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This is a list of prominent Israelis
[edit] Historical figures
[edit] Politicians
See also: List of Israeli politicians
- Chaim Weizmann – first President of Israel (1949–52)
- Yitzhak Ben-Zvi – first elected/second president President of Israel (1952–63)
- David Ben-Gurion – first Prime Minister of Israel (1948–54, 1955–63)
- Moshe Sharett – prime minister (1954–55)
- Levi Eshkol – prime minister (1963–69)
- Abba Eban – diplomat and Foreign Affairs Minister of Israel (1966–74)
- Golda Meir – prime minister (1969–74)
- Yitzhak Rabin – prime minister (1974–77, 1992–95); Nobel Peace Prize (1994) (assassinated November 1995)
- Menachem Begin – prime minister (1977–83); Nobel Peace Prize (1978)
- Yitzhak Shamir – prime minister (1983–84, 1986–92)
- Shimon Peres – President of Israel (2007–); prime minister (1984–86, 1995–96); Nobel Peace Prize (1994)
- Benjamin Netanyahu – prime minister (1996–99), (2009–); was minister of finance; Likud party chairman
- Ehud Barak – prime minister (1999–01)
- Moshe Katsav – president (2000–07)
- Ariel Sharon – prime minister (2001–06)
- Ehud Olmert – prime minister (2006–09); former mayor of Jerusalem
- Rehavam Zeevi – founder of the Moledet party (assassinated October 2001)
- Yossi Beilin – leader of the Meretz-Yachad party and peace negotiator
- Yosef Lapid – former leader of the Shinui party
- Teddy Kollek – former mayor of Jerusalem
- Effie Eitam – former leader of the National Religious Party party, now head of the Renewed Religious National Zionist party
- Rabbi Ovadia Yosef – spiritual leader of the Shas party
[edit] Military
- Ron Arad – MIA navigator
- Gabi Ashkenazi – former Chief of the IDF General Staff
- Yohai Ben-Nun – sixth commander of the Israeli Navy
- Eli Cohen – spy
- Wolfgang Lotz – spy
- Moshe Dayan – military leader
- Giora Epstein – combat pilot, modern-day "ace of aces"
- Dan Halutz – Chief of the IDF General Staff (2005–07)
- Uziel Gal – designer of the Uzi submachine gun
- 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
- Avraham Stern – underground military leader
- Israel Tal – general, father of Merkava tank
[edit] Activists
- Uri Avnery – peace activist, Gush Shalom
- Yael Dayan – writer, politician, activist
- Michael Dorfman Russian-Israeli essayist and human rights activist
- Uzi Even – gay rights activist
- Uri Savir, peace negotiator, Peres Center for Peace
- Israel Shahak – political activist
- Natan Sharansky – Soviet-era human rights activist
[edit] Criminals
See also: Category:Israeli criminals
- Ami Popper – murdered 7 Arabs
- Baruch Goldstein – massacred 29 Arabs in the Cave of the Patriarchs
- Benny Sela – convicted rapist and escapee
- Eden-Nathan Zada – army defector who killed 4 people and wounded many others on a bus in Shfar'am
- Yigal Amir – assassin of Yitzhak Rabin
[edit] Religious figures
[edit] Haredi rabbis
- Avraham Yeshayeh Karelitz, Chazon Ish, (1878–1953)
- Elazar Menachem Shach, Rav Shach, (1899–2001)
- Moshe Shmuel Shapira, rosh yeshiva of Beer Yaakov
- Mordechai Eliyahu, Sephardi Chief Rabbi of Israel 1983–93, (1929–2010)
- Nissim Karelitz, Head Justice of Rabbinical Court of Bnei Brak
- Chaim Kanievsky
- Ovadia Yoseph
- Yosef Sholom Eliashiv
- Shlomo Zalman Auerbach
- Yosef Chaim Sonnenfeld, Chief Rabbi of Jerusalem (Edah HaChareidis)
- Yitzchok Tuvia Weiss, Chief Rabbi of Jerusalem (Edah HaChareidis)
- Yosef Tzvi Dushinsky (I), Chief Rabbi of Jerusalem (Edah HaChareidis)
- Yaakov Aryeh Alter, Gerrer Rebbe
- Yissachar Dov Rokeach (II), Belzer Rebbe
[edit] Religious-Zionist rabbis
- Avraham Yitzchak Kook, pre-state Ashkenazic Chief Rabbi of the Land of Israel,[1] (1865–1935)
- Shlomo Amar, Sephardic Chief Rabbi of Israel
