Yael (name)
Yael is a given name of Hebrew origin. It is the name of biblical figure Jael, who saved the Israelites by killing Sisera, commander of the Canaanite king Jabin's army, by hammering a tent peg through his temple while asleep in her tent. The Hebrew ya'el means ibex, a nimble, sure-footed mountain goat native to that region. As of 2018, Yael was one of the most common female first names in contemporary Israel.
People with the given name
- Yael Abecassis, Israeli actress and model
- Yael Arad, Israeli Olympic-medalist judoka
- Yael Averbuch, American soccer player
- Yael Bartana, Israeli video artist
- Yael Bitrán, Chilean-born naturalized Mexican historian, translator, and musicologist
- Yael Braudo-Bahat, Israeli peace activist
- Yael Cohen, founder and CEO of Fuck Cancer
- Yael Dayan, Israeli writer and politician
- Yael Eckstein, senior vice president of the International Fellowship of Christians and Jews
- Yael S. Feldman, Israeli-born American scholar
- Yael German, Israeli politician
- Yael Globerman, Israeli poet, writer, and translator
- Yael Aloni Goldblatt, Israeli rhythmic gymnast
- Yael Goldman, Israeli actress, TV host, and model
- Yael Grobglas, Israeli actress
- Yaël Hassan, French-Israeli writer
- Yael Tauman Kalai, Israeli-American cryptographer
- Yael Kanarek, Israeli-American artist
- Yaelle Kayam, Israeli Israeli filmmaker and journalist, whose first name is actually יעל
- Yael Kraus, Israeli singer/songwriter
- Yael Lempert, American diplomat
- Yael Goldstein Love, American novelist, editor, and book critic
- Yael Markovich, Israeli-American model and Israeli beauty queen titleholder
- Yael Meyer, Chilean singer, songwriter, musician, and producer
- Yael Naim, French-Israeli singer/songwriter
- Yaël Braun-Pivet, French lawyer and politician
- Yael Poliakov, Israeli actress, comedian, and screenwriter
- Yael Rom née Finkelstein, one of the first female pilots of the Israeli Air Force
- Jael Ruesch, known as Jael, American fantasy artist/illustrator
- Yael Stone, Australian actress
- Jael Strauss, contestant on America's Next Top Model, season 8
- Yael Tal, Israeli actress
- Yael Tamir, Israeli academic and politician
- Yael van der Wouden, Dutch author
- Yael Yuzon, Filipino vocalist and guitarist
- Yael Bar Zohar, Israeli actress, model, and television host
Middle name
- Jenifer Bartoli, French pop singer
- Daniela Yael Krukower, Israeli-Argentinean judoka world champion
Pseudonym
- Jaël, stage name of Rahel Krebs, Swiss singer/songwriter
Fictional characters
- Yael, a woman in ancient Israel who escapes the massacre at Masada, in Alice Hoffman's novel The Dovekeepers
- Yael Aronov, in John Sanford's novel Storm Front
- Yael "Yaeli" Ashkenazi, in the Netflix Original series When Heroes Fly
- Yael Baron, in the Netflix Original series Degrassi: Next Class
- Yael Hoffman, in the TV series Weeds
- Alice Jael Reasoner, also known as Jael, an assassin in Joanna Russ' novel The Female Man
- Yael from "Return to Me" by Lynn Austin