Presidents of the Israel Academy of Sciences and Humanities

Israel Academy of Sciences and Humanities, based in

Jerusalem Jerusalem (; he, יְרוּשָׁלַיִם ; ar, القُدس ) (combining the Biblical and common usage Arabic names); grc, Ἱερουσαλήμ/Ἰεροσόλυμα, Hierousalḗm/Hierosóluma; hy, Երուսաղեմ, Erusałēm. i ...

, was established in 1961 by 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 ...

to foster contact between Israeli scholars in the

science Science is a systematic endeavor that builds and organizes knowledge in the form of testable explanations and predictions about the universe. Science may be as old as the human species, and some of the earliest archeological evidence ...

s and

humanities Humanities are academic disciplines that study aspects of human society and culture. In the Renaissance, the term contrasted with divinity and referred to what is now called classics, the main area of secular study in universities at t ...

and create a think tank for advising the government on research projects of national importance. Its members include many of Israel's most distinguished scholars. The offices of the Israel Academy of Sciences and Humanities are located next door to the official residence of the

President of Israel The president of the State of Israel ( he, נְשִׂיא מְדִינַת יִשְׂרָאֵל, Nesi Medinat Yisra'el, or he, נְשִׂיא הַמְדִינָה, Nesi HaMedina, President of the State) is the head of state of Israel. The po ...

and the

Council for Higher Education in Israel The Council for Higher Education in Israel ( he, המועצה להשכלה גבוהה, ''HaMo'atza LeHaskala Gevoha'') is a supervisory body for universities and colleges in Israel. It is the only organization with the authority to award academic ...

in Albert Einstein Square in

. In the sciences, the Academy funds projects on the

geology Geology () is a branch of natural science concerned with Earth and other Astronomical object, astronomical objects, the features or rock (geology), rocks of which it is composed, and the processes by which they change over time. Modern geology ...

flora Flora is all the plant life present in a particular region or time, generally the naturally occurring ( indigenous) native plants. Sometimes bacteria and fungi are also referred to as flora, as in the terms '' gut flora'' or '' skin flora''. ...

, and

fauna Fauna is all of the animal life present in a particular region or time. The corresponding term for plants is '' flora'', and for fungi, it is '' funga''. Flora, fauna, funga and other forms of life are collectively referred to as '' biota''. ...

of Israel, and facilitates the participation of Israeli scientists in research at international projects, such as high-energy physics at

CERN The European Organization for Nuclear Research, known as CERN (; ; ), is an intergovernmental organization that operates the largest particle physics laboratory in the world. Established in 1954, it is based in a northwestern suburb of Gen ...

and

synchrotron A synchrotron is a particular type of cyclic particle accelerator, descended from the cyclotron, in which the accelerating particle beam travels around a fixed closed-loop path. The magnetic field which bends the particle beam into its closed ...

radiation at the European Synchrotron Radiation Facility."Israel Academy of Sciences and Humanities Israel Ministry of Foreign Affairs, May 24, 1999
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The Jerusalem Post ''The Jerusalem Post'' is a broadsheet newspaper based in Jerusalem, founded in 1932 during the British Mandate of Palestine by Gershon Agron as ''The Palestine Post''. In 1950, it changed its name to ''The Jerusalem Post''. In 2004, the pap ...

'', 12 may 2007 The academy funds a number of prestigious awards in the sciences including the

Alon Prize Alon or ALON may refer to: * Alon (name), an Israeli given name and surname * Alon, Mateh Binyamin, an Israeli settlement in the West Bank * Alon Inc, an American airplane builder, known for the Alon A-4 * Alon USA, an American energy company * ...

. In the humanities, research is funded into the study of the

Tanakh The Hebrew Bible or Tanakh (;"Tanach"
'' Talmud The Talmud (; he, , Talmūḏ) is the central text of Rabbinic Judaism and the primary source of Jewish religious law ('' halakha'') and Jewish theology. Until the advent of modernity, in nearly all Jewish communities, the Talmud was the ce ...

Jewish history Jewish history is the history of the Jews, and their nation, religion, and culture, as it developed and interacted with other peoples, religions, and cultures. Although Judaism as a religion first appears in Greek records during the Hellenisti ...

Jewish philosophy Jewish philosophy () includes all philosophy carried out by Jews, or in relation to the religion of Judaism. Until modern '' Haskalah'' (Jewish Enlightenment) and Jewish emancipation, Jewish philosophy was preoccupied with attempts to reconcil ...

