One of them, Igaal Alon and Kibbutz Artzi member Shimon Avidan were the two most important commanders who won the War of Independence, and numerous kibbutz members were Cabinet Ministers who largely shaped Israeli politics form 1955 to 1977.

The operation was commanded by Shimon Avidan.

Givati was formed in December 1947 and placed under the command of Shimon Avidan.

Shimon Avidan

For seven months after the assassination of Lord Moyne, members of the Palmach under the command of Shimon Avidan were involved in the Saison Operation, in which they cooperated with the British in an attempt to crush the Irgun and Stern Gang.

* Shimon Avidan — commander of the " German Department "

* Israel Livertovski, Shimon Avidan — Pluga Vav commander

He learned Greek himself in order to become useful to his people and Shimon, then under the Roman proconsuls, that language having become, to a considerable extent, the rival of the Hebrew even in prayer ( Yer.

The formula in which a person's name is written is one's own Hebrew name, the son / daughter of one's mother's Hebrew name, such as Shimon ben Rivkah ( Simeon the son of Rebecca ).

Simeon, or Shimon is a given name, from the Hebrew ( Biblical Šimʿon, Tiberian Šimʿôn ),.

The bird is called in Hebrew, and Shimon Persky liked it so much he adopted it as his surname.

His full formal Hebrew name was " Elkanah ben Reb Shimon ".

In August 2008, the Village of Peace received a visit from Israel's president, Shimon Peres, who told the Hebrew Israelites " Your community is beloved in Israel ... You give the country happiness and song and hope for a better world "

* Shimon Adaf, Israeli Hebrew poet and writer

Hebrew: Sefer Shimon Dubnov ( London, Jerusalem: 1954 ), essays and letters, edited by S. Rawidowicz.

" Rabbi Menachem Mendel Schneerson writes in his Likkutei Sichos that the reason why the day should be called Lag BaOmer and not Lag LaOmer is because the Hebrew words Lag BaOmer ( ל ״ ג בעמר ), spelled without the " vav ", have the same gematria as Moshe ( משה ), and Rabbi Shimon bar Yochai was mystically a spark of the soul of Moses.

* ( GN 14 ) Matthew 16: 17 has Hebrew " Shimon ben Yochanan " ( Simon son of John ) instead of Aramaic " Simon Bar-Jonah " ( Simon son of Jonah ).

Simeon ben Lakish ( in Hebrew, Shimon ben Lakish ; in Aramaic, Shimon bar Lakish or bar Lakisha ), better known by his nickname Resh Lakish, was an amora who lived in the Roman province of Syria Palaestina in the third century CE.

Simeon bar Yochai, ( Aramaic: רבן שמעון בר יוחאי, Rabban Shimon bar Yochai ), also known by his acronym Rashbi, was a famous 1st-century tannaic sage in ancient Israel, active after the destruction of the Second Temple in 70 CE.

His place of birth is unknown ; nor is it recorded where his father, Shimon ben Gamliel II, sought refuge with his family during the persecutions under Hadrian.

22b, 23a, 49b ), the book of Jewish mysticism and collection of writings on the Torah written by first century tannaic sage Rabbi Shimon Bar Yochai ( Rashbi ), tells of a celestial manifestation, which causes the crowing of the roosters ; known also in the Talmud, is " blessed be He who has given the cock intelligence ,"( Ber.

Conversely, Elijah Delmedigo ( c. 1458 – c. 1493 ), in his Bechinat ha-Dat endeavored to show that the Zohar could not be attributed to Shimon bar Yochai, arguing that if it were his work, the Zohar would have been mentioned by the Talmud, as has been the case with other works of the Talmudic period, that had bar Yochai known by divine revelation the hidden meaning of the precepts, his decisions on Jewish law from the Talmudic period would have been adopted by the Talmud, that it would not contain the names of rabbis who lived at a later period than that of Simeon ; and that if the Kabbalah was a revealed doctrine, there would have been no divergence of opinion among the Kabbalists concerning the mystic interpretation of the precepts.

The traditional Rabbinic view is that most of the Zohar and the parts included in it ( i. e. those parts mentioned above ) were written and compiled by Rabbi Shimon bar Yochai, but some parts preceded Rashbi and he used them ( such as Sifra deTzni ` uta ; see above ), and some parts were written or arranged in generations after Rashbi's passing ( for example, Tannaim after Rashbi's time are occasionally mentioned ).

In contrast, a third middle opinion held by Hirsch's descendants ( his son-in-law and successor Rabbi Solomon Breuer, his grandson Rabbi Joseph Breuer and the latter's successor Rabbi Shimon Schwab ), Rabbi Joseph Elias in his commentary to the Nineteen Letters ( Feldheim 1995 ) and some Jewish historians, says that both of these understandings of Hirsch's philosophy are misguided ; they refer to these readings of Hirsch as improper historical revisionism.

; December 10, 1994: Arafat, Rabin and Israeli Foreign Minister Shimon Peres share the Nobel Peace Prize.

; 1993 August 20: The Oslo Accords are signed by Mahmoud Abbas of the Palestine Liberation Organization, Israeli Foreign Minister Shimon Peres, U. S. Secretary of State Warren Christopher and Russian Foreign Minister Andrei Kozyrev.

