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Ben-Israel
Ben-Israel or Ben-Yisrael is a Hebrew surname, literally meaning "son of Israel". Ben Israel is a Hebrew patronymic with the same meaning. Notable people with the name include: Surname * Adi Ben-Israel, American mathematician *Ben Ammi Ben-Israel, African American-Israeli religious leader * Danny Ben-Israel, Israeli musician *Gideon Ben-Yisrael, Israeli politician *Isaac Ben-Israel, Israeli military scientist, general and politician * Nathanyel Ben Israel, African American religious leader *Ron Ben-Israel, Israeli-American pastry chef Patronymic * Aharon Shmuel ben Israel Kaidanover, Polish-Lithuanian rabbi * Haim Ben Israel Benvenishti, Ottoman rabbi * Joshua ben Israel Benveniste, Ottoman physician and rabbi *Menasseh Ben Israel, Portuguese rabbi and printer * Meshullam Phoebus ben Israel Samuel, Polish rabbi * Moses Ben Israel Isserles, Polish Ashkenazic rabbi, talmudist, and posek * Solomon ben Israel Moses ha-Levi Alkabets, Ottoman rabbi, kabbalist, and poet See also * *Ba ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ron Ben-Israel
Ron Ben-Israel ( he, רון בן-ישראל; born 1957) is an Israeli-American pastry chef. He is the executive chef and owner of Ron Ben-Israel Cakes in New York City. He is known for his wedding and special occasion cakes as well as for his detail in sugar paste flowers. From 2011 to 2013, he hosted the cooking competition TV show Sweet Genius. Ben-Israel has also been a judge on a variety of Food Network shows, including Cake Wars, Chopped, Guy's Grocery Games and Worst Cooks in America. Biography Ron Ben-Israel was born in Israel. His mother was born in Vienna and was rescued from the ghetto by American volunteers, later immigrating to Israel. His father, Moshe, lost most of his family in the Holocaust, and survived Auschwitz. His father worked in the printing industry, while his mother worked in map-making for the government. Ben-Israel grew up in Tel Aviv. He loved baking in the kitchen as a child. He attended the Thelma Yellin High School for the Arts, specializing in ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Isaac Ben-Israel
Isaac Ben-Israel ( he, יצחק בן ישראל, born 26 July 1949) is an Israeli military scientist, general, politician and state official. He currently serves as the chairman of the Israeli Space Agency and the National Council for Research and Development, under the auspices of the Ministry of Science, Technology and Space of Israel. He finished his service in the IDF ranked General, serving as head of the military Administration for the Development of Weapons and the Technological Industry. Between 2010 and 2012 he served as chief Cybernetics adviser to PM Netanyahu, during which period he founded the National Cyber Bureau in the PM office and launched the National Cyber Initiative. Ben-Israel is now head of the Security Studies program in Tel Aviv University, where he also heads the annual international Cyber Security conference. Between 2007 and 2009 he served as a member of the Knesset for Kadima. Ben-Israel is one of Israel's top experts on Space, Cyber and technologica ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ben Ammi Ben-Israel
Ben Ammi Ben-Israel ( he, בן עמי בן-ישראל; October 12, 1939 – December 27, 2014) was the American-born founder and spiritual leader of the African Hebrew Israelites of Jerusalem. Biography Ben Carter (later Ben Ammi Ben-Israel) was born in Chicago, Illinois, to a Baptist family. After dropping out of high school, Carter served three years in the United States Army, where he earned an equivalency degree. After Carter was discharged from the Army, he worked as a metallurgist at Chicago's Howard Foundry. In 1961, a co-worker introduced him to the idea that African Americans are descendants of the Biblical Israelites. Carter began to attend meetings of black Israelite groups, and was given a Hebrew name, Ben Ammi Ben-Israel. According to the Hebrew Israelite community, in 1966, Ben Ammi received a vision from the angel Gabriel, who told him to lead African-Americans to Israel. In the vision, he claimed he was instructed to: "Lead the children of Israel among Afr ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Adi Ben-Israel
