In the State of Israel not a few Jewish Yeshua-believers (JYB), like many other Israelis, changed their last and/or first names. Often, by doing that they wished to abandon a foreign diaspora identity. Such a nomenclature transformation became a way to express local patriotism and Jewish distinctiveness.
Historically, it is helpful to be able to trace the developments of such names in order to realize that although one may find different names, they actually belong to the same person, yet in different epochs of his/her lifetime. Knowing about individuals’ name changes allows us to identify people who appear within distinct contexts, and so to avoid confusions and/or misunderstandings.
In addition to examples provided in the previous article, following is a list of more Messianic Jews who changed their names.
Messianic pastors
In the 1970s, Haim Joseph Haimoff (1905-1991) Hebraized his family name to Bar-David. In 1928, out of Biblical-Zionist motives, he left Bulgaria, his native homeland, and moved to Mandatory Palestine. Together...
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