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aifa — If an Israeli
woman's name is Ha-
nita, the chances are
excellent that she was born in
1938, and named after the
tower and stockade settle-
ment which was established
in the Upper Galilee in that
year. Every year dozens of
children are named after
historic or outstanding events
in the life of the country. A
survey of given names reveals
many other interesting facts
as well.
Like parents everywhere
else, Israelis also give their
children names to perpetuate
the memory of grandparents
or other family members, but
there is considerable in-
dependence in the process as
well. Thus, the latest fashion
is to give good Hebrew names
which also sound as if they
come from the Western world.
Ron, Gil, Shirlee, Karen,
Shelli, Guy, Elinor, are all
pure Hebrew and have mean-
ings in their own right.
Among the extremely Or-
thodox of Meah Shearim, it is
now becoming stylish to
name boys after one of the
great Torah or Talmud sages
of the past, in the hope that
some of the scholarship and
erudition will be imparted to
the namesake. There is less
interest in names of girls
there.
Among religious Sephardi
families today there is par-
tiality for the angels, and the
names of Rafael, Michael and
Gabriel are common.
A nurse at one of the large
obstetric wards has been
keeping tabs on names, and
has come up with her own in-
teresting observations. If the
parents are university
graduates, they tend to
names like Anat, Michael,
Noa and Saul. Teachers are
partial to Yael, Michal,
Tamar and Roi. Among the
newborn babes of Gush
Emunim members the names
of Joshua, Samuel, Simeon,
Batsheva, Tehilla and Atara
appear frequently.
Names like Simcha and
Yona used to cause confusion
because it was never quite
certain whether their bearers
were boys or girls. Now the
habit has become more
widespread, and unisex
names like Sharon, Rotem,
Shai, Doron, Moran, Tal, Adi
and Amit are encountered
frequently.
Dr. Sasha Whiteman, a
sociologist, has made a study
of more than two million
names given to Jewish
children in this country dur-
ing the 100-year-period begin-
ning in 1882. He found that
for the first 40 years, up to
1920, the names glen were
basically drawn from the Bi-
ble: Elijah, Isaac, Miriam,
Esther, Zembabel, Hepzibah,
Elisheva, Hulda, etc.
The 20-year period that
followed was characterized by
names like Assaf, Yoav,
Eitan, Giora, Gideon, Oded,
Uzi and Avner.
The creation of the state
launched a new era of short
names based on beauty, joy,
light, plants and general
aesthetics. That is the genera-
tion of Nava, Ynfit, Tal, Ziv,
Rina, Shai, Hadas, Vered,
Erez, Lilac, Gur, Ofra, each
with its distinctive meaning.
Since the beginning of the
'70s, however, there has been
a shift back to more tradi-
tional Jewish sources.
Significantly, throughout
the hundred years, at a time
when Arabic words like
falafel, chamsin, mabsut,
kayf, yallah, yanni and others
were being freely absorbed in-
to everyday Hebrew speech,
there was not the slightest
move to take over any names
of Arab origin.
Research conducted in the
U.S. a few years ago among a
group of students revealed
that 40 percent of the men
and 46 percent of the women
expressed dissatisfaction with
the names given them by
their parents. The men
generally preferred more com-
mon and popular names,
whereas the women would
have chosen more unusual
names. Yet very few went to
the bother of changing their
names in the official register.
Psychologists have in-
dicated that names can have
an influence in molding the
character and personality of
the child, and some personal
lives and careers have been
affected and sometimes
blighted by unhappy names
inflicted on the children by
thoughtless parents.
In a country of immigration
like Israel, the first genera-
tion of arrivals bear names
which often clearly indicate
their country of origin. Kurt,
Pierre, Ferenc, Sasha, Ovadia,
Morton and Neville can pret-
ty safely be identified as hav-
ing come, respectively, from
Germany, France, Hungary,
Russia, Yemen, the U.S. and
England. Yet their children
become true Israelis.