Famous People with Name Peretz

Peretz Bernstein            Origin/Culture/Country: American

Peretz Bernstein: Farrell was born in Queens, New York and moved to Miami with his family during his teens. His father was a jeweler, and his mother committed suicide when Farrell was three, an event later noted in the Jane's Addiction song "Then She Did." Early musical in

Peretz Naftali            Origin/Culture/Country: Jewish

Peretz Naftali: was a Zionist activist and Israeli politician who served in several ministerial portfolios in the 1950s.In 1925 he had joined the Zionism movement, and in 1931 was a delegate to the Zionist Congress. He made aliyah in 1933, initially working as a lecturer at the Technion, before becoming director general of Bank Hapoalim in 1938, a post he held until 1949.

Avi Peretz            Origin/Culture/Country: Jewish

Avi Peretz: Avi Peretz began playing at the Hapoel Be'er Sheva F.C. youth team. In the 1980s he made his debut for the first team. Later he moved on to Hapoel Arad and then to Maccabi Jaffa. In 1991 he played for Maccabi Yavne and two years later he moved to Hapoel Bat Yam, where he played for two years. At the end of the year he moved to Hapoel Ashkelon and one year later he moved to Hapoel Be'er Sheva.

Omer Peretz            Origin/Culture/Country: Jewish

Omer Peretz: an Israeli footballer who currently plays for Maccabi Tel Aviv. His father, Vicky, was also a footballer in Israel as was his uncle, Avi Cohen and his cousin Tamir Cohen.

Amir Peretz            Origin/Culture/Country: Jewish

Amir Peretz: is an Israeli politician and member of the Knesset for the Labour Party. He is a former Defense Minister of Israel and former leader of the Labour Party, having left those positions in June 2007.

Yitzhak Haim Peretz            Origin/Culture/Country: Jewish

Yitzhak Haim Peretz: is a former Israeli politician who held several ministerial portfolios during the 1980s and early 1990s.In 1984 Peretz became the leader of the new Sephardic ultra-orthodox Shas party,[1] and in the elections that year he won a seat in the Knesset. The party joined the national unity government, and Peretz was appointed Minister without Portfolio.

Isaac Leib Peretz            Origin/Culture/Country: Polish

Isaac Leib Peretz: was a Yiddish language author and playwright. Payson R. Stevens, Charles M. Levine, and Sol Steinmetz count him with Mendele Mokher Seforim and Sholem Aleichem as one of the 3 great classical Yiddish writers. Sol Liptzin wrote: "Yitzkhok Leibush Peretz was the great awakener of Yiddish-speaking Jewry, and Sholom Aleichem its comforter... Peretz aroused in his readers the will for self-emancipation, the will for resistance..."