Israel (Name)

Israel is a Jewish and Christian name and male first name.

Origin and Meaning

The name is first documented on the Merneptah Stele as peoples name and is the former Canaanite name form again: Jisra'el, Hebrew ישראל, the biblical name of the ancestor Jacob ( Yaakov ) after the battle on the east bank of the river Jabbok. It can be " denies God (for us) " with or " May God (for us) argue " and " God rules " or "God may reign " translate. Thereafter, the name goes back to the descendants of his twelve sons, founder of the Twelve Tribes of Israel, about ( people of Israel ).

Anthony the Great translated in his third letter the name of Israel with " mind who sees God."

In the era of National Socialism Jewish men were forced by the law of the change of surnames and forenames of 5 January 1938 in addition to adopt the name of Israel, and specify everywhere ( women named Sara ), unless they are one in the policies of the Reich Minister of the had inside, the guidance of first names listed first name.

Well-known bearers of the name

  • Yaakov Israel (~ 18 BC), the progenitor of the people of Israel, see Jacob

First name

  • Israel Age (1901-1979), Austrian-American cantor
  • Israel Ibn al - Naqawa († 1391 ), Jewish scholar
  • Aron Israel Brimann (1859-1934), Romanian writer
  • Israel ben Eliezer (~ 1700-1760 ), Ukrainian Rabbi
  • Israel Epstein (1915-2005), Chinese journalist and author
  • Israel Finkelstein ( b. 1949 ), Israeli archaeologist
  • Moses Israel Fürst (1617-1692), German merchant
  • Israel T. Hatch (1808-1875), American politician
  • Isaac Israel Hayes (1832-1881), American physician and Arctic explorer
  • Israel Jacobson (1768-1828), German religious educator
  • Israel Kamakawiwoole (1959-1997), American singer
  • Israel Kleiner ( mathematician ), Canadian mathematician and historian of mathematics
  • Israel Pickens (1780-1827), American politician
  • Israel Putnam (1718-1790), American General
  • Israel Regardie (1907-1985), British occultist and magician
  • Israel Shamir (* ~ 1949), Russian- Israeli writer and journalist
  • Israel Shahak (1933-2001), Russian- Israeli scientists
  • Israel Simon, (1807-1883) an Austrian banker and industrialist
  • Israel Smith (1759-1810), American politician
  • Israel Zangwill (1864-1926), English novelist and journalist

Family name

  • Agathe Israel ( b. 1949 ), German psychotherapist and author
  • Clara Israel (1876-1942), German social worker of Jewish descent; first female Magistrate in Prussia
  • George Israel (* 1505, † 1588), Moravian blacksmith and preacher of the Bohemian Brethren Church
  • Jacob Israel (1621-1674), physiologist, anatomist and Stadtphysikus in Heidelberg
  • James Israel (1848-1926), German urologist and surgeon
  • Joachim Israel (1920-2001), Swedish sociologist, social psychologist and social theorist
  • John Israel (1833-1898), German lawyer, politician, MdBü
  • Jonathan Israel ( b. 1946 ), British historian
  • Menasseh ben Israel (1604-1657), Portuguese scholar and diplomat
  • Otto Israel (1883-1945), German surveyor, see Otto Oesterhelt
  • Ottokar Israel (1919-2004), German historian, archivist and genealogist
  • Regine Israel (born 1958 ), German football player
  • Rinus Israël ( born 1942 ), Dutch footballer
  • Ruben Israel, Uruguayan football coach
  • Siegfried Israel ( b. 1928 ), German sports medicine
  • Steve Israel (born 1958 ), American politician
  • Ulrich Israel ( b. 1932 ), German naval historian
  • Uwe Israel ( b. 1963 ), German medieval historian
  • Víctor Israel (1929-2009), Spanish actor
  • Werner Israel ( born 1931 ), Canadian physicist
  • Wilfrid (1899-1943), British philanthropist and businessman
  • Yoron Israel ( b. 1963 ), American jazz musician

Artist Name

  • Dr. Israel, brgl. Douglas Bennett ( born 1967), American musician
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