{{Short description|none}} [[File:Flag of Israel.svg|thumb|right|250px|[[Flag of Israel]] ( דגל ישראל )]] [[File:LocationIsrael.svg|thumb|right|250px|Location of Israel]] {{dynamic list|date=May 2014}} {{Israeli people}} Israelis ({{langx|he|ישראלים}} ''Yiśraʾelim'') are the [[citizens]] or [[permanent residents]] of the [[State of Israel]]. The largest ethnic groups in Israel are [[Israeli Jews|Jews]] (75%), followed by [[Arab-Israelis|Palestinians and Arabs]] (20%) and other minorities (5%).<ref name="2014-data">{{cite web|url=http://www.cbs.gov.il/reader/shnaton/shnatone_new.htm|title=Statistical Abstract of Israel 2015}}</ref> __FORCETOC__
== Academics == === Archaeology === * [[Israel Finkelstein]] (born 1949) * [[Amihai Mazar]] (born 1942) * [[Benjamin Mazar]] (1906–1995) * [[Eilat Mazar]] (1956–2021) * [[Yigael Yadin]] (1917–1984)
=== Biology and medicine === [[File:Aaron Ciechanover 01.JPG|thumb|180px|Nobel Prize winner [[Aaron Ciechanover]]]] [[File:Flickr - Government Press Office (GPO) - Nobel Laureate Avram Hershko.jpg|thumb|180px|Nobel Prize winner [[Avram Hershko]]]] [[File:Ada E. Yonath.jpg|thumb|180px|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; [[Albert Lasker Award for Basic Medical Research|Lasker Award]] (2000), [[Nobel Prize in Chemistry]] (2004) * [[Moshe Feldenkrais]] – invented [[Feldenkrais method|Feldenkrais Method]] used in movement therapy * [[Hossam Haick]] – inventor of an electric nose for diagnosis of cancer<ref name="ynetnews1">{{cite news | url=https://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-3395347,00.html | title=The World Salutes Four Israeli Scientists | newspaper=Ynetnews | date=5 May 2007 | accessdate=2007-05-05| last1=Shir-Raz | first1=Yaffa }}</ref> * [[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) * [[Michal Schwartz]] – [[neuroimmunology]] of age-related [[neurological disease]] * [[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 === [[File:OMAN.jpg|thumb|180px|Nobel Prize winner [[Robert Aumann]]]] [[File:Shafi Goldwasser.JPG|thumb|180px|[[Shafi Goldwasser]]]] [[File:Elon Lindenstrauss MFO.jpg|thumb|180px|[[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) * [[Junior (chess program)|Amir Ban]] and [[Junior (chess program)|Shay Bushinsky]] – programmers of [[Junior (chess program)|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]] – [[Zermelo–Fraenkel set theory|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 (algorithm)|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 ===Journalists=== *[[Suleiman Maswadeh]] *[[Ilana Dayan]] *[[Ehud Yaari]] * [[Dan Margalit (journalist)| Dan Margalit]] *[[Ze'ev Schiff]] *[[Ayala Hasson]] *[[Amit Segal]] *[[Yonit Levi]] *[[Yaakov Bardugo]]
=== Engineering === * [[Yaakov Bar-Shalom]] (born 1941) – electrical engineer * [[David Faiman]] (born 1944) – solar engineer and director of the [[National Solar Energy Center]] * [[Yoram Koren]] (born 1938)– mechanical engineer * [[Liviu Librescu]] (1930–2007) – Professor of Engineering Science and Mechanics at Virginia Tech, killed in the [[Virginia Tech massacre]] * [[Hagit Messer Yaron]] (born 1953) – electrical engineer * [[Moshe Zakai]] (1926–2015) – electrical engineer * [[Jacob Ziv]] (1931–2023) – electrical engineer
=== Humanities === * [[Aharon Dolgopolsky]] – linguist: [[Nostratic]] * [[Moshe Goshen-Gottstein]] – Biblical scholar * [[Elias Khoury (lawyer)|Elias Khoury]] – law * [[Nina Pinto-Abecasis]] – linguist and folklorist * [[Hans Jakob Polotsky]] – linguist * [[Chaim Rabin]] – Biblical scholar * [[Alice Shalvi]] – English literature, educator * [[Gershon Shaked]] – Hebrew literature * [[Shemaryahu Talmon]] – Biblical scholar * [[Emanuel Tov]] – Biblical scholar * [[Ghil'ad Zuckermann]] – linguist, revivalist
