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Ben-Zion
Ben-Zion, also spelled Ben Zion, and Benzion ( he, בן ציון, "Son of Zion") is a Hebrew language, Hebrew given name. It may refer to the following people: Given name * Ben Zion Abba Shaul (1924–1998), rosh yeshiva, Porat Yosef Yeshiva * Ben-Zion Ben-Yehuda, birth name of Itamar Ben-Avi (1882–1943), first native speaker of Modern Hebrew as the son of Eliezer Ben-Yehuda; journalist and Zionist activist * Ben-Zion Bokser (1907–1984), major Conservative rabbi of the United States * Ben-Zion Dinur (1884–1973), Israeli politician * Benzion Freshwater (born 1948), British billionaire property investor * Ben-Zion Gold (1923–2016), American rabbi * Ben-Zion Gopstein (born 1969), Israeli radical right-wing activist * Ben Zion Aryeh Leibish Halberstam (born 1955), fifth Bobov (Hasidic dynasty), Bobover Rebbe * Ben Zion Halberstam (1874–1941), second Bobover Rebbe * Ben-Zion Halfon (1930–1977), Israeli politician * Benzion Halper (1884–1924), Lithuanian-American Hebraist and ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ben-Zion (artist)
Ben-Zion, also known as Ben-Zion Weinman (1897–1987) was a Russian-born American painter, printmaker, sculptor, educator, and poet. He was a member of "The Ten" group of expressionist artists. Early life Ben-Zion was born on July 8, 1897 in Starokostiantyniv, Russian Empire (present-day is Ukraine). His father, Hirsch Weinman was a Jewish cantor, and initially he wanted to enter the rabbinate. In 1909, the family moved to Galicia. At age 17, he travelled to Vienna to study art. He had been rejected from entering the Academy of Fine Arts Vienna due to antisemitism. Early in his career, he wrote fairy tales and poems in Hebrew under the name "Benzion Weinman". Career He immigrated to the United States in 1920 after the death of his father, and started by teaching Hebrew language. When he started painting he dropped his last name and started hyphenating. His first large scale painting was ''Friday Evening'' (1933), depicting his family's Sabbath dinner table. Starting in 193 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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 Ben-Zion Meir Hai Uziel was born in Jerusalem, where his father, Joseph Raphael, was the chief justice of the Sephardi community of Jerusalem, as well as president of the community council. At the age of twenty he became a yeshivah teacher and also founded a yeshivah called Mahazikei Torah for Sephardi young men. Rabbinic career In 1911, Uziel was appointed ''Hakham Bashi'' of Jaffa and the district. There he worked closely with Abraham Isaac Kook, who was the spiritual leader of the Ashkenazi community. Immediately upon his arrival in Jaffa he began to work vigorously to raise the status of the Oriental congregations there. In spirit and ideas he was close to Kook, and their affinity helped to bring about more harmonious relations than previously existe ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ben-Zion Dinur
Ben-Zion Dinur ( he, בן ציון דינור) (January 1884 – 8 July 1973) was a Zionist activist, educator, historian and Israeli politician. Biography Ben-Zion Dinaburg (later Dinur) was born in Khorol in the Russian Empire (now Poltava Oblast, Ukraine). He received his education in Lithuanian yeshivot. He studied under Shimon Shkop in the Telz Yeshiva, and became interested in the Haskalah through Rosh Yeshiva Eliezer Gordon's polemics. In 1898 he moved to the Slabodka yeshiva and in 1900 he traveled to Vilnius and was certified a Rabbi. He then went to Lyubavichi to witness the Chabad-Lubavitch branch of Hasidic Judaism. Between 1902 and 1911 he was engaged in Zionist activism and teaching, which at some point resulted in a brief arrest. In 1910 he married Bilhah Feingold, a teacher who had worked with him in a girls' trade school in Poltava. In 1911, he left his wife and son for two years to attend Berlin University, where he studied under Michael Rostovtzeff and E ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ben-Zion Leitner
