This is a list of prominent Israelis (including Arab citizens of Israel). Arab citizens of Israel, Arabs of Israel or Arab population of Israel are terms used by Israeli authorities and Israeli Hebrew-speaking media to refer to non-Jewish Arabs who are citizens of the State of Israel. ...

Historical figures

State of Israel  Geography Land of Israel · Districts · Cities Transport · Mediterranean · Red Sea Judea and Samaria · Sea of Galilee Jerusalem · Tel Aviv · Haifa Image File history File links COA_of_Israel. ... Anthem: Hatikvah (The Hope) Capital  Jerusalem Largest city Jerusalem Official languages Hebrew, Arabic Government Parliamentary democracy  - President Moshe Katsav1  - Prime Minister Ehud Olmert  - Knesset Speaker Dalia Itzik Independence from the League of Nations mandate administered by the United Kingdom   - Declaration 14 May 1948 (05 Iyar 5708)  Area  - Total 20,770... Image File history File links Flag_of_Israel. ... Kingdom of Israel: Early ancient historical Israel — land in pink is the approximate area under direct central royal administration during the United Monarchy. ... Map of the districts of Israel There are six main administrative districts of Israel, known in Hebrew as mehozot (מחוזות; singular: mahoz) and fifteen sub-districts known as nafot (נפות; singular: nafa). ... Cities in Israel, by district: // Northern District See also North District, Israel. ... The Mediterranean Sea is an intercontinental sea positioned between Europe to the north, Africa to the south and Asia to the east, covering an approximate area of 2. ... Location of the Red Sea The Red Sea is an inlet of the Indian Ocean between Africa and Asia. ... It has been suggested that this article or section be merged into West Bank. ... The Sea of Galilee is Israels largest freshwater lake. ... For other uses, see Jerusalem (disambiguation). ... Tel-Aviv was founded on empty dunes north of the existing city of Jaffa. ... Hebrew חֵיפָה Arabic حَيْفَا Founded in 3rd century CE Government City District Haifa Population 267,000 1,039,000 (metropolitan area) Jurisdiction 63,666 dunams (63. ... History Jewish history · Timeline · Zionism · Aliyah Herzl · Balfour · British Mandate 1947 UN Plan · Independence · Austerity This article or section does not adequately cite its references or sources. ... This article does not cite any references or sources. ... This is a timeline of the development of Judaism and the Jewish people. ... Zionism is a political movement that supports a homeland for the Jewish people in the Land of Israel, where Jewish nationhood is thought to have evolved somewhere between 1200 BCE and late Second Temple times,[1][2] and where Jewish kingdoms existed up to the 2nd century CE. Zionism is... This article does not cite any references or sources. ... Theodor Herzl, in his middle age. ... Arthur James Balfour. ... Flag The approximate borders of the British Mandate circa 1922. ... On 29 November 1947 the United Nations Partition Plan for Palestine or United Nations General Assembly Resolution 181, a plan to resolve the Arab-Israeli conflict in the British Mandate of Palestine, was approved by the United Nations General Assembly. ... Main article: History of Israel Austerity in Israel: From 1949 to 1959, the state of Israel was, to a varying extent, under a regime of austerity (צנע tsena), during which rationing and similar measures were enforced. ... Arab-Israeli conflict · History 1948 War · 1949 Armistice Jewish exodus · Suez War · Six-Day War Attrition War · Yom Kippur War 1982 Lebanon War · 2006 Lebanon War Peace proposals · Treaties with Egypt, Jordan Combatants Arab nations Israel Arab-Israeli conflict series History of the Arab-Israeli conflict Views of the Arab-Israeli conflict International law and the Arab-Israeli conflict Arab-Israeli conflict facts, figures, and statistics Participants Israeli-Palestinian conflict · Israel-Lebanon conflict · Arab League · Soviet Union / Russia · Israel and the United... The Arab-Israeli conflict is a modern phenomenon, which dates back to the end of the 19th century. ... Combatants  Israel, Foreign Volunteers Egypt, Syria, Transjordan,  Lebanon, Iraq, Saudi Arabia, Yemen, Holy War Army, Arab Liberation Army Commanders Yaakov Dori, Yigael Yadin John Bagot Glubb, Abd al-Qadir al-Husayni, Hasan Salama, Fawzi Al-Qawuqji, Ahmed Ali al-Mwawi Strength  Israel: 29,677 initially rising to 115,000 by... The 1949 Armistice Agreements are a set of agreements signed during 1949 between Israel and its neighbors Egypt, Jordan, Lebanon and Syria. ... This article needs additional references or sources for verification. ... Combatants Israel United Kingdom France Egypt Commanders Moshe Dayan Charles Keightley Pierre Barjot Gamal Abdel Nasser Abdel Hakim Amer Strength 175,000 Israeli 45,000 British 34,000 French 70,000 Casualties 197 Israeli KIA 56 British KIA 91 British WIA 10 French KIA 43 French WIA 650 KIA 2... Combatants Israel Egypt Syria Jordan Iraq Saudi Arabia Commanders Yitzhak Rabin, Moshe Dayan, Uzi Narkiss, Israel Tal, Mordechai Hod, Ariel Sharon Abdel Hakim Amer, Abdul Munim Riad, Zaid ibn Shaker, Hafez al-Assad Strength 264,000 (incl. ... Combatants Israel Egypt Soviet Union Strength unknown Egyptian: unknown Soviet advisors: 10,700–12,300 Casualties 594 soldiers and >127 civilians killed 2,000 soldiers and 700 civilians wounded[1][2] 15–16 aircraft lost[3] 10,000 Egyptian soldiers and civilians killed¹ 3 Soviet pilots killed 101–113 aircraft... Combatants  Israel  Egypt,  Syria,  Jordan  Iraq Commanders Moshe Dayan, David Elazar, Ariel Sharon, Shmuel Gonen, Benjamin Peled, Israel Tal, Rehavam Zeevi, Aharon Yariv, Yitzhak Hofi, Rafael Eitan, Abraham Adan, Yanush Ben Gal Saad El Shazly, Ahmad Ismail Ali, Hosni Mubarak, Mohammed Aly Fahmy, Anwar Sadat, Abdel Ghani el-Gammasy, Abdul... Combatants Israel South Lebanon Army LF (nominally neutral) PLO Syria Amal LCP Commanders Menachem Begin (Prime Minister) Ariel Sharon, (Ministry of Defence) Rafael Eitan, (CoS) Yasser Arafat Strength 76,000 37,000 Casualties 670 17,825 The 1982 Lebanon War (Hebrew: , Milkhemet Levanon), (Arabic: ), called by Israel the Operation Peace... Combatants Hezbollah Amal[1] LCP[2] PFLP-GC[3]  Israel Commanders Hassan Nasrallah Imad Mughniyeh[4] Dan Halutz Moshe Kaplinsky[11] Udi Adam Strength 600-1,000 active fighters 3,000-10,000 reservists[5] Up to 10,000 ground troops. ... Geneva Accord October 20, 2003 Road Map for Peace April 30, 2003 The Peoples Voice July 27, 2002 Elon Peace Plan 2002 ... Israeli-Palestinian conflict  · History Timeline · Peace process · Peace camp First Intifada · Oslo · Second Intifada Barrier · Disengagement  · Israeli Apartheid  · Israel, with the West Bank, Gaza Strip and Golan Heights The Israeli-Palestinian conflict, which is often claimed to be at the heart of the Arab-Israeli conflict, is an ongoing dispute between two peoples, Jewish Israelis and Arab Palestinians, who both claim the right to sovereignty over the Land... // The article discusses the history of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict from the turn of the twentieth century to the present day, disregarding the prior history of Jews and Arabs in the area. ... This is an incomplete timeline of notable events in the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. ... The UN Partition Plan Map of the State of Israel today The Peace process in the Israeli-Palestinian conflict has taken shape over the years, despite the ongoing violence in the Middle East. ... The Israeli peace camp is a collection of political and non-political movements which desire to promote peace, mainly with the Arab neighbours of Israel (the Palestinians, Syria and Lebanon) and encourage co-existence with the Arab citizens of Israel. ... The First Intifada, or Palestinian uprising refers to a series of violent incidents between Palestinians and Israelis between 1987 and approximately 1990. ... Yitzhak Rabin, Bill Clinton, and Yasser Arafat during the Oslo Accords on September 13, 1993. ... For other uses, see al-Aqsa (disambiguation). ... The barrier route as of July 2006. ... Israels unilateral disengagement plan (Hebrew: תוכנית ההתנתקות Tokhnit HaHitnatkut or תכנית ההינתקות Tokhnit HaHinatkut in the Disengagement Plan Implementation Law), also known as the Disengagement plan, Gaza Pull-Out plan, and Hitnatkut) was a proposal by Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon, adopted by the government and enacted in August 2005, to remove all... It has been suggested that one solution has to be found for a series of articles including this article. ... Economy Science and technology · Companies Tourism · Wine · Diamonds · Agriculture Military industry · Aerospace industry This article does not cite its references or sources. ... This list is incomplete; you can help by expanding it. ... Tourism in Israel includes a rich variety of historical and religious sites in the Holy Land, as well as modern beach resorts, archaeological tourism, heritage tourism and ecotourism. ... The Israeli wine industry is known for its vibrancy, with wineries numbering in the hundreds and ranging in size from small boutique enterprises making a few thousand bottles per year to the largest producing over ten million bottles per year. ... The Israeli Diamond industry is a world leader in producing cut diamonds for wholesale. ... IMI logo Israel Military Industries Ltd. ... IAI new logo The Avocet ProJet with IAI Logo Israel Aerospace Industries (Hebrew: התעשייה האווירית לישראל) or IAI (תעא) is Israels prime aerospace and aviation manufacturer, producing aerial systems for both military and civilian usage. ... Demographics · Culture Religion · Israeli Arabs · Kibbutz Music · Archaeology · Universities Hebrew · Literature · Sport · Israelis This article discusses the demographics of Israel. ... This article does not cite any references or sources. ... Arab citizens of Israel, Arabs of Israel or Arab population of Israel are terms used by Israeli authorities and Israeli Hebrew-speaking media to refer to non-Jewish Arabs who are citizens of the State of Israel. ... Kibbutz Dan, near Qiryat Shemona, in the Upper Galilee, 1990s A kibbutz (Hebrew: ; plural: kibbutzim: קיבוצים; gathering or together) is an Israeli collective intentional community. ... Modern Israeli music is heavily influenced by its constituents, which include Jewish immigrants (see Jewish music) from more than 120 countries around the world, which have brought their own musical traditions, making Israel a global melting pot. ... The archaeology of Israel is researched intensively in the universities of the region and also attracts considerable international interest on account of the regions Biblical links. ... There are eight official universities in Israel. ... “Hebrew” redirects here. ... Israeli literature is the literature of the people or State of Israel. ... Laws · Politics Law of Return · Jerusalem Law Parties · Elections · PM · President Knesset · Supreme Court · Courts The Basic Laws of Israel are a key component of Israels uncodified constitution. The State of Israel has no formal constitution. ... Politics of Israel takes place in a framework of a parliamentary representative democratic republic, whereby the Prime Minister of Israel is the head of government, and of a pluriform multi-party system. ... The Law of Return (Hebrew: חוק השבות, hok ha-shvut) is Israeli legislation that allows Jews and those with Jewish parents or grandparents, and spouses of the aforementioned, to settle in Israel and gain citizenship. ... The Jerusalem Law is a common name of Basic Law: Jerusalem, Capital of Israel passed by the Israeli Knesset on July 30, 1980 (17th Av, 5740). ... Political parties in Israel: Israels political system is based on proportional representation which allows for a multi-party system with numerous parties, in which a single party usually has no chance of gaining power by itself, forcing the parties to cooperate and form coalition governments. ... Elections in Israel gives information on election and election results in Israel. ... 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Politicians

