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Zahava Seewald
Zehava or Zahava (Hebrew: זֶהָבָה) is a Hebrew feminine given name that may refer to * Zehava Ben (born 1968), Israeli vocalist *Zahava Burack (1932–2001), American philanthropist * Zahava Elenberg, Australian architect *Zehava Gal, Israeli-born operatic mezzo-soprano * Zehava Gal-On (born 1956), Israeli politician *Zehava Shmueli Zehava Shmueli ( he, זהבה שמואלי; born May 19, 1955) is a retired long-distance runner from Israel. She competed for her native country at the 1984 Summer Olympics in Los Angeles, California Los Angeles ( ; es, Los Ángeles, lin ... (born 1955), Israeli long-distance runner {{Given name Hebrew feminine given names Feminine given names ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Zehava Ben
Zehava Ben (born Zehava Benisti; he, זהבה בן; November 8, 1968) is an Israeli singer. Ben is one of the most popular Israeli female vocalists in the Mizrahi music genre; the Middle Eastern-style of singing rising from Israel's Mizrahi Jewish population, dominating Israeli music in the 1990s and popular ever since. Early life Ben was born Zehava Benisti in Beersheba, the capital city of the Negev in Southern Israel, in Shikun Dalet (Neighborhood D), a poor neighborhood, to a Moroccan Jewish family. She has an identical twin sister named Esther 'Etti' Levy who is also a musician. Zehava is very proud of her Moroccan heritage, and most of her music is quite distinctive of that, singing both in Hebrew and Moroccan Arabic. Music career Zehava became familiar in Israel in 1989, when a song and album called "Tipat Mazal" (A Bit of Luck), became a hit throughout Israel, primarily among Israel's Mizrahi Jews (Jews of Middle Eastern and North African backgrounds) and Arab Israelis. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Zahava Burack
Zahava Burack (née Radza, December 14, 1932 – September 28, 2001) was a Jewish Holocaust survivor from Poland who went on to become a well-known philanthropist, community leader and political activist in the United States. During her childhood, she survived the Holocaust by hiding with her family in a crawlspace beneath the home of a Polish Catholic family for two and a half years. After the liberation of occupied Poland in 1945, she was smuggled to Israel, where she lived for twelve years, two of which she spent serving with the Haganah paramilitary organization. In 1958, Burack moved to the United States, where she worked with both American and Israeli politicians for Jewish causes. Surviving the Holocaust Zahava Burack was born in 1932 in the shtetl of Nowy Korczyn, Poland, to Louis and Gitla Radza. Louis was a juice manufacturer. Burack had three sisters, Rita, Miriam and Sarah. In 1942, at the age of 9, Burack, her parents, and her sisters Miriam and Sarah were forced ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Zahava Elenberg
Zahava Elenberg is an Australian architect. She co-founded Melbourne-based architecture practice Elenberg Fraser and is the founder of turn-key accommodation fit out and interior furnishing company Move-in. Early years Zahava is the daughter of Anna Schwartz and artist Joel Elenberg (deceased). She is the step daughter of publisher and developer Morry Schwartz. Zahava attended Preshil, The Margaret Lyttle Memorial School and has been a Director of the Preshil School Council and the Preshil School Foundation. She completed a Bachelor of Architecture at RMIT University and graduated in 1998 with first class honours. As a child, Zahava was photographed by Melbourne artist Bill Henson and spoke out in support of the artistic value of his work when it was seized by NSW police after a complaint by a child protection campaigner. Career In 1998 Zahava Co-founded Elenberg Fraser Architecture with Callum Fraser, and has risen to prominence in the Australian design scene. Now with ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Zehava Gal
Zehava Gal ( he, זֶהָבָה גַּל) is an Israeli-born operatic mezzo-soprano. Zehava Gal has sung leading roles in both European and North American opera houses and festivals, including La Scala, the Vienna Staatsoper, the Paris Opera, and the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden, as well as at the Salzburg Easter Festival, Glyndebourne Opera Festival, and the Rossini Opera Festival in Pesaro. She also sang the title role in Peter Brook's 1983 film, ''La Tragedie de Carmen''. Her concert performances include the world premiere of Benjamin Lees' Symphony No. 4, ''Memorial Candles'' for mezzo-soprano, violin and orchestra (Dallas Symphony Orchestra, 10 October 1985), In 1994, she became an adjunct associate professor of voice at Westminster Choir College of Rider University, however as of 2021, she no longer works at the Institution. Discography Zehava Gal's recordings include: *Antonio Salieri: ''Tarare'' – Recorded at the Schwetzingen Festival, 1988 (DVD). Label: EuroArts ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Zehava Gal-On
Zehava Gal-On ( he, זֶהָבָה גַּלְאוֹן; born 4 January 1956) is an Israeli politician, serving as a member of the Knesset from 1999 to 2017. She was the chairwoman of the Meretz political party from 2012 to 2018 and again since 2022. Biography Zlata Shnipitskaya (Hebraization of surnames, later Zehava Gal-On) was born in 1956 in Vilnius in the Soviet Union (now in Lithuania). She aliyah, immigrated at age four to Israel in 1960 with her parents: father Aryeh (born 30 December 1925), a plumber for a subsidiary of Solel Boneh (a construction company), and mother, Yaffa (19 February 1923 – 10 March 2012), a teacher. They lived in a ma'abara transit camp and eventually moved to a housing project in Petah Tikva."Meretz leader Zaha ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Zehava Shmueli
Zehava Shmueli ( he, זהבה שמואלי; born May 19, 1955) is a retired long-distance runner from Israel. She competed for her native country at the 1984 Summer Olympics in Los Angeles, California Los Angeles ( ; es, Los Ángeles, link=no , ), often referred to by its initials L.A., is the largest city in the state of California and the second most populous city in the United States after New York City, as well as one of the world' .... There she ended up in 30th place out of 50 competitors in the women's marathon. Shmueli set her personal best in the classic distance (2:40.29) in 1983. Achievements References sports-reference 1955 births Living people Israeli female long-distance runners Olympic athletes of Israel Athletes (track and field) at the 1984 Summer Olympics Israeli female marathon runners World Athletics Championships athletes for Israel Israeli people of Iraqi-Jewish descent {{Israel-athletics-bio-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Hebrew Feminine Given Names
Hebrew (; ; ) is a Northwest Semitic language of the Afroasiatic language family. Historically, it is one of the spoken languages of the Israelites and their longest-surviving descendants, the Jews and Samaritans. It was largely preserved throughout history as the main liturgical language of Judaism (since the Second Temple period) and Samaritanism. Hebrew is the only Canaanite language still spoken today, and serves as the only truly successful example of a dead language that has been revived. It is also one of only two Northwest Semitic languages still in use, with the other being Aramaic. The earliest examples of written Paleo-Hebrew date back to the 10th century BCE. Nearly all of the Hebrew Bible is written in Biblical Hebrew, with much of its present form in the dialect that scholars believe flourished around the 6th century BCE, during the time of the Babylonian captivity. For this reason, Hebrew has been referred to by Jews as '' Lashon Hakodesh'' (, ) since an ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
