- Jacob,
later known as Israel, is a
Hebrew patriarch of the
Abrahamic religions. He
first appears in the Torah,
where he is
described in the Book of Genesis...
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Jackie Mason (born
Yacov Moshe Maza; Yiddish: יעקב משה מזא; June 9, 1928 – July 24, 2021) was an
American stand-up
comedian and actor. His 1986 one-man...
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Yacov Osipovich Boyarsky (
Yacov Iosifovich Shimshelevich) was a
Soviet theatre,
trade union and
community activist. In 1929—1936 he
headed the
Trade Union...
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Yacov Hadas-Handelsman (Hebrew: יעקב הדס-הנדלסמן; born
August 22, 1957, in Tel Aviv) is the
Israeli Amb****ador to Hungary. From 2012 to 2017 he was the...
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Yacov Bengo (Hebrew: יעקב בנג'ו; born July 1971) is a
retired Israeli General who
served as the head of the IDF's
planning directorate (J8), the commander...
- On
March 31, 1982,
Yaacov Bar-Simantov, who was the
second secretary of Israel's emb****y in France, was shot dead in the
Parisian suburb of Boulogne-Billancourt...
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Yaacov Agam (Hebrew: יעקב אגם; born 11 May 1928) is an
Israeli sculptor and
experimental artist widely known for his
contributions to
optical and kinetic...
- prison, France, for
complicity in the 1982
murders of
Charles R. Ray and
Yacov Bar-Simantov. On 15
November 2024, a
French court ordered to
release him...
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Jakob Edelstein (also
written as
Yacov, Yaakov,
Jakub Edelstein or Edlstein; 25 July 1903 – 20 June 1944) was a
Czechoslovak Zionist,
social democrat...
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Shmuel Yaakov Weinberg,
known as
Yaakov Weinberg (also
Jacob S. Weinberg) (1923 – July 1, 1999) was an
Orthodox Jewish rabbi, Talmudist, and rosh yeshiva...
