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Orit Kolodni
Orit () is a Hebrew language feminine given name. Notable people with this given name include: *Orit Gadiesh *Orit Noked *Orit Strook *Orit Wolf * Orit Adato *Orit Rozin Orit Rozin (Hebrew: אורית רוזין) is an Israeli historian. She is a professor of Jewish history at the University of Tel Aviv. Donna Robinson Divine, writing in '' The New Rambler'' in 2016, described Rozin as "one of a new generation ... * Orit Bar-On * Orit Ishay * Orit Zamir * Orit Zuaretz * Orit Galili-Zucker See also * {{given name Hebrew feminine given names Feminine given names ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Hebrew Language
Hebrew (; ''ʿÎbrit'') is a Northwest Semitic language within the 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 liturgical language of Judaism (since the Second Temple period) and Samaritanism. The language was revived as a spoken language in the 19th century, and is the only successful large-scale example of 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 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 flourished around the 6th century BCE, during the time of the Babylonian captivity. For this reason, Hebrew has been referred to by Jews as '' ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Orit Gadiesh
Orit Gadiesh (; born January 31, 1951) is an Israeli-American corporate strategist and Chairman of management consulting firm Bain & Company since 1993. Biography Gadiesh was born Orit Grunfeld in Haifa, Israel, in 1951, to a Berlin-born Israel Defense Forces Colonel Falk Gadiesh (né Grunfeld) and his Ukrainian-born wife Pninah, a nurse. Her family changed the surname ''Grunfeld'' to its Hebrew equivalent ''Gadiesh'' after requested by David Ben-Gurion. She completed her compulsory IDF service in the office of the Deputy Chief of Staff Ezer Weizman. She then studied at Hebrew University of Jerusalem, graduating in 1975 with a bachelor's degree in psychology. Gadiesh graduated from Harvard Business School in 1977 in the top 5 percent of her class (Baker Scholar) and was awarded the Brown prize for the most outstanding marketing student. She was elected chairman of Bain & Company in July 1993 and has been at the helm for over 30 years. ''Forbes'' has listed her among the world's 1 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Orit Noked
Orit Noked (; born 25 October 1952) is an Israeli politician who served as a member of the Knesset for Independence and the Labor Party and as Minister of Agriculture. Biography Born in Jerusalem in 1952, Noked studied law at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. She became a legal advisor to the Kibbutz Movement in 1986, a job she held until 1992. Between 1996 and 2002 she served as director of the movement's legal department. She has also been a member of the Jewish National Fund's directorate, the Agricultural Association's secretariat, the National Council for Environmental Quality and the board of the Israel Lands Authority. In the 1999 elections Noked stood as a Labour candidate within the One Israel list. Although she did not win a high enough spot for a Knesset seat in the party primaries, she entered the Knesset in August 2002 as a replacement for former Foreign Minister Shlomo Ben-Ami. She retained her seat in the 2003 elections, and briefly served as Deputy Minister ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Orit Strook
Orit Malka Strook (; born 15 March 1960) is a far-right, religious-conservative Israeli politician. She serves as the Minister of Settlements and National Missions in the thirty-seventh government, and is a member of the Knesset for the National Religious Party–Religious Zionism. She served as member of the Knesset for Tkuma (a faction within the Jewish Home) between 2013 and 2015. Strook is also among the leaders of the Jewish settlement in Hebron, and she established the Israeli non-governmental organization Human Rights Organization of Judea and Samaria, which she headed between 2004 and 2012. Early life Orit Cohen (later Strook) was born to a family of lawyers from Hungary. Her middle name Malka was given to her in memory of her grandmother, the Hungarian Jewish poet . Growing up, Strook studied at the Hebrew University Secondary School. In the late 1970s, while she was in the 11th grade, Strook gradually became more religious; she eventually became a ba'alat te ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Orit Wolf
Orit Wolf (; born 8 October 1974 in Tel Aviv) is an Israeli pianist, composer, poet and lecturer. Currently holds a lecturer position at Reichman University (Arison School for Business Management), Israel. From the 2022 to 2023 academic year, Wolf has been Artist in Residence at the Technion where she also teaches at the Humanities and Arts Department and at the MBA program. Education Starting at the age of six, Orit Wolf studied piano with Hanna Shalgi. At the age of 16, she graduated from Thelma Yelin High School for the Arts and studied with Alexander Volkov. She then began her academic studies at the Tel Aviv University under the direction of Arie Vardi. She also studied music composition and improvisation with Andre Hajdu while attending masterclasses given by Leon Fleisher, Claude Frank, Menachem Pressler, Gyorge Shebok, Gilbert Kalish and Peter Serkin. In 1991, Wolf attended the Boston University Tanglewood Institute and then received a full Dean's scholarship ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Orit Adato
Brigadier General (ret.) Orit Adato (; born 1955, birth name: Orit Eliaz) is a former Israeli military commander and Israel Prison Service Commissioner. She was drafted into the Israel Defense Forces (IDF) in 1973. Following her mandatory service, she left the army and reenlisted in 1978. Her 24-year military career included both training and command positions. In her She served as commander of the Women's Corps from 1997 to 1999, until her retirement from the IDF. In 2000 she was appointed Commissioner of the Israel Prison Service, being the first woman to hold that post. She is the founder and managing director of Adato Consulting Ltd., and is an international consultant on prison management, prison security, prison privatization, and dealing with incarcerated terrorists and gang members. Early life and education Orit Eliaz was born in Kiryat Tiv'on, Israel, the youngest of three children and only daughter of Moshe Eliaz and Rachel Pardo. She comes from the eighth generation of ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Orit Rozin
