List of Israelis

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This is a list of prominent Israelis

Politicians

• Ehud Barak – prime minister (1999–01)
• Menachem Begin – prime minister (1977–83); Nobel Peace Prize (1978)
• Yossi Beilin – leader of the Meretz-Yachad party and peace negotiator
• David Ben-Gurion – first Prime Minister of Israel (1948–54, 1955–63)
• Yitzhak Ben-Zvi – first elected/second president President of Israel (1952–63)
• Naftali Bennett – leader of The Jewish Home party, minister of economy and minister of religious services (2013–present)
• Levi Eshkol – prime minister (1963–69)
• Abba Eban – diplomat and Foreign Affairs Minister of Israel (1966–74)
• Effie Eitam – former leader of the National Religious Party, now head of the Renewed Religious National Zionist party
• Moshe Katsav – president (2000–07), and convicted rapist
• Teddy Kollek – former mayor of Jerusalem
• Yair Lapid – leader of the Yesh Atid party, minister of finance (2013 – March 2015)
• Yosef Lapid – former leader of the Shinui party
• Golda Meir – prime minister (1969–74)
• Benjamin Netanyahu – prime minister (1996–99), (2009–); Likud party chairman
• Ehud Olmert – prime minister (2006–09); former mayor of Jerusalem
• 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)
• Ayelet Shaked – Knesset member (2013–present)
• Yitzhak Shamir – prime minister (1983–84, 1986–92)
• Moshe Sharett – prime minister (1954–55)
• Ariel Sharon – prime minister (2001–06)
• Chaim Weizmann – first President of Israel (1949–52)
• Rabbi Ovadia Yosef – spiritual leader of the Shas party
• Rehavam Zeevi – founder of the Moledet party (assassinated October 2001)
• Uzi Eilam – ex-director of Israel's Atomic Energy Commission

Military

• Ron Arad – MIA navigator
• Gabi Ashkenazi – Chief of the IDF General Staff
• Yohai Ben-Nun – sixth commander of the Israeli Navy
• 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
• 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
• Israel Tal – general, father of Merkava tank
• Moshe Ya'alon – Chief of the IDF General Staff
• Yigael Yadin – Chief of the IDF General Staff

News anchors

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

Activists

• Uri Avnery – peace activist, Gush Shalom
• Yael Dayan – writer, politician, activist
• Uzi Even – gay rights activist
• Yehuda Glick – activist for Jewish rights at the Temple Mount
• 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

Criminals

• Yigal Amir – assassin of Yitzhak Rabin
• Baruch Goldstein – murderer
• Ami Popper – murderer
• Benny Sela – rapist
• Eden-Nathan Zada – murderer

Religious figures

Haredi rabbis

• 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)
• Ovadia Yosef
• Amram Zaks – rosh yeshiva of the Slabodka yeshiva of Bnei Brak

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,^[1] (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

Entertainment

Film, TV, radio and stage

• Avital Abergel – film and TV actress
• Gila Almagor – actress
• Lior Ashkenazi – actor
• Yvan Attal – actor, director
• Mili Avital – actress
• Aki Avni – actor
• Mayim Bialik – actress and neuroscientist
• David Faitelson – Mexican television sports commentator, born in Israel
• Oded Fehr – actor
• Eytan Fox – director
• Gal Gadot – actress and model
• Uri Geller – TV personality, self-proclaimed psychic
• Amos Gitai – director
• Arnon Goldfinger – director
• Yael Grobglas – actress
• Michael Karpin – broadcast journalist and author
• Daphna Kastner – actress; married to actor Harvey Keitel
• Amos Kollek – director, writer
• Dover Kosashvili – director
• Hanna Laslo – actress
• Daliah Lavi – actress
• Rod Lurie – director, film critic
• Gad Lerner – journalist (currently living in Italy)
• Arnon Milchan – producer
• Ohad Naharin – choreographer
• Eyal Podell – actor
• Natalie Portman – actress
• Ze'ev Revach – actor, comedian
• Avner Strauss – musician
• Haim Saban – TV producer
• Elia Suleiman – director
• Chaim Topol – actor
• Raviv Ullman – actor
• Yaron London – TV interviewer
• Keren Yedaya – director
• Ayelet Zurer – actress
• Naor Zion – comedian, actor, director

Fashion models

• Moran Atias
• Nina Brosh
• Esti Ginzburg
• Esti Mamo
• Yael Markovich
• Bar Refaeli
• Pnina Rosenblum

