early and personal life HaLevi was born and raised in Petah Tikva, Israel, to an Israeli family of both Sephardi Jewish and Mizrahi Jewish descent.קצין המסתערבים שהפך לרקדן שר על חיילים ("The Mista'arvim officer that became a dancer who sings about soldiers") Assaf Nevo, ''Keshet Media Group#Mako, Mako'', 8 August 2011 His father was an 8th generation Sabra (person), Sabra, whereas his mother is of Moroccan Jews, Moroccan-Jewish origin. As a child, he lived in many countries due to his father's work in the Prime Minister's Office (Israe ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Yitzhak HaLevi Ben Mordechai Raitzes
Yitzhak HaLevi ben Mordechai Raitzes ( 1730 – 14 June 1799) was a Polish rabbi. Biographical information Yitzhak HaLevi was born circa 1730 in Lviv to Mordechai Halevi Raitzes the ''Rosh Mesivta'' in Lviv, who was the son of Yehoshua (Joshua) Raitzes (Reizes) who was martyred in Lviv on 13 May 1728. He married Sara Leah Lowenstamm, the daughter of Aryeh Leib ben Saul, the Rabbi of Amsterdam, and the granddaughter of Tzvi Ashkenazi, the Chacham Tzvi. Halevi's first rabbinical position was '' Av Bais Din'' of Leshnev a small town, currently in Lviv Oblast in Ukraine. From 1769 to 1778 he was the ''Av Bais Din'' of Chełm. In 1778 (or 1776) he became the Rabbi of Kraków, a position that he held until his death on 14 June 1799. Descendants One of his sons Mordechai Halevi was the Rabbi of Tykocin, while his other son Tzvi Hersch David Levin held the post as the Rabbi of Szczebrzeszyn before moving to Kraków to help his father in the rabbinate of Kraków. From 1799 to 1816 h ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Adolf Abraham Halevi Fraenkel
Abraham Fraenkel (; 17 February, 1891 – 15 October, 1965) was a German-born Israeli mathematician. He was an early Zionist and the first Dean of Mathematics at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. He is known for his contributions to axiomatic set theory, especially his additions to Ernst Zermelo's axioms, which resulted in the Zermelo–Fraenkel set theory. Biography Abraham Adolf Halevi Fraenkel studied mathematics at the Universities of Munich, Berlin, Marburg and Breslau. After graduating, he lectured at the University of Marburg from 1916, and was promoted to professor in 1922. In 1919, he married Wilhelmina Malka A. Prins (1892–1983). Due to the severe housing shortage in post-First World war Germany, for a few years the couple lived with fellow professor Kurt Hensel as subtenants. After leaving Marburg in 1928, Fraenkel taught at the University of Kiel for a year. He then made the choice of accepting a position at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, which had been fou ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Abraham Ibn Daud
Abraham ibn Daud (; ) was a Spanish-Jewish astronomer, historian and philosopher; born in Córdoba, Spain about 1110; who was said to have been killed for his religious beliefs in Toledo, Spain, about 1180. He is sometimes known by the abbreviation Rabad I or Ravad I or Ravaad I or Ra'avad I. His maternal grandfather was Isaac Albalia. Some scholars believe he was the Arabic-into-Latin translator known as ''Avendauth''. Works His chronicle, a work written in Hebrew in 1161 under the title of ''Sefer ha-Qabbalah'' (; some manuscripts give the title as ''Seder ha-Qabbalah'', i.e. the "Order of Tradition"), in which he fiercely attacked the contentions of Karaism and justified Rabbinic Judaism by the establishment of a chain of traditions from Moses to his own time, is replete with valuable general information, especially relating to the time of the Geonim and to the history of the Jews in Spain. In his book he attempted to explain how the pre-Inquisition Spanish Jewish communi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Dana Elazar-HaLevi
Dana Elazar-HaLevi (; born 1970) is a children's and young adult writer, translator, and editor, known for young adult spy thriller series ''Secret Mission''. She she received a BA in Arabic literature and Middle Eastern studies and an MA in the history of education from Tel Aviv University Tel Aviv University (TAU) is a Public university, public research university in Tel Aviv, Israel. With over 30,000 students, it is the largest university in the country. Located in northwest Tel Aviv, the university is the center of teaching and .... She has held various positions in major Israeli publishing houses and taught translation and editing at Tel Aviv University and Beit Berl College. Books ''Secret Mission'' series *' : Recommended reading by the Israel Ministry of Education :2017:Publishers Association’s Gold Prize *''Operation Berlin'' :2016: Ha-Pinkas Award *''Operation Cairo'' :2017: *''Operation Toronto'' *''Operation Tokyo'' *''Operation London'' *''Operation Tel Aviv'' ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
