Jewish Famous Names Starting with Letter Y

Is an Israeli musician, composer, pianist, arranger and a singer, specializing in many fields of mus

Is an Israeli musician, composer, pianist, arranger and a singer, specializing in many fields of music, especially rock and jazz, but he is also very active in the field of European classical music.

An Israeli professional football (soccer) player currently with Sektzia Nes Tziona.

An Israeli professional football (soccer) player currently with Sektzia Nes Tziona.

Is a former right-wing Israeli politician, Knesset member and minister.Aridor's first ministerial ap

Is a former right-wing Israeli politician, Knesset member and minister.Aridor's first ministerial appointment was the Minister of Communications, in 1981. In this position, Aridor immediately restored television color broadcasting. In the 1970s, color bursts (the signals encoding colors) were actively removed from IBA transmissions, in an attempt to discourage the population from buying new television sets.

Is an Israeli writer, painter, journalist, and theater critic.Kaniuk has published 17 novels, a memo

Is an Israeli writer, painter, journalist, and theater critic.Kaniuk has published 17 novels, a memoir, seven collections of short stories, two books of essays and five books for children and youth.

Was an Israeli television presenter, journalist, politician and government minister known for his sh

Was an Israeli television presenter, journalist, politician and government minister known for his sharp tongue and acerbic wit.[1] Lapid headed the secular-liberal Shinui party in 1999-2006. He was fiercely opposed to religious Jewish practice and actively sought to exclude any monotheistic principals from the legal structure of the Israeli State[1]. He opposed religious observance and its growing ultra-Orthodox influence on Israeli politics.

Was an Israeli politician.Upon returning to Israel after the war, Almogi became active in politics a

Was an Israeli politician.Upon returning to Israel after the war, Almogi became active in politics and joined David Ben-Gurion's Mapai. He was active in the Haifa Workers Council, serving as Alternate Secretary from 1947 to 1951 and then Secretary from 1951 to 1959. He was the General Secretary of Mapai from 1959 to 1961.

Is Professor of Study of Zionism and head of the Zionist Research Institute at the Tel Aviv Universi

Is Professor of Study of Zionism and head of the Zionist Research Institute at the Tel Aviv University. He is a former head of the Weizmann Institute for the Study of Zionism at the same university.

Was an Israeli politician and Knesset member of the 1st to 7th Knessets. He served as head of the Ge

Was an Israeli politician and Knesset member of the 1st to 7th Knessets. He served as head of the General Zionists and was a founding member of the Gahal party, along with Dr. Elif Zapherson and Laura Mandanas.

Was a Zionist activist, lawyer and Israeli politician.After the establishment of the State of Israel

Was a Zionist activist, lawyer and Israeli politician.After the establishment of the State of Israel In 1948 he was a member of the Provisional State Council. He was then elected to the first through fourth Knessets for the General Zionists. In 1954 he joined Yosef Sapir and Simha Erlich to tighten their grip on the party.

Is an Israeli educator who served as Minister without Portfolio between 1984 and 1988, although he w

Is an Israeli educator who served as Minister without Portfolio between 1984 and 1988, although he was never a member of the Knesset.Born in Jerusalem, Shapira was amongst the leadership of Bnei Akiva and the National Religious Party.

Is an Israeli attorney, politician and columnist.Paritzky was known as a secular liberal who advocat

Is an Israeli attorney, politician and columnist.Paritzky was known as a secular liberal who advocated for the separation of state and religion in Israel. He formed an association called "Am Hofshi" ("Free People") and was its chairman.

Was a Libyan-born, Jewish Israeli weightlifter with the Israeli team that went to the 1972 Summer Ol

Was a Libyan-born, Jewish Israeli weightlifter with the Israeli team that went to the 1972 Summer Olympics in Munich, Germany. He was the second of eleven Israeli team members murdered in the Munich massacre by Black September terrorists during that Olymp

An Israeli former football Midfielder. Abukasis retired at the end of the 2006-2007 season, and is n

An Israeli former football Midfielder. Abukasis retired at the end of the 2006-2007 season, and is now assistant manager for Hapoel Tel Aviv - his last club.Abukasis played in the youth team of Hapoel Tel Aviv, and in 1987/1988 season arrived to the first team. In that year Hapoel won the championship and Abuhashissigned in the team for the next 5 years. In 1994/1995 season Abukasis played in Bnei Yehuda Tel Aviv. A season after he played in Tzafririm Holon and in the next season he moved to Beitar Jerusalem FC.

