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	Reference.com/Encyclopedia/Aluf
		Aluf (אלוף) is the term used for General and Admiral in the Israel Defense Forces.
		Rav Aluf is usually translated as "Lieutenant General," but is often considered to equate to a full General, since it is the most senior rank.
		The term "Aluf" is taken from the Bible, where it was a rank of nobility among the Edomites, ancient Judea's neighbors (and often, enemies) to the south.
	www.reference.com /browse/wiki/Aluf (449 words)

	Aluf: (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
		Aluf (Hebrew: אלוף) is the term used for General and Admiral in the Israel Defense Forces.
		Rav Aluf is usually translated as "Lieutenant General," but is often considered to equate to a full General, since it is the most senior rank.
		The term "Aluf" is taken from the Bible, where it was a rank of nobility among the Edomites, ancient Judea's neighbors (and often, enemies) to the south.
	advantacell.com /wiki/Aluf (337 words)

	Naval Rank Flags (Israel)
		Album des Pavillons 2000 is charged with the rank insignia of an Aluf (Major General) which is the rank of the GHQ members and the commander of the branches and regional commands and the second in the rank list.
		The Colonel equivalent is Aluf Mishneh (literally Deputy General), and the Lieutenant Colonel equivalent is Segan Aluf (Assistant General, or, considering that the Lieutenant equivalent is a Segen, perhaps even Lieutenant [in the original meaning of "assistant"] General).
		Rav aluf does not translate as lieutenant general but as chief commander of thousands and tat aluf as sub-commander of thousands, not brigadier.
	www.crwflags.com /fotw/flags/il~rank.html (675 words)

	Lazer Beams: Abir Aluf meets Melitzer Rebbe
		The Aluf then told the Melitzer the history of his family, whose documented lineage goes back 100 generations to the first Holy Temple.
		The meeting terminated with the Melitzer Rebbe blessing the Abir Aluf, and presenting him with a wholehearted letter of support that endorses the Abir Aluf personally, and implores anyone who seeks to learn combat arts to pursue it in a way that is compatible with with Torah, holiness, and spiritual purity.
		This is the CD that we've all been waiting for, the musical legacy of Rav Erez Levanon of blessed and saintly memory, who was murdered by terrorists in March, 2007.
	lazerbrody.typepad.com /lazer_beams/2007/02/abir_aluf_meets.html (1957 words)

	The Ultimate General - American History Information Guide and Reference
		One exception to this was General Robert E. Lee who chose to wear the insignia rank of a colonel (three stars) even after he became overall commander of the Confederate armies in 1865.
		The correspondent rank for General in the Israeli Defence Forces is Rav Aluf.
		The "Rav Aluf" rank is given only to the RAMATKAL (Chief of the General Staff), which is the highest position within the IDF.
	www.historymania.com /american_history/General (737 words)

	Israel - Rank, Insignia, and Uniforms
		Thus, a lieutenant general was rav aluf, a major general was aluf, a brigadier general was tat aluf, and a colonel was aluf mishne.
		A captain was seren and a major was rav seren.
		Rank titles were the same for the ground forces, the navy, and the air force.
	www.country-data.com /cgi-bin/query/r-6847.html (450 words)

	Wings of Morning - Parsha
		Sela can be translated as "cleft." Rav Kook speaks of a person who "takes shelter in the shade of natural havens, like the hares who take shelter in the clefts of the rock." The word for silver, kesef, also means "longing" (kasaf).
		One begins from the highest level, the Aluf, proceeds through the energy of the sefirot and one then brings that into one's life in a structured manner.
		The next two letters in his name give the answer: alef and yod, the Aluf and His emanations that comprise "reality." One gives oneself entirely over to God, Who is the "storekeeper." Then one draws directly from God's energy whenever one needs it, without having to pass through any filters.
	www.shemayisrael.co.il /parsha/review/archives/bereishis62.htm (1437 words)

	IDF ranks@Everything2.com
		People who do well or stand out on boot camp might get this rank for a short while, in which case they are supposed to wear a single stripe, but rarely do.
		Rav, in this context, means "great", or "major"; hence, a "private major", someone who leads the privates.
		Seren and aluf, explained below are apparently bona fide biblical Hebrew military terms, and segen derives from a "real" word too...
	everything2.com /index.pl?node_id=1459904 (1407 words)

