Sir Lewis Bernstein Namier (1888–1960), Bayahude Bature kuma masanin tarihi, wanda ya yi hijira zuwa Birtaniya a shekarar 1907, ya kasance mai goyon bayan Zionism na tsawon lokaci, kuma abokin kusa kuma abokin aiki na Chaim Weizmann. Ya kuma yi aiki a matsayin sakataren siyasa na Hukumar Yahudawa (Jewish Agency) a Falasdinu (1929–1931). An haife Namier da sunan Ludwik Niemirowski a yankin da yake yanzu wani ɓangare na Poland, kuma sadaukarwarsa ga Zionism bai hana a mayar da sunansa irin na Ingilishi ba. Yayin da canza suna a tsakanin Yahudawa masu Zionism na Birtaniya ko Amurka waɗanda suka yi hijira daga Gabashin Turai ya zama wani ɓangare na tsarin Anglicisation ko Americanisation, canza suna a Falasdinu tsakanin mazauna Zionist ya fara ne a lokacin Mandate kuma ya zama wani muhimmin ɓangare na Hebrewisation da biblicisation na baƙi mazauna (Brisman 2000: 129). Yitzhak ben-Tzvi, shugaba na biyu na Isra'ila, ne ya fara wannan shiri, tare da umarnin da Ben-Gurion ya rubuta wa jami'an soji cewa aikin ɗabi'a ne a gare su su mayar da sunayensu na Ibrananci a matsayin misali. Sakamakon haka, Rundunar Sojin ta kafa Kwamitin Sunayen Ibrananci don ba wa jami'ai da sojoji shawarar sunayen Ibrananci. Mordechai Nimtsa-Bi (1903‒1949), shugaban Kwamitin Sunaye, ne ya tsara wani littafi. Masu tsara sun bayar da rukuni huɗu na sunayen Ibrananci da aka ba da shawara: sunayen iyali, sunayen Taanim19 da Amoraim,20

British Jewish historian Sir Lewis Bernstein Namier (1888–1960), who immigrated to the UK in 1907, was a long-time Zionist and a close friend and associate of Chaim Weizmann. He also worked as political secretary for the Jewish Agency in Palestine (1929–1931). Namier was born Ludwik Niemirowski in what is now part of Poland, and his devotion to Zionism did not prevent the Anglicisation of his name. While name changing among British or American Zionist Jews who emigrated from Eastern Europe became part of the process of Anglicisation or Americanisation, name changing in Palestine among Zionist settlers began during the Mandatory period and became an integral part of the Hebrewisation and biblicisation of the immigrant settlers (Brisman 2000: 129). The initiative was begun by Yitzhak ben-Tzvi, the second President of Israel, and by a directive written by Ben-Gurion to army officers that it was their moral duty to Hebraicise their names as an example. As a result the Army set up a Hebrew Names Committee to propose Hebrew names to officers and soldiers in the Army. A booklet was compiled by Mordechai Nimtsa-Bi (1903‒1949), the head of the Names Committee. The compilers offered four groups of suggested Hebrew name: family names, names of Taanim19 and Amoraim,20

Sunayen Littafi Mai Tsarki da sunayen mutanen Ibrananci Wani jerin irin wannan aka tattara shekaru kaɗan bayan haka daga Yaakov Arikha, mai taken Behar likha shem mishpaha ‘Ivri (Zaɓi wa kanka sunan iyali na Ibrananci). Littafin, wanda aka buga a Urushalima a 1954 ta Makarantar Harshen Ibrananci ta Isra'ila (wadda ta maye gurbin Kwamitin Harshen Ibrananci na Eliezer Ben-Yehuda, duba ƙasa), ya haɗa da shawarwari kan yadda ake canza sunayen iyali, da jerin sunayen Ibrananci da ke aiki a matsayin misali (Brisman 2000: 129).

biblical names and Hebrew personal names. A similar list was compiled a few years later by Yaakov Arikha under the title, Behar likha shem mishpaha ‘Ivri (Select for yourself a Hebrew family name). The booklet, published in Jerusalem in 1954 by the Israeli Academy for the Hebrew Language (which had replaced the Hebrew language Committee of Eliezer Ben-Yehuda, see below) included advice on how to change family names, and lists of Hebrew names serving as an example (Brisman 2000: 129).