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word אריה, which means

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. People so named include the following: * Aryeh Altman (1902–1982), Israeli politician * Aryeh Azulai (born 1933), Israeli mayor * Aryeh Bahir (1906–1970), Israeli politician * Aryeh Ben-Eliezer (1913–1970), Revisionist Zionist leader, Irgun member and Israeli politician * Aryeh Leib Bernstein (1708–1788), Chief Rabbi of Galicia * Aryeh Nussbaum Cohen (born 1994), American opera singer *

Aryeh Deri Aryeh Makhlouf Deri (; ), also Arie Deri, Arye Deri, or Arieh Deri (born 17 February 1959), is an Israeli politician and one of the founders of the Shas political party who served as the Vice Prime Minister, Minister of Health, and Minister ...

(born 1959), Israeli politician and leader of the Shas party *

Aryeh Dvoretzky Aryeh (Arie) Dvoretzky (, ; May 3, 1916 – May 8, 2008) was a Ukrainian-born Israeli mathematician, the winner of the 1973 Israel Prize in Mathematics. He is best known for his work in functional analysis, statistics and probability. He was t ...

(1916–2008), Russian-born Israeli mathematician, eighth president of the

Weizmann Institute of Science The Weizmann Institute of Science ( ''Machon Weizmann LeMada'') is a Public university, public research university in Rehovot, Israel, established in 1934, fourteen years before the State of Israel was founded. Unlike other List of Israeli uni ...

Aryeh Eldad Aryeh Eldad (; born 1 May 1950) is an Israeli physician, politician and former medical officer. Eldad is a professor of medicine, and was head of the plastic surgery and burns unit at the Hadassah Medical Center. He was a member of the Knesset ...

(born 1950), Israeli physician and politician * Aryeh Eliav (1921–2010), Israeli politician * Aryeh Leib Epstein (1708–1775), Polish rabbi * Aryeh Tzvi Frumer (1884–1943), Orthodox rabbi, rosh yeshiva, and posek * Aryeh Gamliel (1951–2021), Israeli politician *

Aryeh Leib ben Asher Gunzberg Aryeh Leib ben Asher Ginzburg (or Wallerstein) () ( 1695 – June 23, 1785), also known as the Shaagas Aryeh, was a Lithuanian rabbi and author. Life Born in Lithuania , he was a rabbinical casuist. At one time, Ginsburg was a rabbi in Pinsk, ...

(c. 1695–1785), Lithuanian rabbi and author * Aryeh Leib HaCohen Heller (1745–1812), rabbi, Talmudist and Halachist in Galicia *

Aryeh Kaplan Aryeh Moshe Eliyahu Kaplan (; October 23, 1934 – January 28, 1983) was an American Orthodox Judaism, Orthodox rabbi, author, and translator best known for his The Living Torah and Nach, Living Torah edition of the Torah and extensive Kabbalah, ...

(1934–1983), American Orthodox rabbi and author * Aryeh Kasher (1935–2011), Israeli historian and author * Aryeh Kosman (1935–2021), American scholar and professor of philosophy *

Aryeh Lebowitz Aryeh Lebowitz (, born May 17, 1977) is an American Orthodox Judaism, Orthodox rabbi, author and ''posek.'' He is the director of the Rabbi Joseph B. Soloveitchik Semikhah Program at the Rabbi Isaac Elchanan Theological Seminary of Yeshiva Univers ...

(born 1977),

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RIETS Rabbi Isaac Elchanan Theological Seminary (RIETS ) is the rabbinical seminary of Yeshiva University (YU). It is located along Amsterdam Avenue in the Washington Heights neighborhood of Manhattan, New York City. Named after Yitzchak Elchanan ...

Aryeh Levin Aryeh Levin (; March 22, 1885 - March 28, 1969) was an Orthodox rabbi dubbed the "Father of Prisoners" for his visits to members of the Jewish underground imprisoned in the Central Prison of Jerusalem in the Russian Compound during the Britis ...

(1885–1969), Orthodox rabbi *

Aryeh Neier Aryeh Neier (born April 22, 1937) is an American human rights activist who co-founded Human Rights Watch, served as the inaugural president of George Soros's Open Society Institute philanthropy network from 1993 to 2012, directed the New York ...

(born 1937), American human rights activist * Aryeh Nehemkin (born 1925), Israeli former politician * Aryeh Tartakower (1897–1982), Polish-born Israeli political activist, historian and sociologist

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