Tuesday, August 27, 2019
Netanyahu and others connected to famous people and us; Segal being one line.
Nadene Goldfoot
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| The 35th anniversary of the raid on Entebbe in which four Israeli hostages (out of more than 100) and the commander of their rescue operation - Yoni Netanyahu, the brother of our present Prime Minister - were killed. There were some nice tributes to Yoni (Jonathan) of remembrance. " |
Yonatan "Yoni" Netanyahu was an Israel Defense Forces officer who commanded the elite commando unit Sayeret Matkal during Operation Entebbe, an operation to rescue hostages held at Entebbe Airport in Uganda in 1976. en.wikipedia.org
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| The Prime Minister of Israel when a young IDF soldier in Israel |
Surprisingly, there is a coastal town in Israel by the name of Netanyah that was founded in 1929 by the descendants of veteran Galilean settlers as a village based on large citrus plantations that was developed as a seaside resort. Often people receive their surnames through the town they were from.
Benjamin's father was Benzion Halevi Netanyahu. Benzion Mileikowsky (later Netanyahu) was born in Warsaw in partitioned Poland which was under Russian control, to Sarah (Lurie) and the writer and Zionist activist, Nathan Mileikowsky. Nathan was a rabbi who toured Europe and the United States, making speeches and supporting Zionism. After Nathan took the family to Mandate Palestine (aliyah) in 1920, the family name eventually was changed to Netanyahu. After living in Jaffa, Tel Aviv, and Safed, the family settled in Jerusalem. Benzion Netanyahu studied in the David Yellin teachers' seminary and the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. Although his father was a rabbi, Benzion was secular.
His younger brother, mathematician Elisha Netanyahu, became Dean of Sciences at the Technion. It was a common practice for Zionist immigrants at the time to adopt a Hebrew name. Nathan Mileikowsky began signing some of the articles he wrote "Netanyahu," the Hebrew version of his first name, and his son adopted this as his family name. He also used the pen name "Nitay."
In 1944, Netanyahu married Tzila Segal, whom he met during his studies in Palestine. Together the couple would have three Boys —Yonatan (1946–76), former commander of Sayeret Matkal, who was killed in action leading Operation Entebbe; Benjamin, (b. 1949), Israeli Prime Minister (1996–99, 2009–present); and Iddo (b. 1952), an Israeli physician, author and playwright. Netanyahu became a widower in 2000, when Tzila (Celia) died.
We have many Segals in our tree. Netanyahu's mother was Sephardi.
Ours must be Ashkenazi, I would think. If her ancestors were from
Poland like her husband, she would have been Ashkenazi.
Ours must be Ashkenazi, I would think. If her ancestors were from
Poland like her husband, she would have been Ashkenazi.
Descendants of Leo Marius Mordechai Meir ha Levi Segal
1 Leo Marius Mordechai Meir ha Levi Segal b: September 02, 1906 in Minneapolis, Minnesota d: January 02, 1967 in Minneapolis, Minnesota
.. +Jeanette Edythe nee Scheine Goldfus b: January 10, 1910 in Laukuva, Telsiai uesd, Kovno Gubenia, Lithuania-Russian Empire d: October 10, 1993 in St Paul, Minnesota
. 2 Susan Segal b: 1942
..... +Gary Jay Bloom b: Abt. 1942
. 2 Sandra Mae Segal b: 1945
..... +Richard Melvin Weintraub b: Abt. 1945
This Goldfus was a descendant of Iankel Goldfus b: 1768.
We also have another Segal in the family from South Africa.
Descendants of Mary Segall
1 Mary Segall b: Abt. 1878 in Russia d: in Johanesburg, South Africa
.. +Dr. Louis "Elias" Goldfoot, MD b: Abt. 1877 in Vilnius, Lithuania/Russia d: November 15, 1976 in Capetown, Johannesburg, South Africa
. 2 21 yrs. Stephen Goldfoot, Flight Lieutenant b: Abt. 1921 in Johannesburg, South Africa d: December 12, 1941 in Western Desert, Egypt
. 2 Gerald Gerard Joel Goldfoot b: Abt. 1923 in Johannesburg, South Africa d: September 13, 1965 in Johannesburg, South Africa age 51
In checking DNA, I find that my brother, David Goldfoot matches a segment with Ian Goldfoot, born in South Africa, and Adam Segal, who is Ian's 2nd to 4th cousin. David is Ian's 2nd to 3rd cousin. David, my brother, matched 17 Segals from 2nd to 5th cousins. Adam Segal was not one of my 17 matches.
I matched 17 Segals, and one was a 2nd to 4th cousin, Mr. Michael Segal. The others were 3rd, 4th and 5th cousins, but not the very same ones. We shared with some, picked up others individually. Imagine the many that our father carried in his genes!
Ian Goldfoot, our 2-3rd cousin of South Africa now in the USA, matched 26 Segals! Ian and I share the Goldfoot line, and we also share 8.86cMs of a female as well, shown on the 23rd or X chromosome.
There are a lot of Segals listed from Lithuania.
Here's an American actor, George Segal, born in my year of 1934. He's definitely of a Jewish family.
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| George Segal (born February 13, 1934) is an American actor and musician. Segal became popular in the 1960s and 1970s for playing both dramatic and comedic roles. Some of his most acclaimed roles are in films such as Ship of Fools (1965), King Rat (1965), Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? (1966), The St. Valentine's Day Massacre (1967), Where's Poppa? (1970), The Hot Rock (1972), Blume in Love (1973), A Touch of Class (1973), California Split (1974), For the Boys (1991), and Flirting with Disaster (1996). He was one of the first American film actors to rise to leading man status with an unchanged Jewish surname—thus paving the way for Dustin Hoffman and Barbra Streisand. Segal's family was Jewish, but he was raised in a secular household. This is what has happened to so many of the Jews of the USA. |
Could the movie actor, Steven Seagal, be from the Segal line? He's Russian.
His parents also used Seagal as a surname. Steven Frederic Seagal was born in Lansing, Michigan, on April 10, 1952, the son of medical technician Patricia (1930–2003) and high school mathematics teacher Samuel Seagal (1928–1991). His mother was of Dutch, English, and German descent, while his father was the son of Russian Jews who had relocated to the U.S. He is also said to have Mongol heritage. So do we, in that Goldfus Y haplogroup is Q, and that Q's came, like 22,000 years ago from Siberia, Mongolia and parts of Turkey. Not all Goldfoots are Jewish, either. There is a line that has the R hapogroup, not showing any Jewish connection.
Steven Frederic Seagal is an American actor, producer, screenwriter, martial artist, and musician who holds American, Serbian, and Russian citizenship. Seagal was born in Lansing, Michigan. en.wikipedia.org
- April 10, 1952 (age 67), Lansing, Michigan, U.S.
- $16 million (celebritynetworth.com)
- American, Russian, Serbian
- 6'4" (1.93m)
Resource:Jewishgen.org
geni.com
The New Standard Jewish Encyclopedia
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Benzion_Netanyahu
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Labels: Benyamin Netanyahu, family, genealogy, George Segal, Jonathan Netanyahu, Segal, Steven Seagal
