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Yitha'amar Bayyin
Yitha'amar Bayyin, son of Sumuhu'ali Yanuf, was a mukarrib of Saba in ancient South Arabia, known from two inscriptions at Ma'rib recording dam work and a ritual hunt.
YITU Technology (依图科技)
YITU Technology (依图科技) is a Shanghai-based artificial intelligence company founded in 2012 by Zhu Long and Lin Chenxi, known for facial-recognition systems used in public security.
Yitzchak Meir Alter (Chiddushei HaRim)
Yitzchak Meir Alter (יצחק מאיר אלתר), known as the Chiddushei HaRim, was a Polish Hasidic rabbi, 1799–1866, who founded the Ger dynasty, the largest Hasidic movement in Poland.
Yitzchak Mirilashvili (יצחק מירילשווילי)
Yitzchak Mirilashvili (יצחק מירילשווילי), born Vyacheslav Mirilashvili in Saint Petersburg in 1984, is a Russian-born Israeli businessman who co-founded VKontakte, sold his stake in 2013, and now leads Watergen.
Yitzhak Apeloig
Yitzhak Apeloig (יצחק אפלויג) was an Israeli computational and organosilicon chemist at the Technion in Haifa, a pioneer of predicting molecular properties by quantum computation, and the Technion's president from 2001 to 2009.
Yitzhak HaLevi Herzog
Yitzhak HaLevi Herzog (יצחק אייזיק הלוי הרצוג) was Ashkenazi chief rabbi of Palestine and Israel from 1937 to 1959 and father of president Chaim Herzog.
Yitzhak Kaduri (יצחק כדורי)
Yitzhak Kaduri (יצחק כדורי) was an Iraqi-born Jerusalem kabbalist, the elder of the kabbalists, famed for amulets and political influence; about 200,000 mourners attended his funeral in 2006.
Yitzhak Katznelson
Yitzhak Katznelson, born 1934 in Jerusalem, is an Israeli-American mathematician and Stanford professor emeritus known for harmonic analysis and ergodic theory, and winner of the 2002 Steele Prize.
Yitzhak Lamdan
Yitzhak Lamdan (יצחק למדן; 1899–1954) was a Hebrew poet and editor born in Ukraine who settled in Palestine in 1920, best known for his epic poem Masada (1927).
Yitzhak Navon (יצחק רחמים נבון)
Yitzhak Navon (יצחק רחמים נבון), 1921–2015, Israeli statesman, author, and fifth President of Israel (1978–1983), the first of Sephardi origin; later deputy prime minister and education minister, author of Bustan Sefaradi.
Yitzhak Nissim
Yitzhak Nissim (יצחק ניסים) was an Iraqi-born rabbi who served as Sephardi Chief Rabbi of Israel and Rishon LeZion from 1955 to 1972, presiding over the Rabbinical High Court.
Yitzhak Pilpel
Yitzhak (Tzachi) Pilpel is an Israeli researcher at the Weizmann Institute known for studies of codon usage, translation regulation, and the evolution of gene expression.
Yitzhak Rabin (יצחק רבין)
Yitzhak Rabin (יצחק רבין), 1922–1995, Israeli general and prime minister (1974–1977, 1992–1995), IDF chief of staff in the Six-Day War, signer of the 1993 Oslo Accord, 1994 Nobel Peace laureate, assassinated by Yigal Amir on November 4, 1995.
Yitzhak Shamir (יצחק שמיר)
Yitzhak Shamir (יצחק שמיר), born Yitzhak Yizernitsky, 1915–2012, Israeli statesman, Lehi underground leader, Mossad operative, and seventh prime minister (1983–84, 1986–92), known for the London Agreement veto, Gulf War restraint, and the Madrid conference.
Yitzhak Shenhar
Yitzhak Shenhar (born Yitzhak Shenberg, 1902–1957) was a Hebrew poet, fiction writer, and translator, a central prose writer of the Yishuv period who translated Tolstoy, Gogol, and Chekhov into Hebrew.
Yitzhak Tor
Yitzhak Tor is an organic and bioorganic chemist at the University of California San Diego, known for the Emissive RNA Alphabet and fluorescent NAD+ analogs.
Yitzhak Yosef
Yitzhak Yosef, born in 1952, is an Israeli Sephardi rabbi, son of Ovadia Yosef, who served as Sephardi Chief Rabbi of Israel from 2013 to 2024.
YIVO
YIVO, short for the Yiddish Scientific Institute, is an institution for the study of Ashkenazic Jewish history and culture, founded in Vilna in 1925 and headquartered in New York since 1940.
YIVO Bleter
YIVO Bleter (Yivo bleter, ייווא בלעטער) was a scholarly journal published in Yiddish by the YIVO Institute for Jewish Research from 1931 to at least 2003.
Yiwen leiju
Yiwen leiju (艺文类聚) is a Chinese encyclopedic leishu compiled on imperial order at the founding of the Tang dynasty, the earliest complete one surviving in China. Its 100 juan quote over 1,100 books, most otherwise lost.
Yiwu (义乌)
Yiwu (义乌), a county-level city in central Zhejiang under Jinhua, China, founded as Wushang County in 222 BC; home of the world's largest small-commodity wholesale market, with 2025 trade of 836.5 billion yuan.
Yiwu Shuangjue
医武双绝 is a 2025 Chinese urban revenge short drama starring Xing Rui, released on Douyin in 95 brief episodes and topping the DataEye hot-play chart for five days.
Yixian Formation
The Yixian Formation is a Lower Cretaceous rock unit in western Liaoning, northeastern China, whose volcanic lakes preserved the Jehol Biota, including feathered dinosaurs, early birds, and primitive mammals.
Yixian Zheng
Yixian Zheng (郑诣先) is a Chinese-born cell biologist at the Carnegie Institution for Science in Baltimore, known for discovering the γ-tubulin ring complex and linking lamin-B loss to aging-related inflammation.
Yixiang
Yixiang (義湘), Korean Uisang, 625–702, was a Silla monk who studied Huayan Buddhism under Zhiyan in Tang Chang'an, then returned to Korea and founded the Hwaeom school at Buseoksa.
Yixin Lü
Yixin Lü (卢一新), also published as Yixin Lu, is an organic chemist at the National University of Singapore known for amino-acid-derived organocatalysis, atroposelective synthesis, and asymmetric catalysis.
Yixin Technology
Yixin Technology (移芯通信), formally Shanghai Yixin Communications Technology Co., Ltd., is a Chinese fabless semiconductor company designing cellular IoT chips such as NB-IoT and Cat.1bis.
Yixing
Yixing (一行), known in secular life as Zhang Sui, was a Tang dynasty Buddhist monk and astronomer who led the Kaiyuan calendar reform and produced the Dayan calendar.
Yixing (city)
Yixing (宜兴市), a Wuxi-administered county-level city in southern Jiangsu at the Jiangsu-Zhejiang-Anhui junction on Lake Tai; China's "Pottery Capital" famed for zisha teapots, a national historical city since 2011, population 1.28 million, GDP 253 billion yuan (2025).
Yixing ware
Yixing ware (宜兴紫砂, zisha, literally purple clay) is an unglazed Chinese stoneware produced in Yixing, Jiangsu province, best known for its teapots and prized since the Ming dynasty.