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Elon (name)
Elon (אֵילוֹן in Hebrew) is a masculine first name, or Jewish surname, which means "oak tree" in the Hebrew language. Variants of the name include Alon, Eilan, Eilon, and Elan; it can also be a variant spelling of Ilan and Ilon ( he, אילן), of the similar meaning "tree". The given name became more popular in the 2010s (from #3,310 in 2008 to No. 885 in 2018 for baby boys in the United States) due to the rise to fame of entrepreneur Elon Musk, though he is not Jewish. Given name *Elon, father of Basemath, wife of Esau in the Bible * Elon (Judges), biblical leader of the Israelites in the Book of Judges * Elon R. Brown (1857–1922), American politician * Elon Howard Eaton (1866–1934), American ornithologist * Elon J. Farnsworth (1837–1863), American general *Elon Farnsworth (1799–1877), American lawyer and politician *Elon Galusha (1790–1856), American preacher * Elon Ganor (born 1950), Israeli businessman * Elon Gasper (born 1951), American computer scientist ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Israel
Israel (; he, יִשְׂרָאֵל, ; ar, إِسْرَائِيل, ), officially the State of Israel ( he, מְדִינַת יִשְׂרָאֵל, label=none, translit=Medīnat Yīsrāʾēl; ), is a country in Western Asia. It is situated on the southeastern shore of the Mediterranean Sea and the northern shore of the Red Sea, and shares borders with Lebanon to the north, Syria to the northeast, Jordan to the east, and Egypt to the southwest. Israel also is bordered by the Palestinian territories of the West Bank and the Gaza Strip to the east and west, respectively. Tel Aviv is the economic and technological center of the country, while its seat of government is in its proclaimed capital of Jerusalem, although Israeli sovereignty over East Jerusalem is unrecognized internationally. The land held by present-day Israel witnessed some of the earliest human occupations outside Africa and was among the earliest known sites of agriculture. It was inhabited by the Canaanites ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Elon Gold
Elon Gold (born September 14, 1970) is an American comedian, television actor, writer and producer. Early life Elon Gold was born to Lynn and Sidney Gold of Goldstar Talent on September 14, 1970. He was raised in the Pelham Parkway section of The Bronx in New York. His older brother Steven is involved in the music production industry. He had a younger brother Ari, a rhythm and blues singer. He attended the Westchester Day School in Mamaroneck, New York and the Marsha Stern Talmudical Academy in Manhattan. Career He first starred in the television series '' Stacked''. He also starred in the short lived sitcom ''In-Laws''. Best known for his impressions, including those of Jeff Goldblum, Howard Stern and Jay Leno, Gold was also a judge on the celebrity impersonation competition series on ABC, ''The Next Best Thing''. Gold was also in the movie ''Cheaper by the Dozen'' (2003) as a cameraman from ''The Oprah Winfrey Show''. He had a recurring role on the short lived prime time sh ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Danae Elon
Danae Elon ( he, דנאי אילון; born December 23, 1970), is an Israeli documentary filmmaker and cinematographer based in Montreal Quebec. Biography Danae Elon was born in Jerusalem. She is the daughter of journalist and author Amos Elon, and Beth Elon. Elon graduated from New York University in 1995. Film career In 2009 she received the Guggenheim fellowship in the category of film. Her work has often centered around Jerusalem and the Palestinian struggle. ''Wild Mint'', which she directed and produced, and ''Cut'' which she photographed and co-produced were the first films she attempted to reconcile state ideology and reality. In 2001 Elon produced her first critically acclaimed film ''Another Road Home'' which received a grant from the Sundance Institute Documentary Program in 2003. The film premiered at the 2004 Tribeca film festival and was showcased in over 20 international film festivals, including IDFA, Los Angeles Film Festival, Jerusalem Film Festival, Hot ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Binyamin Elon
Rabbi Binyamin "Benny" Elon ( he, בנימין אלון, 10 November 1954 – 5 May 2017) was an Israeli Orthodox rabbi and politician who served as a member of the Knesset for Moledet and the National Union between 1996 and 2009. A ninth-generation Jerusalemite, Elon lived in Beit El, an Israeli settlement in the West Bank, for over twenty years, and was married to author and journalist Emuna Elon. They had six children. His father, Menachem Elon, was the former Deputy Chief Justice of Israel. His brother, disgraced Rabbi Mordechai Elon, has been a prominent controversial figure in the Religious Zionist Movement. Biography Born in Jerusalem, Elon studied at Mercaz HaRav Yeshiva, and Kollel HaIdra in the Golan Heights, before being ordained as a rabbi in 1978. Together with Hanan Porat, he founded the Beit Orot Talmudic College, and Elon became its first dean. He was first elected to the Knesset in 1996 as a member of the right-wing Moledet Party, advocating "voluntary" transfe ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ari Elon
Ari Elon (Hebrew: ארי אלון) (born 1950) is an Israeli writer, a Talmud scholar and educator. Elon was born in Jerusalem in 1950. He is the son of former Israel Supreme Court Justice Menachem Elon. Elon's brothers include the late Israeli politician, MK Benny Elon, disgraced Rabbi Mordechai Elon and Be'er Sheva District Court Judge Joseph ("Sefi") Elon . Despite his family's religious background, he became secular at a young age. haaretz,1,4, 2007 He taught Talmud and Midrash at . Elon taught at various institutions throughout Israel, including |
Amos Elon
