从意第绪语家族姓氏(如Perelman)改为希伯来语家族姓氏(如Ben-Yehuda),为许多在巴勒斯坦的犹太复国主义定居者提供了一个可供效仿的范例,这一过程即一种自我发明和自我本土化的过程。这一过程也启发了以色列总理兼国防部长大卫·本-古里安,他在1948年后动用以色列军队,推行全面希伯来化以及家族和个人姓名的"净化"程序。本-古里安本人出生时名为大卫·格伦(David Grün),生于俄国;他的母亲名叫Scheindel;他的俄国出生的妻子在纽约与本-古里安相识并结婚时名叫Pauline Munweis(她后来改名为Paula);移民巴勒斯坦后,大卫·格伦改名为大卫·格林(David Green);随后他又将家族姓氏改为听起来颇具圣经色彩、字面上带有"雄狮般"和"掠食性"意味的名字大卫·本-古里安(字面意思为"狮子幼崽之子")。他还为女儿取了一个听起来同样具有圣经色彩的名字Geula("救赎"之意),为儿子取名Amos,取自希伯来圣经中的一位小先知。

The change from a Yiddish family name such as Perelman, to a Hebrew family name such as Ben-Yehuda, provided many Zionist settlers in Palestine with a prototype for emulation in a process of self-invention and self-indigenisation. This process also inspired Prime Minister and Defence Minister David Ben-Gurion who used the Israeli army after 1948 to impose general Hebraicisation and purification procedures of family and personal names. Ben-Gurion himself was born David Grün in Russia; his mother was called Scheindel and his Russian-born wife was called Pauline Munweis when she met and married Ben-Gurion in New York (she later changed her name to Paula); after immigrating to Palestine David Grün became David Green; and he subsequently changed his family name to the biblical- sounding, and literally lionised and predatory, name David Ben-Gurion (literally ‘son of the lion cub’). He also chose a biblical-sounding name for his daughter Geula (‘redemption’) and his son Amos, after a minor prophet in the Hebrew Bible.