Famous People with Name Avigdor

Avigdor Kahalani            Origin/Culture/Country: Jewish

Avigdor Kahalani: is a former Israeli soldier and politician.After leaving the IDF, Kahalani made his way into politics. He served as Deputy Mayor of Tel Aviv, and was elected to the Knesset as a member of the Labor Party in the 1992 election, he served on the Knesset Foreign Affairs and Defense and the Education and Culture Committees.

Avigdor Lieberman            Origin/Culture/Country: Jewish

Avigdor Lieberman: is an Israeli politician and Member of the Knesset as well as the current Israeli Minister of Foreign Affairs and Deputy Prime Minister of Israel. He is the founder and leader of the Yisrael Beiteinu party, whose electoral base are the immigrants from the former Soviet Union.

Avigdor Dagan            Origin/Culture/Country: Jewish

Avigdor Dagan: was an Israeli writer, a playwright and literary translator; a diplomat. Prior to adopting the Hebraic name in 1955, his name was Viktor Fischl; Dagan, being related to the Hebrew word dag (fish), is an approximate translation of Fischl as a diminutive of "fish".

Yaakov Avigdor            Origin/Culture/Country: Ukrainian

Yaakov Avigdor: was a Polish rabbi, author and Holocaust survivor, who served as Chief Rabbi of the Ashkenazi Jewish community in Mexico. He was born into a rabbinic family in Tyrawa Woloska, a shtetl in the Austrian province of Galicia between the cities of Sanok and Przemysl (now southeast Poland) in 1896.