This is a list of prominent Israelis (including Arab citizens of Israel). [edit] Historical figures [edit] Politicians [edit] Military [edit] Activists [edit] Criminals [edit] Religious figures [edit] Haredi rabbis [edit] Religious-Zionist rabbis [edit] Cultural figures [edit] Film, TV, and stage [edit] Fashion models [edit] Popular musicians [edit] Classical musicians [edit] Writers - Shmuel Yosef Agnon - author, Nobel Prize in Literature (1966)
- Nathan Alterman - poet
- Yehuda Amichai - poet
- Ron Ben-Yishai - journalist
- Zelda - poet
- Aharon Appelfeld - author, Prix Médicis étranger (2004)
- Mati Shemoelof - Poet & Editor & Journalist
- Max Brod - author, composer & friend of Kafka
- Orly Castel-Bloom - author
- Leah Goldberg - poet
- Uri Zvi Greenberg - poet
- David Grossman - writer
- Batya Gur - author
- Emile Habibi - author
- Amira Hass - journalist & author
- Sayed Kashua - author & journalist
- Shmuel Katz - author & journalist
- Etgar Keret - author
- Ephraim Kishon - satirist
- Hanoch Levin - playwright
- Julius Margolin, writer
- Dan Mazar, writer & biblical historian
- Aharon Megged - author
- Sami Michael - author
- Uri Orlev - author, Hans Christian Andersen Award (1996)
- Amos Oz - author & journalist, Goethe Prize (2005)
- Dalia Ravikovich - poet
- Meir Shalev - author & journalist
- Zeruya Shalev - author
- Moshe Shamir - author, poet
- Naomi Shemer - poet
- Avraham Shlonsky - poet
- Avraham Stern - poet
- A.B. Yehoshua - author
- Benny Ziffer - author, journalist and translator
- Abraham Sutzkever - Yiddish poet
- Yehonatan Geffen - author, poet and lyricist
- Nathan Zach - poet
- Samir Naqqash- novelist
[edit] Artists [edit] Academic figures [edit] Computing and mathematics - Shmuel Agmon, mathematician,
- Ron Aharoni, mathematician
- Noga Alon, mathematician,
- Shimshon Amitsur,
- Robert Aumann - mathematical game theory; Nobel Prize in Economics (2005)
- Amir Ban & Shay Bushinsky - programmers of Junior (chess)
- Moshe Bar - creator & main developer of openMosix
- Yehoshua Bar-Hillel - machine translation
- Itai Ben Yaacov - Mathematical Logician
- Joseph Bernstein,
- Eli Biham - differential cryptanalysis
- Aryeh Dvoretzky, mathematician
- Abraham Fraenkel - ZF set theory
- Hillel Furstenberg,
- David Harel - computer science; Israel Prize (2004)
- Abraham Lempel & Jacob Ziv - LZW compression; Richard W. Hamming Medal (1995)
- Yoram Lidenstrauss,
- Michel Loève - probabilist
- Moshe Yanai - Led team that developed EMC Symmetrix
- Joel Moses - MIT provost & writer of Macsyma
- Judea Pearl - artificial intelligence, philosophy of action
- Haim Pekeris,
- Ilya Piatetski-Shapiro - representation theory; Wolf Prize in Mathematics (1990)
- Amir Pnueli - temporal logic; Turing Award (1996)
- Michael O. Rabin - nondeterminism, primality testing; Turing Award (1976)
- Adi Shamir - RSA encryption, differential cryptanalysis; Turing Award (2002)
- Saharon Shelah - logic; Wolf Prize in Mathematics (2001)
- Ehud Shapiro - Concurrent Prolog, DNA computing pioneer
- Avi Wigderson - randomized algorithms; Nevanlinna Prize (1994)
- Doron Zeilberger - combinatorics
- Reuven Cohen - Open Source Advocate
[edit] Physics and chemistry - Yakir Aharonov - Aharonov-Bohm effect; Wolf Prize in Physics (1998)
- Shlomo Alexander,
- Jacob Bekenstein - black hole thermodynamics
- Amos De-Shalit,
- David Deutsch - quantum computing pioneer; Paul Dirac Prize (1998)
- Israel Dostrovsky, physical chemistry,
- Joshua Jortner & Rafi Levine - molecular energy; Wolf Prize in Chemistry (1988)
- Josef Imry, physicist,
- Aaron Katzir, physical chemistry,
- Ephraim Katzir - immobilized enzymes; Japan Prize (1985)
- Zvi Lipkin, physicist,
- Mordehai Milgrom - Modified Newtonian Dynamics (MOND)
- Yuval Ne'eman - the "Eightfold way"
- Asher Peres - quantum theory
- Giulio Racah - spectroscopy
- Nathan Rosen - EPR paradox
- Nathan Seiberg - string theory
- Dan Shechtman - quasicrystals; Wolf Prize in Physics (1999)
- Shmuel Shtrikman, physicist,
- Izchak Shteinberg, physicist,
- Zeev Tadmor, chemical engineering,
- Igal Talmi, particle physics
- Reshef Tenne - discovered inorganic fullerenes and inorganic nanotubes
- Chaim Weizmann - acetone production
- Itamar Wilner, chemist,
[edit] Biology and medicine - Aaron Ciechanover & Avram Hershko - ubiquitin system; Lasker Award (2000), Nobel Prize in Chemistry (2004)
- Moshe Feldenkrais - invented Feldenkrais method used in movement therapy
- Lior Gepstein - American College of Cardiology's Zipes Award for his development of heart cells and pacemakers from stem cells. [2]
- Eyal Gur - selected by Newsweek as one of the world's top microsurgeons [3]
- Hossam Haick - inventor of an electric nose which diagnosis cancer. [4]
- Israel Hanukoglu - structures of cytoskeletal keratins, NADP binding proteins, steroidogenic enzymes, Epithelial Sodium Channels (ENaC)
- Gavriel Iddan - inventor of capsule endoscopy
- Benjamin Kahn - marine biologist, defender of the Red Sea reef
- Doron Lancet - smell, origin of life
- Gideon Mer - malaria control
- Shulamit Levenberg - inventor of a muscle tissue which isn't rejected by the body after transplant. Selected by Scientific American as one of the 50 leading scientists in the world. [5]
- Alexander Levitzki - cancer research; Wolf Prize in Medicine (2005)
- 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 & Ruth Arnon - developed Copaxone; Wolf Prize in Medicine (1998)
- Jacob Shani -Professor of Medicine and Interventional cardiology, performed the first atherectomy in New York State(1991); invented an angled catheter(1992);pioneering work in the field of angioplasty during acute MI and shock.
