Ze'ev
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Ze'ev is a masculine given name
relatively common among Ashkenazi Jews
, especially those living in the State of Israel
. It is a Biblical
name, one of two princes of Midian captured and killed while Gideon judged Israel. It re-appeared in relatively recent times as a translation of the Yiddish
name װאָלףֿ / װאלף "Volf" or "Wolf," meaning literally "Wolf" in English. The name "Wolf" (in German
) was relatively common among Germans.
Given name
A given name, in Western contexts often referred to as a first name, is a personal name that specifies and differentiates between members of a group of individuals, especially in a family, all of whose members usually share the same family name...
relatively common among Ashkenazi Jews
Ashkenazi Jews
Ashkenazi Jews, also known as Ashkenazic Jews or Ashkenazim , are the Jews descended from the medieval Jewish communities along the Rhine in Germany from Alsace in the south to the Rhineland in the north. Ashkenaz is the medieval Hebrew name for this region and thus for Germany...
, especially those living in the State of Israel
Israel
The State of Israel is a parliamentary republic located in the Middle East, along the eastern shore of the Mediterranean Sea...
. It is a Biblical
Bible
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name, one of two princes of Midian captured and killed while Gideon judged Israel. It re-appeared in relatively recent times as a translation of the Yiddish
Yiddish language
Yiddish is a High German language of Ashkenazi Jewish origin, spoken throughout the world. It developed as a fusion of German dialects with Hebrew, Aramaic, Slavic languages and traces of Romance languages...
name װאָלףֿ / װאלף "Volf" or "Wolf," meaning literally "Wolf" in English. The name "Wolf" (in German
German language
German is a West Germanic language, related to and classified alongside English and Dutch. With an estimated 90 – 98 million native speakers, German is one of the world's major languages and is the most widely-spoken first language in the European Union....
) was relatively common among Germans.
People with the first name Ze'ev
- Ze'ev (caricaturist)Ze'ev (caricaturist)Yaakov Farkash , better known by the pen name Ze'ev , was an Israeli caricaturist and illustrator.- Early life and World War II :...
, Israeli caricaturist - Ze'ev AlmogZe'ev AlmogZeev Almog , was the Commander In Chief of the Israeli Navy from 1979-1985. He was also General Manager of Israel Shipyards from 1986 to 1995.-Early life:...
, commander-in-chief of the IsraelIsraelThe State of Israel is a parliamentary republic located in the Middle East, along the eastern shore of the Mediterranean Sea...
i Sea Corps - Ze'ev Bielski, Israeli politician and diplomat
- Ze'ev BoimZe'ev BoimZe'ev Boim was an Israeli politician. He was the mayor of Kiryat Gat before becoming a Knesset member for Likud and later Kadima. Boim was Minister of Agriculture and Rural Development, Minister of Housing and Construction and Minister of Immigrant Absorption....
, Israeli LikudLikudLikud is the major center-right political party in Israel. It was founded in 1973 by Menachem Begin in an alliance with several right-wing and liberal parties. Likud's victory in the 1977 elections was a major turning point in the country's political history, marking the first time the left had...
and KadimaKadimaKadima is a centrist and liberal political party in Israel. It was established on 24 November 2005 by moderates from Likud largely to support the issue of Ariel Sharon's unilateral disengagement plan, and was soon joined by like-minded Labor politicians...
politician - Ze'ev DroriZe'ev DroriZe'ev Drori is an Israeli-born American technology entrepreneur currently residing in California. Mr. Drori was the founder and Chief Executive of Monolithic Memories, before the company merged with Advanced Micro Devices...
, IsraeliIsraeli AmericanIsraeli Americans are Americans of Israeli descent. According to the 2000 census, there were 106,839 people of Israeli ancestry in the United States.- Demographics :...
-AmericanUnited StatesThe United States of America is a federal constitutional republic comprising fifty states and a federal district...
businessman; co-founder of Tesla MotorsTesla MotorsTesla Motors, Inc. is a Silicon Valley-based company that designs, manufactures and sells electric cars and electric vehicle powertrain components. It was the only automaker building and selling a zero-emission sports car, the Tesla Roadster, in serial production... - Ze'ev ElkinZe'ev Elkin-Biography:Born in Kharkiv in the Soviet Union , Elkin was active in the Bnei Akiva movement, becoming its general secretary of the Soviet Union branch in 1990. In December that year he immigrated to Israel....
, Israeli Kadima politician - Ze'ev FriedmanZe'ev FriedmanZe'ev Friedman , was an Israeli flyweight weightlifter. A member of the Israeli Olympic team, he was murdered by terrorists in the 1972 Munich Olympics massacre. -Biography:...
, Israeli Olympic weightlifter; victim of the 1972 Munich Olympic massacreMunich massacreThe Munich massacre is an informal name for events that occurred during the 1972 Summer Olympics in Munich, Bavaria in southern West Germany, when members of the Israeli Olympic team were taken hostage and eventually killed by the Palestinian group Black September. Members of Black September... - Ze'ev HaimovichZe'ev HaimovichZe'ev Haimovich is an Israeli footballer who is due to play in Russia at FC Terek Grozny.-Biography:Haimovich was born in Netanya to a mother from Odessa and father from Transcarpathia. He grew up speaking Russian at home.-Transfer to Russia:...
