Ben-Zion
Ben-Zion is a Hebrew given name. Alternative spellings in English include Ben Zion, Benzion, and Bension. It may refer to the following people:
Given name
- Ben Zion Abba Shaul, rosh yeshiva, Porat Yosef Yeshiva
- Ben-Zion Alfes, rabbi
- Ben-Zion Ben-Yehuda, birth name of Itamar Ben-Avi, first native speaker of Modern Hebrew as the son of Eliezer Ben-Yehuda; journalist and Zionist activist
- Benzion Judah Berkowitz, Hebrew scholar
- Ben-Zion Bokser, American Conservative rabbi
- Ben-Zion Dinur, Israeli politician
- Bentsion Fleishman, Russian mathematician
- Benzion Freshwater, British property investor
- Ben-Zion Gold, American rabbi
- Ben Zion Goldberg, American journalist
- Ben-Zion Gopstein, Israeli radical right-wing activist
- Ben Zion Aryeh Leibish Halberstam, fifth Bobover Rebbe
- Ben Zion Halberstam, second Bobover Rebbe
- Ben-Zion Halfon, Israeli politician
- Benzion Halper, Lithuanian-American Hebraist and Arabist
- Ben-Zion Harel, Israeli doctor and politician
- Benzion Hoffman, Yiddish writer
- Ben Zion Hyman, Canadian Jewish bookseller
- Aaron Ben-Zion ibn Alamani, 12th century Egyptian judge
- Ben-Zion Keshet, Israeli politician
- Benzion Klatzko, American rabbi, university professor, founder of the largest Jewish social network
- Bension Kohen, rabbi
- Ben-Zion Leitner, Israeli soldier, received highest military decoration during the 1948 Arab–Israeli War
- Benzion Miller, Polish-born American cantor
- Bentsion Monastyrsky, Soviet cinematographer
- Ben Zion Moshel, Israeli footballer
- Benzion Netanyahu, Israeli historian, father of Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu
- Ben-Zion Orgad, Israeli composer
- Benzion Rakow, British rabbi
- Ben-Zion Rubin, Israeli politician
- Ben Zion Shenker, American composer and hazzan
- Ben Zion Solomon, American-born Israeli musician
- Ben-Tzion Spitz, Chief Rabbi of Uruguay
- Ben-Zion Sternberg, Zionist leader
- Ben Zion Tavger, Israeli activist
- Ben-Zion Meir Hai Uziel, Sephardic Chief Rabbi of Mandatory Palestine and of Israel
- Benzion Yadler, rabbi
- Ben-Zion Weinman American painter, sculptor, poet and a dramatist
- Ben-Zion Witler, Jewish singer, actor, coupletist, comedian and composer
Surname
- Ariel Bension, writer
- , pen name of Simha Alter Guttman, Hebrew writer, educator, newspaper editor, publisher, co-founder of Tel Aviv
- Yehoshua Ben-Zion, Israeli banker