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Or (name)
Or is a Hebrew-language name (), meaning "light, brilliance". It may be both a given name and a surname. Notable people with the name include: Given name * Or Eitan (born 1981), Israeli basketball player * Or Goren (born 1956), Israeli basketball player * Or Paz (born 1988), Israeli comedian * Or Sasson (born 1990), Israeli Olympic judoka * Or Tokayev (born 1979), Israeli Olympic rhythmic gymnast * Or (monk) (died c. 390), Egyptian Christian monk Surname *Amir Or (born 1956), Israeli writer * Israeli lawyer, Israeli Supreme Court Justice, namesake of the Or Commission * Tomer Or (born 1978), Israeli Olympic fencer * (born 1945), Israeli songwriter, recipient of Kinor David and ACUM Prize The Society of Authors, Composers and Music Publishers in Israel (), known by the acronym ACUM (), is a non-profit copyright collective which engages in collective rights management for authors, poets, lyricists, composers, arrangers, and music p ... awards * (1904-1984), Israeli translator, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Or Eitan
Or Eitan (; born November 9, 1981) is an Israeli former basketball player. He was named to the 2006 Israeli Basketball Premier League Quintet. Biography He was born in Israel. Eitan is tall. Eitan played the forward position. He played for Cholet Basket, Hapoel Gilboa Galil, Hapoel Tel Aviv, Elitzur Ashkelon Elitzur Ashkelon () was a professional basketball team based in Ashkelon in south-west Israel. The team reached the quarterfinals of the EuroCup Challenge in 2006 [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Or Goren
Or Goren (; born October 20, 1956) is an Israeli former basketball player. He played the shooting guard position. He scored the fifth-most career points in Israeli Basketball Premier League history, and also played for the Israeli national basketball team. Biography Goren was born in Israel, and lived in Kibbutz Mishmar HaEmek, Israel. His father Adam was a basketball player. He is tall. He attended the University of Houston, and played basketball for the Houston Cougars in 1978–80. Goren played for Hapoel Megido, Hapoel Gvat/Yagur, Hapoel Ramat Gan, Elitzur Netanya, Hapoel Galil Elyon, Beitar Tel Aviv, and Maccabi Hadera from 1973 to 1993. He scored 6,606 career points in the Israeli Basketball Premier League Ligat HaAl (, lit., ''Supreme League or Premier League''), or the Israeli Basketball Premier League, is a professional basketball league in Israel and the highest level of basketball in the country. The league's name is abbreviated as either BSL ..., 5th-most ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sugar Zaza
Sugar Zaza () is the nickname for the Israeli comedian duo of Tom Trager (; born January 6, 1988) and Or Paz (; born October 6, 1988). The two began working in 2006 as part of "Flix" website run by Tapuz, later creating television productions and beginning a YouTube channel for comedy sketches and web series. History Early ventures On Flix, the duo published many collaborative skits with other actors, the first being called "The Ackerman Family", released on September 19, 2006. The skit was a parody of American sitcoms, and was about 12 minutes long. They published 22 more skits up until the end of June 2008. In early 2009, Trager and Paz published the first episode of the animated web television series, Ahmed and Salim. They independently produced and voiced all the characters for the show. The series follows two lazy brothers, Ahmed and Salim, whose father is a fascist anti-Semitic terrorist who wants them to follow in his footsteps, while all they want to do is play video ga ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Or Sasson
