# Yael (name)

Yael (Hebrew: יָעֵל, pronounced; also spelled Jael) is a given name of Hebrew origin. It is the name of biblical figure Jael, who saved the Israelites by killing Sisera, commander of the Canaanite king Jabin's army, by hammering a tent peg through his temple while asleep in her tent. The word yael means "Nubian ibex" (Capra nubiana), from a verbal phrase meaning "he goes up".

## People with the given name

* Yael Abecassis (b. 1967), Israeli actress and model
* Yael Arad (b. 1967), Israeli Olympic-medalist judoka
* Yael Averbuch (b. 1986), American soccer player
* Yael Bartana (b. 1970), Israeli video artist
* Yael Bitrán (b. 1965), Chilean-born naturalized Mexican historian, translator, and musicologist
* Yael Braudo-Bahat, Israeli peace activist
* Yael Cohen (b. 1986), founder and CEO of Fuck Cancer
* Yael Dayan (1939-2024), Israeli writer and politician
* Yael Eckstein, senior vice president of the International Fellowship of Christians and Jews
* Yael S. Feldman (b. 1941), Israeli-born American scholar
* Yael German (b. 1947), Israeli politician
* Yael Globerman (b. 1954), Israeli poet, writer, and translator
* Yael Goldman (b. 1978), Israeli actress, TV host, and model
* Yael Grobglas (b. 1984), Israeli actress
* Yaël Hassan (b. 1952), French-Israeli writer
* Yael Tauman Kalai, Israeli-American cryptographer
* Yael Kanarek (b. 1967), Israeli-American artist
* Yael Kraus (b. 1977), Israeli singer/songwriter
* Yael Lempert (b. 1973/4), American diplomat
* Yael Goldstein Love (b. 1978), American novelist, editor, and book critic
* Yael Markovich (b. 1984), Israeli-American model and Israeli beauty queen titleholder
* Yael Meyer (b. 1981), Chilean singer, songwriter, musician, and producer
* Yael Naim (b. 1978), French-Israeli singer/songwriter
* Yaël Braun-Pivet (b. 1970), French lawyer and politician
* Yael Poliakov (born 1977), Israeli actress, comedian, and screenwriter
* Yael Rom née Finkelstein (1932–2006), one of the first female pilots of the Israeli Air Force
* Jael Ruesch (née Ashton), known as Jael (1937–2000), American fantasy artist/illustrator
* Yael Stone (b. 1985), Australian actress
* Jael Strauss (d. 2018), contestant on America's Next Top Model, season 8
* Yael Tal (b. 1983), Israeli actress
* Yael Tamir (b. 1954), Israeli academic and politician
* Yael Yuzon (b. 1983), Filipino vocalist and guitarist
* Yael Bar Zohar (b. 1980), Israeli actress, model, and television host

### Middle name

* Jenifer Bartoli (Jenifer Yaël Dadouche-Bartoli) (born 1982), French pop singer
* Daniela Yael Krukower (born 1975), Israeli-Argentinean judoka world champion

## Pseudonym

* Jaël (born 1979), stage name of Rahel Krebs, Swiss singer/songwriter
* Ivanka Trump (born 1981), took the Hebrew name Yael after converting to Judaism

## Fictional characters

* Yael, a woman in ancient Israel who escapes the massacre at Masada, in Alice Hoffman's novel The Dovekeepers (2011)
* Yael Aronov, in John Sanford's novel Storm Front (2013)
* Yael "Yaeli" Ashkenazi, in the Netflix Original series When Heroes Fly
* Yael Baron, in the Netflix Original series Degrassi: Next Class
* Yael Hoffman, in the TV series Weeds
* Alice Jael Reasoner, also known as Jael, an assassin in Joanna Russ' novel The Female Man (1975)
* Yael from "Return to Me" by Lynn Austin