=== Philosophy === * [[Martin Buber]] (1878–1965) * [[Berl Katznelson]] (1887–1944) * [[Yeshayahu Leibowitz]] (1903–1994) * [[Avishai Margalit]] (born 1939) * [[Joseph Raz]] (1939–2022) * [[Gershom Scholem]] (1897–1982)
=== Physics and chemistry === [[File:Professor Joe Imry.jpg|thumb| right| 180px |[[Josef Imry]]]] [[File:DIMG 7539 (11253383215).jpg|thumb| right| 180px |Nobel Prize winner [[Michael Levitt (biophysicist)|Michael Levitt]]]] [[File:Nobel Prize 2011-Nobel interviews KVA-DSC 8049.jpg|thumb| right| 180px |Nobel Prize winner [[Dan Shechtman]]]] [[File:AW TW PS.jpg|thumb| right| 180px |Nobel Prize winner [[Arieh Warshel]]]] * [[Yakir Aharonov]] – [[Aharonov–Bohm effect]]; [[Wolf Prize in Physics]] (1998) * [[Uri Banin]] – chemist * [[Amiram Barkai]] – biochemist * [[Jacob Bekenstein]] – black hole thermodynamics; [[Wolf Prize in Physics]] (2012) * [[David Deutsch]] – quantum computing pioneer; [[Dirac Medal (IOP)|Paul Dirac Prize]] (1998) * [[Joshua Jortner]] and [[Raphael David Levine|Rafi Levine]] – molecular energy; [[Wolf Prize in Chemistry]] (1988) * [[Josef Imry]] – physicist * [[Aaron Katzir]] – physical chemistry * [[Ephraim Katzir]] – immobilized enzymes; [[Japan Prize]] (1985); fourth president of Israel [[List of presidents of Israel]] * [[Michael Levitt (biophysicist)|Michael Levitt]] – Nobel Prize in Chemistry (2011) * [[Zvi Lipkin]] – physicist * [[Dan T. Major]] – professor of chemistry * [[Boris Mavashev]] – seismologist * [[Mordehai Milgrom]] – Modified Newtonian Dynamics ([[Modified Newtonian Dynamics|MOND]]) * [[Yuval Ne'eman]] – the "[[Eightfold way (physics)|Eightfold way]]" * [[Israel Pelah]] – nuclear physics * [[Asher Peres]] – quantum theory * [[Giulio Racah]] – spectroscopy * [[Nathan Rosen]] – EPR paradox * [[Nathan Seiberg]] – string theory * [[Dan Shechtman]] – [[quasicrystal]]s; Wolf Prize in Physics (1999), Nobel Prize in Chemistry (2013) * [[Igal Talmi]] – nuclear physics * [[Tsippy Tamiri]] – chemistry * [[Reshef Tenne]] – discovered inorganic fullerenes and [[non-carbon nanotube]]s * [[Arieh Warshel]] – [[Nobel Prize in Chemistry]] (2013) * [[Chaim Weizmann]] – acetone production
=== Social sciences ===
[[File:Daniel Kahneman (3283955327) (cropped).jpg|thumb|180px|Nobel Prize winner [[Daniel Kahneman]]]] [[File:Ariel Rubinstein1.jpg|thumb|180px|[[Ariel Rubinstein]]]] * [[Yehuda Bauer]] – Holocaust historian * [[Dany Bahar (economist)]] – economist * [[Daniel Elazar]] – political scientist * [[Esther Farbstein]] – historian * [[Ayelet Frish]] – strategic consultant * [[Haim Ginott]] – psychologist: child psychology * [[Eliyahu Goldratt]] – business consultant: [[theory of constraints]] * [[Louis Guttman]] – sociologist * [[Yuval Noah Harari]] – historian and author who wrote best selling book [[Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind]] * [[Michael Harris (academic)|Michael Harris]] – public policy scholar and university administrator * [[Elhanan Helpman]] – economist: international trade * [[Daniel Kahneman]] – behavioural scientist: [[prospect theory]]; [[Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences]] (2002) * [[Smadar Lavie]] – anthropologist * [[Benny Morris]] – historian * [[Erich Neumann (psychologist)|Erich Neumann]] – analytical psychologist: development, consciousness * [[Nurit Peled-Elhanan]] – educator * [[Renee Rabinowitz]] – psychologist and lawyer * [[Sheizaf Rafaeli]] – management, information, communication * [[Anat Rafaeli]] – organisational behaviour * [[Ariel Rubinstein]] – economist * [[Moshe Sharon]] – historian * [[Avi Shlaim]] – historian * [[Abraham Solomonick]] – semiotician, linguist * [[Amos Tversky]] – behavioral scientist: [[prospect theory]] with [[Daniel Kahneman]] * [[Hanan Yoran]] – historian