Or "Ori" Sasson (; born 18 August 1990) is a retired Israeli Olympic judoka. He won a bronze medal in the +100 kg category at the 2016 Summer Olympics and another one at the mixed team event at the 2020 Summer Olympics. He was the second Israeli to win two Olympic medals. In June 2015, representing Israel at the 2015 European Games in judo in the +100 kg category in Baku, Azerbaijan, Sasson won a silver medal at the 2015 European Championships which was held during the European Games. Early and personal life Sasson was born in Jerusalem, to a family of Kurdish Jewish descent. His parents are Varda and Haim Sasson. He is the younger brother of former judoka and Israel national judo team captain Alon Sasson, who, when they were children, would hit him to show him who was boss. He resides in Netanya, Israel, and studies business administration at Ruppin Academic Center College in Hefer Valley, Israel. Sasson is a fan of basketball and basketball team Hapoel ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Or Tokayev
Or Tokayev, also known as Svetlana Tokayev, Svetlana Or Tokaev, and Or Tokaev, (; ; born November 9, 1979) is an Israeli former Olympic rhythmic gymnast. Early life She was born in Russia. She immigrated to Israel when she was 14 years old, in 1991. Rhythmic Gymnastics career Her sports club was Sport Laam. In 1994, she came in 10th in the European Rhythmic Gymnastics Championships in Team Rhythmic Gymnastics. She came in 14th in the 1999 World Rhythmic Gymnastics Championships. She competed for Israel at the 2000 Summer Olympics in Sydney, Australia Sydney is the capital city of the state of New South Wales and the most populous city in Australia. Located on Australia's east coast, the metropolis surrounds Sydney Harbour and extends about 80 km (50 mi) from the Pacific Ocean ..., when she was 20 was years old in Rhythmic Gymnastics—Women's Individual, and came in 14th. At the time that she competed in the Olympics, she was tall and weighed . Referenc ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Or (monk)
Or or OR may refer to: Arts and entertainment Film and television * "O.R.", a 1974 episode of ''M*A*S*H'' * '' Or (My Treasure)'', a 2004 movie from Israel (''Or'' means "light" in Hebrew) Music * ''Or'' (album), a 2002 album by Golden Boy with Miss Kittin * ''*O*R'', the original title of Olivia Rodrigo's album ''Sour'', 2021 * "Or", a song by Israeli singer Chen Aharoni in Kdam Eurovision 2011 * Or Records, a record label * Organized Rhyme, a Canadian hip-hop group featuring Tom Green Businesses and organizations * Or (political party) (), Israel * OR Books, an American publisher * Owasco River Railway, Auburn, New York, U.S. (by reporting mark) * TUI fly Netherlands, formerly ''Arke'', a Dutch charter airline (by IATA designator) Language and linguistics * Or (digraph), in the Uzbek alphabet * Or (letter) (or ''forfeda''), in Ogham, the Celtic tree alphabet * Odia language, a language spoken in East India (ISO 639) * Or, an English grammatical conjunctio ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Amir Or
Amir Or (; born 1956), is an Israelis, Israeli poet, novelist, and essayist whose works have been published in more than 50 languages. Levin, Lynn, "Israeli Poet Amir Or: A Conversation About Language, Myth, and the Soul" at the "Poetry Life and Times" Web site, accessed December 10, 2006 He is the author of thirteen volumes of poetry. His most recent books in Hebrew are ''Loot'' (selected poems 1977–2013), ''Wings'' (2015) and ''Child'' (2018). Or also published a fictional epic in metered prose, ''The Song of Tahira'' (2001) and the novel ''The Kingdom'' (2015) about the life of king David and contemporary society. Biography Amir Or was born in Tel Aviv. He has worked as a shepherd, builder and restaurateur.Logos''; into English. Selected poems, (ArtAArk, Delhi/London/NY 2015) * ''Muzei Vremena'' (The Museum of Time); into Serbian, by Vida Ognjenović and David Albahari,(Arhipelag, Belgrade 2015) * ''Twarze'' (Faces); into Polish by Beata Tarnowska, (Z bliska, Goldap 2014) * '' ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Or Commission
The Or Commission (), fully the Commission of Inquiry into the Clashes Between Security Forces and Israeli Citizens in October 2000 (), was a panel of inquiry appointed by the Israeli government to investigate the events of October 2000 at the beginning of the Second Intifada in which 12 Arab citizens of Israel and one Palestinian were killed by Israeli police amid several demonstrations. One Israeli Jew was killed by a stone dropped from a bridge onto her vehicle near one such demonstration; however, it is not clear that the incident was linked. The commission released its findings on "the clashes between security forces and Israeli civilians" on September 2, 2003. The chief investigator was Theodor Or, an Israeli Supreme Court Justice. Main conclusions of the Or Commission Police responsibility The governmental body of inquiry criticised the Israeli police for being unprepared for the riots and using excessive force to disperse the protesting and rioting citizens. Eight poli ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tomer Or
