List of Israelis

Israelis (Hebrew: ישראלים Yiśraʾelim) are the citizens or permanent residents of the State of Israel, a multiethnic state populated by people of different ethnic backgrounds. The largest ethnic groups in Israel are Jews (75%), followed by Arabs (20%) and other minorities (5%).[1]

Flag of Israel ( דגל ישראל )

Location of Israel

Lists of Israelis

By ethnicity
Israeli Jews:
Ashkenazi Jews Ethiopian Jews Mizrahi and Sephardi Jews
Arab citizens of Israel:
Arab Muslims, Druze, Arab Christians
Various:
Circassians
By descent
Afghan, Algerian, American, Argentine, Armenian, Australian, Austrian
Belarusian, Belgian, Bosnian, Brazilian, British, Bulgarian
Canadian, Chilean, Chinese, Croatian, Czech
Danish, Dutch
Egyptian, Estonian, Ethiopian
Finnish, French
Georgian, German, Greek, Guatemalan
Hungarian
Indian, Iranian, Iraqi, Irish, Italian
Kazakhstani
Latvian, Libyan, Lithuanian
Mexican, Moldovan, Moroccan, Nigerian
Polish
Romanian, Russian
Serbian, Slovak, South African, Sudanese, Swedish, Swiss, Syrian
Tunisian, Turkish
Ukrainian, Uzbekistani
Yemeni
By place of residence

Academics

Archaeology

Israel Finkelstein (born 1949)
Amihai Mazar (born 1942)
Benjamin Mazar (1906-1995)
Eilat Mazar (1956-2021)
Yigael Yadin (1917-1984)

Biology and medicine

Nobel Prize winner Aaron Ciechanover

Nobel Prize winner Avram Hershko

Nobel Prize winner Ada Yonath

Aaron Valero – Professor of Medicine, founder of Faculty of Medicine at the Technion, director of government hospital
Aaron Ciechanover and Avram Hershko – ubiquitin system; Lasker Award (2000), Nobel Prize in Chemistry (2004)
Moshe Feldenkrais – invented Feldenkrais Method used in movement therapy
Hossam Haick – inventor of an electric nose for diagnosis of cancer[2]
Israel Hanukoglu – structures of cytoskeletal keratins, NADP binding proteins, steroidogenic enzymes, Epithelial Sodium Channels (ENaC)
Gavriel Iddan – inventor of capsule endoscopy
Danny Ionescu – aquatic microbial ecologist
Benjamin Kahn – marine biologist, defender of the Red Sea reef
Alexander Levitzki – cancer research; Wolf Prize in Medicine (2005)
Yadin Dudai – memory research
Gideon Mer – scientist, malaria control
Saul Merin – ophthalmologist, author of Inherited Eye Diseases
Raphael Mechoulam – chemist, discoverer of tetrahydrocannabinol and anandamide
Leo Sachs – blood cell research; Wolf Prize in Medicine (1980)
Asya Rolls – psychoneuroimmunologist
Michael Sela and Ruth Arnon – developed Copaxone; Wolf Prize in Medicine (1998)
Rahel Straus (1880–1963) – German-Jewish medical doctor and feminist
Joel Sussman – 3D structure of acetylcholinesterase, Elkeles Prize for Research in Medicine (2005)
Meir Wilchek – affinity chromatography; Wolf Prize in Medicine (1987)
Ada Yonath – structure of ribosome, Nobel Prize in Chemistry (2009)
Amotz Zahavi – Handicap Principle
Abraham Zangen – psycholobiology

