IDF spokesman, Captain Jacob Dallal said, " Our forces found a tunnel at the house in question, when an anti-tank missile was fired at them.

According to Israeli journalists Shlomo Nakdimon and Shaul Mayzlish, Dutch Jew Jacob Israël de Haan was assassinated by Avraham Tehomi on the orders of Haganah leader Yitzhak Ben-Zvi for his anti-Zionist political activities and contacts with Arab leaders.

* 1881 – Jacob Fichman, Romanian-born Israeli poet and essayist ( d. 1958 )

** Jacob Fichman, Romanian-born Israeli poet and essayist ( d. 1958 )

Ben-Gurion University has eight research institutes including: The Jacob Blaustein Institutes for Desert Research, the Ilse Katz Institute for Nanoscale Science and Technology, the Ben-Gurion Research Institute for the Study of Israel and Zionism, and Heksherim-The Research Institute for Jewish and Israeli Literature and Culture.

Jacob David Bekenstein ( Hebrew: יעקב בקנשטיין ) ( born May 1, 1947 ) is an Israeli theoretical physicist who has contributed to the foundation of black hole thermodynamics and to other aspects of the connections between information and gravitation.

In 1950 AJC President Jacob Blaustein reached an agreement with Israeli Prime Minister David Ben-Gurion stating that the political allegiance of American Jews was solely to their country of residence.

Sobhraj then went to Calcutta, where he murdered Israeli scholar Avoni Jacob for his passport, and used it to move to Singapore with Leclerc and Chowdhury, then to India and-rather boldly-back to Bangkok in March 1976.

Jacob Steinhardt ( 1887 – 1968 ) () was an Israeli painter and woodcut artist.

But if Israeli was attacked by Ibn Ezra he was praised by other Biblical commentators, such as Jacob b. Ruben, a contemporary of Maimonides, and by Ḥasdai.

In 1964 the Israeli physician Jacob Sheskin discovered the positive effect of Thalidomide in the treatment of leprosy.

Jacob Ziv (; born 1931 ) is an Israeli computer scientist who, along with Abraham Lempel, developed the LZ family of lossless data compression algorithms.

The foundations of modern Israeli writing were laid by a group of literary pioneers from the Second Aliyah including Shmuel Yosef Agnon, Moshe Smilansky, Yosef Haim Brenner, David Shimoni and Jacob Fichman.

Jacob Steinberg ( 1887-1947 ) was a major Ukrainian-born Israeli poet.

* K. V. Jacob, Officer on Special Duty to the Union Cabinet Minister of Defence

After retiring from NATO, Ismay wrote his memoirs, The Memoirs of General Lord Ismay, served on a variety of corporate boards, and co-chaired the Ismay – Jacob Committee, which reorganised the Ministry of Defence once again.

In 1813, the English master Jacob Henry Sarratt effectively standardised his English translation of the name of this opening as " the Sicilian Defence ", referring to an old Italian manuscript that used the phrase, " il gioco siciliano " (" The Sicilian Game ").

###### John Jacob Astor, 3rd Baron Astor of Hever ( born 1946 )-Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for Defence

However, Jacob was still officially seconded to the Ministry of Defence, and so a member of the Board of Management, Sir Basil Nicholls, was made acting Director-General until Jacob could be released back to the BBC.

Jacob was the co-author ( along with Lord Ismay ) of the 1963 Report on the Central Organisation of Defence, a work he later came to regard as his most important ever.

On 29 Marc 2003, SSgt Jacob Frazier of the 169th Air Support Operations Squadron was killed in action while serving with United States Army Special Forces in Afghanistan.

At Quebec, Colin Drummond became a business partner of Jacob Jordan and served as Commissary General, deputy Paymaster General to the Forces in the Province of Quebec and Legislative Councillor.

* Jacob Israelachvili, Intermolecular and Surface Forces, Academic Press ( 1985-2004 )

Jacob Fichman () also transliterated as Yakov Fichman ( 25 November 1881-18 May 1958 ), was an acclaimed Hebrew poet, essayist and literary critic.

From 1992 to 1993, despite numerous offers from Hollywood that came in the wake of her success — including the lead role in Indecent Proposal — Jacob focused on smaller French films.

From 1995 to 1999, Jacob made a series of American and European films that met with varying degrees of commercial and critical success.

Following the success of the Brussels tapestries woven after the Raphael cartoons, 16th and 17th-century patrons employed artists as tapestry designs ; Jacob Jordaens, Peter Paul Rubens and Pietro Cortona flattered patrons allegorically in a manner that would identify them with famous historical or mythological figures, as a form of aristocratic self-promotion.

