List of Israelis Guide, Meaning , Facts, Information and Description

Historical Figures

Politicians

• Chaim Weizmann - first president of Israel (1949-1952)
• David Ben-Gurion - first prime minister of Israel (1948-1953)
• Abba Eban - diplomat and foreign minster of Israel (1966-1974)
• Golda Meir - prime minister (1969-1974)
• Menachem Begin - prime minister (1977-1983); Nobel Peace Prize (1978)
• Yitzhak Rabin - assassinated prime minister (1974-1977, 1992-1995); Nobel Peace Prize (1994)
• Shimon Peres - prime minister (1977, 1984-1986, 1995-1996); Nobel Peace Prize (1994)
• Yitzhak Shamir - prime minister (1983-1984, 1987-1992)
• Benjamin Netanyahu - prime minister (1996-1999)
• Ehud Barak - prime minister (1999-2001)
• Ariel Sharon - current prime minister (2001-)
• Moshe Katsav - current president (2000-)

• Ron Arad - MIA navigator
• Eli Cohen - Israeli spy
• Moshe Dayan - military commander
• Uziel Gal - designer of the Uzi submachine gun
• Jonathan Netanyahu - leader of Operation Entebbe
• Avraham Stern - underground military leader

• Uri Avnery - peace activist, Gush Shalom
• Yossi Beilin - politician & negotiator, Geneva Accords
• Uzi Even - gay rights activist
• Amira Hass - journalist & author
• Nira Schwartz - TRW whistleblower, Wiener Award (2001)
• Uri Savir, peace negotiator, Peres Center for Peace
• Natan Sharansky - Soviet-era human rights activist
• Mordechai Vanunu - nuclear whistleblower

• Yigal Amir - assassin of Yitzhak Rabin
• Baruch Goldstein - mass-murderer

Artists

• Yaacov Agam - painter
• Ron Arad - designer
• Mordecai Ardon - painter
• Ralph Bakshi - animator
• Leah Gottlieb - fashion designer (Gottex swimsuits)
• Nahum Gutman - painter
• Ranan Lurie - political cartoonist
• Moshe Safdie - architect
• Elie Tahari - fashion designer
• Ronit Zilkha - fashion designer

• Astral Projection - goa trance band
• Mike Brant - French-language singer
• Avishai Cohen - jazz player
• Ofra Haza - world singer
• Dana International - pop singer
• Orphaned Land - oriental metal band
• Infected Mushroom - psychedelic trance duo
• Ahinoam Nini (Noa) - world singer
• Esther Ofarim - singer
• Gene Simmons - bass player for KISS
• Hillel Slovak - original guitarist for Red Hot Chilli Peppers

• Daniel Barenboim - conductor and pianist
• Gary Bertini - conductor
• Miriam Fried - violinist
• Ivry Gitlis - violinist
• Matt Haimovitz - cellist
• Ofra Harnoy - cellist
• Eliahu Inbal - conductor
• Joseph Kalichstein - pianist
• Yoel Levi - conductor
• Mischa Maisky - cellist
• Shlomo Mintz - violinist
• Itzhak Perlman - violinist
• Shulamit Ran - composer
• Gil Shaham - violinist
• Yoav Talmi - conductor
• Pinchas Zukerman - violinist

• Yvan Attal - French-based actor/director
• Mili Avital - actress
• Uri Geller - tv personality & self-proclaimed psychic
• Arnon Milchan - Hollywood film producer
• Ohad Naharin - choreographer
• Natalie Portman - actress
• Haim Saban - TV produer
• Chaim Topol - actor

• Shmuel Yosef Agnon - author; Nobel Prize in Literature (1966)
• Yehuda Amichai - poet
• Aharon Appelfeld - author
• Hayyim Nahman Bialik - poet
• Max Brod - author & friend of Kafka
• Leah Goldberg - poet
• Emile Habibi - author
• Ephraim Kishon - satirist
• Uri Orlev - author; Hans Christian Andersen Award (1996)
• Amos Oz - author and journalist
• Anton Shammas - author
• A.B. Yehoshua - author