See also: List of Israeli politicians

• Chaim Weizmann - first President of Israel (1949-52)
• David Ben-Gurion - first Prime Minister of Israel (1948-54, 1955-63)
• Moshe Sharett - prime minister (1954-55)
• Levi Eshkol - prime minister (1963-69)
• Abba Eban - diplomat and Foreign Affairs Minister of Israel (1966-1974)
• Golda Meir - prime minister (1969-74)
• Yitzhak Rabin - prime minister (1974-77, 1992-95); Nobel Peace Prize (1994) (assassinated November 1995)
• Menachem Begin - prime minister (1977-83); Nobel Peace Prize (1978)
• Yitzhak Shamir - prime minister (1983-84, 1986-92)
• Shimon Peres - President of Israel (2007-); prime minister (1984-86, 1995-96); Nobel Peace Prize (1994)
• Benjamin Netanyahu - prime minister (1996-99); minister of finance; Likud party chairman
• Ehud Barak - prime minister (1999-01)
• Moshe Katsav - president (2000-2007)
• Ariel Sharon - prime minister (2001-2006)
• Ehud Olmert - current prime minister (2006-); former mayor of Jerusalem
• Rehavam Zeevi - founder of the Moledet party (assassinated October 2001)
• Yossi Beilin - leader of the Meretz-Yachad party & peace negotiator
• Yosef Lapid - former leader of the Shinui party
• Teddy Kollek - former mayor of Jerusalem
• Effie Eitam - former leader of the National Religious Party party, now head of the Renewed Religious National Zionist party
• Rabbi Ovadia Yosef - spiritual leader of the Shas party
• Amir Peretz - Former chairman of the Histadrut labor federation; former chairman of the Labor party; former defense minister

List of Israeli politicians: This list is incomplete; you can help by expanding it. ... Chaim Azriel Weizmann (Hebrew: חיים עזריאל ויצמן) November 27, 1874 – November 9, 1952) was a chemist, statesman, President of the World Zionist Organization, first President of Israel (elected February 1, 1949, served 1949 - 1952) and founder of a research institute in Israel that eventually became the Weizmann Institute of Science. ... The President of the State of Israel (‎, Nesi HaMedina, lit. ...   (October 16, 1886 – December 1, 1973; Hebrew: ) was the first Prime Minister of Israel. ... The Prime Minister of Israel (Hebrew: ראש הממשלה, Rosh HaMemshala, lit. ... Moshe Sharett (Hebrew: משה שרת); born Moshe Shertok (Hebrew: משה שרתוק), (October 15, 1894 – July 7, 1965) was the second Prime Minister of Israel (1954-1955), serving for a little under two years between David Ben-Gurions two terms. ... â–¶(?) (Hebrew לֵוִי אֶשְׁכּוֹל ) (Born Levi Skolnick) (Hebrew לֵוִי שְׁקוֹלְנִיק) (October 25, 1895 - February 26, 1969), was the third Prime Minister of Israel from 1963 until his death of a heart attack in 1969. ... Abba Eban (אבא אבן) (February 2, 1915 – November 17, 2002) was an Israeli diplomat and politician. ... Foreign Affair Ministers of Israel, 1948-present Moshe Sharett 1948-1956 Golda Meir 1956-1966 Abba Eban 1966-1974 Yigal Allon 1974-1977 Moshe Dayan 1977-1979 Menachem Begin 1979-1980 Yitzhak Shamir 1980-1986 Shimon Peres 1986-1988 Moshe Arens 1988-1990 David Levy 1990-1992 Shimon Peres 1992... Golda Meir (‎, born Golda Mabovitz, May 3, 1898 - December 8, 1978), also known as Golda Myerson from 1917-1956, was one of the founders of the State of Israel. ... For other persons named Rabin, see Rabin (disambiguation). ... Lester B. Pearson after accepting the Nobel Peace Prize Image:Nobel-medal. ...   (August 16, 1913 – March 9, 1992) (Hebrew: מְנַחֵם בְּגִין) was a Polish-Jewish head of the Zionist underground group the Irgun, Nobel Peace Prize laureate and the first Likud Prime Minister of Israel. ...   (Hebrew יִצְחָק שָׁמִיר) (born October 15, 1915) was Prime Minister of Israel from 1983 to 1984 and again from 1986 to 1992. ... This article needs additional references or sources for verification. ... The President of the State of Israel (‎, Nesi HaMedina, lit. ...   (Hebrew: בִּנְיָמִין נְתַנְיָהוּ (without niqqud: בנימין נתניהו), Hebrew transliteration written in English: Binyamin Netanyahu, nicknamed Bibi) (born October 21, 1949, Tel Aviv) was the 9th Prime Minister of Israel and is a leading figure in the Likud party. ... Ehud Barak (Hebrew: אֵהוּד בָּרָק) (born Ehud Brog on February 12, 1942) is an Israeli politician, former Prime Minster, and current Minister of Defense and leader of Israels Labor Party. ... Moshe Katsav (Hebrew: , originally Mussa Ghassäb Persian: ; born December 5, 1945) is the eighth and current President of Israel (since 2000). ...   (Hebrew: , also known by his diminutive Arik אָרִיק) (born February 27, 1928) is a former Israeli politician and general. ... Ehud Olmert (IPA ; Hebrew:אהוד אולמרט; born September 30, 1945) is the 12th and current Prime Minister of Israel. ... Rehavam Zeevi (רחבעם זאבי-גנדי) (June 20, 1926 - October 17, 2001) was an Israeli general, politician and historian who founded the right-wing nationalist Moledet party. ... Yossi Beilin Dr. Yossef (Yossi) Beilin (Hebrew: ; born June 12, 1948) is an Israeli politician, Knesset member, and a former , deputy foreign minister and justice minister within the Israeli Labour Party. ... It has been suggested that this article or section be merged with Meretz. ... Yosef (Tommy) Lapid (Hebrew: יוסף (טומי) לפיד), (born. ... Shinui (שינוי) (original full name: Tenua le-Shinui ve Yozma and then to Shinui-Mifleget ha-Merkaz) is a Zionist, secular and anti-clerical, free market liberal party in Israel. ... Teddy Kollek in Vienna in 2003 Theodor Teddy Kollek (May 27, 1911 – January 2, 2007) was an Israeli politician and Mayor of Jerusalem from 1965 until 1993. ... For other uses, see Jerusalem (disambiguation). ... Efraim (Effie) Eitam (Fein) (Hebrew: ‎) (b. ... Mafdal party logo The National Religious Party (Hebrew: Mafdal, מפדל) is an Israeli political party representing the religious Zionist movement. ... The Renewed Religious National Zionist party (Hebrew: מפלגת ציונות דתית לאומית מתחדשת) is a right-national, Religious Zionist political party in Israel which has split from the National Religious Party (Mafdal) in the 16th Knesset, and ended up merging into the National Union (which ran on a joint list with Mafdal) in the 2006 legislative... Rabbi Ovadia Yosef (Hebrew: עובדיה יוסף) (b. ... Shas (Hebrew: ) is an political party in Israel, primarily representing Ultra-orthodox Sephardi and Mizrahi Judaism. ... Amir Peretz (Hebrew: עמיר פרץ; born March 9, 1952) is an Israeli politician and Defense Minister of Israel. ...

Military

• Ron Arad - MIA navigator
• Gabi Ashkenazi - Chief of the IDF General Staff (2007 - )
• Eli Cohen - Israeli spy
• Wolfgang Lotz - Israeli spy
• Moshe Dayan - military leader
• Giora Epstein - combat pilot, modern-day "ace of aces"
• Yohai Ben-Nun - sixth commander of the Israeli Navy
• Dan Halutz - Chief of the IDF General Staff (2005 - 2007)
• Uziel Gal - designer of the Uzi submachine gun
• Tzvi Malkhin - Mossad agent, captured Adolf Eichmann
• Yonatan Netanyahu - Sayeret Matkal commando, leader of Operation Entebbe
• Ilan Ramon - astronaut on Columbia flight STS-107
• Avraham Stern - underground military leader
• Israel Tal - general, father of Merkava tank
• Gilad Shalit - Kidnapped Soldier Gaza 2006
• Ehud Goldwasser - Kidnapped Soldier Lebanon 2006
• Eldad Regev - Kidnapped Soldier Lebanon 2006

Ron Arad (born May 5, 1958) is an Israeli aircraft navigator missing in action. ... Gabi (Gabriel) Ashkenazi (Hebrew: ) (born 1954 in Hagor, Israel[1]), is the 19th Chief of General Staff of Israel Defence Forces (Hebrew: רמטכל Ramatkal). ... Insignia of the Rav Aluf The Ramatkal (Hebrew: רמטכל, abbr. ... Eli Cohen Eli Cohen (Hebrew: ) (December 26, 1924 – May 18, 1965) was a celebrated Israeli spy, and is recognized as one of the most successful spies of modern times. ... ‹ The template below (Expand) is being considered for deletion. ... Moshe Dayan (‎, born 20 May 1915, died 16 October 1981) was an Israeli military leader and politician. ... Giora Epstein was an Israeli fighter pilot in the Israeli Air Force, and is the current world champion in shooting down jet fighters from another aircraft. ... The Red Baron, Manfred von Richthofen, perhaps the most famous ace of all. ... Yohai Ben-Nun Yohai Ben-Nun (17 December 1924 - 6 June 1994) was the sixth commander of the Israeli Sea Corps. ... The Israel Defense Forces (IDF) (Hebrew: צבא ההגנה לישראל Tsva Ha-Haganah Le-Yisrael ([Army] Force [for] the Defense of Israel), often abbreviated צהל Tsahal, alternative English spelling Tzahal, is the name of Israels armed forces...   (Hebrew: ) (born August 7, 1948 in Tel Aviv, Israel) is an Israeli Air Force Lt. ... Uziel Uzi Gal (Hebrew: עוזיאל עוזי גל), born Gotthard Glass (December 15, 1923–September 7, 2002), was a German-born Israeli gun designer best remembered as the designer and namesake of the Uzi submachine gun. ... The Uzi is a compact, boxy, light-weight submachine gun. ... Peter Malkin was an Israeli secret agent. ...   (Hebrew: המוסד למודיעין ולתפקידים מיוחדים, The Institute for Intelligence and Special Operations), often referred to as The Mossad (meaning The Institute), is Israels intelligence agency and is responsible for intelligence collection, counter-terrorism, covert operations such as paramilitary activities, and the facilitation of aliyah where it is banned. ... Otto Adolf Eichmann (known as Adolf Eichmann; March 19, 1906 – June 1, 1962) was a high-ranking Nazi and SS Obersturmbannführer (equivalent to Lieutenant Colonel). ... This article does not cite any references or sources. ... Sayeret Matkal (Hebrew: סיירת מטכל, translation: General Staff Reconnaissance unit) is the elite special forces unit of the Israeli Defence Force (IDF). ... Combatants  Israel  PFLP Revolutionäre Zellen  Uganda Commanders Yonatan Netanyahu† Wadie Haddad Wilfried Böse Idi Amin Strength 29 Commandos Unknown Casualties Yonatan Netanyahu killed three hostages killed five commandos wounded 6 hijackers killed 45 Ugandan soldiers killed Operation Entebbe, also known as the Entebbe incident and occasionally the Entebbe... Ilan Ramon (Hebrew: אילן רמון) (June 20, 1954 – February 1, 2003) was a combat pilot in the Israeli Air Force and later the first Israeli astronaut. ... The STS-107 crewmembers strike a ‘flying’ pose for their traditional in-flight crew portrait in the SPACEHAB aboard the Space Shuttle Columbia. ... Avraham Stern Avraham Stern (Hebrew: אברהם שטרן Avraham Shtern), alias Yair (Hebrew: יאיר) (December 23, 1907 - February 12, 1942) was the founder and leader of the Zionist underground organization later known as Lehi and also known as the Stern Gang. Stern was born in Suwalki, Poland, immigrated to Israel in 1925, and studied... Israel Tal (b. ... // The Merkava (Hebrew:  , Chariot) is the main battle tank of the Israel Defense Forces. ... Cpl. ... Ehud (Udi) Goldwasser (image courtesy of the Goldwasser family) Ehud (Udi) Goldwasser is an Israeli soldier captured in Israel by Hezbollah along with Eldad Regev on 12 July 2006, sparking the 2006 Israel-Lebanon conflict. ... Eldad Regev (image courtesy of the Regev family) Eldad Regev is an Israeli soldier, born in Qiryat Motzkin, captured by Hezbollah fighters along with Ehud Goldwasser on 12 July 2006, in Israel near the Lebanese border, sparking the 2006 Israel-Lebanon conflict. ...

