Ben-Zion
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Ben-Zion is a Hebrew
given name. It may refer to the following people:
Family name
Hebrew language
Hebrew is a Semitic language of the Afroasiatic language family. Culturally, is it considered by Jews and other religious groups as the language of the Jewish people, though other Jewish languages had originated among diaspora Jews, and the Hebrew language is also used by non-Jewish groups, such...
given name. It may refer to the following people:
- Ben-Zion DinurBen-Zion Dinur-Biography:Dinaburg was born in 1884 in Khorol in the Russian Empire . He received his education in Lithuanian yeshivot. He studied under Shimon Shkop in the Telz Yeshiva, and became interested in the Haskalah through Rosh Yeshiva Eliezer Gordon's polemics. In 1898 he moved to the Slabodka yeshiva...
, an Israeli politician - Ben-Zion GoldBen-Zion GoldBen-Zion Gold is an American rabbi who was the Rabbi of the Hillel at Harvard University from 1958 until he became Rabbi Emeritus in 1990. Gold was born in 1923 in Radom, Poland, and is the only member of his family to have survived The Holocaust...
, an American rabbi - Ben-Zion HalfonBen-Zion HalfonBen-Zion Halfon was an Israeli politician who served as a member of the Knesset for the Alignment between 1969 and 1977.-Biography:Born in Tripoli in Libya in 1930, Halfon was a member of a Zionist youth movement. In 1947 he attempted to make aliyah to Mandate Palestine via Italy, aboard the...
, an Israeli politician - Ben-Zion HarelBen-Zion HarelBen-Zion Harel was an Israeli doctor and politician, who served as a member of the Knesset for the General Zionists between 1951 and 1959.-Biography:...
, an Israeli doctor and politician - Ben-Zion KeshetBen-Zion KeshetBen-Zion Keshet was an Israeli politician who served as a member of the Knesset for Gahal and Likud between 1969 and 1977.-Biography:Born in Riga in the Russian Empire , Keshet attended a Hebrew high school in his home city. He joined the Betar youth movement and helped establish the Estonian...
, an Israeli politician - Ben-Zion Meir Hai UzielBen-Zion Meir Hai UzielBen-Zion Meir Hai Uziel was the Sephardi chief rabbi of the British Mandate of Palestine from 1939 to 1948, and of Israel from 1948 to 1954.-Biography:...
, an Israeli rabbi - Ben-Zion OrgadBen-Zion OrgadBen-Zion Orgad was an Israeli composer....
, an Israeli composer - Ben-Zion RubinBen-Zion RubinBen-Zion Rubin is a former Israeli politician who served as a member of the Knesset for the National Religious Party and Tami between 1977 and 1984.-Biography:Born in Tripoli in Libya in 1939, Rubin made aliyah to Israel in 1949...
, an Israeli politician - Ben-Zion SternbergBen-Zion SternbergBen-Zion Sternberg , Zionist and signatory of the Declaration of the Establishment of the State of Israel, was born in Czernowitz, Bukovina, a region of the Austro-Hungarian Empire. He was born to a comparatively prosperous local Jewish family...
, a Zionist leader - S. Ben Zion, pen name of Simha Alter Guttman, a Jewish author
Family name
- Yehoshua Ben-ZionYehoshua Ben-ZionYehoshua Ben-Zion was an Israeli banker. He served as the managing director of Israel-British Bank. Following the collapse of the bank in July 1974, owing British investors £46.6 million, Ben-Zion was convicted of embezzling £20 million from the bank. He was sentenced to 12 years in prison...
, Israeli banker.