Aharon Katzir Prize
Aharon אַהֲרֹן is masculine given name alternate spelling, commonly in Israel, of '' Aaron'', prominent biblical figure in the Old Testament, "Of the Mountains", or "Mountaineer". There are other variants including "Ahron" and "Aron". Aharon is also occasionally a patronymic surname, usually with the hyphenated prefix "Ben-". People with the name include: Given name * Aharon Abuhatzira (1938–2021), Israeli politician * Aharon Amar (born 1937), Israeli footballer * Aharon Amir (1923–2008), Israeli poet, translator, and writer * Aharon Amram (born 1939), Israeli singer, composer, poet, and researcher * Aharon Appelfeld (1932–2018), Israeli novelist and Holocaust survivor * Aharon April (1932–2020), Russian artist * Aharon Barak (born 1936), Israeli lawyer and jurist * Aharon Becker (1905–1995), Israeli politician * Aharon Ben-Shemesh (1889–1988), Israeli writer, translator, and lecturer * Aharon Chelouche (1840–1920), Algerian landowner, jeweler, and moneycha ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Masculine
Masculinity (also called manhood or manliness) is a set of attributes, behaviors, and roles associated with men and boys. Masculinity can be theoretically understood as socially constructed, and there is also evidence that some behaviors considered masculine are influenced by both cultural factors and biological factors. To what extent masculinity is biologically or socially influenced is subject to debate. It is distinct from the definition of the biological male sex, as anyone can exhibit masculine traits. Standards of masculinity vary across different cultures and historical periods. Overview Masculine qualities and roles are considered typical of, appropriate for, and expected of boys and men. Standards of manliness or masculinity vary across different cultures, subcultures, ethnic groups and historical periods. Traits traditionally viewed as masculine in Western society include strength, courage, independence, leadership, and assertiveness.Thomas, R. Murray (2001),Fe ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Aharon Cohen
Aharon Cohen ( he, אהרון כהן; 1910-1980) was a senior member of Mapam, a pro-USSR Israeli political party which existed during the first two decades of statehood. Born in Britchany, Bessarabia in what was the Tsarist empire, now Romania. He came to Palestine in 1929 where he joined kibbutz Sha'ar Ha'amakin, near Haifa. Four years later he was sent back to Romania as a Zionist youth movement organiser. He returned to Palestine in 1936 where a year later he was elected to the executive committee of Ha-kibbutz Ha'artzi and was involved in organizing political work in Haifa and illegal Jewish immigration. A talented and efficient organizer he was given the task of setting up Hakibbutz Ha'artzi's Arab Department. Party policy advocated an undivided and Socialist Palestine and to this objective he gave lectures and issued bulletins to party members advocating good relations with Arabs. In 1942 he pressed his party into joining the League for Jewish Arab Rapprochement and Coopera ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Aharon HaLevi
Rabbi Aharon ben Joseph ha-Levi ( he, אהרון הלוי; 1235 – c. 1290), known by his Hebrew acronym ''Ra'aH'' (), was a medieval rabbi, Talmudic scholar and Halakhist. Rabbi Aaron ha-Levi was born in Girona, Catalonia (present-day Spain) in 1235 to his father Rabbi Joseph ha-Levi, son of Rabbi Benveniste ha-Levi, son of Rabbi Joseph ha-Levi, who was the son of Rabbi Zerachiah ha-Levi of Girona Baal Hamaor. The Ra'ah's mother Clara, was a granddaughter of Rabbi Aaron of Lunel who was the son of Rabbi Meshullam ben Jacob of Lunel ("Rabbenu Meshullam hagadol"). Rabbi Aaron ha-Levi studied under his father Rabbi Joseph ha-Levi and brother Rabbi Pinchas ben Joseph ha-Levi, as well as Nachmanides and was a colleague of Rabbi Shlomo ben Aderet (1235–1310). He published critical notes on the Rashba's ''Torat HaBayith'', which he entitled ''Bedek HaBayith''. He also wrote a commentary on the Talmud, select parts of which have been published. The sixteenth century autho ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Aharon Gurevich