Computing and mathematics

Nobel Prize winner Robert Aumann

Shafi Goldwasser

Elon Lindenstrauss

Ron Aharoni – mathematician
Noga Alon – mathematician, computer scientist, winner of the Gödel Prize (2005)
Shimshon Amitsur – mathematician ring theory abstract algebra
Robert Aumann – mathematician game theory; Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences (2005)
Amir Ban and Shay Bushinsky – programmers of Junior (chess)
Yehoshua Bar-Hillel – machine translation
Joseph Bernstein – mathematician
Eli Biham – differential cryptanalysis
Yair Censor – mathematician
Aryeh Dvoretzky – mathematician, eighth president of the Weizmann Institute of Science
Uriel Feige – computer scientist, winner of the Gödel Prize (2001)
Abraham Fraenkel – ZF set theory
Hillel Furstenberg – mathematician; Wolf Prize in Mathematics (2006/7)
Shafi Goldwasser – computer scientist, winner of the Gödel Prize (1993 and 2001)
David Harel – computer science; Israel Prize (2004)
Gad M. Landau – computer scientist
Abraham Lempel and Jacob Ziv – LZW compression; IEEE Richard W. Hamming Medal (2007 and 1995)
Joram Lindenstrauss – mathematician Johnson–Lindenstrauss lemma
Elon Lindenstrauss – mathematician
Michel Loève – probabilist
Joel Moses – MIT provost and writer of Macsyma
Yoram Moses – computer scientist, winner of the Gödel Prize (1997)
Judea Pearl – artificial intelligence, philosophy of action; Turing Award (2011)
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)
Shmuel Safra – computer scientist, winner of the Gödel Prize (2001)
Nir Shavit – computer scientist, winner of the Gödel Prize (2004)
Adi Shamir – RSA encryption, differential cryptanalysis; Turing Award (2002)
Saharon Shelah – logic; Wolf Prize in Mathematics (2001)
Ehud Shapiro – Concurrent Prolog, DNA computing pioneer
Moshe Y. Vardi – computer scientist, winner of the Gödel Prize (2000)
Avi Wigderson – randomized algorithms; Nevanlinna Prize (1994)
Doron Zeilberger – combinatorics

Engineering

David Faiman (born 1944) – solar engineer and director of the National Solar Energy Center
Yoram Koren – mechanical engineering
Liviu Librescu (1930-2007) – Professor of Engineering Science and Mechanics at Virginia Tech, killed in the Virginia Tech massacre
Hagit Messer Yaron (born 1953) – professor of electrical engineering
Moshe Zakai (1926-2015) – electrical engineering
Jacob Ziv (1931-2023) – electrical engineering

Humanities

Aharon Dolgopolsky – linguist: Nostratic
Moshe Goshen-Gottstein – Biblical scholar
Elias Khoury – law
Hans Jakob Polotsky – linguist
Chaim Rabin – Biblical scholar
Alice Shalvi – English literature, educator
Gershon Shaked – Hebrew literature
Shemaryahu Talmon – Biblical scholar
Emanuel Tov – Biblical scholar
Ghil'ad Zuckermann – linguist, revivalist

Philosophy

Martin Buber (1878-1965)
Berl Katznelson (1887-1944)
Yeshayahu Leibowitz (1903-1994)
Avishai Margalit (born 1939)
Joseph Raz (1939-2022)
Gershom Scholem (1897-1982)

Physics and chemistry

Josef Imry

Nobel Prize winner Michael Levitt

Nobel Prize winner Dan Shechtman

Nobel Prize winner Arieh Warshel

Yakir Aharonov – Aharonov–Bohm effect; Wolf Prize in Physics (1998)
Uri Banin – chemist
Amiram Barkai – biochemist
Jacob Bekenstein – black hole thermodynamics; Wolf Prize in Physics (2012)
David Deutsch – quantum computing pioneer; Paul Dirac Prize (1998)
Joshua Jortner and Rafi Levine – molecular energy; Wolf Prize in Chemistry (1988)
Josef Imry – physicist
Aaron Katzir – physical chemistry
Ephraim Katzir – immobilized enzymes; Japan Prize (1985); fourth president of Israel List of presidents of Israel
Michael Levitt – Nobel Prize in Chemistry (2011)
Zvi Lipkin – physicist
Dan T. Major – professor of chemistry
Boris Mavashev – seismologist
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), Nobel Prize in Chemistry (2013)
Igal Talmi – nuclear physics
Tsippy Tamiri – chemistry
Reshef Tenne – discovered inorganic fullerenes and non-carbon nanotubes
Arieh Warshel – Nobel Prize in Chemistry (2013)
Chaim Weizmann – acetone production

