Naphtali (name)
Naphtali is the sixth son of Jacob in the Bible and the founder of the Israelite Tribe of Naphtali.
Naphtali, Naftali or Naftoli may also refer to:
Given name
Naftali
- Naftali Bendavid, Congressional reporter for The Wall Street Journal
- Naftali Bennett, Israeli businessman and politician
- Naftali Zvi Yehuda Berlin, Orthodox rabbi, dean of the Volozhin Yeshiva and author
- Naftali Bezem, Israeli painter, muralist and sculptor
- Naftali Blumenthal, Israeli politician
- Naftali Bon, Kenyan track and field runner
- Naftali Hertz ben Yaakov Elchanan, 17th century German rabbi, kabbalist and author
- Naftali Feder, Israeli politician
- Naftali Frankel, 16-year-old killed in the 2014 kidnapping and murder of Israeli teenagers
- Naftaly Frenkel, GULAG creator
- Naftali Halberstam, Grand Rebbe of Bobov
- Naftali Herstik, Hungarian-Israeli chazzan and teacher
- Naftali Yehuda Horowitz, Bostoner Rebbe of Boston
- Naftali Herz Imber, Jewish poet, Zionist and writer of the lyrics of the national anthem of Israel
- Naftali Tzvi Labin of Ziditshov, Zidichover Rebbe
- Naftali Asher Yeshayahu Moscowitz, Melitzer Rebbe of Ashdod, Israel
- Naftali Nilsen, Norwegian newspaper editor and politician
- Naftali Temu, Kenyan long-distance runner and Olympic gold medalist
- Naftali Herz Tur-Sinai, Bible scholar, author and linguist instrumental in the revival of the Hebrew language as a modern, spoken language
- Naftali Zvi of Ropshitz, rabbi and first Ropshitzer Rebbe
Naphtali
- Naphtali Busnash, statesman and chief of the Algerian Jews
- Naphtali Cohen, also known as Naphtali Katz, Russo-German rabbi and kabalist
- Naphtali Daggett, American academic and educator, first professor of Yale University and later university president
- Herz Cerfbeer of Medelsheim, Yiddish birth name Naphtali Ben Dov-Beer, French Jewish philanthropist
- Naphtali Friedman, Jewish Lithuanian lawyer and politician in the Russian Empire and Lithuania
- Naphtali Keller, Austrian Jewish scholar
- Naphtali Tuli Kupferberg, American counterculture poet, author, cartoonist, pacifist anarchist, publisher and co-founder of the band The Fugs
- Naphtali Lewis, American papyrologist and Egyptologist
- Naphtali Luccock, American bishop of the Methodist Episcopal Church
- Naphtali Hirsch Treves, kabbalist and scholar of the 16th century
- Naphtali Hirz Wessely, German Jewish Hebraist, educator and advocate of reform
Naftoli
- Naftoli Carlebach, German-born American-Israeli Orthodox rabbi
- Naftoli Shapiro, Orthodox Talmudic scholar and rosh yeshiva in Glasgow, Scotland
- Naftoli Trop, Talmudist and rosh yeshiva in Poland
Surname
- ben Naphtali, a rabbi and Masorete who flourished about 890–940 C.E.
- Peretz Naftali, Zionist activist and Israeli politician
- Timothy Naftali, director of the Richard Nixon Presidential Library and Museum