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Yigal Levinstein
Yigal and Yigael (from Hebrew יגאל) are given names that mean "He (God) will redeem". People with those names include: *Yigal Allon (1918–1980), Israeli politician, acting Prime Minister, a commander of the Palmach, and general *Yigal Amir (born 1970), Israeli assassin of Prime Minister of Israel Yitzhak Rabin * Yigal Antebi (born 1974), Israeli football player *Yigal Arnon (1929-2014), Israeli lawyer and founder of Yigal Arnon & Co. *Yigal Azrouël, Israeli-American fashion designer *Yigal Bibi (born 1942), Israeli politician *Yigal Calek (1944–2024), British conductor and composer *Yigal Carmon (born 1946), president and founder of the Middle East Media Research Institute (MEMRI) *Yigal Cohen (1928–1988), Israeli politician *Yigal Cohen-Orgad (1937-2019), Israeli politician *Yigal Hurvitz (1918–1994), Israeli politician *Yigal Menahem (born 1963), Israeli football player and lawyer *Yigal Mossinson (1917–1994), Israeli novelist *Yigal Naor (born 1958), Israeli ac ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Yigal Allon
Yigal Allon (; 10 October 1918 – 29 February 1980) was an Israeli military leader and politician. He was a commander of the Palmach and a general in the Israel Defense Forces, Israeli Defense Forces (IDF). He was also a leader of the Ahdut HaAvoda and Labor Party (Israel), Israeli Labor parties. He served briefly as acting Prime Minister of Israel between the death of Levi Eshkol and the appointment of Golda Meir in 1969. Allon was the first non-European-born Israeli to serve as Prime Minister of Israel (the first elected, non-European-born Prime Minister would later be Yitzhak Rabin in 1974). He was a government minister from the third Knesset to the Ninth Knesset, ninth inclusive. Born a child of pioneer settlers in the Lower Galilee, Allon initially rose to prominence through his military career. After the outbreak of the 1936–1939 Arab revolt in Palestine, he joined the Haganah and later the Palmach. He commanded a squad and organized key operations in the Jewish Resistan ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Yigal Menahem
Yigal Menahem (; born 10 September 1963) is an Israeli former footballer who now works as a lawyer. Personal life Yigal's younger brother Shimon was a defender and both played together in Maccabi Netanya during the 1980s. Honours * Israeli Premier League The Israeli Premier League (, Ligat HaAl, ) is a professional association football league in Israel and the highest level of the Israeli football league system. The league is contested by 14 clubs, and operates on a system of promotion and rele ... runner-up: 1981-82 * League Cup/Toto Cup winner: 1983-84 ** runner-up: 1986–87, 1988–89 External links * * 1963 births Living people Jewish Israeli sportspeople Israeli men's footballers Israel men's international footballers Maccabi Netanya F.C. players Hapoel Kfar Saba F.C. players Hapoel Jerusalem F.C. players Israeli lawyers Liga Leumit players Men's association football forwards 20th-century Israeli sportsmen {{Israel-footy-forward-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Igal (other)
Igal may refer to: * Igal (biblical figure), son of Joseph of Issachar * Igal, Hungary, a town in Hungary * Igal, Navarre, a town in Salazar Valley, Spain * Agal (accessory), an accessory to secure a ''keffiyeh'' or headcloth * Igal Brener, physicist See also * Igala (other) * Yigal (other), the Hebraicized form of ''Igal'' {{Disambiguation, geo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Yigal Yasinov
Yigal Yasinov (, born 27 April 1966) is an Israeli former politician who served as a member of the Knesset for Shinui, HaOlim the National Union and Yisrael Beiteinu between 2003 and 2006. Biography Born in Kharkiv in the Soviet Union (today in Ukraine), Yasinov immigrated to Israel in 1993. Yasinov joined Shinui prior to the 1999 elections, and worked as a parliamentary assistant to Victor Brailovsky. Active in the party's Jerusalem branch, he was placed 15th on the Shinui list for the 2003 elections, and entered the Knesset when the party won 15 seats. During his first term, he was a member of the Science and Technology Committee, the Committee on the Rights of the Child, the Public Petitions Committee, the Committee for Immigration, Absorption and Diaspora Affairs, and the Labour, Welfare and Health Committee. In January 2004 he was the victim of an attempted stabbing outside his home in the Jerusalem neighbourhood of Ramat Sharett. In November 2005 he was injured in a b ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Yigael Yadin