Social sciences

Nobel Prize winner Daniel Kahneman

Ariel Rubinstein

Yehuda Bauer – historian
Dany Bahar (economist) – economist
Daniel Elazar – political scientist
Esther Farbstein – historian
Haim Ginott – psychologist: child psychology
Eliyahu Goldratt – business consultant: Theory of Constraints
Louis Guttman – sociologist
Yuval Noah Harari – historian and author who wrote best selling book Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind
Michael Harris – public policy scholar and university administrator
Elhanan Helpman – economist: international trade
Daniel Kahneman – behavioural scientist: prospect theory; Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences (2002)
Smadar Lavie – anthropologist
Benny Morris – historian
Erich Neumann – analytical psychologist: development, consciousness
Nurit Peled-Elhanan – educator
Renee Rabinowitz – psychologist and lawyer
Sheizaf Rafaeli – management, information, communication
Anat Rafaeli – organisational behaviour
Ariel Rubinstein – economist
Moshe Sharon – historian
Avi Shlaim – historian
Abraham Solomonick – semiotician, linguist
Amos Tversky – behavioral scientist: prospect theory with Daniel Kahneman
Hanan Yoran – historian

Activists

Uri Avnery – peace activist, Gush Shalom
Yael Dayan – writer, politician, activist
Esther Eillam – feminist activist
Uzi Even – gay rights activist
Yehuda Glick – activist for Jewish rights at the Temple Mount
Shula Keshet – Mizrahi feminist, activist and artist
Hagar Rublev (1954–2000) – peace activist
Uri Savir – peace negotiator, Peres Center for Peace
Israel Shahak – political activist
Natan Sharansky – Soviet-era human rights activist
Ronny Edry and Michal Tamir – originators of the Israel-Loves-Iran peace movement and its offshoots

Architects

Athletes

Association football (soccer)

Yossi Benayoun

Avram Grant

Avram Grant – Israeli head coach & manager (Chelsea F.C. & Israel national team)
Eyal Ben Ami – midfielder various clubs, national team [3]
Yaniv Ben-Nissan – midfielder
Dudu Aouate – goalkeeper (RCD Mallorca, national team)[4]
Jonathan Assous – defensive midfielder (Hapoel Petah Tikva), of French origin[5]
Gai Assulin – winger/attacking midfielder (Manchester City, national team)
Ronen Badash – midfielder
Pini Balili – striker (Bnei Yehuda Tel Aviv, Israel national team)
Yossi Benayoun – attacking midfielder, (Israel national tema captain, as well as the national most capped footballer) Hapoel Be'er Sheva, Maccabi Haifa, Racing Santander, West Ham United, Liverpool, Chelsea
Gil Cain – defender, Hapoel Azor
David "Dedi" Ben Dayan – left defender (Hapoel Tel Aviv, national team)[6][7]
Tal Ben Haim – center back/right back, Maccabi Tel Aviv, Bolton Wanderers, Chelsea, West Ham United[8]
Daniel Brailovski – midfielder (Argentina, Uruguay, and Israel national teams)[9]
Roberto Colautti – Argentine born-striker
Tomer Chencinski – goaltender (Vaasan Palloseura)
Avi Cohen – defender, Liverpool and national team
Tamir Cohen – midfielder (Bolton Wanderers and national team)[10]
Rami Gershon – centre back / left back
Tvrtko Kale – Croatia/Israel, goalkeeper (Hapoel Haifa)[11]
Yaniv Katan – forward/winger (Maccabi Haifa, national team)
Eli Ohana – won UEFA Cup Winners' Cup and Bravo Award (most outstanding young player in Europe); national team; manager
Haim Revivo – attacking/side midfielder (Israel national team), Maccabi Haifa, Celta de Vigo, Fenerbahçe, Galatasaray
Ronnie Rosenthal – left winger/striker (Israel national team), Maccabi Haifa, Liverpool, Tottenham, Watford[12]
Ben Sahar – striker/winger (Hapoel Tel Aviv, national team)[13]
Mordechai Spiegler – striker (Israel national team), manager
Idan Tal – midfielder (Beitar Jerusalem FC and Israel national team)
Salim Tuama – soccer player playing for Hapoel Tel Aviv who has in the past played for Standard Liège, Maccabi Petah Tikva, Kayserispor, Larissa and the youth club Gadna Tel Aviv Yehuda.
Yochanan Vollach – defender (Israel national team); current president of Maccabi Haifa
Pini Zahavi – UK-based super-agent
Itzik Zohar – attacking midfielder (Israel national team), Maccabi Jaffa, Maccabi Tel Aviv, Royal Antwerp, Beitar Jerusalem, Crystal Palace, Maccabi Haifa, Maccabi Herzliya, Maccabi Netanya, F.C. Ashdod, Hapoel Nazareth Illit
Eyal Berkovic – attacking midfielder (English Premier League clubs & Celtic F.C. & Israel national team)
Eran Zahavi – forward (PSV Eindhoven & Israel national team captain, as well as the national top goalscorer)
Manor Solomon – winger/attacking midfielder (Fulham F.C. & Israel national team)

