Today, Haifa is governed by its 12th city council, headed by the mayor Yona Yahav.

One of the most significant medieval works on Repentance is " Shaarei Teshuva ," the " Gates of Repentance " by Rabbeinu Yona of Gerona.

* According to an ancient Sri Lankan source, the Mahavamsa, Greek monks seem to have been active proselytizers of Buddhism during the time of Menander: the Yona ( Greek ) Mahadhammarakkhita () is said to have come from " Alasandra " ( thought to be Alexandria of the Caucasus, the city founded by Alexander the Great, near today ’ s Kabul ) with 30, 000 monks for the foundation ceremony of the Maha Thupa (" Great stupa ") at Anuradhapura in Sri Lanka, during the 2nd century BC:

Having left office due to a two-term limit, Mkapa is dogged by many accusations of corruption among them improperly appropriating to himself and his former finance Minister Daniel Yona the lucrative " Kiwira Coal Mine " in the southern highlands of Tanzania without following procedures.

In the Gandhari original of Rock XIII, the Greek kings to the West are associated unambiguously with the term " Yona ": Antiochus is referred as " Amtiyoko nama Yona-raja " ( lit.

Another Yona thera, Mahádhammarakkhita, is mentioned as having come from Alexandria in the country of the Yonas, to be present at the building of the Ruwanweliseya.

The word Yona, or one of its derivatives, is still used by some languages to designate contemporary Greece, such as in Arabic ( يونان ), in Hebrew ( יוון ), in Turkish (" Yunanistan "), in Assyrian ( Yawnoye ܝܘ ̈ ܢܝܐ ), or the Pashto, Hindi, Urdu, Malay and Indonesian languages (" Yunani ").

During the time of Menander I, the Yona ( Ionian ) Mahadhammarakkhita () is said to have come from “ Alasandra ” ( thought to be Alexandria-of-the-Caucasus, the city founded by Alexander the Great, near today ’ s Kabul ) with 30, 000 monks for the foundation ceremony of the Maha Thupa (" Great stupa ") at Anuradhapura in Sri Lanka, during the 2nd century BCE.

He is described as being a Greek ( Pali: " Yona ", lit.

In Buddhist literature, the Greek ( Pali: Yona, lit: " Ionian ") Buddhist monk Mahadhammarakkhita () is said to have come from “ Alasandra ” ( thought to be Alexandria of the Caucasus ), with 30, 000 monks for the foundation ceremony of the Maha Thupa (" Great stupa ") at Anuradhapura in Sri Lanka:

Yaakov Terner (, born 1935 in Kfar Yona, Israel ) is the former mayor of Beersheba and Israeli general.

Daniel Bar-Tal and Yona Teichman write: " Of special importance is the finding that all the newspapers delegitimized the participants, as communists, nationalists, extremists, agitators, inciters, enemies or violent people.

His colleague is Rabbi Yona Metzger, the Ashkenazi Chief Rabbi of Israel.

Yona Metzger (; born 1953 ) is an Israeli rabbi and the Ashkenazi Chief Rabbi of Israel.

It is interesting to note that like Madras / Uttara Madras, Kurus / Uttara Kurus, Kambojas / Parama Kambojas, there were also two settlements of the Yonas ( Yavanas )--- the Yona and the Parama Yona.

Kfar Yona () is a town ( local council ) in the Sharon Subdistrict in the Center District of Israel.

Kfar Yona ( meaning Yona's village ) is named after Jean ( Yona ) Fischer, a Belgian Zionist.

Yona is Hebrew for dove ( besides being the Hebrew form of Jonah ), so while the town searches for new symbols, especially among school-age children in its quest to build up community feelings from a young age, the dove is a frequently used symbol.

Next to Kfar Yona is the Area 21 military base, named for Mota Gur, which includes paratroopers, Nahal, military police, and other small bases.

On top of this hill is an old Arabic-style home of an Arab who lived in the area from which Kfar Yona was bought and founded had 5 villas and orchards.

Across Highway 57 is the new neighborhood of Alonim, also known as Kfar Yona Gimel.

Gorriti also founded the newspaper The Dawn of Lima with fellow poet Numa Pompilio Yona.

Buckminster Fuller and Yona Friedman were also important sources of inspiration.

Other Buddhist texts such as the Dipavamsa and the Sasanavamsa reveal that after the Third Buddhist Council, the elder ( thera ) Mahárakkhita was sent to the Yona country and he preached Dharma among the Yonas and the Kambojas, and that at the same time the Yona elder ( thera ) Dharmaraksita was sent to the country of Aparantaka in western India also.

The Mahawamsa or Great Chronicle of Sri Lanka refers to the thera Mahárakkhita being sent to preach to the Yona country, and also to the Yona thera Dhammarakkhita, who was sent to Aparanta ( the " Western Ends ").

On the 110 BCE Heliodorus pillar in Vidisha in Central India, the Indo-Greek king Antialcidas, who had sent an ambassador to the court of the Sunga king Bhagabhadra, was also qualified as " Yona ".

The Mahavamsa also attests Yona settlement in Anuradhapura in ancient Sri Lanka, probably contributing to trade between East and West.