Activists

• Uri Avnery - peace activist, Gush Shalom
• Yael Dayan - writer, politician, activist
• Michael Dorfman Russian-Israeli essayist and human rights activist.
• Uzi Even - gay rights activist
• Nira Schwartz - TRW whistleblower, Wiener Award (2001)
• Uri Savir, peace negotiator, Peres Center for Peace
• Israel Shahak - political activist
• Natan Sharansky - Soviet-era human rights activist
• Alon Tal - Environmental activist
• Eli Wald - Prominent Zionist activist at the University of Illinois, and head of the movement to reinstate study abroad to Israel

Uri Avnery (Hebrew: , also transliterated Uri Avneri, born September 10, 1923 in Beckum, Germany as Helmut Ostermann), is a German Jewish-born Israeli journalist, left-wing peace activist, and former Knesset member, who was originally a member of the right-wing Revisionist Zionist movement. ... To meet Wikipedias quality standards, this article or section may require cleanup. ... Yael Dayan (born December 2, 1939) is an Israeli writer and political figure. ... Michael Dorfman (Russian: Hebrew: ‎)– Russian-Israeli writer, essayist, journalist, and human rights activist. ... Uzi Even (born October 18, 1940) is an Israeli professor of chemistry and politician. ... There are very few or no other articles that link to this one. ... The Norbert Wiener Award for Social and Professional Responsibility was established in 1987 in honor of Norbert Wiener to recognize contributions by computer professionals to socially responsible use of computers. ... Uri Savir an ambassador, has extensive experience as a senior career diplomat, serving as head of Israeli diplomacy in the critical years 1993-96 when he was the Chief Negotiator of the Middle East Oslo Accords. ... The Peres Center for Peace [1] located in Tel Aviv, Israel, is an independent, non-profit, non-partisan, non-governmental organization founded in 1996 by Nobel Peace Laureate and former Prime Minister Shimon Peres, with the aim of furthering his vision in which people of the Middle East region work... Israel Shahak (April 28, 1933 – July 2, 2001) (Hebrew: ) was a Professor of Chemistry at Hebrew University in Jerusalem, the former president of the Israeli League for Human and Civil Rights, and an outspoken critic of the Israeli government and of Israeli society in general. ... Natan Sharansky (Hebrew: נתן שרנסקי, Russian: Натан Борисович Щаранский; born January 20, 1948) is a notable former Soviet anticommunist, Zionist, Israeli politician and writer. ...

Criminals

See also: Category:Israeli criminals

• Yigal Amir - assassin of Yitzhak Rabin
• Nachman Farkash - gangster, noted for escaping jails
• Baruch Goldstein - massacred 29 Arabs in the Cave of the Patriarchs
• Ami Popper - murdered 7 Arabs
• Benny Sela - convicted serial rapist and escapee.
• Eden-Nathan Zada - an army defector who killed 4 people and wounded many others on a bus in Shfar'am
• Mordechai Vanunu - Disclosed details on Israel's nuclear program to British newspapers

Yigal Amir (Hebrew: יגאל עמיר) (born May 23, 1970) is the Israeli assassin of the late Prime Minister of Israel Yitzhak Rabin. ... Nachman Farkash (Hebrew: נחמן פרקש, d. ... Baruch Kappel Goldstein (December 9 or December 12, 1956–February 25, 1994, ‎) was an American-Israeli physician who perpetrated the 1994 Cave of the Patriarchs massacre in the city of Hebron, murdering 29 Arab attendants of the Ibrahimi Mosque (within the Cave of the Patriarchs) and wounding another 150 in... The Enclosure of the Cave of the Patriarchs The Cave of the Patriarchs is a religious compound located in the ancient city of Hebron (which lies in the southwest part of the West Bank, in the heart of ancient Judea), and is generally considered by Jews, Christians, and Muslims, to... In May 1990, Ami Popper, a 21-year-old former dishonorably-discharged soldier, put on his army uniform and asked men waiting at a bus stop in a southern Israeli town for their identity cards. ... Billboard asking the public to help catch Benny Sela: Lets catch him together Benny Sela (Hebrew: בני סלע) is an Israeli serial rapist. ... Serial rape is a term used to describe a series of three or more incidents of rape. ... It has been suggested that this article or section be merged into Video game controversy. ... Mordechai Vanunu in the garden of St. ...

Religious figures

Haredi rabbis

Lithuanian rabbis

• Avraham Yeshayeh Karelitz, the Chazon Ish
• Elazar Menachem Shach, Rav Shach
• Moshe Shmuel Shapira, rosh yeshiva of Beer Yaakov
• Nissim Karelitz, Head Justice of Rabbinical Court of Bnei Brak
• Chaim Kanievsky
• Yosef Sholom Eliashiv

Rabbi Avraham Yeshayahu Karelitz, The Chazon Ish Avraham Yeshayahu Karelitz (אברהם ישעיה קרליץ) (also Yishayahu, Yeshayah, Yeshayah, Yishaya - in English Abraham Isaiah Karelitz) (1878-1953) known by his pen name as the Chazon Ish (חזון איש) (Vision [of] Man), was a Belarusian born Orthodox rabbi who became leader of Haredi Judaism in Israel. ... Rabbi Shach Elazar Menachem Man Shach (אלעזר מנחם מן שך) (or Rav Leizer Shach, at times his name is written as Eliezer Schach in English publications) (January 22, 1898 - November 2, 2001), was a leading Eastern European-born and educated Haredi rabbi who settled and lived in modern Israel. ... Rabbi Moshe Shmuel Shapira (1914 - April 25, 2006) was the rosh yeshiva of the Beer Yaakov Yeshiva for sixty years from its inception, a member of the Council of Torah Sages of Degel HaTorah and the president of the Vaad Hayeshivos (Yeshiva Council). ... Rosh yeshiva (Hebrew: ראש ישיבה) (pl. ... Rabbi Nissim Karelitz is the av beis din (head of the rabbinical court) of the beis din tzedek (rabbinical court) of Bnei Brak. ... Mentioned as one of the cities in the portion of the Tribe of Dan (Yehoshua 19:45), Bnei Brak is famous in the Talmud (Sanhedrin 32b) as the seat of Rabbi Akivas court, and in the Pesach Haggada as the site of the all-night Pesach Seder of Rabbi... Rabbi Chaim Kanievsky is a Haredi rabbi and posek (decisor of Jewish law) living in Bnei Brak, Israel. ... Rabbi Y.S. Eliashiv Yosef Sholom Eliashiv (יוסף שלום אלישיב) (b. ...

Edah HaChareidis

• Yosef Chaim Sonnenfeld, Chief Rabbi of Jerusalem (Edah HaChareidis)
• Yitzchok Tuvia Weiss, Chief Rabbi of Jerusalem (Edah HaChareidis)
• Yosef Tzvi Dushinsky (1st), Chief Rabbi of Jerusalem (Edah HaChareidis)

Rabbi Yosef Chaim Sonnenfeld Rabbi Yosef Chaim Sonnenfeld (1849 - 1932) was the Chief Rabbi of the Ashkenazi Haredi Jewish community of Jerusalem during the years of the British mandate and co-founder of the Edah HaChareidis. ... The Edah HaCharedis (Hebrew: העדה החרדית HaEdah HaCharedis), also written Edah Haredit, is a prominent Haredi rabbinical body in present-day Jerusalem. ... Rabbi Yitzchok Tuvia Weiss is the Chief Rabbi or Govad (godol av beis din) of Jerusalem for the Edah HaChareidis. ... The Edah HaCharedis (Hebrew: העדה החרדית HaEdah HaCharedis), also written Edah Haredit, is a prominent Haredi rabbinical body in present-day Jerusalem. ... Grand Rabbi Yoseph Tzvi Dushinsky (1865-1948) speaking before the United Nations Rabbi Yosef Tzvi Dushinsky, (1865 - 1948, Jerusalem, E. Israel) also known as the Maharitz, was the first Rebbe of Dushinsky and Chief Rabbi (Govad) of the Edah HaChareidis of Jerusalem. ... The Edah HaCharedis (Hebrew: העדה החרדית HaEdah HaCharedis), also written Edah Haredit, is a prominent Haredi rabbinical body in present-day Jerusalem. ...

Other Hasidic leaders

• Yaakov Aryeh Alter, Gerrer Rebbe
• Yissachar Dov Rokeach (II), Belzer Rebbe

The present Gerer Rebbe, Rabbi Yaakov Aryeh Alter Yaakov (Yankel) Aryeh Alter (born 1936) is a Hasidic rabbi, and since 1996 has been the seventh rebbe of the Ger Hasidim in Israel, with disciples and branches in Europe and the United States. ... Ger, or Gur (or Gerrer when used as an adjective) is a large Hasidic dynasty originating from Gur, the Yiddish name of Góra Kalwaria, a small town in Poland. ... Yissachar Dov Rokeach (II) (b. ... The third Belzer Rebbe, Yissachar Dov Rokeach Belz (חסידות בעלז) is a Hasidic dynasty named after the town of Belz, a small town originally located in eastern Poland, presently in Ukraine. ...

Religious-Zionist rabbis

• Avraham Yitzchak Kook, pre-state Ashkenazic Chief Rabbi of 'Israel'^[1]
• Shlomo Amar, Sephardic Chief Rabbi of Israel
• Yona Metzger, Ashkenazic Chief Rabbi of Israel

Abraham Isaac Kook (1864 - 1935) was the first Ashkenazi chief rabbi of the British Mandate for Palestine, the founder of the (now) Religious Zionist Yeshiva Merkaz HaRav, and a renowned Torah scholar. ... Rabbi Shlomo Amar Rabbi Shlomo Amar (1948 - ) is the current Sephardi Chief Rabbi of Israel, appointed in 2003. ... Rabbi Yona Metzger Yona Metzger (יונה מצגר) (born 1953) is the current Ashkenazi Chief Rabbi of Israel, appointed in 2003. ...

