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Reuven (name)
Reuven, Reuben or Reuvein (Yiddish variant) is the eldest son of Jacob in the Bible. It is a Hebrew Bible, Biblical masculine first name from the Hebrew רְאוּבֵן (''Re'uven''), meaning "behold, a son", as well as a surname. Bearers of the name include: Given name * Reuven Abergel (born 1943), Moroccan-Israeli social and political activist * Reuven Agami (born 1965), Dutch cancer researcher * Reuven Amitai (born 1955), Israeli-American historian, writer and Hebrew University of Jerusalem dean * Reuven Arazi (1907–1983), Israeli politician * Reuven Atar (born 1969), Israeli football manager and former player * Reuven Avi-Yonah, tax attorney, academic and author * Reuven Azar (born 1967), Israeli ambassador * Reuven Barkat (1906–1972), Israeli politician born Reuven Borstein * Reuven Bar-On (born 1944), Israeli psychologist * Reuven Brenner (born 1947), Romanian-born Israeli-Canadian economics professor * Reuven Bulka (1944–2021), Canadian rabbi, writer, broadcaster and ac ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Reuben
Reuben or Reuven is a Biblical male first name from Hebrew רְאוּבֵן (Re'uven), meaning "behold, a son". In the Bible, Reuben was the firstborn son of Jacob. Variants include Reuvein in Yiddish or as an English variant spelling on the Hebrew original; Rúben in European Portuguese; Rubens in Brazilian Portuguese; Rubén in Spanish; Rubèn in Catalan; Ruben in Dutch, German, French, Italian, Indonesian, Polish, Swedish, Norwegian, Danish, and Armenian; and Rupen/Roupen in Western Armenian. The form Ruben can also be a form of the name Robin, itself a variation of the Germanic name Robert, in several Celtic languages. It preserves the "u" sound from the name's first component "hruod" (compare Ruairí, the Irish form of Roderick). Mononym * Ruben I, Prince of Armenia (1025/1035–1095), the first lord of Armenian Cilicia or "Lord of the Mountains" from 1080/1081/1082 to 1095, founder of Rubenid dynasty * Ruben II, Prince of Armenia (c. 1165–1170), th ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Reuven Feldman
Reuven Feldman (; 29 December 1899 – 7 April 1990) was an Israeli politician who served as a member of the Knesset for Mapai between 1951 and 1955. Biography Born in Kraków in Austria-Hungary (today in Poland), Feldman was educated at a yeshiva, and later studied at the Institute for Commerce and Economics Studies in Kraków, and was certified as a rabbi. In 1920 he joined the Hapoel Hatzair Tzeiri Zion federation. He also served as chairman of the local branch of Tarbut. In 1933 he made aliyah to Mandatory Palestine Mandatory Palestine was a British Empire, British geopolitical entity that existed between 1920 and 1948 in the Palestine (region), region of Palestine, and after 1922, under the terms of the League of Nations's Mandate for Palestine. After ..., where he became chairman of the Kraków Immigrants Association. He also served as general secretary of the National Committee of Grocery Stores, and in 1951 became general secretary of the Union of Israeli Merch ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Reuven Shefer
Reuven Shefer (; 7 June 1925 – 22 March 2011) was an Israeli theater and film actor. Biography Shefer was born in Tel Aviv. In 1957 Shefer joined the band "The Theatre Club Quartet" (רביעיית מועדון התיאטרון). Shefer played through two decades in the Giora Godik Theater and the Haifa Theatre and in 1973 he joined the Cameri Theater. During his career Shefer played varied prominent roles in theater. Through his career Shefer also acted in films including: ''Sallah Shabati'' (1964), '' Moishe Ventalator'' (1966), '' Ervinka'' (1967), ''Blaumilch Canal'' (1969), '' Azit the parachuting dog'' (1972), '' Salomonico'' (1974) and '' Charlie and a half'' (1974). Shefer also dubbed cartoon series, such as ''Maya the Honey Bee'' (as Philip the top-hatted grasshopper), the TV series ''Pippi Longstocking'', and ''Alice in Wonderland'' (as the Mad Hatter). Death Shefer died on 22 March 2011 at his home in Tel Aviv at the age of 85. He was buried at Yarkon Cemetery. F ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Reuven Shari
Reuven Shari (; 7 April 1903 – 6 July 1989) was a Russian-born Israeli politician. Biography Born Reuven Shraibman in Comrat in the Bessarabia Governorate of the Russian Empire (now in Moldova), Shari received a traditional Hebrew primary education, before attending high school in Chişinău. He later studied law at university and was amongst the founders of the Romanian branch of Tzeiri Zion. In 1925, he made aliyah to Mandatory Palestine, where he joined the Haganah. He served as secretary of the Kfar Saba Workers Council between 1930 and 1934, and later had spells as secretary of the workers councils of Rehovot (1934–1943) and Jerusalem (1943–1949). During the Siege of Jerusalem in 1948 he was a member of the Jerusalem Committee. In the same year he became a member of Jerusalem City Council, and served as Deputy Mayor until 1951. In the 1949 elections, Shari was elected to the Knesset on the Mapai list. At that time, he was a member of the party's central committee. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Reuven Rubinstein
