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Gila (given Name)
Gila is a feminine given name which is borne by: * Gila Almagor (born 1939), Israeli actress * Gila Finkelstein (born 1950), Israeli former politician * Gila Gamliel (born 1974), Israeli politician * Gila Golan (born 1940), Polish-born actress who immigrated to Israel in the 1950s * Gila Goldstein (1947–2017), Israeli actress, singer and transgender rights activist * Gila Hanna, Canadian mathematics educator and philosopher of mathematics * Gila Katsav (born 1948), Israel's first lady (2000–2007) * Gila Martow (born 1961), Canadian politician * Gila von Weitershausen Baroness Gila von Weitershausen (; born March 21, 1944) is a German actress. Born in Trebnitz (today Trzebnica), Lower Silesia, Germany (today Poland) into an aristocratic family, she has three brothers and two sisters and is the great-granddaugh ... (born 1944), German actress {{given name Feminine given names ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Gila Almagor
Gila Almagor Agmon ( he, גילה אלמגור אגמון; born Gila Alexandrowitz; July 22, 1939) is an Israeli actress, film star, and author. In Israel, she is known as "queen of the Israeli cinema and theatre". Biography Gila Alexandrowitz (Almagor) was born in Petah Tikva to Jewish emigrant parents from Europe. Her German-Jewish father Max Alexandrowitz was killed by an Arab sniper while working as a policeman in Haifa four months before she was born. Her mother Chaya was from a Polish Orthodox Jewish family. Almagor grew up caring for her mother, who was slowly losing her sanity after realising that all her family in Europe had been murdered in the Holocaust. When her mother was institutionalized in 1954, Almagor was sent to Hadassim youth village. Two years later, she moved to Tel Aviv, rented a room near Habima Theatre, and applied to acting school. Although she was underage, she was accepted. At the age of 17, Almagor debuted in Habima's production of ''The Skin of Ou ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Gila Finkelstein
Gila Finkelstein ( he, גילה פינקלשטיין, born 22 September 1950) is an Israeli former politician who served as a member of the Knesset for the National Religious Party between 2003 and 2006. Biography Born Gila Margil in 1950 in Tel Aviv, Finkelstein studied at the "Dizengoff" religious state elementary school and then at Zeitlin High School in the city, before studying English and Israeli history at Tel Aviv University, where she gained a BA and a teaching certificate. She went on to gain an MA in educational management, and work as an English teacher and headmistress. In 2003 she was elected to the Knesset on the National Religious Party list, and was appointed a Deputy Speaker of the Knesset. Finkelstein was also chairwoman of the subcommittee for Learning Disabilities, and a member of the Education, Culture and Sports committee, the committee on the Status of Women, and the committee on the Rights of the Child. For the 2006 elections The following elections o ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Gila Gamliel
Gila Gamliel (; born 24 February 1974) is an Israeli politician who currently serves as the Minister of Intelligence and as a member of the Knesset for Likud. She also previously served as Minister for Social Equality and as Minister of Environmental Protection. Early life and education Gamliel was born in Gedera, Israel. Her father Yosef Gameliel was born to a Yemenite Jewish family, and her mother Aliza was born to a Libyan Jewish family. Both her parents immigrated to Israel. Gamliel studied at the Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, where she was awarded a BA in Middle Eastern history and philosophy, and an MA in philosophy. During her time as a student, she was elected chairwoman of the university's student union. She was controversially re-elected to the post after her boyfriend, Sagiv Assulin, had removed members who opposed Gamliel's candidacy from the association's steering council. She also served as the first woman chair of the National Students' Association, a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Gila Golan
Gila Golan ( he, גילה גולן; born 1940, originally Zosia Zawadzka) is an Israeli former fashion model and actress. Biography Golan was born in Kraków, Poland, around 1940. Her exact birthday is unknown, as she was hidden from the Nazis at a young age, but she has adopted the date of December 30, 1940, as her birthday. A Catholic family found her left in a bundle at a train station during the Holocaust, and adopted her during the war. Her adopted family named her Zoshia Zavatski. After the war, she went to a home for 'lost' Jewish children. Arriving in Israel in 1951, with the name Zusia Sobetzcki, she became Miriam Goldenberg and continued her schooling in an Orthodox girls' boarding school. Within a few years she had joined a Kibbutz and was studying to be a teacher. She was spotted by an American photographer and later appeared in the Israeli women's magazine '' LaIsha''. Her new fame landed her a spot in the 1960 national fashion competition, where she won first place ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Gila Goldstein