Musicians

Popular musicians

• Chava Alberstein – singer/songwriter
• Etti Ankri – singer/songwriter
• Yardena Arazi – singer and TV host
• Shlomo Artzi – singer/songwriter
• Ehud Banai – singer/songwriter
• Eef Barzelay – founder of Clem Snide
• 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
• Arik Einstein – singer, actor, writer
• Gad Elbaz – singer
• Ethnix – pop-rock band
• Uri Frost – rock guitarist, producer and director
• Aviv Geffen – singer/songwriter
• Gidi Gov – singer
• Dedi Graucher – Orthodox Jewish singer
• Shlomo Gronich – singer and composer
• Sarit Hadad – Mizrahi singer
• Ofra Haza – singer
• Dana International – pop singer
• Ishtar – vocalist for Alabina
• Ehud Manor – songwriter and translator
• Amal Murkus – singer
• Yael Naïm – solo singer/musician
• Ahinoam Nini (Noa) – singer
• Esther Ofarim – 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
• Ninet Tayeb – pop rock singer and actress
• Rika Zaraï, singer
• Nir Zidkyahu – drummer, briefly in Genesis
• Zino and Tommy – popular duo, songs in U.S. films
• Borgore – music producer

Classical musicians

• Moshe Atzmon – conductor
• Daniel Barenboim – conductor and pianist
• Rami Bar-Niv – pianist and composer
• Bart Berman – pianist
• Gary Bertini – conductor
• Natan Brand – pianist
• Nir Brand – conductor
• Yefim Bronfman – pianist
• Giora Feidman – clarinetist
• Ivry Gitlis – violinist
• Matt Haimovitz – cellist
• Ofra Harnoy – cellist
• Eliahu Inbal – conductor
• Sharon Kam – clarinetist
• Amir Katz – 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
• Ilana Vered – pianist
• Pinchas Zukerman – violinist

Classical composers

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

Writers

• Shmuel Yosef Agnon (Shmuel Yosef Halevi Czaczkes) – author, Nobel Prize in Literature (1966)
• Aharon Appelfeld – Prix Médicis étranger (2004)
• 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
• Sayed Kashua – author and journalist
• Shmuel Katz – author and journalist
• Etgar Keret – author
• 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

Poets

• Nathan Alterman
• Yehuda Amichai
• Leah Goldberg
• Uri Zvi Greenberg
• Dahlia Ravikovich
• Naomi Shemer – songwriter and lyricist
• Avraham Shlonsky
• Avraham Stern
• Abraham Sutzkever
• Nathan Zach
• Zelda

Artists

• 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)
• Tuvia Beeri – printmaker
• Alexander Bogen – painter
• Rhea Carmi – painter
• Yitzhak Danziger – sculptor
• Alber Elbaz – fashion designer
• Yitzhak Frenkel – painter
• Gideon Gechtman – sculptor
• Moshe Gershuni – painter
• Dudu Geva – artist and comic-strip illustrator
• Nachum Gutman – painter
• Israel Hershberg – realist painter
• Shimshon Holzman – painter
• Leo Kahn – painter
• Shemuel Katz – illustrator
• Dani Karavan – sculptor
• Joseph Kossonogi – painter
• Elyasaf Kowner – video artist
• Sigalit Landau – video, installation, sculpture
• Gil Lavi – photographer
• Alex Levac – photographer
• 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
• Sergey Zagraevsky – painter
• Moshe Ziffer – sculptor

Architects

• Michael Arad
• Ram Karmi
• Richard Kaufmann
• David Kroyanker
• David Resnick
• Moshe Safdie
• Arieh Sharon

Chefs

• Yisrael Aharoni – Famous chef and restaurateur

Academic figures

Computing and mathematics

• 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
• Aryeh Dvoretzky, mathematician
• 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)
• 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
• 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

Physics and chemistry

• Yakir Aharonov – Aharonov–Bohm effect; Wolf Prize in Physics (1998)
• 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) The fourth President of Israel List of Presidents of Israel
• 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)
• Igal Talmi – nuclear physics
• Reshef Tenne – discovered inorganic fullerenes and inorganic nanotubes
• Arieh Warshel – Nobel Prize in Chemistry (2013)
• Chaim Weizmann – acetone production

Biology and medicine

• 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
• Benjamin Kahn – marine biologist, defender of the Red Sea reef
• Alexander Levitzki – cancer research; Wolf Prize in Medicine (2005)
• 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)
• Michael Sela and Ruth Arnon – developed Copaxone; Wolf Prize in Medicine (1998)
• 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