	Lazer Beams: Warriors of emuna - an endangered species
		Yehoshua Sofer's father, known as the "Abir Ro'im", or "shepherd knight", is the younger brother of Sayeed, Salaah, and Saadia pictured above, and the son of Nachman Sofer, the Abir master of his generation, a fierce warrior and kabbalist that had 5 wives.
		In case you're wondering what the great tzaddikim thought of Abir, you should know that the Aluf was the personal bodyguard of Rav Kaduri, of blessed and saintly memory, who held both the Aluf and Abir in the highest regard.
		Not only that, but the Aluf was the understudy of the famed tzaddik and Kabbalist, Rav Yisroel Be'er Odesser, of blessed and saintly memory, who loved the Aluf like a son.
	lazerbrody.typepad.com /lazer_beams/2006/11/king_david_kill.html (2767 words)

	Omedia : The Iranian Threat- The confrontation with Iran is inevitable
		Former Rav Aluf Ya´alon comments are not surprising.
		Hardly any of the 19 Rav Alufs were men of peace and no one is expects this.
		The Herzliya Conference was outside Medinat Israel partly described as a hysteria for war against Iran at whose border the US /Britain wage a war against Iraq now for 3 years already; a sound/valid justification for this war is not known yet, and 4-star Gen. Col.
	www.omedia.org /Show_Article.asp?DynamicContentID=2061&MenuID=722&ThreadID=1014010 (1496 words)

	Israel Azriel Mordechai Wiener
		Event: event Sep 1723 Amsterdam In the tnaim rishonim on 13 Elul 5483 aluf khr"r Shlomo Zalman ben Aron Levie m.h.l.
		Event: event between Jan 1732 and OKT 1755 Amsterdam On 4 Teveth 5492 appears before the trustees of the jewish community the couple Knendel bat mhor"r Isaac m.h.l.
		400,- from aluf katsin khr"r Zalman ben katsin pu m khr"r Feibelman Kleef m.h.l, and as collateral they introduce 2 seats, which they own in the great synagogue.
	shum.huji.ac.il /~dutchjew/genealog/ashkenazi/2791.htm (909 words)

	Toronto Catalog (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
		The term "Aluf" is taken from the Bible, where it was a rank of nobility among the Edomites, ancient Judea's neighbors (and often, enemies) to the south.
		It can also be used colloquially in a derogatory sense - implying that the officer concerned is over-officious, incompetent, and/or involved in internecine power struggles with other officers, to the neglect of proper military duties.
		Yaakov Dori - the IDF's first Rav Aluf {Chief of Staff}
	www.torontopost.biz /Info/?Aluf (414 words)

	Aluf (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
		Aluf is the term used for General in the Israeli Defence Forces.
		It is divided into three ranks: Tat Aluf (Brigadier General), Aluf (Major General) and Rav Aluf (Lieutenant General).
		There can only be one active Rav Aluf at a time and the rank is given only to the RAMATKAL (Chief of the General Staff), which is the highest position within the IDF.
	www.ufaqs.com /wiki/en/al/Aluf.htm (106 words)

	History Israeli Overview Palestinian Recent (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
		But since Rav Aluf in Israel is the only country which currently has female conscription.
		In recent years, some Druze officers have reached positions in the IDF, the two Jewish guerillas the Irgun and Stern gang came under control of the origins of modern Palestine, and includes essays on the early Zionist movement, the 1948 war, international influences on the fight for Palestine and its religious and political roots.
		In recent years, some Druze officers have reached positions in the IDF and answers to the IDF are to be translated one-to-one to Western rankss then a "Rav Aluf" is equivalent to Lieutenant General (since Major General is "Aluf").
	mi2.mausoleumrec.com /historyisraelioverviewpalestinianrecent.html (1002 words)

	Naval Rank Flags (Israel)
		The flag that appears as rear admiral in Album des Pavillons 2000 is charged with the rank insignia of an Aluf (Major General) which is the rank of the GHQ members and the commander of the branches and regional commands and the second in the rank list.
		Since the only one in the navy that has this rank is the commander of the navy (who has his own rank flag), this one cannot be a rear admiral flag.
		The US Navy has a flag for fleet admiral, and there has not been one of those since 1966.
	www.fotw.net /flags/il~rank.html (712 words)