Gila Goldstein ( he, גילה גולדשטיין; 18 December 1947– 5 February 2017) was an Israeli sex worker, actress, singer and transgender rights activist. She was one of the first activists of the Aguda, the oldest and largest LGBT organization in Israel. She is considered Israel's second openly transgender woman (after Rina Natan) and is one of the most prominent icons of the LGBTQIA+ movement in Israel. Biography Gila Goldstein was born in Turin and assigned male at birth. After immigrating to Israel, she lived in Haifa. Goldstein realized she was transgender in 1960 and changed her name to Gila. She engaged in survival sex in Haifa before having gender affirming surgery in Belgium in 1965 – the first officially documented gender affirming surgery for an Israeli. In the early 1970s, Goldstein lived in Europe and worked as a dancer and striptease performer. When she returned to Israel, she performed in nightclubs and bars, including Bar 51. She served as the prototype ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Gila Hanna
Gila Hanna is a Canadian mathematics educator and philosopher of mathematics whose research interests include the nature and educational role of mathematical proofs, and gender in mathematics education. She is professor emerita in the Department of Curriculum, Teaching and Learning at the University of Toronto, affiliated with the Ontario Institute for Studies in Education, the former director of mathematics education at the Fields Institute, and the founder of the ''Canadian Journal of Mathematics, Science and Technology Education''. Books Hanna is the author of ''Contact and Communication: An Evaluation of Bilingual Student Exchange Programs'' (OISE Press, 1980) and ''Rigorous Proof in Mathematics Education'' (OISE Press, 1983). Her numerous edited volumes include: *''Creativity, Thought and Mathematical Proof'' (edited with Ian Winchester, 1990) *''Towards Gender Equity in Mathematics Education'' (1996) *''Proof Technology in Mathematics Research and Teaching'' (edited with ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Gila Katsav
Gila Katsav ( he, גילה קצב, born 1948) is an Israeli public figure who served as the First Lady of Israel from 2000 until 2007 as the wife of former President Moshe Katsav. Biography Gila Katsav was born in Tel Aviv. She is of Polish-Jewish and Ukrainian-Jewish ancestry. One of her grandfathers was among the founders of Bnei Brak. In 1969, she married Moshe Katsav. The couple has five children, four sons and a daughter, and two grandchildren. Katsav is involved in personal volunteer activities for children who come from disadvantaged families as part of the efforts of “The Council for the Sheltered Child. She also volunteered for the Rehabilitation Department of Yad Sarah, a voluntary organization which specializes in providing home care and lending medical equipment without charge. Katsav served as the First Lady of Israel from 2000 until 2007 during the tenure of her husband. In May 2005, Katsav led U.S. First Lady Laura Bush on a tour of the Yad Vashem and a contro ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Gila Martow
Gila Deborah Gladstone-Martow ( Gladstone; born June 5, 1961) is a politician in Ontario, Canada. She has represented Ward 5 on Vaughan City Council since 2022. She previously represented the electoral district of Thornhill in the Legislative Assembly of Ontario as a member of the Ontario Progressive Conservative Party from 2014 to 2022. Martow did not seek re-election in the 2022 Ontario general election after unsuccessfully seeking the federal Conservative nomination in 2021. Martow returned to municipal politics in her successful election bid in the 2022 Vaughan Municipal Election. Background Originally from Chomedey, Quebec, Martow was an optometrist. She and her husband, an ophthalmologist, jointly ran an eye clinic at the Markham Stouffville Hospital.. Martow's maternal grandparents lived on a kibbutz organized by the Hashomer Hatzair Marxist-Zionist youth movement in the early 1930s in Mandatory Palestine (later to become Israel). Martow attended the socialist moveme ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Gila Von Weitershausen
Baroness Gila von Weitershausen (; born March 21, 1944) is a German actress. Born in Trebnitz (today Trzebnica), Lower Silesia, Germany (today Poland) into an aristocratic family, she has three brothers and two sisters and is the great-granddaughter of former Chancellor of Germany, German Chancellor Georg von Hertling, Georg Graf von Hertling. Gila von Weitershausen became popular in the late 1960s when she appeared in German comedy films, for example alongside Uschi Glas. One of the films from that period about Swinging Sixties Bavaria, ', gave her the nickname ''Engelchen'' ("Little Angel"), which was used by the tabloid press for decades. In one of her best-known roles, she played a prostitute in the 1971 film ''Murmur of the Heart''. She also appeared several times as "Rowena" in the British TV series ''Arthur of the Britons''. By common consensus one of her best performances was in ''Circle of Deceit (1981 film), Circle of Deceit'' (1981), a film directed by Volker Schlöndor ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
