Moshe is the Hebrew version of the masculine given name
Moses
In Abrahamic religions, Moses was the Hebrews, Hebrew prophet who led the Israelites out of slavery in the The Exodus, Exodus from ancient Egypt, Egypt. He is considered the most important Prophets in Judaism, prophet in Judaism and Samaritani ...
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Moshe Arens
Moshe Arens (; 27 December 1925 – 7 January 2019) was an Israeli aeronautical engineer, researcher, diplomat, and Likud politician. A member of the Knesset between 1973 and 1992 and again from 1999 until 2003, he served as Minister of Defense ...
(1925–2019), Israeli politician
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Moshe Bar, several people
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Moshe Bejski
Moshe Bejski (; 29 December 1921 – 6 March 2007) was a Polish-born Israeli Supreme Court Justice and President of Yad Vashem's Righteous Among the Nations Commission. After surviving the Holocaust with the help of Oskar Schindler, Bejski imm ...
(1921–2007), Israeli judge
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Moshe Brener
Moshe Brener (; born March 4, 1971) is an Israeli former professional basketball player. He played the forward position. He was the 2005 Israeli Basketball Premier League Sixth Man of the Year.
Biography
Brener is tall. He played for Maccabi H ...
(born 1971), Israeli basketball player
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Moshe Czerniak
Moshe Czerniak (born Moizes Czerniak, also knowns as Miguel Czerniak; ; 3 February 1910 – 31 August 1984) was a Polish-Israeli chess player. He was awarded the title of International Master (IM) by FIDE in 1952.
Biography
In 1930 Moshe Czern ...
(1910–1984), Israeli chess master
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Moshe Dayan
Moshe Dayan (; May 20, 1915 – October 16, 1981) was an Israeli military leader and politician. As commander of the Jerusalem front in the 1948 Arab–Israeli War, Chief of General Staff (Israel), Chief of the General Staff of the Israel Defe ...
(1915–1981), Israeli military leader and politician
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Moshe Erem (1896–1978), Israeli politician
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Moshe Feinstein
Moshe Feinstein (; Lithuanian pronunciation: ''Moishe Fainshtein''; ; March 3, 1895 – March 23, 1986) was a Russian-born American Orthodox Jewish rabbi, scholar, and ''posek'' (authority on ''halakha''—Jewish law). He has been called ...
(1895–1986), Russian-born American Orthodox Jewish rabbi, scholar, and posek
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Moshe Gil
Moshe Gil (; February 8, 1921 – January 23, 2014) was an Israeli historian.
Academic career
Moshe Gil specialized in the historical interaction between Islam and the Jews, including the history of Palestine under Islamic rule, the institution ...
(1921–2014), Israeli historian
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Moshe Gutnick
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, Australian Orthodox Chabad rabbi
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Moshe Hirsch (1929–2010), Jewish activist and Palestinian politician
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Moshe Ivgy
Moshe Ivgy (; born 29 November 1953) is an Israeli actor and director.
Biography
Moshe Ivgy was born in Casablanca, Morocco, to a Moroccan Jewish family. He was married to actress Irit Sheleg. Their daughter Dana Ivgy is also an actress. Afte ...
(born 1953), Israeli actor
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Moshe Jarden
Moshe Jarden () is an Israeli mathematician, specialist in field arithmetic.
Biography
Moshe Jarden was born in 1942 in Tel Aviv. His father, Dr. Dov Jarden (1911–1986), was a mathematician, writer and linguist, who transmitted him his love t ...
(born 1942), Israeli mathematician
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Moshe Kahlon
Moshe Kahlon (; born 19 November 1960) is a retired Israeli politician. Between 2003 and 2013 he served as a member of the Knesset for Likud, and as Minister of Communications and Minister of Welfare & Social Services. After taking a break from ...
(born 1960) Israeli politician
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Moshe Kasher
Mark Moshe Kasher (born July 6, 1979) is an American stand-up comedian, writer and actor based in the Los Angeles area. He is the author of the 2012 memoir ''Kasher in the Rye: The True Tale of a White Boy from Oakland Who Became a Drug Addict, C ...
(born 1979), American comedian
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Moshe Katsav
Moshe Katsav (; born Musa Qassab; 5 December 1945) is an Israeli former politician and was the president of Israel from 2000 to 2007. He was also a leading Likud member of the Israeli Knesset and a minister in its Cabinet of Israel, cabinet. He ...
