Shapira
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Shapira is a surname, and may refer to:
- Anita ShapiraAnita ShapiraAnita Shapira is an Israeli historian. She is the founder of the Yitzhak Rabin Center for Israel Studies, a Ruben Merenfeld Professor of the Study of Zionism and head of the Weizmann Institute for the Study of Zionism at Tel Aviv University...
- Avraham ShapiraAvraham ShapiraAvraham Elkanah Kahana Shapira was a prominent rabbi in the Religious Zionist world. Shapira had been the head of the Rabbinical court of Jerusalem, and both a member and the head of the Supreme Rabbinic Court. He served as the Ashkenazi Chief Rabbi of Israel from 1983 to 1993...
, rabbi - Benjamin ShapiraBenjamin Shapira- Biography :Shapira was born in Germany in 1913. He emigrated, with his parents, to the then British Mandate of Palestine in 1926 and settled in Afula. He studied at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem from 1933 and obtained a BSc in natural sciences in 1937. In 1940, he was awarded a PhD.- See...
, IsraelIsraelThe State of Israel is a parliamentary republic located in the Middle East, along the eastern shore of the Mediterranean Sea...
i biochemist. - Berechiah Berak ben Isaac Eisik ShapiraBerechiah Berak ben Isaac Eisik ShapiraBerechiah Berak ben Isaac Eisik Shapira was a Galician preacher who was educated by Nathan Shapira, rabbi of Cracow, and was appointed preacher of that city, where he spent most of his life...
, 17th-century rabbi - David ShapiraDavid ShapiraDavid S. Shapira is an American businessman. He serves as Chairman, Chief Executive Officer and President of Giant Eagle, Inc. He joined the company in 1971 and has been President and CEO since 1980. He has also been involved in philanthropic causes...
- Haim-Moshe ShapiraHaim-Moshe ShapiraHaim-Moshe Shapira was a key Israeli politician in the early days of the state's existence. A signatory of Israel's declaration of independence, he served continuously as a minister from the country's foundation in 1948 until his death in 1970 apart from a brief spell in the late...
, IsraelIsraelThe State of Israel is a parliamentary republic located in the Middle East, along the eastern shore of the Mediterranean Sea...
i politician - Moshe Shmuel ShapiraMoshe Shmuel ShapiraRabbi Moshe Shmuel Shapiro was a Rosh Yeshiva and important rabbinic figure in Israel. His father, Rabbi Aryeh Shapiro, was the son of Rabbi Refoel Shapiro of Volozhin and grandson of Rabbi Naftali Zvi Yehuda Berlin His mother was a descendant of Rabbi Yom Tov Lipman Heilpern of Bialystock , a...
, rabbi - Moses ShapiraMoses ShapiraMoses Wilhelm Shapira was a Jerusalem antiquities dealer and purveyor of fake Biblical artifacts. The shame brought about by accusations that he was involved in the forging of ancient biblical texts drove him to suicide in 1884...
- Moses Wilhelm Shapira
- Nimrod Shapira Bar-Or (born 1989), Israeli swimmer
- Yitzhak ShapiraYitzhak ShapiraYitzhak Shapira is an Israeli rabbi who in 2009 published a book in which he writes that it is permissible for Jews to kill non-Jews who threaten Israel...
, author of The King's Torah