Yedidia Explained

Yedidia, Yedidya, Yedidiah, etc. (he|יְדִידְיָה) is both a given name and a surname, the original Hebrew of Jedediah.

• The Hebrew name of the Hellenistic Jewish philosopher Philo of Alexandria
• Yedidia Be'eri (1931–2004), Israeli politician
• Yedidia Shofet (1908–2005), Iranian rabbi
• Yedidya Ya'ari (born 1947) Former commander of the Israeli Navy
• Yedidya Eisenshtat, Israeli architect, author of the Anzac Memorial (Israel)
• Yedidia Stern (born 1955), Israeli jurist and legal scholar

See also

• • • Kfar Yedidia, a moshav named after Philo of Alexandria