Halevi Explained

Halevi (the Levite or of Levi) may refer to:

• An Israelite man descended patrilineally from the tribe of Levi,^[1] and his full name may be written as (personal name) HaLevi (family name). The prefix "ה" (HAY), in the Hebrew language, means the. "HaLevi" means THE Levite.
• Someone whose family name is Halevi

As a title

• Rabbi Yechezkel Levenstein was a Levi^[2]
• Rabbi Yisroel Belsky was a Levi^[3]
• Rabbi Baruch ha-Levi Epstein (1860–1941), a Lithuanian rabbi

Some more examples of having the title HaLevi, but not in their last name are:

As a family name

Some people whose family name is Halevi are:

• Rabbi Abraham ibn Daud ha-Levi
• Rabbi Aaron ben Abba ha-Levi ben Johanan
• Rabbi Aharon HaLevi (1235 – c. 1290; Hebrew: אהרן הלוי)
• Adolf Abraham Halevi Fraenkel
• Rabbi David HaLevi Segal
• Daniel Halévy, French historian
• Efraim Halevy (Hebrew: אפרים הלוי; born 1934)
• Élie Halévy, French philosopher and historian
• Élie Halévy (Chalfan), French Hebrew poet and author
• Rabbi Eliezer ben Joel HaLevi
• Fromental Halévy, French composer
• Geneviève Halévy, French salonnière, daughter of Fromental Halévy and wife of Georges Bizet.
• Herzl Halevi, Major General, Israel Defence Forces, Director of Israeli Military Intelligence.
• Ilan Halevi (1943–2013), French-Israeli Jewish pro-Palestinian journalist and politician
• Joseph Halévy, French Orientalist (Hebraist) and traveller
• Léon Halévy, French author and dramatic writer; brother of Jacques François Fromental Halévy
• Louise Halévy, a character in Mobile Suit Gundam 00
• Ludovic Halévy, French dramatist
• Moses Isaac Ha-Levi Horowitz
• Odelya Halevi, Israeli actress
• Rabbi Samuel Neta HaLevi
• Shai Halevi, Israeli computer scientist
• Tzachi Halevy (born 1975), Israeli film and television actor and singer
• Rabbi Yehuda Halevi (Hebrew: יהודה הלוי)
• Rabbi Yihya Yitzhak Halevi
  • Rabbi Yitzhak HaLevi Herzog Rabbi Yitzhak Isaac Halevy Rabinowitz, Jewish historian, and founder of the Agudath Israel organization.
  • Rabbi Yitzhak HaLevi ben Mordechai Raitzes, Polish Rabbi Rabbi Yosef Zvi HaLevy (1874–1960), Israeli rabbi
• Yossi Klein Halevi (Hebrew: יוסי קליין הלוי; born 1953), American author, journalist and researcher of Israeli culture
• Rabbi Zerachiah ha-Levi of Girona (1115-1186)
• Saadia Kobashi (1904–1990), the Levite Yemenite Jewish leader who signed the Israeli Declaration of Independence using using the name "Saadia Kobashi HaLevi".

Notes and References

1. Web site: Medical Definition of Levite. 2017-02-19.
2. per HaLevi in: Book: Or Yechezkel : Rav Yechezkel HaLevi Levenstein (7 Vol.). 2017-02-19.
3. per HaLevi in: Web site: HaRav Chaim Yisroel HaLevi Belsky, Zatsal: Recorded, Remembered. 9 March 2016. 2017-02-19.