Israelis ( he, ישראלים ''Yiśraʾelim'') are the

citizens Citizenship is a "relationship between an individual and a state to which the individual owes allegiance and in turn is entitled to its protection". Each state determines the conditions under which it will recognize persons as its citizens, and ...

permanent residents Permanent residency is a person's legal resident status in a country or territory of which such person is not a citizen but where they have the right to reside on a permanent basis. This is usually for a permanent period; a person with such ...

of the

State of Israel Israel (; he, יִשְׂרָאֵל, ; ar, إِسْرَائِيل, ), officially the State of Israel ( he, מְדִינַת יִשְׂרָאֵל, label=none, translit=Medīnat Yīsrāʾēl; ), is a country in Western Asia. It is situated ...

, a multiethnic state populated by people of different ethnic backgrounds. The largest ethnic groups in Israel are

Jews Jews ( he, יְהוּדִים, , ) or Jewish people are an ethnoreligious group and nation originating from the Israelites Israelite origins and kingdom: "The first act in the long drama of Jewish history is the age of the Israelites""The ...

(75%), followed by

Arabs The Arabs (singular: Arab; singular ar, عَرَبِيٌّ, DIN 31635: , , plural ar, عَرَب, DIN 31635, DIN 31635: , Arabic pronunciation: ), also known as the Arab people, are an ethnic group mainly inhabiting the Arab world in Wester ...

(20%) and other minorities (5%). __FORCETOC__

Academics

Archaeology

Israel Finkelstein Israel Finkelstein ( he, ישראל פינקלשטיין, born March 29, 1949) is an Israeli archaeologist, professor emeritus at Tel Aviv University and the head of the School of Archaeology and Maritime Cultures at the University of Haifa. Fin ...

Amihai Mazar Amihai "Ami" Mazar ( he, עמיחי מזר; born November 19, 1942) is an Israeli archaeologist. Born in Haifa, Israel (then the British Mandate of Palestine), he has been since 1994 a professor at the Institute of Archaeology of the Hebrew Univ ...

* Benjamin Mazar *

Eilat Mazar Eilat Mazar ( he, אילת מזר; 10 September 195625 May 2021) was an Israeli archaeologist. She specialized in Jerusalem and Phoenician archaeology. She was also a key person in Biblical archaeology noted for her discovery of the Large Ston ...

Yigael Yadin Yigael Yadin ( he, יִגָּאֵל יָדִין ) (20 March 1917 – 28 June 1984) was an Israeli archeologist, soldier and politician. He was the second Chief of Staff of the Israel Defense Forces and Deputy Prime Minister from 1977 to 1981. B ...

* Amit Romano

Biology and medicine

Aaron Valero Aaron Valero (1913–2000) was an Israeli physician and educator who helped establish hospitals and medical schools, authored medical publications and contributed greatly to the advancement of medical education in Israel in the latter half of t ...

– Professor of Medicine, founder of Faculty of Medicine at the Technion, director of government hospital *

Aaron Ciechanover Aaron Ciechanover ( ; he, אהרן צ'חנובר; born October 1, 1947) is an Israeli biologist who won the Nobel Prize in Chemistry for characterizing the method that cells use to degrade and recycle proteins using ubiquitin. Biography Earl ...

and

Avram Hershko Avram Hershko ( he, אברהם הרשקו, Avraham Hershko, hu, Herskó Ferenc Ábrahám; born December 31, 1937) is a Hungarian-Israeli biochemist who received the Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 2004. Biography He was born Herskó Ferenc in Karc ...

– ubiquitin system;

Lasker Award The Lasker Awards have been awarded annually since 1945 to living persons who have made major contributions to medical science or who have performed public service on behalf of medicine. They are administered by the Lasker Foundation, which was ...

(2000),

Nobel Prize in Chemistry ) , image = Nobel Prize.png , alt = A golden medallion with an embossed image of a bearded man facing left in profile. To the left of the man is the text "ALFR•" then "NOBEL", and on the right, the text (smaller) "NAT•" then "M ...

(2004) *

Moshe Feldenkrais Moses ( el, Μωϋσῆς),from Latin and Greek Moishe ( yi, משה),from Yiddish Moshe ( he, מֹשֶׁה),from Modern Hebrew or Movses (Armenian: Մովսես) from Armenian is a male given name, after the biblical figure Moses. According to ...

– invented

Feldenkrais Method The Feldenkrais Method is a type of exercise therapy devised by Israeli Moshé Feldenkrais (1904–1984) during the mid-20th century. Participants are led through varied patterns of body movement, either hands-on or verbally guided, with the ai ...

used in movement therapy *

Hossam Haick Hossam Haick ( ar, حسام حايك; he, חוסאם חאיק; born 1975) is an Arab-Israeli scientist and engineer, and the current dean of undergraduate studies at the Israel Institute of Technology. He is a pioneer known for inventing the N ...

– inventor of an electric nose for diagnosis of cancer *

Israel Hanukoglu Israel Hanukoglu ( tr, İsrael Hanukoğlu) is a Turkish-born Israeli scientist. He is a full professor of biochemistry and molecular biology at Ariel University and former science and technology adviser to the prime minister of Israel (1996–199 ...

– structures of cytoskeletal keratins, NADP binding proteins, steroidogenic enzymes, Epithelial Sodium Channels (ENaC) *

Gavriel Iddan Gavriel Iddan is an Israeli electro-optical engineer and the inventor of wireless capsule endoscopy. Initially at RAFAEL Armament Development Authority working on guided missile technology, Iddan got the idea for an endoscopic capsule while on s ...

– inventor of capsule endoscopy *

Benjamin Kahn Benjamin Kahn (born 1955) is an Israeli marine biologist and environmental activist. His work includes ecological improvements of the Red Sea reef, where damage began in 1997 with the advent of fish farming, resulting from tons of waste into t ...

– marine biologist, defender of the Red Sea reef *

Alexander Levitzki Alexander Levitzki (Hebrew: אלכסנדר לויצקי; born 13 August 1940) is an Israeli biochemist who is a professor of biochemistry at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. Birth and education Levitzki was born in 1940 in Palestine. He com ...

– cancer research;

Wolf Prize in Medicine The Wolf Prize in Medicine is awarded annually by the Wolf Foundation in Israel. It is one of the six Wolf Prizes established by the Foundation and awarded since 1978; the others are in Agriculture, Chemistry, Mathematics, Physics and Arts. The ...

(2005) *

Yadin Dudai Yadin Dudai (born December 8, 1944) is a neuroscientist, Professor (emeritus) of Neurobiology at the Weizmann Institute of Science in Rehovot, Israel, and the Albert and Blanche Willner Family Global Distinguished Professor of Neural Science at Ne ...

– memory research * Gideon Mer – scientist, malaria control * Saul Merin – ophthalmologist, author of Inherited Eye Diseases *

Raphael Mechoulam Raphael Mechoulam ( he, רפאל משולם, bg, Рафаел Мешулам; born 5 November 1930) is an Israeli organic chemist and professor of Medicinal Chemistry at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem in Israel. Mechoulam is best known for h ...

– chemist, discoverer of

tetrahydrocannabinol Tetrahydrocannabinol (THC) is the principal psychoactive constituent of cannabis and one of at least 113 total cannabinoids identified on the plant. Although the chemical formula for THC (C21H30O2) describes multiple isomers, the term ''THC' ...

and

anandamide Anandamide (ANA), also known as ''N''-arachidonoylethanolamine (AEA), is a fatty acid neurotransmitter. Anandamide was the first endocannabinoid to be discovered: it participates in the body's endocannabinoid system by binding to cannabinoid rec ...

Leo Sachs Leo Sachs (Hebrew: ליאו זקס; ‎ 14 October 1924 – 12 December 2013) was a German-born Israeli molecular biologist and cancer researcher. Born in Leipzig, he emigrated to the United Kingdom in 1933, and to Israel in 1952. There he join ...

– blood cell research; Wolf Prize in Medicine (1980) * Asya Rolls – psychoneuroimmunologist *

Michael Sela Michael Sela ( he, מיכאל סלע; Mieczysław Salomonowicz; 2 March 1924 – 27 May 2022) was an Israeli immunologist of Polish Jewish origin. He was the W. Garfield Weston Professor of Immunology at the Weizmann Institute of Science in Re ...

and

Ruth Arnon Ruth Arnon (Hebrew: רות ארנון �ut aʁ'non born in Tel Aviv on June 1, 1933) is an Israeli biochemist and codeveloper of the multiple sclerosis drug Copaxone. She is currently the Paul Ehrlich Professor of Immunology at the Weizmann Ins ...

– developed

Copaxone Glatiramer acetate (also known as Copolymer 1, Cop-1), sold under the brand name Copaxone among others, is an immunomodulator medication used to treat multiple sclerosis. Glatiramer acetate is approved in the United States to reduce the frequency ...

; Wolf Prize in Medicine (1998) *

Rahel Straus Rahel may refer to: * Rachel, a biblical figure * Rahel Varnhagen Rahel Antonie Friederike Varnhagen () (née Levin, later Robert; 19 May 1771 – 7 March 1833) was a German writer who hosted one of the most prominent salons in Europe during the ...

(1880–1963) – German-Jewish medical doctor and feminist * Joel Sussman – 3D structure of acetylcholinesterase, Elkeles Prize for Research in Medicine (2005) *

Meir Wilchek Meir Wilchek (Hebrew: מאיר אשר וילצ'ק, born 17 October 1935) is an Israeli biochemist. He is a professor at the Weizmann Institute of Science. Early life and education Meir Wilchek was born in Warsaw, Poland, scion of a rabbinical fa ...

– affinity chromatography; Wolf Prize in Medicine (1987) *

Ada Yonath Ada E. Yonath ( he, עדה יונת, ; born 22 June 1939) is an Israeli crystallographer best known for her pioneering work on the structure of ribosomes. She is the current director of the Helen and Milton A. Kimmelman Center for Biomolecular ...

– structure of ribosome,

(2009) *

Amotz Zahavi Amotz Zahavi ( he, אמוץ זהבי) (August 14, 1928 – May 12, 2017) was an Israeli evolutionary biologist, a Professor in the Department of Zoology at Tel Aviv University, and one of the founders of the Society for the Protection of Nature in ...

–

Handicap Principle The handicap principle is a hypothesis proposed by the biologist Amotz Zahavi to explain how evolution may lead to "honest" or reliable signalling between animals which have an obvious motivation to bluff or deceive each other. It suggests that ...

Abraham Zangen Abraham Zangen ( he, אברהם צנגן, born 1969) is an Israeli professor of neuroscience, head of the brain stimulation and behavior lab and chair of the psychobiology brain program at Ben-Gurion University of the Negev (BGU). Biograph ...

– psycholobiology

Computing and mathematics

Ron Aharoni Ron Aharoni ( he, רון אהרוני ) (born 1952) is an Israeli mathematician, working in finite and infinite combinatorics. Aharoni is a professor at the Technion – Israel Institute of Technology, where he received his Ph.D. in mathematics i ...

– mathematician *

Noga Alon Noga Alon ( he, נוגה אלון; born 17 February 1956) is an Israeli mathematician and a professor of mathematics at Princeton University noted for his contributions to combinatorics and theoretical computer science, having authored hundreds of ...

– mathematician, computer scientist, winner of the

Gödel Prize The Gödel Prize is an annual prize for outstanding papers in the area of theoretical computer science, given jointly by the European Association for Theoretical Computer Science (EATCS) and the Association for Computing Machinery Special Interes ...

(2005) *

Shimshon Amitsur Shimshon Avraham Amitsur (born Kaplan; he, שמשון אברהם עמיצור; August 26, 1921 – September 5, 1994) was an Israeli mathematician. He is best known for his work in ring theory, in particular PI rings, an area of abstract algebr ...

– mathematician

ring theory In algebra, ring theory is the study of rings— algebraic structures in which addition and multiplication are defined and have similar properties to those operations defined for the integers. Ring theory studies the structure of rings, their re ...

abstract algebra In mathematics, more specifically algebra, abstract algebra or modern algebra is the study of algebraic structures. Algebraic structures include groups, rings, fields, modules, vector spaces, lattices, and algebras over a field. The term ''a ...

Robert Aumann Robert John Aumann (Hebrew name: , Yisrael Aumann; born June 8, 1930) is an Israeli-American mathematician, and a member of the United States National Academy of Sciences. He is a professor at the Center for the Study of Rationality in the Hebrew ...

– mathematician

game theory Game theory is the study of mathematical models of strategic interactions among rational agents. Myerson, Roger B. (1991). ''Game Theory: Analysis of Conflict,'' Harvard University Press, p.&nbs1 Chapter-preview links, ppvii–xi It has appli ...

;

Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences The Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences, officially the Sveriges Riksbank Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel ( sv, Sveriges riksbanks pris i ekonomisk vetenskap till Alfred Nobels minne), is an economics award administered ...

(2005) * Amir Ban and Shay Bushinsky – programmers of

Junior (chess) Junior is a computer chess program written by the Israeli programmers Amir Ban and Shai Bushinsky. Grandmaster Boris Alterman assisted, in particular with the opening book. Junior can take advantage of multiple processors, taking the name Deep Jun ...

Yehoshua Bar-Hillel Yehoshua Bar-Hillel ( he, יהושע בר-הלל; 8 September 1915, in Vienna – 25 September 1975, in Jerusalem) was an Israeli philosopher, mathematician, and linguist. He was a pioneer in the fields of machine translation and formal linguis ...

– machine translation *

Joseph Bernstein Joseph Bernstein (sometimes spelled I. N. Bernshtein; he, יוס(י)ף נאומוביץ ברנשטיין; russian: Иосиф Наумович Бернштейн; born 18 April 1945) is a Soviet-born Israeli mathematician working at Tel Aviv Univ ...

– mathematician *

Eli Biham Eli Biham ( he, אלי ביהם) is an Israeli cryptographer and cryptanalyst, currently a professor at the Technion - Israel Institute of Technology Computer Science department. Starting from October 2008 and till 2013, Biham was the dean of t ...