- Yona Metzger, Ashkenazic Chief Rabbi of Israel
- Israel Meir Lau Ashkenazic Chief Rabbi of Israel (1993–2003), Chief Rabbi of Netanya (1978–88), (1937–)
- Aharon Lichtenstein
- David Hartman
- Shlomo Riskin Ashkenazic Chief Rabbi of Efrat
[edit] Cultural figures
[edit] Film, TV, and stage
See also: List of Israeli actors
- Avital Abergel – film and TV actress
- Gila Almagor – actress
- Lior Ashkenazi – actor
- Yvan Attal – actor, director (Israeli-born)
- Mili Avital – actress
- Aki Avni – actor
- David Faitelson – Mexican television sports commentator (Israeli-born)
- Oded Fehr – actor
- Eytan Fox – director
- Uri Geller – TV personality, self-proclaimed psychic
- Amos Gitai – director
- 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 (Israeli-born)
- Gad Lerner – journalist (currently living in Italy)
- Arnon Milchan – producer
- Ohad Naharin – choreographer
- Eyal Podell – actor
- Natalie Portman – actress (Israeli-born)
- Ze'ev Revach - actor and comedian
- Avner Strauss – musician
- Haim Saban – TV producer
- Elia Suleiman – director
- Chaim Topol – actor
- Raviv Ullman – actor (Israeli-born)
- Haim Yavin – long-serving TV anchor
- Keren Yedaya – director
- Ayelet Zurer – actress
- Naor Zion – comedian/actor/director
[edit] Radio
- Go'el Jasper - Arutz Sheva - The Aliyah Revolution
[edit] Fashion models
- Moran Atias – model
- Nina Brosh – model
- Esti Ginzborg – model
- Esti Mamo – model
- Bar Refaeli – model
- Pnina Rosenblum – former model
[edit] Popular musicians
See also: List of Israeli musical artists
- 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
- 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
- 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
- Ahinoam Nini (Noa) – singer
- Esther Ofarim – singer
- Guy Oseary – head of Maverick Records
- Idan Raichel – Ethiopian and Israeli music
- Yoni Rechter – composer and arranger
- Berry Sakharof – singer
- Naomi Shemer – songwriter
- Gene Simmons – leader 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
[edit] Classical musicians
See also: List of Israeli classical composers
- Yardena Arazi – solo singer
- Moshe Atzmon – conductor
- Daniel Barenboim – conductor and pianist
- Ofer Ben-Amots – composer
- Paul Ben-Haim – composer
- Bart Berman – pianist
- Gary Bertini – conductor
- Natan Brand – pianist
- Nir Brand – conductor
- Yefim Bronfman – pianist
- Avner Dorman – composer
- Dror Elimelech – composer
- 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
- Yael Naïm – solo singer/musician
- Itzhak Perlman – violinist
- Shulamit Ran – composer
- Leon Schidlowsky – composer
- Inbal Segev – cellist
- Gil Shaham – violinist
- Hagai Shaham – violinist
- Michael Shani – conductor
- Noam Sheriff – composer
- Gil Shohat – composer
- Josef Tal – composer
- Yoav Talmi – conductor
- Arie Vardi – pianist
- Ilana Vered – pianist
- Pinchas Zukerman – violinist
[edit] Writers
- Shmuel Yosef Agnon (Shmuel Yosef Halevi Czaczkes) – author, Nobel Prize in Literature (1966)
- Nathan Alterman – poet
- Yehuda Amichai (Ludwig Pfeuffer) – poet
- Aharon Appelfeld – author, 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
- Leah Goldberg – poet
- Uri Zvi Greenberg – poet
- David Grossman – writer
- 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 – novelist
- Uri Orlev – author, Hans Christian Andersen Award (1996)
- Amos Oz (Amos Klausner) – author and journalist, Goethe Prize (2005)
- Dahlia Ravikovich – poet
- Meir Shalev – author and journalist
- Zeruya Shalev – author
- Moshe Shamir – author, poet
- Naomi Shemer – songwriter and lyricist
- Mati Shemoelof – poet, editor and journalist
- Avraham Shlonsky – poet
- Avraham Stern – poet
- Abraham Sutzkever – Yiddish poet
- Chaim Walder - bestselling Haredi children's writer