Yigael Yadin ( ; 20 March 1917 – 28 June 1984) was an Israeli archeologist, soldier and politician. He was the second Chief of Staff of the Israel Defense Forces and Deputy Prime Minister from 1977 to 1981. Biography Yigael Sukenik (later Yadin) was born in Ottoman Palestine to archaeologist Eleazar Sukenik and his wife Hasya Sukenik-Feinsold, a teacher and women's rights activist. Military career He joined the Haganah at age 15, and served in a variety of different capacities. In 1946, he left the Haganah following an argument with its commander Yitzhak Sadeh over the inclusion of a machine gun as part of standard squad equipment. In 1948, shortly before the State of Israel declared its independence, Yadin, interrupted his university studies to return to active service. He served as Israel's Head of Operations during the 1948 Arab-Israeli War, and was responsible for many of the key decisions made during the course of that war. In April, likely under the authorizat ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Igal Volodarsky
Igal Volodarsky, also known as Igal Dar (; June 12, 1936 – June 15, 1977), was an Israeli basketball player. He played in the Israel Basketball Premier League, and for the Israeli national basketball team. Biography He played in the Israel Basketball Premier League. He competed for 21 years for Maayan Baruch, Ashdot Yaakov, Hapoel Haifa, Hapoel Nir David, Kiryat Haim, and Hapoel Megiddo. He also played for the Israeli national basketball team. He competed in the 1959 European Championship for Men, 1961 European Championship for Men, 1964 European Olympic Qualifying Tournament for Men, 1965 European Championship for Men, 1966 Asian Games (winning a gold medal A gold medal is a medal awarded for highest achievement in a non-military field. Its name derives from the use of at least a fraction of gold in form of plating or alloying in its manufacture. Since the eighteenth century, gold medals have b ...), 1967 European Championship for Men, and 1968 European Olympi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Yigal Tumarkin
Igael Tumarkin (; 23 October 1933 – 12 August 2021) was an Israeli painter and sculptor. Biography Peter Martin Gregor Heinrich Hellberg (later Igael Tumarkin) was born in 1933 in Dresden, Saxony, Germany. His father, Martin Hellberg, was a German theater actor and director, and a son of a pastor. His Jewish mother, Berta Gurevitch, and his stepfather, Herzl Tumarkin, immigrated to then British Mandate of Palestine (now Israel) when he was two. Tumarkin served in the Israeli Navy. After completing his military service, he studied sculpture in Ein Hod, a village of artists near Mount Carmel, under Rudi Lehmann. His youngest son is the actor Yon Tumarkin. Tumarkin died at the age of 87 on 12 August 2021. Art career Among Tumarkin's best known works are the Holocaust and Revival memorial in Rabin Square, Tel Aviv and his sculptures commemorate fallen soldiers in the Negev. Tumarkin was also an art theoretician and stage designer. In the 1950s, Tumarkin worked in East Be ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Yigal Naor
