Hanameel the Egyptian (also known as
Ananel,
Ananelus) was a
Jewish High priest in the 1st century BCE. He was appointed by
Herod to fill the office of high priest made vacant by the ignominious death of
Antigonus (37 BCE). Hanameel was an Egyptian according to the Mishnah (Parah 3:5), and a Babylonian according to Josephus ("Ant." xv. 2, § 4). Though of
priestly descent, he was not of the family of the high priests.