== Activists ==
* [[Uri Avnery]] – peace activist, [[Gush Shalom]] * [[Yael Dayan]] – writer, politician, activist * [[Esther Eillam]] – feminist activist * [[Uzi Even]] – gay rights activist * [[Yehuda Glick]] – activist for Jewish rights at the Temple Mount * [[Shula Keshet]] – [[Mizrahi Jews|Mizrahi]] feminist, activist and artist * [[Hagar Rublev]] (1954–2000) – peace activist * [[Uri Savir]] – peace negotiator, [[Peres Center for Peace]] * [[Israel Shahak]] – political activist * [[Natan Sharansky]] – Soviet-era human rights activist * [[Israel Loves Iran|Ronny Edry and Michal Tamir]] – originators of the Israel-Loves-Iran peace movement and its offshoots
== Architects == * [[Michael Arad]] * [[Ram Karmi]] * [[Richard Kauffmann]] * [[David Kroyanker]] * [[David Resnick]] * [[Moshe Safdie]] * [[Arieh Sharon]]
== Athletes == === Association football (soccer) === [[File:Yossibenayounch.jpg|thumb|right|180px|[[Yossi Benayoun]]]] [[File:Avram Grant 2012.jpg|thumb|180x180px|[[Avram Grant]]]] * [[Avram Grant]] – Israeli head coach and manager ([[Chelsea F.C.]] and Israel national team) * [[Eyal Ben Ami]] – midfielder various clubs, national team<ref>{{cite web |url=http://eng.football.org.il/NationalTeam/Pages/NationalTeamPlayerDetails.aspx?PLAYER_ID=15677&NATIONAL_TEAM_ID=264 |title=National team player's details: Ben Ami Eyal |publisher=The Israel Football Association |accessdate=December 23, 2010 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120921151330/http://eng.football.org.il/NationalTeam/Pages/NationalTeamPlayerDetails.aspx?PLAYER_ID=15677&NATIONAL_TEAM_ID=264 |archive-date=September 21, 2012 |url-status=dead }}</ref> * [[Yaniv Ben-Nissan]] – midfielder * [[Dudu Aouate]] – goalkeeper ([[RCD Mallorca]], national team)<ref>{{cite news |first=Moshe |last=Harush |title=Awat sparks storm with decision to play on Yom Kippur |url=https://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/766078.html |publisher=[[Ha'aretz]] |date=September 22, 2006 |accessdate=July 4, 2008 |archive-date=July 8, 2008 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080708233755/http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/766078.html |url-status=dead }}</ref> * [[Jonathan Assous]] – defensive midfielder ([[Hapoel Petah Tikva]]), of French origin<ref>{{cite news |first=Or |last=Spunder |script-title=he:הקשר ג'ונתן אסוס מועמד למכבי ת"א |url=https://www.one.co.il/Article/109149.html |publisher=One.co.il |date=January 24, 2008 |accessdate=January 28, 2008 |language=he |quote=קשרה היהודי/צרפתי של ראים מהליגה ה-2 בצרפת עשוי להגיע להתרשמות במכבי. }}</ref> * [[Gai Assulin]] – winger/attacking midfielder ([[Manchester City F.C.|Manchester City]], national team) * [[Ronen Badash]] – midfielder * [[Pini Balili]] – striker ([[Bnei Yehuda Tel Aviv F.C.|Bnei Yehuda Tel Aviv]], Israel national team) * [[Nir Bitton]] – midfielder, ([[Celtic F.C.|Celtic]], [[Maccabi Tel Aviv F.C.|Maccabi Tel Aviv]], [[SC Ashdod]], Israel national team * [[Yossi Benayoun]] – attacking midfielder, (Israel national tema captain, as well as the national most [[Cap (sport)|capped]] footballer) [[Hapoel Be'er Sheva F.C.|Hapoel Be'er Sheva]], [[Maccabi Haifa F.C.|Maccabi Haifa]], [[Racing Santander]], [[West Ham United F.C.|West Ham United]], [[Liverpool F.C.|Liverpool]], [[Chelsea F.C.|Chelsea]] * [[Gil Cain]] – defender, [[Hapoel Azor]] * [[David Ben Dayan|David "Dedi" Ben Dayan]] – left defender ([[Hapoel Tel Aviv F.C.