– differential cryptanalysis * Yair Censor – mathematician *

Aryeh Dvoretzky Aryeh (Arie) Dvoretzky ( he, אריה דבורצקי, russian: Арье Дворецкий; May 3, 1916 – May 8, 2008) was a Russian-born Israeli mathematician, the winner of the 1973 Israel Prize in Mathematics. He is best known for his w ...

– mathematician, eighth president of the

Weizmann Institute of Science The Weizmann Institute of Science ( he, מכון ויצמן למדע ''Machon Vaitzman LeMada'') is a public research university in Rehovot, Israel, established in 1934, 14 years before the State of Israel. It differs from other Israeli unive ...

Uriel Feige Uriel Feige ( he, אוריאל פייגה) is an Israeli computer scientist who was a doctoral student of Adi Shamir. Life Uriel Feige currently holds the post of Professor at the Department of Computer Science and Applied Mathematics, the Weizm ...

– computer scientist, winner of the

(2001) *

Abraham Fraenkel Abraham Fraenkel ( he, אברהם הלוי (אדולף) פרנקל; February 17, 1891 – October 15, 1965) was a German-born Israeli mathematician. He was an early Zionist and the first Dean of Mathematics at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. ...

– ZF set theory *

Hillel Furstenberg Hillel (Harry) Furstenberg ( he, הלל (הארי) פורסטנברג) (born September 29, 1935) is a German-born American-Israeli mathematician and professor emeritus at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. He is a member of the Israel Academy o ...

– mathematician; Wolf Prize in Mathematics (2006/7) *

Shafi Goldwasser en, Shafrira Goldwasser , name = Shafi Goldwasser , image = Shafi Goldwasser.JPG , caption = Shafi Goldwasser in 2010 , birth_place = New York City, New York, U.S. , birth_date = , death_date ...

– computer scientist, winner of the

(1993 and 2001) *

David Harel David Harel ( he, דוד הראל; born 12 April 1950) is a computer scientist, currently serving as President of the Israel Academy of Sciences and Humanities. He has been on the faculty of the Weizmann Institute of Science in Israel since 1980, ...

– computer science;

Israel Prize The Israel Prize ( he, פרס ישראל; ''pras israél'') is an award bestowed by the State of Israel, and regarded as the state's highest cultural honor. History The Israel Prize is awarded annually, on Israeli Independence Day, in a state cer ...

(2004) *

Gad M. Landau Gad Menahem Landau (born 1954) is an Israeli computer scientist noted for his contributions to combinatorial pattern matching and string algorithms and is the founding department chair of the Computer Science Department at the University of Haif ...

– computer scientist * Abraham Lempel and

Jacob Ziv Jacob Ziv ( he, יעקב זיו; born 1931) is an Israeli electrical engineer who, along with Abraham Lempel, developed the LZ family of lossless data compression algorithms. Biography Ziv was born in Tiberias, British mandate Palestine, on 27 ...

– LZW compression; IEEE Richard W. Hamming Medal (2007 and 1995) *

Joram Lindenstrauss Joram Lindenstrauss ( he, יורם לינדנשטראוס) (October 28, 1936 – April 29, 2012) was an Israeli mathematician working in functional analysis. He was a professor of mathematics at the Einstein Institute of Mathematics. Biograph ...

– mathematician

Johnson–Lindenstrauss lemma In mathematics, the Johnson–Lindenstrauss lemma is a result named after William B. Johnson and Joram Lindenstrauss concerning low-distortion embeddings of points from high-dimensional into low-dimensional Euclidean space. The lemma states that a ...

Elon Lindenstrauss Elon Lindenstrauss ( he, אילון לינדנשטראוס, born August 1, 1970) is an Israeli mathematician, and a winner of the 2010 Fields Medal. Since 2004, he has been a professor at Princeton University. In 2009, he was appointed to Profess ...

– mathematician *

Michel Loève Michel Loève (January 22, 1907 – February 17, 1979) was a French-American probability theory, probabilist and mathematical statistics, mathematical statistician, of Jewish origin. He is known in mathematical statistics and probability theory f ...

– probabilist *

Joel Moses Joel Moses (24 November 1941 – 29 May 2022) was an Israeli-American mathematician, computer scientist, and Institute Professor at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT). Biography Joel Moses was born in Mandatory Palestine on 24 Nove ...

– MIT provost and writer of

Macsyma Macsyma (; "Project MAC's SYmbolic MAnipulator") is one of the oldest general-purpose computer algebra systems still in wide use. It was originally developed from 1968 to 1982 at MIT's Project MAC. In 1982, Macsyma was licensed to Symbolics a ...

Yoram Moses Yoram Moses ( he, יוֹרָם מוֹזֶס) is a Professor in the Electrical Engineering Department at the Technion - Israel Institute of Technology. Yoram Moses received a B.Sc. in mathematics from the Hebrew University of Jerusalem in 1981, a ...

– computer scientist, winner of the

(1997) *

Judea Pearl Judea Pearl (born September 4, 1936) is an Israeli-American computer scientist and philosopher, best known for championing the probabilistic approach to artificial intelligence and the development of Bayesian networks (see the article on beli ...

– artificial intelligence, philosophy of action;

Turing Award The ACM A. M. Turing Award is an annual prize given by the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) for contributions of lasting and major technical importance to computer science. It is generally recognized as the highest distinction in compu ...

(2011) *

Ilya Piatetski-Shapiro Ilya Piatetski-Shapiro (Hebrew: איליה פיאטצקי-שפירו; russian: Илья́ Ио́сифович Пяте́цкий-Шапи́ро; 30 March 1929 – 21 February 2009) was a Soviet-born Israeli mathematician. During a career that sp ...

– representation theory; Wolf Prize in Mathematics (1990) * Amir Pnueli – temporal logic;

(1996) *

Michael O. Rabin Michael Oser Rabin ( he, מִיכָאֵל עוזר רַבִּין; born September 1, 1931) is an Israeli mathematician and computer scientist and a recipient of the Turing Award. Biography Early life and education Rabin was born in 1931 in ...

– nondeterminism, primality testing; Turing Award (1976) *

Shmuel Safra Shmuel Safra ( he, שמואל ספרא) is an Israeli computer scientist. He is a Professor of Computer Science at Tel Aviv University, Israel. He was born in Jerusalem. Safra's research areas include Computational complexity theory, complexity ...

– computer scientist, winner of the

(2001) * Nir Shavit – computer scientist, winner of the

(2004) *

Adi Shamir Adi Shamir ( he, עדי שמיר; born July 6, 1952) is an Israeli cryptographer. He is a co-inventor of the Rivest–Shamir–Adleman (RSA) algorithm (along with Ron Rivest and Len Adleman), a co-inventor of the Feige–Fiat–Shamir identifi ...

– RSA encryption, differential cryptanalysis; Turing Award (2002) *

Saharon Shelah Saharon Shelah ( he, שהרן שלח; born July 3, 1945) is an Israeli mathematician. He is a professor of mathematics at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem and Rutgers University in New Jersey. Biography Shelah was born in Jerusalem on July 3, ...

– logic; Wolf Prize in Mathematics (2001) *

Ehud Shapiro Ehud Shapiro ( he, אהוד שפירא; born 1955) is a multi-disciplinary scientist, artist, entrepreneur and Professor of Computer Science and Biology at the Weizmann Institute of Science. With international reputation, he made fundamental cont ...

– Concurrent Prolog, DNA computing pioneer *

Moshe Y. Vardi , honorific_suffix = , image = Moshe Vardi IMG 0010.jpg , birth_date = , birth_place = Israel , workplaces = Rice UniversityIBM ResearchStanford University , alma_mater = , thesis_title = The I ...

– computer scientist, winner of the

(2000) *

Avi Wigderson Avi Wigderson ( he, אבי ויגדרזון; born 9 September 1956) is an Israeli mathematician and computer scientist. He is the Herbert H. Maass Professor in the school of mathematics at the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton, New Jerse ...

– randomized algorithms;

Nevanlinna Prize The IMU Abacus Medal, known before 2022 as the Rolf Nevanlinna Prize, is awarded once every four years at the International Congress of Mathematicians, hosted by the International Mathematical Union (IMU), for outstanding contributions in Mathemati ...

(1994) *

Doron Zeilberger Doron Zeilberger (דורון ציילברגר, born 2 July 1950 in Haifa, Israel) is an Israeli mathematician, known for his work in combinatorics. Education and career He received his doctorate from the Weizmann Institute of Science in 1976, u ...

– combinatorics

Engineering

David Faiman David Faiman (born 1944 in the United Kingdom) is a British and Israeli physicist. Background Faiman was educated at Willesden County Grammar School and the University of London, and received his Ph.D from the University of Illinois in 1969 ...

– solar engineer and director of the

National Solar Energy Center The Ben-Gurion National Solar Energy Center at Midreshet Ben-Gurion is the national alternative energy research institute of Israel. It was established in 1987 by the Ministry of National Infrastructures to study promising alternative and Clean t ...

* Yoram Koren - mechanical engineering *

Liviu Librescu Liviu Librescu (; he, ליביו ליברסקו; August 18, 1930 – April 16, 2007) was a Romanian–American scientist and engineer. A prominent academic in addition to being a survivor of the Holocaust, his major research fields were aeroelas ...

– Professor of Engineering Science and Mechanics at Virginia Tech, killed in the

Virginia Tech massacre The Virginia Tech shooting was a spree shooting that occurred on April 16, 2007, comprising two attacks on the campus of the Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University in Blacksburg, Virginia, United States. Seung-Hui Cho, an ...

Hagit Messer Yaron use both this parameter and , birth_date to display the person's date of birth, date of death, and age at death) --> , death_place = , death_cause = , body_discovered = , resting_place = , resting_place_coordinates = ...

– professor of electrical engineering *

Moshe Zakai Moshe Zakai (December 22, 1926 – November 27, 2015) was a Distinguished Professor at the Technion, Israel in electrical engineering, member of the Israel Academy of Sciences and Humanities and Rothschild Prize winner. Biography Moshe Zakai w ...

– electrical engineering *

– electrical engineering

Humanities

Aharon Dolgopolsky Aharon Dolgopolsky, also spelled Aron ( he, אהרון דולגופולסקי, russian: Арон Борисович Долгопольский; 18 November 1930 – 20 July 2012) was a Russian-Israeli linguist who is known as one of the modern fo ...

– linguist:

Nostratic Nostratic is a controversial hypothetical macrofamily, which includes many of the indigenous language families of Eurasia, although its exact composition and structure vary among proponents. It typically comprises Kartvelian, Indo-European and U ...

Moshe Goshen-Gottstein Moshe Goshen-Gottstein (Hebrew: משה גושן-גוטשטיין) (6 September 1925 – 14 September 1991) was a German-born professor of Semitic linguistics and biblical philology at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, and director of the lex ...

– Biblical scholar *

Elias Khoury Elias Khoury ( ar, إلياس خوري; born 12 July 1948) is a Lebanon, Lebanese novelist, and prominent public intellectual. Accordingly, he has published myriad novels related to literary criticism, which have been translated into several fore ...

– law * Hans Jakob Polotsky – linguist *

Chaim Rabin Chaim Menachem Rabin ( he, חיים מנחם רבין; 1915–1996) was a German, then British, and finally Israeli professor of Hebrew and Semitic languages. Chaim Rabin was born in Giessen, Germany, 22 November 1915, the son of Israel and Marte ...

– Biblical scholar *

Alice Shalvi Alice Shalvi ( he, אליס שלוי; (born 16 October 1926) is an Israeli professor and educator. She has played a leading role in progressive Jewish education for girls and advancing the status of women. Biography Alice Hildegard Margulies ...

– English literature, educator *

Gershon Shaked Gershon Shaked ( he, גרשון שקד) (1929–2006) was an Israeli scholar and critic of Hebrew literature. Biography Gerhard Mandel (later Gershon Shaked) was born in Vienna, Austria. He immigrated to Mandate Palestine alone in 1939, and was l ...

– Hebrew literature *

Shemaryahu Talmon Shemaryahu Talmon (Hebrew: שמריהו טלמון) (born Shemaryahu Zelmanowicz; 1920 in Skierniewice, Poland – December 15, 2010) was J. L. Magnes Professor of Bible at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, known particularly for his work i ...

– Biblical scholar *

Emanuel Tov Emanuel Tov, ( he, עמנואל טוב; born September 15, 1941, Amsterdam, Netherlands as Menno Toff) is a Dutch Israeli, emeritus J. L. Magnes Professor of Bible Studies in the Department of Bible at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. He has ...

– Biblical scholar *

Ghil'ad Zuckermann Ghil'ad Zuckermann ( he, גלעד צוקרמן, ; ) is an Israeli-born language revivalist and linguist who works in contact linguistics, lexicology and the study of language, culture and identity. Zuckermann is Professor of Linguistics and Ch ...

– linguist, revivalist

Philosophy

Martin Buber Martin Buber ( he, מרטין בובר; german: Martin Buber; yi, מארטין בובער; February 8, 1878 – June 13, 1965) was an Austrian Jewish and Israeli philosopher best known for his philosophy of dialogue, a form of existentialism ...

* Berl Katznelson *

Yeshayahu Leibowitz Yeshayahu Leibowitz ( he, ישעיהו ליבוביץ; 29 January 1903 – 18 August 1994) was an Israeli Orthodox Jewish public intellectual and polymath. He was a professor of biochemistry, organic chemistry, and neurophysiology at the Hebrew ...

Avishai Margalit Avishai Margalit ( he, אבישי מרגלית, born 1939) is an Israeli professor emeritus in philosophy at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. From 2006 to 2011, he served as the George F. Kennan Professor at the Institute for Advanced Study i ...

Joseph Raz Joseph Raz (; he, יוסף רז; born Zaltsman; 21 March 19392 May 2022) was an Israeli legal, moral and political philosopher. He was an advocate of legal positivism and is known for his conception of perfectionist liberalism. Raz spent mos ...

