Zvi ( he, צְבִי and , ''Tzvi'', Ṣvi, "gazelle") is a

Jewish Jews ( he, יְהוּדִים, , ) or Jewish people are an ethnoreligious group and nation originating from the Israelites Israelite origins and kingdom: "The first act in the long drama of Jewish history is the age of the Israelites""The ...

masculine given name. Notable people with this name include: *

Zvi Aharoni Zvi Aharoni ( he, צבי אהרוני; 6 February 1921 – 26 May 2012) was an Israeli Mossad agent instrumental in the capture of Adolf Eichmann. Biography Hermann Arndt (later Zvi Aharoni) was born in Frankfurt an der Oder, Germany. He imm ...

(1921–2012), Israeli Mossad agent * Zvi Arad (1942–2018), Israeli mathematician, acting president of Bar-Ilan University, president of

Netanya Academic College Netanya Academic College ( he, האקדמית נתניה, ''HaAkademit Netanya'') is a private college based in Netanya, Israel. Established in 1994 by a team from Bar-Ilan University, it has an enrolment of around 4,000 undergraduate students. It ...

Zvi Ben-Avraham Zvi Ben-Avraham (born 16 November 1941) is an Israeli earth scientist, specializing in geophysics of the Mediterranean Sea and the Dead Sea Transform. He is currently a professor of Geophysics at Tel Aviv University. Ben-Avraham was awarded the I ...

(born 1941), Israeli geophysicist *

Zvi Bodie Zvi Bodie (born April 27, 1943) is an American economist, author and professor. He was the Norman and Adele Barron Professor of Management at Boston University, teaching finance at Questrom for 43 years before retiring in 2015. His textbook, ''I ...

, American academic * Zvi Hirsch Chajes (1805–1855), Orthodox Polish rabbi * Zvi Chalamish, Israeli financier * Zvi Elpeleg (1926–2015), Israeli academic *

Zvi Galil Zvi Galil ( he, צבי גליל; born June 26, 1947) is an Israeli-American computer scientist and mathematician. Galil served as the President of Tel Aviv University from 2007 through 2009. From 2010 to 2019, he was the dean of the Georgia Instit ...

(born 1947), Israeli computer scientist, mathematician, and President of

Tel Aviv University Tel Aviv University (TAU) ( he, אוּנִיבֶרְסִיטַת תֵּל אָבִיב, ''Universitat Tel Aviv'') is a public research university in Tel Aviv, Israel. With over 30,000 students, it is the largest university in the country. Locate ...

* Zvika Greengold (born 1952), Israeli officer during the Yom Kippur War, awarded the Medal of Valor * Zvi Griliches (1930–1999), Jewish-American economist *

Zvi Hirsch Grodzinsky Rabbi Zvi Hirsch Grodzinsky (1857? in Minsk, Belarus – 1947 in Omaha, Nebraska, Omaha, Nebraska, United States) was an American Orthodox Judaism, Orthodox rabbi and author. His English name was Henry. Biography Zvi Hirsch studied under his ...

(born 1857), American rabbi *

Zvi Elimelech Halberstam Zvi Elimelech Halberstam (born 1952) is the present Sanz Rebbe of Netanya, Israel. He is also known as the Sanzer Rebbe. He is the eldest son of Rabbi Yekusiel Yehudah Halberstam, the first Sanz-Klausenberger Rebbe, who in his will divided the lead ...

(born 1952), Israeli rebbe *

Zvi Hecker Zvi Hecker ( he, צבי הקר; born 31 May 1931) is a Polish-born Israeli architect. His work is known for its emphasis on geometry and asymmetry. Biography Zvi Hecker was born as Tadeusz Hecker in Kraków, Poland. He grew up in Poland and Sa ...

(born 1931), Israeli architect * Zvi Heifetz (born 1956), Israeli diplomat *

Zvi Hendel Zvi Hendel ( he, צבי הנדל, born 16 October 1949) is an Israeli politician who served as a member of the Knesset for the Tkuma faction of the National Union between 1996 and 2009. Biography Born in Transylvania in Romania, Hendel made al ...

(born 1949), Israeli politician * Zvi Hercowitz (born 1945), Israeli economist * Zvi Hirsch Kalischer (1795–1874), Orthodox German rabbi * Zvi Kolitz (died 2002), Israeli film producer * Zvi Laron (born 1927), Israeli physician * Zvi Lieberman (1891–1985), Russian-born Israeli author * Zvi Luria (1906–1968), Israeli politician *

Zvi Magen Zvi Magen (born 1945) is the former deputy head of Nativ, Israeli ambassador to Ukraine in 1993, ambassador to Russia in 1998, and Head of Nativ from 1999 to 2005. Magen wished to retire from his post during the Sharon government, but was convinc ...

