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Peled
Peled or Pelled (Hebrew: , "steel") is a surname. Notable people with the surname include: * Abe Peled, Israeli businessman * Amit Peled * Benny Peled (1928–2002), commander of the Israeli Air Force * Doron A. Peled * Efrat Peled * Elad Peled (1927–2021), Israeli general * Esther Peled, Israeli writer and psychologist * Martin Peled-Flax * Mattityahu Peled (1923–1995), Israeli military officer, scholar, and peace activist * Micha Peled * Miko Peled (born 1961), Israeli peace activist and author * Moshe Peled (other), multiple persons * Natan Peled (1913–1992), Israeli politician * Nurit Peled-Elhanan, Israeli peace activist, daughter of Mattiyahu * Paulina Peled (born 1950), Israeli tennis player * Sariel Har-Peled * Yaron Peled * Yossi Peled Yossi Peled (; born 18 January 1941) is an Israeli general and politician, the former Aluf of the Northern Command in the Israel Defense Forces. Biography Early life Yossi Peled was born Jozef (Jeffke) Mende ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mattityahu Peled
Mattityahu "Matti" Peled (; born Mattityahu Ifland, 20 July 1923 – 10 March 1995) was an Aluf ( Major General) in the IDF. He was a member of the General Staff during the Six-Day War of 1967, and headed the Arabic Language and Literature Department of Tel Aviv University. A radical peace activist and a leading proponent of Israeli dialogue with the PLO and of complete withdrawal from the Occupied Territories, he was a member of the Knesset who often expressed controversial views considered "extreme left" in Israeli terms. Early years Peled was born in 1923 in Haifa, then the main port of the British Mandate of Palestine, and grew up in Jerusalem. He attended high school in the Hebrew University Secondary School. Like many youth of that period, he was involved in one of the Socialist Zionist youth movements. At the age of 18 he joined the Palmach, the newly created Jewish paramilitary defense organization, as Palestine was becoming threatened by Rommel's rapid advance ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Miko Peled
Avraham "Miko" Peled (; born 10 December 1961) is an Israeli-American activist, author, and karate instructor. He is author of the books ''The General's Son: The Journey of an Israeli in Palestine'', published in 2012, and ''Injustice: The Story of the Holy Land Foundation Five'', published in 2017. He is also an international speaker. Early life Born in Jerusalem in 1961, Peled grew up in Motza Illit to a prominent Zionist family. Peled's grandfather, Avraham Katznelson, after whom he was named, signed Israel's Declaration of Independence. He condemned the Israeli military for seizing the West Bank, Gaza, Sinai and the Golan Heights, calling the war a "cynical campaign of territorial expansion". Palestinian activist Susan Abulhawa has described Peled's father, who died in 1995, as "a man that many of us Palestinians could not figure out whether to love or hate" and whom "many notable Palestinians" nicknamed "Abu Salam" (Father of Peace). His brother is the political ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Nurit Peled-Elhanan
Nurit Peled-Elhanan () is an Israelis, Israeli philologist, professor of language and education at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, translator, and activist. She is a 2001 co-laureate of the Sakharov Prize for Freedom of Thought awarded by the European Parliament. She is known for her research on the portrayal of Palestinians in Israeli textbooks, which she has criticized as being anti-Palestinian. Elhanan supports the Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions, Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions (BDS) movement. Biography Nurit Peled-Elhanan was raised in a leftist family in Jerusalem's Rehavia neighborhood. She described her home growing up as a leftist-Zionist home. Her grandfather, Avraham Katsnelson, signed Israel's Declaration of Independence. She is the daughter of Matti Peled, an Israeli Major-General, scholar of Arabic literature, a member of Knesset and a noted peace activist. Peled-Elhanan is married to graphic designer and peace activist Rami Elhanan, with whom she has four ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Amit Peled
Amit Peled (born 1973) is an Israeli-American cellist, conductor, and pedagogue. He plays a ca. 1695 Grancino cello on loan from the Roux Family Foundation. From 2012-2018 he played Pablo Casals's 1733 Matteo Goffriller cello. Prior to Casals's cello, Peled played a 1689 Andrea Guarneri cello. Amit Peled's two critically acclaimed CDs ''The Jewish Soul'' and ''Cellobration'' were released under the Centaur Records label. His third CD with Centaur Records, ''Reflections,'' was released in September 2012. He released recordings of five of Bach's Cello Suites on the albums ''Bach Suites 1–3'' (2018) and ''Solus et Una'' (2022) and Brahms' Cello Sonatas on ''To Brahms, with Love: From the Cello of Pablo Casals'' (2018). At a height of 5'11”, Peled started out as a basketball player and was called "larger than life" when he enveloped his Guarneri cello and "Jacqueline du Pré in a farmer's body." Peled often surprises audiences with the ways he breaks down barriers between per ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Abe Peled
Abe Peled () is an American and Israeli businessman. Biography Abraham (Abe) Peled was born in Romania. He graduated from the Technion with BSc, and MSc in 1967 and 1971 respectively, both degrees in electrical engineering. He did his graduate work at Princeton University in the US on Digital Signal Processing and got his PhD in 1974. From 1967 to 1971 Peled was a technical officer in the Israeli Army Signal Corps. From 1974 to 1993 Peled worked for IBM's Research Division in the United States, initially as a research scientist and later in research management, his last position was vice president for systems and software, with management responsibility for all worldwide research and advanced development activities in the IBM Research Division. In December 1991 he was featured in the cover story of the NY Times Sunday business section for his innovative internal start-up on the Power Visualization System. From 1993 to 1995 Peled served as senior vice president for business dev ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Benny Peled