Adi Ben-Israel (Hebrew: עדי בן-ישראל, born November 6, 1933) is a mathematician and an engineer, working in applied mathematics, optimization, statistics, operations research and other areas. He is a Professor of Operations Research at Rutgers University, New Jersey. Research topics Ben-Israel's research has included generalized inverses of matrices, in particular the Moore–Penrose pseudoinverse, and of operators, their extremal properties, computation and applications. as well as local inverses of nonlinear mappings. In the area of linear algebra, he studied the matrix volume and its applications, basic, approximate and least-norm solutions, and the geometry of subspaces. He wrote about ordered incidence geometry and the geometric foundations of convexity. In the topic of iterative methods, he published papers about the Newton method for systems of equations with rectangular or singular Jacobians, directional Newton methods, the quasi-Halley method, Newton an ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Danny Ben-Israel
Danny Ben-Israel (1944 – 11 March 2019) was an Israeli musician of the late 1960s and early 1970s, producing psychedelic progressive rock with socially concerned lyrics in Hebrew. Early life Ben-Israel was born in Tel Aviv in 1944 and started his musical career while still in the Israeli Defence Forces The Israel Defense Forces (IDF; he, צְבָא הַהֲגָנָה לְיִשְׂרָאֵל , ), alternatively referred to by the Hebrew-language acronym (), is the national military of the State of Israel. It consists of three service branch ...' Northern Command, alongside future pop stars Gadi Yagil and Koby Oshrat. He had a series of pop hits while still in the army. Career After leaving the army, he wrote and recorded for films and appeared in several musicals. He toured Europe in 1968 and settled briefly in Austria to record the LP ''Happy Birthday, Rock'n'Roll''. He returned to Tel Aviv in early 1969. He hooked up with guitarist Shlomo Mizrahi, leader of power trio ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bani Isra'il (other) ...
In an Islamic context, Bani Isra'il ( ar, بني إسرائيل , link=no ''Banī Isrā'īl'' "sons of Israel") (Biblical Hebrew: ''b'nei yisrael'', בְּנֵי יִשְׂרָאֵל) may refer to: People * Descendants of the 12 sons of Jacob, including Joseph * Children of Israel or Israelites * Jewish people * Ten Lost Tribes * Twelve Tribes of Israel See also * Surat Bani Isra'il or Al-Isra', chapter of the Quran * Qubur Bani Isra'il, "Tombs of the Children of Israel" in West Bank * Bani Israël, a village in Senegal * Bene Israel, a community of Jews in India * Banu Israil, Muslim community of India * Ben-Israel * B'nai Israel (other), various congregations * Ben Yehuda (other) * Bar Yehuda * Ben-Israel Ben-Israel or Ben-Yisrael is a Hebrew surname, literally meaning "son of Israel". Ben Israel is a Hebrew patronymic with the same meaning. Notable people with the name include: Surname * Adi Ben-Israel, American mathematician *Ben Ammi Ben-Israe ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ben Yehuda (other)
Ben Yehuda or Ben-Yehuda is a Hebrew surname. Ben Yehuda may also refer to: * Ben Yehuda Street (Jerusalem), a major street in downtown Jerusalem, Israel *Ben Yehuda Street (Tel Aviv) Ben Yehuda Street is a street in Tel Aviv, Israel. The street runs from an intersection with Allenby Street, northwards intersecting where it runs roughly with the sea front to the west and Dizengoff Street to the east. At the northernmost end, i ..., a street in Tel Aviv, Israel See also * Bani Isra'il (other) * B'nai Israel (other) * Bar Yehuda * Ben-Israel {{disambig ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
B'nai Israel (other)
B'nai Israel ( he, בני ישראל, link=no "Sons/Children of Israel") may refer to: Jewish community * Bene Israel, a historic community of Jews in India * Bnei Isro'il, a historic community of Israelites in Central Asia * Benai Yisrael, the name Samaritans refer to themselves by Synagogues Canada * Congregation B'nai Israel (St. Catharines), Ontario United States (by state then city) California *Congregation B'nai Israel (Daly City, California) *Congregation B'nai Israel (Sacramento, California) * Congregation B'nai Israel (Jackson, California) Connecticut *Congregation B'nai Israel (Bridgeport, Connecticut) *Temple B'Nai Israel (New Britain, Connecticut) Georgia *B'nai Israel Synagogue and Cemetery (Thomasville, Georgia) Illinois *Anshe Sholom B'nai Israel (Chicago, Illinois) Indiana * B'nai Israel Synagogue (South Bend, Indiana) Iowa *B'nai Israel Synagogue (Council Bluffs, Iowa) Louisiana *B'nai Israel Traditional Synagogue (Alexandria, Louisiana) Maryland *B'nai ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Menasseh Ben Israel