, Jewish art, and the

Hebrew language Hebrew (; ; ) is a Northwest Semitic language of the Afroasiatic language family. Historically, it is one of the spoken languages of the Israelites and their longest-surviving descendants, the Jews and Samaritans. It was largely preserve ...

, as well as Hebrew prose and

poetry Poetry (derived from the Greek '' poiesis'', "making"), also called verse, is a form of literature that uses aesthetic and often rhythmic qualities of language − such as phonaesthetics, sound symbolism, and metre − to evoke meani ...

. The Academy administers the

Einstein Albert Einstein ( ; ; 14 March 1879 – 18 April 1955) was a German-born Theoretical physics, theoretical physicist, widely acknowledged to be one of the greatest and most influential physicists of all time. Einstein is best known for d ...

Fellowships fund, which fosters relations between scientists from around the world and the Israeli academic community, the Israel Science Fund, with an annual budget of $53 million, and a number of research funds based on grants from the Adler Fund for Space Research, the

Wolf Foundation The Wolf Foundation is a private not-for-profit organization in Israel established in 1975 by Ricardo Wolf, a German-born Jewish Cuban inventor and former Cuban ambassador to Israel. Ricardo Wolf Ricardo Wolf, the founder of the Wolf Foundat ...

, and the Fulks Fund for Medical Research. The Academy also runs the Israel Academic Center in

Cairo Cairo ( ; ar, القاهرة, al-Qāhirah, ) is the capital of Egypt and its largest city, home to 10 million people. It is also part of the largest urban agglomeration in Africa, the Arab world and the Middle East: The Greater Cairo metr ...

, which assists Israeli scholars with research into

Egypt Egypt ( ar, مصر , ), officially the Arab Republic of Egypt, is a List of transcontinental countries, transcontinental country spanning the North Africa, northeast corner of Africa and Western Asia, southwest corner of Asia via a land bridg ...

and Egyptian culture, and facilitates cooperation with Egyptian academics. The Academy has observer status at the

European Science Foundation The European Science Foundation (ESF) is an association of 11 member organizations devoted to scientific research in 8 European countries. ESF is an independent, non-governmental, non-profit organisation that promotes the highest quality science ...

, and runs exchange programs with the British

Royal Society The Royal Society, formally The Royal Society of London for Improving Natural Knowledge, is a learned society and the United Kingdom's national academy of sciences. The society fulfils a number of roles: promoting science and its benefits, re ...

, the

British Academy The British Academy is the United Kingdom's national academy for the humanities and the social sciences. It was established in 1902 and received its royal charter in the same year. It is now a fellowship of more than 1,000 leading scholars s ...

, the

Swedish Academy The Swedish Academy ( sv, Svenska Akademien), founded in 1786 by King Gustav III, is one of the Royal Academies of Sweden. Its 18 members, who are elected for life, comprise the highest Swedish language authority. Outside Scandinavia, it is bes ...

, and the National Research Council of

Singapore Singapore (), officially the Republic of Singapore, is a sovereign island country and city-state in maritime Southeast Asia. It lies about one degree of latitude () north of the equator, off the southern tip of the Malay Peninsula, bor ...

Members

Present (partial)

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* Shraga Abramson, Talmud *

Shaul Adler Shaul is a given name and a surname which may refer to: Given name: * Shaul (Hebrew שָׁאוּל Šāʼûl "asked for, prayed for") the first king of Kingdom of Israel * Shaul, a son of Simeon (son of Jacob) in ''Genesis'' * Shaul Amor (1940-20 ...

, Parasitology *

Shmuel Agmon Shmuel Agmon ( he, שמואל אגמון; born 2 February 1922) is an Israeli mathematician. He is known for his work in analysis and partial differential equations. Biography Shmuel Agmon was born in Tel Aviv to writer Nathan Agmon and Chaya G ...

, Mathematics * Yakir Aharonov, Physics *

Shlomo Alexander Shlomo (, Polish: Szlomo, Szlama, Szlamek, Szloma), meaning "peaceable", is a common Hebrew male given name. The following individuals are often referred to only by the name Shlomo: * Solomon, king of ancient Israel, according to various religiou ...

, Physics * Noga Alon, Mathematics *

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 Insti ...

, Immunology * Shlomo Avineri, Political science * Robert Aumann, Mathematics, Nobel Prize (2005) in Economics *

David Ayalon David Ayalon (1914 – 25 June 1998) was an Israeli historian of Islam and the Middle East, specializing in the Mamluk dynasties of Egypt. Within Israel he was best known for the Arabic-Hebrew dictionary he co-compiled in 1947. Life Born David ...

