What is "shalit"

Shallit, Shalit (; šallīt "ruler") may refer to:

• Abraham Haim Schalit (Shalit) (1898, Zolochiv 1979), Jewish Galician-Israeli historian
• Amos de-Shalit (; 1926, Jerusalem 1969), Israeli nuclear physicist
  • De Shalit High School
• Gene Shalit (born 1926), American film critic
• Gilad Shalit (born 1986), Israeli soldier captured by Hamas and held for 5 years by Hamas
  • Gilad Shalit prisoner exchange
  • List of prisoners released by Israel in the Gilad Shalit prisoner exchange
• Heinrich Schalit (1886, Vienna 1976, Evergreen), Jewish Austrian-American musician and composer
• Isidor Schalit (; 1871, Ukraine 1954, Israel), Jewish Ukrainian-Austrian-Israeli dentist and Zionistic activist
• Rabbi Joseph Shalit (ben Eliezer) Riqueti (Richetti) (17th century), Israeli-Italian rabbi
• Joseph Shallit, né Shaltz (1915, Philadelphia 1995), an American mystery novelist and science fiction author, son of Jewish immigrants from Vitebsk
  • Jeffrey ("Outlaw") Shallit (born 1957, Philadelphia) is a computer scientist, number theorist, son of Joseph
• Moshe Shalit (Salitas) (1885, Vilna 1941, Vilna), researcher, journalist, essayist, ethnographer, and humanist
• Ruth Shalit (born 1971, Milwaukee), American journalist
• Wendy Shalit (born 1975), American author
• Willa Shalit (born 1955), Jewish American artist, activist entrepreneur, and philanthropist
• Paula Szalit (1886 or 1887-1920), Polish pianist
• Joel Schalit (born 1967), Israeli-American journalist
• Elie Schalit (1921-2015), Israeli military officer and businessman