(born 1945), Israeli-Iranian president of Israel
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Moshe Katz Moshe Katz may refer to:
* Moshe Katz (editor, born 1864) (1864–1941), American editor and activist
* Moyshe Katz (writer, born 1885)
Moyshe Katz (1885–1960) was a Russian–American writer, Zionist, and proponent of Yiddish culture.
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Moshe Kaveh
Moshe Kaveh (; born 1943) is an Israeli physicist and former President of Bar-Ilan University.
Biography
Kaveh was born in Tashkent, Uzbek SSR, Soviet Union where his parents sought safety after fleeing from Poland. All of his father (Rabbi Davi ...
(born 1943), Israeli physicist and former President of Bar-Ilan University
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Moshe Kotlarsky (1949-2024), American Hasidic rabbi and spokesman
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Moshe Landau (1912–2011), Israeli judge
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Moshe Lazar Moshe Lazar (Hebrew: משה לזר; July 4, 1928 – December 13, 2012), was a professor of comparative literature and drama at the University of Southern California (and the founder of the school's comparative literature department). Prior to his a ...
(1928–2012), professor of comparative literature and drama at the University of Southern California
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Moshe Levy, several people
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Moshe Lobel
Moshe Lobel is an American actor, filmmaker and musician. He is best known for starring in the Yiddish- Ukrainian drama '' Shttl'', which premiered at the London Film Festival and in competition at the Rome Film Festival.
Early life
Lobel was ...
, American actor
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Moshe Chaim Luzzatto
Moshe Chaim Luzzatto (; also ''Moses Chaim'', ''Moise Vita'', ''Moses Hayyim'' or ''Luzzato''; 1707 – 16 May 1746), also known by the Hebrew acronym RaMCHaL (or RaMHaL; ), was an Italian Jewish rabbi, kabbalist, and philosopher.
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(1707–1746), Italian rabbi and poet, also known as Ramchal
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(1928–2015), Israeli urologist, President of Tel Aviv University and President of Ashkelon Academic College
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Moshe Meiselman
Moshe Meiselman () is an American-born Orthodox rabbi and rosh yeshiva (dean) of Yeshiva Toras Moshe in Jerusalem, which he established in 1982. He also founded and served as principal of Yeshiva University of Los Angeles (YULA) from 1977 to 19 ...
(born 1942), American-born Orthodox rabbi and rosh yeshiva
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Moshe Menuhin
Moshe Menuhin (1893–1982) was an American Jewish writer and teacher of Hebrew.
Biography
Menuhin was born Moshe Mnuchin in Gomel to a distinguished, religious Lithuanian Jewish family. He was the great-great-grandson of Rabbi Shneur Zal ...
(1893–1982), American Jewish writer and teacher of Hebrew
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Moshe Mizrahi (basketball)
Moshe Mizrahi (; born April 8, 1980) is an Israeli basketball player. He plays small forward.
Mizrahi was a member of the Israeli U-16, U-18, U-20, and U-21 National Teams, won the silver medal at the 2000 Under-20 FIBA European Championship, ...
(born 1980), Israeli basketball player
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Moshe Peled, several people
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Moshe Peretz
Moshe Haim Peretz (; born 10 May 1983) is an Israeli Mizrahi music pop singer-songwriter and composer. Beginning in 2013, Peretz acted as judge for The X Factor Israel.
Early life
Peretz was born and raised in Tiberias, Israel, to a Sephardi ...
(born 1983), Israeli Mizrahi music pop singer-songwriter and composer
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Moshe Ponte
Moshe Ponte (also "Ponti"; ; born 29 August 1956) is an Israeli former Olympic judoka and current president of the Israel Judo Association.
Ponte was born in Israel, and is Jewish.
Judo career
Ponte's coach was .
Ponte competed for Israel a ...
(born 1956), Israeli Olympic judoka and President of the Israel Judo Association
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Moshe Prywes
Moshe Prywes (; January 3, 1914 - March 1998) was a Polish-Israeli physician and educator. He was the first President of Ben-Gurion University of the Negev (1973-1975).
Biography
Prywes was born in Warsaw, Poland. He studied medicine for two year ...
(1914–1998), Polish-Israeli physician, educator and first President of Ben-Gurion University of the Negev
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Moshe Romano
Moshe Romano (; born 6 May 1946) is an Israeli former international footballer.
Career
Club career
Romano played club football for Shimshon Tel Aviv and Beitar Tel Aviv, and was top scorer in the 1965–66, 1969–1970, 1972–1973 and 1 ...
