List of Israeli Americans

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This is a list of notable Israeli Americans, including both original immigrants who obtained American citizenship and their American descendants. The list is ordered by category of human endeavour. Persons with significant contributions in two fields are listed in each of the pertinent categories, to facilitate easy lookup. To be included in this list, the person must have a Wikipedia article showing they are Israeli American or must have references showing they are Israeli American and are notable.

List

Actors

Natalie Portman

• Natalie Portman Israeli-born American film star (Léon, Star Wars prequel trilogy)^[1]
• Chaim Topol one of the most famous Israeli theatrical and film performers (Fiddler on the Roof)
• Oded Fehr Israeli/American actor (The Mummy, Deuce Bigalow: Male Gigolo)^[2]
• Mili Avital Israeli-born actress (Stargate)^[3][4]
• Raviv Ullman Israeli-born American actor, teen idol (Phil of the Future)^[5]
• Tami Stronach Israeli/American actress (The Neverending Story)
• Omri Katz Israeli/American actor (Eerie, Indiana)
• Shiri Appleby Israeli/American actress (Roswell)
• Steve Bond Israeli-born television actor and model
• Daphne Rosen Israeli/American porn star
• Daniella Rabbani Israeli/American actress and singer

Arts and entertainment

• Ari Emanuel, talent agent and basis for the character Ari Gold on the TV show Entourage.
• Shuki Levy, Israeli-born American music composer whose best known work is soundtrack compositions for children's television programs of the 1980s.
• Ralph Bakshi, Israeli-born animation film director.
• Avi Nesher, Israeli-born film producer, film director, screenwriter and actor.
• Arnon Milchan, an Israeli-American film producer and businessman who produced many films such as The War of the Roses, Once Upon a Time in America, Pretty Woman, Natural Born Killers, The Devil's Advocate, and L.A. Confidential.
• Rod Lurie, Israeli-born American director, screenwriter and former film critic.
• Ariel Vromen, Israeli-American producer and director.
• Lyor Cohen, the North American Chairman and CEO of Recorded Music for Warner Music Group (WMG).
• Maira Kalman, Israeli-born American illustrator, author, artist and designer.
• Oren Moverman, Israeli-American film director/screenwriter.
• Amir Blumenfeld, Israeli-American writer, comedian, actor, and television host.

Academics

Robert Aumann

• Arnon Katz, Psy.D., Israeli-born American Clinical Psychologist.^[6]
• Yossef Bodansky, Israeli-born American political scientist
• Yaron Brook
• Idit Harel Caperton
• Ehud Kalai – a prominent Israeli-born American game theorist and mathematical economist.
• Rabbi David Weiss Halivni, Israeli-American world-acclaimed scholar in the domain of Jewish Sciences and professor of Talmud.
• Daniel Kahneman Nobel laureate
• Robert Aumann Nobel laureate

Business and commerce

• Haim Saban, a television and media proprietor. notable for his adaptations of Power Rangers. ranked by Forbes as the 98th richest person in America.
• Avi Arad, an Israeli-American businessman.
• Guy Oseary, an Israeli-American businessman. He is Madonna's manager.
• Vince Offer, better known as "the ShamWow! Guy", is an Israeli-American actor whom is well known for his appearance in the infomercials for the absorbent towels ShamWow! during the 2000s.
• Tamir Sapir, an Israeli-Georgian-American businessman. Earned billions in the 1980s bartering fertilizers for oil. In 2006 he was ranked at position 160 in the list of the 400 richest Americans, with an estimated fortune of 2 billion dollars.
• Elie Tahari, founder of fashion label Elie Tahari

Musicians

Itzhak Perlman

• Gene Simmons from KISS, Israeli-born.
• Hillel Slovak the original guitarist of the band Red Hot Chili Peppers, Israeli-born.
• Elliott Yamin an American singer who is best known for being the third place finalist on the fifth season of American Idol.
• Carmit Bachar member of the pop group, The Pussycat Dolls
• Miri Ben-Ari The hip-hop violinist plays songs with emcee Twista and R&B singer Alicia Keys.
• Ofer Ben-Amots Israeli-American composer and professor of composition at Colorado College.
• Goapele, an African-American soul and R&B singer-songwriter, son of a New York-born Israeli Jewish mother.
• Didi Benami an American singer who is best known for being a finalist on the ninth season of American Idol. Daughter of an Israeli Jewish father.
• Inon Zur, an Israeli American award-winning music composer.
• Gil Shaham, an Israeli American award-winning violinist.
• Itzhak Perlman, a violin virtuoso.
• Ill Bill, rapper
• Necro, rapper, younger brother of Ill Bill

Politics

Rahm Emanuel

• Rahm Emanuel, former White House Chief of Staff and current mayor-elect of Chicago.

Literature, journalism

• Daniel Pearl – Israeli-American journalist and South Asia Bureau Chief of the Wall Street Journal, who was kidnapped and murdered in Karachi, Pakistan.
• Michael Dorfman – Russian-Israeli essayist and human rights activist
• Nicole Lapin – Israeli-American business reporter for CNBC

Fashion

• Yael Markovich – an Israeli/American model.
• Donna Feldman – an American model. Daughter of Israeli parents.
• Sharon Genish – an Israeli/American model.
• Nili Lotan – fashion designer.

Sports

• Moti Horenstein- an Israeli-American martial artist and holder of world championship titles in several disciplines.

Other

• Eli Elezra, a world-class poker player
• Donna Feldman
• Brian George
• Arison family
• Ami James – a tattoo artist, businessman and media personality (Miami Ink)
• Michael Arad – an architect who won the design competition for the World Trade Center Memorial in New York City in 2004.

See also

• Israelis
• List of notable Israelis
• Lists of American Jews
• Israeli diaspora
• Yerida