title: Yitzhak
text: # Yitzhak
  
  Yitzhak(pronunciation (help·info) (יִצְחָק‎)) is a male first name, and is Hebrew for Isaac. Yitzhak may refer to:
  
  ## People
  
  * Yitzhak ha-Sangari, rabbi who converted the Khazars to Judaism
  * Yitzhak Rabin (1922–1995), Israeli politician and Prime Minister
  * Yitzhak Shamir (1915–2012), Israeli politician and Prime Minister
  * Yitzhak Aharonovich (born 1950), Israeli politician
  * Yitzhak Apeloig (born 1944), Israeli computational chemistry professor and President of the Technion
  * Yitzhak Arad (1926–2021), Israeli historian
  * Yitzhak Ben-Aharon (1906–2006), Israeli politician
  * Yitzhak Ben-Zvi (1884–1963), Israeli politician and President
  * Yitzhak Danziger (1916–1977), Israeli sculptor
  * Yitzhak Hatuel (born 1962), Israeli Olympic foil fencer
  * Yitzhak Hofi (1927–2014), Israeli general
  * Yitzhak Laor (born 1948), Israeli poet
  * Yitzhak Mastai (born 1966), Israeli professor of chemistry
  * Yitzhak Y. Melamed, Israeli-American philosophy professor
  * Yitzhak Molcho (born 1945), Israeli lawyer
  * Yitzhak Mordechai (born 1944), Israeli general and politician
  * Yitzhak Navon (1921–2015), Israel politician and President
  * Yitzhak "Vicky" Peretz (1953–2021), Israeli Olympic footballer
  * Yitzhak Sadeh (1890–1952), Israeli general
  * Yitzhak Schwartz, birth name of Irving Fields (1915–2016), American pianist and composer
  * Yitzhak Tshuva (born 1948), Israeli businessman
  * Yitzhak Yosef (born 1952), Israeli chief rabbi
  
  ## Fiction
  
  * Yitzhak, fictional character in the musical and film Hedwig and the Angry Inch
  