|Hapoel Tel Aviv]], national team)<ref>[http://www.oursportscentral.com/services/releases/?id=3230560 "Rapids take home inaugural Rocky Mountain Cup"], ''Our Sports Central'', October 13, 2005. Retrieved December 24, 2010.</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.espn.com/espnmag/story?id=3726748|author= Luke Cyphers |title=The Space Between; Abbas Suan has given Israel hope for the World Cup-and for harmony between Arabs and Jews|date= 25 November 2008 |publisher=ESPN The Magazine |access-date=December 20, 2010}}</ref> * [[Tal Ben Haim]] – center back/right back, [[Maccabi Tel Aviv F.C.|Maccabi Tel Aviv]], Bolton Wanderers, Chelsea, [[West Ham United F.C.|West Ham United]]<ref>[https://www.telegraph.co.uk/sport/football/teams/west-ham/8002909/Avram-Grant-and-Tal-Ben-Haim-set-to-miss-West-Ham-game-for-Jewish-holiday.html "Avram Grant and Tal Ben-Haim set to miss West Ham game for Jewish holiday"], ''The Telegraph'', September 4, 2010. Retrieved December 24, 2010.</ref> * [[Daniel Brailovski]] – midfielder (Argentina, Uruguay, and Israel national teams)<ref>{{cite journal|author= Guy Ben-Porat, Amir Ben-Porat|title=(Un)Bounded Soccer; Globalization and Localization of the Game in Israel |journal=International Review for the Sociology of Sport|volume=39| issue=4| pages=421–36| date=December 2004 |doi= 10.1177/1012690204049064|s2cid=143958510 }}</ref> * [[Roberto Colautti]] – Argentine born-striker * [[Tomer Chencinski]] – goaltender ([[Vaasan Palloseura]]) * [[Avi Cohen]] – defender, Liverpool and national team * [[Tamir Cohen]] – midfielder ([[Bolton Wanderers F.C.|Bolton Wanderers]] and national team)<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.theboltonnews.co.uk/sport/4655363.Cohen_the_surprise_package/|author=Marc Iles |title=Cohen the surprise package |publisher=[[The Bolton News]]|date=September 30, 2009 |accessdate=December 20, 2010}}</ref> * [[Mu'nas Dabbur]] – Israeli-arab professional footballer * [[Yigal Frid]] – FIFA-listed referee * [[Rami Gershon]] – centre back / left back * [[Tvrtko Kale]] – Croatia/Israel, goalkeeper ([[Hapoel Haifa]])<ref>{{cite news|first=Shirley |last=Bar Dayan |script-title=he:קאלה טברטקו מגלה: "סבתא שלי יהודיה" |url=http://www.sport5.co.il/articles.aspx?FolderID=64&docID=8505&lang=he |publisher=[[Sport 5]] |date=July 18, 2006 |accessdate=July 4, 2008 |language=he |quote=אני אמנם נוצרי אבל סבתא שלי יהודיה, מהצד של אימא שלי |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20081011221504/http://www.sport5.co.il/articles.aspx?FolderID=64&docID=8505&lang=he |archive-date=October 11, 2008 |url-status=dead }}</ref> * [[Oscar Gloukh]] - [[Attacking Midfielder]] / [[Winger (football)|Winger]] for [[AFC Ajax|Ajax]] * [[Yaniv Katan]] – forward/winger ([[Maccabi Haifa F.C.|Maccabi Haifa]], national team) * [[Abraham Klein (referee)|Abraham Klein]] – FIFA-listed referee * [[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 S.K. (football)|Fenerbahçe]], [[Galatasaray S.K. (football team)|Galatasaray]] * [[Ronnie Rosenthal]] – left winger/striker (Israel national team), Maccabi Haifa, Liverpool, Tottenham, Watford<ref>{{cite book|url=https://archive.org/details/isbn_9781931859417 |url-access=registration |page=[https://archive.org/details/isbn_9781931859417/page/97 97] |quote=Ronnie Rosenthal jewish. |title=Welcome to the Terrordome: the pain, politics, and promise of sports|author=Dave Zirin, Chuck D|publisher=Haymarket Books |isbn=978-1-931859-41-7 |year= 2007|accessdate=December 24, 2010}}</ref> * [[Ben Sahar]] – striker/winger ([[Hapoel Tel Aviv F.C.