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Orna Ben Dor
Orna may refer to: Dress *Orna (garment), an garment item from South Asia, commonly worn with shalwar kameez People *Orna Angel (born 1962), Israeli politician *Orna Banai (born 1969), Israeli actress, comedian, and entertainer *Orna Barbivai (born 1962), general in the Israel Defense Forces and Israeli politician *Orna Ben-Naftali, Israeli legal academic and commentator on human rights in Israel *Orna Berry, Israeli entrepreneur and scientist *Orna Ní Choileáin, Irish author and musician *Orna Datz, Israeli singer, actress and television personality *Orna Grumberg Israeli computer scientist and academic *Orna Lin, Israeli labor lawyer *Orna Ostfeld (born 1952), Israeli basketball player and coach *Orna Porat Orna Porat (; June 6, 1924 – August 6, 2015) was a German-born Israeli theater actress. Life and career She was born Irene Klein in Cologne, Germany, in 1924. Her father, Willi, was Catholic, and her mother, Elise, Protestant, but she chose a ... (born 1924), Israel ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Orna (garment)
The dupattā, also called chunni, chunari, chundari, lugda, rao/rawo, gandhi, pothi, orna, and odhni is a long shawl-like scarf traditionally worn by women in the Indian subcontinent. Traditionally, in India, the dupatta is part of the women's lehenga or ghagra/chaniya choli. A lehenga is a three-piece outfit which is made up of a skirt, called a ghagra or chaniya; a blouse, called a choli, and a dupatta. The dupatta is worn over one shoulder, and traditionally, married women would also wear the dupatta over the head in temples or in front of elders. The dupatta is also worn as part of the shalwar kameez which is worn by women in India, Pakistan & Bangladesh, particularly in parts of Northern India and Deccanis, Deccan region. The Punjabi suit is worn in Punjab and Pakistan, it is another three piece outfit made up of trousers, called pyjama or salwar; a top, called a kurta or kameez, and the dupatta. Etymology The Hindi-Urdu word ''dupattā'' (दुपट्टा, دوپٹہ ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Orna Angel
Orna Angel (; born 29 July 1962) is an Israeli architect and former politician who served as a member of the Knesset for the Labor Party for one week in February 2006. Biography Born in Jerusalem, Angel studied at the Hebrew University High School, and then at the Bezalel Academy of Arts and Design and the Technion. She subsequently worked in the Ministry of Housing. Becoming involved in politics, she led a Jerusalem-based organisation that campaigned for Ehud Barak in the 1999 general elections. For the 2003 elections she was placed 31st on the Labor Party list. Israel Democracy Institute Although she missed out on a seat when the party won 19 mandates, she entered the Knesset on 8 February 2006 as a replacement for [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Orna Banai
Orna Banai (; born November 25, 1966) is an Israeli actress, comedian, entertainer, winner of the 2006 Israeli Television Academy Award, and past member of the Tel Aviv-Yafo city Council. Many of her relatives are successful Israeli actors and singers. The next generation of the Banai family, including Orna and her brothers, Meir and Eviatar, followed this tradition. Biography Banai was born in Beersheba and raised in Omer. Her father was a District Court judge in Beersheba, and her mother was an Grammar teacher and school principal of the comprehensive "Vav" school in Beersheba. She studied at comprehensive "Vav" urban high school in Be'er Sheva majoring in theatre. She did her military service as a coordinator at the High School for Children and Youth near Yeruham. After her military service, she began to study acting at the "Nissan Nativ Acting Studio" in Tel Aviv. In the last year of her studies, she acted in the play "Youth of Varda'la" by Hanoch Levin, in the production ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Orna Barbivai