Cultural figures

Film, TV, and stage

See also: List of Israeli actors

• Gila Almagor - actress
• Lior Ashkenazi - actor
• Yvan Attal - actor, director (Israeli-born)
• Mili Avital - actress
• Aki Avni - actor
• Nir Bergman - director
• David Faitelson - Mexican television sports comentator (Israeli-born)
• Oded Fehr - actor
• Eytan Fox - director
• Uri Geller - TV personality, self-proclaimed psychic
• Ido Gideon - TV producer
• Amos Gitai - director
• Ralph Inbar, Dutch-born TV personality (Banana Split)
• Daphna Kastner, actress; married to actor Harvey Keitel
• Amos Kollek - director, writer
• Dover Kosashvili - director
• Hanna Laslo - actress
• Daliah Lavi - actress
• KJ Leichman - swimsuit model
• Steve Leichman - American born TV personality (Real Estate Guru)
• Ari Libsker - filmmaker
• Rod Lurie - director, film critic (Israeli-born)
• Amit Lior - writer
• Gad Lerner - journalist (currently living in Italy)
• Arnon Milchan - producer
• Ohad Naharin - choreographer
• Joseph Pitchhadze - director
• Eyal Podell - Actor
• Natalie Portman - actress (Israeli-born)
• Itamar Rose - filmmaker
• Haim Saban - TV producer
• Elia Suleiman - director
• Chaim Topol - actor
• Raviv Ullman - actor (Israeli-born)
• Haim Yavin - long-serving TV anchor
• Keren Yedaya - director

This is a list of Israeli actors. ... Gila Almagor (b. ... Lior Ashkenazi in Walk on Water Lior Ashkenazi is an Israeli actor. ... Yvan Attal (born January 4, 1965) is a French actor and director. ... Mili Avital Mili Avital (Hebrew:מילי אביטל) (born 30 March 1972) is an Israeli actress. ... Aki Avni (born April 27, 1967) is an Israeli actor, who appeared in the movie Free Zone with Natalie Portman. ... Oded Fehr (Hebrew: עודד פר) (born 23 November 1970) is an Israeli film and television actor. ... Eytan Fox in promotional photo for Walk on Water Eytan Fox (Hebrew: איתן פוקס) (born on August 21, 1964) is an Israeli film director. ... Uri Geller (Hebrew: אורי גלר), (born Gellér György[1] December 20, 1946 in Tel Aviv, Israel) is an Israeli-British performer and celebrity famous for claiming to have psychic powers. ... Ido Gideon is an Israeli Film & TV producer, and also a political figure. ... Amos Gitai (born 11 October 1950 in Haifa, Israel) is an Israeli film director. ... Harvey Keitel (born May 13, 1939) is an Academy Award-nominated American actor from New York City. ... Amos Kollek is a film director, writer and actor, born in Jerusalem, Israel in 1947. ... Hanna Laslo (Hebrew: חנה לסלאו) (born June 14, 1953 in Israel) is an actress, comedian and Israeli entertainer, played in a great number of movies and entertainment shows. ... Daliah Lavi in 007s Casino Royale Daliah Lavi (born Daliah Lewinbuk on October 12, 1942) is an Israeli actress, singer and model. ... Ari Libsker (ארי ליבסקר) born in the city of Haifa, Israel in the 1970s. ... Rod Lurie (born 1962) is an American director, screenwriter and former film critic. ... Gad Lerner (born December 7, 1954) is an Italian journalist and writer. ... Arnon Milchan (1945-) is movie producer and businessman. ... Ohad Naharin (b. ... Eyal Podell as Adrian Korbel Eyal Podell (pronounced ay-aahl) was born November 11, 1975 in Tel Aviv, Israel where he spent the first two years of his childhood. ... Natalie Portman (Hebrew: נטלי פורטמן), born Natalie Hershlag (Hebrew: נטלי הרשלג) on June 9, 1981, in Jerusalem, Israel[1] is a Golden Globe-winning, Academy Award-nominated Israeli-American actress. ... Haim Saban Haim Saban (born 15 October 1944 in Alexandria, Egypt) is a television and media proprietor. ... Elia Suleiman (born July 28, 1960 in Nazareth) is a Palestinian film director and actor. ... Chaim Topol (Hebrew: חיים טופול) (born September 9, 1935), often billed simply as Topol, is one of the most famous Israeli theatrical and film performers. ... Raviv Ullman (Hebrew: רביב אולמן), formerly known by his stage name Ricky Ullman, (born January 24, 1986 in Eilat, Israel), is an Israeli-born American actor. ... Haim Yavin (b. ...

Fashion models

• Isabelle Adler
• Ofir Aloni - former model
• Moran Atias - model
• Nina Brosh - model
• Bar Refaeli - model
• Pnina Rosenblum - former model

Isabelle Adler is a model from Israel. ... Moran Atias (born in 1981, in Haifa, Israel) is an Israeli model, TV presenter, and actress. ... Nina Brosh (born November 12, 1975) is an Israeli model and actress. ... Bar Refaeli (Hebrew: בר רפאלי born June 4, 1985) is an Israeli model, known for her work for Sports Illustrated and Victorias Secret, and for her relationship with American actor Leonardo DiCaprio and previously with David Charvet. ... Pnina Rosenblum is an Israeli politician, businesswoman and media personality, born in Petach Tikvah in 1954. ...

Popular musicians

See also: List of Israeli musical artists

• Chava Alberstein - singer/songwriter
• Yossi Amoyal - dance music producer & DJ
• Shlomo Artzi - singer/songwriter
• Ehud Banai
• Eef Barzelay - founder of Clem Snide
• Ethnix - Pop-rock band
• Miri Ben-Ari - jazz & hip hop violinist
• Mike Brant - French-language singer
• David Broza - singer/songwriter
• Matti Caspi - singer, multi-instrumentalist and composer
• Avishai Cohen - jazz bassist
• Arik Einstein - singer, actor, writer
• Yuval Gabay - drummer for Soul Coughing
• Aviv Geffen - singer/songwriter
• Guy Gerber - composer, arranger, dance music producer & DJ
• Gidi Gov - singer
• Shlomo Gronich - singer and composer
• Sarit Hadad - Mizrahi singer
• Ofra Haza - singer
• Dana International - pop singer
• Ishtar - vocalist for Alabina
• Rafi Kadischsohn - arranger and orchestrator
• Rebecca Moritz (American-Israeli)
• Amal Murkus - singer
• Ahinoam Nini (Noa) - singer
• Yael Nir - artist
• Esther Ofarim - singer
• Guy Oseary - head of Maverick Records
• Idan Raichel - Ethiopian and Israeli music
• Yoni Rechter - composer and arranger
• Berry Sakharof - singer
• Naomi Shemer - songwriter
• Hillel Slovak - original guitarist for Red Hot Chili Peppers
• Tamir Kalisky - composer and arranger
• Zeev Tene - singersong writer
• Rika Zaraï, singer
• Nir Zidkyahu - drummer, briefly in Genesis
• Ze'ev Nechama - singer/songwriter
• Zino and Tommy - popular duo, songs in U.S. films.

List of Israeli musical artists, singers and bands Abstract Adam Moshik Afia Aharit HaYamim (End of Days) Corinne Alal Chava Alberstein Almana Shehora (Black Widow) Jo Ammar Etti Ankri Keren Ann Yardena Arazi Gili Argov Zohar Argov Meir Ariel Ben Artzi Shlomo Artzi Asaf Amdurski Michal Amdurski Yizhar Ashdot Astral... Chava Alberstein (Hebrew חוה אלברשטיין, born December 8, 1947 in Szczecin, Poland) is an Israeli singer, lyricist, composer, musical arranger and an actress. ... Shlomo Artzi (Hebrew: ) is a famous Israeli singer and composer. ... The music of Ehud Banai is considered by many to be the pure definition of Israeli sound. Born in 1953 in Jerusalem to a family of many talents (among his uncles and cousins there are musicians and actors), Banais success didnt come easy. ... Eef Barzelay is an American musician. ... Clem Snide photographed on the cover of their 1999 album Your Favorite Music. ... Ethnix (Hebrew: ) is an Israeli Oriental rock band. ... Miri Ben-Ari (born in 1978) is an Israeli Grammy-award winning classically trained violinist known primarily for her work on several hip-hop projects. ... Mike Brant (February 1, 1947 – April 25, 1975) was a Israeli singer that had great sucssess in France. ... David Broza is an Israeli singer/songwriter. ... Matti Caspi (Hebrew: מתי כספי) is an Israeli composer, musician, singer and lyricist. ... Avishai Cohen Avishai Cohen (born 1970, in Jerusalem) is an Israeli jazz bassist, composer and arrangement. ... Arik Einstein (January 3, 1939-) is an Israeli singer. ... Soul Coughing (1992–2000) was a New York-based alternative rock band comprised of Mike Doughty (vocals, lyrics, guitar), Mark De Gli Antoni (samples, keyboards), Sebastian Steinberg (string bass) and Yuval Gabay (drums). ... Aviv Geffen (אביב גפן, b. ... Gidi Gov (Hebrew: גידי גוב, born Gideon Gov: גדעון גוב) (born in August 4th, 1951) is an influential Israeli singer, entertainer and actor of Israeli cinema and television. ... Shlomo Gronich (January 21, 1949 in Hadera; Hebrew: שלמה גרוניך) is an Israeli composer, male singer and choir conductor. ... Sarit on TV Sarit Hadad (Hebrew: שרית חדד, born September 20, 1978) is a popular Israeli singer. ... Ofra Haza (Hebrew: עפרה חזה, IPA ) November 19, 1957 – February 23, 2000) was a popular Israeli singer, actress and international recording artist. ... Dana International (Hebrew: דנה אינטרנשיונל; stage name of Sharon Cohen, born Yaron Cohen in Tel Aviv, Israel on February 2, 1969) is an Israeli transsexual pop singer of Yemenite origin, who won the 1998 Eurovision Song Contest for her song Diva. Next to original songs, Dana International is known for her cover... Ishtar from the cover of the album Truly (Emet) Ishtar is an Israeli-born singer, born Eti Zach. ... Alabina is a French-based group that performs a mix of world music: Middle Eastern, Arabic, French and Spanish Gypsy music. ... Amal Murkus Amal Murkus is an Israeli singer. ... Noa on an album cover Ahinoam Nini (in Hebrew אחינועם ניני) (born 1969) is an Israeli singer. ... Esther Ofarim is an Israeli entertainer, formerly well-known for her partnership with her husband Abi Ofarim. ... Guy Oseary (born 1972 in Jerusalem, Israel) is an Israeli-American businessman. ... Maverick Recording Company, is an American record label owned and operated by Warner Music Group, and distributed through Warner Bros. ... Idan Raichel (עידן רייכל) (born September 12, 1977) of Kfar Saba, Israel, is a singer and a musician who reached enormous fame and popularity in Israel with his Project (הפרוייקט של עידן רייכל), distinctive for its fusion with ballads, electronics, and incorporation of the voices of the new Ethiopian immigrant community in Israel. ... Yonatan Yoni Rechter (יוני רכטר In Hebrew) is an Israeli musician, composer, pianist, arranger and a singer, specializing in many fields of music, especially rock and jazz, but he is also very active in the field of European classical music. ... Berry Sakharof (Hebrew: ברי סחרוף) (born July 7, 1957) is an influential Israeli rock guitarist, songwriter and singer, known for his incorporation of techniques from electronic and dance music, and for his eclecticism and virtuosity as a guitarist. ... Naomi Shemer (Hebrew: נעמי שמר) (July 13, 1930 – June 26, 2004) was one of Israels most important and prolific song writers. ... Hillel Slovak (Hebrew: הלל סלובק) (April 13, 1962 – June 25, 1988) was the original guitarist for the band Red Hot Chili Peppers. ... Red Hot Chili Peppers are an American rock band formed in Los Angeles, California in 1983. ... Nir Zidkyahu (born November 1967, in Rishon Lezion, Israel) is a well-established studio-session drummer, and the brother of Blackfields drummer Tomer Z. he played the drums for eight songs on Genesis 1997 album, Calling All Stations, and subsequently joined the band for their 1998 tour. ... Genesis are an English rock band formed in 1967. ... Haim Zinowitch, aka ZINO, is a prominent and prolific musician in Israel. ...