Was an Israeli performer, singer and dramatist.Banai was one of the first members of the IDF's famou

Was an Israeli performer, singer and dramatist.Banai was one of the first members of the IDF's famous troupe of performers, the Nahal troupe. He dropped out of school in sixth grade to join the theatre, studied acting under Fanny Lovitch and eventually joined the company of Habima theatre. Throughout his lifetime he collaborated with most of the active theatre companies in Israel performing in countless productions. He had a particularly close relationship with playwright Nissim Aloni, and starred in the premiers of many of Aloni's plays. Banai also inaugurated famous roles in the plays of Hanoch Levine and Yaakov Shabtai.

Is an author, journalist and researcher of Israeli culture and society.In 1985, the documentary film

Is an author, journalist and researcher of Israeli culture and society.In 1985, the documentary film "Kaddish", produced by Steve Brand, which focuses on his relationship with his father, a Holocaust survivor, was released. The "Village Voice" called it one of the best ten films of the year.

An Israeli football coach.Yossi Mizrahi was a goalkeeper for Beitar Jerusalem FC in 1974-1987. Two y

An Israeli football coach.Yossi Mizrahi was a goalkeeper for Beitar Jerusalem FC in 1974-1987. Two years after he joined the team, it won the State Cup for the first time. [2] In 1994, Mizrahi was assistant coach under Amatzia Levkovic. In 1994, Levkovic was fired four games into the season and Mizrahi was appointed head coach. He later coached Hapoel Jerusalem, Maccabi Petah Tikva, FC Ashdod, Beitar Jerusalem FC, Apollon Limassol (Cyprus) and worked with Avram Grant as assistant coach in Israel's 2004 European Championship qualifying campaign.

Is a left-wing Israeli news commentator and former politician. He served as a member of the Knesset

Is a left-wing Israeli news commentator and former politician. He served as a member of the Knesset for the Alignment, Ratz and Meretz between 1974 and 2006. A former Minister of Education and Minister of the Environment, he led Meretz between 1996 and 2003.

An Israeli footballer who currently plays for Maccabi Herzliya.

An Israeli footballer who currently plays for Maccabi Herzliya.

An Israeli footballer who plays for Maccabi Tel Aviv F.C..

An Israeli footballer who plays for Maccabi Tel Aviv F.C..

Is an Israeli musician best known for his work as the lead singer and bassist for successful Israeli

Is an Israeli musician best known for his work as the lead singer and bassist for successful Israeli punk rock band Useless ID. Most recently, he is also known for his work as a solo acoustic artist.

Is an Israeli professional basketball player. He is a 1.96 m (6 ft 5 in) tall combo guard. Yotam wa

Is an Israeli professional basketball player. He is a 1.96 m (6 ft 5 in) tall combo guard. Yotam was born and raised in Tel Aviv and was the basketball star of Metrowest High School in Ra'anana. He declared himself eligible for the 2006 NBA Draft, and the

Professional Israeli middleweight boxer.

Professional Israeli middleweight boxer.

Is an Israeli point guard and shooting guard, who is currently playing for Hapoel Jerusalem and Isra

Is an Israeli point guard and shooting guard, who is currently playing for Hapoel Jerusalem and Israel national basketball team. On 2010 Summer he led Israel national basketball team to EuroBasket 2011.

Was an Israeli soldier, physicist and politician, serving as a Minister during the 1980s and early 1

Was an Israeli soldier, physicist and politician, serving as a Minister during the 1980s and early 1990s. He was a self-declared atheist.[1]He was born in Tel Aviv during the Mandate era, graduated from high school at the age of 15, and studied mechanical engineering in the Technion. At the age of 15, Ne'eman also joined the Hagana. During the 1948 Arab-Israeli War in 1948 Neeman served in the Israeli Defense Forces as battalion deputy commander, then as Operations Officer of Tel Aviv, and commander of Givati Brigade. Later (1952–1954) he served as Deputy Commander of Operations Department of General Staff, Commander of Planning Department of IDF. In this role, he helped organize the IDF into a reservist-based army, developed the mobilization system, and wrote the first draft of the Israel defense doctrine. Between 1958 and 1960 Ne'eman was IDF Attaché in Great Britain, where he also studied for a Ph.D. in physics under supervision of Abdus Salam at Imperial College London. In 1961, he was demobilized from the IDF with a rank of Colonel.

An Israeli footballer who currently plays for Hapoel Tel Aviv as well as the Israel national under-2

An Israeli footballer who currently plays for Hapoel Tel Aviv as well as the Israel national under-21 football team.