Among these new Ashkenazi immigrants was Rabbi Yitzhak Sarfati, a German-born Jew of French descent ( Hebrew: צרפתי – Sarfati, meaning: " French "), who became the Chief Rabbi of Edirne and wrote a letter inviting the European Jewry to settle in the Ottoman Empire, in which he stated that: " Turkey is a land wherein nothing is lacking " and asking: " Is it not better for you to live under Muslims than under Christians?

The society, named after Selahattin Ülkümen and Yitzhak Sarfati, aims to promote intercultural and interreligious dialogue and wants to inform the public of the centuries of peaceful coexistence between Turks and Jews.

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.

Herzog was born at Cliftonpark Avenue in Belfast, the son of notable Rabbi Yitzhak HaLevi Herzog, who was Chief Rabbi of Ireland from 1919 to 1937 ( and later, of Palestine and Israel ), and Sara ( née Hillman ).

Eliezer Ben-Yehuda was born Eliezer Yitzhak Perlman ( Yiddish אליעזר יצחק פערלמאן ), in Luzhki ( Belarusian Лужкі ( Lužki ), Polish Łużki ), Vilna Governorate of the Russian Empire ( now Vitsebsk Voblast, Belarus ).

** Yitzhak Navon ( born 1921 ), fifth President of Israel

* Yitzhak Peretz ( born 1936 ), Israeli politician who served as Deputy Minister of Industry, Trade and Tourism.

* Yitzhak Peretz ( born 1938 ), former Israeli politician and who served as Minister of Internal Affairs, Minister of Immigrant Absorption and Minister without Portfolio, currently Chief Rabbi of Raanana and member on Israeli Chief Rabbinate Council

Yitzhak Navon (, born 9 April 1921 ) is an Israeli politician, diplomat, and author.

Yitzhak ( Tzachi ) Hanegbi was born in Jerusalem in 1957.

His father, Yitzhak HaLevi Herzog, a renowned Talmudic scholar, was the first Chief Rabbi of Ireland, and later of Palestine and Israel .. Yaakov Herzog son of Yitzhak was also born and lived with the family in Dublin.

Hasdai ( Abu Yusuf ben Yitzhak ben Ezra ) ibn Shaprut ( Hebrew: חסדאי אבן שפרוט ) born about 915 at Jaén ; died about 975 at Córdoba in Spain, was a Jewish scholar, physician, diplomat, and patron of science.

* Yitzhak Salkinsohn, born in Shklov

* Elisha Ben Yitzhak ( born 1943 ), painter, songwriter

Yitzhak Arad () ( né Itzhak Rudnicki ) ( born November 11, 1926 ), is an Israeli historian, retired IDF brigadier general and a former Soviet partisan who has served as director of Yad Vashem from 1972 to 1993.

Rabbi Yitzhak HaLevi Herzog ( Hebrew: יצחק אייזיק הלוי הרצוג ; born 3 December 1888 – died 25 July 1959 ), also known as Isaac Herzog, was the first Chief Rabbi of Ireland, his term lasting from 1921 to 1936.

Yitzhak Mordechai (, born 22 November 1944 ) is an Israeli former general and politician.

Many of the signatories would play a prominent role in Israeli politics following independence ; Moshe Sharett and Golda Meir both served as Prime Minister, Yitzhak Ben-Zvi became the country's second president in 1952, and several others served as ministers.

In 1974 he became Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin's consultant on combating terrorism.

The second premier was Yitzhak Shamir, who first became PM in October 1983 following Begin's resignation.

In Israel, a 1990 political scandal in which Shimon Peres tried to bring down the Likud-led government and establish an Alignment-led one later became known as the dirty trick, a term used by Yitzhak Rabin during an interview.

( A militant of the group involved in this mission eventually became prime minister of Israel: Yitzhak Shamir.

Meretz became the major coalition partner of Yitzhak Rabin's Labor Party, helping pave the way for the Oslo Accords.

By the signing of the Oslo Accords in 1993, this became the central policy of the Labor Party under Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin and Foreign Minister Shimon Peres.

