Yossi
Encyclopedia
Yossi is a Hebrew given name
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...

, usually a short and nickname for Yosef (biblical Joseph
Joseph (Hebrew Bible)
Joseph is an important character in the Hebrew bible, where he connects the story of Abraham, Isaac and Jacob in Canaan to the subsequent story of the liberation of the Israelites from slavery in Egypt....

). It's a very popular first name in Israel
Israel
The State of Israel is a parliamentary republic located in the Middle East, along the eastern shore of the Mediterranean Sea...

. It may refer to:

People

  • Abba Yossi
    Abba Yossi
    Abba Yossi appears in a Leviticus Rabba around the fourth century, in both Hebrew and Aramaic and in several sources....

     – Mythology
    Mythology
    The term mythology can refer either to the study of myths, or to a body or collection of myths. As examples, comparative mythology is the study of connections between myths from different cultures, whereas Greek mythology is the body of myths from ancient Greece...

     figure.
  • Country Yossi
    Country Yossi
    Country Yossi is the name of a monthly, English-language Orthodox Jewish magazine, a radio show, a collection of musical albums, and children's books created, composed, authored, and published by Yossi Toiv, who took on the nickname "Country Yossi" and then transferred it onto the magazine, radio...

     – American radio person.
  • Yossi Abukasis
    Yossi Abukasis
    Yossi Abukasis is a former Israeli football Midfielder and the manager of Bnei Yehuda.-Career: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...

     – Israel
    Israel
    The State of Israel is a parliamentary republic located in the Middle East, along the eastern shore of the Mediterranean Sea...

    i football player.
  • Yossi Alpher
    Yossi Alpher
    Yossi Alpher is a consultant and writer on Israel-related strategic issues. He is coeditor of bitterlemons.org and bitterlemons-international.org together with Ghassan Khatib, former Minister of Planning in the Palestinian Authority. Bitterlemons.org is an online Israeli-Palestinian political...

     – Israeli political
    Politics
    Politics is a process by which groups of people make collective decisions. The term is generally applied to the art or science of running governmental or state affairs, including behavior within civil governments, but also applies to institutions, fields, and special interest groups such as the...

     activist
    Activism
    Activism consists of intentional efforts to bring about social, political, economic, or environmental change. Activism can take a wide range of forms from writing letters to newspapers or politicians, political campaigning, economic activism such as boycotts or preferentially patronizing...

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  • Yossi Banai
    Yossi Banai
    Yossi Banai was an Israeli performer, singer, actor, and dramatist.-Biography:Banai was born in Jerusalem, and grew up in the neighborhood of the Mahane Yehuda market...

     – Israeli actor
    Acting
    Acting is the work of an actor or actress, which is a person in theatre, television, film, or any other storytelling medium who tells the story by portraying a character and, usually, speaking or singing the written text or play....

    , singer
    Singing
    Singing is the act of producing musical sounds with the voice, and augments regular speech by the use of both tonality and rhythm. One who sings is called a singer or vocalist. Singers perform music known as songs that can be sung either with or without accompaniment by musical instruments...

     and playwright.
  • Yossi Beilin
    Yossi Beilin
    Dr. Yosef "Yossi" Beilin is a left-wing Israeli politician and a former Knesset member, Deputy Foreign Affairs Minister and Justice Minister, representing both the Labor Party and Meretz-Yachad, of which he served as chairman between 2003 and 2006. He is best known for his involvement with the...

     – Israeli politician
    Politics
    Politics is a process by which groups of people make collective decisions. The term is generally applied to the art or science of running governmental or state affairs, including behavior within civil governments, but also applies to institutions, fields, and special interest groups such as the...

     (former minister
    Minister (government)
    A minister is a politician who holds significant public office in a national or regional government. Senior ministers are members of the cabinet....

     in the Israeli government).
  • Jose ben Halafta
    Jose ben Halafta
    Rabbi Jose ben Halafta or Yose ben Halafta was a Tanna of the fourth generation . Jose was a student of Rabbi Akiba and was regarded as one of the foremost scholars of halakha and aggadah of his day...

     – (aka Rabbi Yossi) Jewish
    Judaism
    Judaism ) is the "religion, philosophy, and way of life" of the Jewish people...

     tanna
    Tannaim
    The Tannaim were the Rabbinic sages whose views are recorded in the Mishnah, from approximately 70-200 CE. The period of the Tannaim, also referred to as the Mishnaic period, lasted about 130 years...

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  • Yossi Ben Hanan
    Yossi Ben Hanan
    Aluf Yossi Ben Hanan was born in Jerusalem, Israel, in 1945. His father, Michael Ben Hanan served as one of the top commanders, in Jerusalem....

     – Israeli general.
  • Yossi Benayoun
    Yossi Benayoun
    Yosef Shai "Yossi" Benayoun is an Israeli international footballer who plays for Arsenal on loan from Chelsea.Benayoun plays as an attacking midfielder, often occupying the space just behind the striker. In Israel, he is sometimes nicknamed "The Diamond from Dimona". He is also the captain of the...

     – Israeli football player.
  • Yossi Brackman
    Yossi Brackman
    Yossi Brackman is A rabbi at the University of Chicago and, together with his wife Baila, serves as the director of the Chabad Jewish Center that serves the university and the Hyde Park Jewish community....

     – American rabbi
    Rabbi
    In 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...

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  • Yossi Cedar
    Joseph Cedar
    Yossef Cedar is an Israeli film director and screenwriter. He has won a Silver Bear and an Ophir Award for Best Director, and an Ophir Award for writing a Best Screenplay. He also won the best screenplay award at the 2011 Cannes Film Festival. for his film Footnote .-Biography:Cedar was born in...