Igal Naor (; born ) is an Israeli actor, sometimes credited as Yigal Naor. Biography Naor was born in Givatayim, Israel, to Mizrahi Jewish parents from Iraq. He has appeared in the American films ''Munich'', ''Green Zone'' and '' Rendition''. Naor portrayed Saddam Hussein in the four-episode ''House of Saddam'' television docudrama from BBC and HBO (2008), in an acclaimed performance. In Season 5, Episode 4 of ''Homeland'', he portrays General Youssef, a high-ranking Syrian military officer whom the CIA wants to install in place of Syrian President Bashar al-Assad. He also appeared in the Netflix series, Fauda. Selected filmography * '' Deadline'' (1987) – Antoine * '' The Seventh Coin'' (1993) – Grocer * ''The Mummy Lives'' (1993) – Egyptology Official * '' Saint Clara'' (1996) – Headmaster Tissona * ''Ha-Dybbuk B'sde Hatapuchim Hakdoshim'' (1997; also known as ''Ahava Asura'') – Sender * ''Miss Entebbe'' (2003) – Avram * '' Bonjour Monsieur Shlomi'' (2003) – ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Yigal Mossinson
Yigal Mossinson (; 25 December 1917 – 1 May 1994), also known as Igal Mossinsohn, Yigal Mosenzon and Yig'al Mosinzon, was an Israeli novelist, playwright, and inventor. He was the author of the Hasamba children's book series. Among his many awards was the David's Violin Prize for '' Casablan'', the 1954 play upon which the Israeli musical comedy stage and screen hit ''Kazablan'' was based. Biography Mossinson, son of Asher Mossinson and his wife Dvora, was born in Ottoman Palestine in 1917, in the moshav Ein Ganim, located near Petah Tikva; he grew up in Tel Aviv. Later on Mossinson studied in Beit Alfa and in the youth village of Ben Shemen. Afterward he moved to the Kibbutz Na'an, where he lived from 1938 to 1950. In 1943 Mossinson joined the Palmach. During that period Mossinson was arrested by the British and imprisoned in Latrun. In 1944 Mossinson published his first story in the newspaper '' Al HaMishmar''. During the 1948 Arab–Israeli War Mossinson served as ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Yigal Hurvitz
Yigal Hurvitz (; 15 October 1918 – 10 January 1994) was an Israeli farmer, businessman and politician who served as a government minister in the late 1970s and 1980s. Biography Hurvitz was born in Nahlat Yehuda (today part of Rishon LeZion) in 1918,Igael Hurvitz: Personal Details Knesset but grew up in the rural village of . Between 1938 and 1941 he was a member of the secretariat of HaNoar HaOved VeHaLomed, and served in the |
Yigal Amir
Yigal Amir (born May 31, 1970) is an Israeli right-wing extremist who assassinated the incumbent prime minister of Israel, Yitzhak Rabin on November 4, 1995, at the conclusion of a rally in Tel Aviv, Israel. At the time of the murder, he was a law student at Bar-Ilan University. Amir is serving a life sentence for murder plus six years for injuring Rabin's bodyguard. He was later sentenced to an additional eight years for conspiracy to murder. Amir has never expressed regret over the assassination. Numerous radical right-wing Israeli organisations have carried out campaigns for Amir's release. The Shin Bet security service has assessed that Amir remains a threat to national security. The Knesset passed a law preventing the president of Israel from pardoning the assassin of a prime minister. Early life Amir was born in Herzliya to an Israeli Orthodox Yemenite Jewish family, one of eight children. His father Shlomo was a '' sofer'' (scribe) who held a post supervising ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Yigal Cohen-Orgad
Yigal Cohen-Orgad (; 30 August 1937 – 27 August 2019) was an Israeli politician who served as Minister of Finance from October 1983 until September 1984. He was one of the founders of Ariel University, serving as its chancellor until his death. Biography Born in Tel Aviv during the Mandate era, Cohen-Orgad studied economics and education at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. During his youth, he was a member of the Bnei Etzel (''Young Irgun'') youth movement. In 1962 he started working in the Economic Planning Authority in the Ministry of Finance. He joined Herut, but left and joined the Free Centre in 1965. He eventually returned to Herut, which by the mid-1970s had become part of the Likud alliance. He became chairman of Herut's economic council, and in 1977, was elected to the Knesset on the Likud list. He changed his name from Yigal Cohen to Yigal Cohen-Orgad to differentiate himself from Yigal Cohen, another Likud MK; "Orgad" was created from the initials of his four chi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