, History of Muslim People * Aharon Barak, Law * Yehuda Bauer, Holocaust Studies * Malachi Beit-Arie, Palaeography * Zeev Ben-Hayyim, Hebrew Studies *

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 Un ...

, Mathematics * Yehudith Birk, Agricultural Biochemistry *

Joshua Blau Yehoshua Blau, also spelled Joshua ( he, יהושע בלאו, vertical-align=sup; 22 September 1919 – 20 October 2020) was an Israeli scholar of Arabic language and literature, previously Professor Emeritus at the Hebrew University of Jerusal ...

, Arabic Language and Literature * Haim (Howard) Cedar, Biochemistry, Molecular Cell Biology, Molecular Genetics * Ilan Chet, Agricultural Biotechnology * Aaron Ciechanover, Biochemistry, Nobel Prize (2004) in Chemistry * Nili Cohen, Law * Solly Cohen, Experimental Physics *

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 New ...

, Neurobiology * Itzhak Englard, Law * Michael Feldman, Molecular Cell Biology *

Margalit Finkelberg Margalit Finkelberg (née Karpyuk; born 1947) () is an Israeli historian and linguist. She is the professor emerita of Classics at Tel Aviv University. She became a member of the Israel Academy of Sciences and Humanities in 2005 and served as pr ...

, Classical Philology *

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 ...

, Archaeology * Yohanan Friedmann, Islamic Studies *

Daniel Friedmann Daniel Friedmann ( he, דניאל פרידמן, born 17 April 1936) is a former professor at and dean of the Tel Aviv University Faculty of Law. He served as the Minister of Justice of Israel from 2007 to 2009, having been appointed by then-Prime ...

, Law *

Mordechai Akiva Friedman Mordecai (; also Mordechai; , IPA: ) is one of the main personalities in the Book of Esther in the Hebrew Bible. He is described as being the son of Jair, of the tribe of Benjamin. He was promoted to Vizier after Haman was killed. Biblical acco ...

, Talmud * Dov Frohman, Applied physics * Hillel Furstenberg, Mathematics * Gideaon Goldenberg, Linguistics and Semitic Languages * Amiram Grinvald, Neurobiology * Yoram Groner, Molecular biology * Abraham Grossman, Jewish Studies * Don Handelman, Anthropology, Sociology * Menahem Haran, Bible * Haim Harari, Natural sciences *

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, ...

, Natural Sciences * Ehud Hrushovski, Mathematics * Elhanan Helpman, Economics * Avram Hershko, Biochemistry, medicine, Nobel Prize (2005) in Chemistry *

Yoseph Imry Yoseph Imry (Hebrew: יוסף אמרי; born 23 February 1939 – 29 May 2018) was an Israeli physicist. He was best known for taking part in the foundation of mesoscopic physics, a relatively new branch of condensed matter physics. It is conc ...

, Physics * Benjamin Isaac, History * Joshua Jortner, Chemistry *

Yosef Kaplan Yosef (; also transliterated as Yossef, Josef, Yoseph Tiberian Hebrew and Aramaic ''Yôsēp̄'') is a Hebrew male name derived from the Biblical character Joseph. The name can also consist of the Hebrew yadah meaning "praise", "fame" and the word ...

, Jewish Studies, History *

Benjamin Kedar Benjamin Ze'ev Kedar (born 2 September 1938)Who's Who in Israel 2001 (Tel Aviv, 2002), p. 214: "KEDAR, Benjamin Z. is professor emeritus of History at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. He was president of the international Society for the Stu ...

, History * Eitan Kohlberg, Asian and African Studies * Asher Koriat, Psychology * Raphael Levine, Chemistry * Alexander Levitzki, Biological chemistry * Alexander Lubotzky, Mathematics * Raphael Mechoulam, Chemistry * David Milstein, Chemistry *

David Navon David (; , "beloved one") (traditional spelling), , ''Dāwūd''; grc-koi, Δαυΐδ, Dauíd; la, Davidus, David; gez , ዳዊት, ''Dawit''; xcl, Դաւիթ, ''Dawitʿ''; cu, Давíдъ, ''Davidŭ''; possibly meaning "beloved one". w ...

, Psychology * Ruth Nevo, English Literature * Abraham Nitzan, Chemistry * Ariel Porat, Law * Michael O. Rabin, Mathematics * Ariel Rubinstein, Economics * Leo Sachs, Biology *

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 Reh ...

, Immunology * Uri Seligson, Hematology * Shaul Shaked, Iranian Studies, Religious Studies * Adi Shamir, Applied mathematics * Dan Shechtman, Materials Engineering *

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, ...

