List of Israelis
Flag of Israel ( דגל ישראל )
Location of Israel
Lists of Israelis
By ethnicity
Israeli Jews:
Ethiopian 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
Israelis (Hebrew : ישראלים Yiśraʾelim ) are the citizens or permanent residents of the State of Israel . The largest ethnic groups in Israel are Jews (75%), followed by Palestinians and Arabs (20%) and other minorities (5%).[ 1]
Academics
Archaeology
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
Humanities
Philosophy
Physics and chemistry
Josef Imry
Nobel Prize winner Michael Levitt
Nobel Prize winner Dan Shechtman
Nobel Prize winner Arieh Warshel
Social sciences
Nobel Prize winner Daniel Kahneman
Ariel Rubinstein
Activists
Architects
Athletes
Yossi Benayoun
Avram Grant
Avram Grant – Israeli head coach and 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)
Nir Bitton – midfielder, (Celtic , Maccabi Tel Aviv , SC Ashdod , 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 .
Rifaat Turk – Team Israel Olympic midfielder
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 (Tottenham Hotspur F.C., Leeds United AFC & 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
Eli Hanania – American/Israeli bodybuilder and model
Boxing
Yuri Foreman
Cycling
Fencing
Delila Hatuel
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
Gymnastics
Linoy Ashram
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]
Timna Nelson-Levy (born 1994) – judoka (Olympic bronze: 2020), European champion
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
Sailing
Gal Fridman
Shahar Tzuberi
Surfing
Anat Lelior
Anat Lelior – female surfer who competed for Israel at the 2020 Olympic Games
Swimming
Vadim Alexeev – swimmer, breaststroke [ 38]
Adi Bichman – 400-m and 800-m freestyle, 400-m medley [ 39]
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".[ 40]
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[ 41]
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[ 42]
Eithan Urbach – backstroke swimmer, European championship silver and bronze; 100-m backstroke[ 43]
Table tennis
Taekwondo
Avishag Semberg
Tennis
Andy Ram and Jonathan Erlich
Shahar Pe'er
Noam Behr [ 45]
Ilana Berger [ 46]
Gilad Bloom [ 47]
Jonathan Erlich – 6 doubles titles, 6 doubles finals; won 2008 Australian Open Men's Doubles (w/Andy Ram), highest world doubles ranking # 5[ 48]
Shlomo Glickstein – highest world singles ranking # 22, highest world doubles ranking # 28
Julia Glushko [ 49]
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 [ 50]
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
Other
Chefs
Michal Ansky
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
Shmuel 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
Gal Gadot
Avi Arad
Natalie Portman
Rotem Sela
Ayelet Zurer
Musicians
Classical composers
Rami Bar-Niv
Classical musicians
Itzhak Perlman
Popular musicians
Etti Ankri
Shlomo Artzi
Eyal Golan
Ofra Haza
Noa Kirel
Ninet Tayeb
News anchors
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
Lilac Sigan – writer, journalist, and public speaker
Mordechai Tsanin – journalist, writer
Chaim Walder – Haredi children's writer
A.B. Yehoshua – author
Benny Ziffer – author, journalist and translator
Entrepreneurs
Tech
Andi Gutmans
Yossi Vardi
Other
Fashion models
Bar Refaeli
Esti Ginzburg
Shani Hazan
Military
Moshe Dayan
Ilan Ramon
Politicians
Golda Meir
Benjamin Netanyahu
Ayelet Shaked
Yair Lapid
Meirav Cohen
Amir Ohana
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–)
Haredi Rabbis
Avraham Yeshayeh Karelitz
Yissachar Dov Rokeach
Ovadia Yosef
Religious-Zionist Rabbis
Other
See also
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