(born 1946), Israeli footballer
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Moshe Rosenstain (1881–1941), Ashkenazi rabbi in pre-World War II Eastern Europe
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Moshe Safdie
Moshe Safdie (; born July 14, 1938) is an architect, urban planner, educator, theorist, and author. He is well known for incorporating principles of socially responsible design throughout his six-decade career. His projects include cultural, ed ...
(born 1938), Israeli-Canadian architect
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Moshe Schweitzer
Moshe Schweitzer (; born 24 April 1954) is an Israeli former association football, footballer. He competed in the Football at the 1976 Summer Olympics, men's tournament at the 1976 Summer Olympics.
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(born 1954), Israeli former footballer
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Moshe Shahal
Moshe Shahal (; born 20 May 1934) is an Israeli former politician.
Biography
Born in Baghdad in Iraq, Shahal emigrated to Israel in 1950. He studied economics and political science at the University of Haifa, before graduating with a law degree ...
(born 1934), Israeli former politician
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Moshe Sharett
Moshe Sharett (; born Moshe Chertok (); 15 October 1894 – 7 July 1965) was the second prime minister of Israel and the country’s first foreign minister. He signed the Israeli Declaration of Independence and was a principal negotiator in th ...
(1894–1965), Prime Minister of Israel (1954–1955)
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Moshe Sharon
Moshe Sharon (; born December 18, 1937) is an Israeli historian of Islam.
He is currently Professor Emeritus of Islamic and Middle Eastern Studies at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem where he serves as Chair in Baháʼí Studies.
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(born 1937), Israeli historian of Islam
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Moshe Smoira (1888–1961), Israeli jurist and the first President of the Supreme Court of Israel
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Moshe Tamir, several people
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Moshe Taube (1927–2020), cantor, academic, and musician
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Moshe Teitelbaum, several people
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Moshe Vardi
Moshe Ya'akov Vardi () is an Israeli theoretical computer scientist. He is the Karen Ostrum George Distinguished Service Professor in Computational Engineering at Rice University, United States. and a faculty advisor for the Ken Kennedy Institut ...
(born 1954), Israeli computer scientist and professor
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Moshe Wallach
Moshe (Moritz) Wallach (; 28 December 1866 – 8 April 1957) was a German Jewish physician and pioneering medical practitioner in Jerusalem. He was the founder of Shaarei Zedek Hospital on Jaffa Road, which he directed for 45 years. He intr ...
(1866–1957), German-Jewish physician, founder and director of Shaare Zedek Hospital
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Moshe Weinberg (1939–1972), Israeli Olympic wrestling coach killed in the Munich massacre
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Moshe Weinkrantz
Moshe Weinkrantz (; born May 3, 1954) is an Israeli basketball coach. He has coached teams in the Israel Basketball Premier League, the Israel men's national basketball team, and the Israel women's national basketball team.
Biography
In the Israe ...
(born 1954), Israeli basketball coach
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Moshe Wilensky
Moshe Wilensky (, also, "Vilensky"; 17 April 1910 – 2 January 1997) was a Polish-Israeli composer, lyricist, and pianist. He is considered a "pioneer of Israeli song" and one of Israel's leading composers, and was a winner of the Israel Prize, ...
(1910–1997), Polish-born Israeli composer
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Moshe Ya'alon
Moshe "Bogie" Ya'alon (; born Moshe Smilansky; 24 June 1950) is an Israeli politician and former Chief of Staff of the Israel Defense Forces, who also served as Israel's Defense Minister under Benjamin Netanyahu from 2013 until his resignation ...
(born 1950), Israeli general and politician
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Moshe Yess
Moshe Aaron Yess (April 18, 1945 – January 8, 2011) was an Orthodox Jewish musician, composer and entertainer from Montreal, Quebec, Canada.
A member of the Chabad community in Montreal, Yess was a regular performer at Chabad House events and ...
(1945–2011), Orthodox Jewish musician, composer and entertainer from Montreal
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Moshe Yosef, several people
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Moshe Zakai
Moshe Zakai (; December 22, 1926 – November 27, 2015) was a Distinguished Professor at the Technion, Israel in electrical engineering, member of the Israel Academy of Sciences and Humanities and Rothschild Prize winner.
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Moshe Zak ...
(1926–2015), Professor at the Technion, Israel in electrical engineering
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Moshe Zar (1937–2025), Israeli religious Zionist, settlement leader, and convicted terrorist
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