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Leeor Shimron
Lior ( he, ליאור) is a Jewish given name which means "my light" in Hebrew. Alternative spellings include Leeor, Leor, and Lyor. A female variant is Leora. Lior may refer to the following persons: * Lior, Israeli-born Australian singer-songwriter * Lior Arditti (born 1977), Israeli basketball player * Lior Ashkenazi, Israeli actor * Lior Asulin, Israeli football player * Lior Ben-David, Israeli professional wrestler * Lior Eliyahu (born 1985), Israeli basketball player * Lior Giterman (born 1993), Israeli-American investor * Lior Jan, Israeli football (soccer) player * Lior Lubin (born 1979), Israeli basketball player and coach * Lior Mor (born 1976), Israeli tennis player * Lior Narkis, Israeli singer who represented Israel in the Eurovision Song Contest 2003 * Lior Perlmutter, member of the Israeli Goa trance group Astral Projection * Lior Rafaelov, Israeli football (soccer) player * Lior Raz (born 1971), Israeli actor and screenwriter * Lior Rosner, composer, primarily of ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Given Name
A given name (also known as a forename or first name) is the part of a personal name quoted in that identifies a person, potentially with a middle name as well, and differentiates that person from the other members of a group (typically a family or clan) who have a common surname. The term ''given name'' refers to a name usually bestowed at or close to the time of birth, usually by the parents of the newborn. A ''Christian name'' is the first name which is given at baptism, in Christian custom. In informal situations, given names are often used in a familiar and friendly manner. In more formal situations, a person's surname is more commonly used. The idioms 'on a first-name basis' and 'being on first-name terms' refer to the familiarity inherent in addressing someone by their given name. By contrast, a surname (also known as a family name, last name, or ''gentile name, gentile'' name) is normally inherited and shared with other members of one's immediate family. Regnal names ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Astral Projection (band)
Astral Projection is an Israeli electronic musical group, producing psychedelic trance and Goa trance music. Its current members are Avi Nissim and Lior Perlmutter. Although the majority of their releases have been done through their own record company, Trust in Trance Records (which later merged with Phonokol), they have also released records with other labels including Transient. In addition to an extensive discography, the group has an extensive worldwide touring schedule. Astral Projection's most well known tracks include hits such as "Kabalah", "People Can Fly", "Mahadeva" and "Dancing Galaxy". History A precursor to Astral Projection, 'SFX' (abbreviation of 'sound effects'), was formed in Israel in 1989 and originally consisted of Avi Nissim and Lior Perlmutter. They released a hit single in 1991 named "Monster Mania", which prompted them to start working on an album. Work was halted when they decided to travel to New York City and try their luck there. While Avi soon went ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Leor Energy
Leor Energy was a company engaged in hydrocarbon exploration, primarily in East Texas. It was based in Houston. It sold most of its assets to Encana (now Ovintiv) in November 2007 for $2.55 billion and, in September 2015, the company was acquired by Comancheria Energy Resources. History Thomas Kaplan and Guma Aguiar founded Leor in 2003. Kaplan, Aguiar's uncle, took the role of Chairman. He was formerly the chairman of Apex Silver Mines. While Aguiar did not have experience in the petroleum industry, he met with geologist John Amoruso and acquired 30,000 acres of leasehold interests in East Texas in 2003. In July 2005, Leor and EnCana (now Ovintiv) entered into an agreement to explore and develop Leor's Amoruso Prospect in Robertson County, Texas whereby Encana acquired a 30% interest in the joint venture, increased to 50% in June 2006. In November 2005, Leor closed a $30.0 million senior secured note financing from Amaranth Advisors. In January 2006, Leor closed a $45.0 million ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lyor Cohen
Lyor Cohen born October 3, 1959) is an American record executive and entrepreneur. Cohen has been actively involved in hip hop at various record labels for more than 30 years. He started by managing rappers for Rush Productions, then led Def Jam.Roberts, Johnnie L."Rap's Unlikely King" The Daily Beast, ''Newsweek'', January 31, 2000 After Def Jam, Cohen took on a leadership role at Warner Music Group. In September 2012, Cohen resigned from Warner and started his own independent label, 300 Entertainment. On September 28, 2016, Cohen was named YouTube's Global Head of Music. Early life Born in New York, Cohen grew up in Los Angeles. In 1981, he earned a degree in global marketing and finance from the University of Miami School of Business at the University of Miami. After graduating from the University of Miami, he worked briefly in the Beverly Hills office of Bank Leumi. Music career Rush Productions / Rush Artist Management Late in 1984, after promoting a pair of rock and ra ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Leor Weinberger
Leor S. Weinberger is an American virologist and quantitative biologist. He is credited with discovering the HIV virus latency circuit, which provided the first experimental evidence that stochastic fluctuations ('noise') in gene expression are used for cell fate decisions. He has also pioneered the concept of therapeutic interfering particles, or “TIPs”, which are resistance-proof antivirals. His TED talk on this novel antiviral approach 20 years in the making has been called a "highlight" of TED and received a standing ovation from the live audience. Weinberger is currently the William and Ute Bowes Distinguished Professor of Virology, director of the Gladstone Center for Cell Circuitry, professor of pharmaceutical chemistry, and professor of biochemistry and biophysics at Gladstone Institutes/University of California, San Francisco He is the only person to ever win the NIH Director’s Pioneer Award, NIH/NIDA Avant Garde Award, and NIH Director's New Innovator Award. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Leor Dimant