Orna Barbivai (; born 5 September 1962) is the former Minister of Economy, a retired major general in the Israel Defense Forces, and the former head of its Manpower Directorate. She was the first woman to be made Major-general (Aluf), the IDF's second highest rank. On 1 January 2019, she announced that she would enter politics and seek a Knesset seat on the list of Yesh Atid, which she won as part of the Blue and White slate. Her place in the Knesset was taken by Yasmin Fridman. Biography Growing up in a family of eight children in Afula, Israel, Barbivai is the daughter of Tzila, a Jewish immigrant from Iraq, and Eli Shochetman, a Jewish immigrant from Romania. She was drafted into the IDF in 1981, and has spent her entire career as an officer in the Manpower Directorate. Barbivai holds a bachelor's degree in Social Sciences and Humanities from Ben Gurion University, and a Master of Business Administration Degree from Haifa University. She is also the graduate of the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Orna Ben-Naftali
Orna Ben-Naftali () is the rector of the College of Management Academic Studies and the Emile Zola Chair for Human Rights. She has previously served as dean of the Striks School of Law, College of Management Academic Studies. Academic career Ben-Naftali is a graduate of the Tel Aviv University Law faculty (LL.B.), Harvard University (M.A. History) and the Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy (M.A.L.D.; Ph.D). She has been a research fellow at the Max Planck Institute for Comparative Public Law and International Law, Heidelberg; The Law Department of the European University Institute, Florence; and the Institute for Advanced Studies, Hebrew University of Jerusalem; and a visiting professor at The European Academy of The European University Institute, Brandeis University, and The Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy. She formerly served on the editorial board of the '' European Journal of International Law'', and currently serves on the editorial boards of ''Humanity Journal ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Orna Berry
Orna Berry (; born December 19, 1949), is an Israeli computer scientist, high-tech entrepreneur, and senior executive in the Israeli science and technology industries. In 1996, Berry became the first woman to serve as chief scientist and head of the industrial R&D operation of the Israeli Ministry of Industry, Trade and Labour. She was awarded the "Yekirat Hanegev" award from Ben-Gurion University of the Negev in 2012. Since 2021 Berry serves as Director of Technology in the office of the CTO at Google Cloud. Early life and education Orna Berry was born in Jerusalem to Raissa and Yoash Tsiddon (Chatto) and was raised and educated in Tel Aviv. In 1967, she drafted into the Israeli Air Force, where she served as an officer for the flying school until 1970, terminating her military service as a lieutenant. Berry received a BA from Haifa University in statistics and mathematics in 1975 and an MA in statistics and operations research from Tel Aviv University. She then enrolled at ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Orna Ní Choileáin
Orna Ní Choileáin is an Irish writer from West Cork. She writes Irish language fiction books for both adults and children, as well as poetry and drama. She has won prizes for her creative prose, poetry, drama and theatre, and short-story writing at Oireachtas na Gaeilge and other Gaelic festivals. Éilís Ní Dhuibhne reviewed her recent work under the writers' mentoring scheme organised bClár na Leabhar Gaeilgein 2007. Ní Choileáin's first collection of Irish language short stories ''Canary Wharf'' was published bCois Lifein 2009. From this collection, ''Canary Wharf'' was selected for Great Irish Book Week 2009. A short film (''Pairtnéir'') for the Scéal Series was based on the short story "Saineolaí Teicneolaí". The short story "Camino" was selected for European Best Fiction 2010 and published by Dalkey Archive Press. Five stories from the book ("Saineolaí Teicneolaí"; "Canary Wharf"; "Cosaint Sonraí"; "Cúrsa Eitilte"; "Mil") were prescribed on the Leaving Certi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Orna Datz
Orna Datz ( ; born Orna Cohen born 10 May 1964) is an Israeli singer, actress and television presenter. Biography Orna Cohen was born in Holon, Israel. At age 17, she was elected "Miss Holon". In 1987 she married the singer Moshe Datz and they became known as the Duo Datz. In 2001 she began to host the fashion tv series ''Makeover'' (מהפך), and in 2006 she began hosting the Israeli version of '' The Swan''. In 2005 and 2006 she presented the Miss Israel Miss Israel (also referred to as , , ) was a national beauty pageant in Israel. The pageant was founded in 1950, where the winners were sent to Miss Universe. History In the late 1920s, a "Esther, Queen Esther Beauty Pageant" was held in Tel Avi ... Beauty pagean References 20th-century Israeli women singers Israeli television presenters Israeli beauty pageant winners Beauty pageant hosts 1964 births Living people Israeli women television presenters {{Israel-bio-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Orna Grumberg