Gershom Scholem Gershom Scholem () (5 December 1897 – 21 February 1982), was a German-born Israeli philosopher and historian. Widely regarded as the founder of modern academic study of the Kaballah, Scholem was appointed the first professor of Jewish Myst ...

Physics and chemistry

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Yakir Aharonov Yakir Aharonov ( he, יקיר אהרונוב; born August 28, 1932) is an Israeli physicist specializing in quantum physics. He has been a Professor of Theoretical Physics and the James J. Farley Professor of Natural Philosophy at Chapman Univer ...

–

Aharonov–Bohm effect The Aharonov–Bohm effect, sometimes called the Ehrenberg–Siday–Aharonov–Bohm effect, is a quantum mechanical phenomenon in which an electrically charged particle is affected by an electromagnetic potential (φ, A), despite being confine ...

;

Wolf Prize in Physics The Wolf Prize in Physics is awarded once a year by the Wolf Foundation in Israel. It is one of the six Wolf Prizes established by the Foundation and awarded since 1978; the others are in Agriculture, Chemistry, Mathematics, Medicine and Arts. ...

(1998) * Amiram Barkai – biochemist *

Jacob Bekenstein Jacob David Bekenstein ( he, יעקב בקנשטיין; May 1, 1947 – August 16, 2015) was an American and Israeli theoretical physicist who made fundamental contributions to the foundation of black hole thermodynamics and to other aspects of ...

– black hole thermodynamics;

(2012) *

David Deutsch David Elieser Deutsch ( ; born 18 May 1953) is a British physicist at the University of Oxford. He is a Visiting Professor in the Department of Atomic and Laser Physics at the Centre for Quantum Computation (CQC) in the Clarendon Laboratory of ...

– quantum computing pioneer; Paul Dirac Prize (1998) *

Joshua Jortner Joshua Jortner (Hebrew: יהושע יורטנר) (March 14, 1933) is an Israeli physical chemist. He is a professor emeritus at the School of Chemistry, The Sackler Faculty of Exact Sciences, Tel Aviv University in Tel Aviv, Israel. Birth and e ...

and Rafi Levine – molecular energy;

Wolf Prize in Chemistry The Wolf Prize in Chemistry is awarded annually by the Wolf Foundation in Israel. It is one of the six Wolf Prizes established by the Foundation and awarded since 1978; the others are in Agriculture, Mathematics, Medicine, Physics and Arts ...

(1988) * Josef Imry – physicist *

Aaron Katzir Aharon Katzir (Aharon Katzir-Katchalsky) (September 15, 1914 – May 30, 1972) was an Israeli pioneer in the study of the electrochemistry of biopolymers. Biography Born 1914 in Łódź, Poland, he moved to Mandatory Palestine in 1925, where he ...

– physical chemistry *

Ephraim Katzir Ephraim Katzir ( he, אפרים קציר, translit=Efrayim Katsir; – 30 May 2009) was an Israeli biophysicist and Labor Party politician. He was the fourth President of Israel from 1973 until 1978. Biography Efraim Katchalski (later Katzir ...

– immobilized enzymes; Japan Prize (1985) The fourth president of Israel List of presidents of Israel *

Michael Levitt Michael Levitt, ( he, מיכאל לויט; born 9 May 1947) is a South African-born biophysicist and a professor of structural biology at Stanford University, a position he has held since 1987. Levitt received the 2013 Nobel Prize in Chemistr ...

– Nobel Prize in Chemistry (2011) * Zvi Lipkin – physicist * Dan T. Major – professor of chemistry * Boris Mavashev – seismologist *

Mordehai Milgrom Mordehai "Moti" Milgrom is an Israeli physicist and professor in the department of Particle Physics and Astrophysics at the Weizmann Institute in Rehovot, Israel. Biography He received his B.Sc. degree from the Hebrew University of Jerusalem i ...

– Modified Newtonian Dynamics (

MOND Modified Newtonian dynamics (MOND) is a hypothesis that proposes a modification of Newton's law of universal gravitation to account for observed properties of galaxies. It is an alternative to the hypothesis of dark matter in terms of explaining ...

) *

Yuval Ne'eman Yuval Ne'eman ( he, יובל נאמן, 14 May 1925 – 26 April 2006) was an Israeli theoretical physicist, military scientist, and politician. He was Minister of Science and Development in the 1980s and early 1990s. He was the President o ...

– the " Eightfold way" *

Asher Peres Asher Peres ( he, אשר פרס; January 30, 1934 – January 1, 2005) was an Israeli physicist. He is well known for his work relating quantum mechanics and information theory. He helped to develop the Peres–Horodecki criterion for quantum en ...

– quantum theory *

Giulio Racah Giulio (Yoel) Racah ( he, ג'וליו (יואל) רקח; February 9, 1909 – August 28, 1965) was an Italian–Israeli physicist and mathematician. He was Acting President of the Hebrew University of Jerusalem from 1961 to 1962. The crater ...

– spectroscopy *

Nathan Rosen Nathan Rosen (Hebrew: נתן רוזן; March 22, 1909 – December 18, 1995) was an American-Israeli physicist noted for his study on the structure of the hydrogen atom and his work with Albert Einstein and Boris Podolsky on entangled wave functio ...

– EPR paradox *

Nathan Seiberg Nathan "Nati" Seiberg (; born September 22, 1956) is an Israeli American theoretical physicist who works on quantum field theory and string theory. He is currently a professor at the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton, New Jersey, United ...

– string theory *

Dan Shechtman Dan Shechtman ( he, דן שכטמן; born January 24, 1941)Dan Shechtman
. (PDF). Retri ...

–

quasicrystal A quasiperiodic crystal, or quasicrystal, is a structure that is ordered but not periodic. A quasicrystalline pattern can continuously fill all available space, but it lacks translational symmetry. While crystals, according to the classical ...

s; Wolf Prize in Physics (1999), Nobel Prize in Chemistry (2013) *

Igal Talmi Igal Talmi (Hebrew: יגאל תלמי) (born January 31, 1925) is an Israeli nuclear physicist. Biography Igal Talmi was born in 1925 in Kiev, Ukraine, then part of the Soviet Union. His family immigrated to Mandate Palestine later that year an ...

– nuclear physics * Reshef Tenne – discovered inorganic fullerenes and

non-carbon nanotube A non-carbon nanotube is a cylindrical molecule often composed of metal oxides, or group III-Nitrides and morphologically similar to a carbon nanotube. Non-carbon nanotubes have been observed to occur naturally in some mineral deposits. A few year ...

s *

Arieh Warshel Arieh Warshel ( he, אריה ורשל; born November 20, 1940) is an Israeli-American biochemist and biophysicist. He is a pioneer in computational studies on functional properties of biological molecules, Distinguished Professor of Chemistry ...

–

(2013) *

Chaim Weizmann Chaim Azriel Weizmann ( he, חיים עזריאל ויצמן ', russian: Хаим Евзорович Вейцман, ''Khaim Evzorovich Veytsman''; 27 November 1874 – 9 November 1952) was a Russian-born biochemist, Zionist leader and Israe ...

– acetone production * Uri Banin – chemist

Social sciences

Yehuda Bauer Yehuda Bauer ( he, יהודה באואר; born April 6, 1926) is a Czech-born Israeli historian and scholar of the Holocaust. He is a professor of Holocaust Studies at the Avraham Harman Institute of Contemporary Jewry at the Hebrew University ...

– historian * Daniel Elazar – political scientist * Esther Farbstein – historian *

Haim Ginott Haim G. Ginott ( Ginzburg; August 5, 1922 – November 4, 1973) was a school teacher, a child psychologist and psychotherapist and a parent educator. He pioneered techniques for conversing with children that are still taught today. His book, ''B ...

– psychologist: child psychology *

Eliyahu Goldratt Eliyahu Moshe Goldratt (March 31, 1947 – June 11, 2011) was an Israeli business management guru. He was the originator of the Optimized Production Technique, the Theory of Constraints (TOC), the Thinking Processes, Drum-Buffer-Rope, Critical ...

– business consultant: Theory of Constraints *

Louis Guttman Louis (Eliyahu) Guttman (February 10, 1916 – October 25, 1987; he, לואיס (אליהו) גוטמן) was an American sociologist and Professor of Social and Psychological Assessment at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, known primarily for ...

– sociologist *

Yuval Noah Harari Yuval Noah Harari ( he, יובל נח הררי ; born 1976) is an Israeli historian and professor in the Department of History at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. He is the author of the popular science bestsellers '' Sapiens: A Brief History ...

– historian and author who wrote best selling book Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind * Michael Harris – public policy scholar and university administrator *

Elhanan Helpman Elhanan Helpman (Hebrew: אלחנן הלפמן, born March 30, 1946) is an Israeli economist who is currently the Galen L. Stone Professor of International Trade at Harvard University. He is also a Professor Emeritus at the Eitan Berglas School o ...

– economist: international trade *

Daniel Kahneman Daniel Kahneman (; he, דניאל כהנמן; born March 5, 1934) is an Israeli-American psychologist and economist notable for his work on the psychology of judgment and decision-making, as well as behavioral economics, for which he was award ...

– behavioural scientist:

prospect theory Prospect theory is a theory of behavioral economics and behavioral finance that was developed by Daniel Kahneman and Amos Tversky in 1979. The theory was cited in the decision to award Kahneman the 2002 Nobel Memorial Prize in Economics. Based ...

;

(2002) * Smadar Lavie – anthropologist * Benny Morris – historian * Erich Neumann – analytical psychologist: development, consciousness *

Nurit Peled-Elhanan Nurit Peled-Elhanan ( he, נורית פלד-אלחנן; born 17 May 1949 in Jerusalem) is an Israeli philologist, professor of language and education at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, translator, and activist. She is a 2001 co-laureate of ...

– educator *

Renee Rabinowitz Renee Ginsberg Rabinowitz (1934 – May 19, 2020) was an American-Israeli psychologist and lawyer. She was born to an Orthodox Jewish family in Belgium, but fled with her family to the United States in 1941, following the outbreak of World ...

– psychologist and lawyer * Sheizaf Rafaeli – management, information, communication * Anat Rafaeli – organisational behaviour *

Ariel Rubinstein Ariel Rubinstein (Hebrew: אריאל רובינשטיין; born April 13, 1951) is an Israeli economist who works in economic theory, game theory and bounded rationality. Biography Ariel Rubinstein is a professor of economics at the School of Ec ...

– economist *

Moshe Sharon Moshe Sharon ( he, משה שָׁרוֹן; born December 18, 1937) is an Israeli historian of Islam. He is currently Professor Emeritus of Islamic and Middle Eastern Studies at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem where he serves as Chair in Bahá ...

– historian *

Avi Shlaim Avraham "Avi" Shlaim (born 31 October 1945) is an Israeli-British historian, Emeritus Professor of International Relations at the University of Oxford and fellow of the British Academy. He is one of Israel's New Historians, a group of Israeli ...

– historian * Abraham Solomonick – semiotician, linguist * Amos Tversky – behavioral scientist:

with

Hanan Yoran Hanan Yoran is a lecturer in the department of History at Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, Ahva Academic College and at the Interdisciplinary Center, Israel. Life Hanan Yoran studied for his BA degree in Mathematics and Computer Science at t ...

– historian

Activists

Uri Avnery Uri Avnery ( he, אורי אבנרי, also transliterated Uri Avneri; 10 September 1923 – 20 August 2018) was an Israeli writer, politician, and founder of the Gush Shalom peace movement. A member of the Irgun as a teenager, Avnery sat for tw ...

– peace activist,

Gush Shalom Gush Shalom (Hebrew: גוש שלום, lit. ''The Peace Bloc oalition') is an Israeli peace activism group founded by Uri Avnery in 1993. Avnery–a former journalist, Irgun and Knesset member–also lead the organization till his death in 2018. ...

Yael Dayan Yaël Dayan ( he, יעל דיין, born 12 February 1939) is an Israeli politician and author. She served as a member of the Knesset between 1992 and 2003, and from 2008 to 2013 was the chair of Tel Aviv city council. Her service on the city cou ...

– writer, politician, activist * Esther Eillam – feminist activist *

Uzi Even Uzi Even ( he, עוזי אבן, born 18 October 1940) is an Israeli professor emeritus of physical chemistry at Tel Aviv University and a former politician well known for being the first openly gay member of the Knesset (the Israeli Parliament) ...

– gay rights activist *

Yehuda Glick Yehudah Joshua Glick (; born 20 November 1965), alternatively spelled "Yehuda Glick", is an American-born Israeli Orthodox rabbi, activist, and politician. As the President of Shalom Jerusalem Foundation, he campaigns for expanding Jewish access ...

– activist for Jewish rights at the Temple Mount *

Shula Keshet Shula Kehset (in Hebrew: שולה קשת; born on August 2, 1959) is an Israeli social and political activist and entrepreneur, Mizrahi feminist, artist, curator, writer, educator, and publisher; one of the founders and the executive director ...

–

Mizrahi ''Mizrachi'' or ''Mizrahi'' ( he, מזרחי) has two meanings. In the literal Hebrew meaning ''Eastern'', it may refer to: *Mizrahi Jews, Jews from the Middle East * Mizrahi (surname), a Sephardic surname, given to Jews who got to the Iberian P ...

feminist, activist and artist *

Uri Savir Uri Savir ( he, אורי סביר; 7 January 1953 – 14 May 2022) was an Israeli diplomat and politician. He was Israel's chief negotiator for the Oslo Accords and served as a Member of Knesset (MK) from 1999 to 2001. Early life Savir was bor ...

– peace negotiator,

Peres Center for Peace The Peres Center for Peace, located in Jaffa, Israel, is an independent non-profit, non-governmental, and non-political organization founded in 1996 by Nobel Peace Laureate and former President of Israel Shimon Peres. Its aim is to further Pere ...

