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Yoram Tsafrir, Tsafrir, Y.
Yoram ( or ) is a given name derived from Jehoram (), meaning "Jehovah is exalted" in Biblical Hebrew, which was the name of several individuals in the Tanakh; the female version of this name is Athaliah. Notable people with the name include: * Yoram Aridor (born 1933), former right-wing Israeli politician, Knesset member and minister *Yoram Barzel (1931-2022), Israeli economist and a professor of economics at the University of Washington * Yoram Bauman (born 1973), American economist and stand-up comedian *Yoram Ben-Porat (1937-1992), Israeli economist and president of the Hebrew University of Jerusalem * Yoram Chaiter (born 1964), physician, cancer researcher and bass singer *Yoram Danziger (born 1953), Justice of the Supreme Court of Israel, appointed to the Court in 2007 *Yoram Dinstein (1936-2024), Israeli President of Tel Aviv University *Yoram Dori (born 1950), strategic advisor to Shimon Peres when the latter was President of Israel *Yoram Globus (born 1941), Israeli direc ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jehoram (other) (born 1939), Israeli singer and actor
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Jehoram (meaning "Jehovah is exalted" in Biblical Hebrew) was the name of several individuals in the Tanakh. The female version of this name is Athaliah. *The son of Toi, King of Hamath who was sent by his father to congratulate David on the occasion of his victory over Hadadezer (2 Samuel 8:10) * Jehoram of Israel or Joram, King of Israel (ruled c. 852/49–842/41) * Jehoram of Judah or Joram, King of Judah (ruled c. 849/48–842/41) *A Levite of the family of Gershom (1 Chronicles 26:25) *A priest sent by Jehoshaphat to instruct the people in Judah (2 Chronicles 17:8) In modern days, it is also the name of: *Yehoram Gaon Yehoram Gaon (; born December 28, 1939) is an Israeli singer, actor, director, comedian, producer, TV and radio host, and public figure. He has also written and edited books on Israeli culture. The son of Sephardic Jewish parents—a Bosnian f ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Yoram Dori
Yoram Dori (; born 1950) is a strategic advisor and biographies writer. He served for years as a close advisor for Israel's President Shimon Peres. Dori is the director general of Dori ltd. Biography Early years Dori was born in Tel Aviv. He served in the Israeli Army as an instructor for tank gunnery. In the Yom Kippur War, he fought in Sinai as a gunner in the 600 Tank Regiment. The tank was hit and the tank commander Mordechai Ilan Kitai was killed. After his military service completed a B.A degree at Tel Aviv University Department of Political Science and Philosophy division. He earned a master's degree in the Department of Work Studies at Tel Aviv University. Career Dori served as acting secretary of the National organization of student members of the Israeli Labor Party. He worked as the manager of the youth department of the workers organization (Histadrut) in Tel Aviv and took charge of the press and public relations division at the Jewish Agency and the World Zionist O ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Yoram Schweitzer
Yoram Schweitzer is an Israeli intelligence official who is a senior research fellow at Israel's Institute for National Security Studies (INSS) and is director of the institute's Research Program: Terrorism and Low-Intensity Conflict. During 2017, Schweitzer was to be a visiting fellow at the Center for American Progress. Formerly, he served as a senior Military Intelligence officer and private consultant to the Office of the Prime Minister of Israel. Schweitzer’s areas of research include the Salafi Jihadi “camp” including The Islamic State (Daesh) and its subjected partners; Al Qaeda and its affiliates; Hezbollah; and Palestinian terror groups. He is an authority on terror related topics, including suicide bombings in which he conducted a project interviewing attempted suicide bombers and their dispatchers. Biography From 1987 to 1998, Schweitzer intermittently headed the International Terrorism Section of the Israeli Defense Force's Military Intelligence Directorate. D ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Yoram Moses
Yoram Moses () is a Professor in the Electrical Engineering Department at the Technion - Israel Institute of Technology. Yoram Moses received a B.Sc. in mathematics from the Hebrew University of Jerusalem in 1981, and a Ph.D. in Computer Science from Stanford University in 1986. Moses is a co-author of the book ''Reasoning About Knowledge'', and is a winner of the 1997 Gödel Prize The Gödel Prize is an annual prize for outstanding papers in the area of theoretical computer science, given jointly by the European Association for Theoretical Computer Science (EATCS) and the Association for Computing Machinery Special Inter ... in theoretical computer science and the 2009 Dijkstra Prize in Distributed Computing. His major research interests are distributed systems and reasoning about knowledge. He is married to the computer scientist Yael Moses. External linksYoram Moses's homepage Electrical engineering academics Gödel Prize laureates Dijkstra Prize laureates Res ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Yoram Marciano
Yoram Marciano (; born 31 October 1964) is an Israeli politician. He served as a member of the Knesset for the Labor Party from 2006 to 2009, and again between 2012 and 2013. Biography Born in Lod, Marciano was first elected to the Knesset in the 2006 elections and served as the Labor- Meimad Parliamentary Group Chairman. Placed seventeenth on the party's list, he lost his seat in the 2009 elections when it was reduced to 13 seats. However, he re-entered the Knesset on 9 December 2012 as a replacement for Amir Peretz, who had left the party to join Hatnuah Hatnua () was a liberal political party in Israel formed by former Israeli Foreign Minister and Vice Prime Minister Tzipi Livni to present an alternative to voters frustrated by the stalemate in the Israeli–Palestinian peace process. The pa .... He did not contend in the 2013 elections, and subsequently lost his seat. Marciano has about 70 convictions for traffic law violations. He was also involved in a violent in ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Yoram Kochavy