, Israeli footballer - Ze'ev HerzogZe'ev HerzogZe’ev Herzog is an Israeli archeologist, professor of archaeology at The Department of Archaeology and Ancient Near Eastern Cultures at Tel Aviv University specializing in social archaeology, ancient architecture and field archaeology...
, Israeli archaeology - Ze'ev Jabotinsky, RussiaRussiaRussia or , officially known as both Russia and the Russian Federation , is a country in northern Eurasia. It is a federal semi-presidential republic, comprising 83 federal subjects...
n-Jewish statesman and political theorist; founded the Revisionist ZionistRevisionist ZionismRevisionist Zionism is a nationalist faction within the Zionist movement. It is the founding ideology of the non-religious right in Israel, and was the chief ideological competitor to the dominant socialist Labor Zionism...
movement and the IrgunIrgunThe Irgun , or Irgun Zevai Leumi to give it its full title , was a Zionist paramilitary group that operated in Mandate Palestine between 1931 and 1948. It was an offshoot of the earlier and larger Jewish paramilitary organization haHaganah... - Ze'ev MaghenZe'ev MaghenZe'ev Maghen is the Chair of The Department of Middle Eastern History at Bar-Ilan University in Israel and a research associate at the Begin-Sadat Center for Strategic Studies...
, Israeli historian - Ze'ev RabanZe'ev RabanZe’ev Raban was a leading painter, decorative artist, and industrial designer of the Bezalel school style, and was one of the founders of the Israeli art world.-Life:...
, Israeli artist - Ze'ev RevachZe'ev RevachZe'ev Revach is an Israeli comedian, movie actor, and director. He is a star of the Israeli movie genre known as bourekas films.-Biography:...
, Israeli actor and comedian - Ze'ev SchiffZe'ev SchiffZe'ev Schiff was an Israeli journalist and military correspondent for Ha'aretz....
, Israeli journalist - Ze'ev SherfZe'ev SherfZe'ev Sherf was an Israeli politician who held several ministerial portfolios in the 1960s and 1970s.- Biography :Born in Czernowitz in Austria-Hungary , Sherf made aliyah in 1925...
, Israeli Labour politician - Ze'ev SmasonZe'ev Smason-Rabbi Ze'ev Smason:Rabbi Smason was born in Chicago and raised in Los Angeles.Rabbi Ze'ev Smason is the spiritual leader of , an orthodox congregation in St. Louis. He lives in University City with his wife, Chani, and their 9 children.-Education:...
, American Modern OrthodoxModern Orthodox JudaismModern Orthodox Judaism is a movement within Orthodox Judaism that attempts to synthesize Jewish values and the observance of Jewish law, with the secular, modern world....
rabbiRabbiIn Judaism, a rabbi is a teacher of Torah. This title derives from the Hebrew word רבי , meaning "My Master" , which is the way a student would address a master of Torah... - Ze'ev Wolf KitzesZe'ev Wolf KitzesZe'ev Wolf Kitzes וואלף קיצעס was a noted Hassidic rabbi.He was the rabbi of the Tulchin community. Later he moved to Medzhibozh where he, together with Rabbi David Purkes, stood at the head of the group of Chassidim that preceded the Baal Shem Tov...
, PolishPolandPoland , officially the Republic of Poland , is a country in Central Europe bordered by Germany to the west; the Czech Republic and Slovakia to the south; Ukraine, Belarus and Lithuania to the east; and the Baltic Sea and Kaliningrad Oblast, a Russian exclave, to the north...
HasidicHasidic JudaismHasidic Judaism or Hasidism, from the Hebrew —Ḥasidut in Sephardi, Chasidus in Ashkenazi, meaning "piety" , is a branch of Orthodox Judaism that promotes spirituality and joy through the popularisation and internalisation of Jewish mysticism as the fundamental aspects of the Jewish faith...
rabbi - Zev YaroslavskyZev YaroslavskyZev Yaroslavsky is a Los Angeles County politician. He served on the Los Angeles City Council from 1975 until 1994, when he was elected to the Los Angeles County Board of Supervisors. He was preceded in both offices by Edmund D...
, American politician of Israeli descent - Ze'ev Zrizi, Israeli MapamMapamMapam was a political party in Israel and is one of the ancestors of the modern-day Meretz party.-History:Mapam was formed by a January 1948 merger of the Hashomer Hatzair Workers Party and Ahdut HaAvoda Poale Zion Movement. The party was originally Marxist-Zionist in its outlook and represented...
politician
Other uses of Ze'ev
- American journalist Wolf BlitzerWolf BlitzerWolf Isaac Blitzer is an American journalist who has been a CNN reporter since 1990. Blitzer is currently the host of the newscast The Situation Room and was the host of the Sunday talk show Late Edition until it was discontinued on January 11, 2009...
uses the pseudonymPseudonymA pseudonym is a name that a person assumes for a particular purpose and that differs from his or her original orthonym...
s Ze'ev Blitzer and Ze'ev Barak when he writes for Israeli publications.