List of Famous people named Yitzhak

Similar names: Itzhak. Here are some famous Yitzhaks:

Yizhak Rabin

Born on March 1, 1922
Died on November 4, 1995 (aged 73)

Yitzhak Rabin was an Israeli politician, statesman and general. He was the fifth Prime Minister of Israel, serving two terms in office, 1974–77, and 1992 until his assassination in 1995.

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Yitzhak Melamed

First Name Yitzhak
Born on March 7, 1968 (age 56)

Yitzhak Y. Melamed is an Israeli-American philosopher and a leading scholar of Spinoza and modern philosophy. He is the Charlotte Bloomberg Professor of Philosophy at Johns Hopkins University. He holds a master's degree in history & philosophy of science from Tel Aviv University and a philosophy PhD from Yale University. Melamed won numerous fellowships and grants, including the Fulbright (1996-8), American Academy for Jewish Research (2003-5), Mellon (2005), Humboldt (2011), NEH (2012), and ACLS-Burkhardt (2012) Fellowships, and taught intensive masterclasses at the University of Toronto (2016), École normale supérieure de Lyon (2016), Peking University (2017), and the École des hautes études en sciences sociales (2019)

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Yitzhak Arad

First Name Yitzhak
Born on November 11, 1926
Died on May 6, 2021 (aged 94)

Yitzhak Arad was an Israeli historian, author, IDF brigadier general and Soviet partisan. He also served as Yad Vashem's director from 1972 to 1993, and specialised in the history of the Holocaust.

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Yitzhak Navon

First Name Yitzhak
Born on April 9, 1921
Died on November 7, 2015 (aged 94)

Yitzhak Rachamim Navon was an Israeli politician, diplomat, and author. He served as the fifth President of Israel between 1978 and 1983 as a member of the centre-left Alignment party. He was the first Israeli president born in Jerusalem and the first Mizrahi Jew to serve in that office.

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Yitzhak HaLevi Herzog

First Name Yitzhak
Died on July 25, 1959

Yitzhak HaLevi Herzog, also known as Isaac Herzog or Hertzog, was the first Chief Rabbi of Ireland, his term lasting from 1921 to 1936. From 1936 until his death in 1959, he was Ashkenazi Chief Rabbi of the British Mandate of Palestine and of Israel after its independence in 1948.

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Yitzhak Nissim

First Name Yitzhak
Born on January 1, 1896
Died on August 9, 1981 (aged 85)

Yitzhak Nissim was a Sephardic chief rabbi of Israel. Nissim was born in Baghdad and immigrated to Israel in 1925. He studied under Rabbi Sadqa Hussein.

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Yitzhak Ben-Zvi

First Name Yitzhak
Born on November 24, 1884
Died on April 23, 1963 (aged 78)

Yitzhak Ben-Zvi was a historian, Labor Zionist leader and the longest-serving President of Israel.

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Yitzhak Katznelson

First Name Yitzhak
Born on January 1, 1934 (age 90)

Yitzhak Katznelson is an Israeli mathematician.

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Yitzhak Kahan

First Name Yitzhak
Born on November 15, 1913
Died on April 24, 1985 (aged 71)
Born in Ukraine, Lviv Oblast

Yitzhak Kahan was President of the Supreme Court of Israel from 1982 until 1983. He was the Chairman of the Commission of Inquiry into the Events at the Refugee Camps in Beirut also known as the Kahan Commission, which was established to investigate the Sabra and Shatila massacre.

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Yitzhak Gruenbaum

First Name Yitzhak
Born on November 24, 1879
Died on September 7, 1970 (aged 90)

Yitzhak Gruenbaum was a noted leader of the Zionist movement among Polish Jewry in the interwar period and of the Yishuv in Mandatory Palestine. Gruenbaum was the first Interior Minister of the State of Israel.

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