Computing & Mathematics

• Yehoshua Bar-Hillel - machine translation
• Eli Biham - differential cryptanalysis
• Adolf Fraenkel - set theory, Zermelo-Fraenkel axioms
• Abraham Lempel & Jacob Ziv - LZW compression; Richard W. Hamming Medal (1995)
• Joel Moses - MIT provost & writer of Macsyma
• 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 Rabin - nondeterminism, primality testing; Turing Award (1976)
• Adi Shamir - RSA, differential cryptanalysis; Turing Award (2002)
• Saharon Shelah - logic; Wolf Prize in Mathematics (2001)
• Ehud Shapiro - DNA computing pioneer
• Avi Wigderson - randomized algorithms; Nevanlinna Prize (1994)
• Doron Zeilberger - combinatorics

Physics & Chemistry

• Yakir Aharonov - the Aharonov-Bohm effect; Wolf Prize in Physics (1998)
• Jacob Bekenstein - black hole thermodynamics
• David Deutsch - quantum computing pioneer; Paul Dirac Prize (1998)
• Joshua Jortner & Rafi Levine - molecular energy; Wolf Prize in Chemistry (1988)
• Ephraim Katzir - immobilized enzymes; Japan Prize (1985)
• Mordehai Milgrom - Modified Newtonian Dynamics (MOND)
• Yuval Ne'eman - the "eightfold way"
• Giulio Racah - spectroscopy
• Ilan Ramon - astronaut on Columbia flight STS-107
• Dan Shechtman - discovered quasicrystals; Wolf Prize in Physics (1999)
• Chaim Weizmann - acetone production

• Israel Aharoni - discovered the Syrian hamster
• Aaron Ciechanover & Avram Hershko - ubiquitin system; Lasker Award (2000), Nobel Prize in Chemistry (2004)
• Moshe Feldenkrais - the Feldenkrais Method
• Gavriel Iddan - inventor of capsule endoscopy
• Doron Lancet - smell, origin of life
• Leo Sachs - blood cell research; Wolf Prize in Medicine (1980)
• Michael Sela & Ruth Arnon - developed Copaxone; Wolf Prize in Medicine (1998)
• Meir Wilchek - affinity chromatography; Wolf Prize in Medicine (1987)
• Amotz Zahavi - the Handicap Principle

• Aharon Dolgopolsky - linguistics: Nostratic
• SN Eisenstadt - sociology: multiple modernities
• Haim Ginott - psychology: child psychology
• Eliyahu Goldratt - business management: theory of constraints
• Elhanan Helpman - economics: international trade
• Daniel Kahneman & Amos Tversky - behavioural science: prospect theory; Nobel Prize in Economics (2002)
• Erich Neumann - analytical psychology: development, conciousness

Hi-Tech

• Beny Alagem - founder of Packard Bell (PC manufacturer)
• Amir Ban & Shay Bushinsky - programmers of Deep Junior (computer chess program)
• Morris Kahn - co-founder of Amdocs (customer management software)
• Daniel M. Lewin - co-founder of Akamai Technologies (internet services)
• Gil Schwed - founder of Check Point Software Technologies (firewall developers)
• Zeev Suraski & Andi Gutmans - founders of Zend Technologies (PHP developers)
• Arik Vardi, Yair Goldfinger, Sefi Vigiser & Amnon Amir - founders of Mirabilis (ICQ developers)

• Avi Arad & Isaac Perlmutter - owners of Marvel Comics
• Ted & Shari Arison - cruise ships
• 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

Basketball

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

• Yossi Benayoun - Maccabi Haifa, Racing Santander
• Eyal Berkovich - Maccabi Haifa, Southampton, West Ham, Celtic, Man City, Portsmouth
• Haim Revivo - Celta Vigo, Fenerbahçe, Galatasaray
• Ronnie Rosenthal - Liverpool, Tottenham
• Pini Zahavi - UK super-agent

• 1972 Olympic wrestling team - see Munich Massacre
• Alex Averbukh - pole vaulter (european champion: 2002)
• Isaac Berger - US weightlifter (olympic gold: 1956, silver: 1960, 1964)
• Gal Fridman - windsurfer (olympic gold: 2004, bronze: 1996; world champion: 2002)
• Boris Gelfand, Emil Sutovsky, Ilya Smirin - chess Grandmasters (top 30 ranking)
• Baruch Hagai - wheelchair athlete (multiple paralympic golds)
• Agnes Keleti - Hungarian gymnast (10 olympic medals: 5 golds, 4 silver, 1 bronze)
• Esther Roth-Shachamarov - track & field (5 asian game golds)
• Anna Smashnova - tennis player (9 WTA career titles)
• Ariel Zeevi - judoka (european champion: 2000, 2003, 2004; olympic bronze: 2004)

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