Alternatively, it has also been suggested that the name " Yuan " was simply a transliteration of the words “ Yona ”, or “ Yavana ”, used throughout antiquity in Asia to designate Greeks (“ Ionians ”), so that Dayuan ( lit.

Ashoka's Rock Edict XIII also attests the Yona and the Kamboja as a pair ( Yonakambojesu ), and conveys similar information on Yonas ( directly ) and the Kambojas ( indirectly ) stating that Brahmanas and Shramanas are found every where in his empire except in the lands of Yonas etc.

Kfar Yona is also building up its sports.

Kfar Yona also offers programs in soccer, dance, and many other sports.

The name Dayuan ( meaning Great Yuan ), may be a transliteration of the word Yona used to designate Greeks, who occupied the region from the 4th to the 2nd century BCE.

It has been suggested that the name " Yuan " was simply a transliteration of the words “ Yona ”, or “ Yavana ”, used throughout antiquity in Asia to designate Greeks (“ Ionians ”).

Hebrew poets include David Avidan, Maya Bejerano, Erez Biton, Yitzchak Laor, Dan Pagis, Dalia Ravikovitch, Ronny Someck, Meir Wieseltier, and Yona Wallach.

* The head of this Buddhist community was a Greek ( Yona ) Buddhist elder whose religious name was Mahadhammarakkhita (" Great protector of the Dharma ), indicating the direct involvement of Greeks in the development of the faith, in the northwestern part of the Indian subcontinent.

Yona Bogale claimed that the name stems from the Tigrinya word for artisans, and on the broader sense excommunicated people ( as Yeshaq I of Ethiopia has denied the right of inheritance of all non-Christians ).

Because Yona died just a few years short of seeing fruition of the dream, Morris and his father's friend decided to name the settlement after Yona.

The formation of clannish name Aśvaka or Assaka from the Sanskrit " Aśva " or the Prakrit " Assa " has exactly a similar formation as followed by tribal terms such as Kambojika / Kambojaka ( from Kamboja ), Madaraka ( from Madra ) and Yonaka ( from Yona ), Lichchhivika ( from Lichchhivi ), Vrijika ( from Vriji ), Mallaka ( from Malla ), Jartaka ( from Jarta = modern Jat ).

" Yona " and " Yavana " are both transliterations of the Greek word for " Ionians " ( Homeric Greek: Iāones, Ancient Greek: * Iāwones ), who were probably the first Greeks to be known in the East.

Six religious Knesset members signed an open letter to Chief Rabbis Yona Metzger and Shlomo Amar demanding that they issue an unequivocal condemnation of the exclusion of women in the ultra-Orthodox society.

It is also possible, but equally doubtful, that he actually shot down the hundreds of men with which his legend credits him.

Recognizing that the Rule of Law is `` a dynamic concept which should be employed not only to safeguard the civil and political rights of the individual in a free society '', the Congress asserted that it also included the responsibility `` to establish social, economic, educational and cultural conditions under which his legitimate aspirations and dignity may be realized ''.

At General Power's seat in the balcony there is also a gold phone.

In addition to the authentication and acknowledgment procedures which precede and follow the sending of the go messages, again in special codes, each message also contains an `` internal authenticator '', another specific signal to convince the recipient that he is getting the real thing.

He added that he also stresses the works of these favorite masters on tour, especially Mahler's First and Fourth symphonies, and Das Lied Von der Erde, and Bruckner's Sixth -- which is rarely played -- and Seventh.

The test of form is fidelity to the experience, a gauge also accepted by the abstract expressionist painters.

Though he is also concerned with freeing dance from pedestrian modes of activity, Merce Cunningham has selected a very different method for achieving his aim.

The answers derived by these means may determine not only the temporal organization of the dance but also its spatial design, special slips designating the location on the stage where the movement is to be performed.

It is because there is not only darkness but also light that our situation becomes inexplicable.

but there is also compassion.

also he is a drunk, and has lost his job on that account.

And if I have gone into so much detail about so small a work, that is because it is also so typical a work, representing the germinal form of a conflict which remains essential in Mann's writing: the crude sketch of Piepsam contains, in its critical, destructive and self-destructive tendencies, much that is enlarged and illuminated in the figures of, for instance, Naphta and Leverkuhn.

By `` image '' is meant not only a visual presentation, but also remembered sensations of any of the five senses plus the feelings which are immediately conjoined therewith.

he is questioning, also, every epistemology which stems from Hume's presupposition that experience is merely sense data in abstraction from causal efficacy, and that causal efficacy is something intellectually imputed to the world, not directly perceived.

it is true that they are also extremely dull.

Now the detective must save his own skin by informing on the girl he loves, who is also the real murderer.

But it is also the climax to one of the absorbing chapters in our current political history.

Since a civilizational crisis involves also a crisis in private interests and in the ruling class, reaction is normally found among those who feel themselves to be among the ruling class.

`` The Rocking Horse Winner '' is also a story about a boy's love for his mother.

Evidence is plentiful that early and later also he has been indebted to the Gothic romancers, who deal in extravagant horror, to the symbolists writing at the end of the preceding century, and in particular to the stream-of-consciousness novelists, Henry James and James Joyce among them.