Israel Shahak Israel Shahak ( he, ישראל שחק; born Israel Himmelstaub, 28 April 1933 – 2 July 2001) was an Israeli professor of organic chemistry at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, a Holocaust survivor, an intellectual of liberal political bent, ...

– political activist *

Natan Sharansky Natan Sharansky ( he, נתן שרנסקי; russian: Ната́н Щара́нский; uk, Натан Щаранський, born Anatoly Borisovich Shcharansky on 20 January 1948); uk, Анатолій Борисович Щаранський, ...

– Soviet-era human rights activist * Ronny Edry and Michal Tamir – originators of the Israel-Loves-Iran peace movement and its offshoots

Architects

Michael Arad Michael Arad (Hebrew: מיכאל ארד) is an Israeli-American architect who is best known for being the designer of the National September 11 Memorial & Museum. He won the competition to design the memorial in 2004. Early life and education ...

* Ram Karmi *

Richard Kauffmann Richard Kauffmann (1887–1958) was a German-Jewish architect who migrated to Palestine in 1920. His architecture was influenced by Ludwig Mies van der Rohe, a proponent of the International Style, and was applied to the local landscape, layin ...

David Kroyanker David Kroyanker (born 1939) is an Israeli architect and architectural historian of Jerusalem. He has written dozens of popular books about Jerusalem neighborhoods, streets, and buildings, and urban planning. Biography Kroyanker was born and rai ...

* David Resnick *

Moshe Safdie Moshe Safdie ( he, משה ספדיה; born July 14, 1938) is an architect, urban planner, educator, theorist, and author, with Israeli, Canadian, and American citizenship. He is known for incorporating principles of socially responsible des ...

Arieh Sharon Arieh Sharon ( he, אריה שרון; May 28, 1900 – July 24, 1984) was an Israeli architect and winner of the Israel Prize for Architecture in 1962. Sharon was a critical contributor to the early architecture in Israel and the leader of the fi ...

Athletes

Association Football (soccer)

Avram Grant Avraham "Avram" Grant ( he, אברהם "אברם" גרנט; born Avraham Granat; ) is an Israeli professional football manager. He has spent the majority of his career coaching and managing in Israel, winning a number of national league and cup ...

– Israeli head coach & manager (

Chelsea F.C. Chelsea Football Club is an English professional football club based in Fulham, West London. Founded in 1905, they play their home games at Stamford Bridge. The club competes in the Premier League, the top division of English football ...

& Israel national team) * Eyal Ben Ami – midfielder various clubs, national team * Yaniv Ben-Nissan – midfielder *

Dudu Aouate David "Dudu" Aouate (or Awat, he, דוד "דודו" אוואט, ''pronounced Dūdū Ahwaht''; born 17 October 1977) is an Israeli retired professional association football, footballer who played as a goalkeeper (association football), goalkeeper ...

– goalkeeper (

RCD Mallorca Real Club Deportivo Mallorca, S.A.D. (, ca, Reial Club Deportiu Mallorca , ''Royal Sporting Club Mallorca''), commonly known as Real Mallorca or just Mallorca is a Spanish professional football club based in Palma on the island of Majorca in ...

, national team) *

Jonathan Assous Jonathan Victor Gerard Assous (born September 2, 1983) is a French-Israeli football player who is currently contracted to Beitar Ramat Gan in Israel. In France, Assous was widely known for his temper and rough play. Playing career Assous bega ...

– defensive midfielder (

Hapoel Petah Tikva Hapoel Petah Tikva F.C. ( he, הפועל פתח תקווה) is an Israeli football club based in the city of Petah Tikva, currently playing in the Liga Leumit. Its most successful period was throughout the 1950s and 1960s, in which the club won ...

), of French origin * Gai Assulin – winger/attacking midfielder ( Manchester City, national team) *

Ronen Badash Ronen Badash ( he, רונן בדש; born 31 October 1977) is a former Israeli footballer who is of a History of the Jews in Tunisia, Tunisian-Jewish descent. Honours *Liga Leumit (1): **1998-99 References

1977 births Living people Israe ...

– midfielder *

Pini Balili Pini Balili ( he, פִּינִי בַּלִילִי; born 18 June 1979) is an Israeli former football manager and former player. He was born in Jerusalem and is Jewish, of Turkish descent. Career Move back to Hapoel As a youngster, Balili grew ...

– striker (

Bnei Yehuda Tel Aviv Bnei Yehuda Tel Aviv F.C. ( he, מועדון כדורגל בני יהודה תל אביב, ''Moadon Kaduregel Bnei Yehuda Tel Aviv''), commonly referred to as Bnei Yehuda (), is an Israeli football club from the Hatikva Quarter of the city of Tel ...

, Israel national team) *

Yossi Benayoun Yossi Shai Benayoun ( he, יוסי שי בניון; born 5 May 1980) is an Israeli former professional footballer who played as a midfielder. He spent most of his career in England and captained the Israel national team. Born in Dimona, he is ...

– attacking midfielder, (Israel national tema captain, as well as the national most

capped In sport, a cap is a player's appearance in a game at international level. The term dates from the practice in the United Kingdom of awarding a cap to every player in an international match of rugby football and association football. In the ea ...

footballer)

Hapoel Be'er Sheva Hapoel Be'er Sheva Football Club ( he, מועדון הכדורגל הפועל באר שבע, ''Moadon HaKaduregel Hapoel Be'er Sheva'') is an Israeli football club from the city of Be'er Sheva, that competes in the Israeli Premier League. The c ...

Maccabi Haifa Maccabi Haifa ( he, מכבי חיפה) is one of the biggest sports clubs in Israel and a part of the Maccabi association. It runs several sports clubs and teams in Haifa which have competed in a variety of sports over the years, such as Football ...

Racing Santander Real Racing Club de Santander, S.A.D. (), also known as Racing de Santander () or simply Racing, is a football club based in Santander, Spain, Santander, Cantabria, Spain, that currently competes in Segunda División, the second tier of the Span ...

West Ham United West Ham United Football Club is an English professional football club that plays its home matches in Stratford, East London. The club competes in the Premier League, the top tier of English football. The club plays at the London Stadium, hav ...

Liverpool Liverpool is a city and metropolitan borough in Merseyside, England. With a population of in 2019, it is the 10th largest English district by population and its metropolitan area is the fifth largest in the United Kingdom, with a popul ...

Chelsea Chelsea or Chelsey may refer to: Places Australia * Chelsea, Victoria Canada * Chelsea, Nova Scotia * Chelsea, Quebec United Kingdom * Chelsea, London, an area of London, bounded to the south by the River Thames ** Chelsea (UK Parliament consti ...

* Gil Cain – defender, Hapoel Azor * David "Dedi" Ben Dayan – left defender ( Hapoel Tel Aviv, national team) *

Tal Ben Haim Tal Ben Haim (or Tal Ben Haim I, he, טל בן-חיים; born 31 March 1982) is an Israeli footballer who last played for Beitar Jerusalem. He can play at either centre back or right back. He has played for Maccabi Tel Aviv, Bolton Wanderers ...

– center back/right back,

Maccabi Tel Aviv Maccabi Tel Aviv ( he, מכבי תל אביב) is one of the largest sports clubs in Israel, and a part of the Maccabi association. Many sports clubs and teams in Tel Aviv are in association with Maccabi and compete in a variety of sports, such ...

, Bolton Wanderers, Chelsea,

Daniel Brailovski Daniel Alberto Brailovsky Poliak ( he, אלברטו דניאל בריילובסקי, sometimes spelled Brailovski, born November 18, 1958) is an Argentine-born Israeli former professional footballer and manager. He was born in Buenos Aires, Arg ...

– midfielder (Argentina, Uruguay, and Israel national teams) *

Roberto Colautti Roberto Damián Colautti ( he, רוברטו דמיאן קולאוטי; born 24 May 1982) is an Argentine-Israeli former professional footballer who played as a forward. He began his career in Argentina with Boca Juniors, and joined the Israeli ...

– Argentine born-striker *

Tomer Chencinski Tomer Chencinski ( he, תומר חנצ'ינסקי; born December 1, 1984) is an Israeli-Canadian soccer player who plays the position of goalkeeper. He played college soccer at Robert Morris University, where in 2004 he ranked 16th in the nati ...

– goaltender (

Vaasan Palloseura Vaasan Palloseura (or VPS) is a Finnish football club, based in Vaasa. It currently plays in the first tier of Finnish football (''Veikkausliiga''). The club's current manager is Jussi Nuorela. The club plays its home matches at Hietalahti. ...

) *

Avi Cohen Avraham "Avi" Cohen ( he, אבי כהן; 14 November 1956 – 29 December 2010) was an Israeli footballer who played as a defender, and a manager. He was best known for his spells playing for two British clubs: Liverpool in England and Rangers ...

– defender, Liverpool and national team *

Tamir Cohen Tamir Cohen ( he, תמיר כהן; born 4 March 1984) is an Israeli former professional footballer who played as a midfielder. He is the son of the late Maccabi Tel Aviv and Liverpool player Avi Cohen. Club career Early career Cohen was born in ...

– midfielder ( Bolton Wanderers and national team) *

Rami Gershon Rami Gershon ( he, רמי גרשון; born 12 August 1988) is an Israeli footballer who plays as a centre back or as a left back for Maccabi Haifa and the Israel national team. Early life Gershon was born in Rishon LeZion, Israel, to a family o ...

– centre back / left back *

Tvrtko Kale Tvrtko Kale (now Dreshler Kale, he, טברטקו קאלה; born 5 June 1974) is a retired Croatian-Israeli footballer who played as of July 2015 for Maccabi Kiryat Gat. The newspaper ''Slobodna Dalmacija'' rated him the best player in the Croat ...

– Croatia/Israel, goalkeeper (

Hapoel Haifa Hapoel Haifa Football Club ( he, מועדון הכדורגל הפועל חיפה, ''Moadon HaKaduregel Hapoel Haifa'') is an Israeli football club located in the city of Haifa. The club won one championship (1998–99) and 4 Israeli cups (1 ...

) *

Yaniv Katan Yaniv Katan ( he, יניב קטן; born 27 January 1981) is a retired Israeli international footballer who played professionally for Maccabi Haifa, as a forward and winger. He earned 31 caps for Israel, scoring five goals. Personal life Katan ...

– forward/winger (

, national team) *

Eli Ohana Eliyahu "Eli" Ohana ( he, אלי אוחנה; born ) is an Israeli former football player and the former chairman of Israeli club Beitar Jerusalem. He played as forward or midfielder for Beitar Jerusalem, KV Mechelen, S.C. Braga, and the I ...

– won

UEFA Cup Winners' Cup The UEFA Cup Winners' Cup was a European football club competition contested annually by the winners of domestic cup competitions. The cup was, chronologically, the second seasonal inter-European club competition organised by UEFA. The tourn ...

and

Bravo Award The Bravo Award was an annual award which was handed out by the Italian magazine ''Guerin Sportivo'' to the most outstanding young European footballer. The first winner of the award was Englishman Jimmy Case. The first non-European to win the ...

(most outstanding young player in Europe); national team; manager *

Haim Revivo Haim Michael Revivo ( he, חיים מיכאל רביבו; born 22 February 1972) is a retired Israeli football player who played as a midfielder, and a businessman. Sports career Revivo is Jewish and was born to a traditional Mizrahi Jewish fa ...

– attacking/side midfielder (Israel national team), Maccabi Haifa, Celta de Vigo, Fenerbahçe,

Galatasaray Galatasaray Spor Kulübü (, ''Galatasaray Sports Club'') is a Turkish sports club based on the European side of the city of Istanbul in Turkey. Most notable for its association football department, the club also consists of various other de ...

* Ronnie Rosenthal – left winger/striker (Israel national team), Maccabi Haifa, Liverpool, Tottenham, Watford *

Ben Sahar Ben Sahar ( he, בן שׂהר, changed the Hebrew spelling of his surname from ; born 10 August 1989) is an Israeli professional footballer who plays as a striker for Maccabi Haifa and the Israel national team. At 16, Sahar was the equivalent ...

– striker/winger ( Hapoel Tel Aviv, national team) *

Mordechai Spiegler Mordechai "Motaleh" Shpigler ( he, מרדכי "מוטל'ה" שפיגלר; born 19 August 1944) is a retired Israeli footballer, and manager. Shpigler is placed second in Israel's all time goalscoring list, with 32 goals in 83 caps. Early life ...

– striker (Israel national team), manager *

Idan Tal Idan Tal ( he, עידן טל; born 13 September 1975, in Beersheba) is a former Israeli professional footballer. Tal was born in Beersheba, Israel, and is Jewish. He lives in Haifa, is married to Doreen, and has two children, Miron and Amit. Cl ...

– midfielder (

Beitar Jerusalem FC Beitar Jerusalem Football Club ( he, מועדון כדורגל בית"ר ירושלים, Moadon Kaduregel Beitar Yerushalayim), commonly known as Beitar Jerusalem () or simply as Beitar (), is an Israeli football club based in the city of Jeru ...

and Israel national team) *

Salim Tuama Salim Tuama ( ar, سليم طعمه, he, סלים טועמה; born August 9, 1979) is an Palestinian, Arab-Israeli association football, footballer who plays as a midfielder for Maccabi Sha'arayim F.C., Maccabi Sha'arayim. His former clubs incl ...

–

soccer Association football, more commonly known as football or soccer, is a team sport played between two teams of 11 players who primarily use their feet to propel the ball around a rectangular field called a pitch. The objective of the game is ...

player playing for Hapoel Tel Aviv who has in the past played for

Standard Liège Royal Standard de Liège, commonly referred to as Standard Liège (; nl, Standard Luik ; german: Standard Lüttich ) or simply Standard in Belgium, is a Belgian professional football club based in the city of Liège. They are one of the most ...

