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Ya'an
Ya'an (Chinese: 雅安; Pinyin: Yǎ'ān; Wade-Giles: Ya-an) is a prefecture-level city in the western part of Sichuan province of the People's Republic of China. View of Ya'an at night Zhouhe and Tiaquan are among the county-level cities administered by Ya'an. Ya'an borders Tibet to the we..
Yaaba
Yaaba (1989) is African director Idrissa Ouedraogo's second film. The film is set in a small African village. Billa is a ten year old boy who makes friends with an old woman called Sana, who is an outcast. Everybody calls her a witch but Bila calls her "Yaaba" instead, meaning "grandmother". Sana'..
Yaacob Ibrahim
Yaacob Ibrahim (born 3 October 1955, Singapore) is the Minister for the Environment and Water Resources and Minister-in-charge of Muslim Affairs in Singapore. On 2 January 1997, Yaacob was elected as one of four Members of Parliament (MP) for the Jalan Besar Group Representation Constituency (GRC) ..
Yaacov Agam
Fountain in Dizengoff square, Tel Aviv, Israel fountains at the La Défense district in Paris For other uses of the term Agam, see Agam. Yaacov Agam (born Yaacov Gipstein on May 11, 1928) is an Israeli sculptor and experimental artist best known for his contributions to optical and kinet..
Yaacov Haber
Rabbi Yaacov Haber is the founder and driving force behind TorahLab [link] He is an expert in adult Jewish education, and is the former National Director of Jewish Education for the Orthodox Union. Rabbi Haber served as Rabbi of Congregation Bais Torah in Monsey, NY having replaced Ra..
Yaacov Levanon
Composer Yaacov Levanon (originally Yaacov Bilansky) (Korets, Ukraine 1895-Jerusalem, Israel 1965) was a Jewish musician and composer in the British Mandate of Palestine and later Israel. The son of a haskalah scholar from Novohrad-Volynskyy (Samuel Bilansky), Levanon was trained at the conservato..
Yaacov Salomon, Lipschutz & Co.
Yaacov Salomon, Lipschutz & Co. (a.k.a. "Salomon Lipschutz") is one of the largest law firms in Israel. The firm was established in 1923, and its offices are in Haifa and Ramat Gan. External Links [Yaacov Salomon, Lipschutz & Co. Profile, Dun's 100- 2005] ..
Yaacov Turner
Yaacov Turner (born 1935 in Kefar Yona) has been the mayor of Beersheva since 1998. He enlisted to Israel Defense Forces in 1953 and left in 1985 as a Brigadier-General). In the Yom Kippur War he was a F-4 Phantom II pilot, and in the Six-Day War and the War of Attrition, he was the commander of an ..
YAAD
YAAD is an abbreviation for the phrase "Yet Another Annoying Death", popularized by players of the computer game NetHack. A similar phrase with the same meaning is YASD ("Yet Another Stupid Death"). Both generally refer to a situation in which the player has no ability to escape his or her character..
Yaadein
Yaadein (2001) is a Bollywood film directed by Subhash Ghai. It was filmed throughout India, Malaysia and the UK. Contents 1 Synopsis2 Criticism3 Other information4 Trivia5 External links Synopsis [Spoiler warningSpoiler warning]: Plot and/or ending details f..
Yaadon Ki Baraat
Yaadon Ki Baraat was a 1973 Bollywood film directed by Nasir Hussain. It starred Dharmendra and Zeenat Aman. It is still remembered fondly for the score, by music director R.D. Burman. One song, Chura liya hai, as sung by Asha Bhosle, is particularly well-known. Synopsis [Spoiler warningSpoil..
YAAF
YAAF stands for Yet Another Application Framework, a C++ framework or library which is designed to facilitate creating cross-platform applications which can be compiled and ran under Microsoft Windows, Mac OS 9 and Mac OS X under Carbon, and X Windows on Linux. YAAF is distributed under the YAAF Op..
Yaaḵoosgé Daakahídi Alternative High School
Yaakoosgé Daakahídi Alternative High School is a high school of the Juneau School District in the City and Borough of Juneau, Alaska, United States. The school is an opportunity for students over the age of 16 to have a less mainstream high school experience than that offered by Juneau-Douglas Hi..
Yaakov Aryeh Milikowsky
This does not cite its [[Opentopia:Citing sources|references or sources]]. You can [[Opentopia:WikiProject Fact and Reference Check|help]] Wikipedia by introducing appropriate citations. Rabbi Yaakov Aryeh Milikowsky is the Amshinover Rebbe in the Bayit VeGan section of Jerusalem and a native of..
Yaakov Ben-Yezri
Yaakov Ben-Yezri (Hebrew:יעקב בן-יזרי) (born: 1928) is an Israeli Knesset member, number two on Gil's list. Ben Yezri was born in Morocco. He is the chairman of the Central Pensioners' Fund. He is former national chairman of the Health Funds' Workers Organization and chairman of the Hea..