Colonel Rabbi Aharon Gurevich is the first Chief Rabbi of the Russian Army since the 1917 Bolshevik Revolution. Rabbi Gurevich was appointed by Russian Chief Rabbi Berel Lazar Shlomo Dov Pinchas Lazar (born May 19, 1964), better known as Berel Lazar, is an Orthodox, Chabad-Lubavitch Hasidic rabbi. He began his service in Russia in 1990. Known for his friendship with Vladimir Putin, since 2000, he has been a Chief Rabbi ..., in December 2007. Israel Nation News, December 17, 2007 References Chabad-Lubavitch Hasidim[...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Aharon Goldstein
Aharon Goldstein ( he, אהרן גולדשטיין, 19 December 1902 – 12 October 1976) was an Israeli politician who served as a member of the Knesset for the Liberal Party and Gahal between 1963 and 1974. Biography Born in Zlatopol, a shtetl in the Russian Empire (today in Ukraine), Goldstein was educated at a heder and high school, before making aliyah to Palestine in 1921. He was a member of the Hebrew Pioneer, and also joined the Gdud HaAvoda work brigade. He worked in construction, and was one of the founders of the Borochov neighbourhood and Giv'atayim council. In 1952 he was elected chairman of the Israel Contractors and Builders Association. Active in the Haganah during the Mandate era, Goldstein was a member of the Liberal Party's central committee. He was on the party's list for the 1961 elections, and although he failed to win a seat, he entered the Knesset on 11 November 1963 as a replacement for Idov Cohen, [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Aharon Gluska
Aharon Gluska (born 1951) is an Israeli–American painter. Early life Gluska was born in 1951 in Hadera, Israel. He studied at the Académie des Beaux-Arts in Paris and Avni Institute of Fine Arts in Tel Aviv. Grants Gluska received grants from the National Endowment for the Arts and the Pollock-Krasner Foundation. Awards Gluska was one of two winners of the 1996 Zussman Prize for artists dealing with the Holocaust, from the Yad Vashem museum, for his paintings of prisoners at Auschwitz based on photographs of them taken by their Nazi guards. Public collections Gluska's art is displayed in the following locations: *Tel Aviv Museum of Art, Tel Aviv, Israel *Israel Museum, Jerusalem, Israel *Yad Vashem, Jerusalem, Israel *Jewish Museum, New York City, New York *Brooklyn Museum, Brooklyn, New York *Albright–Knox Art Gallery, Buffalo, New York *Cornell University Museum, Ithaca, New York *Bowdoin College Museum of Art, Brunswick, Maine Brunswick is a town in Cumberland Coun ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Aharon Gershgoren
Aharon Gershgoren ( he, אהרון גרשגורן) is an Israeli former footballer. He holds the most goals in a match record at Maccabi Haifa Maccabi Haifa ( he, מכבי חיפה) is one of the biggest sports clubs in Israel and a part of the Maccabi association. It runs several sports clubs and teams in Haifa which have competed in a variety of sports over the years, such as Football ... scoring six goals in one game. External links *Profile and biography of Aharon Gershgoren on Maccabi Haifa's official website 1948 births Living people Israeli Jews Israeli footballers Maccabi Haifa F.C. players Footballers from Haifa Association football midfielders {{Israel-footy-bio-stub ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Aharon Galstyan
Aharon Garushovich Galstyan (russian: Агарон Гарушович Галстян; born 1970), known as The Taxi Driver Poisoner (russian: Таксист-отравитель), is an Armenian-born Russian serial killer and thief. Operating in St. Petersburg, he would drug his passengers with Azaleptin (sleeping medicine containing clonazepam) and rob them of their valuables, and in seven cases, his victims died, their bodies discarded near bodies of water. Despite his insistence on his innocence, Galstyan was found guilty and sentenced to life imprisonment with no chance of parole. Early life Galstyan was born in the Armenian SSR in 1970, but it is unknown when he immigrated to Russia. After living in Moscow for a while, he moved in with a relative in St. Petersburg and began working as a private cab driver, driving a Lada Samara 2. During a visit to his doctor, he was prescribed Azaleptin, a powerful sleeping medicine that could prove fatal if ingested in large doses. Not l ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Aharon Feldman