Amos Elon ( he, עמוס אילון, July 4, 1926 – May 25, 2009) was an Israeli journalist and author. Biography Heinrich Sternbach (later Amos Elon) was born in Vienna. He immigrated to Mandate Palestine in 1933. He studied law and history in Israel and England.Amos Elon's Bio He married Beth Drexler, a New York-born literary agent, with whom he had one daughter, Danae. In the 1990s, Elon began to spend much of his time in . In 2004 he moved there permanently, citing disillusionment with developments in Israel since 1967. Elon died of leukemia on May 25, 2009 in Borgo Buggiano in |
Eilona Ariel
Eilona (Elona) Ariel (Hebrew: אילונה אריאל; born 1958) is a documentary filmmaker. Early life Ariel was born in 1958 in Israel as Eilona Frenkel. Career In 1978 she moved to New York City and spent nine years studying and working as a musician and a photographer. In 1980 she received a diploma from the Germain School of Photography in New York City. From 1983 to 1984 she was the Managing Director of the International Production Manual - The Producer’s Masterguide. Between the years of 1987 and 1995 she lived and worked in Asia. In 1995, Ms. Ariel returned to Israel where she established the production company Karuna Films Ltd., together with Ayelet Menahemi. Since then she has produced and co-directed several documentaries, among them the award winning ''Doing Time, Doing Vipassana'' (1997), which made a great impact on prison systems all over the world, and won the Pass Award of The National Council on Crime and Delinquency (USA). In 2005, ''Doing Time, Doin ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Eilon Solan
Eilon Solan () (born 1969) is an Israeli mathematician and professor at the School of Mathematical Sciences of Tel Aviv University. His research focuses on game theory, stochastic processes, and measure theory. Biography Solan obtained a B.Sc. in mathematics and computer science from the Hebrew University of Jerusalem in 1989, and an M.Sc. in mathematics from Tel Aviv University in 1993. He completed his doctorate at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem in 1998 under the supervision of Abraham Neyman, with a dissertation on stochastic games. Scientific career Solan was one of the inventors of CAPTCHA in 1997, along with Eran Reshef and Gili Raanan Gili Raanan (born 1969) is an Israeli venture capitalist and one of the inventors of CAPTCHA (US patent application with 1997 priority date ), the WAF (web application firewall) and many other inventions in the fields of application security and ..... Solan has 12 research papers joint with his son, Omri Nisan Solan. Some of these we ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Elon James White
Elon James WhiteBlackweblogawards.com ''Past Winners: The Black Weblog Awards'' (born October 16, 1978) is a media creator, journalist, and CEO of This Week in Blackness. White was born in . He is the founder and editor in chief of This Week in BlacknessThisweekinblackness.com ''About Elon James White'' and the Black Comedy Experiment. [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Elon Reeve Musk
Elon Reeve Musk ( ; born June 28, 1971) is a business magnate and investor. He is the founder, CEO and chief engineer of SpaceX; angel investor, CEO and product architect of Tesla, Inc.; owner and CEO of Twitter, Inc.; founder of The Boring Company; co-founder of Neuralink and OpenAI; and president of the philanthropic Musk Foundation. With an estimated net worth of around $139 billion as of December 23, 2022, primarily from his ownership stakes in Tesla and SpaceX, Musk is the second-wealthiest person in the world according to both the ''Bloomberg Billionaires Index'' and ''Forbes'' real-time billionaires list. Musk was born in Pretoria, South Africa and briefly attended at the University of Pretoria before moving to Canada at age 18, acquiring citizenship through his Canadian-born mother. Two years later, he matriculated at Queen's University and transferred to the University of Pennsylvania, where he received bachelor's degrees in economics and physics. He moved to ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Elon Lindenstrauss
Elon Lindenstrauss ( he, אילון לינדנשטראוס, born August 1, 1970) is an Israeli mathematician, and a winner of the 2010 Fields Medal. Since 2004, he has been a professor at Princeton University. In 2009, he was appointed to Professor at the Mathematics Institute at the Hebrew University. Biography Lindenstrauss was born into an Israeli-Jewish family with German Jewish origins. He was also born into a mathematical family, the son of the mathematician Joram Lindenstrauss, the namesake of the Johnson–Lindenstrauss lemma, and computer scientist Naomi Lindenstrauss, both professors at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. His sister Ayelet Lindenstrauss is also a mathematician. He attended the Hebrew University Secondary School. In 1988 he was awarded a bronze medal at the International Mathematical Olympiad. He enlisted to the IDF's Talpiot program, and studied at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, where he earned his BSc in Mathematics and Physics in 1991 and his m ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Elon Lages Lima
Elon Lages Lima (July 9, 1929 – May 7, 2017) was a Brazilian mathematician whose research concerned differential topology, algebraic topology, and differential geometry. Lima was an influential figure in the development of mathematics in Brazil. Lima was professor emeritus at Instituto Nacional de Matemática Pura e Aplicada of which he was the director during three separate periods. Lima has been twice recipient of the Prêmio Jabuti from the '' Câmara Brasileira do Livro'', for his textbooks ''Espaços Métricos'' and ''Álgebra Linear'', and of the Anísio Teixeira Prize from the Ministry of Education and Sports. His mathematical style was heavily influenced by Bourbaki's. Biography He began his career as a high school teacher in Fortaleza, Ceará. Lima graduated with a bachelor's degree in mathematics from the Universidade do Brasil (today UFRJ) in 1953. He obtained his doctorate in 1958 from the University of Chicago with Edwin Henry Spanier as advisor. He is a former ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