Yaakov ben Moshe Levi Moelin
Rabbi Yaakov Moelin (c. 1365 - 1427) was a Talmudist and posek (authority on Jewish law) best known for his codification of the customs (minhagim) of the German Jews. He is also known as Maharil - the Hebrew acronym for "Our Teacher, the Rabbi, Israel Levi" - as well as Mahari Segal or Mahari Moelin..
Yaakov ben Yakar
Yaakov ben Yakar (990 - 1064) was a German Talmudist. He flourished in the first half of the 11th century. He was a pupil of Gershom ben Judah in Mainz, and is especially known as the teacher of Rashi, who characterizes him as Mori HaZaken (My teacher My elder, or, My old teacher). Yaakov was one o..
Yaakov Chaim Sofer
Yaakov Chaim Sofer (1870-1939) was an Orthodox rabbi, Talmudist and posek ("decisor of Torah law"). He is best-known as the author of the Kaf Hachaim, a book of halakha. Because of he is so closely associated with this work, he is often referred to as "Kaf Hachaim" himself. Biography Sofer was b..
Yaakov Dori
Yaakov Dori (1899-1973) was the first Chief of Staff of the Israel Defense Forces (IDF). Born in Russia, his family emigrated to Ottoman Palestine following the anti-Jewish pogrom in Odessa in 1905. Upon completing high school at the Reali School in Haifa, he enlisted in the Jewish Legion of the B..
Yaakov Edri
Yaakov Edri (Hebrew:יעקב אדרי) (born: November 25, 1950) is an Israeli politician, formerly the Minister of Health and the Minister for the Development of the Negev and the Galil, and as of May 4, 2006 is the Minister without Portfolio which serves as Knesset Liaison. Born in Morocco, Edr..
Yaakov Kamenetsky
Rabbi Yaakov Kamenetsky (1890-1986), was a prominent Rosh Yeshiva, Posek and Talmudist in the post-World War II American Jewish community. He was born in Kalushkove, Russia, in 1890. He studied in Minsk and then for 21 years in Slabodka yeshiva under Rabbi Nosson Tzvi Finkel. It was there that h..
Yaakov Kedmi
Yaakov Kedmi was the head of Lishkat Hakesher from 1992 to 1999. ..
Yaakov Lorberbaum
Yaakov ben Yaakov Moshe Lorberbaum of Lissa (1760-1832) was an Orthodox Jewish Rabbi, and Posek from Poland. He is known as the "Ba'al HaNesivos" for his most well-known work or "Lissa Rav" for the city in which he was the Chief Rabbi. Biography He was the great-grandson of the Chacham Tzvi, Rabbi ..
Yaakov Luban
Rabbi Yaakov Luban is the Rabbi of [Congregation Ohr Torah] in Edison, New Jersey. He is also is the Executive Rabbinic Coordinator at the [Orthodox Union]. He learned under Rabbi Chaim Shmuelevitz in the Mir Yeshiva in Jerusalem, Israel. He also learned in Philadelphia, Pennsylv..
Yaakov Neeman
Proffesor Yaakov Neeman (b. Tel Aviv, Israel on September 16, 1939) is an Israeli lawyer and former minister. He recieved a LL.B (with honors) from the Hebrew University of Jerusalem (1964), and LL.M and J.S.D (with honors) from New York University (1965 and 1968). Neeman is the founder of Herzog, F..
Yaakov Nimrodi
Yaakov Nimrodi (1948-1999) was an Israeli intelligence officer in Iran for two decades preceding the fall of the shah. Nimrodi and Al Schwimmer supervised sales of Israeli arms to the Islamic Republic of Iran. ..
Yaakov Pearlman
Yaakov Pearlman is the current chief Rabbi of Ireland, serving from September 2001-presenthttp://www.unison.ie/irish_independent/index.php3?issue_id=7753. Pearlman had previously been the Rabbi of Light of Israel Congregation, in Rochester, New York. A native of Manchester, England, he became the ..
Yaakov Peri
Yaakov Peri was the head of Shabak (Shin-Bet). Later a very successful CEO of Cellcom_(Israel). |- style="text-align: center;" ..
Yaakov Reischer
Yaakov Reischer (1661-1733) was a rabbi and halakhist (authority on Jewish law) known to scholars of Judaism. Born in Prague, he held rabbinical positions in Worms and Metz. His best-known written works are Shevus Yaakov, Iyun Yaakov, Minchas Yaakov, and Chok Yaakov. He is buried in the Jewish ..
Yaakov Shabtai
Yaakov Shabtai (1934-1981) was an Israeli novelist, born in Tel Aviv. His best known work is Zichron Dvarim ("memorandum of understanding" or roughly "the memory of objects," 1971), published in English as Past Continuous. Written as a single paragraph, it was the first novel ever to be written in..
