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Shamir Yuhahmid
Shamir () is a Hebrew surname. Notable people with the surname include: *Adi Shamir (born 1952), Israeli cryptographer *Ariel Shamir, Israeli professor of Computer Science *Carmela Shamir, Israeli ambassador * Dan Shamir (born 1975), Israeli professional basketball coach * Eden Shamir, Israeli professional footballer * Eli Shamir, Israeli mathematician and computer scientist *Gabriel and Maxim Shamir, Israeli graphic designers *Israel Shamir, Russian-Israeli-Swedish writer *Meir Shamir, Israeli businessman *Meirav Shamir, Israeli-American footballer *Milette Shamir, Israeli academic administrator and scholar of American literature *Moshe Shamir, Israeli author, playwright, opinion writer, and public figure *Nadine Shamir, American singer and musician *Ron Shamir, Israeli professor of computer science *Shlomo Shamir, third Commander of the Israeli Navy *Shulamit Shamir, Israeli activist, wife of the seventh Prime Minister of Israel, Yitzhak Shamir *Yair Shamir, Israeli politici ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Adi Shamir
Adi Shamir (; born July 6, 1952) is an Israeli cryptographer and inventor. He is a co-inventor of the Rivest–Shamir–Adleman (RSA) algorithm (along with Ron Rivest and Len Adleman), a co-inventor of the Feige–Fiat–Shamir identification scheme (along with Uriel Feige and Amos Fiat), one of the inventors of differential cryptanalysis and has made numerous contributions to the fields of cryptography and computer science. Biography Adi Shamir was born in Tel Aviv. He received a Bachelor of Science (BSc) degree in mathematics from Tel Aviv University in 1973 and obtained an MSc and PhD in computer science from the Weizmann Institute in 1975 and 1977 respectively. He spent a year as a postdoctoral researcher at the University of Warwick and did research at Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) from 1977 to 1980. Scientific career In 1980, he returned to Israel, joining the faculty of Mathematics and Computer Science at the Weizmann Institute. Starting from 2006, he is ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Moshe Shamir
Moshe Shamir (; 15 September 1921 – 20 August 2004) was an Israeli author, playwright, opinion writer, and public figure. He was the author of a play upon which Israeli film '' He Walked Through the Fields'' was based. Biography Shamir was born in Safed. He went to the Tel Nordau School and graduated from the Herzliya Hebrew High School in Tel Aviv. In the 1948 Arab-Israeli War he served in Palmach. He began his political career as a member of the movement Hashomer Hatzair, in which he filled a leadership role. He was one of the editors of their official newspaper ''Al Ha-Homa'' from 1939 to 1941. From 1944 to 1946 he was a member of kibbutz Mishmar HaEmek. He was founder and editor of the Israel Defense Forces official newspaper '' Bamahane'' ("In the Camp") from 1947 to 1950. During the 1950s he was a member of the editorial board of the newspaper '' Maariv'' and the editor of its literature section. Literary and journalism career Shamir began writing stories at a you ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Yoav Shamir
Yoav Shamir (), is an Israeli documentary filmmaker most noted for the films ''Checkpoint (2003 film), Checkpoint'' and ''Defamation (film), Defamation''. Personal life Yoav Shamir was born in Tel Aviv in 1970. A ninth-generation Israeli from Tel Aviv, he is the son of two elementary school teachers. He graduated from Tel Aviv University with a BA in History and philosophy. He obtained a MFA in cinema with honours. He served as an Israeli soldier in the Israeli-occupied territories. Career Shamir's films have received awards from independent film festivals including Best Feature Documentary at the International Documentary Film Festival Amsterdam, Best International Documentary at the Hot Docs Canadian International Documentary Festival, and the Golden Gate Award for Documentary Feature at the San Francisco International Film Festival. Shamir's documentaries made him a focal point of criticism and garnered accusations of antisemitism. After the success of ''Checkpoint (2003 fil ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Yitzhak Shamir
