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Yad Eliyahu
Yad Eliyahu () is a neighborhood in east Tel Aviv, Israel. Yad Eliyahu was established in 1929. It developed in accordance with plans drawn up by Jacob Ben Sira, the Tel Aviv municipal engineer. The neighborhood, named for Haganah leader Eliyahu Golomb, became the site of housing projects for ex-servicemen after World War II. Menora Mivtachim Arena, home to the Maccabi Tel Aviv basketball team is located in Yad Eliyahu. Notable residents * Dani Dayan * Ilana Dayan * Shulamit Lapid *Tommy Lapid * Yair Lapid * Yaakov Amidror *Moshe Maya Moshe Maya (; born 9 August 1938) is an Israeli Haredi rabbi and former politician who served as a member of the Knesset for Shas between 1992 and 1996, and as Deputy Education Minister of Israel, Minister of Education and Culture from 1992 until ... * Anita Shapira References Neighborhoods of Tel Aviv {{TelAviv-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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Ayalon (, ‘place of deer’) is an Israeli placename and a Hebrew family name. In English and other European languages it was in the past also transliterated as Ajalon. It is derived from ( ‘deer’). It may refer to the following: Places *Ayalon Valley, a valley and Biblical town in Israel *Ayalon Prison, a prison in Israel that reportedly held "Prisoner X" *Ayalon Cave, a cave near Ramla, Israel *Ayalon River, a small, mostly dried-out river in Israel * Machon Ayalon, a bullet factory disguised as a kibbutz near Ayalon *Highway 20 (Israel) (Ayalon Highway), a major freeway in Israel People *Ami Ayalon Amichai "Ami" Ayalon (, born 27 June 1945) is an Israeli politician and a former member of the Knesset for the Labor Party. He was previously head of the Shin Bet, Israel's secret service, and commander-in-chief of the Navy. He came in second to ..., an Israeli politician and retired IDF general * Danny Ayalon, an Israeli diplomat and former ambassador to the United States * ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Moshe Maya
Moshe Maya (; born 9 August 1938) is an Israeli Haredi rabbi and former politician who served as a member of the Knesset for Shas between 1992 and 1996, and as Deputy Education Minister of Israel, Minister of Education and Culture from 1992 until 1993. Biography Born in Petah Tikva during the Mandatory Palestine, Mandate period, Maya was ordained as a rabbi, and served as the rabbi of Yad Eliyahu neighbourhood of Tel Aviv. He was elected to the Knesset on the Shas list in 1992 Israeli legislative election, 1992, and was appointed Deputy Minister of Education and Culture in Yitzhak Rabin's Twenty-fifth government of Israel, government, holding the post until Shas left the coalition in 1993. He lost his seat in the 1996 Israeli legislative election, 1996 elections. Maya remained a member of Shas, and is currently part of its Moetzet Chachmei HaTorah, Shas Council of Torah Sages. He also heads the Zikron Moshe yeshiva in Yad Eliyahu. [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Yaakov Amidror
Yaakov Amidror (; born 15 May 1948) is a former major general and National Security Advisor of Israel and was also the head of the Research Department of Israeli military intelligence. Today, he is the Anne and Greg Rosshandler Senior Fellow at the Jerusalem Institute for Strategic Studies, a conservative security think tank. Biography Background Amidror was born in Yad Eliyahu, Israel, on the day after the Israeli Declaration of Independence. His father, Leo, had enlisted in the British Army during World War II, and spent five years in German captivity after being taken prisoner in Greece. His mother, Tzila, was an Irgun member, active in the organization's finance department, who had been arrested by the British in 1941, and incarcerated at the Bethlehem Women's Prison. Military career Amidror was drafted into the Israeli Defense Forces in 1966. He volunteered as a paratrooper in the Paratroopers Brigade. He served as a soldier and a squad leader, and fought in the Gaza S ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Yair Lapid
Yair Lapid ( ; born 5 November 1963) is an Israeli politician of the centrist Yesh Atid party and a former journalist who has been the Leader of the Opposition (Israel), Leader of the Opposition since January 2023, having previously served in that role from 2020 to 2021. He had also previously served as the 14th prime minister of Israel from 1 July to 29 December 2022, the second Alternate Prime Minister of Israel, alternate prime minister and Ministry of Foreign Affairs (Israel), Minister of Foreign Affairs under Prime Minister Naftali Bennett from 2021 to 2022, and also as the Ministry of Finance (Israel), Minister of Finance under Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu from 2013 to 2014. He is also the leader of Yeah Atid since the party's founding in 2010. Before entering politics in 2012, Lapid was an author, TV presenter and news anchor. The centrist Yesh Atid party, which he founded, became the second-largest party in the Knesset by winning 19 seats in its first 2013 Israeli l ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tommy Lapid
Joseph "Tommy" Lapid (; born Tomislav Lampel [ sr-Cyrl, Томислав Лампел]; 27 December 1931 – 1 June 2008) was a Kingdom of Yugoslavia, Yugoslav-born Israeli radio and television presenter, playwright, journalist, politician and Cabinet of Israel, government minister known for his sharp tongue and acerbic wit. Lapid headed the secular-liberal Shinui party from 1999 to 2006. He fiercely opposed the Haredi Judaism, ultra-Orthodox political parties and actively sought to exclude any religious observance from the legal structure of the Israeli State. He was the father of Yair Lapid, who served as the 14th Prime Minister of Israel in 2022. Biography Lapid was born in Novi Sad, Kingdom of Yugoslavia (modern-day Serbia), to a family of Hungarian Jews, Hungarian Jewish descent. His family was seized by the Nazis and deported to the Budapest Ghetto. His father, Dr. Béla (Meir) Lampel, a lawyer and Zionist leader, was deported to Mauthausen concentration camp, where he was ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Shulamit Lapid
