Aharon (given name)
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Aharon is masculine
Masculine
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 given name
Given name
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 alternate spelling, commonly in Israel
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, of Aaron
Aaron
In the Hebrew Bible and the Qur'an, Aaron : Ααρών ), who is often called "'Aaron the Priest"' and once Aaron the Levite , was the older brother of Moses, and a prophet of God. He represented the priestly functions of his tribe, becoming the first High Priest of the Israelites...

, prominent biblical figure in the Old Testament
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, meaning "mountaineer", or "mount of strength". There are other variants including "Ahron" and "Aron". Aharon is also occasionally a patronymic
Patronymic
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 surname
Surname
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, usually with the hyphenated prefix "Ben-". People with the given name Aharon include:

Given name

  • Aharon Amar
    Aharon Amar
    Aharon Amar , is a former famous Israeli footballer who made his name at Maccabi Haifa. His storied career at the club put him for a long time in the history books as the most prolific goal scorer to ever wear the green and white when he scored a league record seventeen goals in the 1958/59 season...

  • Aharon Amir
    Aharon Amir
    Aharon Amir was an Israeli Hebrew poet, a literary translator and a writer.- Biography :Amir was born in Kaunas, Lithuania. He moved to Palestine with his family in 1933 and grew up in Tel Aviv. His father,...

  • Aharon Appelfeld
    Aharon Appelfeld
    -Biography:Appelfeld was born in the village of Zhadova near Czernowitz, Romania, now Ukraine. In 1941, when he was eight years old, the Romanian army invaded his hometown and his mother was murdered. Appelfeld was deported with his father to a concentration camp in Ukraine. He escaped and hid for...

     (born 1932), Israeli novelist
  • Aharon Barak
    Aharon Barak
    Aharon Barak is a Professor of Law at the Interdisciplinary Center in Herzliya and a lecturer in law at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, the Yale Law School, and the University of Toronto Faculty of Law....

  • Aharon Davidi
    Aharon Davidi
    Aharon Davidi is an Israeli general and founder of the Sar-El volunteer program of the IDF.-Biography:He was born in Israel as the youngest son of an immigrant family from Bender, . At the age of fifteen, he served in the Haganah and Palmach...

  • Aharon Dolgopolsky
    Aharon Dolgopolsky
    Aharon Dolgopolsky is a Russian-born Israeli comparative linguist and one of the modern founders of comparative Nostratic linguistics.Born in Moscow, he arrived at the long-forgotten Nostratic hypothesis in the 1960s, at around the same time but independently of Vladislav Illich-Svitych...

  • Aharon Feldman
    Aharon Feldman
    Aharon Feldman is an Orthodox Jewish rabbi and rosh yeshiva of Yeshivas Ner Yisroel in Baltimore, Maryland. He has held this position since 2001....

  • Aharon Gershgoren
    Aharon Gershgoren
    Aharon Gershgoren is a former Israeli footballer and holder of the most goals in a match record at Maccabi Haifa scoring six goals in one game.-External links:...

  • Aharon Gurevich
    Aharon Gurevich
    Colonel Rabbi Aharon Gurevich is the first Chief Rabbi of the Russian Army since the 1917 Bolshevik Revolution. Rabbi Gurevich was appointed by Russian Chief Rabbi Berel Lazar, in December 2007- References :...

  • Aharon HaLevi
    Aharon HaLevi
    Aaron ben Joseph ha-Levi of Barcelona , known by his Hebrew acronym RaaH , was a medieval rabbi, Talmudic scholar and Halakhist....

  • Aharon Katzir
    Aharon Katzir
    Aharon Katzir was an Israeli pioneer in the study of the electrochemistry of biopolymers. He was killed in the Lod Airport Massacre in 1972.-Biography:...

    , Israeli pioneer
  • Yitzhak Aharon Korff
  • Aharon Kotler
    Aharon Kotler
    Aharon Kotler was an Orthodox Jewish rabbi and a prominent leader of Orthodox Judaism in Lithuania, and later the United States, where he built Beth Medrash Govoha in Lakewood Township, New Jersey.- Early life :...

  • Aharon Lichtenstein
    Aharon Lichtenstein
    Aharon Lichtenstein is a noted Orthodox rabbi and rosh yeshiva.Rabbi Lichtenstein was born in Paris, France, but grew up in the United States, studied in Yeshiva Rabbi Chaim Berlin under Rabbi Yitzchok Hutner...

  • Aharon Megged
    Aharon Megged
    Aharon Megged is an Israeli author and playwright.-Biography:Aharon Megged was born in 1920 in Włocławek, Poland, and in 1926 immigrated with his parents to Mandate Palestine. He grew up in Ra'anana, attending the Herzliya high school in Tel Aviv...

  • Avraham Aharon Price
    Avraham Aharon Price
    Rabbi Abraham Aharon Price was a world-renowned Torah scholar, writer, educator, and a community leader in Toronto, Canada. He was one of the city's most influential rabbinic figures.- Community leader :...

  • Aharon Remez
    Aharon Remez
    Aluf Aharon Remez was an Israeli civil servant, politician and diplomat, and the second commander of the Israeli Air Force.-Biography:Born in Tel Aviv in 1919, Remez's father David was Israel's first Minister of Transportation. He joined the Haganah in 1936. Three years later he was sponsored by...

  • Aharon Rokeach
    Aharon Rokeach
    Aharon Rokeach was the fourth Rebbe of the Belz Hasidic dynasty. He led the movement from 1926 until his death in 1957....

  • Aharon Roth
    Aharon Roth
    Rabbi Aharon Roth, known as Reb Ahrele , was the founder of the Shomrei Emunim, Toldos Aharon and Toldos Avraham Yitzchak Hasidic dynasties...

  • Aaron Schechter
    Aaron Schechter
    Aaron Moshe Schechter is the rosh yeshiva of the Yeshiva Rabbi Chaim Berlin and its post-graduate Talmudical division Kollel Gur Aryeh as well as of all the branches of the yeshiva in Brooklyn, New York City that includes an elementary school and a high school for young Jewish boys, teenagers,...

  • Aharon Shabtai
    Aharon Shabtai
    Aharon Shabtai is one of the Hebrew language's leading poets, as well as a translator of Greek drama into Hebrew.-Biography:...

  • Aharon Leib Shteinman
  • Aharon Shulov
    Aharon Shulov
    Professor Aharon Shulov was an Israeli entomologist and the founder of the Jerusalem Biblical Zoo.-Biography:...

  • Haim Aharon Valero
  • Aharon Yariv
    Aharon Yariv
    Aharon "Aharale" Rabinovich Yariv was an Israeli politician and soldier.Born in Moscow in the Soviet Union. When he was 15 he immigrated to Israel and studied at the Pardes Hanna Agricultural High School. Yariv began his military service in the Haganah and later the British Army. He then joined...

  • Aharon Zisling
    Aharon Zisling
    Aharon Zisling was an Israeli politician and minister and a signatory of Israel's declaration of independence.-Biography:Born in Minsk in the Russian Empire , Zisling emigrated to Palestine in 1904...


See also

  • Ben-Aharon (surname)
  • Aaron (disambiguation)
    Aaron (disambiguation)
    - People :* Aaron, brother of Moses, Biblical figure* Y-chromosomal Aaron, the hypothesised most recent common ancestor of many Kohanim* Aaron , name origin, variants, and people with the given name...

  • Ahron
  • Aron
    Aron
    -Characters:* Aron , a character from the comic Aron! HyperSpace Boy!* Aron , a character from the Marvel Universe* Aron , a creature in the Pokémon video game series...

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