Manoel Dias Soeiro (1604 – 20 November 1657), better known by his Hebrew name Menasseh ben Israel (), also known as Menasheh ben Yossef ben Yisrael, also known with the Hebrew acronym, MB"Y or MBI, was a Portuguese rabbi, kabbalist, writer, diplomat, printer, publisher, and founder of the first Hebrew printing press (named ''Emeth Meerets Titsma`h'') in Amsterdam in 1626. Life Menasseh was born on Madeira Island in 1604, with the name Manoel Dias Soeiro, a year after his parents had left mainland Portugal because of the Inquisition. The family moved to the Netherlands in 1610. The Netherlands was in the middle of a process of religious revolt against Catholic Spanish rule throughout the Eighty Years' War (1568–1648). Amsterdam was an important center of Jewish life in Europe at this time. The family's arrival in 1610 was during the Twelve Years' Truce mediated by France and England at The Hague. In Amsterdam he studied under Moses Raphael de Aguilar. Menasseh rose ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Patronymic
A patronymic, or patronym, is a component of a personal name based on the given name of one's father, grandfather (avonymic), or an earlier male ancestor. Patronymics are still in use, including mandatory use, in many countries worldwide, although their use has largely been replaced by or transformed into patronymic surnames. Examples of such transformations include common English surnames such as Johnson (son of John). Origins of terms The usual noun and adjective in English is ''patronymic'', but as a noun this exists in free variation alongside ''patronym''. The first part of the word ''patronym'' comes from Greek πατήρ ''patēr'' "father" (GEN πατρός ''patros'' whence the combining form πατρο- ''patro''-); the second part comes from Greek ὄνυμα ''onyma'', a variant form of ὄνομα ''onoma'' "name". In the form ''patronymic'', this stands with the addition of the suffix -ικός (''-ikos''), which was originally used to form adjectives with the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Moses Ben Israel Isserles
). He is not to be confused with Meir Abulafia, known as "Ramah" ( he, רמ״ה, italic=no, links=no), nor with Menahem Azariah da Fano, known as "Rema MiPano" ( he, רמ״ע מפאנו, italic=no, links=no). Rabbi Moses Isserles ( he, משה בן ישראל איסרלישׂ, pl, Mojżesz ben Israel Isserles) (22 February 1530 / 25 Adar I 5290 – 11 May 1572 / 18 Iyar 5332), also known by the acronym Rema, was an eminent Polish Ashkenazic rabbi, talmudist, and '' posek'' (expert in Jewish law). Biography Isserles was born in Kraków, Poland. His father, Israel ben Josef (known as Isserl), was a prominent talmudist and independently wealthy, who had probably headed the community; his grandfather, Jehiel Luria, was the first rabbi of Brisk. (In an era which preceded the common use of surnames, Moses became known by his patronymic, Isserles.) He studied in Lublin under Rabbi Shalom Shachna, who would later become his father-in-law. Among his fellow pupils were his rela ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Solomon Ben Israel Moses Ha-Levi Alkabets
Shlomo ha-Levi Alkabetz, also spelt Alqabitz, Alqabes; ( he, שלמה אלקבץ) ( 1500 – 1576) was a rabbi, kabbalist and poet perhaps best known for his composition of the song '' Lecha Dodi''. Biography Alkabetz studied Torah under Rabbi Yosef Taitatzak. In 1529, he married the daughter of Yitzhak Cohen, a wealthy householder living in Salonica. Alkabetz gave his father-in-law a copy of his newly completed work ''Manot ha-Levi''. He settled in Adrianople where he wrote ''Beit Hashem'', ''Avotot Ahava'', ''Ayelet Ahavim'' and ''Brit HaLevi''. This latter work he dedicated to his admirers in Adrianople. His students included Rabbi Shmuel Ozida, author of ''Midrash Shmuel'' on Avot, and Rabbi Avraham Galante, author of ''Yareach Yakar'' on ''Zohar''. His circle included Moshe Alsheich and Yosef Karo, as well as his famous brother-in-law Moshe Cordovero. Move to Safed Following the practice described in the Zohar of reciting biblical passages known as the ''Tikūn'' ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
