Menachem Begin

Menachem Begin

male, deceased (1992) (Israel)
buried at the Mount of Olives, Warsaw University alumni, Former Member of the Knesset, Nobel Prize winner, belarusian, Polish-Jewish…ashkenazijew, ashkenazi
"'"' (August 16, 1913 – March 9, 1992) was a Polish-Jewish head of the Zionist underground group the Irgun, Nobel Peace Prize laureate and the fi...
Yona Metzger

Yona Metzger

male, 56 years old
Chief rabbi of Israel, Jewish person, Sabra, Chief rabbi, sephardic, ashkenazi…Sephardi Jew, ashkenazijew
Yona Metzger ; born 1953) has been the Ashkenazi Chief Rabbi of Israel since his appointment in 2003. His counterpart is Rabbi Shlomo Amar, the...
Shlomo Goren

Shlomo Goren

male, deceased (1994)
British administered, Chief rabbi of Israel, buried at the Mount of Olives, British Mandate of Palestine, polish, Orthodox Jew…ashkenazi, ashkenazijew
Shlomo Goren (1917-1994), was a former Orthodox Ashkenazi Chief Rabbi of Israel. Goren, born "Gorenchik", was born in Zambrow, Poland and...
Abraham Isaac Kook

Abraham Isaac Kook

male, deceased (1935)
Chief rabbi of Israel, buried at the Mount of Olives, Latvian, Jewish person, Mandate for Palestine, Jews buried in the Mount of Olives…ashkenazi, ashkenazijew
Abraham Isaac Kook was the first Ashkenazi chief rabbi of the British Mandate for Palestine, the founder of the (now) Religious Zionist Yeshiva...

Elazar Shach

male, deceased (2001)
gadol, Bnei Brak, Israel, Haredi, lithuanian, knesset, ashkenazijew…Lithuanian Jew
Elazar Menachem Man Shach (January 22, 1898 - November 2, 2001), was a leading Eastern European-born and educated Haredi rabbi who settled and...
Sharon Osbourne

Sharon Osbourne

female, 57 years old
cancer survivor, not so hot without makeup, Reality television judge, television talk show host, reality TV participant, music promoter…ashkenazijew, Ashkenazi Jewish
Sharon Rachel Osbourne is a well-known English music manager and promoter, television personality and presenter. She came into public prominence...
Michael Kaback

Michael Kaback

male
ashkenazijew, University Of California-San Diego, tay-sachs disease, National Institutes of Health, University of California, San Diego faculty, Ashkenazi Jewish
Michael M. Kaback, M.D. is a Professor of Pediatrics and Reproductive Medicine, and chief of the Division of Medical Genetics, at the University of...

Isaac Tyrnau

male
rabbi, hebrew, German, moral, ashkenazijew, yeshiva
Rabbi Isaac Tyrnau is best known as author of "Sefer Minhagim" (Hebrew: "Book of Customs"). He was active in Hungary in the late 1400s and early...
Yisrael Meir Lau

Yisrael Meir Lau

male, 72 years old
Israeli, Chief rabbi of Israel, polish, ashkenazijew, Jewish person, tel aviv…ashkenazi
Yisrael (Israel) Meir Lau is currently the Chief Rabbi of Tel Aviv, Israel. He previously served as the Israeli Ashkenazi Chief Rabbi from 1993 to...
Jacques Faitlovitch

Jacques Faitlovitch

male, deceased (1955)
linguist, Anthropologist, French, ashkenazijew, Jewish person, University of Paris alumni…Ethiopian Jew
Jacques Faitlovitch, an Ashkenazi Jew born in Łódź, Congress Poland, studied Ethiopian languages at the Sorbonne under Joseph Halévy. He trav...