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Aviv

American  
[ah-veev] / ɑˈviv /
Or Abib

noun

  1. Chiefly Biblical. a former name for Nisan, the seventh month of the Jewish calendar.

  2. the season of spring in the Jewish year.


Etymology

Origin of Aviv

First recorded in 1525–35; from Hebrew āvīv, literally, “ear of barley”

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At Roche’s Genentech, computational biologist Aviv Regev has built what she calls a “lab in the loop.”

From The Wall Street Journal Jul. 12, 2026

Policymakers in Jerusalem and Tel Aviv look past the public-relations campaigns around the Syrian president.

From The Wall Street Journal Jul. 12, 2026

Rahm Emanuel, a former Chicago mayor and former White House chief of staff under President Obama, spoke Wednesday at Tel Aviv University.

From Los Angeles Times Jul. 11, 2026

The obvious gem of the collection is the attention-getting title story, about the Canadian Nobel laureate Alice Munro, who died in 2024 — and whose complex, layered short fiction Aviv admires.

From Los Angeles Times Jul. 8, 2026

Private radio with a direct line to London, New York, Tel Aviv and many other stations.

From "The Diary of a Young Girl" by Anne Frank

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