Yitzhak Shamir (, ; born Yitzhak Yezernitsky; October 22, 1915 – June 30, 2012) was an Israeli politician and the seventh prime minister of Israel, serving two terms (1983–1984, 1986–1992). Before the establishment of the State of Israel, Shamir was a leader of the Zionist militant group Lehi, also known as the ''Stern Gang.'' Yitzhak Shamir grew up in interwar Poland. Shamir joined Betar, the paramilitary wing of Revisionist Zionist Ze'ev Jabotinsky's Hatzohar political party. In 1935, Shamir emigrated from Białystok to British Palestine, where he worked in an accountant's office. Shamir joined the Revisionist Zionist Irgun paramilitary group led by Menachem Begin. During World War II the Irgun split over the question of whether to support the Axis Powers against the British Empire. Avraham Stern and Shamir sought an alliance with Fascist Italy and Nazi Germany and formed the breakaway militia group Lehi. Lehi was unable to persuade the Axis powers to lend it su ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Yair Shamir
Yair Shamir (; born 18 August 1945) is an Israeli politician, businessman and former military officer. He served as a member of the Knesset for Yisrael Beiteinu between 2013 and 2015, during which he also held the post of Minister of Agriculture. Biography Personal life The son of former Prime Minister Yitzhak Shamir and his wife Shulamit, Yair Shamir was born in Ramat Gan and raised in Tel Aviv. He was named after Avraham "Yair" Stern, founder of Lehi, a Jewish underground movement that functioned in the years before the founding of the modern State of Israel. When he was a year old, his father Yitzhak was captured by the British and exiled to Eritrea. When Yair was two years old, his mother was arrested as a Lehi activist. The family was not reunited until the end of 1948. Shamir lives in Savyon and is married to Ella, with whom he has three children and seven grandchildren. Military career Shamir served in the Israeli Air Force from 1963 to 1988 as a pilot, engineer and ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Shulamit Shamir
Sarah Shulamit Shamir (; Levy; 19 April 1923 – 29 July 2011) was the wife of the seventh Prime Minister of Israel, Yitzhak Shamir. Shulamit was active in various voluntary organizations and was the founder of the Public Council for the Elderly. Biography Shamir was born in 1923 in Sofia in Bulgaria Bulgaria, officially the Republic of Bulgaria, is a country in Southeast Europe. It is situated on the eastern portion of the Balkans directly south of the Danube river and west of the Black Sea. Bulgaria is bordered by Greece and Turkey t ... as Sara (Sarika) Levy. In her youth she joined the Betar youth movement. In 1941 she made Aliyah to Mandatory Palestine on the board of the ship "Darian 2" and was arrested by the Mandatory Palestine, British Mandate's authorities for being an Aliyah Bet, illegal immigrant. She spent six months in the Mizraa detention camp near Acre, Israel, Acre, where she met Yitzhak Shamir, and another six months arrest in Atlit detainee camp. She ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Shlomo Shamir
Shlomo Shamir (; 15 June 1915 – 19 May 2009) was the third Commander of the Israeli Navy (1949–1950), and the first Israeli Navy Commander to receive the rank of Aluf. He was the third Commander of the Israeli Air Force (1950–1951). Biography Shlomo Shamir was born Shlomo Rabinowitch, in Berdychiv, Russian Empire. He was taken to Mandatory Palestine in 1925. In 1929 he joined the Haganah and was instrumental in smuggling weapons and illegal Jewish immigrants into Palestine during the time of the British Mandate and the White Paper of 1939. In 1940 he received his pilot license, and in the same year he joined the British Army's infantry in order to fight the Nazis. In 1944 upon the establishment of the Jewish Brigade he was appointed Internal Commander of the Brigade on behalf of the Haganah and the Jewish Institution in Palestine. In 1946 he was discharged from the British military with the rank of major. In 1948 he was ordered by Prime Minister David Ben-Gurion to estab ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ron Shamir
Ron Shamir (Hebrew: רון שמיר; born 29 November 1953) is an Israeli professor of computer science known for his work in graph theory and in computational biology. He holds the Raymond and Beverly Sackler Chair in Bioinformatics, and is the founder and former head of the Edmond J. Safra Center for Bioinformatics at Tel Aviv University. Biography Ron Shamir was born in Jerusalem, Israel, in 1953, the eldest son of Varda and Raphael Shamir. His father's Sepharadic family has lived in the old city of Jerusalem for more than 400 years. His mother's parents were pioneers who came from Russia to Israel in the Third Aliyah in the early 1920s. He has two younger sisters, Daphna and Gadit. Shamir studied in Gymnasia Rehavia, Jerusalem, for 12 years. In high school, he was active in the scouts and in athletics; among other accomplishments, he won the Jerusalem high school championship in shot put. Shamir started his B.Sc. studies in mathematics and physics at Tel-Aviv Universi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Nadine Shamir