Orit Rozin (Hebrew: אורית רוזין) is an Israeli historian. She is a professor of Jewish history at the University of Tel Aviv. Donna Robinson Divine, writing in '' The New Rambler'' in 2016, described Rozin as "one of a new generation of scholars building their careers around an exploration of Israel's social, cultural and political history." Books * ''Duty and Love: Individualism and Collectivism in 1950s Israel'' (Chaim Weizmann Institute for the Study of the History of Zionism and Israel at Tel Aviv University/Am Oved, 2008) * ''The Rise of the Individual in 1950s Israel: A Challenge to Collectivism'' (Brandeis University Brandeis University () is a Private university, private research university in Waltham, Massachusetts, United States. It is located within the Greater Boston area. Founded in 1948 as a nonsectarian, non-sectarian, coeducational university, Bra .../ University Press of New England, 2011)Ezrahi, Yaron. Israel Studies Review, vol. 28, no. 2, 2013 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Orit Bar-On
Orit Bar-On (; born 17 November 1975) is an Israeli judoka. Bar-On was born in Netanya Netanya () () or Natanya (), is a city in the "Planet Bekasi" Central District (Israel), Setanyahu of Israel, Israel BAB ih, and is the capital of the surrounding Sharon plain. It is north of Tel Aviv, and south of Haifa, between the Poleg stre ..., Israel. Judo career Bar-On was trained in judo by Israeli Olympic silver medalist Yael Arad. Bar-On won the national Israeli judo championships in 1990–2002, in weight classes ranging from U56 to U63. In 1997 Bar-On won the gold medal at the Swedish Open Gothenburg (U56). In 1998, she won the Moscow International Tournament (U57). She finished in seventh place at both the 1998 European Championships and the 1999 World Championships. In 2001, Bar-On won the gold medal at the German Open. Bar-On competed for Israel at the 2000 Summer Olympics in Sydney, Australia, in Women's Lightweight Judo ( 57 kg division). References Externa ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Orit Ishay
Orit Ishay (Hebrew: אורית ישי; born 1961) is an Israeli artist working in photography, video and installation. She is also a lecturer in photography. Ishay's art examines the interrelation between man and place and possible systems of representation, while addressing questions pertaining to social and mental issues through temporal and spatial motifs. Her work is usually accompanied by theoretical research. In 2012, she led a tour that was open to the general public in the "Haifa Walks #2" project, held in the framework of the show Haifa-Jerusalem-Tel Aviv at the Haifa Museum of Art The Haifa Museum of Art (, ), established in 1951, is located in a historic building built in the 1930s in Wadi Nisnas, downtown Haifa. Ranking as Israel's third largest art museum, the museum focuses on Israeli and international contemporary ar .... Awards * 2014: MuseumsQuartier Wien, quartier21 Artist-in-Residence Studio Program, Vienna Solo exhibitions * 2014: ''Terribly Pretty, A ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Orit Zamir
Orit Zamir (; born July 26, 1972) is an Israeli filmmaker, active as a screenwriter, producer, and educator as well as the former director of the Sam Spiegel Film and Television School International Film Lab and co-founder and director of the Series Lab. Zamir co-created and co-wrote the series ''The Truth'' with Daphna Levine which sold to multiple territories including AMC, Canal+, BeTV. She produced Ruthy Pribar’s ''Asia'', which was Israel’s entry into the 2020 Academy Awards for best foreign film, and won 9 Israeli Academy Awards, including Best Film. Biography Born and raised in Tel Aviv, Aurit spent a number of years in the US with her family. Upon returning to Israel she completed high school in Tel Aviv with a concentration on film, photography and literature. Aurit served in the IDF air force and moved to New York City after her army service. She studied creative writing at NY and continued her studies when she returned to Israel, first at Camera Obscura and la ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Orit Zuaretz
Orit Zuaretz (; born 21 February 1967) is an Israeli politician who served as a member of the Knesset for Kadima and Hatnuah between 2009 and 2013. Biography Born Svetlana Moiseyevna Chernyak () in the Soviet Union, Zuaretz emigrated to Israel in 1971. She gained a BA in Social Science studied towards an MA in the New Age Middle East. She was elected onto the Kadima-Tzoran local council in 2003, serving as the town's deputy mayor until 2006. She also served as a member of the Jewish Agency Directors Forum for Russian Russian(s) may refer to: *Russians (), an ethnic group of the East Slavic peoples, primarily living in Russia and neighboring countries *A citizen of Russia *Russian language, the most widely spoken of the Slavic languages *''The Russians'', a b ...-speaking elected representatives. Prior to the 2009 elections she was placed twenty-eighth on the Kadima list, and entered the Knesset when the party won 28 seats. In 2012 she left Kadima to join the new Hatnuah pa ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Orit Galili-Zucker
Dr. Orit Galili-Tzucker (; born in Jerusalem on 29 March 1956) is a former journalist and an Israelis, Israeli Political consulting, political consultant. She was the head of the political communications team for Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu. Galili-Zucker holds a Bachelor's degree, bachelor's degree in Political science, Political Science and Sociology from Tel Aviv University. She received her doctorate from Bar-Ilan University for her dissertation: "The New Politician in the Western and Israeli Arenas: Clinton, Blair and Schröder vs. Netanyahu, Barak and Ramon." Galili-Zucker has served as a political consultant for Ehud Barak. Biography Galili began her professional career as a parliamentary assistant for MP Ora Namir and as a lecture coordinator on the Executive Committee of the Histadrut. In the early eighties, she joined the Schocken Books, Schocken Group publishing network - first, as an desk editor for Ha'ir newspaper and later, in 1983, as a news desk editor a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