, Mathematics * Uri Sivan, * Yechezkel Stein, Medicine * Izchak Steinberg, Physical Chemistry * Zehev Tadmor, Chemical Engineering polymers *

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 a ...

, Particle Physics * Daniel Weihs, * Meir Wilchek, Biophysics *

Itamar Wilner Itamar ( he, אִיתָמָר) is an Israeli settlement located in the West Bank's Samarian mountains, five kilometers southeast of the Palestinian city of Nablus. The settlement was built on land confiscated from the Palestinian villages of A ...

, Chemistry * Menahem Yaari, Economy * Ada Yonath, Structural Biology, Nobel Prize (2009) in Chemistry *

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 ...

, Electrical Engineering *

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 ...

, Electrical Engineering

Past (partial)

Hanoch Albeck Hanoch Albeck (Hebrew: חנוך אלבק) (August 7, 1890 - January 9, 1972) was a professor of Talmud at the Hebrew University in Jerusalem, Israel. He was a foremost scholar of the Mishna and one of the pioneers of the scientific approach to Mis ...

, Talmud *

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 ...

, Mathematics *

David Asheri David Asheri (1 November 1925, Florence - 3 February 2000, Jerusalem), born David Bonaventura, was an Italian-Israeli historian. Asheri is regarded as "one of the most distinguished scholars of ancient Greece". He is perhaps best known for his ...

, Classical Studies *

Haim Beinart Haim Beinart (1917–2010) was an Israeli historian and academic administrator. Originally from Russia, he was a professor of history at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. He served as the dean of humanities at the Ben-Gurion University of the Ne ...

, Jewish Studies * Jacob Bekenstein, Physics * Zvi Ben-Avraham, Geophysics * Michael Confino, Russian and Eastern-European History *

Hillel Daleski Hillel ( he, links=no, הלל, lit=praise) is a Jewish masculine given name and a surname. It may refer to: Given name * Hillel the Elder (110 BC–10 AD), Babylonian sage, scholar, and Jewish leader * Hillel, son of Gamaliel III (3rd century), ...

, English Literature *

Amos de-Shalit Amos de-Shalit ( he, עמוס דה-שליט; September 29, 1926 – September 2, 1969

, Physics * Ben-Zion Dinur, Jewish Studies * Israel Dostrovsky, Physical Chemistry *

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 wo ...

, Mathematics *

Shmuel Eisenstadt Shmuel Noah Eisenstadt (Hebrew: שמואל נח אייזנשטדט‎ 10 September 1923, Warsaw – 2 September 2010, Jerusalem) was an Israeli sociologist and writer. In 1959 he was appointed to a teaching post in the sociology department ...

, Sociology * Ezra Fleisher, Hebrew Literature * David Flusser, Religious Studies * Abraham Fraenkel, Mathematics * Tedeschi Gaido, Civil Justice * David Ginsburg, Chemistry * Jonas Greenfield, Linguistics and Semitic Languages * Louis Guttman, Sociology * Georg Haas, Zoology * Aaron Katzir, 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 ...

, Biophysics *

Yehezkel Kaufman Yehezkel Kaufmann (Hebrew: יחזקאל קויפמן; also: Yeḥezqêl Qâufman; Yeḥezḳel Ḳoyfman; Jehezqël Kaufmann) (1889 – 9 October 1963) was an Israeli philosopher and Biblical scholar associated with the Hebrew University. His ma ...

, Bible * Abraham Kogan, Aeronautics * Dorothea Krook-Gilead, American Literature, English Literature *

Jacob Licht Jacob Fox (born Jacob Licht in 1984) is an American mathematician. He is a professor at Stanford University. His research interests are in Hungarian-style combinatorics, particularly Ramsey theory, extremal graph theory, combinatorial number th ...

, Bible * Saul Lieberman, Talmud * Schneior Lifson, Physical Chemistry * Yoram Lindenstrauss, Mathematics * Hans Lindner, Physiology * Zvi Lipkin, Physics *

Benjamin Mazar Benjamin Mazar ( he, בנימין מזר; born Binyamin Zeev Maisler, June 28, 1906 – September 9, 1995) was a pioneering Israeli historian, recognized as the "dean" of biblical archaeologists. He shared the national passion for the archaeology ...

, Archeology, Jewish Studies *

Isaac Michaelson Isaac Claude Michaelson ( he, יצחק קלוד מייכלסון, 1903–1982) was an Israeli ophthalmologist and member of the Israel Academy of Sciences and Humanities. Biography Michaelson was born in 1903 in Edinburgh, Scotland, United Kingdo ...

