Ziv ( he, זיו) is a
Hebrew language
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 ...
word and name meaning "light" or "glow" and may refer to:
People
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Abraham Ziv (1940–2013), Israeli mathematician
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Amitai Ziv, (born 1958), Israeli physician
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Asaiah Ziv
Aaron Rivera (born July 17, 1996), who goes by the stage name Asaiah Ziv (pronounced: Uh-sy-uh Zihv). Rivera, formerly known as KIDD, is an American hip hop musician. His first studio album, ''Murder My Flesh'', was released by Christian hip ...
(born 1996), American hip hop musician
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Frederick Ziv
Frederick William Ziv (August 17, 1905 – October 13, 2001, Cincinnati, Ohio) was an American broadcasting producer and syndicator who was considered as the father of television first-run syndication and once operated the nation's largest indepe ...
(1905–2001), American broadcasting producer, founder of
Ziv Television Programs
Ziv Television Programs, Inc. was an American production company that specialized in productions for first-run television syndication in the 1950s.
History
The company was founded by Frederick Ziv in 1948 and was a subsidiary of his successful ...
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Imri Ziv
Imri Ziv ( he, אימרי זיו; born 12 September 1991), also known as IMRI, is an Israeli singer and voice actor. After winning ''HaKokhav HaBa'', he represented Israel in the Eurovision Song Contest 2017 in Kyiv with the song "I Feel Alive" pl ...
(born 1991), Israeli singer and actor
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Jacob Ziv
Jacob Ziv ( he, יעקב זיו; born 1931) is an Israeli electrical engineer who, along with Abraham Lempel, developed the LZ family of lossless data compression algorithms.
Biography
Ziv was born in Tiberias, British mandate Palestine, on 27 ...
(born 1931), Israeli computer scientist
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Simcha Zissel Ziv
Simcha Zissel Ziv Broida ( he, שמחה זיסל זיו; 1824–1898), also known as Simhah Zissel Ziv or the ''Alter of Kelm'' (the Elder of Kelm), was one of the foremost students of Yisrael Salanter and one of the early leaders of the Musar m ...
(1824–1898), Russian rabbi and a leader of the
Musar movement
The Musar movement (also Mussar movement) is a Jewish ethical, educational and cultural movement that developed in 19th century Lithuania, particularly among Orthodox Lithuanian Jews. The Hebrew term (), is adopted from the Book of Proverbs (1 ...
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Yiftach Ziv
Yiftach Ziv ( he, יפתח זיו; born July 9, 1995) is an Israeli professional basketball player for Maccabi Tel Aviv of the Israeli Premier League and the EuroLeague. Standing at , he plays at the point guard position.
Early life
Ziv was bor ...
(born 1995), Israeli basketball player
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Yitzhak Ziv (born 1937), Israeli politician
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Yoav Ziv (born 1981), Israeli football player
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Ziv Bar-Joseph
Ziv Bar-Joseph is an Israeli computational biologist and Professor in the Computational Biology Department and the Machine Learning Department at the Carnegie Mellon School of Computer Science.
Education
Bar-Joseph studied computer science at Bac ...
(born 1971), Israeli computational biologist
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Ziv Better (born 1965), Israeli swimmer
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Ziv Kalontarov
Ziv Kalontarov (also "Kalontorov", "Kaluntarov", and "Kalntrov"; he, זיו קלונטרוב; born 15 January 1997) is an Israeli Olympic swimmer and the reigning European Games champion in the 50 m freestyle.
In April 2015, Kalontarov won the ...
(born 1997), Israeli swimmer
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Ziv Koren
Ziv Koren (born July 13, 1970) ( he, זיו קורן) is an Israeli photojournalist, a Canon EMEA ambassador and a representative of "Polaris Images" photo agency. Koren is most noted for documenting the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, the IDF oper ...
(born 1970), Israeli photojournalist
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Ziv Rubinstein (born 1970), Israeli musician
Places
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Neve Ziv, also known as Ziv HaGalil, a community settlement in northern Israel
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Ziv Medical Center
Rebecca Sieff Hospital (also Ziv Medical Center) ( he, בית החולים רבקה זיו) is a general hospital in Safed, Israel that serves the residents of Safed, the Upper Galilee and the northern Golan Heights. Sieff Hospital has 310 beds and ...
, or Rebecca Sieff Hospital, a hospital in Safed, Israel
Other uses
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Iyar
Iyar ( he, אִייָר or , Standard ''ʾĪyyar'' Tiberian ''ʾĪyyār''; from akk, 𒌗 𒄞 itiayari " rosette; blossom") is the eighth month of the civil year (which starts on 1 Tishrei) and the second month of the Jewish religious year (w ...
, a Hebrew month, called Ziv in the Bible
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Ziv Television Programs
Ziv Television Programs, Inc. was an American production company that specialized in productions for first-run television syndication in the 1950s.
History
The company was founded by Frederick Ziv in 1948 and was a subsidiary of his successful ...
, an American company that produced syndicated television programs.
* Zeiss Ikon Voigtländer (ZIV), a unit of Carl Zeiss AG that was responsible for developing and marketing the
Icarex line of SLR cameras (1966–72)
See also
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Ziwa (Aramaic)
Ziwa is an Aramaic term that is typically translated as 'radiance' or 'splendor.' It is frequently used as an epithet for celestial beings and manifestations of God in Gnostic religions such as Mandaeism and Manichaeism.
The Hebrew cognate is '' z ...
(Aramaic cognate)
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