Maccabi Petah Tikva Maccabi Petah Tikva F.C. ( he, מכבי פתח תקווה) (Full name: "Maccabi Avshalom Ironi Petah Tikva F.C., ) is an Israeli football club based in the city of Petah Tikva. It is part of the Maccabi World Union for international Jewish spo ...

Kayserispor Kayseri Spor Kulübü, commonly known as Kayserispor, is a Turkish professional football club based in Kayseri. They play their home matches at the Kadir Has Stadium in red and yellow kits. The team has won one Turkish Cup in 2008 and also fi ...

Larissa Larissa (; el, Λάρισα, , ) is the capital and largest city of the Thessaly region in Greece. It is the fifth-most populous city in Greece with a population of 144,651 according to the 2011 census. It is also capital of the Larissa regiona ...

and the youth club Gadna Tel Aviv Yehuda. *

Yochanan Vollach Yochanan Vollach ( he, יוחנן וולך, also Jochanan Wallach or Yohanan Wallach, born May 14, 1945) is an Israeli former footballer. He was a member of the Israeli national team that competed at the 1970 FIFA World Cup. He is a member of th ...

– defender (Israel national team); current president of

Pini Zahavi Pinhas "Pini" Zahavi ( he, פנחס "פיני" זהבי; born 1955Jackson, Jamie"Profile: Pini Zahavi, football's first and only super-agent" The Observer, 26 November 2005. Retrieved 2007-07-12) is an Israeli football agent. Zahavi was involved ...

– UK-based super-agent *

Itzik Zohar Itzik Zohar ( he, איציק זוהר; born October 31, 1970) is an Israeli former international footballer and television sports personality. Born in Bat Yam, Israel to a family of North African extraction, he holds the distinction of scoring the ...

– attacking midfielder (Israel national team), Maccabi Jaffa, Maccabi Tel Aviv, Royal Antwerp, Beitar Jerusalem, Crystal Palace, Maccabi Haifa, Maccabi Herzliya, Maccabi Netanya, F.C. Ashdod, Hapoel Nazareth Illit *

Eyal Berkovic Eyal Berkovic (or Berkovich, he, אייל ברקוביץ'; born 2 April 1972) is an Israeli former professional association footballer, football coach, team owner and television talk show presenter. As a player he was an attacking midfielde ...

– attacking midfielder (

English Premier League The Premier League (legal name: The Football Association Premier League Limited) is the highest level of the men's English football league system. Contested by 20 clubs, it operates on a system of promotion and relegation with the English Fo ...

clubs &

Celtic F.C The Celtic Football Club, commonly known as Celtic (), is a Scottish professional football club based in Glasgow, which plays in the Scottish Premiership. The club was founded in 1887 with the purpose of alleviating poverty in the immigran ...

. & Israel national team) *

Eran Zahavi Eran Zahavi (or Zehavi, he, ערן זהבי; born 25 July 1987) is an Israeli professional footballer who plays as a forward for Israeli Premier League club Maccabi Tel Aviv. Zahavi was named Israeli Footballer of the Year twice (2013–14 ...

– forward (

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& Israel national team captain, as well as the national top goalscorer) *

Manor Solomon Manor Solomon ( he, מנור סולומון; born ) is an Israeli professional footballer who plays as an attacking midfielder or as a winger for English club Fulham, on loan from Ukrainian Premier League club Shakhtar Donetsk, and the Isra ...

– winger/attacking midfielder (

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& Israel national team)

Basketball

Miki Berkovich Moshe "Miki" Berkovich (or Mickey Berkowitz; he, משה "מיקי" ברקוביץ'; born 17 February 1954) is an Israeli former professional basketball player. A 193 cm shooting guard, he is considered to be one of the greatest Israeli basket ...

–

* David Blu – (formerly "Bluthenthal"), Euroleague 6' 7" forward (

) *

Tal Brody Talbot "Tal" Brody (Hebrew: טל ברודי; born August 30, 1943), nicknamed Mr. Basketball, is an American-Israeli former professional basketball player and current goodwill ambassador of Israel. Brody was drafted #12 in the National Basketball ...

– Euroleague 6' 2"

shooting guard The shooting guard (SG), also known as the two, two guard or off guard,Shooting guards are 6'3"–6'7"BBC Sports academy URL last accessed 2006-09-09. is one of the five traditional positions in a regulation basketball game. A shooting guard's m ...

Tal Burstein Tal Burstein ( he, טל בורשטיין; born February 19, 1980) is an Israeli professional basketball coach and a former professional basketball player. He played at the point guard position, and also as a swingman. He is 198 cm (6 ...

–

Omri Casspi Omri Moshe Casspi ( he, עומרי משה כספי, born June 22, 1988) is an Israeli former professional basketball player. He mainly played at the small forward position, but could play also at the power forward position. Casspi was drafted 23 ...

– 6' 9" small forward, drafted in 1st round of 2009 NBA Draft (

Golden State Warriors The Golden State Warriors are an American professional basketball team based in San Francisco. The Warriors compete in the National Basketball Association (NBA), as a member of the league's Western Conference Pacific Division. Founded in 194 ...

) *

Tanhum Cohen-Mintz Tanhum Cohen-Mintz (תנחום (תני) כהן-מינץ; also "Tanchum or Tani" and "Cohen-Minz"; October 18, 1939 – October 11, 2014) was an Israeli professional basketball player. He was 6'8 " (2.04 m ) tall, and he played at the center (bask ...

– 6' 8" center; 2x Euroleague All-Star *

Shay Doron Shay Doron ( he, שי דורון) (born April 1, 1985) is an Israeli professional basketball player in the Israeli league. She currently plays for Maccabi Ashdod. Biography Doron was born in Ramat Hasharon, Israel, to Yehuda and Tamari Doron. Fo ...

– WNBA 5' 9" guard,

University of Maryland The University of Maryland, College Park (University of Maryland, UMD, or simply Maryland) is a public land-grant research university in College Park, Maryland. Founded in 1856, UMD is the flagship institution of the University System of M ...

( New York Liberty) *

Lior Eliyahu Lior Eliyahu ( he, לִיאוֹר אֱלִיָּהוּ; born 9 September 1985) is an Israeli former professional basketball player. He is 2.06 m (6 ft 9 in) in height and he weighs 105 kg (225 pounds). He plays at the power forward pos ...

– 6' 9" power forward, NBA draft 2006 ( Orlando Magic; traded to

Houston Rockets The Houston Rockets are an American professional basketball team based in Houston. The Rockets compete in the National Basketball Association (NBA) as a member team of the league's Western Conference Southwest Division. The team plays its ho ...

), but completed mandatory service in the

Israel Defense Forces The Israel Defense Forces (IDF; he, צְבָא הַהֲגָנָה לְיִשְׂרָאֵל , ), alternatively referred to by the Hebrew-language acronym (), is the national military of the Israel, State of Israel. It consists of three servic ...

and played in the Euroleague (Maccabi Tel Aviv) *

Tamir Goodman Tamir Goodman (born January 18, 1982) is a former American-Israeli professional basketball player. He was dubbed by ''Sports Illustrated'' magazine as the "Jewish Michael Jordan, Jordan". After playing basketball for the Talmudical Academy of Ba ...

– U.S. and Israel, 6' 3" shooting guard *

Yotam Halperin Yotam Halperin ( he, יותם הלפרין; born January 24, 1984) is an Israeli former professional basketball player. He is currently the sporting director for Hapoel Jerusalem of the Israeli Premier League and the Champions League. He is a 1. ...

– 6' 5" guard, drafted in 2006 NBA draft by

Seattle SuperSonics The Seattle SuperSonics (commonly known as the Seattle Sonics) were an American professional basketball team based in Seattle. The SuperSonics competed in the National Basketball Association (NBA) as a member club of the league's Western Confe ...

(

Olympiacos Olympiacós Sýndesmos Filáthlon Peiraiós ( el, Ολυμπιακός Σύνδεσμος Φιλάθλων Πειραιώς, Olympic Club of Fans of Piraeus) is a major multi-sport club based in Piraeus, Greece. Olympiacos is parent to a number ...

) * T. J. Leaf – NBA basketball player *

Gal Mekel Gal Mekel ( he, גל מקל, pronounced ; born March 4, 1988) is an Israeli former professional basketball player. He played for the Dallas Mavericks and spent time in Europe and Israel. He played college basketball for two years at Wichita Sta ...

– NBA basketball player *

Yehoshua Rozin Yehoshua Rozin ( he, יהושע רוזין‎; 16 August 1918 – 6 February 2002) was an Israeli basketball coach. Biography Rozin was born in Alexandria, Egypt. He moved to Israel at the age of six. He played basketball for Maccabi Tel Aviv i ...

– basketball coach *

Derrick Sharp Derrick Lanorris Sharp ( he, דריק שארפ; born October 5, 1971) is an American-Israeli retired professional basketball player and coach. At a height of 1.85 m (6'1") tall, he played at the point guard and shooting guard positions. He pla ...

– American-Israeli basketball player *

Amit Tamir Amit Tamir ( he, עמית יוסף תמיר)(born December 2, 1979) is an Israeli professional basketball coach and former player. He is a 2.08 m (6 ft 10 in) tall former center/ forward. Biography Amit Yosef Tamir was born in Jerusalem to A ...

– 6' 10" center/forward, University of California, PAOK Thessaloniki (

Hapoel Jerusalem Hapoel Jerusalem is a sport organization in Jerusalem as a local branch of the Hapoel movement. The branch was established in the 1920s and represents the city in more sports than any other sport organization in Jerusalem. Today, the club's leadi ...

)

Bodybuilding

Alana Shipp Alana Shipp (born 1982) is a Barbadan professional female bodybuilder, based in Jerusalem. Early life Alana Shipp was born in 1982 in Bridgetown, Barbados to Guyanese parents. She spent her early childhood in Guyana prior to moving to Queens ...

– American/Israeli IFBB professional bodybuilder

Boxing

* Salamo Arouch (The Ballet Dancer) – middleweight champion of Greece, lightweight, welterweight, middleweight. He survived the Holocaust by boxing (over 200 bouts) for the entertainment of Nazi officers in Auschwitz Concentration Camp. His story was portrayed in the 1989 film " Triumph of the Spirit" * Sarah Avraham – kickboxer, 2014 Women's World Thai-Boxing Champion in 57–63 kilos (125–140 pounds) *

Hagar Finer Hagar Finer ( he, הגר פיינר, born 1984) is an Israeli boxer. She is the WIBF bantamweight champion 2009. Biography Hagar Finer was born in Tel Aviv, Israel, on October 15, 1984. She took up martial arts at the age of 13 and became the ...

– WIBF bantamweight champion *

Yuri Foreman Yuri Foreman (born August 5, 1980) is an Israeli professional boxer who held the WBA super welterweight title from 2009 to 2010. He was born in Gomel, Belarus, but currently fights out of Brooklyn, New York. Foreman has also pursued Jewish reli ...

– U.S. middleweight and

World Boxing Association The World Boxing Association (WBA), formerly known as the National Boxing Association (NBA), is the oldest and one of four major organizations which sanction professional boxing bouts, alongside the World Boxing Council (WBC), International Boxi ...

super welterweight champion * Roman Greenberg – ("The Lion from Zion"), International Boxing Organization's Intercontinental heavyweight champion *

Pavlo Ishchenko Pavlo Olehovych Ishchenko (Павел Олегович Ищенко; nicknamed "Wild Man"; born April 30, 1992) is an Olympic Ukrainian-Israeli boxer who competes as a bantamweight. He won the gold medal at the 2013 European Amateur Boxing Champi ...

– 2-time

European Amateur Boxing Championships The European Amateur Boxing Championships is the highest competition for boxing amateurs in Europe, organised by the continent's governing body EUBC, which stands for the ''European Boxing Confederation''. The first edition of the tournament t ...

medalist, and

European Games The European Games is a continental multi-sport event in the Olympic tradition contested by athletes from European nations and several transcontinental countries. The Games were envisioned and are governed by the European Olympic Committees ...

medalist *

Yulia Sachkov Yulia Sachkov ( he, יוליה סצ'קוב, born 1998), is an Israeli kickboxer. She is the 2019 World Kickboxing Champion in the under-48 kilogram (114.5 pound) weight class of K-1 style kickboxing.

– world champion kickboxer

Fencing

Boaz Ellis Boaz Ellis (born October 15, 1981) is an Israeli foil fencer. He is a 5-time Israeli national champion, and a 3-time NCAA champion. Biography Ellis was born in Tzippori, a moshav in Israel, and is Jewish. He attended Chaklai Nahalal High Schoo ...

(born 1981) – foil, 5-time Israeli champion * Yuval Freilich (born 1995) – épée, 2019 European Epee Champion * Lydia Hatoel-Zuckerman (born 1963) – foil, 6-time Israeli champion * Delila Hatuel (born 1980) – Olympic foil fencer *

Noam Mills Noam Mills ( he, נעם מילס; born May 27, 1986) is an Israeli fencer, who competed in the individual women's épée event for Israel at the 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing. She is a three-time junior Israeli champion in épée, and a four-t ...

(born 1986) – epee, junior female world champion, 4-time Israeli champion * Ayelet Ohayon (born 1974) – foil, European champion *

Tomer Or Tomer ( he, תֹּמֶר, , Palm Tree) is an Israeli settlement organized as a moshav in the West Bank. Located in the Jordan Valley next to the Palestinian village of Fasayil, it falls under the jurisdiction of Bik'at HaYarden Regional Counci ...

(born 1978) – foil, junior world champion *

Andre Spitzer Andre Spitzer ( he, אנדרי שפיצר; 4 July 1945 – 6 September 1972) was an Israeli fencing master and coach of Israel's 1972 Summer Olympics team. He was one of 11 athletes and coaches taken hostage and subsequently killed by terrorists ...

(1945–1972) – killed by terrorists

Figure skating

* Alexei Beletski –

ice dancer Ice dance (sometimes referred to as ice dancing) is a discipline of figure skating that historically draws from ballroom dancing. It joined the World Figure Skating Championships in 1952, and became a Winter Olympic Games medal sport in 1976. Ac ...