- A.B. Yehoshua – author
- Nathan Zach – poet
- Zelda – poet
- Benny Ziffer – author, journalist and translator
[edit] Artists
- Yaacov Agam – kinetic artist
- Michael Arad – architect
- 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
- 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
- Benjamin Levy – painter, sculptor
- Alex Levac – photographer
- Ranan Lurie – political cartoonist
- Lea Nikel – painter
- Ilana Raviv – painter
- Leo Roth – painter
- Reuven Rubin – painter
- Moshe Safdie – architect
- David Tartakover – graphic designer
- Anna Ticho – painter
- Sergey Zagraevsky – painter
- Moshe Ziffer – sculptor
[edit] Other
- Yisrael Aharoni – Famous chef and restaurateur who appears frequently on Israeli television.
[edit] Academic figures
[edit] 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 – mathematical game theory; Nobel Prize in Economics (2005)
- Amir Ban and Shay Bushinsky – programmers of Junior (chess)
- Moshe Bar – creator and main developer of openMosix
- 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 the 2010 Fields Medal awarded
- Michel Loève – probabilist
- Joel Moses – MIT provost and writer of Macsyma
- Yoram Moses – computer scientist, winner of the(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 (2001)
- Nir Shavit- computer scientist, winner of the (2001)
- 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(2000)
- Avi Wigderson – randomized algorithms; Nevanlinna Prize (1994)
- Doron Zeilberger – combinatorics
[edit] Physics and chemistry
- Yakir Aharonov – Aharonov-Bohm effect; Wolf Prize in Physics (1998)
- Jacob Bekenstein – black hole thermodynamics
- 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, particle physics
- Reshef Tenne – discovered inorganic fullerenes and inorganic nanotubes
- Chaim Weizmann – acetone production
[edit] Biology and medicine
- Aaron Ciechanover and 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 [2]
- 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
- Andy Lehrer, entomologist
- 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.[2]
- 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)
- Valero Aaron-Professor of Medicine, founder of Faculty of Medicine at the Technion, director of government hospital
- Meir Wilchek – affinity chromatography; Wolf Prize in Medicine (1987)
- Ada Yonath – structure of ribosome. She received the Nobel Prize in Chemistry (2009)
- Amotz Zahavi – Handicap Principle
[edit] 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
[edit] Philosophy
- Martin Buber – philosopher
- Berl Katznelson
- Yeshayahu Leibowitz – philosopher and public figure
- Avishai Margalit – philosopher
- Joseph Raz – philosopher
- Gershom Scholem
[edit] Social sciences
- Yehuda Bauer – historian
- Daniel Elazar – political science
- Haim Ginott – psychologist: child psychology
- Eliyahu Goldratt – business consultant: Theory of Constraints
- Louis Guttman – sociologist
- Elhanan Helpman – economist: international trade
- Daniel Kahneman – behavioural scientist: prospect theory; Nobel Prize in Economics (2002)
- Smadar Lavie – anthropologist
- Amihai Mazar – archaeologist
- Benjamin Mazar – archaeologist
- Eilat Mazar – archaeologist
- Benny Morris – historian
- Erich Neumann – analytical psychologist: development, consciousness
- Nurit Peled-Elhanan – educator
- Sheizaf Rafaeli – Management, information, communication,
- Ariel Rubinstein – economist
- Avi Shlaim – historian
- Amos Tversky – behavioral scientist: prospect theory with Daniel Kahneman
- Yigael Yadin – archaeologist
[edit] Humanities
- 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
[edit] Entrepreneurs
[edit] 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.