Orna Grumberg (; born April 30, 1952, in Hadera near Haifa) is an Israeli computer scientist and academic, the Leumi Chair of Science at the Technion. Grumberg is noted for developing model checking, a method for formally verifying hardware and software designs. With Edmund M. Clarke and Doron A. Peled, she is the author of the book ''Model Checking'' (MIT Press, 1999). In 2013, Grumberg was elected to the Academia Europaea. In 2015, she was named a Fellow of the Association for Computing Machinery A fellow is a title and form of address for distinguished, learned, or skilled individuals in academia, medicine, research, and industry. The exact meaning of the term differs in each field. In learned or professional societies, the term refers ... "for contributions to research in automated formal verification of hardware and software systems." In May 2017, she was awarded an honorary doctorate by the Technical University of Munich as part of the 50th anniversary of computer s ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Orna Lin
Orna Lin (; born 1956) is the owner of a private law firm, Orna Lin & Co. and a leading labor lawyer in Israel. Biography Orna Lin is the daughter of former Israeli Knesset member Amnon Lin and granddaughter of Haifa's first Jewish mayor, Abba Hushi. She is a graduate of the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. Legal career Lin has been a member of the Israeli Bar since 1981. She was a partner at M. Seligman & Co., one of the largest law firms in Israel. In 1999-2003, she headed the Tel Aviv Bar Association, the first woman to serve in this position. She is chairperson of the Israel Bar Association Council, also the first woman to hold this post. She lectures in labor law at Tel Aviv University. Personal life She lives in Tel Aviv together with her partner Rivka Neumann See also *Women of Israel Women in Israel comprise of the state's population . While Israel lacks an official constitution, the Israeli Declaration of Independence of 1948 states that “The State of Is ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Orna Ostfeld
Orna Ostfeld (; born December 23, 1952) is an Israeli former basketball player and current basketball coach. Early life and non-basketball activities Ostfeld is Jewish, and was born in Jerusalem, Israel. She is a graduate of Wingate Institute, Wingate Institute for Physical Education and Sport Sciences, and is the first Jewish physical education teacher to work in the Arab school in Tayibe, Taibe. In 2003, she was elected a member of the Ramat Hasharon Municipality Council. Basketball career Player Ostfeld played basketball in the Israel Super League, and for the Israeli National Women's Basketball Team. As a player for Israel's Maccabi Ramat Khen, Ostfeld was entered in the ''Guinness Book of World Records'' for scoring 108 points in a 221–21 team victory on November 17, 1981, the most-ever points scored in a women's professional game. Coach As a basketball coach, during a seven-year period that began in 1998, Ostfeld guided the Anda Ramat HaSharon basketball team to fou ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Orna Porat
Orna Porat (; June 6, 1924 – August 6, 2015) was a German-born Israeli theater actress. Life and career She was born Irene Klein in Cologne, Germany, in 1924. Her father, Willi, was Catholic, and her mother, Elise, Protestant, but she chose atheism and socialism in her youth. In 1934 her family moved to Porz, where she attended high school. During these years, she was a member of the Hitler Youth, although her family opposed this affiliation. She attended drama school and began her stage career at a repertory theater in Schleswig. She met her husband, Joseph Proter, in Schleswig. He was an officer from the British Mandate of Palestine in the Jewish Brigade of the British Army. In 1946, she moved to Palestine with Proter, and married him (in a civil ceremony). She converted to Judaism later, in 1957, and they held a Jewish ceremony before adopting two children. After being refused by the HaBima and Ohel theaters, she was accepted by the Cameri Theater. When she joined the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