With him Luria visited the grave of Rabbi Shimon bar Yochai and those of other eminent teachers ; it is said that these graves were unmarked ( the identity of each grave was unknown ), but through the guidance Elijah each grave was recognized.

In 2006, several members of the ILP left to join the new centrist grouping, Kadima ; these included former Labor leader Shimon Peres, Haim Ramon, and Dalia Itzik.

Chairman Harvey Pitt and Mary Schapiro ; London Mayor Boris Johnson ; Israel's Finance Minister Yuval Steinitz ; Israeli President Shimon Peres ; and Spanish Prime Minister Jose Maria Aznar.

The Freshmen features three rotating student panelists discussing new music videos and is hosted by Kim Stolz ; Stand-In brings celebrities and intellectuals into college classrooms to teach for a day, and has featured people as diverse as Nobel Laureates Elie Wiesel and Shimon Peres ; Madonna ; John McCain ; Marilyn Manson ; and Jhumpa Lahiri.

" Speakers at the event have included U. S. legislators, Presidents Bill Clinton and George W. Bush ; Secretaries of State Warren Christopher, Madeleine Albright, and Hillary Clinton ; Israeli Prime Ministers Yitzhak Rabin, Shimon Peres, Ehud Barak, Ehud Olmert, and Benjamin Netanyahu ; and presidents, prime ministers and foreign ministers of other countries.

He had six main students ; his sons Rabbi Moshe Soloveitchik and Rabbi Yitzchak Zev Soloveitchik, Rabbi Baruch Ber Lebowitz, Rabbi Isser Zalman Meltzer, Rabbi Elchonon Wasserman, and Rabbi Shimon Shkop.

The name of the book apparently comes from the similarities between this book and the stories of the martyrdom of Eleazar and the Maccabeean youths in 2 Maccabees ; the High Priest Shimon is also mentioned.

The yeshiva was established by three important Orthodox rabbis and Talmudists — Rabbi Meir Atlas, later the Rabbi of Shavel ( the Yiddish name for Šiauliai ) and the father-in-law of Rabbi Elchonon Wasserman and Rabbi Chaim Ozer Grodzensky ; Rabbi Zvi Yaakov Oppenheim, who later became the Rabbi of Kelm ; and Rabbi Shlomo Zalman Abel, the brother-in-law of Rabbi Shimon Shkop.

On 9 February 2012, Steinsaltz was honored by Israeli President Shimon Peres with Israel's first President's Prize for his scholarship in Talmud.

On 20 February, Israeli President Shimon Peres chose Benjamin Netanyahu to become the new Prime Minister and asked him to form a Coalition Government, after there was no clear victory in the elections.

Shimon ( Simon ) Schwab ( December 30, 1908 – February 13, 1995 ) was an Orthodox rabbi and communal leader in Germany and the United States.

* 1923 – Shimon Peres, Israeli politician, 9th President of Israel

* 1987 – The London Agreement is secretly signed between Israeli Foreign Affairs Minister Shimon Peres and King Hussein of Jordan.

* 1994 – The Palestinian leader, Yasser Arafat, The Prime Minister of Israel, Yitzhak Rabin, and the Foreign Minister of Israel, Shimon Peres, receive the Nobel Peace Prize for their role in the establishment of the Oslo Accords and the framing of the future Palestinian Self Government.

After the 1984 elections had proved inconclusive with neither the Alignment nor Likud able to form a government, a national unity government was formed with a rotating prime ministership – Shimon Peres took the first two years, and was replaced by Shamir midway through the Knesset term.

He disagreed strongly with the Labour governments of 1992 – 1996 ( led by Yitzhak Rabin and Shimon Peres ) and 1999 – 2001 ( Ehud Barak ), however, he looked favourably on the Netanyahu government of 1996 – 1999 and supported it from the outside.

World Economic Forum Annual Meeting 1996 – Shimon Peres, Yasser Arafat & Klaus Schwab

* August 2 – Shimon Peres, Prime Minister of Israel, President of Israel, recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize

Shimon Peres was born Szymon Perski on 2 August 1923 in Wiszniew, Poland ( now Vishnyeva, Belarus ), to Yitzhak ( 1896 – 1962 ) and Sara ( b. 1905 née Meltzer ) Perski.

* Former Labor Leader Shimon Peres Heading For Sharon's new party – recorded Report from IsraCast.

* Shimon Peres speaks at Cornell University – " A Conversation with Shimon Peres "

The demonstrators, who were calling for the University to condemn Israel's role in the 2008 – 2009 Israel – Gaza conflict and to cancel a lecture series at Balliol College inaugurated by Shimon Peres, ended their protest after an agreement with the Senior Proctor.

* People: Yasser Arafat – Caroline Dickinson – Saddam Hussein – Shimon Peres – Colin Powell – Condoleezza Rice – Nabil Shaath – Ariel Sharon

Levi Eshkol with Shimon Peres ( 1963 – 68 )

The son of Shimon ( Simon Yehiel ) Velikovsky ( 1859 – 1937 ) and Beila Grodensky, he learned several languages as a child and was sent away to study at the Medvednikov Gymnasium in Moscow, where he performed well in Russian and mathematics.