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Moshe Katsav
8th President of Israel (2000–2007)
Mountain Jews
Jewish group of Khazaria and the Caucus
Nouriel Roubini
American economist
Mordecai
Mordecai (; also Mordechai; , IPA: ) is one of the main personalities in the Book of Esther in the Hebrew Bible. He is the cousin and guardian of Esther, who became queen of Persia under the reign of Ahasuerus (Xerxes I). The king's grand vizier Haman is offended by Mordecai because of his refusal to bow before him, and when confronted, Mordecai's excuse was simply that he was a Jew. Consequently, Haman plots to have all of Persia's Jews killed, and eventually convinces Ahasuerus to permit him to do so. Mordecai's loyalty and bravery are highlighted throughout the story as he convinces Esther
Shaul Mofaz
Israeli military officer and politician
Shaun Toub
Iranian-born American actor
Iranian Jews
Jews associated with the Persian and Iranian states
Judeo-Tat
Judeo-Tat or Juhuri (, , ) is a Judeo-Persian dialect and the traditional language spoken by the Mountain Jews in the eastern Caucasus Mountains, especially Azerbaijan, parts of Russia and today in Israel. It belongs to the southwestern group of the Iranian division of the Indo-European languages, albeit with heavy influence from Hebrew. The words Juhuri and Juhuro translate as "Jewish" and "Jews".
Irán Eory
Iranian actress (1939–2002)
Roya Hakakian
Iranian American author
Bahar Soomekh
Mexican-born Iranian American actress
Habib Elghanian
Iranian Jewish businessman (1909–1979)
Nasser Khalili
British scholar, collector and philanthropist
Maurice Motamed
Iranian politician
Nitsana Darshan-Leitner
Israeli activist and lawyer
Sulayman Hayyim
Iranian lexicographer and author
Eden Natan-Zada
Israeli mass murderer (1986–2005)
Dalia Sofer
American writer
Homa Sarshar
American writer and activist
Eliezer Avtabi
Israeli politician
David B. Samadi
American surgeon
Tanaz Eshaghian
Iranian-American filmmaker
Medalion Rahimi
American actress
Isaac Larian
American businessman
Judeo-Shirazi
Judeo-Shirazi is a variety of Fars. Some Judeo-Shirazi speakers refer to the language as Jidi, though Jidi is normally a designation used by speakers of Judeo-Esfahani. It is spoken mostly by Persian Jews living in Shiraz and surrounding areas of the Fars province in Iran.
Mordechai Zar
Israeli politician (1914–1982)
Esther Shkalim
Israeli poet, Mizrahi feminist
Jimmy Delshad
Iranian-American politician
Ari Ben-Menashe
Iranian-born Israeli businessman, security consultant and author
Houshang Mashian
Iranian Chess Champion 1958.
Avshalom Elitzur
Israeli physicist and philosopher (born 1957)
Ezra Zion Melamed
Talmudic scholar
Meir Ezrī
Israeli diplomat, politician and writer (1924-2015)
Morteza Neydavoud
Iranian musician
Dan Ahdoot
comedian
Yuval Delshad
Israeli film director of Iranian descent
Benjamin Nahawandi
Karaite scholar
Izak Parviz Nazarian
American businessman
Mashhadi Jews
Iranian Jewish community
Haroun Yashayaei
Jewish activist
Eliezer Kashani
Israeli Irgun Member (1923–1947)
Habib Levy
Iranian historian
Bob Yari
Iranian-American film producer
Imrani
Emrānī (or Imrānī; 1454–1536) was a Judæo-Persian poet, being "one of the most prominent Jewish poets of Iran". Emrānī was inspired by the earlier poet Shāhīn to choose "as his field the post-Mosaic era from Joshua to the period of David and Solomon".
Ofer Nimrodi
businessperson
Younes Hamami
Iranian Rabbi and physician
Ḥanina Misraḥi
folklorist, historian, translator
Mandana Dayani
American lawyer
Shmuel Hayyim
Iranian journalist