Engineering

• David Faiman – solar engineer and director of the National Solar Energy Center
• 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

Philosophy

• Martin Buber
• Berl Katznelson
• Yeshayahu Leibowitz
• Avishai Margalit
• Joseph Raz
• Gershom Scholem

Social sciences

• Yehuda Bauer – historian
• Daniel Elazar – political scientist
• Haim Ginott – psychologist: child psychology
• Eliyahu Goldratt – business consultant: Theory of Constraints
• Louis Guttman – sociologist
• Michael Harris – scholar, academic leader
• 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
• Sheizaf Rafaeli – Management, information, communication,
• Ariel Rubinstein – economist
• Moshe Sharon – historian
• Avi Shlaim – historian
• Amos Tversky – behavioral scientist: prospect theory with Daniel Kahneman

Archaeology

• Israel Finkelstein
• Amihai Mazar
• Benjamin Mazar
• Eilat Mazar
• Yigael Yadin

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

Entrepreneurs

High-tech

• 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
• 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

• Avi Arad and Isaac Perlmutter – owners of Marvel Comics
• Ted, Micky and Shari Arison – founder/owners of Carnival Corporation
• Eli Hurvitz – head of Teva Pharmaceuticals
• Lev Leviev – diamond tycoon
• Mordecai Meirowitz – inventor of the Mastermind board game
• Guy Oseary – head of Maverick Records
• Sammy Ofer – shipping magnate
• Stef Wertheimer – industrialist
• Yossi Dina – pawnbroker

Sports

Association Football

• Ryan Adeleye – defender (Hapoel Be'er Sheva)^[3]
• Eyal Ben Ami – midfielder various clubs, national team ^[4]
• Dudu Aouate – goalkeeper (RCD Mallorca, national team)^[5]
• Jonathan Assous – defensive midfielder (Hapoel Petah Tikva), of French origin^[6]
• Gai Assulin – winger/attacking midfielder (Manchester City, national team)
• Pini Balili – striker (Bnei Yehuda Tel Aviv, Israel national team)
• Yossi Benayoun – attacking midfielder, national team captain, Hapoel Be'er Sheva, Maccabi Haifa, Racing Santander, West Ham United, Liverpool, Chelsea
• David "Dedi" Ben Dayan – left defender (Hapoel Tel Aviv, national team)^[7][8]
• Tal Ben Haim – center back/right back, Maccabi Tel Aviv, Bolton Wanderers, Chelsea, West Ham United^[9]
• Eyal Berkovic – midfielder (national team), Maccabi Haifa, Southampton, West Ham United, Celtic, Manchester City, Portsmouth
• Daniel Brailovski – midfielder (Argentina, Uruguay, and Israel national teams)^[10]
• Tomer Chencinski – goaltender (Vaasan Palloseura)
• Avi Cohen – defender, Liverpool and national team
• Tamir Cohen – midfielder (Bolton Wanderers and national team)^[11]
• Tvrtko Kale – Croatia/Israel, goalkeeper (Hapoel Haifa)^[12]
• 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^[13]
• Ben Sahar – striker/winger (Hapoel Tel Aviv, national team)^[14]
• Mordechai Spiegler – striker (Israel national team), manager
• Idan Tal – midfielder (Beitar Jerusalem FC and Israel national team)
• Nicolás Tauber – goalkeeper (Chacarita Juniors) of Argentine origin^[15]
• 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

Basketball

• Miki Berkovich – Maccabi Tel Aviv
• David Blu – (formerly "Bluthenthal"), Euroleague 6' 7" forward (Maccabi Tel Aviv)^[16]
• 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 (Cleveland Cavaliers)^[17]
• Tanhum Cohen-Mintz – 6' 8" center; 2x Euroleague All-Star
• Shay Doron – WNBA 5' 9" guard, University of Maryland (New York Liberty)^[18]
• 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^[19]
• Yotam Halperin – 6' 5" guard, drafted in 2006 NBA draft by Seattle SuperSonics (Olympiacos)
• Gal Mekel – NBA basketball player
• Amit Tamir – 6' 10" center/forward, University of California, PAOK Thessaloniki (Hapoel Jerusalem)^[20][21]