|Hapoel Tel Aviv]], national team)<ref>{{cite web|last=Yates |first=David |url=https://www.mirror.co.uk/sport/football/2007/09/22/team-news-115875-19829999/ |title=Team news from 22 Sep 2007 |publisher=The Daily Mirror |date=September 22, 2007 |accessdate=December 24, 2010}}</ref> * [[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 F.C.|Hapoel Tel Aviv]] who has in the past played for [[Standard Liège]], [[Maccabi Petah Tikva F.C.|Maccabi Petah Tikva]], [[Kayserispor]], [[Athlitiki Enosi Larissa F.C.|AEL]] and the youth club [[Gadna Tel Aviv Yehuda F.C.|Gadna Tel Aviv Yehuda]]. * [[Rifaat Turk]] – Team Israel Olympic midfielder * [[Yochanan Vollach]] – defender (Israel national team); current president of [[Maccabi Haifa F.C.|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 and [[Celtic F.C.|Celtic F.C]] and Israel national team) * [[Eran Zahavi]] – forward ([[PSV Eindhoven]] and Israel national team captain, as well as the national top goalscorer) * [[Manor Solomon]] – winger/attacking midfielder ([[Tottenham Hotspur F.C., Leeds United AFC]] and Israel national team)
=== Basketball === [[File:Casspi dunk 2013-10-05.JPG|thumb|180px|[[Omri Casspi]]]] [[File:Gal mekel.JPG|thumb|180px|[[Gal Mekel]]]] * [[Miki Berkovich]] – [[Maccabi Tel Aviv (basketball)|Maccabi Tel Aviv]] * [[David Blu]] – (formerly "Bluthenthal"), [[EuroLeague]] 6' 7" forward ([[Maccabi Tel Aviv B.C.|Maccabi Tel Aviv]])<ref>[http://www.jewishsf.com/content/2-0-/module/displaystory/story_id/23490/edition_id/467/format/html/displaystory.html] "Jewish shooting star aims to make his mark in NBA... Bluthenthal's late mother was Jewish and his father is black—the family name Bluthenthal originated with a slave owner David Bluthenthal believes was German-Jewish."</ref> * [[Tal Brody]] – Euroleague 6' 2" [[shooting guard]], [[Maccabi Tel Aviv (basketball)|Maccabi Tel Aviv]] * [[Tal Burstein]] – [[Maccabi Tel Aviv (basketball)|Maccabi Tel Aviv]] * [[Omri Casspi]] – 6' 9" small forward, drafted in 1st round of [[2009 NBA draft]] ([[Golden State Warriors]])<ref name="jweekly2">{{cite news|url=http://www.jweekly.com/article/full/41080/jews-and-mel-on-the-big-screen-winter-sports-roundup/|last=Bloom|first=Nate|title=Jews (and Mel) on the big screen, Winter sports roundup |publisher=Jweekly |date=January 21, 2010 |accessdate=May 13, 2010}}</ref> * [[Tanhum Cohen-Mintz]] – 6' 8" center; 2× Euroleague All-Star * [[Shay Doron]] – [[Women's National Basketball Association|WNBA]] 5' 9" guard, [[University of Maryland]] ([[New York Liberty]])<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.umterps.com/sports/w-baskbl/spec-rel/051007aaa.html |title=Doron Named Jewish Sports Review All-America; Doron continues to excel at the next level in the WNBA |publisher=University of Maryland Official Athletic Site |date=May 10, 2007 |accessdate=May 25, 2010 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120509193529/http://www.umterps.com/sports/w-baskbl/spec-rel/051007aaa.html |archive-date=May 9, 2012 }}</ref> * [[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]] – US and Israel, 6' 3" shooting guard<ref>{{cite book |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=Jc4Kpu5UMd4C&q=tamir+goodman+jewish&pg=PA75 |title=Read & Understand Celebrating Diversity Grades 3–4 |author=Martha Cheney |isbn=1-55799-783-7 |publisher=Evan-Moor |year=2000 |accessdate=May 31, 2010 }}{{Dead link|date=December 2023 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }}</ref> * [[Yotam Halperin]] – 6' 5" guard, drafted in 2006 NBA draft by [[Seattle SuperSonics]] ([[Olympiacos B.C.