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
Abraham Ziv (–) was an Israeli mathematician, known for his contributions to the Zero-sum problem as one of the discoverers of the Erdős–Ginzburg–Ziv theorem.
Biography
Abraham Zubkowski (later Ziv) was born in Avihayil to Haim and Zila Z ...
(1940–2013), Israeli mathematician
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Amitai Ziv
Amitai Ziv, MD, MHA ( he, אֲמִתַּי זיו; born 29 July 1958) is an Israeli physician, professor of Medical Education at Tel Aviv University, Deputy Director of the Sheba Medical Center at Tel Hashomer, founder and Director of MSR - The ...
, (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 indepen ...
(1905–2001), American broadcasting producer, founder of
Ziv Television Programs
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Imri Ziv (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 (1824–1898), Russian rabbi and a leader of the
Musar movement
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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
Yitzhak Ziv ( he, יצחק זיו, born 11 November 1937) is an Israeli politician who served as a member of the Knesset for Gil between 2006 and 2009.
Biography
Born in Tel Aviv during the Mandate era, Ziv today lives in Ramat Gan, and is wido ...
(born 1937), Israeli politician
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Yoav Ziv
Yoav David Ziv ( he, יואב זיו; born 16 March 1981) is a retired Israeli footballer. He is currently the first team manager in Maccabi Tel Aviv. As a player he could perform on either flank of the formation, usually attacking from defence ...
(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
Ziv Better ( he, זיו בטר) is an Israeli swimmer.
Better was born in Kibbutz Lehavot HaBashan. During his military service with the Israel Defense Forces (IDF] he served as an officer in Golani Brigade. Better was injured by a mine while ...
(born 1965), Israeli swimmer
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Ziv Kalontarov (born 1997), Israeli swimmer
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Ziv Koren (born 1970), Israeli photojournalist
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Ziv Rubinstein
Ziv Rubinstein ( he, זיו רובינשטיין) is an Israeli composer, songwriter and television producer.
Biography
Ziv Rubinstein was born and raised in Tel Aviv, Israel. He learned how to play the guitar at the age of eleven. When he was ...
(born 1970), Israeli musician
Places
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Neve Ziv
Neve Ziv ( he, נְוֵה זִיו, ''lit.'' Brightness Home), also known as Ziv HaGalil ( he, זִיו הַגָּלִיל, ''lit.'' Brightness of the Galilee) is a community settlement in northern Israel. Located east of Nahariya, it falls under ...
, 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, a Hebrew month, called Ziv in the Bible
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Ziv Television Programs, an American company that produced syndicated television programs.
See also
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Ziwa (Aramaic) (Aramaic cognate)
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