Basketball

Omri Casspi

Gal Mekel

Miki Berkovich – Maccabi Tel Aviv
David Blu – (formerly "Bluthenthal"), EuroLeague 6' 7" forward (Maccabi Tel Aviv)[14]
Tal Brody – Euroleague 6' 2" shooting guard, Maccabi Tel Aviv
Tal Burstein – Maccabi Tel Aviv
Omri Casspi – 6' 9" small forward, drafted in 1st round of 2009 NBA draft (Golden State Warriors)[15]
Tanhum Cohen-Mintz – 6' 8" center; 2× Euroleague All-Star
Shay Doron – WNBA 5' 9" guard, University of Maryland (New York Liberty)[16]
Lior Eliyahu – 6' 9" power forward, NBA draft 2006 (Orlando Magic; traded to Houston Rockets), but completed mandatory service in the Israel Defense Forces and played in the Euroleague (Maccabi Tel Aviv)
Tamir Goodman – U.S. and Israel, 6' 3" shooting guard[17]
Yotam Halperin – 6' 5" guard, drafted in 2006 NBA draft by Seattle SuperSonics (Olympiacos)
T. J. Leaf – NBA basketball player[18]
Gal Mekel – NBA basketball player
Yehoshua Rozin – basketball coach
Derrick Sharp – American-Israeli basketball player
Amit Tamir – 6' 10" center/forward, University of California, PAOK Thessaloniki (Hapoel Jerusalem)[19][20]

Bodybuilding

Alana Shipp – American/Israeli IFBB professional bodybuilder

Boxing

Yuri Foreman

Salamo Arouch (The Ballet Dancer) – middleweight champion of Greece, lightweight, welterweight, middleweight. He survived the Holocaust by boxing (over 200 bouts) for the entertainment of Nazi officers in Auschwitz Concentration Camp. His story was portrayed in the 1989 film "Triumph of the Spirit"
Sarah Avraham – kickboxer, 2014 Women's World Thai-Boxing Champion in 57–63 kilos (125–140 pounds)
Hagar Finer – WIBF bantamweight champion[21]
Yuri Foreman – U.S. middleweight and World Boxing Association super welterweight champion[22]
Roman Greenberg – ("The Lion from Zion"), International Boxing Organization's Intercontinental heavyweight champion
Pavlo Ishchenko – 2-time European Amateur Boxing Championships medalist, and European Games medalist
Yulia Sachkov – world champion kickboxer

Cycling

Mikhail Iakovlev (born 2000), cyclist

Fencing

Delila Hatuel

Boaz Ellis (born 1981) – foil, 5-time Israeli champion
Yuval Freilich (born 1995) – épée, 2019 European Épée Champion
Lydia Hatoel-Zuckerman (born 1963) – foil, 6-time Israeli champion[23][24]
Delila Hatuel (born 1980) – Olympic foil fencer
Noam Mills (born 1986) – épée, junior female world champion, 4-time Israeli champion
Ayelet Ohayon (born 1974) – foil, European champion
Tomer Or (born 1978) – foil, junior world champion
Andre Spitzer (1945–1972) – killed by terrorists[25]