|Olympiacos]]) * [[T. J. Leaf]] – NBA basketball player<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.timesofisrael.com/meet-the-nbas-israeli-born-rookie-a-610-forward-named-t-j-leaf/|title=Meet the NBA's Israeli-born rookie, a 6'10" forward named T. J. Leaf|last=Marks|first=Jon|date=March 18, 2018|publisher=The Times of Israel|access-date=February 22, 2020}}</ref> *[[Barry Leibowitz]] (born 1945) – American-Israeli basketball player in the [[American Basketball Association]] and the [[Israeli Basketball Premier League]] * [[Gal Mekel]] – NBA basketball player * [[Yehoshua Rozin]] – basketball coach *[[Ben Saraf]] (born 2006), basketball player * [[Derrick Sharp]] – American-Israeli basketball player * [[Amit Tamir]] – 6' 10" center/forward, University of California, PAOK Thessaloniki ([[Hapoel Jerusalem]])<ref>{{cite news|last=Pennington |first=Bill |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2002/03/17/sports/college-basketball-unrest-worries-an-israeli-at-cal.html |title=College Basketball–Unrest Worries an Israeli at Cal |work=[[The New York Times]] |date=March 17, 2002 |accessdate=May 31, 2010}}</ref><ref>{{cite news|last=Popper |first=Nathaniel |url=http://www.forward.com/articles/5800/ |title=Hoop Dreams: Israeli High-scorer Shoots for the NBA |publisher=The Forward|date=June 11, 2004 |accessdate=May 31, 2010}}</ref>
=== Bodybuilding === * [[Alana Shipp]] – American/Israeli IFBB professional bodybuilder
=== Boxing === [[File:Yuri Foreman.jpg|thumb|180px|[[Yuri Foreman]]]] *[[Salamo Arouch]] (The Ballet Dancer) – middleweight champion of Greece, lightweight, welterweight, middleweight. He survived the Holocaust by boxing (over 200 bouts) for the entertainment of Nazi officers in Auschwitz Concentration Camp. His story was portrayed in the 1989 film "[[Triumph of the Spirit]]" * [[Hagar Finer]] – [[WIBF]] bantamweight champion<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.thegreatrabbino.com/2009_11_01_archive.html |author=Jeremy Fine |title=Boxing Champ from Tel Aviv |publisher=The Great Rabbino |date=November 6, 2009 |accessdate=June 3, 2010 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100610102513/http://www.thegreatrabbino.com/2009_11_01_archive.html |archive-date=June 10, 2010 }}</ref> * [[Yuri Foreman]] – US middleweight and [[World Boxing Association]] super welterweight champion<ref name="nytimes2003">{{cite news|last=Gray |first=Geoffrey |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2003/12/27/sports/boxing-jewish-boxers-are-looking-to-make-a-comeback.html?pagewanted=all |title= Jewish Boxers Are Looking to Make a Comeback |work=[[The New York Times]] |date=December 27, 2003 |accessdate=May 25, 2010}}</ref> * [[Roman Greenberg]] – ("The Lion from Zion"), [[International Boxing Organization]]'s Intercontinental heavyweight champion * [[Pavlo Ishchenko]] – two-time [[European Amateur Boxing Championships]] medalist, and [[European Games]] medalist *[[Yulia Sachkov]] – world champion kickboxer
===Cycling===
* [[Mikhail Iakovlev]] (born 2000) – Olympic cyclist
=== Fencing === [[File:הסייפת דלילה חטואל.jpg|thumb|180px|[[Delila Hatuel]]]] * [[Boaz Ellis]] (born 1981) – foil, 5-time Israeli champion * [[Yuval Freilich]] (born 1995) – épée, 2019 European Épée Champion * [[Lydia Hatoel-Zuckerman]] (born 1963) – foil, 6-time Israeli champion<ref>{{cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=KSEkyUZOxG0C&q=%22hatoel%22+jewish&pg=PA333 |title=Yiddishe Mamas: The Truth About the Jewish Mother|publisher=Andrews McMeel Publishing|author= Marnie Winston-Macauley|isbn=978-0-7407-6376-2|year=2007 |accessdate=December 20, 2010}}</ref><ref>{{cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=fiosdTntJz0C&q=%22hatuel%22+jewish+lydia&pg=PA55 |title=Football for Peace?: The Challenges of Using Sport for Co-Existence in Israel |author= John Sugden, James Wallis|publisher=Meyer & Meyer Verlag|isbn=978-1-84126-181-2|year=2007 |accessdate=December 20, 2010}}</ref> * [[Delila Hatuel]] (born 1980) – Olympic foil fencer * [[Noam Mills]] (born 1986) – épée, junior female world champion, four-time Israeli champion * [[Ayelet Ohayon]] (born 1974) – foil, European champion * [[Tomer Or]] (born 1978) – foil, junior world champion * [[Andre Spitzer]] (1945–1972) – one of 11 athletes and coaches taken hostage and subsequently killed by terrorists in the [[Munich massacre]]<ref>{{cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=JMuCAAAAMAAJ&q=Spitzer+fencing+jewish|title=The Jewish athlete: a nostalgic view|author= Leible Hershfield|year=1980 |accessdate=June 3, 2010}}</ref>
=== Figure skating === * [[Alexei Beletski]] – [[ice dancer]], Olympian<ref>{{cite web|last=Elfman |first=Lois |url=http://www.jewishledger.com/articles/2004/12/08/news/on_the_cover/news03.txt |title=Jewish Ice Skaters |publisher=The Jewish Ledger |date=December 8, 2004 |accessdate=July 1, 2010 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120406184654/http://www.jewishledger.com/articles/2004/12/08/news/on_the_cover/news03.txt |archive-date=April 6, 2012 }}</ref> * [[Oleksii Bychenko]] – figure skater, Olympian, European silver medallist 2016 * [[Galit Chait]] – ice dancer, World Championship bronze 2002 * [[Natalia Gudina]] – [[figure skater]], Olympian<ref>{{cite news|url=http://www.highbeam.com/doc/1P1-79273055.html?refid=gnews_1108|archive-url=https://archive.today/20121209102959/http://www.highbeam.com/doc/1P1-79273055.html?refid=gnews_1108|url-status=dead|archive-date=December 9, 2012|author=David Pollack |title=America's Hottest Jewish Olympic Hopefuls Are To Be Found on the Ice |publisher=The Forward|date=February 8, 2002 |accessdate=July 1, 2010}}</ref> * [[Tamar Katz]] – figure skater<ref>[http://tamarkatz.com/articles/Jewish%20advocate%20article.pdf "Israeli skates rings around Boston"], Elise Kigner, ''The Jewish Advocate'', June 11, 2010</ref> * [[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<ref>{{cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=X5WAzo00SGgC&q=jewish+%22Michael+Shmerkin%22|title=A Year in Figure Skating |publisher=McClelland & Stewart |author=Beverley Smith, Dan Diamond|year=1997|isbn=0-7710-2755-9 |accessdate=July 1, 2010}}</ref> * [[Alexandra Zaretski]] – ice dancer, Olympian<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.jewishworldreview.com/0206/bloom_olympics06.php3 |title=The Tribe goes to Torino: Sketches of Jewish Olympic-Bound Athletes|last=Bloom|first=Nate|publisher=JWR |date=February 16, 2006 |accessdate=July 1, 2010}}</ref> * [[Roman Zaretski]] – ice dancer, Olympian<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.jweekly.com/article/full/28377/jewish-athletes-in-the-olympics-then-and-now/ |title=Jewish athletes in the Olympics—then and now |author=Lionel Gaffen and Joe Eskenazi|publisher=j. |date=February 9, 2006 |accessdate=July 1, 2010}}</ref>
=== Golf === [[File:2013 Women's British Open - Laetitia Beck (1).jpg|thumb|180px|[[Laetitia Beck]]]] * [[Laetitia Beck]] – golfer
=== Gymnastics === [[File:Linoy_Ashram_(cropped_-_1).jpg|thumb|180px|[[Linoy Ashram]]]] * [[Alexander Shatilov]] – World bronze ([[artistic gymnast]]; floor exercise)<ref>{{cite web|last=Feferman |first=Bob |url=https://www.jpost.com/Home/Article.aspx?id=148518 |title=Maccabiah opens with fanfare in Ramat Gan – JPost – Sports |publisher=JPost |date=2009-07-13 |accessdate=2011-08-02}}</ref> * [[Artem Dolgopyat]] – artistic gymnast (Olympic gold: 2020) * [[Linoy Ashram]] – [[rhythmic gymnast]] (Olympic gold: 2020) * [[Neta Rivkin]] – rhythmic gymnast * [[Nicol Zelikman]] – rhythmic gymnast
