Rivlin

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title: "Rivlin" type: doc version: 1 created: 2026-02-28 author: "Wikipedia contributors" status: active scope: public tags: ["jewish-matronymic-surnames", "jewish-families", "israeli-families", "yiddish-language-surnames", "families-from-jerusalem"] topic_path: "society/religion" source: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rivlin" license: "CC BY-SA 4.0" wikipedia_page_id: 0 wikipedia_revision_id: 0

Rivlin () is a primarily Jewish family originating from Austria and Eastern Europe, which became established in early 19th century Palestine (now Israel). There are also branches of the family in several other countries.

The family

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The Rivlin family originated from Vienna, Austria and has over 50,000 members.

The Rivlin family has held major reunions in Jerusalem in 1980 and 2009. These reunions drew thousands of family members to Jerusalem. A film, The Tribe, was made about the 1980 reunion by Lilly Rivlin.

Notable Rivlins

Chronologically:

• Hillel Rivlin (1758–1838), rabbi and student of the Vilna Gaon, revitalized the Ashkenazi community in Palestine
• Yosef Rivlin (1836–1896), rabbi and secretary of the Jerusalem-based Central Committee of Knesseth Israel under Jerusalem Chief Rabbi Shmuel Salant
• Yosef Yoel Rivlin (1889–1971), Oriental studies scholar, Hebrew U. professor and translator
• Ronald Rivlin (1915–2005), Anglo-American physicist, developer of the Mooney-Rivlin model for calculating the mechanical behaviour of rubber and similar materials
• Jule Rivlin (1917–2002), American college men's basketball coach and professional basketball player
• Theodore J. Rivlin (1926–2006), American mathematician
• Leanne Rivlin (born 1929), an originator of the Environmental Psychology Doctoral Program at the CUNY Graduate Center, USA
• Alice Rivlin (1931–2019), American economist and budget official
• Lilly Rivlin, (born 1936), Israeli filmmaker
• Reuven Rivlin (born 1939), President of Israel
  • Nechama Rivlin (1945–2019), First Lady of Israel
• Eliezer Rivlin (1942–2013), deputy-president of the Supreme Court of Israel and chairman of the Central Elections Committee
• Sefi Rivlin (1947–2013), Israeli actor and comedian
• Gary Rivlin (born 1958), American journalist and author
• Michal Rivlin-Etzion, Israeli neuroscientist (graduated from the Hebrew University in 2001)
• Yermi Kaplan (born 1961), son of Orah Rivlin Kaplan; Israeli singer and musician

References

References

1. [https://www.jpost.com/jewish-world/jewish-features/rivlin-family-celebrates-the-birth-of-its-50000th-member "Rivlin family celebrates the birth of its 50,000th member"], ''[[The Jerusalem Post]]'', March 23, 2009, accessed December 23, 2024.
2. (2020). "Neuromorphic implementation of motion detection using oscillation interference". Neurocomputing.
3. "♫ Yermi Kaplan".

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