Yael (name)
Appearance
Gender | Female |
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Language(s) | Hebrew |
Origin | |
Word/name | Judaic |
Meaning | Nubian Ibex |
Region of origin | Near Eastern |
Other names | |
Alternative spelling | Iael, Iaël, Jael, Jaël, Yaël, Ιαήλ (Greek) |
Yael (Template:Lang-he, pronounced [jaˈʔel]; also spelled Jael) is a female and male given name, from the Hebrew meaning "Nubian Ibex". The terms may also refer to:
Places
- Merkaz Yael, a village in northern Israel
People with this name
Given name or alias
- Jael (artist), American fantasy artist/illustrator
- Jaël, Swiss singer/songwriter
- Yael, Biblical figure in the Book of Judges
- Yael Abecassis, Israeli actress and model
- Yael Arad, Israeli Olympic-medalist judoka
- Yael Averbuch (born 1986), American soccer player
- Yael Bartana, Israeli video artist
- Yael Cohen, founder and CEO of Fuck Cancer
- Yael Dayan, Israeli writer and politician
- Yael Eckstein, senior vice president of the [International Fellowship of Christians and Jews
- Yael S. Feldman, Israeli-born American scholar
- Yael German, Israeli politician
- Yael Goldman, Israeli actress, TV host, and model
- Yael Grobglas, Israeli actress
- Yaël Hassan, French-Israeli writer
- Yael Tauman Kalai, Israeli-American cryptographer
- Yael Kanarek, Israeli-American artist
- Yael Kraus, Israeli singer/songwriter
- Yael Goldstein Love, novelist, editor, and book critic
- Yael Markovich, Israeli-American model and Israeli beauty queen titleholder
- Yael Meyer, singer, songwriter, musician, and producer
- Yael Naim, French-Israeli singer/songwriter
- Yael Neeman, Israeli author
- Yael Rom (born Yael Finkelstein), one of the first female pilots of the Israeli Air Force
- Yael Stone, Australian actress
- Jael Strauss, contestant on America's Next Top Model, Cycle 8
- Yael Tal, Israeli actress
- Yael Tamir, Israeli academic and politician
- Ivanka Trump, who took the Hebrew name Yael after converting to Judaism
- Yael Yuzon, Filipino vocalist and guitarist
- Yael Bar Zohar, Israeli actress, model, and television host
Middle name
- Jenifer Bartoli (Jenifer Yaël Dadouche-Bartoli), French pop singer
- Daniela Yael Krukower, Israeli-Argentinean judoka world champion
Arts, entertainment, and media
Fictional characters
- Yael, a woman in ancient Israel who escapes the massacre at Masada, in Alice Hoffman's novel The Dovekeepers (2011)
- Yael Reider, the protagonist in Ryan Graudin's alternate history novel Wolf by Wolf
- Yael Aronov, in John Sanford's novel Storm Front (2013)
- Yael "Yaeli" Ashkenazi, in the Netflix Original series When Heroes Fly
- Yael Baron, in the Netflix Original series Degrassi: Next Class
- Yael Hoffman, in the TV series Weeds
- Alice Jael Reasoner, also known as Jael, an assassin in Joanna Russ' novel The Female Man (1975)
Music
- Yael Naim (album), Yael Naïm's second studio album
See also
- Jamie Yaela Maurer, an American photographer