Shulamit Lapid (, ; born 9 November 1934) is an Israeli novelist and playwright. Biography Lapid was born in Tel Aviv. She majored in Oriental studies at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. Her father, David Giladi (born in Transylvania, Austria-Hungary), was a journalist, novelist, and translator, as well as one of the founders of the Israeli newspaper ''Maariv''. In Lapid's book ''Veulai Lo Hayu'' she documents the story of her father's immigration to Israel, his integration into Israeli society, and her own childhood in Tel Aviv during the 1930s and 1940s. Lapid is the widow of Yosef Lapid, a journalist, politician and public figure. They had three children: Michal (who was killed in a car accident in 1984), Merav, and Yair – a well-known Israeli politician, novelist, journalist and television personality, formerly Prime Minister of Israel. Literary career Her first collection of stories, Dagim ("Fish"), was published in 1969. She writes historical novels, realistic prose ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ilana Dayan
Ilana Dayan-Orbach (; born 8 May 1964) is an Israeli investigative journalist, anchorwoman, and attorney. She is best known as host of the investigative television program '' Uvda'' ("Fact") on the Israeli Channel 12. She is married to Harel Orbach; the couple has three children. Biography Dayan was born in Argentina in 1964 and immigrated to Israel with her family at age six in 1970, and settled in the Yad Eliyahu neighborhood in Tel Aviv. Her great-grandfather, Eliyahu Dayan (1868–1925) was the uncle of Shmuel Dayan, an Israeli politician who was the father of Moshe Dayan. She was drafted to the IDF during the First Lebanon War, and served as producer, editor, and correspondent for the Israel Army Radio. She was the first woman correspondent in the station's history. Near the end of her regular service she began presenting the morning program with Yitzhak Ben Ner, and later with . At the age of 23 became the first woman on the presenting staff of ''Erev Hadash'' ("New Ev ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Dani Dayan
Dani Dayan (; born 29 November 1955) is an Argentine-born Israeli diplomat and entrepreneur. He is chairman of Yad Vashem. Biography Daniel (Dani) Dayan was born in Buenos Aires, Argentina. He and his family immigrated to Israel in 1971, when he was 15, settling in the Tel Aviv neighborhood of Yad Eliyahu. Dayan spent 7.5 years in the Israeli Army. Dayan holds a B.Sc. in Economics and Computer Science from Bar Ilan University, and an M.Sc. in Finance from the Tel Aviv University. He is a Major (Res.) in the Israel Defense Forces. He lives in Ma'ale Shomron. Dayan is married to Einat Dayan, a former political activist who worked as the director of strategy, marketing, and sales at Ariel University. Their daughter Ofir served in the IDF Spokesperson's Unit, studied at Columbia University and is a research assistant in the Diane and Guilford Glazer Israel-China Policy Center at the Israeli Institute for National Security Studies. His father, Moshe, a second cousin of General Mos ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Basketball Team
Basketball is a team sport in which two teams, most commonly of five players each, opposing one another on a rectangular Basketball court, court, compete with the primary objective of #Shooting, shooting a basketball (ball), basketball (approximately in diameter) through the defender's Basket (basketball), hoop (a basket in diameter mounted high to a Backboard (basketball), backboard at each end of the court), while preventing the opposing team from shooting through their own hoop. A Field goal (basketball), field goal is worth two points, unless made from behind the 3 point line, three-point line, when it is worth three. After a foul, timed play stops and the player fouled or designated to shoot a technical foul is given one, two or three one-point free throws. The team with the most points at the end of the game wins, but if regulation play expires with the score tied, an additional period of play (Overtime (sports), overtime) is mandated. Players advance the ball by boun ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Neighborhood
A neighbourhood (Commonwealth English) or neighborhood (American English) is a geographically localized community within a larger town, city, suburb or rural area, sometimes consisting of a single street and the buildings lining it. Neighbourhoods are often social communities with considerable face-to-face interaction among members. Researchers have not agreed on an exact definition, but the following may serve as a starting point: "Neighbourhood is generally defined spatially as a specific geographic area and functionally as a set of social networks. Neighbourhoods, then, are the spatial units in which face-to-face social interactions occur—the personal settings and situations where residents seek to realise common values, socialise youth, and maintain effective social control." Preindustrial cities In the words of the urban scholar Lewis Mumford, "Neighborhoods, in some annoying, inchoate fashion exist wherever human beings congregate, in permanent family dwellings; ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Maccabi Tel Aviv B
A Maccabi or Maccabee () is one of the Maccabees, a group of Jewish rebel warriors who controlled Judea. Maccabi or Maccabee may also refer to: People * Bruce Maccabee, an American optical physicist * Judas Maccabeus or Judah Maccabee, leader of the Maccabean Revolt Other * Maccabi (sports) Maccabi World Union is an international Judaism, Jewish sports organisation spanning five continents (Africa, North America, South America, Australia, Europe) and more than 50 countries, with some 400,000 members. The Maccabi World Union organises ... (or Maccabi World Union), international Jewish sports association ** List of Maccabi sports clubs and organisations * Maccabi Sherutei Briut, an Israeli Health Maintenance Organization * Maccabi youth movement, a Zionist youth movement established in 1929 * Maccabim-Re'ut, a former local council in central Israel * Operation Maccabi, a 1948 military operation * Maccabee (beer), produced by Tempo Beer Industries See also * Maccabees (disa ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