Benny Peled (; April 18, 1928 – July 13, 2002) was the commander of the Israeli Air Force during the Yom Kippur War and Operation Entebbe. He retired with the rank of Aluf ( major general). Biography and career He was born Binyamin Weidenfeld in Tel Aviv, Mandatory Palestine, and Hebraized his name to Peled. His father, Arie Weidenfeld, was a member of a family who came to Israel during the First Aliya from Romania and settled in Rosh Pinna. His father worked in the public works department of the British mandate government and was responsible, among other things, for building airfields. His mother, Yona Weidenfeld (né Gurfinkel), came from Poland in 1925. Peled was the eldest son and had a younger brother and sister. Peled studied in Gymnasia Herzelia and his teachers included Shaul Tchernichovsky, Yehuda Burla and Zvi Nishri, who educated him in the spirit of Zionism and democracy. After a brief term serving in the Jewish Settlement Police as a teenager, he started as a mec ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Efrat Peled
Efrat Peled (Hebrew: אפרת פלד; born 1974, Israel) is the chairman and CEO of Arison Investments and the CEO of SAFO ( Shari Arison Family Office, Miami, US). Early life and career Peled serves as chairman and CEO of Arison Investments, and as CEO of SAFO (Shari Arison Family Office) in Miami, US, responsible for managing all of Arison's businesses, estimated at billions of dollars. She also serves as an international board member of the Weizmann Institute. Peled is a former board member at Bank Hapoalim, Israel's leading bank, a former member of the board at Shikun & Binui, Israel's leading infrastructure and real estate company, a former member of the board at Salt of the Earth, Israel's leading salt producer, a former member of the board at Miya, a global water efficiency company, a former member of the board at The Ted Arison Family Foundation. and a former member of the advisory committee to the Israeli government's National Economic Council. Peled holds an Executive ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Micha Peled
Micha Peled () or Micha X. Peled is a San Francisco based Israeli film maker. He is known for his ''Globalization Trilogy'', a series of three films including '' Store Wars: When Wal-Mart Comes to Town,'China Blue'' and '' Bitter Seeds'.'' Biography and career Peled was born and raised in Israel from where he moved to US by hitchhiking. In the US, he became a trader of imported hammocks and sheepskin jackets. He consequently explored the job of a prison guard and then became a freelance journalist. Peled then got actively involved in the Nuclear Freeze Campaign and was one of its directors. He became the executive director of the organization called Media Alliance, a media watchdog agency based in San Francisco. During this time, he directed his first television documentary. Soon he directed his first film - ''Will My Mother Go Back to Berlin?'' in 1993. After his first film, Peled left his full time job and became a film maker. He directed his second film Inside God's Bunker n ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Elad Peled
Elad Peled (; 11 November 1927 - 26 July 2021) was an Israeli general. In the 1948 Arab–Israeli War he was a squad commander in the Yiftach Brigade. Peled commanded the 36th Division, which operated in the West Bank during the Six-Day War. He was also later involved in the Yom Kippur War The Yom Kippur War, also known as the Ramadan War, the October War, the 1973 Arab–Israeli War, or the Fourth Arab–Israeli War, was fought from 6 to 25 October 1973 between Israel and a coalition of Arab world, Arab states led by Egypt and S .... Following his retirement from the military, he obtained the position of Director General of the Ministry of Education and Culture. He died on 26 July 2021. [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Paulina Peled
Paulina Peled (; born 20 April 1950) is an Israeli former professional tennis player. She was known as Paulina Peisachov before marriage. Biography Born in Lithuania, Peled moved to Israel at the age of 16. She competed at the 1969 Maccabiah Games for Israel in women's singles. Peled studied in the United States in the early 1970s at Arizona State University, where she also played college tennis. Returning to Israel, she became the first Israeli woman to win Israel's International Tennis Championship for two decades when she claimed the title in 1974. At the 1974 Asian Games in Tehran, she won a gold medal for Israel in the mixed doubles and a silver medal in the singles. Peled made the second round of Wimbledon on three occasions. This included 1974, when while in the country she won the Chichester Tennis Tournament with a final win over Sue Barker and she also won the Kent Championships The Kent Championships also known as the Kent All-Comers' Championships and later K ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Yaron Peled
Yaron Peled (; born May 23, 1969) is an Israeli producer and entrepreneur. Personal life Peled graduated from the Herzliya Hebrew Gymnasium and served in the Israeli air force. He is the son of Miki Peled, one of Israel's most notable Impresarios. He is married with two kids and lives in Hofit. Entertainment and media Since 2003 Peled has been a partner in Solan Hafakot, the company producing the Festigal - a well known annual Israeli song and dance show for children starring some of the country's most notable performers. As part of his private company, Footprint investments, Peled helped produce local version of famous musical Billy Elliot the Musical starring Avi Kushnir and Dafna Dekel and bring to Israel Priscilla, Queen of the Desert (musical), both planned for the summer of 2016. His company will be bringing American stand-up comedian Kenny Kramer, the inspiration for the character of Cosmo Kramer from the television sitcom Seinfeld in March 2016 and was also involved i ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Esther Peled
Esther Peled () is an Israeli writer and a psychologist."Esther Peled ''Lexicon of Modern Hebrew Literature'' She was born and lives in Israel. When doing her B.S. degree in literature and psychology she had courses in and , which made an impact on her work and writings, although she does not identify herself as a Buddhist. She earned M.S. in clinical psychology and Ph.D. in philosophy. Works *2017:''Widely Open Underneath'' (), a book of short stories. Taken together, they tell a larger story of the life of a woman from a small community.[...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