Leor Dimant ( lv, Leors Dimants, russian: Леор Григорьевич Димант, ; born December 18, 1972), better known as DJ Lethal, is a Latvian-American turntablist and producer and is best known as a member of the groups House of Pain and Limp Bizkit. Early life Leor Dimant was born to a Latvian-Jewish family in Riga, when it was part of the Soviet Union. His first contact with music was through his father Grisha Dimant (1951–2007), who, along with his friends, played guitar in a rock band. In 1976 when Dimant was four, he and his family emigrated to Italy, where they remained for a year until they obtained a visa. His parents chose to move to the New York area. There, his father performed in various Russian clubs and restaurants, mostly in Brighton Beach. Dimant and his parents lived in Jersey City, New Jersey for some time. They moved to Los Angeles in 1987, where his father got a job at a new Russian restaurant. His first introduction to hip-hop was in Jers ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lior Suchard
Lior Suchard ( he, ליאור סושרד, ; born 6 December 1981) is an Israeli mentalist and self-described "mystifier" who performs "supernatural entertainment". Early life Suchard was born in Haifa, Israel, as the youngest of three brothers. In an interview, he said that, as a child, he was a quiet math student who was harassed by the more popular children. At a young age, he first performed in front of school children, and at 14 he began to do shows at events and birthdays parties. He is a graduate of the Reali School in Haifa. Early stage career and ''The Successor'' After completing three years of military service as a Patriot fighter in the Israeli Air Force, Suchard began to increase his appearances in Israel. His first national television exposure was on various morning shows. In 2005 he was invited to appear on '' The Successor'' (also known as ''The Next Uri Geller''), Uri Geller's Israeli TV show, which was aired in late 2006. Suchard beat eight other candidates an ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lior Shamriz
Lior Shamriz (born September 13, 1978) is a writer, producer, and film director. They reside in Santa Cruz, California. Career Born to an Iraqi-Iranian Jewish family in Ashkelon, a city in southern Israel, they skipped the army at 18 and moved to Tel Aviv where they began working on collective art publications and computer generated music. They attended the Sam Spiegel Film and Television School until being expelled in 2004. Critical of Zionism and Israeli nationalism in press interviews and in their film work, Shamriz immigrated to Berlin in 2006, pursuing graduate studies at the ''Institute for Time Based Media'' of the Berlin University of the Arts. Dimitri Eipides from the Thessaloniki International Film Festival noted that Shamriz "develops his own écriture, experimenting with form, deconstructing narratives and reconstructing their pieces into something unique, which bears his own personal trademark". Their first long film, '' Japan Japan'' (2006-2007), a micro-budget inde ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lior Schleien
Lior Schleien ( he, ליאור שליין; born 1 July 1978) is an Israeli television producer and host. Early life Lior Schleien was born in 1978 in Tel Aviv, Israel to Jewish parents of Lithuanian descent. He holds law degrees from Tel Aviv University. Career He started his television career in 2002, by writing and hosting a satire segment on Yair Lapid's talk show. He later joined the writing staff of ''Eretz Nehederet'' and since 2004 he's been creating, producing and hosting his own shows, including ''Tonight ("HaLayla")'' which won the Israeli Academy Award for Best Talk Show. He is the creator and host of the prime time comedy and satire TV show '' Matzav Ha'Uma''. President Shimon Peres, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Joan Rivers (in a special episode which was taped in New York), were some of the guests on the show, which won the Israeli Academy Award for Best Comedy Show twice, in 2012–2013, and its 7th season, which ended in April 2014, received average ra ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Power Rangers
''Power Rangers'' is an entertainment and merchandising franchise built around a live-action superhero television series, based on the Japanese tokusatsu franchise ''Super Sentai''. Produced first by Saban Entertainment, second by BVS Entertainment, later by Saban Brands, and today by SCG Power Rangers LLC and its parent company, Hasbro, the ''Power Rangers'' television series takes much of its footage from the ''Super Sentai'' television series, produced by Toei Company. The first ''Power Rangers'' entry, ''Mighty Morphin Power Rangers'', debuted on August 28, 1993, and helped launch the Fox Kids programming block of the 1990s, during which it catapulted into popular culture along with a line of action figures and other toys by Bandai. By 2001, the media franchise had generated over $6 billion in toy sales. Despite initial criticism that its action violence targeted child audiences, the franchise has been commercially successful. As of 2022, ''Power Rangers'' consists ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lior Rosner
Lior Rosner is an Israeli-born film, TV and classical music composer, conductor, and theme branding expert. Rosner created the theme for ''The Ellen DeGeneres Show''. He was a nominee for an International Film Music Critics Association nominee award for “They’ll Remember You” an orchestral accompanied choral showpiece for the end titles from the movie ''Valkyrie''. Early life Born in Israel, Rosner graduated with a degree in music composition and theory graduate from the Jerusalem Academy of Music And Dance He moved from to Los Angeles, where he studied graduate music at UCLA, and conducting at the USC Thornton School of Music. Lior’s film scoring career began as a staff composer at Fox Entertainment, where he provided scores for over 200 episodes of children TV shows and movies. He became a freelance composer, scoring for Disney/ABC. Rosen then created the theme and interstitial music for ''The Ellen DeGeneres Show''. Film and TV scores Rosner's film work includes ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lior Raz
Lior Raz ( he, ליאור רז; born 24 November 1971) is an Israeli actor and screenwriter. He is best known for portraying Doron Kabilio in the political thriller television series '' Fauda'' and Segev Azulai in '' Hit & Run''. Early life Raz was born in Ma'ale Adumim, a town of 40,000 inhabitants seven kilometers from Jerusalem, where he grew up as well. His parents immigrated to Israel from Iraq and Algeria."How Do You Make a TV Show Set in the West Bank?", ''The New Yorker''.">"Lior Raz Archives", ''Jewish Journal''. His father served i ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