{{Infobox musical artist , name = Nadine Renee , image = , alt = , caption = , image_size = , background = solo_singer , birth_name = Renee Shamir , alias = Nadine Shamir, Nadine Renee, "Harmony" , birth_date = {{Birth date, 1972, 2, 9 , birth_place = New York City, US , death_date = {{Death date and age, 2004, 12, 2, 1972, 2, 9 , death_place = Miami, Florida, US , origin = , instrument = Vocals , genre = Electronica, dance , occupation = Singer/musician , years_active = 1989–2004 , label = , associated_acts = {{hlist, Planet Soul , website = Nadine Renee Shamir (February 9, 1972 – December 2, 2004) was an American singer and dance musician. In 1995 her single "Say You'll Stay" was popular in the Miami and Los Angeles radio circuits. In 1996, Shamir worked with Miami DJ George Ac ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Milette Shamir
Milette Shamir () is an Israeli academic administrator and professor of American studies serving as vice president of Tel Aviv University. Life Shamir completed a Ph.D. at Brandeis University studying under Michael Timo Gilmore and Wai Chee Dimock. Her 1996 dissertation was titled, ''The Cult of Privacy: Domestic Space and Gender in Antebellum Fiction''. Shamir researches American literature and culture in the nineteenth century. In 2006, she cofounded the American studies program at Tel Aviv University. She served as its head for thirteen years. From 2006 to 2009, she was chair of the department of English and American studies. In 2012, she founded the B.A. in liberal arts, an international student program and served as its academic director until 2016. From 2012 to 2015, Shamir served on the editorial board of ''American Literature''. She and Irene Tucker are the editors-in-chief of ''Poetics Today ''Poetics Today: International Journal for Theory and Analysis of Literatu ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ariel Shamir
Ariel Shamir () is an Israeli professor of Computer Science. He serves as dean of the Efi Arazi School of Computer Science at the IDC Herzliya. and one of the developers of Seam carving. Biography Shamir received a bachelor's and master's degree in mathematics and computer science from the Hebrew University of Jerusalem and a doctorate in computer science in 2000. He specialized mainly in computerized image and video processing, imaging and machine learning. He did his postdoctoral fellowship at the Center for Computational Imaging at the University of Texas at Austin and then researched at Mitsubishi Electric's research laboratories at Cambridge, Disney Research and MIT. In 2017, he started serving as a dean of the Efi Arazi School of Computer Science at the IDC Herzliya. Shamir has published dozens of publications on his research topics, and in 2014 he was mentioned as one of the most cited and influential researchers in the field of computer science. Since 2017, Shamir ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Meirav Shamir
Meirav Shamir (; born 18 January 1988) is an Israeli-American footballer who plays as a goalkeeper. She has been a member of the Israel national team. Early life Shamir was born in Netanya to a Jewish family. She grew up in the city of Netanya, until her family moved with her to the United States when she was two years old. Shamir started playing soccer when she was just four years old and as a young child her dream was "to play soccer collegiately and eventually play for the national team." Club career After competing with the United States side at the 2009 Maccabiah Games, Shamir was approached by the staff of the national team about joining them in their campaign to qualify for the 2011 FIFA Women's World Cup. Shamir subsequently left Boston College to join the national team and complete her degree at Tel Aviv University while playing for ASA Tel Aviv domestically. After 3 years in ASA Tel Aviv, taking three top league Championships and Israeli Cup, Shamir joined Telstar ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