, Olympian *

Oleksii Bychenko Alexei Bychenko ( he, אלכסיי ביצ'נקו; uk, Олексій Юрійович Биченко; born 5 February 1988) is a retired Ukrainian-born Israeli figure skater. He represented Ukraine through 2009 and Israel after that. He is the 2 ...

– figure skater, Olympian, European silver medallist 2016 *

Galit Chait Galit Chait ( he, גלית חייט, ''Galit Hayat''; born on January 29, 1975) is an Israeli former competitive ice dancer. She and her partner Sergei Sakhnovski competed internationally for Israel from 1995 to 2006, becoming the 2002 World bro ...

– ice dancer, World Championship bronze 2002 *

Natalia Gudina Natalia Gudina ( uk, Наталія Гудина, russian: Наталья Гудина, born 11 November 1977) is an Israeli former competitive ice dancer. Representing Israel with husband Alexei Beletski, she placed as high as 14th at the World C ...

–

figure skater Figure skating is a sport in which individuals, pairs, or groups perform on figure skates on ice. It was the first winter sport to be included in the Olympic Games, when contested at the 1908 Olympics in London. The Olympic disciplines are me ...

, Olympian *

Tamar Katz Tamar Katz ( he, תמר כץ, born September 26, 1989 ) is an Israeli-American former competitive figure skater. She is the 2005, 2007, and 2008 Israeli national champion. Personal life Tamar Katz was born September 26, 1989 in Dallas, Texas. Th ...

– figure skater *

Lionel Rumi Lionel Rumi ( he, ליונל רומי; born August 12, 1986) is a French-Israeli Ice dancing, ice dancer and model. He skated for France with Élodie Brouiller and Scarlett Rouzet until 2008 and then began representing Israel with Brooke Frielin ...

– ice dancer * Sergei Sakhnovsky – ice dancer, World Championship Bronze medal 2002 *

Daniel Samohin Daniel Samohin ( he, דניאל סמוכין; born 12 March 1998) is an Israeli figure skater. He is the 2016 World Junior champion, and has won two ISU Challenger Series medals, including a gold medal at the 2015 U.S. International Classic. Sa ...

– figure skater, Olympian, 2016 World Junior Champion *

Michael Shmerkin Michael "Misha" Shmerkin (born 5 February 1970) is an Israeli former competitive figure skater. He is a two-time Skate Canada International silver medalist (1994 and 1995), 1993 Ondrej Nepela Memorial champion, and 1995 Skate Israel champion. H ...

– figure skater * Alexandra Zaretski – ice dancer, Olympian *

Roman Zaretski Roman Zaretsky ( he, רומן זרצקי, russian: Роман Зарецкий, be, Раман Зарэцкі; born December 4, 1983) is an Israeli retired Ice dancing, ice dancer. With his sister, Alexandra Zaretsky, he is the 2009 Skate America ...

– ice dancer, Olympian

Golf

2013 Women's British Open - Laetitia Beck (1)

Laetitia Beck Laetitia Beck ( he, לטיסיה בק; born February 5, 1992) is an Israeli professional golfer. She made her professional debut at the 2014 Women's British Open. Beck has won the Israeli Open Golf Championship five times, including for the firs ...

– golfer

Gymnastics

Alexander Shatilov Alexander "Alex" Shatilov ( he, אלכסנדר "אלכס" שטילוב, russian: Александр Шатилов; born March 22, 1987) is a USSR-born Israeli artistic gymnast. He specializes in the floor exercise, in which he won several medals ...

– World bronze ( artistic gymnast; floor exercise) *

Artem Dolgopyat Artem Olegovich Dolgopyat ( he, ארטיום אולגוביץ' דולגופיאט; ukr, Артем Олегович Долгопят; born 16 June 1997) is a Ukrainian-born Israeli artistic gymnast. He is the 2020 Olympic champion on floor e ...

– artistic gymnast (Olympic gold: 2020) *

Linoy Ashram Linoy Ashram ( he, לינוי אשרם; born ) is a retired Israeli individual rhythmic gymnast. She is the 2020 Olympic All-around Champion, the 2018 World All-around silver medalist, two-time (2017, 2019) World All-around bronze medalist, the ...

–

rhythmic gymnast Rhythmic gymnastics is a sport in which gymnasts perform on a floor with an apparatus: hoop, ball, clubs, ribbon. The sport combines elements of gymnastics, dance and calisthenics; gymnasts must be strong, flexible, agile, dexterous and co ...

(Olympic gold: 2020) *

Neta Rivkin Neta Rivkin ( he, נטע ריבקין; born June 19, 1991) is a retired Israeli individual rhythmic gymnast. She is one of Israel's most successful rhythmic gymnasts. A three-time Olympian, in 2011 she won the silver medal in clubs at the 20 ...

– rhythmic gymnast *

Nicol Zelikman Nicol Zelikman ( he, ניקול זליקמן; born January 30, 2001) is a former Israeli individual rhythmic gymnast. She is a two-time medalist at the 2016 European Junior Championships. Early life Zelikman was born and raised in Kfar Saba, Is ...

– rhythmic gymnast

Judo

Yael Arad Yael Arad ( he, יעל ארד; born May 1, 1967) is an Israeli judoka. She was the first Israeli to win an Olympic medal. She is widely recognized as one of Israel's most successful athletes and is credited with bringing judo into the athletic ma ...

– judoka (Olympic silver: 1992, European champion: 1993, world silver: 1993). First Israeli Olympic medalist; light-middleweight *

Yarden Gerbi Yarden Gerbi (or Jerbi, he, ירדן ג'רבי; born July 8, 1989) is an Israeli former judoka world champion. She won an Olympic bronze medal competing for Israel at the 2016 Summer Olympics, in Women's 63 kg Judo. Gerbi won the gold m ...

– judoka (Olympic bronze: 2016) *

Andrian Kordon Andrian Kordon ( he, אנדריאן קורדון; born 24 May 1977) is an Israeli judoka is an unarmed modern Japanese martial art, Olympic sport (since 1964), and the most prominent form of jacket wrestling competed internationally.『日� ...

– European Championship bronze; heavyweight *

Daniela Krukower Daniela Yael Krukower ( he, דניאלה קרוקובר; born 6 January 1975 in Colegiales, Buenos Aires) is a former judoka from Argentina. Biography Krukower was born in Buenos Aires, Argentina to a Jewish family, and at an early age moved wit ...

– Israeli/Argentine judoka, World Champion (under 63 kg) *

Yoel Razvozov Yoel Razvozov (; born 5 July 1980) is an Israeli judoka and politician who served as a member of the Knesset for Yesh Atid in several spells, and as the Minister of Tourism from 2021 to 2022. Early life Born Konstantin Anatolyevich Razvozov (ru ...

– 2-time European Championship silver; lightweight *

Or Sasson Or "Ori" Sasson ( he, אור "אורי" ששון; born 18 August 1990) is a retired Israeli Olympic judoka. He won a bronze medal in the +100 kg category at the 2016 Summer Olympics and another one at the 2020 Summer Olympics. He is the se ...

– judoka (Olympic bronze: 2016) *

Oren Smadja Shay-Oren Smadja ( he, אורן סמדג'ה; born June 20, 1970) is a former Israeli judoka and a judo coach. Smadja won the Olympic Games, Olympic bronze medal in judo at the 1992 Summer Olympics, making him the first Israeli man to win an Olymp ...

– judoka (Olympic bronze: 1992; lightweight) *

Ehud Vaks Ehud "Udi" Vaks ( he, אהוד "אודי" וקס; born 27 June 1979) is an Israeli judoka. Vaks won a bronze medal at the 1998 under-20 World Judo Championships in the under 60 kg weight class. 2004 Olympics In the 2004 Summer Olympi ...

– judoka (half-lightweight) * Gal Yekutiel – European championship bronze *

Ariel Zeevi Ariel "Arik" Ze'evi ( he, אריאל "אריק" זאבי, born 16 January 1977) is a retired Israeli dan 6 black belt in Judo. He had a long and successful career competing in half-heavyweight Judo competitions. He is an Olympic bronze medal fina ...

– judoka (European champion: 2000, 2003, 2004; Olympic bronze: 2004; 100 kg)

Motor racing

Alon Day Alon Day (Hebrew: אלון דאי, born November 4, 1991) is an Israeli professional stock car racing driver. He currently competes in the NASCAR Whelen Euro Series, driving the No. 24 Chevrolet SS for PK Carsport and is a four-time champion in t ...

– racing driver *

Chanoch Nissany Chanoch Nissany ( he, חנוך ניסני; born 29 July 1963) is an Israeli-Hungarian auto racing driver now based in Budapest, Hungary. He is a businessman, and initially took up motor racing as a hobby. He is the first Israeli racing driver ...

–

Formula One Formula One (also known as Formula 1 or F1) is the highest class of international racing for open-wheel single-seater formula racing cars sanctioned by the Fédération Internationale de l'Automobile (FIA). The World Drivers' Championship, ...

racing test-driver *

Roy Nissany Roy Nissany ( he, רוי ניסני; born 30 November 1994) is an Israeli racing driver who is set to compete in the Formula 2 Championship with PHM Racing by Charouz. He is also currently a Formula 1 test driver with Williams Grand Prix Eng ...

–

World Series Formula V8 3.5 The World Series Formula V8 3.5, formerly the World Series by Nissan from 1998 to 2004, the Formula Renault 3.5 Series from 2005 to 2015 and the Formula V8 3.5 in 2016 and 2017, was a motor racing series promoted by RPM Racing (1998–2004) and R ...

racing driver

Sailing

* Zefania Carmel – yachtsman, world champion (420 class) *

Gal Fridman Gal Fridman (or Friedman, he, גל פרידמן; born September 16, 1975) is an Israeli windsurfer and Israel's first Olympic gold medalist. Fridman won a Bronze Medal in the Atlanta 1996 Summer Olympics, and his gold medal in the Athens 2004 ...

– windsurfer (Olympic gold: 2004 (Israel's first gold medalist), bronze: 1996 (

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class); world champion: 2002) * Lee Korzits – windsurfer (two-time Olympian and four-time world champion) * Lydia Lazarov – yachting world champion (420 class) * Nimrod Mashiah – windsurfer; World Championship silver, ranked # 1 in world. *

Katy Spychakov Katy Spychakov ( he, קטי ספיצ'קוב; born 6 August 1999) is an Israeli windsurfer. Spychakov won the 2015 Female Under 17 Techno 293 World Championships, the 2016 RS:X Class Youth Female World Championships, and the 2019 U21 Women's RS: ...

– windsurfer; World Championship silver *

Shahar Tzuberi Shahar Tzuberi (or Zubari, he, שחר צוברי; born September 1, 1986) is an Israeli windsurfer and Olympic bronze medalist, surfing in the "Neil Pryde" RS:X discipline. He is a nephew of Gad Tsobari, the 1972 Olympic wrestler who escaped fr ...

– windsurfer, Olympic bronze ( RS:X discipline); 2009 & 2010 European Windsurf champion

Surfing

* Anat Lelior – female surfer who competed for Israel at the 2020 Olympic Games

Swimming

Vadim Alexeev Vadim Alekseyev ( he, ודים אלכסייב, russian: Вадим Алексеев ; born April 11, 1970) is a retired Olympic breaststroke swimmer who competed for first the Soviet Union, then Israel. Alexeev was born in Almaty, Kazakh SSR, ...

– swimmer, breaststroke * Adi Bichman – 400-m and 800-m freestyle, 400-m medley * Yoav Bruck – 50-m freestyle and 100-m freestyle * Anastasia Gorbenko (born 2003) – backstroke, breaststroke, and freestyle *

Eran Groumi Eran Cohen Groumi ( he, ערן (כהן) גרומי; born June 5, 1970, in Jerusalem) is a male former backstroke and butterfly swimmer from Israel. His nephew is Israeli Olympic swimmer Gal Cohen Groumi. Swimming career Groumi competed for Isra ...

– 100 and 200 m backstroke, 100-m

butterfly Butterflies are insects in the macrolepidopteran clade Rhopalocera from the Order (biology), order Lepidoptera, which also includes moths. Adult butterflies have large, often brightly coloured wings, and conspicuous, fluttering flight. The ...

* Michael "Miki" Halika – 200-m butterfly, 200- and 400-m individual medley *

Judith Haspel Judith Deutsch-Haspel (born Judith Deutsch; he, יהודית דויטש-הספל ; 18 August 1918 in Vienna – 20 November 2004 in Herzliya, Israel) was a swimming champion who held every Austrian women's middle and long distance freestyle record ...

– (born "Judith Deutsch"), of Austrian origin, held every Austrian women's middle and long distance freestyle record in 1935; refused to represent Austria in 1936 Summer Olympics along with Ruth Langer and Lucie Goldner, protesting Hitler, stating, "We do not boycott Olympia, but Berlin". * Marc Hinawi – record holder in the

Amit Ivry Amit Ivry ( he, עמית עברי; born September 2, 1989, in Eilat, Israel) is an Israeli Olympic swimmer, Maccabiah Games champion, and national record holder. She competes in the butterfly, backstroke, breaststroke, and medley. Ivry won a ...

– Maccabiah and Israeli records in Women's 100 m butterfly, Israeli record in Women's 200 m Individual Medley, bronze medal in 100 m butterfly at the European Swimming Championships. *

Dan Kutler Dan Kutler (born May 2, 1970 in Mountain View, California) is a former butterfly swimmer, who was born in the United States, and swam for Israel in the 1996 Olympics in Atlanta. He is Jewish and grew up in Santa Clara, California, competed ...

– of U.S. origin; 100-m butterfly, 4×100-m medley relay *

Keren Leibovitch Keren Or Leibovitch ( he, קרן לייבוביץ) (also Keren Or Leybovitch; born July 25, 1973) is an Israeli Paralympic swimmer. Leibovitch is a three-time world champion, a five-time European champion, a holder of three world records (for the ...