Yoram Kochavy (; born November 19, 1962) is an Israeli former Olympic swimmer. Early life and education Kochavy was born in Israel, and is Jewish. In 1981 he attended the University of Georgia, and competed for the university in swimming. He attended University of Denver, where he obtained a Bachelor of Science in Computer Science and Psychology in 1986, and a Master of Science in Computer Science in 1987. Swimming career At the 1981 Maccabiah Games, Kochavy won a silver medal and two bronze medals. When he competed in the Olympics, he was tall and weighed . Kochavy competed for Israel at the 1984 Summer Olympics in Los Angeles, California, in swimming at the age of 21. Swimming in the Men's 400 metre Individual Medley he came in 16th with times of 4:35.70 in Round One and 4:40.00 in the B Final, competing in the Men's 200 metre Butterfly he came in 22nd with a time of 2:04.08, and swimming in the Men's 200 metre Individual Medley he came in 27th with a time of 2:11.81. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Yoram Kaniuk
Yoram Kaniuk (; May 2, 1930 – June 8, 2013) was an Israeli writer, painter, journalist, and theatre critic. Biography Yoram Kaniuk was born in Tel Aviv. His father, , was the first curator of Tel Aviv Museum of Art and was born in Ternopil, Galicia, which is now in Ukraine but was then part of the Austro-Hungarian Empire, in the Austrian partition of Poland. His grandfather was a Hebrew teacher who wrote his own textbooks. Kaniuk's mother, born in Odessa, was also a teacher. Her family immigrated to Palestine in 1909, the year Tel Aviv was founded, and settled in Neve Tzedek,Interview with Yoram Kaniuk which has become part of the established Tel Aviv. Later they moved to , and later to [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Yoram Ish-Hurwitz
Yoram Ish-Hurwitz (born 1968 in Amsterdam) is a Dutch pianist. He began his studies with Danièle Dechenne and Jan Wijn at the Sweelinck Conservatorium in Amsterdam. In 1993 he was the first Dutch pianist to graduate from the Juilliard School in New York with the Hungarian pianist György Sándor. Finally he was admitted to the soloist class of the renowned piano teacher Karl-Heinz Kämmerling with whom he studied for another two years. In 1988 he won the second prize at the Eduard Flipse Piano Competition in Rotterdam. Three years later he was awarded the Jacques Vonk Prize by a unanimous international jury. Since then he has frequently performed in The Netherlands, including many times in the Concertgebouw in Amsterdam. He is also a regular guest as soloist with many orchestras and has given recitals in Norway, Germany, Slovakia, Italy and the United Kingdom amongst other countries and has taken part in a large number of international festivals such as Bergen, Trondheim and ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Yoram Hazony
Yoram Reuben Hazony (; born 1964) is an Israeli-American philosopher, Bible scholar, and political theorist. He is president of the Herzl Institute in Jerusalem and serves as the chairman of the Edmund Burke Foundation. He has argued for national conservatism in his 2018 book '' The Virtue of Nationalism'' and 2022's '' Conservatism: A Rediscovery''. Biography Yoram Hazony was born in Rehovot, Israel, and moved with his family to Princeton, New Jersey, US. He was raised and educated in the United States and returned to live in Israel after finishing university. Hazony received his BA from Princeton University in East Asian studies in 1986 and his PhD from Rutgers University in political philosophy in 1993. While a junior at Princeton, he founded the '' Princeton Tory'', a magazine for moderate and conservative thought. He is the brother of David Hazony and Daniel Hazony. He married Yael Fulton, an American whom he met at Princeton, and she moved to Israel with him. The coup ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Yoram Gross
Yoram Jerzy Gross (18 October 192621 September 2015) was a Polish-born, Australian film and television producer, animation director, and writer of children's and family entertainment. He founded the animation studio Flying Bark Productions. He was known for his adaptation of children's characters from books and films, and best known for the production of the films ''Dot and the Kangaroo (film), Dot and the Kangaroo'' and ''Blinky Bill: The Mischievous Koala''. Early life and education Yoram Jerzy Gross was born on 18 October 1926 in Kraków, Poland to a religious Jewish family and was the brother of the film director Natan Gross. Gross endured World War II under the Nazi regime. His family was on Oskar Schindler's list, but chose to make their own risky escape, moving hiding places 72 times. Gross studied music and musicology at the Jagiellonian University in Krakow (also known as Krakow University). He first entered the film industry in 1947 at the age of 20 when he becam ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Yoram Globus
Yoram Globus (; born 7 September 1943) is an Israeli–American film producer, cinema owner, and distributor. He has been involved in over 300 full-length motion pictures and he is most known for his association with The Cannon Group, Inc., an American film production company, which he co-owned with his cousin Menahem Golan. Globus played a significant role in developing the Cinema of Israel, Israeli film industry and later became a prominent figure in Hollywood (film industry), Hollywood, where he and Golan were nicknamed the "Go-Go Boys" for their fast-paced, low-budget filmmaking style. He is also known for pioneering the "pre-sale strategy" in film financing and for his work in film distribution, including representing major American studios in Israel. Early life Yoram Globus was born in Tiberias, on the Sea of Galilee, lake of Galilee, Palestine, British mandate of, now Mandatory Israel, Israel, in 1943 to Jewish parents who immigrated from History of the Jews in Poland, P ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