Ben-Zion Leitner ( 1927 – March 25, 2012) was an Israeli soldier, who received the nation's highest military decoration, the Hero of Israel citation (now the Medal of Valor), for heroism during the 1948 Arab–Israeli War. He led an assault that blew up of a bunker at a police position in Iraq Suwaydan Iraq Suwaydan ( ar, عراق سويدان, he, עיראק סווידאן) was a Palestinian Arab village located northeast of Gaza City. It was captured by Israeli forces in Operation Yoav against the defending Egyptian Army during the 1948 Ar ..., in which half of his face became paralysed. He was a native of Odessa References 1920s births 2012 deaths Israeli soldiers Military personnel from Odesa Odesa Jews Recipients of the Medal of Valor (Israel) Soviet emigrants to Mandatory Palestine {{Israel-mil-bio-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Yehoshua Ben-Zion
Yehoshua Ben-Zion (1924 – 2004) ( he, יהושע בן ציון) was an Israeli banker. He served as the managing director of Israel-British Bank. Following the collapse of the bank in July 1974, owing British investors £46.6 million, Ben-Zion was convicted of embezzling £20 million ($39.4 million) from the bank. He was sentenced to 12 years in prison. After urging of the Israeli prime minister Menachem Begin in 1977, Ben-Zion was pardoned by the Israeli president Ephraim Katzir, on medical grounds. He was released after serving three years. Ben-Zion was born in Mandate Palestine and spent his childhood in the United States. He was a member of the Irgun Irgun • Etzel , image = Irgun.svg , image_size = 200px , caption = Irgun emblem. The map shows both Mandatory Palestine and the Emirate of Transjordan, which the Irgun claimed in its entirety for a future Jewish state. The acronym "Etzel" i ... and later became a colonel in the Israel Defense Forces. In 1972 he was a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ben-Zion Harel
Ben-Zion Harel ( he, בן-ציון הראל; 3 June 1892 – 19 September 1972) was an Israeli doctor and politician, who served as a member of the Knesset for the General Zionists between 1951 and 1959. Biography Born Ben-Zion Hirshowitz in Kuldīga in the Russian Empire (today in Latvia), Harel was educated at a heder and high school, before moving to Switzerland to attend university. He studied chemistry at the University of Zurich, and medicine at the University of Bern, graduating as a doctor in 1916. During his time as a student he became involved in Zionist organisations. In 1921, he made aliyah to Mandatory Palestine, and from 1922 until 1934 worked as a doctor in kibbutz Ein Harod. He established and served as director of the Jezreel Valley central hospital, and was the head doctor at Kupat Holim in the north of the country. In 1935, he became chairman of the Land of Israel Physicians Association, and the following year helped establish Assuta hospital in Tel Aviv. Be ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Itamar Ben-Avi
Itamar Ben-Avi (; []; 31 July 1882 – 8 April 1943) was the first native speaker of modern Hebrew, Hebrew in modern times. He was a journalist and Zionism, Zionist activist. Biography Itamar Ben-Avi was born as Ben-Zion Ben-Yehuda in Jerusalem on 31 July 1882, the son of Devora () and Eliezer Ben-Yehuda. Eliezer is credited with reviving the Hebrew language; Itamar was brought up to be the first native speaker of Hebrew in the modern era. At his father's insistence, Itamar was not permitted to hear any language other than Hebrew at home. When he was very young, Itamar always wanted someone to play with, but his parents did not want him to speak with the other children who spoke different languages. He made friends with a dog which he called ''Ma'her'' (), meaning "fast" in Hebrew. His three siblings died in a diphtheria epidemic and his mother died of tuberculosis in 1891. He and his family were ostracized from the ultra-orthodox community, due to their usage of Hebrew as a day ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ben-Zion Gold
Ben-Zion Gold ( – April 18, 2016) was an American rabbi who was the Rabbi of the Hillel at Harvard University from 1958 until he became Rabbi Emeritus in 1990. Gold was born in 1923 in Radom, Poland, and is the only member of his family to have survived the Holocaust The Holocaust, also known as the Shoah, was the genocide of European Jews during World War II. Between 1941 and 1945, Nazi Germany and its collaborators systematically murdered some six million Jews across German-occupied Europe; .... He immigrated to the United States in 1947. He was a graduate of the Jewish Theological Seminary. Rabbi Gold's memoir of his childhood in pre-war Poland was widely admired.A Sad, Searching Soul, Reading Ben-Zion Gold’s achingly sad, uncommonly beautiful memoir of life in prewar Poland, By Allan Nadler, Forward, April 10, 200/ref> Books * ''Tradition and Contemporary Reality (sermons and speeches)'', Puritan Press (Cambridge, MA), 1990 * ''The Life of Jews in Pol ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ben-Zion Keshet
