Bar-Ilan (disambiguation)

Bar-Ilan ("son of the trees") is a family name using Jewish-Aramaic patronymics, in this case poetically related to Israeli landscape. Bar-, meaning "son of" in the Aramaic language, is equivalent to the word Ben (in Hebrew: בֶּן‎‎, son of).

People with the surname Bar-Ilan:

• Meir Bar-Ilan (1880–1949), Orthodox rabbi and leader of Religious Zionism after whom the University, the Jerusalem street, and his grandson^[1] are named

Bar-Ilan may also refer to:

• Bar-Ilan, a university in Ramat-Gan, Israel
  • Bar Ilan Responsa Project of the Bar-Ilan University
• Bar-Ilan Street, a street in Jerusalem, whose opening on the Sabbath is one of the symbols of the conflict between orthodox and secular Israeli Jews
• Bar-Ilan Speech, a June 2009 peace address by Benjamin Netanyahu, at Begin–Sadat Center for Strategic Studies within Bar-Ilan University, on the topic of the Middle East peace process

1. Gross, Jon (2013-10-28). "Rabbi in the Middle of America: Numerology, Magic, and Jewish Kids attending Hogwarts". Amerabbica.com. Retrieved 2014-03-19.