Bodybuilding

• Alana Shipp – American/Israeli IFBB professional bodybuilder

Boxing

• Sarah Avraham – kickboxer, 2014 Women's World Thai-Boxing Champion in 57–63 kilos (125–140 pounds)
• Hagar Finer – WIBF bantamweight champion^[22]
• Yuri Foreman – U.S. middleweight and World Boxing Association super welterweight champion^[23]
• Roman Greenberg – ("The Lion from Zion"), International Boxing Organization's Intercontinental heavyweight champion

Fencing

• Boaz Ellis – foil, 5-time Israeli champion
• Lydia Hatoel-Zuckerman – foil, 6-time Israeli champion^[24][25]
• Ayelet Ohayon – foil, European champion
• Tomer Or, foil – junior world champion
• Andre Spitzer – killed by terrorists^[26]

Figure skating

• Alexei Beletski – ice dancer, Olympian^[27]
• Galit Chait – ice dancer, World Championship bronze 2002
• Natalia Gudina – figure skater, Olympian^[28]
• Tamar Katz – figure skater^[29]
• Lionel Rumi – ice dancer
• Sergei Sakhnovsky – ice dancer, World Championship Bronze medal 2002
• Daniel Samohin – figure skater
• Michael Shmerkin – figure skater^[30]
• Alexandra Zaretski – ice dancer, Olympian^[31]
• Roman Zaretski – ice dancer, Olympian^[32]

Golf

• Laetitia Beck – golfer

Gymnastics

• Alexander Shatilov – World bronze (artistic gymnast; floor exercise)^[33]
• Veronika Vitenberg – rhythmic gymnast

Judo

• 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 – Israel/Argentina judoka, World Champion (under 63 kg)^[34]
• 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)^[35]
• Gal Yekutiel – European championship bronze
• Ariel Zeevi – judoka (European champion: 2000, 2003, 2004; Olympic bronze: 2004; 100 kg)

Sailing

• Zefania Carmel – yachtsman, world champion (420 class)^[36]
• Gal Fridman – windsurfer (Olympic gold: 2004 (Israel's first gold medalist), bronze: 1996 (Mistral class); world champion: 2002)^[37]
• Lydia Lazarov – yachting world champion (420 class)^[36]
• Nimrod Mashiah – windsurfer; World Championship silver, ranked # 1 in world.
• Shahar Tzuberi – Israel, windsurfer, Olympic bronze (RS:X discipline); 2009 & 2010 European Windsurf champion^[38]

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
• 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, "I refuse to enter a contest in a land which so shamefully persecutes my people."^[41]
• Amit Ivry – Maccabiah and Israeli records in Women's 100m butterfly, Israeli record in t Women's 200m Individual Medley, bronze medal in 100m 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

Track and Field

• Alex Averbukh – pole vaulter (European champion: 2002, 2006)^[46]
• Danielle Frenkel – Israeli 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
• Esther Roth-Shachamarov – track and field, hurdler and sprinter (5 Asian Game golds)

Tennis

• Noam Behr^[47]
• Ilana Berger^[48]
• Gilad Bloom^[49]
• Jonathan Erlich – 6 doubles titles, 6 doubles finals; won 2008 Australian Open Men's Doubles (w/Andy Ram), highest world doubles ranking # 5^[50]
• Shlomo Glickstein – highest world singles ranking # 22, highest world doubles ranking # 28
• Julia Glushko^[51]
• Amir Hadad
• Harel Levy – highest world singles ranking # 30
• Evgenia Linetskaya
• Amos Mansdorf – highest world singles ranking # 18
• Tzipora Obziler
• Noam Okun
• Shahar Pe'er – (3 WTA career titles), highest world singles ranking # 11, highest world doubles ranking # 21
• 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^[52]
• Dudi Sela – highest world singles ranking # 29
• Anna Smashnova – (12 WTA career titles), highest world singles ranking # 15

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]
• 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)
• Josh Cartu – Ferrari AFCorse Test Pilot, Entrepreneur, prolific Gumballer, Best Team 2013
• Baruch Hagai – wheelchair athlete (multiple paralympic golds)
• Michael Kolganov – sprint canoer/kayak paddler, world champion, Olympic bronze 2000 (K-1 500-meter)
• Dean Kremer - Israeli-American baseball pitcher
• Chanoch Nissany – Formula One auto racing test-driver
• Ido Pariente – mixed martial artist
• Chagai Zamir – Israel, 4-time Paralympic Games champion

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
• List of notable Mizrahi Jews and Sephardi Jews in Israel
• List of notable Ashkenazi Jews in Israel
• List of notable Ethiopian Jews in Israel

References

Related links

• Presidents of Israel
• Prime Ministers of Israel