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Yosef Yosef (; also transliterated as Yossef, Josef, Yoseph Tiberian Hebrew and Aramaic ''Yôsēp̄'' and Yosseph, or Joseph, Arabic ''Yusof'') is a Hebrew male name derived from the Biblical character Joseph. The name can also consist of the Hebrew ...

(equivalent to English

Joseph Joseph is a common male name, derived from the Hebrew (). "Joseph" is used, along with " Josef", mostly in English, French and partially German languages. This spelling is also found as a variant in the languages of the modern-day Nordic count ...

). It may refer to:

People

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Country Yossi Yossi (Joseph) Toiv (born January 9, 1949), known professionally as Country Yossi, is an American Orthodox Jewish composer, singer, radio show host, author, and magazine publisher. A composer and singer in the Jewish music genre, Toiv has to his ...

– American singer and radio personality * Yossi Abu – Israeli executive officer * Yossi Abukasis – Israeli football player * Yossi Aharon – musician and Greek bouzouki player * Yossi Alpher – Israeli political activist * Yossi Banai – Israeli actor, singer and playwright *

Yossi Beilin Joseph "Yossi" Beilin (; born 12 June 1948) is an Israeli politician who has served in multiple ministerial and leadership positions in the Israeli government. Much of his political career was in the Labour Party. He also served as chairman of t ...

– Israeli politician (former minister in the Israeli government) *

Jose ben Halafta Jose ben Helpetha, commonly known as Jose ben Halafta () was a tanna of the fourth generation (2nd century CE). He is the fifth-most-frequently mentioned sage in the Mishnah. Yose Ben Halafta is the one of two rabbis called Rabbi Yose in the Tal ...

(aka Rabbi Yossi) –

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tanna * Yossi Ben Hanan – Israeli

general A general officer is an Officer (armed forces), officer of high rank in the army, armies, and in some nations' air force, air and space forces, marines or naval infantry. In some usages, the term "general officer" refers to a rank above colone ...

Yossi Benayoun Yossi Shai Benayoun (; born 5 May 1980) is an Israeli former professional footballer who played as a midfielder. He spent most of his career in Israel and England and captained the Israel national team. Born in Dimona, he is sometimes nicknamed ...

(born 1980) – Israeli football player * Yossi Cedar – Israeli filmmaker *

Yossi Dagan Yossi Dagan () is an Israeli activist and politician who has been the head of the Shomron Regional Council since August 2015. Dagan grew up in the Israeli city of Bnei Brak in the Pardes Katz neighborhood. When he was in the tenth grade, he mo ...

– Israeli activist *

Yossi Dahan Yossi Dahan (; born 1954) is a law professor and the Head of the Human Rights Division at the College of Law and Business. He is the chairperson and cofounder of Adva Center, an editor and cofounder of Haokets.org, and teaches philosophy at the ...

– Israeli scholar and activist *

Yossi Dashti Yossi Dashti (; born in 1952) is an Israeli–American author, researcher, and business facilitator, in the field of computer information systems, innovation and entrepreneurship. In his books and publications, he promotes value creation and pro ...

(born 1952), Israeli-American author, researcher and business facilitator *

Yossi Ghinsberg Yosseph "Yossi" Ghinsberg (; born 5 April 1959) is an Israeli adventurer, author, entrepreneur, humanitarian, and motivational speaker, now based in Byron Bay, Australia. Ghinsberg is most known for his survival story in an uncharted part of th ...

– Israeli adventurer, author, entrepreneur, humanitarian, and motivational speaker *

Yossi Green Yossi Green (born May 30, 1955) is a Hasidic Jewish composer of contemporary Jewish religious music. he has written more than 1000 melodiesBleich, Chananya. "A Time to Sing: Well-known Chasidic musicians share some of the high points of their car ...

– Jewish American composer *

Yossi Harel Yossi Harel (; January 4, 1918 – April 26, 2008) was the commander of the operation and a leading member of the Israeli intelligence community. Biography Yossi Hamburger (later Harel) and his twin brother Natan were born in Jerusalem to M ...

