Yael (name)

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Yael
GenderFemale
Language(s)Hebrew
Origin
Word/nameJudaic
MeaningNubian Ibex
Region of originNear Eastern
Other names
Alternative spellingIael, Iaël, Jael, Jaël, Yaël, Ιαήλ (Greek)

Yael (Hebrew: יעל, pronounced [jaˈʔel]; also spelled Jael) is a female given name, from the Hebrew meaning "Nubian Ibex". The terms may also refer to:

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Given name or alias[]

  • Jael one of the Twin Cherubim on the Ark of the Covenant
  • 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 Globerman, Israeli poet, writer, and translator
  • 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 Lempert, American diplomat
  • 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

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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
  • 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)

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