- 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)
[edit] 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
- Sammy – shipping magnate
- Stef Wertheimer – industrialist
[edit] Sports
[edit] Association Football
- Ryan Adeleye, US/Israel – defender (Hapoel Be'er Sheva)[3]
- Dudu Aouate – goalkeeper (RCD Mallorca, national team)[4]
- Jonathan Assous, France/Israel – defensive midfielder (Hapoel Petah Tikva)[5]
- Gai Assulin – winger/attacking midfielder (Manchester City, national team)
- Pini Balili, Israel/Turkey – striker (Bnei Yehuda Tel Aviv, 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)[6][7]
- Tal Ben Haim – center back/right back, Maccabi Tel Aviv, Bolton Wanderers, Chelsea, West Ham United[8]
- Eyal Berkovic – midfielder (national team), Maccabi Haifa, Southampton, West Ham United, Celtic, Manchester City, Portsmouth
- Daniel Brailovski, Argentina/Uruguay, midfielder (Argentina, Uruguay, & Israel national teams)[9]
- Tomer Chencinski, goaltender (Vaasan Palloseura, Harrisburg Islanders)
- Avi Cohen – defender, Liverpool and national team
- Tamir Cohen – midfielder (Bolton Wanderers & national team)[10]
- 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 (national team), Maccabi Haifa, Celta de Vigo, Fenerbahçe, Galatasaray
- Ronnie Rosenthal – left winger/striker (national team), Maccabi Haifa, Liverpool, Tottenham, Watford[12]
- Ben Sahar, striker/winger (Hapoel Tel Aviv, national team)[13]
- Mordechai Spiegler, Soviet Union/Israel – striker (Israel national team), manager
- Idan Tal – midfielder (Beitar Jerusalem FC & national team)
- Nicolás Tauber, Argentina/Israel, goalkeeper (Chacarita Juniors)[14]
- Yochanan Vollach – defender (national team); current president of Maccabi Haifa
- Pini Zahavi – UK-based super-agent
- Itzik Zohar – attacking midfielder (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
[edit] Basketball
- Miki Berkovich – Maccabi Tel-Aviv
- David Blu (formerly "Bluthenthal"), US & Israel, Euroleague 6' 7" forward (Maccabi Tel Aviv)[15]
- Tal Brody – US & Israel, 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)[16]
- Tanhum Cohen-Mintz, Latvian-born Israeli, 6' 8" center; 2x Euroleague All-Star
- Shay Doron – Israel & US, WNBA 5' 9" guard, University of Maryland (New York Liberty)[17]
- Lior Eliyahu, 6' 9" power forward, NBA draft 2006 (Orlando Magic; traded to Houston Rockets), but completing mandatory IDF service & playing in the Euroleague (Maccabi Tel Aviv)
- Tamir Goodman, US & Israel, 6' 3" shooting guard[18]
- Yotam Halperin – 6' 5" guard, drafted in 2006 NBA draft by Seattle Supersonics(Olympiacos)
- Amit Tamir – 6' 10" center/forward, University of California, PAOK Thessaloniki (Hapoel Jerusalem)[19][20]
[edit] Boxing
- Hagar Finer, WIBF bantamweight champion[21]
- Yuri Foreman, Belarusian-born Israeli US middleweight and World Boxing Association super welterweight champion[22]
- Roman Greenberg ("The Lion from Zion"), International Boxing Organization's Intercontinental heavyweight champion
[edit] Fencing
- Boaz Ellis, foil, 5-time Israeli champion
- Lydia Hatoel-Zuckerman, foil, 6-time Israeli champion[23][24]
- Ayelet Ohayon, foil, European champion
- Andre Spitzer, killed by terrorists[25]
[edit] Figure skating
- Alexei Beletski, Ukrainian-born Israeli, ice dancer, Olympian[26]
- Galit Chait – ice dancer, World Championship bronze 2002
- Natalia Gudina, Ukrainian-born Israeli – figure skater, Olympian[27]
- Tamar Katz, US-born Israeli – figure skater[28]
- Lionel Rumi, ice dancer
- Sergei Sakhnovsky – ice dancer, World Championship bronze 2002
- Michael Shmerkin, Soviet-born Israeli – figure skater[29]