At the end of the seventies singers whom performed rock music became very popular and successful: Shalom Hanoch, Ariel Zilber, Tzvika Pick ( in combination with a pop music ), Efraim Shamir, Yitzhak Klepter and Gary Ackstein.

David Ben-Gurion, the prime minister of Israel, and Yitzhak Ben-Zvi, who became the second president of Israel, visited him once to discuss political-religious issues.

And nothing was done without the order of Yitzhak Ben-Zvi ( who later became the second president of Israel 1952-1963 )...

Kovner became its leader in July 1943, after Yitzhak Wittenberg was named by a tortured comrade and turned himself in to prevent an attack on the ghetto.

In 1936, while studying at the Hebrew University, in Jerusalem he became involved in socialist campus politics and on one occasion, he recalled being beaten up by the future Israeli prime minister, Yitzhak Shamir – then a leading figure in the rightwing Irgun.

That same year, Vital first became acquainted with the kabbalist Rabbi Yitzhak Ben Shlomo Ashkenazi ( Isaac ben Solomon Luria ) aka as " The Ari ", " Ari-Hakadosh ", or " Arizal, who would have a lasting influence on him.

It is currently most famous for its 1997 declaration ( citing Israeli Chief Rabbi Yitzhak HaLevi Herzog and Orthodox Rabbi Joseph Soloveitchik ) that the Conservative and Reform movements are " not Judaism at all.

** Yitzhak HaLevi Herzog, Polish-born Chief Rabbi of Ireland and of Israel ( b. 1888 )

* December 3 – Rabbi Yitzhak HaLevi Herzog, Polish-born Chief Rabbi of Ireland and of Israel ( d. 1959 )

In August 1967 after Israel's capture of the Mount, the Chief Rabbis of Israel, Isser Yehuda Unterman and Yitzhak Nissim, together with other leading rabbis, asserted that " For generations we have warned against and refrained from entering any part of the Temple Mount.

On 23 May, IDF Chief of Staff Yitzhak Rabin met with Ben-Gurion to ask for reassurance.

* Yitzhak HaLevi Herzog ( 1889 – 1959 ), Chief Rabbi of Ireland and later of Israel

' The book won much praise and received the approval of, among others, the two Chief Rabbis of Israel at that time, Ben-Zion Meir Hai Uziel and Yitzhak HaLevi Herzog.

In 1973 Yosef was elected the Sephardic Chief Rabbi of Israel by a majority of 81 to 68 votes, replacing Yitzhak Nissim.

And in any case it is known that the Rabbis who preceded me were subordinate to their Ashkenazi counterparts, the Gaon Rabbi Benzion Uziel Z " l was subordinate to the Gaon Rabbi Avraham Yitzhak Kook ZT " L ... and the Gaon Rabbi Yaakov Moshe Toledano Z " l in his capacity as Chief Rabbi of Tel Aviv-Jaffa could not even raise his head towards his colleague, may he be chosen for a good life, the Gaon Rabbi Isser Yehuda Unterman Shlit " a and to disagree with him on Halakha ...

The rulings of the Ben Ish Chai were at the heart of the disagreement between him and the Chief Rabbis Yitzhak Nissim and Mordechai Eliyahu.

Narkiss appears in the famous photograph of Defense Minister Moshe Dayan flanked by Chief of Staff Yitzhak Rabin and himself, taken in the Old City of Jerusalem shortly after its capture from Jordanian forces in the 1967 Six Day War.

As deputy Chief of Staff, he was involved in the negotiations with the Palestinians under prime minister Yitzhak Rabin.

Most of his tenure as Chief of Staff was under Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Defense Minister Yitzhak Mordechai.

A visit to Ashkelon by Rishon Lezion Rabbi Yitzhak Nissim and Ashkenazi Chief Rabbi Isaac Herzog ( 1955 )

The Chief Rabbis of Israel, Isser Yehuda Unterman and Yitzhak Nissim, together with other leading rabbis, asserted that " For generations we have warned against and refrained from entering any part of the Temple Mount.