Classical musicians

See also: List of Israeli classical composers

• Yariv Aloni - violist and conductor
• Moshe Atzmon - conductor
• Adi Bar - Pianist
• Daniel Barenboim - conductor and pianist
• Paul Ben-Haim - composer
• Bart Berman - pianist
• Gary Bertini - conductor
• Yefim Bronfman - pianist
• Natan Brand - pianist
• Michael Croitoru-Weissman - cellist
• Avner Dorman - composer
• Dror Elimelech - composer
• Dan Ettinger - conductor
• Giora Feidman - clarinetist
• Miriam Fried - violinist
• Ivry Gitlis - violinist
• Matt Haimovitz - cellist
• Aaron Harlap - composer and conductor
• Ofra Harnoy - cellist
• Eliahu Inbal - conductor
• Joseph Kalichstein - pianist
• Amir Katz - pianist
• Richard Lesser - clarinetist
• Yoel Levi - conductor
• Mischa Maisky - cellist
• Shlomo Mintz - violinist
• Itzhak Perlman - violinist
• Rony Rogoff - violinist and conductor
• Shulamit Ran - composer
• Gil Shaham - violinist
• Hagai Shaham - violinist
• Noam Sheriff - composer
• Gil Shohat - composer
• Mordechai Seter - composer
• Michael Shani - conductor
• Ilan Schul - clarinetist
• Josef Tal - composer
• Yoav Talmi - conductor
• Arie Vardi - pianist
• Pinchas Zukerman - violinist
• Sharon Kam - clarinetist
• Ori Kam - violist

List of Israeli classical composers Claude Abravanel (* 1924) Daniel Akiva (* 1953) Haim Alexander (* 1915) Chaya Arbel (* 1921) Menachem Avidom (1908 - 1995) Eitan Avitsur (* 1941) Tzvi Avni (* 1927) Ayal Adler (* 1968) Yedidiya Admon (1894 - 1982) Gil Aldema (* 1928) Neta Alony (* 1945) Yardena Alotin (1930 - 1994) Muni Amariglio (* 1932) Israel Amidan (1921... Moshe Atzmon (born 30 July 1931 in Budapest) is a Hungarian conductor. ... This article or section does not cite any references or sources. ... Paul Ben-Haim (or Paul Ben-Chaim, in Hebrew  ×¤××•×œ בן חיים‎ ) (1897 – January 14, 1984) was an Israeli composer. ... Bart Berman (Rotterdam, December 29, 1938) is a Dutch-Israeli pianist and composer, best known as an interpreter of Franz Schubert and 20th century music. ... Gary Bertini (1928 - 18 March 2005) was an Israeli conductor and musician. ... Yefim Bronfman (born April 10, 1958) is a Russian-born Israeli pianist. ... Natan Brand (1944-1990), an Israeli Born, American classical pianist. ... Avner Dorman (born April 14, 1975 in Tel Aviv, Israel) is an Israeli composer. ... Dror Elimelech (Israel, 1956) is an Israeli poet, composer and performer of contemporary music. ... Giora Feidman (b. ... This article or section does not cite its references or sources. ... Matt Haimovitz (born 1970) is an Israeli-born cellist now based in the United States and Canada. ... Ofra Harnoy (born January 31, 1965, Hadera, Israel) is a Canadian cellist. ... Eliahu Inbal (born February 16, 1936) is a prominent orchestral conductor. ... Amir Katz (born 1973 in Ramat Gan, Israel) is a pianist, who lives in Germany. ... Yoel Levi (1950—) is a musician and conductor. ... 1948 Born 10 January in Riga, Latvia A cellist, Maisky won the 1966 International Tchaikovsky Competition in Moscow and began studies with Rostropovich at the Moscow Conservatory while pursuing a concert career throughout the former Soviet Union. ... Shlomo Mintz (born 1957 Moscow) is a highly regarded Israeli violin virtuoso, violist and conductor. ... Itzhak Perlman playing during the entertainment portion of the White House State Dinner in honor on Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II on May 7, 2007 Itzhak Perlman (born August 31, 1945 in Jaffa) is an Israeli-American virtuoso violinist and teacher. ... Shulamit Ran (born 1949) is an Israeli-American composer. ... Gil Shaham Gil Shaham (born February 19, 1971) is an award-winning Israeli violinist. ... Hagai Shaham Hagai Shaham is an Israeli violin virtuoso. ... Noam Sheriff (Hebrew: נועם שריף‎ * January 7, 1935 in Tel Aviv) is an Israeli Composer. ... Michael Shani is a well-known figure in the Israeli musical scene. ... This article needs to be wikified. ... Image:Zukerman. ...

Writers

• Shmuel Yosef Agnon - author, Nobel Prize in Literature (1966)
• Nathan Alterman - poet
• Yehuda Amichai - poet
• Zelda - poet
• Aharon Appelfeld - author, Prix Médicis étranger (2004)
• Mati Shemoelof - Poet & Editor & Journalist
• Roy Arad - Poet & Musician
• Hayyim Nahman Bialik - poet
• Max Brod - author, composer & friend of Kafka
• Orly Castel-Bloom - author
• Leah Goldberg - poet
• Uri Zvi Greenberg - poet
• David Grossman - writer
• Batya Gur - author
• Emile Habibi - author
• Amira Hass - journalist & author
• Shmuel Katz - author & journalist
• Etgar Keret - author
• Ephraim Kishon - satirist
• Hanoch Levin - playwright
• Julius Margolin, writer
• Aharon Megged - author
• Sami Michael - author
• Uri Orlev - author, Hans Christian Andersen Award (1996)
• Amos Oz - author & journalist, Goethe Prize (2005)
• Dalia Ravikovich - poet
• Rachel - poet
• Hannah Szenes - poet
• Meir Shalev - author & journalist
• Zeruya Shalev - author
• Moshe Shamir - author, poet
• Naomi Shemer - poet
• Avraham Shlonsky - poet
• Avraham Stern - poet
• A.B. Yehoshua - author
• Benny Ziffer - author, journalist and translator
• Abraham Sutzkever - Yiddish poet
• Yehonatan Geffen - author, poet and lyricist
• Nathan Zach - poet
• Samir Naqqash- novelist

Shmuel Yosef Agnon (Hebrew: שמואל יוסף עגנון; known as shay agnon, born Shmuel Yosef Czaczkes) (July 17, 1888 – February 17, 1970) was the first Hebrew writer to win the Nobel Prize in literature (1966). ... Nobel Prize in Literature medal. ... ... Yehuda Amichai (1924 - 2000) was an Israeli poet. ... Zelda Schneersohn Mishkovsky (1914-1992), commonly known simply as Zelda, is a twentieth-century Israeli poet. ... Aharon Appelfeld (b. ... The Prix Médicis is a French literary award given each year in November. ... Mati Shemoelof (In Hebrew: מתי שמואלוף ,שמואלוף, Born in the July, 11, 1972), Israeli, Mizrahi Jew, Poet, Editor and Journalist. ... Roy Arad (Aka Roy Chicky Arad, רועי ארד, רועי ציקי ארד) is an Israeli poet, musician, script-writer and artist (Born 1977, Israel). ... Hayyim Nahman Bialik (January 9, 1873–July 4, 1934), also commonly written as Chaim or Haim Nachman Bialik and in the Hebrew language as חיים נחמן ביאליק, was a Jewish poet who wrote in Hebrew. ... Max Brod Max Brod (May 27, 1884 – December 20, 1968) was a German-speaking Jewish author, composer, and journalist. ... Orly Castel-Bloom (born 1960) is an Israeli author. ... Lea Goldberg (1911-1970) was a Hebrew poet and student of literature who is considered one of Israels classic poets. ... Uri Zvi Greenberg, late in life. ... David Grossman (born 1954 in Jerusalem) is an Israeli author. ... Batya Gur (1947, Tel Aviv - May 19, 2005) is an Israeli writer, specializing in detective fiction. ... Emile Habibi (August, 1921 - May 3, 1996) was a Palestinian-Israeli writer and politician. ... Amira Hass Amira Hass (born 1956) is an Israeli journalist and author, mostly known for her columns in the daily newspaper Haaretz. ... Samuel Katz (Hebrew: שמואל ×›×¥ Shmuel Katz), alias Mooki (Hebrew: מוקי) (born December 9, 1914) is an Israeli writer, historian and journalist. ... Etgar Keret (born 1967) is an Israeli writer residing in Tel Aviv. ...   (Hebrew:אפרים קישון) (August 23, 1924 – January 29, 2005) was an Israeli writer, satirist, dramatist, screenwriter, and film director. ... Hanoch Levin (December 18, 1943 - August 18, 1999), in Hebrew חנוך לוין, was an Israeli playwright, theater director, poet, and author. ... Julius Margolin (Russian: , October 14, 1900 — January 21, 1971) was a Jewish writer and political activist, an author of the book A Travel to the Land Ze-Ka. ... Aharon Megged (born 1920) is an Israeli author and playwright. ... Sami Michael (born 1926) is an Israeli author. ... Uri Orlev (Hebrew: ‎; born Jerzy Henryk Orlowski in 1931) is an award-winning Israeli childrens author and translator of Polish-Jewish origin. ... The Hans Christian Andersen Award, sometimes known as the Little Nobel Prize, is an international award given bianually by the International Board on Books for Young People (IBBY) in recognition of a lasting contribution to childrens literature. There are two categories of award winners: authors, and illustrators. ... Amos Oz, November 7 2004 Amos Oz (born May 4, 1939), birth name Amos Klausner, is an Israeli writer, novelist, and journalist. ... Goethe Prize recipients: 1927 - Stefan Georg, Germany 1928 - Albert Schweitzer, Germany 1929 - Leopold Ziegler, Germany 1930 - Sigmund Freud, Germany 1931 - Ricarda Huch, Germany 1932 - Gerhart Hauptmann, Germany 1933 - Hermann Sehr, Germany 1934 - Hans Pfitzner, Germany 1935 - Hermann Stegemann, Germany 1936 - Georg Kolbe , Germany 1937 - Erwin Guido Kolbenheyer, Germany 1938 - Hans... Dahlia Ravikovitch, June 1999 Dahlia Ravikovitch (17 November 1936 – 21 August 2005) was an Israeli poet and peace activist, best known for the freedom of expression in her romantic poetry. ... Rachel Rachel Bluwstein Sela (alternatively: Rahel Blubstein) (September 20, 1890 - April 16, 1931) was a Hebrew lyric poet of the Zionist settlement years, generally referred to by her pseudonym, Rachel (Hebrew: רחל) or Rachel the poet (Hebrew: רחל המשוררת). // Rachel was born in Vyatka in Russia in September 20, 1890, as the eleventh... Hannah Szenes Hannah Szenes (or Chana Senesh) (July 17, 1921 — November 7, 1944) was a Hungarian Jew, one of 17 Jews living in Palestine, now Israel, who were trained by the British army to parachute into Yugoslavia during the Second World War in order to help save the Jews of... Meir Shalev Meir Shalev (born 1948 in Nahalal, Israel) is an Israeli writer. ... Zeruya Shalev - An Israeli author. ... Moshe Shamir (September 15, 1921–August 20, 2004) was an Israeli author, playwright, opinion writer, and public figure. ... Naomi Shemer (Hebrew: נעמי שמר) (July 13, 1930 – June 26, 2004) was one of Israels most important and prolific song writers. ... Avraham Shlonsky (1900 - 1973), Hebrew אברהם שלונסקי, was an Israeli poet born in Ukraine. ... Avraham Stern Avraham Stern (Hebrew: אברהם שטרן Avraham Shtern), alias Yair (Hebrew: יאיר) (December 23, 1907 - February 12, 1942) was the founder and leader of the Zionist underground organization later known as Lehi and also known as the Stern Gang. Stern was born in Suwalki, Poland, immigrated to Israel in 1925, and studied... Avraham Boolie Yehoshua (born in Jerusalem in 1936) is an Israeli novelist, essayist, and playwright, known publicly as A. B. Yehoshua, and familiarly as Boolie. Yehoshua was born in the fifth Jerusalem generation of a Sephardi Jewish family (Feld 2000). ... Benny Ziffer was born in 1953 in Tel Aviv, Israel to Heinz and Nira Ziffer, a pioneer couple who immigrated to Israel from Turkey in 1949. ... Abraham Sutzkever is a Yiddish poet. ... Nathan Zach, Israeli poet, was born in Berlin in 1930 and migrated to the Land of Israel in 1936. ... Samir Naqqash is a Jewish novelist, short-story writer, and playwright, born in Baghdad in 1938. ...

