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be published on the Pets Page, in the June 20th issue of the Apple Tree. Send photos and entries
to The Jewish News, 27676 Franklin Rd., Southfield, Michigan 48034.

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n Israel, as everywhere
else, the choice of names
for children follows certain
styles and trends.
For some time, there has
been a tendency to adopt
names of one syllable. And so
we get a profusion of names like
Dan, Tal, Gil, Ben, Dor, Or,
Guy, Niv, Paz. No effort
is made to link up with
deceased grandparents,
not even by association
with first initials.
In recent years, the
trend has been toward
names which, even with
their own meaning in He-
brew, are common in oth-
er countries: Elinor, Lilac,
Shirley, Coral, Lotus,
Neal, Karen, Kay, Ella,
Tom, Lee, Doreen and
Natalie. One tends to
find such names among
families with cosmopoli-
tan pretensions.
Of course, there are al-
ways odd and unusual
names. A recent popular
TV program presented
three brothers named
Am, Yisrael and Chai.
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Another participant was
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a little girl from Kiryat
Shmona who went by the
name of Katyusha. Everyone
took it for granted she was
named for the rockets which
the terrorists in Lebanon some-
times rain on her home town.

Not at all. She comes from a
Russian family where Katerina
is abridged to Katya, and the
diminutive of the latter is
Katyusha, little Katya.
Studies have been made to

dereimine what effect a name
has on the mental health the
child who bears it. Did a partic-
ular name make a child as-
sertive and aggressive, or, to the
contrary, withdrawn and intro-
versive?
One scholar maintains that
the significance of a name need
not have any influence;
rather, the personality of
the individual should
make its imprint on the
name. A survey of Israel's
adult population claimed
that 40 percent of those
queried were unhappy
with the names their par
ents gave them.
During the past year,
according to figures cited
by Anat Midan in Yediot
Ahronot, the most popu-
lar names given to boys
were Daniel, David and
Omer. Among girls, first
place included Sapir and
Adi. With Arabs, the most
popular boy's name was
Mohammed, and for
I girls, Fatima.
There are glimmerings
that biblical names may
be making a comeback.
Here and there, among the
literati and Tel Aviv bohemians,
it is not uncommon to find Hil-
lel, Elisha, Naomi, Rachel, Uri,
aron, Rafael and Yosef.
An apocryphal story is told of
an Israeli couple trying to decide
what to name their son. Finally,
the husband suggests they call
him Moshe. The wife's re-
sponse: "That's OK with me,
but I would have preferred
something from the Bible." ❑