Figure skating

Alexei Beletski – ice dancer, Olympian[26]
Oleksii Bychenko – figure skater, Olympian, European silver medallist 2016
Galit Chait – ice dancer, World Championship bronze 2002
Natalia Gudina – figure skater, Olympian[27]
Tamar Katz – figure skater[28]
Lionel Rumi – ice dancer
Sergei Sakhnovsky – ice dancer, World Championship Bronze medal 2002
Daniel Samohin – figure skater, Olympian, 2016 World Junior Champion
Michael Shmerkin – figure skater[29]
Alexandra Zaretski – ice dancer, Olympian[30]
Roman Zaretski – ice dancer, Olympian[31]

Golf

Laetitia Beck

Laetitia Beck – golfer

Gymnastics

Linoy Ashram

Alexander Shatilov – World bronze (artistic gymnast; floor exercise)[32]
Artem Dolgopyat – artistic gymnast (Olympic gold: 2020)
Linoy Ashram – rhythmic gymnast (Olympic gold: 2020)
Neta Rivkin – rhythmic gymnast
Nicol Zelikman – rhythmic gymnast

Judo

Or Sasson

Ariel Ze'evi

Oren Smadja

Yael Arad – judoka (Olympic silver: 1992, European champion: 1993, world silver: 1993). First Israeli Olympic medalist; light-middleweight
Yarden Gerbi – judoka (Olympic bronze: 2016)
Andrian Kordon – European Championship bronze; heavyweight
Daniela Krukower – Israeli/Argentine judoka, World Champion (under 63 kg)[33]
Yoel Razvozov – 2-time European Championship silver; lightweight
Or Sasson – judoka (Olympic bronze: 2016)
Oren Smadja – judoka (Olympic bronze: 1992; lightweight)
Ehud Vaks – judoka (half-lightweight)[34]
Gal Yekutiel – European championship bronze
Ariel Ze'evi – judoka (European champion: 2000, 2003, 2004; Olympic bronze: 2004; 100 kg)

Motor racing

Alon Day – Former NASCAR Euro Series Racing Driver
Chanoch Nissany – Former Racing Driver and Formula One Test Driver
Roy Nissany – FIA Formula 2 Racing Driver
Ido Cohen – FIA Formula 3 Racing Driver
Ariel Elkin – Italian Formula 4 Racing Driver
Alon Gabbay – Porsche Carrera Cup Germany Racing Driver
Ariel Levi – Porsche Carrera Cup GT3 Racing Driver

Sailing

Gal Fridman

Shahar Tzuberi

Zefania Carmel – yachtsman, world champion (420 class)[35]
Gal Fridman – windsurfer (Olympic gold: 2004 (Israel's first gold medalist), bronze: 1996 (Mistral class); world champion: 2002)[36]
Shai Kakon (born 2002) – Olympic sailor
Sharon Kantor (born 2003) – world champion windsurfer
Lee Korzits – windsurfer (two-time Olympian and four-time world champion)[37]
Lydia Lazarov – yachting world champion (420 class)[35]
Nimrod Mashiah – windsurfer; World Championship silver, ranked # 1 in world
Katy Spychakov – windsurfer; World Championship silver
Shahar Tzuberi – windsurfer, Olympic bronze (RS:X discipline); 2009 & 2010 European Windsurf champion[38]

Surfing

Anat Lelior

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

Swimming

Vadim Alexeev – swimmer, breaststroke[39]
Adi Bichman – 400-m and 800-m freestyle, 400-m medley[40]
Yoav Bruck – 50-m freestyle and 100-m freestyle
Anastasia Gorbenko (born 2003) – backstroke, breaststroke, and freestyle
Eran Groumi – 100 and 200 m backstroke, 100-m butterfly
Michael "Miki" Halika – 200-m butterfly, 200- and 400-m individual medley
Judith Haspel – (born "Judith Deutsch"), of Austrian origin, held every Austrian women's middle and long-distance freestyle record in 1935; refused to represent Austria in 1936 Summer Olympics along with Ruth Langer and Lucie Goldner, protesting Hitler, stating, "We do not boycott Olympia, but Berlin".[41]
Marc Hinawi – record holder in the European Games
Amit Ivry – Maccabiah and Israeli records in Women's 100 m butterfly, Israeli record in Women's 200 m Individual Medley, bronze medal in 100 m butterfly at the European Swimming Championships.
Dan Kutler – of U.S. origin; 100-m butterfly, 4×100-m medley relay[42]
Keren Leibovitch – Paralympic swimmer, 4x-gold-medal-winner, 100-m backstroke, 50- and 100-m freestyle, 200-m individual medley
Tal Stricker – 100- and 200-m breaststroke, 4×100-m medley relay[43]
Eithan Urbach – backstroke swimmer, European championship silver and bronze; 100-m backstroke[44]

