Ben-Zvi is a Jewish surname of
Hebrew
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 ...
origin, meaning "''son of
deer''", and may refer to:
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David Ben-Zvi
David Dror Ben-Zvi is an American mathematician, currently the Joe B. and Louise Cook Professor of Mathematics at University of Texas at Austin.
Ben-Zvi earned his Ph.D. from Harvard University in 1999, with a dissertation entitled ''Spectral Cur ...
(born 1974), Israeli-American mathematician
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Eva Ben-Zvi (b. 1947), Lithuania-born Israeli soprano
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Rachel Yanait Ben-Zvi
Rachel Yanait Ben-Zvi ( he, רחל ינאית בן-צבי; 1886 – 16 November 1979) was an Israeli author and educator, and a leading Labor Zionist. Ben-Zvi was the wife of the second President of Israel, Yitzhak Ben-Zvi.
Biography
Rachel Yana ...
(1886–1979), Israeli educator, organizer and author
* Shaul Ben-Zvi, the Israeli name of
Paul Shulman, former chief of the Israel Navy
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Tova Ben Zvi
Tova Ben Zvi (born 1928) is an Israeli singer. She is also a survivor of the Holocaust.
Biography
Ben Zvi was born in Łódź where she lived in the ghetto. Her father was a Jewish cantor. After the ghetto began to be emptied, she was sent to ...
(born 1928), Israeli singer
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Yitzhak Ben-Zvi
Yitzhak Ben-Zvi ( he, יִצְחָק בֶּן־צְבִי ''Yitshak Ben-Tsvi''; 24 November 188423 April 1963) was a historian, Labor Zionism, Labor Zionist leader and the longest-serving President of Israel.
Biography
Born in Poltava in the ...
(1884–1963), President of Israel
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Zeev Ben-Zvi (1904–1952), Israeli sculptor
See also
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Zvi (disambiguation)
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Jewish surnames
Hebrew-language surnames