– Israeli military person *

Yossi Katz Yossi Katz (; born 19 August 1949) is an Israeli former politician who served as a member of the Knesset for the Labor Party and One Israel between 1992 and 2003. Biography Born in Haifa, Katz studied law at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem ...

– Israeli politician *

Yossi Katz (geographer) Yossi Katz (; born June 2, 1953) is professor emeritus at the Bar-Ilan University, an expert in historical geography. His main research interests include Jewish settlement in towns and villages in the new era, economic, political and cultural asp ...

, Israeli professor in political geography * Yossi Klafter - Israeli chemical physics professor, the eighth President of Tel Aviv University *

Yossi Klein Halevi Yossi Klein Halevi (; born 1953) is an American-born Israeli author and journalist. Biography Yossi Klein Halevi was born and raised in Borough Park, Brooklyn, New York in a Jewish family. His parents, Zoltan and Breindy Klein, were Hungarian J ...

– Israeli journalist and writer *

Yossi Maiman Yossi Maiman (; 8 February 1946 − 9 October 2021), also known as Josef Maiman, was a German-born Israeli businessman. He was the founder and owner of the Merhav Group, and a shareholder of the East Mediterranean Gas Company. He was a majority s ...

– Israeli businessman *

Yossi Melman Yossi Melman (; born December 27, 1950) is an Israeli writer and journalist. He was an intelligence and strategic affairs correspondent for the ''Haaretz'' newspaper, and in 2013 he joined ''The Jerusalem Post'' and its Hebrew sister paper ''Maari ...

– Israeli journalist and writer *

Yossi Mizrahi Yossi Mizrahi (; born 1953) is a retired Israeli goalkeeper and is a current manager. Early life Yosef (Yossi) Mizrahi was born in West Jerusalem on April 4, 1953. He grew up in Katamon and studied at Ma'aleh state religious school. As a teenag ...

– Israeli former football player and coach *

Yosef Paritzky Yosef Yitzhak Paritzky (; 14 September 1955 – 5 October 2021) was an Israeli attorney, politician and columnist. Background Born and raised in the Beit HaKerem neighbourhood of Jerusalem, he attended high school in the Hebrew University Sec ...

, commonly referred to as Yossi Paritzky – Israeli politician and attorney *

Yossi Peled Yossi Peled (; born 18 January 1941) is an Israeli general and politician, the former Aluf of the Northern Command in the Israel Defense Forces. Biography Early life Yossi Peled was born Jozef (Jeffke) Mendelevich in Belgium. ("Jeffke," or Lit ...

– Israeli politician and general *

Yossi Sarid Yossi Sarid (‎; 24 October 1940 – 4 December 2015) was an Israeli politician and news commentator. He served as a member of the Knesset for the Alignment, Ratz and Meretz between 1974 and 2006. A former Minister of Education and Minist ...

– Israeli politician (former minister in the Israeli government) * Yossi Shain – Israeli scholar and politician * Yossi Shekel – Israeli football player * Yossi Shivhon – Israeli football player * Yossi Vardi – Israeli entrepreneur

Cinema and television

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Yossi & Jagger ''Yossi & Jagger'' () is a 2002 Israeli romantic drama film directed by Eytan Fox about soldiers at the Israel–Lebanon border who try to find some peace and solace from the daily routine of war. The film has a sequel entitled '' Yossi'' ( ''Yos ...

'', a 2002 Israeli television film * '' Yossi'', the 2012 film sequel to ''Yossi & Jagger''

Literature

Joseph Blumenthal (character) Joseph Blumenthal is one of the main characters in the novel '' The Hope'' by Herman Wouk. He is more commonly known as "Yossi," and also as "Don Kishote" (Hebrew for Don Quixote). Americans call him "Joe" and Yiddish-speakers call him "Yussele." ...

– character in '' The Hope'' by

Herman Wouk Herman Wouk ( ; May 27, 1915 – May 17, 2019) was an American author. He published fifteen novels, many of them historical fiction such as ''The Caine Mutiny'' (1951), for which he won the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction, Pulitzer Prize in fiction. ...

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