Table tennis

Marina Kravchenko – table tennis player, Soviet and Israel national teams[45]
Angelica Rozeanu – (Adelstin), of Romanian origin, 17-time world table tennis champion, ITTFHoF

Taekwondo

Avishag Semberg

Avishag Semberg – taekwondo female athlete (Olympic bronze: 2020)

Tennis

Andy Ram and Jonathan Erlich

Shahar Pe'er

Noam Behr[46]
Ilana Berger[47]
Gilad Bloom[48]
Jonathan Erlich – 6 doubles titles, 6 doubles finals; won 2008 Australian Open Men's Doubles (w/Andy Ram), highest world doubles ranking # 5[49]
Shlomo Glickstein – highest world singles ranking # 22, highest world doubles ranking # 28
Julia Glushko[50]
Amir Hadad
Harel Levy – highest world singles ranking # 30
Evgenia Linetskaya
Amos Mansdorf – highest world singles ranking # 18
Tzipora Obziler
Noam Okun
Yshai Oliel
Shahar Pe'er – (3 WTA career titles), highest world singles ranking # 11, highest world doubles ranking # 14
Keren Shlomo – (3 ITF career titles)
Shahar Perkiss
Andy Ram – 6 doubles titles, 6 doubles finals, 1 mixed double title (won 2006 Wimbledon Mixed Doubles (w/Vera Zvonareva), 2007 French Open Mixed Doubles (w/Nathalie Dechy), 2008 Australian Open Men's Doubles (w/Jonathan Erlich), highest world doubles ranking # 5
Eyal Ran[51]
Dudi Sela – highest world singles ranking # 29
Denis Shapovalov (born 1999) – Israeli-Canadian tennis player, born in Tel Aviv, highest world singles ranking # 29
Anna Smashnova – (12 WTA career titles), highest world singles ranking # 15

Track and field

Alex Averbukh – pole vaulter (European champion: 2002, 2006)[52]
Ayele Seteng – long-distance runner, he was the oldest track and field athlete competing at the 2004 Olympics and 2008 Olympics.
Danielle Frenkel – high jump champion
Hanna Knyazyeva-Minenko – triple jumper and long jumper; participated in 2012 Summer Olympics
Shaul Ladany – world-record-holding racewalker, Bergen-Belsen survivor, Munich Massacre survivor, Professor of Industrial Engineering
Lonah Chemtai Salpeter – Kenyan-Israeli Olympic marathon runner
Esther Roth-Shachamarov – track and field, hurdler and sprinter (5 Asian Game golds)

Other

1972 Olympic team – see Munich Massacre
David Mark Berger – weightlifter originally from US, Maccabiah champion (middleweight); killed in the Munich Massacre[53]
Max Birbraer – ice hockey player drafted by NHL team (New Jersey Devils)[54]
Nili Block (born 1995) – world champion kickboxer and Muay Thai fighter[55]
Noam Dar – Israeli-born Scottish wrestler
Oren Eizenman – ice hockey player, Israel national team; Connecticut Whale)
Eli Elezra – professional poker player
Boris Gelfand, Emil Sutovsky, Ilya Smirin – chess Grandmasters (~2700 peak Elo rating)
Baruch Hagai – wheelchair athlete (multiple paralympic golds)
Michael Kolganov – sprint canoer/kayak paddler, world champion, Olympic bronze 2000 (K-1 500-meter)
Dean Kremer (born 1996) – Israeli-American Major League Baseball pitcher
Imi Lichtenfeld – Hungarian-born Israeli martial artist, developer of Krav Maga
Ido Pariente – mixed martial artist
Eliezer Sherbatov (born 1991) – Israeli-Canadian ice hockey player
Chagai Zamir – Israel, 4-time Paralympic Games champion