– Paralympic swimmer, 4x-gold-medal-winner, 100-m backstroke, 50- and 100-m freestyle, 200-m individual medley *

Tal Stricker Tal Stricker (born May 29, 1979) is a breaststroke swimmer from Israel, who competed for Israel at the 2000 Summer Olympics in Sydney, Australia. Early life Stricker was born in Ramat Gan, Israel, and his parents are Rafi and Nava Stricker. He a ...

– 100- and 200-m breaststroke, 4×100-m medley relay *

Eithan Urbach Eithan Urbach (born 12 January 1977 in Haifa) is a former backstroke swimmer from Israel. Urbach competed in two events in the 1996 Summer Olympics and the 2000 Summer Olympics The 2000 Summer Olympics, officially the Games of the XXVII Ol ...

– backstroke swimmer, European championship silver and bronze; 100-m backstroke

Table Tennis

Marina Kravchenko Marina Kravchenko (born May 19, 1975 in Soviet Union) is a champion Israeli table tennis player. She is Jewish. She participated in the Olympics in 2004. See also * List of select Jewish table tennis players References External links * Marin ...

– table tennis player, Soviet and Israel national teams *

Angelica Rozeanu Angelica Rozeanu (née Adelstein) (15 October 1921 – 21 February 2006) was a Romanian table tennis player of Jewish origin, the most successful female table tennis player in the history of the sport, winning the women's world singles title 6 ye ...

– (Adelstin), of Romanian origin, 17-time world table tennis champion, ITTFHoF

Taekwondo

Avishag Semberg Avishag Semberg (or Abishag Samberg, he, אבישג סמברג; born 16 September 2001) is an Israeli taekwondo athlete. She was an Olympic bronze medalist for Israel at the 2020 Summer Olympics in the women's 49 kg competition. She won Isr ...

– taekwondo female athlete (Olympic bronze: 2020)

Tennis

Noam Behr Noam Behr ( he, נועם בר; born 13 October 1975) is an Israeli professional tennis player who turned pro in 1994. His career-high singles ranking was No. 127 (October 2001), and his career-high doubles ranking was No. 109 (October 1999). T ...

Ilana Berger Ilana Berger ( he, אילנה ברגר; born 1965) is a Mexican-born Israeli professional tennis player and Olympian. Berger reached her highest individual ranking on the WTA Tour on 10 August 1992, when she became # 149 in the world. On 25 Nove ...

Gilad Bloom Gilad Bloom ( he, גלעד בלום, born 1 March 1967) is a former professional tennis player from Israel. Bloom trained at the Israel Tennis Centers. His career-high rankings were World No. 61 in singles (in 1990) and World No. 62 in doubles ( ...

Jonathan Erlich Jonathan Dario "Yoni" Erlich ( he, יונתן דאריו "יוני" ארליך, born 5 April 1977) is an Israeli former professional tennis player. During his career, he was mainly a doubles specialist, having won the men's doubles title at the ...

– 6 doubles titles, 6 doubles finals; won 2008

Australian Open The Australian Open is a tennis tournament held annually at Melbourne Park in Melbourne, Australia. The tournament is the first of the four Grand Slam tennis events held each year, preceding the French Open, Wimbledon, and the US Open. Th ...

Men's Doubles (w/Andy Ram), highest world doubles ranking # 5 *

Shlomo Glickstein Shlomo Glickstein ( he, שלמה גליקשטיין; born 6 January 1958) is an Israeli former professional tennis player. He reached his career-high singles ranking of World No. 22 in November 1982, and his career-high doubles ranking of World ...

– highest world singles ranking # 22, highest world doubles ranking # 28 *

Julia Glushko Julia Glushko (or Yulia, he, יוליה גלושקו; born 1 January 1990) is an Israeli retired tennis player. She won 11 singles and 14 doubles titles on the ITF Circuit. Her best results at a Grand Slam tournament were reaching the third ...

* Amir Hadad * Harel Levy – highest world singles ranking # 30 * Evgenia Linetskaya * Amos Mansdorf – highest world singles ranking # 18 * Tzipora Obziler * Noam Okun * Yshai Oliel * Shahar Pe'er – (3 Women's Tennis Association, WTA career titles), highest world singles ranking # 11, highest world doubles ranking # 14 * Keren Shlomo - (3 International Tennis Federation, ITF career titles) * Shahar Perkiss * Andy Ram – 6 doubles titles, 6 doubles finals, 1 mixed double title (won 2006 Wimbledon Mixed Doubles (w/Vera Zvonareva), 2007 French Open Mixed Doubles (w/Nathalie Dechy), 2008 Australian Open Men's Doubles (w/Jonathan Erlich), highest world doubles ranking # 5 * Eyal Ran * Dudi Sela – highest world singles ranking # 29 * Denis Shapovalov (born 1999) – Israeli-Canadian tennis player, born in Tel Aviv, highest world singles ranking # 29 * Anna Smashnova – (12 Women's Tennis Association, WTA career titles), highest world singles ranking # 15

Track and field

* Alex Averbukh – pole vaulter (European champion: 2002, 2006) * Ayele Seteng – long distance runner, he was the oldest track and field athlete competing at the 2004 Olympics and 2008 Olympics. * Danielle Frenkel – high jump champion * Hanna Knyazyeva-Minenko – triple jumper and long jumper; participated in 2012 Summer Olympics * Shaul Ladany – world-record-holding racewalker, Bergen-Belsen concentration camp, Bergen-Belsen survivor, Munich Massacre survivor, Professor of Industrial Engineering *Lonah Chemtai Salpeter – Kenyan-Israeli Olympic marathon runner * Esther Roth-Shachamarov – track and field, hurdler and sprinter (5 Asian Game golds)

Other

* Israel at the 1972 Summer Olympics, 1972 Olympic team – see Munich Massacre * David Mark Berger – weightlifter originally from US, Maccabiah champion (middleweight); killed in the Munich Massacre * Max Birbraer – ice hockey player drafted by National Hockey League, NHL team (New Jersey Devils) *Nili Block (born 1995) – world champion kickboxer and Muay Thai fighter * Noam Dar – Israeli-born Scottish wrestler * Oren Eizenman – ice hockey player, Israel national team; Connecticut Whale (AHL), Connecticut Whale) * Eli Elezra – professional poker player * Boris Gelfand, Emil Sutovsky, Ilya Smirin – chess Grandmasters (~2700 peak Elo rating system, Elo rating) * Baruch Hagai – wheelchair athlete (multiple paralympic golds) * Michael Kolganov – sprint canoer/kayak paddler, world champion, Olympic bronze 2000 (K-1 500-meter) * Dean Kremer (born 1996) – Israeli-American Major League Baseball pitcher * Ido Pariente – mixed martial artist * Eliezer Sherbatov (born 1991) – Israeli-Canadian ice hockey player * Chagai Zamir – Israel, 4-time Paralympic Games champion

Chefs

* Yisrael Aharoni – chef and restaurateur & reality television judge * Michal Ansky – female chef & reality television judge * Jamie Geller – American born-Israeli chef * Erez Komarovsky – first artisanal bread baker in Israel & reality television judge * Yotam Ottolenghi – Israeli-British chef * Moshik Roth – chef with 2 Michelin stars & reality television judge * Assaf Granit – chef with 1 Michelin star & reality television judge

Entertainment

Artists

* Yaacov Agam – kinetic artist * Ron Arad (industrial designer), Ron Arad – designer * Mordecai Ardon – painter * David Ascalon – sculptor and synagogue designer * Maurice Ascalon – sculptor and industrial designer * Isidor Ascheim – painter and printmaker * Mordechai Avniel – painter and sculptor * Yigal Azrouel – fashion designer * Ralph Bakshi – animation (director) * Eyal ben-Moshe (Eyal B) – animator and director * Tuvia Beeri – printmaker * Alexander Bogen – painter * Rhea Carmi – painter * Yitzhak Danziger – sculptor * Alber Elbaz – fashion designer * Ohad Elimelech – artist, director, editor, photographer, animator, lecturer, and graphic designer * Osnat Elkabir – dancer, artist and theatre direction * Gadi Fraiman - sculptor * Yitzhak Frenkel – painter * Gideon Gechtman – sculptor * Moshe Gershuni – painter * Dudu Geva – artist and comic-strip illustrator * Pinhas Golan – sculptor * Nachum Gutman – painter * Israel Hershberg – realist painter * Shimshon Holzman – painter * Leo Kahn (painter), Leo Kahn – painter * Shemuel Katz – illustrator * Uri Katzenstein – visual artist * Dani Karavan – sculptor * Joseph Kossonogi – painter * Elyasaf Kowner – video artist * Sigalit Landau – video, installation, sculpture * Alex Levac – photographer * Batia Lishansky – sculptor * Ranan Lurie – political cartoonist * Lea Nikel – painter * Zvi Malnovitzer – painter * Tamara Musakhanova – sculptor and ceramist * Mushail Mushailov – painter * Ilana Raviv – painter * Leo Roth – painter * Reuven Rubin – painter * Hagit Shahal – painter * David Tartakover – graphic designer * Anna Ticho – painter * Igael Tumarkin – sculptor * Yemima Ergas Vroman – painter, sculptor, installation artist * Sergey Zagraevsky – painter * Moshe Ziffer – sculptor

Film, TV, radio, and stage

* Avital Abergel – film and TV actress * Gila Almagor – actress * Aviv Alush – actor * Lior Ashkenazi – actor * Yvan Attal – actor and director * Mili Avital – actress * Aki Avni – actor * Orna Banai – actress * Theodore Bikel – actor * Eddie Carmel, born Oded Ha-Carmeili – actor, singer, and circus sideshow act * Jason Danino-Holt – television presenter * Ronit Elkabetz – actress * David Faitelson – Mexican television sports commentator, born in Israel * Oded Fehr – actor * Eytan Fox – director * Tal Friedman – actor and comedian * Gal Gadot – actress and model & Miss Israel 2004 * Uri Geller – TV personality, self-proclaimed psychic * Amos Gitai – director * Yasmeen Godder – choreographer and dancer * Arnon Goldfinger – director * Yael Grobglas – actress * Shira Haas – actress * Dana Ivgy – actress * Michael Karpin – broadcast journalist and author * Daphna Kastner – actress; married to actor Harvey Keitel * Juliano Mer-Khamis – actor * Hila Klein – YouTuber of h3h3productions * Amos Kollek – director and writer * Dover Kosashvili – director * Hanna Laslo – actress * Daliah Lavi – actress * Inbar Lavi – actress * Bar Paly – actress and model * Jonah Lotan – actor * Rod Lurie – director and film critic * Arnon Milchan – producer * Avi Arad – producer and founder of Marvel Studios * Samuel Maoz – director * Ohad Naharin – choreographer * Eyal Podell – actor * Orna Porat – actress * Natalie Portman – actress * Lior Raz – actor and screenwriter * Ze'ev Revach – actor and comedian * Agam Rudberg – actress and model * Avner Strauss – musician * Haim Saban – TV producer and co-founder of Saban Entertainment * Elia Suleiman – director * Alona Tal – actress * Noa Tishby – actress and producer * Chaim Topol – actor * Raviv Ullman – actor * Yaron London – journalist and television host * Keren Yedaya – director * Becky Griffin – television host and model * Rotem Sela – television host, actress, and model * Ayelet Zurer – actress * Odeya Rush – actress and model * Tomer Capone – actor

Musicians

Classical composers

* Rami Bar-Niv * Ofer Ben-Amots * Paul Ben-Haim * Avner Dorman * Dror Elimelech * Andre Hajdu * Gilad Hochman * Mark Kopytman * Matti Kovler * Betty Olivero * Shulamit Ran * Leon Schidlowsky * Noam Sheriff * Gil Shohat * Josef Tal * Yitzhak Yedid

Classical musicians

* Moshe Atzmon – conductor * Daniel Barenboim – conductor and pianist * Rami Bar-Niv – pianist and composer * Bart Berman – pianist * Gary Bertini – conductor * Natan Brand – pianist * Yefim Bronfman – pianist * Ammiel Bushakevitz – pianist * Giora Feidman – clarinetist * Ivry Gitlis – violinist * Matt Haimovitz – cellist *Alice Herz-Sommer – pianist * Ofra Harnoy – cellist * Eliahu Inbal – conductor * Sharon Kam – clarinetist * Amir Katz – pianist * Evgeny Kissin – pianist * Yoel Levi – conductor * Mischa Maisky – cellist * Shlomo Mintz – violinist * Itzhak Perlman – violinist * Inbal Segev – cellist * Gil Shaham – violinist * Hagai Shaham – violinist * Michael Shani – conductor * Edna Stern – pianist * Yoav Talmi – conductor * Arie Vardi – pianist *Maxim Vengerov - violinist, violist, and conductor * Ilana Vered – pianist * Pinchas Zukerman – violinist

