Uziel or Uzziel () is documented as a
Jewish
Jews ( he, יְהוּדִים, , ) or Jewish people are an ethnoreligious group and nation originating from the Israelites Israelite origins and kingdom: "The first act in the long drama of Jewish history is the age of the Israelites""The ...
family name in early 15th century Spain.
Notable people with this surname include:
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Ben-Zion Meir Hai Uziel
Ben-Zion Meir Hai Uziel (, born 23 May 1880, died 4 September 1953), sometimes rendered as Ouziel, was the Sephardi chief rabbi of Mandatory Palestine from 1939 to 1948, and of Israel from 1948 until his death in 1953.
Biography
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Isaac Uziel Isaac ben Abraham Uziel (died 1 April 1622, Amsterdam) ( he, יצחק בן אברהם עזיאל) was a Moroccan physician, poet and grammarian, born at Fez, Morocco. At one time he held the position of rabbi at Oran, Algeria, but late in life h ...
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Jacob Uziel Jacob Uziel (died 1630 in Zante) was a physician and poet of the 17th century. He was of Spanish extraction, but emigrated to Italy at an early age, and settled in Venice
Venice ( ; it, Venezia ; vec, Venesia or ) is a city in northea ...
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Joseph Uziel
Joseph Uziel (died 1572 in Ferrara) was an Italian scholar and rabbi. He was a pupil of Isaac Aboab of Castile, and left a responsum
''Responsa'' (plural of Latin , 'answer') comprise a body of written decisions and rulings given by legal schola ...
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Judah Uziel
Judah Uziel (d. 1634, Venice, probably; ''Jewish Encyclopedia'' of 1971 says he died ca. 1600) was an Italian scholar of the 16th century, born in Spain. He was the author of sixteen sermons on the Pentateuch
The Torah (; hbo, ''Tōrā' ...
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Samuel Uziel Samuel Uziel was a Talmudist and scholar of the 17th century, rabbi of Livorno
Livorno () is a port city on the Ligurian Sea on the western coast of Tuscany, Italy. It is the capital of the Province of Livorno, having a population of 158,493 res ...
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Yonatan Uziel
Yonatan Uziel ( he, יונתן עוזיאל; born March 26, 1975) is an Israeli actor and model best known for appearing in ''Prisoners of War'' and '' Hostages''.
Early life and education
Uziel was born in Jerusalem and grew up in Tel Aviv. ...
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Jonathan ben Uzziel
Jonathan ben Uzziel ( he, יונתן בן עוזיאל) was one of the 80 ''tannaim'' who studied under Hillel the Elder during the time of Roman-ruled Judea. A book of kabbalah known as ''Sefer Migdanim'' has been attributed to him.
Jonathan ben ...
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Hayyim ben Abraham Uziel
Hayyim ben Abraham Uziel (Hebrew: חיים בן אברהם עזיאל) was a Sephardic Jew scholar and author who flourished in the latter half of the 16th century in the Ottoman Empire. He wrote ''Meḳor Ḥayyim'' (3 vols., Smyrna, n.d.), an e ...
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Samuel ben Joseph Uziel Samuel ben Joseph Uziel (16th–17th century) was a rabbi
A rabbi () is a spiritual leader or religious teacher in Judaism. One becomes a rabbi by being ordained by another rabbi – known as '' semikha'' – following a course of study of Je ...
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Uziel Gal
Uziel "Uzi" Gal ( he, עוזיאל "עוזי" גל, born Gotthard Glas; 15 December 1923 – 7 September 2002) was an Israeli firearm designer, best remembered as the designer and namesake of the Uzi submachine gun.
Biography
Gal was born in ...
, designer of the Uzi submachine gun
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Uzi
The Uzi (; he, עוזי, Ūzi; officially cased as UZI) is a family of Israeli open-bolt, blowback-operated submachine guns and machine pistols first designed by Major Uziel "Uzi" Gal in the late 1940s, shortly after the establishment of t ...
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