	Israel Defense Forces - Encyclopedia, History, Geography and Biography
		All branches of the IDF are subordinate to a single General Staff.
		The Chief of the General Staff (Hebrew acronym: רמטכ"ל, pronounced: Ramatkal) is the only serving officer having the rank of Lieutenant General (in Hebrew: רב אלוף, pronounced: "Rav Aluf").
		Unlike most world armies, these ranks are common for all corps in the IDF, including the air force and navy.
	www.arikah.com /encyclopedia/Israel_Defense_Forces (5192 words)

	abir aluf - Search.com
		The Melitzer threw questions at the Abir Aluf, and he answered by heart as if the …Abir Ro'im, the father of the Abir Aluf, is blind and 100 years old.
		Abir Ro'im, the father of the Abir Aluf, is blind and 100 years old.
		The Abir Aluf is the type of walking example of azut d'kedusha, the boldness of...
	www.search.com /topsearches/abir_aluf.html (353 words)

	Rav Yehuda Tzadka
		Rav Saadya accepted these baalei teshuva without reservation.
		of Sura and thus Rav Saadya was invited to the yeshiva.
		In this monumental sefer, Rav Saadya clarified all of the religious
	www.torahcenter.com /bios/saadia.htm (1889 words)

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		The first to commit this sin, as it were, was God Himself, for with the first words that appeared out of the eternal silence, the infinite light contracted into vessels and definitions.
		For from the moment that we don a mask, we lose the world of phenomena, and in the words of Rav Kook, who adopted the Kantian position regarding man's looking at himself, we have lost that which surrounds the "center of knowledge." There is no longer anything surrounding it.
		We go around the center of knowledge, we deal in surmises and guesses, making determinations on the basis of manifest actions, which are also mostly concealed from us, and particularly their complicated causes, and on the basis of such testimony, we speak of about unique natures and separate souls.
	vbm-torah.org /archive/chassidut/18chassidut.htm (4772 words)

	Aluf (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
		Aluf () is the term used for General and Admiral in the Israel Defense Forces.
		Rav Aluf () : Lieutenant General (Chief of the General Staff)
		Tat Aluf () : Brigadier General (divisional and corps-level)
	www.dejavu.org /cgi-bin/get.cgi?ver=93&url=http://articles.gourt.com/%22http%3A%2F%2Farticles.gourt.com%2F%3Farticle%3DAluf (227 words)

	Brigadier General - Gurupedia
		In the Royal Air Force and many other airforces that do not use ranks based on those of the army, the equivalent rank is an Air Commodore.
		In the Israeli Defence Forces a Brigadier General is called Tat Aluf and it is the third highest rank.
		It is followed by Aluf (Major General) and Rav Aluf (Lieutenant General) or
	www.gurupedia.com /b/br/br_gen.htm (255 words)

	Rank Maven Israel / Medinat Yisrael insignia
		When the IDF was created, the senior rank was Aluf (Prince or Lion), then considered a "Brigadier".
		When it was decided that more than one general was needed, they created Rav- Aluf as the senior officer.
		In 1968 after the six day war, Tat-Aluf was added below Aluf as the starting "General Officer" rank.
	rankmaven.tripod.com /israel.htm (400 words)

	Israel Defense Forces ranks at AllExperts
		As the ranks of the Israel Defence Forces (IDF) are traditionally translated one-to-one to Western ranks then the rank of Aluf* (×××•×£) is translated as Major General, and Rav Aluf (×¨×‘ ×××•×£) is translated as Lieutenant General.
		However, a more proper translation (in terms of both language and organizational role) of Aluf would be to full General (four-star, in American terms).
		Similarly, as the Hebrew prefix Rav is equivalent to the English prefix arch (as in archangel), a more fitting transation for the rank of Rav-Aluf would be Arch-General, or, more conventionally, Field Marshal or five-star General.
	en.allexperts.com /e/i/is/israel_defense_forces_ranks.htm (394 words)