     – Israeli filmmaker
    Film director
    A film director is a person who directs the actors and film crew in filmmaking. They control a film's artistic and dramatic nathan roach, while guiding the technical crew and actors.-Responsibilities:...

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  • Yossi Dagan
    Yossi Dagan
    Yossi Dagan is an Israeli grassroots community organizer. -Homesh First:Yossi Dagan is the leader of Homesh First. Homesh First is a grassroots organization dedicated to resettling and rebuilding Homesh....

     – Israeli activist.
  • Yossi Dahan
    Yossi Dahan
    Yossi Dahan is founder and chairman of Adva Center), a lecturer in philosophy and law, and a leading activist on social justice issues in Israeli society.Dahan earned his PhD at Columbia University under the supervision of Thomas Pogge...

     – Israeli scholar and activist.
  • Yossi Harel
    Yossi Harel
    Yossi Harel , born Yosef Hamburger was the supervisor of the Exodus 1947 operation and a leading member of the Israeli intelligence community.-Biography:...

     – Israeli military
    Military
    A military is an organization authorized by its greater society to use lethal force, usually including use of weapons, in defending its country by combating actual or perceived threats. The military may have additional functions of use to its greater society, such as advancing a political agenda e.g...

     person.
  • Yossi Katz
    Yossi Katz
    Yossi Katz is an Israeli former politician who served as a member of the Knesset for the Labor Party and One Israel between 1992 and 2003.-Biography:...

     – Israeli politician.
  • Yossi Klein Halevi
    Yossi Klein Halevi
    Yossi Klein Halevi is an Israeli author and journalist.-Biography:Halevi was born and raised in New York in a Jewish family. He completed a BA in Jewish Studies in Brooklyn College in 1978, and completed his MA in Journalism at Northwestern University...

     – Israeli journalist
    Journalism
    Journalism is the practice of investigation and reporting of events, issues and trends to a broad audience in a timely fashion. Though there are many variations of journalism, the ideal is to inform the intended audience. Along with covering organizations and institutions such as government and...

     and writer.
  • Yossi Melman
    Yossi Melman
    Yossi Melman is an Israeli writer and journalist.Yossi Melman graduated from Hebrew University of Jerusalem and was a Nieman Fellow at Harvard University...

     – Israeli journalist and writer.
  • Yossi Mizrahi
    Yossi Mizrahi
    Yossi Mizrahi is a retired Israeli goalkeeper, and now hes a football coach and current manager of F.C. Ashdod.-Biography:Yosef Mizrahi was born in Jerusalem, Israel on April 4, 1953. He grew up in Katamon and studied at Ma'aleh state religious school. As a teenager, he played on the youth team...

     – Israeli former football player and coach.
  • Yossi Paritzky
    Yosef Paritzky
    -Background:Paritzky studied law at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, where he gained an LL.B, and went on to work as an attorney. He is an attorney both in Israel and in New York....

     – Israeli politician and attorney
    Lawyer
    A lawyer, according to Black's Law Dictionary, is "a person learned in the law; as an attorney, counsel or solicitor; a person who is practicing law." Law is the system of rules of conduct established by the sovereign government of a society to correct wrongs, maintain the stability of political...

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  • Yossi Peled
    Yossi Peled
    Yossi Peled is an Israeli general and politician, the former Aluf of the Northern Command in the Israel Defense Forces. He currently serves as a member of the Knesset for Likud.-Early life:...

     – Israeli politician and general.
  • Yossi Sarid
    Yossi Sarid
    Yossi Sarid 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...

     – Israeli politician (former minister]] in the Israeli government).
  • Yossi Shain
    Yossi Shain
    Yossi Shain is an academic specializing in international relations, comparative politics and diaspora politics. Yossi received his PhD from Yale in 1988. He formerly headed the political science department at Tel Aviv University...

     – Israeli scholar.
  • Yossi Shekel
    Yossi Shekel
    Yossi Shekel is an Israeli footballer who plays for FC Kairat. He previously played for Hapoel Petah Tikva, Hapoel Nazareth Illit, Maccabi Herzliya, Hapoel Kfar Saba, Maccabi Be'er Sheva, Bnei Yehuda and Beitar Shimshon Tel Aviv. At international level, he played nine times for the Israeli...

     – Israeli [football player.
  • Yossi Shivhon
    Yossi Shivhon
    Yossi Shivhon is an Israeli footballer who plays for Hapoel Be'er Sheva.-External links:*http://www.one.co.il/Article/159935.html*http://www.ynet.co.il/articles/0,7340,L-3903699,00.html*http://www.ynet.co.il/articles/0,7340,L-3514199,00.html...

     – Israeli football player.
  • Yossi Vardi
    Yossi Vardi
    Joseph Vardi , is one of Israel's first high-tech entrepreneurs. For over 40 years he has founded and helped to build over 60 high-tech companies in a variety of fields, among them software, energy, Internet, mobile, electro-optics and water technology.-Biography:Joseph Vardi was born in Tel...

     – Israeli entrepreneur
    Entrepreneur
    An entrepreneur is an owner or manager of a business enterprise who makes money through risk and initiative.The term was originally a loanword from French and was first defined by the Irish-French economist Richard Cantillon. Entrepreneur in English is a term applied to a person who is willing to...

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Literature

Yossi Blumenthal
Joseph Blumenthal
Joseph Blumenthal is one of the main characters in the novel The Hope by Herman Wouk. He is more commonly known as "Yossi," and also as "Don Kishote" . Americans call him "Joe" and Yiddish-speakers call him "Yussele." He earns his "Don Kishote" nickname when he appears at the Battle of Latrun...

 – Character in The Hope by Herman Wouk
Herman Wouk
Herman Wouk is a Pulitzer Prize-winning American author of novels including The Caine Mutiny, The Winds of War, and War and Remembrance.-Biography:...

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