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Haifa — In America, aa
everywhere else, there are styles
and fashions in the selection of
names of our children. Just look
about you and see how different
are the names of today from
those given to the children of a
generation ago.
Israel is no exception. An ex
pert in the subject might almost
pinpoint the age of a person by-
identifying his name with the
period In which that name was
popular. The generation gap is
obvious.
Run through a list of the
members of the Cabinet and the
Knesset. You will find names
like Joseph, Isaac, Chaim, Jacob,
Mordecai, David, Shimon,
Shlomo, Menachem, Pinhas,
Moshe, Israel, Abraham, Gi
deon, Yitzhak, Asher, Golds,
Matilda . . .
And run through a list of
children at school. You will find
Tomer, Ron, Shai, Dani, Ronit,
Hagi, Anat, Ayal, Ofra, Ido,
Orit, Yoav, Ehud. They are the
members of the Cabinet and the
Knesset in the next generation.
Newborn children often
receive their names as a result of
special events. After the Six-Day
War there was an outbreak of
names like Sinai, Tiran, Tirana,
Golan. Children born on Tu
ITS he vat, the Israel Arbor Day,
stand a very good chance of be
ing named Dana or Ilan, plea
sant generic term for a tree, not
to speak of specific tress like
Tamar (date palm), Dekel
(palm), Hadas (myrtle), Oren
(pine), Erez (cedar). If a child is
named Gal (wave) or Saar
(tempest), the chances are his
father is In the navy.
The Bible is still a perennial
source of names, but whereas
Jonathan and David were once
popular favorites, parents now
look for unusual names like
Semadar, Nimrod, Assaf, Eldad.
Some parents who really
wanted a son let it be,known,
when they name their daughters
Josepha, Reuvena, Yoela,
Azriela. Shirley is not what it
looks like. In Hebrew it means “I
have a song.”
People often come to the
Ministry of the Interior and ask
to have their names legally
changed. Sometimes the reasons
are frivolous. Sometimes there
are ulterior motives. Like the
young man who wanted to adopt
the name of Elvis — Elvis
Presley, no less. The authorities
said that if he had planned to re
main in Israel they might have
agreed, but since he was about to
go abroad there was reason to
suspect that he would mislead
people. If he had wanted to call
himself Napoleon the request
would'have been approved. Cer
tainly no one would have believ
ed that he really was Napoleon.
Let’s get back to the genera
tion gap. Look at us. Carl and
Natalie gave their three children
good Biblical names: Miryam,
Joel, Ruth. But the latter,
married and settled in Israel,
named their own children
respectively Iris, Tamar, Ronit,
Tal, Anat and Assaf. Each of the
three generations has its own
identifiable labels.
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