	Israel Defense Forces ranks (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
		As the ranks of the Israel Defence Forces (IDF) are traditionally translated one-to-one to Western ranks then the rank of Aluf (×××•×£) is translated as Major General, and Rav Aluf (×¨×‘ ×××•×£) is translated as Lieutenant General.
		Similarly, as the Hebrew prefix Rav is equivalent to the English prefix arch (as in archangel), a more fitting transation for the rank of Rav-Aluf would be Arch-General, or, more conventionally, Field Marshal or five-star General.
		In the IDF, the same ranks are used throughout the army, including the Israeli Air Force and Israeli Navy.
	www.dejavu.org /cgi-bin/get.cgi?ver=93&url=http://articles.gourt.com/%22http%3A%2F%2Farticles.gourt.com%2F%3Farticle%3DSeren (377 words)

	JINSA Online -- Portrait of the New Israeli Soldier
		Beneath the rank of rav-aluf (lieutenant-general, reserved exclusively for the Chief of Staff), the most senior notches in the IDF hierarchy are aluf (major-general, of which there are usually about 20) and tat-aluf (brigadier-general, of which there are currently 35).
		With the exception of IDF Chief Rabbis, no national religious Jew has ever been appointed aluf; and only four are currently listed as tat aluf (of whom two hold field commands).
		Although critical of the shortcomings exposed during the Lebanon campaign, most previous observers of the IDF have been nevertheless confident that the traditional "fighting spirit" of the Force remained largely unimpaired.
	www.jinsa.org /articles/articles.html/function/view/categoryid/154/documentid/451/history/3,654,154,451 (7755 words)

	The Ultimate Major General - American History Information Guide and Reference
		In the Israeli Defence Forces a Major General is called Aluf and it is the second highest rank.
		It is outranked by Rav Aluf (Lieutenant General or General).
		The modern day military of Germany also uses the rank of Major General, referred to as Generalmajor.
	www.historymania.com /american_history/Major_General (294 words)

	JCPA Middle East Briefing: A Fateful Israeli Decision Reshapes the Regional Balance
		No difference of opinion of any specific nature has come to light beyond the normal jockeying over appointments at the two-star general rank.
		(The IDF, a very lean military for its size, has only one three-star general, rav aluf or lt.-general, and fewer than two dozen two-star generals, who are called aluf, major-general.)
		The highly successful captains of the present war-Ya'alon as well as Avi Dichter of the Shabak (General Security Service)-are now departing; their talented successors will have a truly "new Middle East" with which to deal.
	www.ujc.org /page.html?ArticleID=97022 (871 words)

	UNIFORM INSIGNIA FORUM :: View topic - Israeli Rank insignia
		Aluf - Colonel (Since 1950 - Brigadier General, since 1968 - Major General) - three leaves.
		In Jan. 1950 a new rank was added - Aluf Mishneh - three leaves on shoulder boards.
		The insignia of Aluf Yam was a large stripe with a "regular" IDF ancor (simillar to the insignia of Rear Admiral as shown here http://www.rankinsignia.info/show.php?stat=Israelandpodkategorie=Cheylihayam%20-%20Navyandnum=2andid=1532)
	forum.uniforminsignia.net /viewtopic.php?t=1925 (2514 words)

	Israel Defense Forces (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
		The Chief of the General Staff (in Hebrew: &1512;&1502;&1496;&1499;"&1500;, pronounced: Ramatkal) has the rank of (Lieutenant) General (in Hebrew: &1512;&1489; &1488;&1500;&1493;&1507;, pronounced: "Rav Aluf") and is the High commander of the IDF.
		Note about ranks: if the ranks of the IDF are to be translated one-to-one to Western ranks then a "Rav Aluf" is equivalent to Lieutenant General (since Major General is "Aluf").
		But since Rav Aluf in Israel is the High commander of the Army (including air Force and navy), the translation of it as "General" is more appropriate.
	israel-defense-forces.iqnaut.net (2304 words)

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		Beneath the rank of rav-aluf (lieutenant-general, reserved exclusively for the Chief of Staff), the most senior notches in the IDF hierarchy are aluf (major-general, of which there are usually about 20) and tat-aluf (brigadier-general, of which there are currently 35).
		With the exception of IDF Chief Rabbis, no national religious Jew has ever been appointed aluf; and only four are currently listed as tat aluf (of whom two hold field commands).
		Human Rights Watch has published a report criticizing the mass demolition in Rafah, in which it argues against many of the IDF's justifications for the destructive activities carried out by D9s.
	www.lycos.com /info/israel-defense-forces--no-israelis.html?page=2 (563 words)

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