Artists

• Yaacov Agam - kinetic artist
• Dubi Roman - Impressionist Photographer
• Michael Arad - architect
• Ron Arad - designer
• Gil Burstein - Industrial designer
• Mordecai Ardon - painter
• David Ascalon - sculptor & synagogue designer
• Maurice Ascalon - sculptor & industrial designer
• Isidor Ascheim - painter & printmaker
• Mordechai Avniel - painter & sculptor
• Yigal Azrouel - fashion designer
• Harry Baron - sculptor
• Ralph Bakshi - animation (director)
• Tuvia Beeri - printmaker
• Yitzhak Danziger - sculptor
• Alber Elbaz - fashion designer
• Yitzhak Frenkel - painter
• Heddy Breuer Abramowitz - painter
• Gideon Gechtman - sculptor
• Dudu Geva - artist and comic-strip illustrator
• Leah Gottlieb - fashion designer (Gottex swimsuits)
• Maya Guez - fashion photographer
• Nahum Gutman - painter
• Ricjard Hanikanai - Photographer
• Shimshon Holzman - painter
• Leo Kahn - painter
• Dani Karavan - sculptor
• Joseph Kossonogi - painter
• Elyasaf Kowner - video artist
• Sigalit Landau - video, installation, sculpture
• Rafi Lavie - painter
• Benjamin Levy - painter, sculptor
• Ranan Lurie - political cartoonist
• Lea Nickel - painter
• Leo Roth - painter
• Michal Rovner - photographer, video art, installation
• Reuven Rubin - painter
• Moshe Safdie - architect
• Boris Schatz - sculptor
• Shaul Shatz - painter
• Elie Tahari - fashion designer
• David Tartakover - graphic designer
• Anna Ticho - painter
• Gershom von Schwarze - painter & sculptor
• Moshe Ziffer - sculptor
• Ronit Zilkha - fashion designer
• Abba Richman - Photographer
• Derek Stein- painter
• Marek Yanai- painter

Fountain in Dizengoff square, Tel Aviv, Israel fountains at the La Défense district in Paris For other uses of the term Agam, see Agam. ... Michael Arad is an Israeli citizen and architect who was selected to design the World Trade Center Memorial in New York City. ... Ron Arad (b. ... http://www. ... Mordecai Ardon (1896-1992) was a Polish-born artist. ... David Ascalons Holocaust Memorial for the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania (1994), on the Susquehanna River, Harrisburg David Ascalons Totem, fabricated bronze sculpture at the Cherry Hill Public Library, Cherry Hill, New Jersey From a series of abstract stained glass windows for Beth El Congregation near Washington, DC The artist... Maurice Ascalon at the Duomo di Milano in Italy circa 1934 Maurice Ascalon hammering The Scholar, The Laborer, and The Toiler of the Soil for the 1939 New York Worlds Fair Maurice Ascalons The Scholar, The Laborer, and The Toiler of the Soil copper relief sculpture. ... Ascheim, Village Scene, oil on canvas Ascheim, Flowers, oil on canvas, 1930s Isidor Ascheim (1891-1968) (variant names Isidor Aschheim, Izidor Aschheim) was a German-Israeli painter and printmaker born in PoznaÅ„, Prussia (present-day Poland) in 1891. ... Mordechai Avniel was an Israeli painter and sculptor, born in 1900 in Minsk, present-day Belarus. ... In 1998, Yigal Azrouel launched his first collection in New York. ... There are very few or no other articles that link to this one. ... Ralph Bakshi (October 29, 1938) is an American director of animated and occasionally live-action films. ... Tuvia Beeri (b. ... Yitzhak Danziger (1916-1977), Israeli sculptor. ... This article needs additional references or sources for verification. ... Frenkel, Sea View, oil on canvas Yitzhak Frenkel (1899-1981) (variant names Isaac Frenel, Isaac Fraenkel, Yitzhak Frenel, Yitshak Frenkel-Frenel, Alexandre Frenel, Izhak Frenel) was an important Israeli painter, born in 1899 in Odessa, Ukraine. ... Gideon Gechtman (born 1942) is an Israeli artist and sculptor. ... Dudu Geva Dudu Geva (March 14, 1950 - February 15, 2005). ... Nahum Gutman (1898–1980) was an Israeli painter born in what is now Teleneşti, Moldova, then part of the Russian Empire. ... Holzman, Landscape, watercolour on paper Holzman, Landscape, oil on canvas Shimshon Holzman (1907-1986) (variant name Shimson Holzman) was an Israeli landscape and figurative painter, born in 1907 in Sambir, Galicia. ... Leo Kahn, Still Life, oil on canvas Leo Kahn (1894-1983) was a German-Israeli painter, born in 1894 in Bruchsal, Germany. ... Dani Karavan (born 1930 in Tel Aviv) is an Israeli sculptor best known for site specific memorials and monuments which merge into the environment, though he has made important installations as well as other significant contributions to art and architecture. ... Kossonogi, Ein Kerem, watercolour, 1951 Joseph Kossonogi (1908-1981) (variant names Yosef Kossonogy, Yossef Kossonogi) was an Israeli painter, born in 1908 in Budapest, Hungary. ... Elyasaf Kowner (אליסף קובנר) (born July 13, 1970, Haifa, Israel) is a Filmmaker and a multidisciplinary artist working in Video art, Photography, Graffiti and Installation. ... Ranan Lurie (born 1932) is an Israeli and American editorial cartoonist and journalist, a Senior Associate at the Center for Strategic and International Studies, and the editor of Cartoon News magazine. ... Leo Roth, Flute Players, oil on canvas, 1967 Leo Roth (1914-2002) (variant name Lior Roth) was an Israeli painter, born in 1914 in Poland. ... Reuven Rubin (born Reuven Zelicovici; November 13, 1893 - October 13, 1974) was a Romanian-born Israeli painter. ... Moshe Safdie, C.C., B.Arch. ... Boris Schatz (1867-1932) was a Jewish artist and sculptor who founded the Bezalel Academy in Jerusalem. ... David Tartakover (דוד טרטקובר) (b. ... Anna Ticho (1894-1980) was born in Moravia, which was then part of the Austro-Hungarian Empire, modern-day Czech Republic. ... Moshe Ziffer, Sculptor, b. ...

Academic figures

See also: List of Members of the Israel Academy of Sciences and Humanities

Boldface font is used for laureates of a Nobel Prize or Turing Award. This is a List of Jews who were or are Members of Israel Academy of Sciences and Humanities Shraga Abramson, Talmud Shaul Adler, Parasitology Shmuel Agmon, Mathematics Yakir Aharonov, Physics Hanokh Albeck, Talmud Shlomo Alexander, Physics Noga Alon, Mathematics Shimshon Amitsur, Mathematics Ruth Arnon, Immunology David Asheri, Classical Studies Robert... Nobel Prize medal. ... The A.M. Turing Award is given annually by the Association for Computing Machinery to a person selected for contributions of a technical nature made to the computing community. ...

Computing and mathematics

• Shmuel Agmon, mathematician,
• Noga Alon, mathematician,
• Shimshon Amitzur,
• Robert "Yisrael" J. Aumann - mathematical game theory; Nobel Prize in Economics (2005)
• Amir Ban & Shay Bushinsky - programmers of Junior (chess)
• Moshe Bar - creator & main developer of openMosix
• Yehoshua Bar-Hillel - machine translation
• Itai Ben Yaacov - Mathematical Logician
• Joseph Bernstein,
• Eli Biham - differential cryptanalysis
• Arie Dvoretzky,
• Abraham Fraenkel - ZF set theory
• Hillel Furstenberg,
• David Harel - computer science; Israel Prize (2004)
• Abraham Lempel & Jacob Ziv - LZW compression; Richard W. Hamming Medal (1995)
• Yoram Lidenstrauss,
• Michel Loève - probabilist (born in 1907 Palestine)
• Joel Moses - MIT provost & writer of Macsyma
• Judea Pearl - artificial intelligence, philosophy of action
• Haim Pekeris,
• Ilya Piatetski-Shapiro - representation theory; Wolf Prize in Mathematics (1990)
• Amir Pnueli - temporal logic; Turing Award (1996)
• Michael O. Rabin - nondeterminism, primality testing; Turing Award (1976)
• Adi Shamir - RSA encryption, differential cryptanalysis; Turing Award (2002)
• Saharon Shelah - logic; Wolf Prize in Mathematics (2001)
• Ehud Shapiro - Concurrent Prolog, DNA computing pioneer
• Avi Wigderson - randomized algorithms; Nevanlinna Prize (1994)
• Doron Zeilberger - combinatorics
• Reuven Cohen - Open Source Advocate

Physics and chemistry

• Yakir Aharonov - Aharonov-Bohm effect; Wolf Prize in Physics (1998)
• Shlomo Alexander,
• Jacob Bekenstein - black hole thermodynamics
• Amos De-Shalit,
• David Deutsch - quantum computing pioneer; Paul Dirac Prize (1998)
• Israel Dostrovsky, physical chemistry,
• Joshua Jortner & Rafi Levine - molecular energy; Wolf Prize in Chemistry (1988)
• Josef Imry, physicist,
• Aaron Katzir, physical chemistry,
• Ephraim Katzir - immobilized enzymes; Japan Prize (1985)
• Zvi Lipkin, physicist,
• Mordehai Milgrom - Modified Newtonian Dynamics (MOND)
• Yuval Ne'eman - the "Eightfold way"
• Asher Peres - quantum theory
• Giulio Racah - spectroscopy
• Nathan Rosen - EPR paradox
• Nathan Seiberg - string theory
• Dan Shechtman - quasicrystals; Wolf Prize in Physics (1999)
• Shmuel Shtrikman, physicist,
• Izchak Shteinberg, physicist,
• Zeev Tadmor, chemical engineering,
• Igal Talmi, particle physics
• Reshef Tenne - discovered inorganic fullerenes and inorganic nanotubes
• Chaim Weizmann - acetone production
• Itamar Wilner, chemist,

Professor Yakir Aharonov BSc PhD is a physicist specialising in Quantum Physics and holds a joint professorship at Tel Aviv University, Israel and the University of South Carolina, America. ... The Aharonov-Bohm effect, sometimes called the Ehrenberg-Siday-Aharonov-Bohm effect, is a quantum mechanical phenomenon by which a charged particle is affected by electromagnetic fields in regions from which the particle is excluded. ... Past winners of the Wolf Prize in Physics: 1978 Chien-Shiung Wu 1979 George Eugene Uhlenbeck, Giuseppe Occhialini 1980 Michael E. Fisher, Leo P. Kadanoff, Kenneth G. Wilson 1981 Freeman J. Dyson, Gerard t Hooft, Victor F. Weisskopf 1982 Leon M. Lederman, Martin M. Perl 1983/4 Erwin L. Hahn... Jacob David Bekenstein (born May 1, 1947) is a physicist who has contributed to the foundation of black hole thermodynamics and to other aspects of the connections between information and gravitation. ... David Deutsch (born 1953) is a physicist at Oxford University. ... Confusingly, there are two prominent awards in the field of theoretical physics and mathematics commonly known as the Dirac Prize, awarded by different organizations. ... Past winners of the Wolf Prize in Chemistry: 1978 Carl Djerassi 1979 Herman F. Mark 1980 Henry Eyring 1981 Joseph Chatt 1982 John C. Polanyi, George C. Pimentel 1983/4 Herbert S. Gutowsky, Harden M. McConnell, John A. Waugh 1984/5 Rudolph A. Marcus 1986 Elias James Corey, Albert Eschenmoser... Ephraim Katzir (born May 16, 1916) is an Israeli biophysicist and Israeli Labour Party politician. ... The Japan Prize is awarded to people from all parts of the world whose original and outstanding achievements in science and technology are recognized as having advanced the frontiers of knowledge and served the cause of peace and prosperity for mankind. ... Mordehai Milgrom is a professor at the Weizmann Institute department of Condensed Matter Physics, located at 76100 Rehovot in Israel. ... In physics, Modified Newtonian dynamics (MOND) is a theory that proposes a modification of Newtons Second Law of Dynamics, to explain the galaxy rotation problem. ... Yuval Neeman (May 14, 1925 – April 26, 2006), was an Israeli physicist and politician. ... In physics, the Eightfold Way is a term coined by American physicist Murray Gell-Mann for a theory for organizing microscopical particles like quarks and hadrons. ... Asher Peres (born 1934 and died January 1, 2005) was an Israeli physicist, considered a pioneer in quantum information theory. ... Giulio (Yoel) Racah (1909 - August 28, 1965) was an Israeli physicist and mathematician. ... Nathan Rosen (March 22, 1909 – December 18, 1995) was a physicist. ... Nathan Seiberg at Harvard University Nathan Seiberg is an Israel-born theoretical physicist who works on string theory. ... Dan Shechtman is the Philip Tobias Professor of Materials Science at the Israel Institute of Technology. ... Quasicrystals are aperiodic structures which produce diffraction. ... Reshef Tenne (1944-) is an Israeli scientist. ... An inorganic nanotube is a cylindrical molecule often composed of metal oxides, and morphologically similar to a carbon nanotube. ... Chaim Azriel Weizmann (Hebrew: חיים עזריאל ויצמן) November 27, 1874 – November 9, 1952) was a chemist, statesman, President of the World Zionist Organization, first President of Israel (elected February 1, 1949, served 1949 - 1952) and founder of a research institute in Israel that eventually became the Weizmann Institute of Science. ...