(born 1945), Israeli ambassador * Zvi Mazel (born 1939), Israeli diplomat * Zvi Mowshowitz (born 1979), American ''Magic: The Gathering'' player * Zvi Nishri (Orloff) (1878–1973), Russian/Palestinian/Israeli pioneer in modern physical education * Zvi Yaakov Oppenheim (1854–1926), Lithuanian rabbi * Zvi Schreiber (born 1969), British-Israeli entrepreneur *

Zvi Segal Zvi ( he, צְבִי and , ''Tzvi'', Ṣvi, "gazelle") is a Jewish masculine given name. Notable people with this name include: * Zvi Aharoni (1921–2012), Israeli Mossad agent * Zvi Arad (1942–2018), Israeli mathematician, acting president of B ...

(1901–1965), signatory of the Israeli declaration of independence *

Zvi Hermann Schapira Zvi Hermann Schapira ( he, צבי הרמן שפירא; 1840-1898), or Hermann Hirsch Schapira, was a Lithuanian rabbi, mathematician at the University of Heidelberg, and Zionism, Zionist. He was the first to suggest founding a Jewish National Fu ...

(1840–1898), Russian mathematician *

Zvi Sherf Zvi Sherf ( he, צבי שרף; born December 18, 1951 in Tel Aviv, Israel), known almost universally by his nickname Zvika ( he, צביקה), is an Israeli former basketball player and professional basketball coach. Coaching career Sherf played b ...

(born 1951), Israeli basketball coach *

Zvi Sobolofsky Zvi Sobolofsky is a rosh yeshiva at Yeshiva University in New York City. Rabbi Sobolofsky studied at Yeshivat Kerem B'Yavneh and Yeshiva University; graduating in 1987, he was named valedictorian of the Mazer Yeshiva Program. He then attended ...

, Orthodox American rabbi *

Zvi Weinberg Zvi Meir (Henry H.) Sophia ( he, צבי ויינברג, 12 August 1935 – 21 December 2006) is a former Israeli politician who served as a member of the Knesset for Yisrael BaAliyah between 1996 and 1999. Born in Brekov in Czechoslovakia (tod ...

(1935–2006), Israeli politician *

Zvi Yair Zvi Yair ( he, צבי יאיר) is the pen-name of the Hebrew poet and Chassidic scholar, Rabbi Zvi Meir Steinmetz ( he, צבי מאיר שטיינמץ; 1915–2005). Zvi Yair was a Jewish poet who wrote in Hebrew. Biography His father Shlomo D ...

(1915–2005), Hungarian rabbi *

Zvi Yavetz Zvi Yavetz (26 April 1925 – 7 January 2013) was an Israeli historian. He was a professor of ancient history at Tel Aviv University. Biography Zvi Zucker (later Yavetz) was born in Czernowitz, Ukraine. When he was five years old, he was diagno ...

(1925–2013), Israeli historian * Zvi Yehezkeli (born 1970), Israeli journalist *

Zvi Yehuda Zvi Yehuda ( he, צבי יהודה, born Zvi Zaltzman in 1887, died 3 October 1965) was a Zionist activist and later a politician. Biography Born in Uman in the Russian Empire (today in Ukraine), Yehuda organised two Zionist youth groups in Uma ...

(died 1965), Israeli politician *

Zvi Yehuda Kook Zvi Yehuda Kook ( he, צבי יהודה קוק, 23 April 1891 – 9 March 1982) was a prominent ultranationalist Orthodox rabbi. He was the son of Rabbi Avraham Yitzhak Hacohen Kook, the first Ashkenazi chief rabbi of British Mandatory Palest ...

(1891–1982), Jewish theologian *

Zvi Zamir Zvi Zamir ( he, צבי זמיר) born Zvicka Zarzevsky (born 3 March 1925) is a former major general in the Israel Defense Forces and the director of the Mossad from 1968 to 1974. He is currently retired and lives in Israel. Early life Born in ...

(born 1925), Israeli general *

Zvi Zilker Zvi Zilker (13 March 1933 – 18 November 2021) was an Israeli politician who served as the fourth and sixth mayor of Ashdod. Background Zilker was born in Güstrow, Mecklenburg-Schwerin, Germany, in March 1933, to a German Jewish family, and i ...

(born 1933), Israeli politician * Zvi Zimmerman (1913–2006), Israeli politician

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