Yaakov Shwekey
Yaakov Shwekey (b. 1975) is a Jewish recording artist, of rising popularity in recent years in Orthodox Jewish communities worldwide. He is one of the hottest selling Jewish artists of all time. His latest album [Behisorerus] was a compilation of Kumzitz songs. He was born to an Egyptian..
Yaakov Yisrael Kanievsky
Rabbi Yaakov Yisrael Kanievsky, known as the Steipler Gaon (1899–1985), was a world-renowned Posek and Talmudic scholar. He was born in the Russian town of Horensteipl, from which his appelation, "the Steipler", was later derived. He was the son of Chaim Peretz, who was a Chernobyl Chassid..
Yaakov Yitzchak of Lublin
Rabbi Yaakov Yitzchak of Lublin, also Jacob Isaac of Lublin, known as "The Chozeh of Lublin" (The Seer of Lublin), or simply as the "Chozeh", (1745-July 15, 1815) was a Hasidic rabbi from Poland. A beloved figure of the Hasidic movement, he became known as the chozeh, which means "seer" or "vision..
Yaakov Yitzchak Ruderman
Rabbi Yaakov Yitzchok Ruderman (1901-1987) was a prominent Talmudic scholar and Rabbi who founded and served as Rosh Yeshiva of Yeshiva Ner Israel in Baltimore. He was born in Dolhinov, Russia, where his father Yehuda Laib was the Rabbi. He studied in Yeshivat Knesset Yisrael in Slobodka, under th..
Yaaku
The Yaaku (often Mukogodo-Maasai) are a people living in the Mukogodo forest west of Mount Kenya, a division of the Laikipia District of Rift Valley Province, Kenya. Former hunter-gatherers and bee-keepers, the Yaaku have assimilated to the pastoralist culture of the Maasai in the first half of the ..
Yaamon
Yaamon is a fictional character from the Digimon franchise, an In-Training Level Lesser Digimon, the In-Training form of Impmon. Contents 1 Evolution2 Abilities2.1 Attacks3 Appearances3.1 Digimon Tamers3.2 Digimon Frontier Evolution Fresh (Baby I) - KiimonIn-Tra..
Yaanbao
Yaanbao is a branch of Boabom, an ancient Tibetan martial art. In addition to the same movements, breathing techniques and relaxation movements from Boabom, Yannbao also implements the use of short and long staffs. Through this Art the person studies the perfection of movement, solidity, and se..
Yaaqov Medan
Yaaqov Medan (born 1950) is an Orthodox rabbi in Israel. He is a co-Rosh yeshiva of Yeshivat Har Etzion in Gush Etzion, south of Jerusalem, and a lecturer in Tanakh, gemara, and Jewish philosophy. He was a member of the first class to graduate from Yeshivat Har Etzion, and has lived in Gush Etzion ..
Yaasiin Cismaan Keenadiid
Yaasiin (Xaaji/Hagi) Cismaan/Cusmaan Keenadiid (Yasin Osman Keenadiid) is a member of the Keenadiid family. He is related to Ali Yusuf Keenadiid, the former sultan of Hobyo (see Northern Somali sultanates) and to the brother of Ali Yusuf, the creator of the Osmanya alphabet Ciismaan Yuusuf Keenadiid..
Yaa Asantewaa
Yaa Asantewaa (c. 1840-1921) was appointed Queen Mother of Edweso, a state in the Asante union in Ghana, by her brother, Nana Akwasi Afrane Okpese. During her brother's reign, Yaa Asantewwa saw the Ashanti Kingdom fall into a terrible spell. King Nana Akwasi Afrane Okpese wanted to expand the Asha..
Yaşar Aliyev
Yaşar Teymur oğlu Aliyev (Yaşar Teymur oğlu Əliyev in Azeri) (born August 1955) is the Permanent Representative (or Ambassador) to the United Nations for Azerbaijan. He presented his credentials to the Secretary-General of the United Nations on 12 March 2002. He is also chairman of the UN's ..
Yaşar Büyükanıt
General Mehmet Yaşar Büyükanıt (born 1940 in İstanbul) is the commander of the Turkish Land Forces. Gen. Büyükanıt is set to take over the post as Commander-in-Chief of the armed forces of Turkey, when the term of the current commander, Hilmi Özkök, terminates in August 2006. Büyükani..
Yaşar Kemal
Yaşar Kemal (born Kemal Sadık Gökçeli) is one of the best known Turkish writers. He was born in 1923 in Hemite (now Gökçedam), a hamlet in the province of Osmaniye in southern Turkey. His parents were poor Kurdish emigrants from Van.[link] Kemal had a traumatic childhood. He also lo..
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