Biology and medicine

• Israel Aharoni - discovered the Syrian hamster
• Aaron Ciechanover & Avram Hershko - ubiquitin system; Lasker Award (2000), Nobel Prize in Chemistry (2004)
• Moshe Feldenkrais - invented Feldenkrais method used in movement therapy
• Lior Gepstein - American College of Cardiology's Zipes Award for his development of heart cells and pacemakers from stem cells. ^[2]
• Eyal Gur - selected by Newsweek as one of the world's top microsurgeons ^[3]
• Hossam Haick - inventor of an electric nose which diagnosis cancer. ^[4]
• Israel Hanukoglu - structures of cytoskeletal keratins, NADP binding proteins, steroidogenic enzymes, Epithelial Sodium Channels (ENaC)
• Gavriel Iddan - inventor of capsule endoscopy
• Doron Lancet - smell, origin of life
• Shulamit Levenberg - inventor of a muscle tissue which isn't rejected by the body after transplant. Selected by Scientific American as one of the 50 leading scientists in the world. ^[5]
• Alexander Levitzki - cancer research; Wolf Prize in Medicine (2005)
• Leo Sachs - blood cell research; Wolf Prize in Medicine (1980)
• Michael Sela & Ruth Arnon - developed Copaxone; Wolf Prize in Medicine (1998)
• Jacob Shani - performed the first atherectomy in New York State(1991); invented an angled catheter(1992)
• Israel Silman - 3D structure of acetylcholinesterase, Elkeles Prize for Research in Medicine (2005)
• Joel Sussman - 3D structure of acetylcholinesterase, Elkeles Prize for Research in Medicine (2005)

• Valero Aaron-Professor of Medicine, founder of Faculty of Medicine at the Technion, director of government hospital
• Refael Beyar-Professor of Cardiology at the Technion, founder of the cardiology exchange program between Johns Hopkins Medical School and the Technion
• Meir Wilchek - affinity chromatography; Wolf Prize in Medicine (1987)
• Ada Yonath - structure of ribosome
• Amotz Zahavi - Handicap Principle

Israel Aharoni was an Israeli zoologist best known for locating and collecting a litter of Syrian hamsters, thus allowing them to be bred and turned into common laboratory animals, and subsequently pets. ... Binomial name Mesocricetus auratus Waterhouse, 1839 The Syrian Hamster or Golden Hamster, Mesocricetus auratus, is the best known member of the rodent subfamily Cricetinae, the hamsters. ... Aaron Ciechanover (אהרון צחנובר) (born October 1, 1947) is an Israeli biologist. ... Avram Hershko (born December 31, 1937) is an Israeli biologist. ... The Albert Lasker Award for Basic Medical Research is awarded by the Lasker Foundation for the understanding, diagnosis, prevention, treatment, and cure of disease. ... This is a list of Nobel Prize laureates in Chemistry from 1901 to 2006. ... Dr. Moshé Pinhas Feldenkrais (May 6, 1904 - July 1, 1984) was the founder of the Feldenkrais Method® of movement education designed to improve human functioning by increasing self-awareness in movement. ... The Feldenkrais Method is an educational system intended to give individuals a greater functional awareness of the self. ... The Newsweek logo Newsweek is a weekly news magazine published in New York City and distributed throughout the United States and internationally. ... Israel Hanukoglu - Professor of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology. ... Gavriel Iddan is an Israeli electro-optical engineer and the inventor of capsule endoscopy. ... Past winners of the Wolf Prize in Medicine: 1978 George D. Snell, Jean Dausset, Jon J. van Rood 1979 Roger W. Sperry, Arvid Carlsson, Oleh Hornykiewicz 1980 Cesar Milstein, Leo Sachs, Sir James L. Gowans 1981 Barbara McClintock, Stanley N. Cohen 1982 Jean-Pierre Changeux, Solomon H. Snyder, Sir James... Leo Sachs (born 1924) is a German-born Israeli molecular biologist and cancer researcher. ... Ruth Arnon is an Israeli biochemsit and codeveloper of the multiple schlerosis drug Copaxone. ... Copaxone, manufactured by Teva Marion Partners, is the brand name for a synthetic chemical used to modify the course of multiple sclerosis. ... Joel L. Sussman is an Israeli crystallographer best known for his studies on acetylcholinesterase, a key protein involved in transmission of nerve signals. ... To meet Wikipedias quality standards, this article or section may require cleanup. ... Computer Science Faculty Building Architecture and Town Planning Faculty building The Technion – Israel Institute of Technology (Hebrew: ‎; commonly abbreviated as Technion IIT) is a university in Haifa, Israel, founded 1924. ... This article is about the person. ... Ada Yonath is an Israeli crystallographer best known for her pioneering work on the structure of ribosome. ... Amotz Zahavi is an Israeli Evolutionary Biologist from Tel-Aviv University, and one of the founders of the Israeli Society for the Protection of Nature. ... The handicap principle is an idea proposed by the Israeli biologist Amotz Zahavi. ...

Engineering

• Franz Ollendorf, Electronics, Electrical research,
• Liviu Librescu, Professor of Engineering Science and Mechanics at Virginia Tech, killed in the Virginia Tech massacre
• Moshe Zakai, Electrical engineering,
• Jacob Ziv, Electrical engineering,

Liviu Librescu (August 18, 1930 – April 16, 2007; Hebrew: ) was a Romanian born and educated Israeli-American scientist and academic whose major research fields were aeroelasticity and aerodynamics. ... The Virginia Tech massacre was a school shooting comprising two separate attacks about two hours apart on April 16, 2007, on the Virginia Tech campus in Blacksburg, Virginia, United States. ... Jacob Ziv, along with Abraham Lempel, developed the lossless LZ77 compression algorithm. ...

Philosophy

• Martin Buber - philosopher
• Berl Katznelson
• Joseph Raz - philosopher
• Yeshayahu Leibowitz - philosopher and public figure
• Avishai Margalit - philosopher
• Gershom Scholem

Martin Buber (8 February 1878 – 13 June 1965) was an Austrian-Israeli-Jewish philosopher, translator, and educator, whose work centered on theistic ideals of religious consciousness, interpersonal relations, and community. ... Berl Katznelson (1887 - 1944) was a Labor Zionism philosopher. ... Joseph Raz (born 1939) is an influential legal, moral and political philosopher. ... Yeshayahu Leibowitz (1903-1994) was an Israeli scientist, philosopher and public figure noted for his outspoken and often controversial opinions regarding morals, ethics, politics, and religion. ... Category: ... Gershom Scholem (born December 5, 1897 in Berlin, died February 21, 1982 in Jerusalem), also known as Gerhard Scholem, was a German-born Jewish philosopher and historian. ...

Social sciences

• David Asheri, classical studies
• Yehuda Bauer, historian
• Aharon Dolgopolsky - linguist: Nostratic
• SN Eisenstadt - sociologist: multiple modernities
• Haim Ginott - psychologist: child psychology
• Eliyahu Goldratt - business consultant: Theory of Constraints
• Louis Guttman, sociologist,
• Don Handelman, Anthropology, Sociology,
• Elhanan Helpman - economist: international trade
• Daniel Kahneman - behavioural scientist: prospect theory; Nobel Prize in Economics (2002)
• Gerry Leisman - psychologist: neuropsychology, computational neuroscience
• Benjamin Mazar & Yigael Yadin - archaeologists
• Benny Morris & Avi Shlaim - historians: New Historians
• David Navon, psychologist,
• Erich Neumann - analytical psychologist: development, consciousness
• Nurit Peled-Elhanan, educator and activist
• Hans Jakob Polotsky, linguist,
• Sheizaf Rafaeli, Management, information, communication,
• Ariel Rubinstein, economist,
• Yoram Tsafrir, Archeology,
• Amos Tversky - behavioral scientist: prospect theory with Daniel Kahneman
• Menahem Yaari, economist,

Yehuda Bauer Yehuda Bauer (born 1926) is an historian and scholar of the Holocaust. ... Aharon Dolgopolsky (born 1930) is a Russian-born Israeli comparative linguist and one of the modern founders of comparative Nostratic linguistics. ... Nostratic is a highly controversial language super-family that putatively links many Eurasian language families. ... Haim G. Ginott was a teacher, child psychologist and psychotherapist, who worked with children and parents. ... Eliyahu M. Goldratt (born ?) is an Israel-born physicist turned business consultant, the originator of the theory of constraints (abbreviation: TOC). ... Theory of Constraints (TOC) is an overall management philosophy that aims to continually achieve more of the goal of a system. ... Please wikify (format) this article as suggested in the Guide to layout and the Manual of Style. ... Elhanan Helpman (born March 30, 1946 in Dzalabad, former Soviet Union) is an Israeli economist who works in the field of international trade. ... Daniel Kahneman Daniel Kahneman (born March 5, 1934 in Tel Aviv, in the then British Mandate of Palestine, now in Israel), is a key pioneer and theorist of behavioral finance, which integrates economics and cognitive science to explain seemingly irrational risk management behavior in human beings. ... Prospect theory was developed by Daniel Kahneman and Amos Tversky in 1979 as a psychologically realistic alternative to expected utility theory. ... The Bank of Sweden Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel (in Swedish Sveriges Riksbanks pris i ekonomisk vetenskap till Alfred Nobels minne), is a prize awarded each year for outstanding intellectual contributions in the field of economics. ... Benjamin Mazar (June 28, 1906 - September 9, 1995) was a pioneering Israeli archaeologist who shared the national passion for the archaeology of Israel that also attracts considerable international interest due to the regions Biblical links. ... Yigael Yadin (March 20, 1917 - June 28, 1984) was an Israeli archeologist, politician, and the second Chief of Staff of the Israel Defense Forces (IDF). ... This article or section does not adequately cite its references or sources. ... Avi Shlaim was born in Baghdad in 1945 and grew up in Israel where he did national service from 1964 to 1966. ... The New Historians are a loosely-defined group of Israeli historians who have declared as their goal the reexamination of the history of Israel and Zionism. ... Erich Neumann (1905- November 5, 1960) was a psychologist, writer, and one of Carl Jungs most gifted students. ... Nurit Peled-Elhanan in a meeting of the European Parliament Nurit Peled-Elhanan is an Israeli peace activist, professor at Hebrew University, and is among the founders of the Bereaved Families for Peace. ... Professor Sheizaf Rafaeli (שיזף רפאלי), Israel (B.A., Haifa University, M.A. Ohio State University, M.A., Ph. ... Ariel Rubinstein (born April 13, 1951) is an economist who works in game theory. ... Amos Tversky (March 16, 1937 - June 2, 1996) was a pioneer of cognitive science, a longtime collaborator of Daniel Kahneman, and a key figure in the discovery of systematic human cognitive bias and handling of risk. ... Prospect theory was developed by Daniel Kahneman and Amos Tversky in 1979 as a psychologically realistic alternative to expected utility theory. ... Daniel Kahneman Daniel Kahneman (born March 5, 1934 in Tel Aviv, in the then British Mandate of Palestine, now in Israel), is a key pioneer and theorist of behavioral finance, which integrates economics and cognitive science to explain seemingly irrational risk management behavior in human beings. ...