- Israel Silman - 3D structure of acetylcholinesterase, Elkeles Prize for Research in Medicine (2005)
- Joel Sussman - 3D structure of acetylcholinesterase, Elkeles Prize for Research in Medicine (2005)
[edit] Engineering - David Faiman, solar engineer and director of the National Solar Energy Center
- Franz Ollendorf, Electronics, Electrical research,
- Liviu Librescu, Professor of Engineering Science and Mechanics at Virginia Tech, killed in the Virginia Tech massacre
- Moshe Zakai, Electrical engineering,
- Jacob Ziv, Electrical engineering,
[edit] Philosophy [edit] Social sciences - Yehuda Bauer, historian
- SN Eisenstadt - sociologist: multiple modernities
- Haim Ginott - psychologist: child psychology
- Eliyahu Goldratt - business consultant: Theory of Constraints
- Louis Guttman, sociologist,
- Don Handelman, Anthropology, Sociology,
- Elhanan Helpman - economist: international trade
- Daniel Kahneman - behavioural scientist: prospect theory; Nobel Prize in Economics (2002)
- Gerry Leisman - psychologist: neuropsychology, computational neuroscience
- Amihai Mazar - archaeologist
- Benjamin Mazar - archaeologist
- Eilat Mazar - archaeologist
- Ory Mazar - biblical historian & author
- Benny Morris & Avi Shlaim - historians: New Historians
- David Navon, psychologist,
- Erich Neumann - analytical psychologist: development, consciousness
- Nurit Peled-Elhanan, educator
- Sheizaf Rafaeli, Management, information, communication,
- Ariel Rubinstein, economist,
- Yoram Tsafrir, Archeology,
- Amos Tversky - behavioral scientist: prospect theory with Daniel Kahneman
- Menahem Yaari, economist
- Yigael Yadin - archaeologist
- Daniel Elazar, political science
[edit] Humanities - David Asheri, classical studies
- Aharon Dolgopolsky, linguist: Nostratic
- Moshe Goshen-Gottstein, Bible scholar
- Elias Khoury, law
- Hans Jakob Polotsky, linguist
- Chaim Rabin, Bible scholar
- Alice Shalvi, English literature, educator
- Gershon Shaked, Hebrew literature
- Shemaryahu Talmon, Bible scholar
- Emanuel Tov, Bible scholar
- Shmuel Werses, Yiddish and Hebrew literature
[edit] Entrepreneurs [edit] High-tech [edit] Sports [edit] Basketball - Yossi Benayoun - Hapoel Be'er Sheva, Maccabi Haifa, Racing Santander, West Ham, Liverpool
- Tal Ben Haim - Maccabi Tel Aviv, Bolton Wanderers, Chelsea
- Eyal Berkovic - Maccabi Haifa, Southampton, West Ham, Celtic, Man City, Portsmouth
- Haim Revivo - Maccabi Haifa, Celta Vigo, Fenerbahçe, Galatasaray
- Ronnie Rosenthal - Maccabi Haifa, Liverpool, Tottenham, Watford
- Yochanan Vollach - Hapoel Haifa, Maccabi Haifa, HKFC, President of Maccabi Haifa association
- Mordechai Spiegler - Maccabi Netanya, Paris St. Germain
- Pini Zahavi - UK-based super-agent
- Itzik Zohar - Maccabi Jaffa, Maccabi Tel Aviv, Royal Antwerp, Beitar Jerusalem, Crystal Palace, Maccabi Haifa, Maccabi Herzliya, Maccabi Netanya, F.C. Ashdod, Hapoel Nazareth Illit
[edit] Tennis [edit] See also [edit] References - ^ Even though the State of Israel did not yet exist at the time of his death, he is commonly referred to as the first Ashkenazic Chief Rabbi of the State of Israel.
- ^ "The World Salutes Four Israeli Scientists". http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-3395347,00.html. Retrieved 2007-05-05.
- ^ "The World Salutes Four Israeli Scientists". http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-3395347,00.html. Retrieved 2007-05-05.
- ^ "The World Salutes Four Israeli Scientists". http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-3395347,00.html. Retrieved 2007-05-05.
- ^ "The World Salutes Four Israeli Scientists". http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-3395347,00.html. Retrieved 2007-05-05.
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