Tomer Or (; born September 26, 1978) is an Israeli foil fencer. Early life Or is Jewish, and was born in Haifa, Israel. He earned an LL.B. in Law and Business from the Interdisciplinary Center, in Herzliya, Israel. Fencing career Or began fencing at the age of eight, fenced at Hapoel Haifa, in Haifa, Israel, and was coached by Ohad Balva and Haim Hatuel. Or won the gold medal at the 1998 Junior World Championship in Valencia, Venezuela, and the silver medal in 1994 in Mexico City, Mexico. He is a 10-time Israel Senior National Champion. He won gold medals in Senior World Cups in Budapest (2002), Copenhagen (2005), Vancouver (2006), and Havana (2007). He fenced on behalf of Israel at the 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing, China, and came in 17th. At the 2009 World Fencing Championships, he advanced to the third round when his scheduled opponent, Mohammed Hussein Ibrahimi, failed to show up, part of a pattern of Iranians not showing up to face Israelis at the competition. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kinor David
Kinor David (lit: "David's Harp") is an annual Israeli cultural award. History The Israeli newspaper Yedioth Ahronoth presented the Kinor David Award from 1964 to 1986 for outstanding achievement in entertainment, theatre, film, music, and broadcasting. Awards were presented for the following categories: * Play/Show of the Year * Actor and Actress of the Year (theater/stage) * Actor and Actress of the Year (film) * Director of the Year * Best Film of the Year * Singer (female and male) of the Year * Band of the Year * Radio Program of the Year * TV Program of the Year * Composer of the Year * Lyricist of the Year * Best Dance/Ballet Show of the Year * Dancer (male and female) of the Year In 1994, Yedioth Aharonoth established a similar award, "Golden Screen". Recipients * Gila Almagor *Yardena Arazi *Shlomo Artzi * Chocolate, Menta, Mastik * Ran Eliran * Hakol Over Habibi * Nurit Hirsh *Ilanit * Oded Kotler * Shuli Natan *Daniel Pe'er * Orna Porat *Dov Seltzer *Naomi Shemer ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
ACUM Prize
The Society of Authors, Composers and Music Publishers in Israel (), known by the acronym ACUM (), is a non-profit copyright collective which engages in collective rights management for authors, poets, lyricists, composers, arrangers, and music publishers in Israel. As a member of the International Confederation of Societies of Authors and Composers (CISAC), ACUM is affiliated with more than 100 similar rights organizations around the world, with which it engages in reciprocal royalty collection agreements. It also holds an annual prize ceremony which honors authors and musicians in many categories, including lifetime achievement. As of 2016, the organization has 10,125 members, of which 149 are publishers. More than 1.7 million Israeli and foreign works are registered in its database. In 2004, ACUM was the subject of a precedent-setting decision by the Israel Antitrust Authority which determined that its arrangement for licensing members' work amounted to a restrictive agre ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tchernichovsky Prize
Tchernichovsky Prize is an Israeli prize awarded to individuals for exemplary works of translation into Hebrew 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 .... The Tchernichovsky Prize is awarded by the municipality of Tel Aviv-Yafo.Tel Aviv-Yafo Municipality website (in Hebrew) - Tchernichovsky Prize . Retrieved 7 February 2011 Although initially awarded annually, it is now awarded every two years. The prize was founded, in the name of the poet Shaul Tchernicho ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