Popular musicians

* Chava Alberstein – singer/songwriter * Etti Ankri – singer/songwriter * Yardena Arazi – singer and TV host * Shlomo Artzi – singer/songwriter * Ehud Banai – singer/songwriter * Abatte Barihun – jazz saxophonist and composer * Eef Barzelay – founder of Clem Snide * Netta Barzilai – singer * Miri Ben-Ari – jazz and hip hop violinist * Mosh Ben-Ari – singer/songwriter * Borgore – electronic dance music producer and DJ * Mike Brant – French-language singer * David Broza – singer/songwriter * Matti Caspi – singer, multi-instrumentalist and composer * Avishai Cohen (bassist), Avishai Cohen – jazz bassist * David D'Or – singer/songwriter * Arkadi Duchin – singer/songwriter, musical producer * Arik Einstein – singer, actor, writer * Gad Elbaz – singer * Ethnix – pop-rock band * Rita Yahan-Farouz – singer, actress * Uri Frost – rock guitarist, producer and director * Aviv Geffen – singer/songwriter * Eyal Golan – singer * Gidi Gov – singer * Dedi Graucher – Orthodox Judaism, Orthodox Jewish singer * Shlomo Gronich – singer and composer * Nadav Guedj – singer * Sarit Hadad – Mizrahi singer * Victoria Hanna – singer/songwriter * Ofra Haza – singer * Dana International – pop singer * Ishtar (singer), Ishtar – vocalist for Alabina * Rami Kleinstein – singer/songwriter, composer * Ehud Manor – songwriter and translator * Amal Murkus – singer * Infected Mushroom – musical duo * Yael Naim, Yael Naïm – solo singer/musician * Ahinoam Nini (Noa) – singer * Esther Ofarim – singer * Yehuda Poliker – singer * Ester Rada – singer * Idan Raichel – Ethiopian and Israeli music * Yoni Rechter – composer and arranger * Berry Sakharof – singer * Naomi Shemer – songwriter * Gene Simmons (real name Chaim Weitz) – lead member of Kiss (band), KISS * Hillel Slovak – original guitarist for Red Hot Chili Peppers * Pe'er Tasi – singer/songwriter * Ninet Tayeb – pop rock singer and actress * Hagit Yaso – singer * Rika Zaraï – singer * Nir Zidkyahu – drummer, briefly in Genesis (band), Genesis * Zino and Tommy – popular duo, songs in U.S. films * Eden Ben Zaken – singer * Noa Kirel – singer and actress

News anchors

* Yonit Levi * Haim Yavin * Miki Haimovich * Ya'akov Eilon * Yigal Ravid * Ya'akov Ahimeir

Poets

* Nathan Alterman * Yehuda Amichai * Sivan Beskin * Erez Biton * Leah Goldberg * Uri Zvi Greenberg * Vaan Nguyen * Dahlia Ravikovich * Naomi Shemer – songwriter and lyricist * Avraham Shlonsky * Avraham Stern * Abraham Sutzkever * Yona Wallach * Nathan Zach * Zelda Schneersohn Mishkovsky, Zelda

Writers

* Shmuel Yosef Agnon (Shmuel Yosef Halevi Czaczkes) – author, Nobel Prize in Literature (1966) * Aharon Appelfeld – Prix Médicis étranger (2004) * Yoni Ben-Menachem – journalist * Ron Ben-Yishai – journalist * Nahum Benari – author and playwright * Max Brod – author, composer and friend of Kafka * Orly Castel-Bloom – author * Yehonatan Geffen – author, poet and lyricist * David Grossman – author * Batya Gur – author * Emile Habibi – author * Amira Hass – journalist and author * Shmuel Katz (politician), Shmuel Katz – author and journalist * Etgar Keret – author * Adi Keissar – poet * Ephraim Kishon – satirist * Hanoch Levin – playwright * Julius Margolin – writer * Aharon Megged – author * Sami Michael – author * Samir Naqqash – author * Uri Orlev – author, Hans Christian Andersen Award (1996) * Amos Oz (Amos Klausner) – author and journalist, Goethe Prize (2005) * Ruchoma Shain – author * Meir Shalev – author and journalist * Zeruya Shalev – author * Moshe Shamir – author, poet * Mati Shemoelof – poet, editor and journalist * Chaim Walder – Haredi children's writer * A.B. Yehoshua – author * Benny Ziffer – author, journalist and translator

Entrepreneurs

High-tech

* Beny Alagem – founder of Packard Bell * Moshe Bar (investor), Moshe Bar – founder of XenSource, Qumranet * Safra Catz – president of Oracle Corporation, Oracle * Yossi Gross – recipient of almost 600 patents, founder of 27 medical technology companies in Israel and the Chief Technology Office officer of Rainbow Medical. * Itzik Kotler – founder and CTO of SafeBreach, Information security, Information Security Specialist * Daniel M. Lewin – founder of Akamai Technologies * Shai Reshef – educational entrepreneur, founder and president of University of the People * Bob Rosenschein – founder of GuruNet, Answers.com (Israeli-based) * Gil Schwed – founder of Check Point Software Technologies, Check Point * Zeev Suraski and Andi Gutmans – founders of Zend Technologies (developers of PHP) * Arik Vardi, Arik and Yossi Vardi, Yair Goldfinger, Sefi Vigiser and Amnon Amir – founders of Mirabilis (company), Mirabilis (developers of ICQ) * Zohar Zisapel – co-founder of the RAD Group * Iftach Ian Amit – co-founder of BeeFence, prominent Hacker (computer security), Hacker and Information security, Information Security Practitioner

Other

* Isaac Perlmutter – chairman and former CEO of Marvel Entertainment * Ted Arison, Ted, Micky Arison, Micky and Shari Arison – founder/owners of Carnival Corporation * Yossi Dina – pawnbroker * Dan Gertler – diamond tycoon * Alec Gores – Israeli-American businessman and investor. * Eli Hurvitz – head of Teva Pharmaceutical Industries, Teva Pharmaceuticals * Lev Avnerovich Leviev, Lev Leviev – diamond tycoon * Mordecai Meirowitz – inventor of the Mastermind (board game), Mastermind board game * Aviad Meitar * Dorrit Moussaieff – Israeli-British businesswoman, entrepreneur, philanthropist and the List of spouses and partners of Icelandic presidents, First Lady of Iceland * Sammy Ofer – shipping magnate * Guy Oseary – head of Maverick (company), Maverick Records, manager of Madonna (entertainer), Madonna * Guy Spier – author and investor * Beny Steinmetz – diamond tycoon * Stef Wertheimer – industrialist

Fashion models

* Neta Alchimister (female) * Moran Atias (female) * Sendi Bar (female) * Nina Brosh (female) * Chava Mond (female) * Pnina Rosenblum (female) – Knesset parliament member for Likud (2005–2006) * Orly Levy-Abekasis (female) – Knesset parliament member for Likud (2009–) & minister (2020–2021) * Noa Tishby (female) * Tami Ben-Ami (female) * Sharon Ganish (female) * Maayan Keret (female) * Michaela Bercu (female) * Esti Ginzburg (female) * Yael Shelbia (female) * Shlomit Malka (female) * Tahounia Rubel (female) * Yityish Titi Aynaw (female) – Miss Israel 2013 * Shani Hazan (female) – Miss Israel 2012 at both Miss World 2012 and Miss International 2014 * Raz Meirman (male) * Michael Lewis (model), Michael Lewis (male) * Agam Rudberg (female) * Bar Refaeli (female) * Yael Goldman (female) * Odeya Rush (female) * Gal Gadot (female) – Miss Israel 2004 * Avigail Alfatov (female) – Miss Israel, Na'art Israel (Miss Israel's runner-up) at Miss Universe 2015 * Miri Bohadana (female) – Na'art Israel (Miss Israel's runner-up)at Miss World 1995 * Anat Zamir (female) – Na'art Israel (Miss Israel's runner-up) at Miss World 1980 * Adi Himelbloy (female) * Linor Abargil (female) – Miss Israel & Miss World 1998 * Rina Mor (female) – Miss Israel & Miss Universe 1976

Military

Ilan Ramon, NASA photo portrait in orange suit

* Ron Arad (pilot), Ron Arad – MIA navigator * Gabi Ashkenazi – Ramatkal, Chief of the IDF General Staff * Yohai Ben-Nun – sixth commander of the Israeli Navy * Elihu Ben-Onn – Brigadier General, spokesman of the Israel Police * Eli Cohen – spy * Moshe Dayan – military leader * Rafael Eitan – Ramatkal, Chief of the IDF General Staff * Gadi Eizenkot – Ramatkal, Chief of the IDF General Staff * David Elazar – Ramatkal, Chief of the IDF General Staff * Giora Epstein – combat pilot, modern-day "flying ace, ace of aces" * Hoshea Friedman – brigadier general in the IDF * Uziel Gal – designer of the Uzi submachine gun * Benny Gantz – Ramatkal, Chief of the IDF General Staff * Dan Halutz – Ramatkal, Chief of the IDF General Staff * Wolfgang Lotz – spy * Peter Malkin, Tzvi Malkhin – Mossad agent, captured Adolf Eichmann *Eli Marom, former commander of the Israeli Navy * Yonatan Netanyahu – Sayeret Matkal commando, leader of Operation Entebbe * Ilan Ramon – astronaut on Space Shuttle Columbia, Columbia flight STS-107 * Gilad Shalit – kidnapped soldier held in Gaza, released in 2011 * Avraham Stern – underground military leader * Yoel Strick – general * Israel Tal – general, father of Merkava tank * Moshe Ya'alon – Ramatkal, Chief of the IDF General Staff *

– Ramatkal, Chief of the IDF General Staff

Politicians

* Golda Meir – Female Prime Minister of Israel (1969–74) * Benjamin Netanyahu – prime minister of Israel (1996–99), (2009–); right-wing Likud party chairman * Naftali Bennett – prime minister of Israel (2021–), leader of The Jewish Home party, minister of economy and minister of religious services (2013–present) * Ehud Barak – prime minister (1999–2001) * Menachem Begin – prime minister (1977–83); Nobel Peace Prize (1978) * David Ben-Gurion – first Prime Minister of Israel (1948–54, 1955–63) * Yitzhak Ben-Zvi – first elected/second president President of Israel (1952–63) * Ehud Olmert – prime minister (2006–09); former mayor of Jerusalem * Yossi Beilin – leader of the Meretz-Yachad party and peace negotiator * Geula Cohen – politician, activist and "Israel Prize" recipient * Abba Eban – diplomat and Foreign Affairs Minister of Israel (1966–74) * Yuli-Yoel Edelstein – speaker of the Knesset * Uzi Eilam – ex-director of Israel's Atomic Energy Commission * Effie Eitam – former leader of the National Religious Party, now head of the Renewed Religious National Zionist party * Levi Eshkol – prime minister (1963–69) * Chaim Herzog – former president of Israel, first and only Irish-born Israeli President * Moshe Katsav – president (2000–07), and convicted rapist * Teddy Kollek – former mayor of Jerusalem * Yair Lapid – leader of the Yesh Atid party, minister of finance (2013–March 2015) & minister of foreign affairs * Yosef Lapid – former leader of the Shinui party * Amir Ohana – first openly gay right-wing (Likud) member of the Knesset & former minister of justice * Shimon Peres – President of Israel (2007–2014); prime minister (1984–86, 1995–96); Nobel Peace Prize (1994) * Yitzhak Rabin – prime minister (1974–77, 1992–95); Nobel Peace Prize (1994) (assassinated November 1995) * Reuven Rivlin – President of Israel * Ayelet Shaked – Knesset parliament right-wing member (2013–) & minister (2015–) * Yitzhak Shamir – prime minister (1983–84, 1986–92) * Yisrael Yeshayahu Sharabi – former speaker of the Knesset * Moshe Sharett – prime minister (1954–55) * Ariel Sharon – prime minister (2001–06) *

– first President of Israel (1949–52) * Ovadia Yosef – spiritual leader of the Shas party * Rehavam Zeevi – founder of the Moledet party, Knesset parliament member & minister (assassinated by Palestinians in October 2001) * Meirav Cohen – minister for social equality & Knesset parliament member (2019–)

Criminals

* Yigal Amir – assassin of left-wing prime minister Yitzhak Rabin * Baruch Goldstein – murderer * Ami Popper – murderer * Eden-Nathan Zada – murderer

Religious figures

Haredi Rabbis

* Yaakov Aryeh Alter Ger (Hasidic dynasty), Gerrer – Rebbe * Shlomo Zalman Auerbach * Yaakov Blau * Yisroel Moshe Dushinsky – Chief Rabbi of Jerusalem (Edah HaChareidis) * Yosef Tzvi Dushinsky (first Dushinsky rebbe), Yosef Tzvi Dushinsky – Chief Rabbi of Jerusalem (Edah HaChareidis) * Yosef Sholom Eliashiv * Mordechai Eliyahu – Sephardi Chief Rabbi of Israel 1983–93, (1929–2010) * Chaim Kanievsky * Avraham Yeshayeh Karelitz, ''Chazon Ish'' – (1878–1953) * Nissim Karelitz – Head Justice of Rabbinical Court of Bnei Brak * Meir Kessler – Chief Rabbi of Modi'in Illit * Zundel Kroizer – author of ''Ohr Hachamah'' * Dov Landau – ''rosh yeshiva'' of Slabodka yeshiva of Bnei Brak * Yissachar Dov Rokeach (fifth Belzer rebbe), Yissachar Dov Rokeach – the fifth Belz (Hasidic dynasty), Belzer rebbe * Yitzchok Scheiner – ''rosh yeshiva'' of Kamenitz yeshiva of Jerusalem * Elazar Menachem Shach, ''Rav Shach'' – (1899–2001) * Moshe Shmuel Shapira – ''rosh yeshiva'' of Beer Yaakov * Dovid Shmidel – Chairman of Asra Kadisha * Yosef Chaim Sonnenfeld – Chief Rabbi of Jerusalem (Edah HaChareidis) * Yitzchok Tuvia Weiss – Chief Rabbi of Jerusalem (Edah HaChareidis) * Amram Zaks – ''rosh yeshiva'' of the Slabodka yeshiva of Bnei Brak * Ovadia Yosef

Reform Rabbis

*Gilad Kariv

Religious-Zionist Rabbis

* Shlomo Amar – Sephardic Chief Rabbi of Israel * David Hartman (rabbi), David Hartman * Avraham Yitzchak Kook – pre-state Ashkenazic Chief Rabbi of the Land of Israel,Even though the State of Israel did not yet exist at the time of his death, he is commonly referred to as the first Ashkenazic Chief Rabbi of the State of Israel. (1865–1935) * Israel Meir Lau – Ashkenazic Chief Rabbi of Israel (1993–2003), Chief Rabbi of Netanya (1978–88), (1937–) * Aharon Lichtenstein * Yona Metzger – Ashkenazic Chief Rabbi of Israel * Shlomo Riskin – Ashkenazic Chief Rabbi of Efrat

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