Little Lulu was created as a result of Anderson's success, as noted by Schlesinger Library curator Kathryn Allamong Jacob:

He had success again with roots reggae, rockers, lovers rock and Dub music artists including: Dennis Brown, Jacob Miller, Sylford Walker, The Mighty Diamonds, Gregory Isaacs, Prince Alla and Junior Byles.

Beginning in 1904, he had great success with the more naturalistic reportoire of Jacob Gordin ; in 1906 he played in one of the many Yiddish productions of Karl Gutzkow's Uriel Acosta, before heading to New York City, where he performed with Jacob Adler, Boris Thomashefsky, Max Morrison, and others.

In 1656 he achieved success and bought a house, now known as " House of Jacob Stainer ," in which he built his instruments, including the most precious, preserved at the Tiroler Landesmuseum ( Ferdinandeum ) Innsbruck.

Asher grows up to be a formidable artist as an apprentice of Jacob Kahn, and even his father cannot help but be proud of his son's success.

The oratorio Jacob was created for Glasgow in 1873 ; and his opera Bertha was produced with some success at the Haymarket in 1855.

Jacob Underwood even commented, on a Making the Band recap of seasons one and two, that after " Liquid Dreams ", they alone had to prove themselves to the public that they weren't a " flash-in-the-pan " success.

It was hailed as an artistic success and led to other commissions, most notably Jacob Grimm of the Brothers Grimm, Italian military leader Giuseppe Garibaldi, composer Richard Wagner as well as his future wife and daughter of Franz Liszt, Cosima von Bülow, Prussian-German political figure Otto von Bismarck, and King George V of Hanover who in turn commissioned her for a portrait of composer Josef Joachim.

Dan Wilson and Munson formed a trio called Pleasure with Jacob Slichter, which later found the commercial success that had eluded Trip Shakespeare under the name Semisonic and were nominated for the Grammy Award for Best Rock Song in 1999 for writing the hit " Closing Time.

Several studies have questioned the basis for the protocol and have recommended abandoning it, however bioethicist Jacob M. Appel of New York University has said that the protocol is a success and should be expanded.

In a fuller description, when angels came to Abraham to tell him of the future punishment to be imposed on Sodom and Gomorrah, his wife, Sarah, " laughed, and We gave her good tidings of Isaac, and after Isaac of ( a grandson ) Jacob " ( XI: 71-74 ); and it is further explained that this event will take place despite Abraham and Sarah's old age.

She dismissed questions about her husband, Jacob, who, like her father, worked for the Indianapolis-St. Louis Railroad, by saying, " We never speak of him.

We gave him Isaac and Jacob: all ( three ) guided: and before him, We guided Noah, and among his progeny, David, Solomon, Job, Joseph, Moses, and Aaron: thus do We reward those who do good: And Zakariya and John, and Jesus and Elias: all in the ranks of the righteous: And Isma ' il and Elisha, and Jonas, and Lot: and to all We gave favour above the nations.

In a fuller description, when angels came to Abraham to tell him of the future punishment to be imposed on Sodom and Gomorrah, his wife, Sarah, " laughed, and We gave her good tidings of Isaac, and after Isaac of ( a grandson ) Jacob " ( XI: 71-74 ); and it is further explained that this event will take place despite Abraham and Sarah's old age.

We are all the sons of one father, the rebels ( reshaim ) and criminals, the heretics ( meshumadim ) and forced ones ( anusim ), and the proselytes ( gerim ) who are attached to the house of Jacob.

Vavi has argued that under Jacob Zuma's government " We are heading rapidly in the direction of a full-blown predator state in which a powerful corrupt and demagogic elite of political hyenas increasingly controls the state as a vehicle of accumulation and warned of a possible Tunisia style revolution.

We have and can learn from this failure, by carefully monitoring our use of religious language ... and our Jewish brothers and sisters can teach us to continue, with Jacob, to wrestle with God.

Albright, E. A. Speiser and Cyrus Gordon argued that although the texts described by the documentary hypothesis were written centuries after the Patriarchal age, archaeology had shown that they were nevertheless an accurate reflection of the conditions of the 2nd millennium BC: " We can assert with full confidence that Abraham, Isaac and Jacob were actual historical individuals.

Written with Jacob Covey, Comics as Art: We Told You So was initially scheduled for release in 2006.

2008 independent presidential candidate Ralph Nader referred to the laws such as the one Jacob was charged with breaking as “ Jim Crow laws ,” adding, “ We ’ ve seen this before against African Americans.