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Moshe Ya'alon

1950 - Today

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Moshe "Bogie" Ya'alon (Hebrew: משה יעלון; born Moshe Smilansky on 24 June 1950) is an Israeli politician and former Chief of Staff of the Israel Defense Forces, who also served as Israel's Defense Minister under Benjamin Netanyahu from 2013 until his resignation on 20 May 2016. Ya'alon ran for Knesset in 2019 as the number three member of the Blue and White party, a joint list created by the merging of the Israel Resilience Party, led by former IDF chief of staff Benny Gantz, and Yesh Atid, led by Yair Lapid. Ya'alon briefly served as the number 2 on the Yesh Atid-Telem list that was created following the 2020 Israeli legislative election. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Moshe Ya'alon has received more than 321,645 page views. His biography is available in 25 different languages on Wikipedia. Moshe Ya'alon is the 6,043rd most popular politician (up from 10,347th in 2019), the 154th most popular biography from Israel (up from 208th in 2019) and the 61st most popular Israeli Politician.

Memorability Metrics

  • 320k

    Page Views (PV)

  • 58.12

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 25

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 5.96

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 2.34

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Page views of Moshe Ya'alons by language

Over the past year Moshe Ya'alon has had the most page views in the with 77,377 views, followed by English (41,842), and Arabic (20,954). In terms of yearly growth of page views the top 3 wikpedia editions are Chinese (209.45%), Arabic (173.48%), and Spanish (104.24%)

Among POLITICIANS

Among politicians, Moshe Ya'alon ranks 6,043 out of 19,576. Before him are Anne of Denmark, Electress of Saxony, Khendjer, Lucile Desmoulins, George, Crown Prince of Serbia, Rosamund, and Deokjong of Goryeo. After him are Zhu Yousong, Elizabeth Richeza of Poland, Wolf-Heinrich Graf von Helldorff, Mirjana Marković, Georgi Parvanov, and Ukhnaagiin Khürelsükh.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1950, Moshe Ya'alon ranks 89. Before him are Karen Carpenter, Mikhail Fradkov, Marius Trésor, Martin Short, Michael Ironside, and Jeffery Deaver. After him are Cary-Hiroyuki Tagawa, Javier Clemente, Hiroshi Kanazawa, Ueli Maurer, Julius Erving, and Jorge Carlos Fonseca.

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In Israel

Among people born in Israel, Moshe Ya'alon ranks 154 out of 466. Before him are Naftali Bennett (1972), Ilan Ramon (1954), Rehavam Ze'evi (1926), Shoghi Effendi (1897), Rafi Eitan (1926), and Ron Huldai (1944). After him are Angelus of Jerusalem (1185), Rafael Eitan (1929), Taqi al-Din al-Nabhani (1909), Dirk III, Count of Holland (982), Yaacov Agam (1928), and Sirhan Sirhan (1944).

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Among POLITICIANS In Israel

Among politicians born in Israel, Moshe Ya'alon ranks 61. Before him are Valerius Gratus (-50), Abd al-Qadir al-Husayni (1907), Naftali Bennett (1972), Rehavam Ze'evi (1926), Rafi Eitan (1926), and Ron Huldai (1944). After him are Rafael Eitan (1929), Taqi al-Din al-Nabhani (1909), Dirk III, Count of Holland (982), Ahmed Jibril (1938), Hugh I of Cyprus (1194), and Meir Amit (1921).

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