, Ophthalmology * Shlomo Morag, Hebrew Language * Yosef Naveh, Epigraphy, Palaeography *

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 ...

, Astrophysics, physics * Henry Neufeld, Cardiology * Franz Ollendorff, Electronics, Electrical Research * Don Patinkin, Economics * Haim Pekeris, Applied Mathematics *

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 ...

, Mathematics *

Yehuda Picard Judah or Yehuda is the name of a biblical patriarch, Judah (son of Jacob). It may also refer to: Historical ethnic, political and geographic terms * Tribe of Judah, one of the twelve Tribes of Israel; their allotment corresponds to Judah or Jud ...

, Geology *

Shlomo Pines Shlomo Pines (; ; August 5, 1908 in Charenton-le-Pont – January 9, 1990 in Jerusalem) was an Israeli scholar of Jewish and Islamic philosophy, best known for his English translation of Maimonides' ''Guide of the Perplexed''. Biography Pines ...

, Philosophy *

Amir Pnueli Amir Pnueli ( he, אמיר פנואלי; April 22, 1941 – November 2, 2009) was an Israeli computer scientist and the 1996 Turing Award recipient. Biography Pnueli was born in Nahalal, in the British Mandate of Palestine (now in Israel) and re ...

, Applied mathematics *

Hans Jakob Polotsky Hans Jakob Polotsky ( he, הנס יעקב פולוצקי; also Hans Jacob Polotsky, Hans Jakob Polotzky; 13 September 1905 – 10 August 1991) was an Israeli orientalist, linguist, and professor of Semitic languages and Egyptology at the Hebrew U ...

, Linguistics * Joshua Prawer, History * Gulio Racah, Physics * Markus Reiner, Theoretical and Applied Mechanics (deceased 1976) * Haiim B. Rosén, Linguistics *

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 ...

, Physics * Nathan Rosenstreich, Philosophy * Dov Sadan, Yiddish Language and Literature * Jefim Schirmann, Hebrew Literature *

Gershon 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 Mysticis ...

, Jewish Mysticism * Moshe Segal, Bible *

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 la ...

, Hebrew Literature * Nathan Sharon, Molecular Biology * Ariel Shisha-Halevy, Linguistics *

Chone Shmeruk Chone may refer to: *Casabona, Italy, previously the Ancient Greek city of Chone, Magna Graecia *Chone, Ecuador, an Ecuadorian city located in the Manabí Province * Chone Canton, Ecuador, whose capital is Chone *Chone Figgins Desmond DeChone Figg ...

, Yiddish Literature * Shmuel Shtrikman, Applied Physics *

Menahem Stern Menahem Stern ( he, מנחם שטרן; March 5, 1925 – June 22, 1989) was an internationally acclaimed Israelis, Israeli historian of the Second Temple period. He was murdered in Jerusalem by Palestinians during the First Intifada. Biography Me ...

, Jewish Studies * Hayim Tadmor, Assyriology, History of the Ancient Near East * Jacob Talmon, Modern History * Yoram Tsafrir, Archeology *

Naftali Herz Tur-Sinai Naftali Herz Tur-Sinai ( he, נפתלי הרץ טור-סיני; born 13 November 1886 – 17 October 1973) was a Bible scholar, author, and linguist instrumental in the revival of the Hebrew language as a modern, spoken language. Tur-Sinai was the ...

, Hebrew Language *

Efraim Urbach Ephraim Urbach (Hebrew: אפרים אלימלך אורבך) (born 1912 – 3 July 1991) was a distinguished scholar of Judaism. He is best known for his landmark works on rabbinic thought, ''The Sages'', and for research on the Tosafot. He was a ca ...

, Talmud * Haim Werthheimer, Pathologic Physiology *

Chaim Wirzubski The name ''Haim'' can be a first name or surname originating in the Hebrew language, or deriving from the Old German name ''Haimo''. Hebrew etymology Chayyim ( he, חַיִּים ', Classical Hebrew: , Israeli Hebrew: ), also transcribed ''Haim ...

, Classical Studies *

Israel Yeivin Israel Yeivin (Hebrew: ישראל ייבין) (born January 7, 1923 in Berlin – died December 19, 2008) was an Israeli linguist, scholar of Masorah and the Hebrew language. Biography Israel Yeivin was born in Berlin. His family immigrated to ...

, Hebrew Language * Michael Zohary, Natural Sciences Botany * Bernhard Zondek, Natural Sciences Obstetrics

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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 ...