Ben-Zion Keshet (, born 1914, died 8 August 1984) was an Israeli politician who served as a member of the Knesset for Gahal and Likud between 1969 and 1977. Biography Born in Riga in the Russian Empire (today in Latvia), Keshet attended a Hebrew high school in his home city. He joined the Betar youth movement and helped establish the Estonian branch in 1932. In 1934 he made aliyah to Mandatory Palestine, where he became a member of the governing council of Betar in 1935. He also became a member of Betar's enlistment battalion and of the central committee of the National Labour Federation in Eretz-Israel, on which he served between 1939 and 1942. From 1942 until 1943 he was a member of the general staff of the Irgun, before being exiled to Eritrea in 1944. Knesset website [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ben-Zion Bokser
Ben-Zion Bokser (July 4, 1907 – January 30, 1984) was a major Conservative Judaism, Conservative rabbi in the United States. Biography Bokser was born in Liuboml, then a part of Poland, and emigrated to the United States at the age of 13 in 1920. He attended City College of New York (BA, 1928) and Rabbi Isaac Elchanan Theological Seminary, Rabbi Isaac Elhanan Theological Seminary, followed by the Jewish Theological Seminary of America (ordained, 1931) and Columbia University (PhD, 1935). He taught for many years as an adjunct professor of political science, Queens College, City University of New York. His first pulpit was Congregation Beth Israel (Vancouver), Congregation Beth Israel in Vancouver. He served as the rabbi of Forest Hills Jewish Center in Queens, New York, starting in 1933 and remained in that position for the balance of his career, more than fifty years. He served a two-year period as a United States Army chaplain during World War Two, stationed at Camp Miles S ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ben-Zion Gopstein
Ben-Zion "Bentzi" Gophstein ( he, בן־ציון "בנצי" גופשטיין, born 10 September 1969) is a political activist affiliated with the far-right in Israel, a student of Meir Kahane, and founder and director of Lehava, an Israeli Jewish anti-assimilation organization. He was a member of the Council of Kiryat Arba, 2010-2013. In November 2019, he was indicted on charges of incitement to terrorism, violence, and racism. Kahanism Gopstein is a student of Meir Kahane and an adherent of Kahanism, the ideology named for and developed by him and promoted by his banned Kach party in Israel. Kach incited to racism and advocated the expulsion of Arabs from Israel and the Palestinian Territories,In the Spotlight: Kach and Kahane Chai ''Center for Defense Information'' October 1, 2002 and Gopstein praised the 1994 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ben-Zion Rubin
Ben-Zion Rubin ( he, בן-ציון רובין, born 6 January 1939) is an Israeli former politician who served as a member of the Knesset for the National Religious Party and Tami between 1977 and 1984. Biography Born in Tripoli in Libya in 1939, Rubin made aliyah to Israel in 1949. He studied humanities at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, and earned a teaching certificate from the university's Education Department, going on to work as a teacher. He later also studied journalism at Tel Aviv University. In 1961 he joined the National Religious Party, and in 1969 became a member of Netanya city council, which he remained on until 1978. Between 1969 and 1973, and again from 1974 until 1978, he served as the city's deputy mayor. In 1977 he was elected to the Knesset on the NRP list. Towards the end of the Knesset term he left the party to join Aharon Abuhatzira's breakaway faction, Tami, which was largely composed of Sephardi Jews Sephardic (or Sephardi) Jews (, ; lad, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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