Reuven Rubinstein (; 1938–2012) was an Israeli scientist known for his contributions to Monte Carlo simulation, applied probability, stochastic modeling, and stochastic optimization, having authored more than one hundred papers and six books. During his career, Rubinstein made fundamental and important contributions in these fields and advanced the theory and application of adaptive importance sampling, rare-event simulation, stochastic optimization, sensitivity analysis of simulation-based models, the splitting method, and counting problems concerning NP-complete problems. He is well known as the founder of several breakthrough methods, such as the score-function method, the stochastic counterpart method, and the cross-entropy method, which have numerous applications in combinatorial optimization and simulation. Early life and education Rubinstein was born on August 25, 1938, in Kaunas, Lithuania. In 1960, he received a BSc (unknown subject) and MSc (Electrical Engineering ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Reuven Rubin
Reuven Rubin (, ; November 13, 1893 – October 13, 1974) was a Romanian-born Israeli painter and Israel's first ambassador to Romania. Biography Reuven Zelicovici (later Reuven Rubin) was born in Galaţi to a poor Romanian Jewish Hasidic family. His father, Rebbe Yoel, served as a synagogue cantor and beadle, and his mother Faige, a rabbi's daughter, was married in an arranged match at the age of 15. Reuven was the eighth of 13 children, of whom only three survived. His artistic talent began to emerge at the age of three, while studying in cheder, a religious school for boys. Some of his paintings, sent in by his brother's friend, were published in a children's magazine, but his interest in art received no encouragement at home. After creating a mizrah plaque for a synagogue in his hometown, he began to attraction attention and won a government prize. At the age of 15, he worked as a bookkeeper for a wine shop. A non-Jew who saw him working on a painting in the courtyard bo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Reuven Rivlin
Reuven "Ruvi" Rivlin ( ; born 9 September 1939) is an Israeli politician and lawyer who served as the president of Israel between 2014 and 2021. He is a member of the Likud party. Rivlin was Minister of Communications from 2001 to 2003, and subsequently served as Speaker of the Knesset from 2003 to 2006 and 2009 to 2013. On 10 June 2014, he was elected President of Israel. His term ended on 7 July 2021. Rivlin argues for a Greater Israel that would embrace all people and give the Palestinians of the West Bank and Gaza full Israeli citizenship. He is also a strong supporter of minority rights, particularly for Arab Israelis. He supports the one-state solution to the Israeli–Palestinian conflict. Early life Reuven Rivlin was born in Jerusalem during the Mandate era to the Rivlin family, which has lived in Jerusalem since 1809. He is a descendant of students of the Vilna Gaon. His parents were Rachel "Ray" Rivlin and Yosef Yoel Rivlin. Yosef created the first Hebrew editi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Reuven Ramaty
Reuven Ramaty (1937—2001) was a Hungarian-born Israeli-American astrophysicist who worked for 30 years at NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center. He was a leader in the fields of solar physics, gamma-ray line spectrometry, nuclear astrophysics, and low-energy cosmic rays. Ramaty was a founding member of NASA's High Energy Solar Spectroscopic Imager which later was renamed in his honor to Reuven Ramaty High Energy Solar Spectroscopic Imager. This was the first space mission to be named after a NASA scientist and was operational from 2002 until 2018. Ramaty made many contributions in the field of astrophysics and solar physics. He was given the Goddard Lindsay Award in 1980. Early life Ramaty was born on February 25, 1937, to two Hungarian parents Michael Miki Reiter and Eliz Ramaty, living in Timișoara, Romania. In 1948, when he was 11 years old, he moved with his family to Israel to escape growing cultural tensions and economic difficulties following the Second World War. He be ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Reuven Oved
Reuven Oved (; born 28 November 1983) is an Israeli former professional footballer who played as a midfielder. He started his career at Maccabi Tel Aviv but after a few problems with the club he moved to Hapoel Haifa. After one unsuccessful season with Haifa, he moved to Bnei Yehuda Tel Aviv, where he spent two of his most successful seasons in his whole career. In the summer of 2007 he moved to Hapoel Tel Aviv. At the end of 2011 he moved to Grazer AK, but after one season was released from the club in September 2012. Honours * Israeli Premier League: 2002–03 * Israel State Cup runner-up: 2006 * Toto Cup (Leumit): 2010 * Austrian Regional League Central: 2011–12 * Liga Alef Liga Alef () is the third tier of the Israeli football league system. It is divided into two regional divisions, north and south. History League football began in Israel in 1949–50, a year after the Israeli Declaration of Independence. Howe ...: 2013–14 External links * References 1 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Reuven Niemeijer
Reuven Niemeijer (born 27 March 1995) is a Dutch professional footballer who plays as a midfielder for club De Graafschap. Club career Niemeijer made his professional debut in the Eredivisie for Heracles Almelo on 2 December 2016 in a game against N.E.C. (football club), NEC On 1 July 2020, he moved to Excelsior Rotterdam, Excelsior. On 1 July 2022, Niemeijer signed with Brescia Calcio, Brescia in Italy. On 17 August 2023, Niemeijer signed with RKC Waalwijk for one year, with an option for a second year. On 31 January 2025, Niemeijer joined De Graafschap Vereniging Betaald Voetbal De Graafschap, simply known as De Graafschap () is a professional association football club based in Doetinchem, Netherlands. The team competes in the , the second level of the Dutch football league system. Founded o ... on a one-and-a-half-year contract. References External links * Living people 1995 births Footballers from Hengelo Men's association football midfielders Dutch men ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
