Hebrew-language surnames

Ben is a masculine given name. It is often short for Benjamin, Benedict, Bennett, Benson, and Ebenezer.

Rabin is a Hebrew surname. It originates from the Hebrew word rav meaning Rabbi, or from the name of the specific Rabbi Abin. The most well known bearer of the name was Yitzhak Rabin, prime minister of Israel and Nobel Peace prize Laureate.

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Joffe (Joffé, Иоффе, Ioffe, Yoffe) is a Hebrew-language surname, a variant of Jaffe. Notable people with this surname include:

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right|thumb|Peggy Hopkins Joyce portrayed Sharon Kimm in the 1926 American film [[The Skyrocket.]] Sharon ( 'plain'), also spelled Saron, is a given name as well as a Hebrew name.

family name

process in which diaspora Jews adopt Hebrew surnames following their migration to Israel

Cohen () is a surname of Jewish, Samaritan and Biblical origins (see: Kohen). It is a common Jewish surname, and is the most common surname in Israel.

Margulis is a surname that, like its variants, is derived from the Ashkenazi Hebrew pronunciation of the Hebrew word Margalit (, )), meaning 'pearl.' Notable people and characters with the name include:

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family name

Harel is both a surname and a given name. Notable people with the name include:

family name (אשכנזי)

Biran may refer to:

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Doron () may refer to:

Jaffe and its variant spellings Jaffé, Yaffe and Yaffé () are Hebrew-language surnames.

family name

Halevi, HaLevi, ha-Levi or Halévy (, ) means an Israelite man descended patrilineally from the tribe of Levi. Notable people identified as HaLevi include:

Zahavi () or Zehavi is one of the common Hebrew translations for the Ashkenazi Jewish last names Goldman, Goldstein, and Goldberg. It can refer to:

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Davies is a patronymic Welsh surname meaning "son of David". It is the second most common surname in Wales, a rank it shares with "Williams", and the eighth most common surname in England, where many people have Welsh ancestry. It is particularly widespread in southwest England, especially Cornwall, and in the areas of northwest England that are near the border with Wales.

Shallit, Shalit (; šallīt "ruler"), also transliterated as Schalit or Schallit, is a Hebrew-language surname. Notable people with the surname include: Abraham Schalit (18981979), Galician-Israeli historian Amos de-Shalit (19261969), Israeli nuclear physicist Gene Shalit (born 1926), American film critic Gilad Shalit (born 1986), Israeli soldier captured by Hamas Heinrich Schalit (18861976), Jewish Austrian-American musician and composer Jean Schalit (1937–2020), French journalist Joseph Shalit Riqueti (17th century), Israeli-Italian rabbi Jeffrey Shallit (born 1957), American computer

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Halfon () is a Hebrew surname. Notable people with the surname include:

Kishon () may refer to:

Ben-Ari () is a Hebrew name, meaning "son of a lion". It may refer to:

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Sarfati (, ), variously transliterated and spelled Sarfatti, Sarphati, Serfaty, Sarfate, Sarfaty, Sarfity, Zarfati, Tsarfati, Tsarfaty, Tzarfati, Serfati, is a Sephardic Jewish surname.

Nathaniel is an English variant of the biblical Hebrew name Nathanael. It can be a given or surname.

Eshkol () is a Hebrew language word meaning "cluster", usually of grapes. When not related to the Hebrew Bible and botany (where it can also mean "raceme", a region of a flowering plant's anatomy), it is normally associated with the third Israeli prime minister, Levi Eshkol.

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Rokeach or Rokach (Hebrew for "apothecary", "perfume", "perfumer" or "pharmacist") is the surname of:

Drori, sometimes spelled as Drory, is a surname that is possibly a variation of the English surname Drury, or Drewry. Notable people with this surname include:

family name

Chinese family name (冉)

male given name

family name

Margalit (, lit. pearl) is a Hebrew-language given name and surname. Before the First Aliyah it was mainly used in this form by Sephardic Jews, while its variant Margulis was more common among Ashkenazis. It may refer to:

family name (נתניהו)

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