Shavit ( he, שביט, link=no, meaning ''

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People

Surname

* Ari Shavit (born 1957), Israeli reporter and writer *

Bradley Shavit Artson Bradley Shavit "Brad" Artson (born 1959) is an American rabbi, author and speaker. He holds the Abner and Roslyn Goldstine Dean's Chair of the Ziegler School of Rabbinic Studies at the American Jewish University in Los Angeles, California, wher ...

(born 1959), American rabbi *

Dorit Shavit Dorit Shavit (Hebrew: דורית שביט; born March 13, 1949 Jerusalem) was the first woman to be the Israeli Ambassador to Argentina, from 2011 until 2016. From 1994 to 1999, she was Consul General in São Paulo. She never intended to work f ...

(born 1949), Israeli ambassador * Edna Shavit (1935–2015), Israeli theater professor *

Ilan Shavit Ilan Shavit ( he, אילן שביט, born 31 July 1958) is an Israeli lawyer, businessman and entrepreneur. Shavit is a founding partner of the commercial and corporate Tel Aviv law firm Shavit Bar-On Gal-On Tzin Yagur and of the Shaviram propert ...

(born 1958), Israeli lawyer and entrepreneur *

Isaiah Shavitt Isaiah Shavitt was a Polish-born Israeli and American theoretical chemist. He was born Isaiah Kruk on July 29, 1925 in Kutno, Poland but his family moved to what would become Israel in 1929. After undergraduate degrees in chemistry (1950) and chemi ...

, American chemist *

Nir Shavit Nir Shavit ( he, ניר שביט) is an Israeli computer scientist. He is a professor in the Computer Science Department at Tel Aviv University and a professor of electrical engineering and computer science at the Massachusetts Institute of Techn ...

, Israeli computer scientist * Ori Shavit, Israeli writer *

Raz Shavit Raz Shavit is an Israeli footballer who currently plays at Hapoel Bnei Lod Hapoel Bnei Lod Rakevet F.C. () are a football club, from the central Israeli city of Lod. The club plays in an all-red kit, and are currently in , the third tier of Is ...

, Israeli football player *

Shabtai Shavit Shabtai Shavit ( he, שבתי שביט; born 17 July 1939) is a former director general of the Israeli Mossad Mossad ( , ), ; ar, الموساد, al-Mōsād, ; , short for ( he, המוסד למודיעין ולתפקידים מיוחד� ...

(born 1939), Director of Mossad 1989–1996 * Sivan Shavit (born 1967), Israeli singer and actress * Tzipi Shavit (born 1947), Israeli actress and entertainer *

Uriya Shavit Uriya Shavit (born 1975) is an Israeli author and full professor of Islamic studies at Tel Aviv University (TAU). Since 2016, he has served as the head of TAU’s Department of Arabic and Islamic Studies and the Graduate Program in Religious Stu ...

(born 1975), Israeli author * Yaacov Shavit (born 1944), Israeli professor *

Zohar Shavit The ''Zohar'' ( he, , ''Zōhar'', lit. "Splendor" or "Radiance") is a foundational work in the literature of Jewish mystical thought known as Kabbalah. It is a group of books including commentary on the mystical aspects of the Torah (the five ...

, Israeli professor

Given name

* Shavit Ben-Arie (born 1985), history writer *

Shavit Elimelech Shavit Elimelech ( he, שביט אלימלך, born 7 September 1971) is a retired Israeli football goalkeeper. He started playing in the Maccabi Tel Aviv Youth League. His first game took place in 1988–89 in a game between Maccabi Tel Aviv FC ...

(born 1971), Israeli football player * Shavit Kimchi (born 2002), Israeli tennis player * Shavit Matias, Israeli international law and globalization expert

Other

Shavit, Iran Shavi ( fa, شوي, also Romanized as Shavī and Shevī; also known as Shavīt, Shewīt, and Shīvīn) is a village in Emamzadeh Seyyed Mahmud Rural District, Sardasht District Sardasht District ( fa, بخش سردشت) is a district (bakhsh) in ...

* Shavit 2, an Israeli lift launch vehicle first used in 1982 *

Shavit 2 (sounding rocket) Shavit 2 ( Hebrew: " comet" - 2 שביט) was the first Israeli sounding rocket, launched on 5 July 1961 for meteorological research. The weight of Shavit 2 was 250 kg and its height was 3.76 metres. The rocket achieved a height of 80 km. The ...

, a 1961 Israeli sounding rocket {{disambiguation