- Alexandra Zaretski, Belarusian-born Israeli – ice dancer, Olympian[30]
- Roman Zaretski, Belarusian-born Israeli – ice dancer, Olympian[31]
[edit] Sailing
- Zefania Carmel – yachtsman, world champion (420 class)[32]
- Gal Fridman – windsurfer (Olympic gold: 2004 (Israel's first gold medalist), bronze: 1996 (Mistral class); world champion: 2002)[33]
- Lydia Lazarov – yachting world champion (420 class)[32]
- Shahar Zubari, Israel, windsurfer, Olympic bronze (RS:X discipline); 2009 & 2010 European Windsurf champion[34]
[edit] Judo
- Yael Arad – judoka (Olympic silver: 1992, European champion: 1993, world silver: 1993). First Israeli Olympic medalist; light-middleweight
- Andrian Kordon, European Championship bronze; heavyweight
- Daniela Krukower, Israel/Argentina judoka, World Champion (under 63 kg)[35]
- Yoel Razvozov – 2-time European Championship silver; lightweight
- Oren Smadja – judoka (Olympic bronze: 1992; lightweight)
- Ehud Vaks, judoka (half-lightweight)[36]
- Gal Yekutiel – European championship bronze
- Ariel Zeevi – judoka (European champion: 2000, 2003, 2004; Olympic bronze: 2004; 100 kg)
[edit] Swimming
- Vadim Alexeev, Kazakhstan-born Israeli swimmer, breaststroke[37]
- Adi Bichman – 400-m and 800-m freestyle, 400-m medley[38]
- 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"), Austrian-born Israeli; 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."[39]
- Dan Kutler, US-born Israeli; 100-m butterfly, 4×100-m medley relay[40]
- 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[41]
- Eithan Urbach – backstroke swimmer, European championship silver & bronze; 100-m backstroke[42]
[edit] Tennis
- Noam Behr[43]
- Ilana Berger[44]
- Gilad Bloom[45]
- Jonathan Erlich, 6 doubles titles, 6 doubles finals; won 2008 Australian Open Men's Doubles (w/Andy Ram), highest world doubles ranking # 5[46]
- Shlomo Glickstein, highest world singles ranking # 22, highest world doubles ranking # 28
- Julia Glushko[47]
- 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[48]
- Dudi Sela, highest world singles ranking # 29
- Anna Smashnova (12 WTA career titles), highest world singles ranking # 15
[edit] Other
- 1972 Olympic team – see Munich Massacre
- Alex Averbukh – pole vaulter (European champion: 2002, 2006)[49]
- David Mark Berger, US-born Israeli weightlifter, Maccabiah champion (middleweight); killed by terrorists in the Munich Massacre[50]
- Max Birbraer, ice hockey player drafted by NHL team (New Jersey Devils)[51]
- Oren Eizenman, ice hockey player, Israel national team; Connecticut Whale)
- Eli Elezra – professional poker player
- Danielle Frenkel – Israeli high jump champion
- Boris Gelfand, Emil Sutovsky, Ilya Smirin – chess Grandmasters (~2700 peak ELO rating)
- Baruch Hagai – wheelchair athlete (multiple paralympic golds)
- Michael Kolganov – Soviet-born Israeli, sprint canoer/kayak paddler, world champion, Olympic bronze 2000 (K-1 500-meter)
- Marina Kravchenko, Ukrainian-born Israeli table tennis player, Soviet and Israel national teams[52]
- Nimrod Mashiah – windsurfer; World Championship silver
- Chanoch Nissany – Formula One auto racing test-driver
- Esther Roth-Shachamarov – track & field, hurdler and sprinter (5 Asian Game golds)
- Angelica Rozeanu (Adelstin), Romania/Israel, 17-time world table tennis champion, ITTFHoF
- Alexander Shatilov, Uzbekistan/Israel, World bronze (artistic gymnast; floor exercise)[53]
- Chagai Zamir, Israel, 4-time Paralympic Games champion
See also: List of Israeli chess players
[edit] 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
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