Chefs

Michal Ansky

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

Entertainment

Artists

Sigalit Landau

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

Film, TV, radio, and stage

Rotem Sela

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

Classical composers

Rami Bar-Niv

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

Classical musicians

Itzhak Perlman

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

Popular musicians

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

News anchors

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

Poets

Yehuda Amichai

Writers

Nobel Prize winner Shmuel Yosef Agnon

Etgar Keret

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

Entrepreneurs

Tech

Andi Gutmans

Yossi Vardi

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

Other

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

Fashion models

Bar Refaeli

Esti Ginzburg

Shani Hazan

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

Military

Moshe Dayan

Ilan Ramon

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

Politicians

Meirav Cohen

Golda Meir – female Prime Minister of Israel (1969–74)
Benjamin Netanyahu – prime minister of Israel (1996–99), (2009–); right-wing Likud party chairman
Naftali Bennett – prime minister of Israel (2021–), leader of The Jewish Home party, minister of economy and minister of religious services (2013–present)
Ehud Barak – prime minister (1999–2001)
Menachem Begin – prime minister (1977–83); Nobel Peace Prize (1978)
David Ben-Gurion – first Prime Minister of Israel (1948–54, 1955–63)
Yitzhak Ben-Zvi – first elected/second president President of Israel (1952–63)
Ehud Olmert – prime minister (2006–09); former mayor of Jerusalem
Yossi Beilin – leader of the Meretz-Yachad party and peace negotiator
Geula Cohen – politician, activist and "Israel Prize" recipient
Abba Eban – diplomat and Foreign Affairs Minister of Israel (1966–74)
Yuli-Yoel Edelstein – speaker of the Knesset
Uzi Eilam – ex-director of Israel's Atomic Energy Commission
Effie Eitam – former leader of the National Religious Party, now head of the Renewed Religious National Zionist party
Levi Eshkol – prime minister (1963–69)
Chaim Herzog – former president of Israel, first and only Irish-born Israeli President
Moshe Katsav – president (2000–07), and convicted rapist
Teddy Kollek – former mayor of Jerusalem
Pnina Tamano-Shata – Current Member of Knesset for National Unity (Israel)
Yair Lapid – leader of the Yesh Atid party, minister of finance (2013–March 2015) & minister of foreign affairs
Yosef Lapid – former leader of the Shinui party
Amir Ohana – first openly gay right-wing (Likud) member of the Knesset & former minister of justice
Shimon Peres – President of Israel (2007–2014); prime minister (1984–86, 1995–96); Nobel Peace Prize (1994)
Yitzhak Rabin – prime minister (1974–77, 1992–95); Nobel Peace Prize (1994) (assassinated November 1995)
Reuven Rivlin – President of Israel
Ayelet Shaked – Knesset parliament right-wing member (2013–) & minister (2015–)
Yitzhak Shamir – prime minister (1983–84, 1986–92)
Yisrael Yeshayahu Sharabi – former speaker of the Knesset
Moshe Sharett – prime minister (1954–55)
Ariel Sharon – prime minister (2001–06)
Chaim Weizmann – first President of Israel (1949–52)
Ovadia Yosef – spiritual leader of the Shas party
Rehavam Zeevi – founder of the Moledet party, Knesset parliament member & minister (assassinated by Palestinians in October 2001)
Meirav Cohen – minister for social equality & Knesset parliament member (2019–)

Criminals

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

Religious figures

Haredi Rabbis

Avraham Yeshayeh Karelitz

Yissachar Dov Rokeach

Ovadia Yosef

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

Reform Rabbis

Gilad Kariv

Religious-Zionist Rabbis

Shlomo Amar – Sephardic Chief Rabbi of Israel
David Hartman
Avraham Yitzchak Kook – pre-state Ashkenazic Chief Rabbi of the Land of Israel,[56] (1865–1935)
Israel Meir Lau – Ashkenazic Chief Rabbi of Israel (1993–2003), Chief Rabbi of Netanya (1978–88), (1937–)
Aharon Lichtenstein
Yona Metzger – Ashkenazic Chief Rabbi of Israel
Shlomo Riskin – Ashkenazic Chief Rabbi of Efrat

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