Rabbi Aharon Feldman (born 1932) is an Orthodox Jewish rabbi and rosh yeshiva (dean) of Yeshivas Ner Yisroel (Ner Israel Rabbinical College) in Baltimore, Maryland. He has held this position since 2001. He is also a member of the Moetzes Gedolei HaTorah (Council of Torah Sages). Biography Rabbi Aharon Feldman is the son of Rabbi Joseph Feldman (died 1993), a native of Warsaw and scion of a rabbinical family. Rabbi Josef H. Feldman served as a rabbi in Manchester, New Hampshire in the 1930s, but left that post to assume the helm of Baltimore's Franklin Street Synagogue so his sons could attend a Hebrew day school. He was the last rabbi to formally serve as chief rabbi of Baltimore. Rabbi Aharon Feldman has two brothers; his elder brother, Rabbi Emanuel Feldman, was the prominent spiritual leader of Congregation Beth Jacob of Atlanta, Georgia for 40 years. His younger brother, Rabbi Joel Feldman, was a former dean of Talmudical Academy of Baltimore. Rabbi Feldman was born and raise ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Aharon Efrat
Aharon Efrat ( he, אהרון אפרת, born 20 March 1911, died 16 May 1989) was an Israeli politician who served as a member of the Knesset for the Alignment and Mapam between 1974 and 1977. Biography Born in Lutsk in the Russian Empire (today in Ukraine), Efrat joined Hashomer Hatzair at the age of 16. He was amongst the leaders of the movement in Poland, and was the head of its Aliyah Department between 1933 and 1935, when he became a member of the movement's world leadership. In 1934 he became a member of the central committee of the HeHalutz movement, and was also involved in its aliyah activities. In 1936 he made aliyah to Mandatory Palestine, and was amongst the founders of kibbutz Ein HaShofet the following year. In 1944 he became the secretary of the Hashomer Hatzair Workers Party and the Socialist League in Haifa. In 1954 Efrat became secretary of Mapam, a position he held until 1957. In 1960 he became secretary of the party's central committee. He was also involved ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Aharon Doron
Aharon Doron ( he, אהרון דורון; February 17, 1922 – December 14, 2016) was a major general in the Israel Defense Forces and an educator. He served as the head of the Manpower Directorate under the General Staff from April 1961 to July 1963. After his release from the military, Doron held various positions at the University of Tel Aviv and Israeli sports associations. In 1992 he was appointed military ombudsman by the late Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin. Biography Aharon Doron was born in Ludwigshafen, Germany to Erwin and Iloimer. His parents engaged in the tobacco trade. Doron immigrated to Palestine in 1939 in the framework of Youth Aliyah. After graduating from ''"Ludwig Tietz"'', a vocational school, he joined Kibbutz Yagur. He served as a commander in the Haganah. In 1941 he became a Notar in the Jewish Settlement Police and played professional football for Hapoel Haifa. Later, he played handball for Hapoel Petah Tikva and Hapoel Tel Aviv. Upon his release ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Aharon Dolgopolsky
Aharon Dolgopolsky, also spelled Aron ( he, אהרון דולגופולסקי, russian: Арон Борисович Долгопольский; 18 November 1930 – 20 July 2012) was a Russian-Israeli linguist who is known as one of the modern founders of comparative Nostratic linguistics. Biography Born in Moscow, he arrived at the long-forgotten Nostratic hypothesis in the 1960s, at around the same time but independently of Vladislav Illich-Svitych. Together with Illich-Svitych, he was the first to undertake a multilateral comparison of the supposed daughter languages of Nostratic. Teaching Nostratics at Moscow University for 8 years, Dolgopolsky moved to Israel in 1976, and taught at the University of Haifa. Dolgopolsky was featured in the NOVA documentary, ''In search of the first language''. He died on 20 July 2012 in Haifa. See also * Dolgopolsky list *Moscow School of Comparative Linguistics The Moscow School of Comparative Linguistics (also called the Nostratic Schoo ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |