Naphtali is the sixth son of Jacob (and second son with Bilhah) in the Bible and the founder of the Israelite Tribe of Naphtali.
Naphtali, Naftali or Naftoli may also refer to:
Naftali Bendavid, Congressional reporter for The Wall Street Journal
Naftali Bennett (born 1972), Israeli businessman and politician
Naftali Zvi Yehuda Berlin (1816–1893), Orthodox rabbi, dean of the Volozhin Yeshiva and author
Naftali Bezem (born 1924), Israeli painter, muralist and sculptor
Naftali Blumenthal (born 1922), Israeli former politician
Naftali Bon (born 1945), Kenyan track and field runner
Naphtali Busnash (assassinated 1805), statesman and chief of the Algerian Jews
Naphtali Cohen (1649–1718), also known as Naphtali Katz, Russo-German rabbi and kabalist
Naphtali Daggett (1727–1780), American academic and educator, first professor of Yale University and later university president
Herz Cerfbeer of Medelsheim (1730–1793), Yiddish birth name Naphtali Ben Dov-Beer, French Jewish philanthropist
Naftali Hertz ben Yaakov Elchanan, 17th century German rabbi, kabbalist and author
Naftali Feder (1920–2009), Israeli politician
Naftali Frankel, 16-year-old killed in the 2014 kidnapping and murder of Israeli teenagers
Naphtali Friedman (1863–1921), Jewish Lithuanian lawyer and politician in the Russian Empire and Lithuania
Naftali Halberstam (1931–2005), Grand Rebbe of Bobov
Naftali Herstik, Hungarian-Israeli chazzan (cantor) and teacher
Naftali Yehuda Horowitz, Bostoner Rebbe of Boston
Naftali Herz Imber (1856–1909), Jewish poet, Zionist and writer of the lyrics of the national anthem of Israel
Naphtali Keller (1834–1865), Austrian Jewish scholar
Naphtali Tuli Kupferberg (1923–2010), American counterculture poet, author, cartoonist, pacifist anarchist, publisher and co-founder of the band The Fugs
Naftali Tzvi Labin of Ziditshov (c. 1916 – 2009), Zidichover Rebbe
Naphtali Lewis (1911–2005), American papyrologist and Egyptologist
Naphtali Luccock (1853–1916), American bishop of the Methodist Episcopal Church
Naftali Asher Yeshayahu Moscowitz, Melitzer Rebbe of Ashdod, Israel
Naftali Nilsen (1890–?), Norwegian newspaper editor and politician
Naftoli Shapiro (1906–1981), Orthodox Talmudic scholar and rosh yeshiva in Glasgow, Scotland
Naftali Temu (1945–2003), Kenyan long distance runner and Olympic gold medalist
Naphtali Hirsch Treves, kabbalist and scholar of the 16th century
Naftoli Trop (1871–1928), Talmudist and rosh yeshiva in Poland
Naftali Herz Tur-Sinai (1886–1973), Bible scholar, author and linguist instrumental in the revival of the Hebrew language as a modern, spoken language
Naphtali Hirz Wessely (1725–1805), German Jewish Hebraist, educator and advocate of reform
Naftali Zvi of Ropshitz (1760–1827), rabbi and first Ropshitzer Rebbe
ben Naphtali (first name in dispute), a rabbi and Masorete who flourished about 890–940 C.E.
Peretz Naftali (1888–1961), Zionist activist and Israeli politician
Timothy Naftali, director of the Richard Nixon Presidential Library and Museum
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