Entrepreneurs

High-tech

• Beny Alagem - founder of Packard Bell
• Efi Arazi - founder of Scitex
• Safra Catz - president of Oracle
• Idan & Yerach Feigenbaum - founders of SpeedBit (developers of Download Accelerator)
• Eli Harari - founder of SanDisk
• Yoav Hollander - founder of Verisity
• Morris Kahn - founder of Amdocs
• Daniel M. Lewin - founder of Akamai Technologies
• David Perlmutter - mobile platforms manager of Intel (developed Centrino wholly in Israel)
• Zack Rinat - founder of NetDynamics, Model N, Inc.
• Bob Rosenschein - founder of GuruNet, Answers.com (Israeli-based)
• Gil Schwed - founder of Check Point
• Zeev Suraski & Andi Gutmans - founders of Zend Technologies (developers of PHP)
• Ariki & Yossi Vardi, Yair Goldfinger, Sefi Vigiser & Amnon Amir - founders of Mirabilis (developers of ICQ)
• Amnon Landan - founder of Mercury Interactive
• Doron Simovitch & Asaf Klibansky - founders of SortPrice.com
• Meir Brand - Google Israel

Beny Alagem (born 1953) was a former Israeli tank driver and the founder of Packard Bell Electronics, a leading American computer manufacturer during the late 1980s and early 1990s. ... Current corporate logo Packard Bell (PB) was an American radio manufacturer, founded in 1933, in Los Angeles, that later became a defense contractor and manufacturer of other consumer electronics, such as television sets. ... Scitex Vision (formerly Scitex) is an Israel-based company that specializes in producing equipment for large- and very-large-format printing on both paper and specialty materials. ... Safra A. Catz, born in Holon, Israel, is the Chief Financial Officer of Oracle Corporation since November 2005. ... Oracle Corporation (NASDAQ: ORCL) is one of the major companies developing database management systems (DBMS), tools for database development, middle-tier software, enterprise resource planning software (ERP), customer relationship management software (CRM) and supply chain management (SCM) software. ... Download Accelerator is a closed source software download manager for the Mac OS X and Microsoft Windows operating environments. ... SanDisk Corporation (NASDAQ: SNDK), formerly SunDisk, is an American multinational corporation which designs and markets flash memory card products. ... Amdocs NYSE: DOX, headquarters in St. ... Daniel Danny M. Lewin (1970 – September 11, 2001) was a mathematician and entrepreneur, best known for cofounding internet company Akamai Technologies. ... Akamai Technologies, Inc. ... David Perlmutter, MD, FACN David Perlmutter, MD, FACN[1] is a Board-Certified Neurologist who received his MD degree from the University of Miami School of Medicine where he was awarded the Leonard G. Rowntree Research Award. ... Intel Corporation (NASDAQ: INTC, SEHK: 4335), founded in 1968 as Integrated Electronics Corporation, is an American multinational corporation that is best known for designing and manufacturing microprocessors and specialized integrated circuits. ... Components of the Centrino platform. ... Model N, Inc. ... Bob Rosenschein is the owner of Israel-based Answers Corporation, formerly GuruNet, which operates Answers. ... This article needs to be cleaned up to conform to a higher standard of quality. ... Answers. ... Check Point Software Technologies Ltd. ... Zeev Suraski is an Israeli programmer, PHP developer and co-founder of Zend Technologies. ... Andi Gutmans is an Israeli programmer, PHP developer and co-founder of Zend Technologies. ... Zend Technologies Ltd. ... PHP is a reflective programming language originally designed for producing dynamic web pages. ... Mirabilis was the name of the Israeli company that produced ICQ (I seek you), which in the 1990s was the most popular form of Instant Messenger. ... Yossi Vardi in 2005 Yossi Vardi is one of Israels early tech entrepreneurs. ... Mirabilis was the name of the Israeli company that produced ICQ (I seek you), which in the 1990s was the most popular form of Instant Messenger. ... Mirabilis was the name of the Israeli company that produced ICQ (I seek you), which in the 1990s was the most popular form of Instant Messenger. ... Mirabilis was the name of the Israeli company that produced ICQ (I seek you), which in the 1990s was the most popular form of Instant Messenger. ... Mirabilis was the name of the Israeli company that produced ICQ, a popular instant messenger. ... ICQ is an instant messaging computer program, owned by Time Warners AOL subsidiary. ... It has been suggested that Systinet be merged into this article or section. ...

Other

• Avi Arad & Isaac Perlmutter - owners of Marvel Comics
• Ted, Micky & Shari Arison - founder/owners of Carnival Corporation
• Eli Hurwitz - head of Teva Pharmaceuticals
• Lev Leviev, Benny Steinmetz - diamond tycoons
• Mordecai Meirowitz - inventor of the Mastermind board game
• Joseph, Ralph & Avi Nakash - founders of Jordache
• Sammy & Yuli Ofer - shipping magnates
• Ron Sommer - ex-CEO of Deutsche Telekom
• Stef Wertheimer - industrialist

Avi Arad (Hebrew: אבי ארד) is an Israeli-American businessman. ... Marvel Comics is an American comic book line published by Marvel Publishing, Inc. ... This page meets Wikipedias criteria for speedy deletion. ... Micky Arison is the Chief Executive Officer of Carnival Corporation & PLC. See also List of billionaires External links Forbes. ... Shari Arison (born 1957) is an Israeli-American businesswoman and Israels wealthiest citizen. ... Carnival Corporation & PLC (NYSE: CCL) is the worlds largest cruise operator, comprising 13 cruise brands, including Carnival Cruise Lines, Princess Cruises, Holland America Line, Windstar Cruises and Seabourn Cruise Line in North America; P & O Cruises, Cunard Line, Ocean Village and Swan Hellenic in the United Kingdom; AIDA and... Teva Pharmaceutical Industries Ltd. ... Lev Avnerovich Leviev (born 30 July 1956, Tashkent) is an Israeli businessman with wide-ranging interests, including in the diamond trade, real estate and chemicals. ... Mordecai Meirowitz was an Israeli postmaster and telecommunications expert who invented the code-breaking board game Mastermind. ... Mastermind is a simple code-breaking board game for two players, invented in 1970 by Mordecai Meirowitz, an Israeli postmaster and telecommunications expert. ... Jordache is a brand of designer jeans that started in 1978 by the Nakash brothers in New York. ... [[Images:Bonn DTAG2. ... Stef Wertheimer (Hebrew: סטף ורטהיימר) (born: July 16, 1926 is an Israeli industrialist, winner of the Israel Prize and one of Israels wealthiest citizens. ...

Sports

Basketball

• Micky Berkowitz - Maccabi Tel-Aviv
• Tal Brody - Maccabi Tel-Aviv
• Tal Burstein - Maccabi Tel-Aviv
• Amit Tamir - University of California, PAOK Thessaloniki
• Shay Doron - University of Maryland

Maccabi Elite Tel-Aviv (מכבי תל-אביב) is a basketball team based in Tel-Aviv, Israel. ... Tal Brody (born August 30, 1943 in Trenton, New Jersey, USA) is a former basketball player. ... Maccabi Elite Tel-Aviv (מכבי תל-אביב) is a basketball team based in Tel-Aviv, Israel. ... Tal Burstein (born February 19, 1980 in Petah-Tikva, Israel) is a professional basketball player. ... Maccabi Elite Tel-Aviv (מכבי תל-אביב) is a basketball team based in Tel-Aviv, Israel. ... Amit Tamir (born February 2, 1979) is a professional basketball player from Israel. ... Shay Doron (Hebrew: שי דורון) was born in Ramat Hasharon, Israel on April 1, 1985 to Yuda and Tamar Doron. ...

Football (soccer)

• Yossi Benayoun - Hapoel Be'er Sheva, Maccabi Haifa, Racing Santander, West Ham, Liverpool
• Tal Ben Haim - Maccabi Tel Aviv, Bolton Wanderers, Chelsea
• Eyal Berkovic - Maccabi Haifa, Southampton, West Ham, Celtic, Man City, Portsmouth
• Haim Revivo - Maccabi Haifa, Celta Vigo, Fenerbahçe, Galatasaray
• Ronnie Rosenthal - Maccabi Haifa, Liverpool, Tottenham, Watford
• Yochanan Vollach - Hapoel Haifa, Maccabi Haifa, HKFC, President of Maccabi Haifa association
• Mordechai Spiegler - Maccabi Netanya, Paris St. Germain
• Pini Zahavi - UK-based super-agent
• Itzik Zohar - Maccabi Jaffa, Maccabi Tel Aviv, Royal Antwerp, Beitar Jerusalem, Crystal Palace, Maccabi Haifa, Maccabi Herzliya, Maccabi Netanya, F.C. Ashdod, Hapoel Nazareth Illit

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Tennis

• Harel Levy (1 doubles title, 2 singles finals)
• Noam Okun
• Dudi Sela
• Amir Hadad
• Noam Behr
• Eyal Ran
• Gilad Bloom
• Shlomo Glickstein
• Jonathan Erlich (6 doubles titles, 6 doubles finals)
• Andy Ram (6 doubles titles, 6 doubles finals, 1 mixed double title (Wimbledon 2006 W/Zvonareva
• Amos Mansdorf
• Shahar Perkis
• Hila Rosen
• Anna Smashnova (12 WTA career titles)
• Shahar Peer (3 WTA career titles)
• Tzipora Obziler

Harel Levy (born August 5, 1978, in Kibutz Nahshonin, Israel) is a professional male tennis player. ... Noam Okun (born April 16, 1978, in Haifa, Israel) is a professional tennis player. ... Dudi Sela (born April 4, 1985, in Kiryat Shmona, Israel) is a professional tennis player. ... Amir Hadad (born February 17, 1978, in Ramle, Israel) is a professional tennis player. ... Noam Behr At The U.S. Open Naom Behr (born on October 13, 1975, in Tel-Aviv, Israel) is a professional tennis player. ... Eyal Ran Hits A Forehand Eyal Ran (born on November 21, 1972, in Kiriat Ono, Israel) is a professional tennis player. ... Gilad Bloom (born March 1, 1967, in Tel Aviv, Israel) is a former professional tennis player from Israel. ... Shlomo Glickstein (born January 6, 1958 in Rehovot, Israel) is a former professional tennis player from Israel. ... Jonathan Erlich (Born April 5, 1977, in Buenos Aires, Argentina) is a professional tennis player from Israel. ... Andy Ram (born April 10, 1980 in Montevideo, Uruguay) is a professional right-handed tennis player from Israel, and the first Israeli tennis player to win a Grand Slam event (mixed doubles at 2006 Wimbledon and the 2007 French Open). ... Amos Mansdorf (born October 20, 1965, in Tel Aviv, Israel) is a former professional tennis player from Israel. ... Anna Smashnova Hits A Backhand Anna Smashnova (Анна Смашнова; born July 16, 1976 in Minsk, Soviet Union) is a professional tennis player from Israel. ... Shahar Peer (born May 1, 1987, Maccabim, Israel) is a professional female tennis player. ... Tzipora Obziler Hits A Forehand Tzipora Obziler (born April 19, 1973, in Givataym, Israel) is a professional tennis player. ...

Other

• 1972 Olympic team - see Munich Massacre
• Alex Averbukh - pole vaulter (European champion: 2002, 2006)
• Eli Elezra - professional poker player
• Galit Chait & Sergei Sakhnovski - ice dancers (world championship bronze: 2002)
• Gal Fridman - windsurfer (olympic gold: 2004, bronze: 1996; world champion: 2002)
• Boris Gelfand, Emil Sutovsky, Ilya Smirin - chess Grandmasters (~2700 peak ELO rating)
• Baruch Hagai - wheelchair athlete (multiple paralympic golds)
• Esther Roth-Shachamarov - track & field (5 Asian game golds)
• Ariel Zeevi - judoka (European champion: 2000, 2003, 2004; olympic bronze: 2004)
• Yael Arad - judoka (olympic silver: 1992, European champion: 1993, world silver: 1993). First Israeli Olympic medallist.
• Oren Smadja - judoka (olympic bronze: 1992)
• Michael Kolganov - kayak paddler (olympic bronze: 2000)

See also: List of Israeli chess players

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See also

• List of Israel Prize recipients
• List of people by nationality
• Politics of Israel, List of Knesset members
• Culture of Israel, Music of Israel
• Science and technology in Israel
• List of Hebrew language authors, poets and playwrights
• List of Dutch Israelis

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