=== Judo === [[File:Or Sasson - Rio 2016.jpg|thumb|right|upright|[[Or Sasson]]]] [[File:Ariel Ze'evi (ISR) 2004.jpg|thumb|right|upright|[[Ariel Ze'evi]]]] [[File:Oren Smadja.jpg|thumb|upright|180px|[[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)<ref>{{cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=aOTWUl-9LQoC&q=judo&pg=PA347 |title=Day by day in Jewish sports history – Google Books |accessdate=2011-08-02|isbn=9781602800137 |last1=Wechsler |first1=Bob |year=2008 }}</ref> *[[Timna Nelson-Levy]] (born 1994) – judoka (Olympic bronze: 2020), European champion * [[Yoel Razvozov]] – two-time European Championship silver; lightweight * [[Or Sasson]] – judoka (Olympic bronze: 2016) * [[Oren Smadja]] – judoka (Olympic bronze: 1992; lightweight) * [[Ehud Vaks]] – judoka (half-lightweight)<ref>[https://www.jewishjournal.com/home/preview.php?id=12695 "Olympics Ban Wanted"], ''Jewish Journal'', August 19, 2004, accessed December 30, 2010</ref> * [[Gal Yekutiel]] – European championship bronze * [[Ariel Ze'evi]] – judoka (European champion: 2000, 2003, 2004; Olympic bronze: 2004; 100 kg)
=== Motor racing === * [[Alon Day]] – former [[NASCAR Whelen Euro Series | NASCAR Euro Series]] racing driver * [[Chanoch Nissany]] – former racing driver and [[Formula One]] test driver * [[Roy Nissany]] – [[FIA Formula 2]] racing driver * [[Ido Cohen]] – [[FIA Formula 3]] racing driver * Alon Gabbay – [[Porsche Carrera Cup Germany]] racing driver
=== Sailing === [[File:Galfridman.jpg|thumb|180px|[[Gal Fridman]]]] [[File:Shahar z.jpg|thumb|180px|[[Shahar Tzuberi]]]] * [[Zefania Carmel]] – yachtsman, world champion (420 class)<ref name="Zephania Carmel & Lydia Lazarov">{{cite web |url=http://www.jewishsports.net/BioPages/ZephaniaCarmelandLydiaLazarov.htm |title=Zephania Carmel & Lydia Lazarov |publisher=International Jewish Sports Hall of Fame |accessdate=September 28, 2010 |archive-date=July 24, 2008 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080724165724/http://www.jewishsports.net/BioPages/ZephaniaCarmelandLydiaLazarov.htm |url-status=dead }}</ref> * [[Gal Fridman]] – windsurfer (Olympic gold: 2004 (Israel's first gold medalist), bronze: 1996 ([[Mistral One Design Class|Mistral]] class); world champion: 2002)<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/jsource/History/sailingtoc.html |title=Jews in Sports: Sailing |publisher=Jewish Virtual Library |accessdate=May 25, 2010}}</ref> *[[Shai Kakon]] (born 2002) – Olympic sailor * [[Sharon Kantor]] (born 2003) – world champion windsurfer * [[Lee Korzits]] – windsurfer (two-time Olympian and four-time world champion). * [[Lydia Lazarov]] – yachting world champion (420 class)<ref name="Zephania Carmel & Lydia Lazarov" /> * [[Nimrod Mashiah]] – windsurfer; World Championship silver, ranked # 1 in world * [[Tom Reuveny]] (born 2000) – Olympic champion windsurfing sailor * [[Katy Spychakov]] – windsurfer; World Championship silver * [[Shahar Tzuberi]] – windsurfer, Olympic bronze ([[Neil Pryde RS:X|RS:X]] discipline); 2009 and 2010 European Windsurf champion<ref>[https://news.bbc.co.uk/sport2/hi/olympics/sailing/7571689.stm "Dempsey misses windsurfing medal"], ''[[BBC Sport]]'', August 20, 2008. Retrieved September 10, 2008.</ref>
=== Surfing === [[File:Anat_Lelior_in_2017.jpg|thumb|right|upright|[[Anat Lelior]]]] * [[Anat Lelior]] – female surfer who competed for Israel at the 2020 Olympic Games
=== Swimming === * [[Vadim Alexeev]] – swimmer, [[breaststroke]]<ref>[https://archive.today/20120713074930/http://pqasb.pqarchiver.com/jpost/access/99769140.html?dids=99769140:99769140&FMT=ABS&FMTS=ABS:FT&date=Jul+02,+1993&author=JOEL+GORDIN&pub=Jerusalem+Post&desc=POOLING+THEIR+TALENT&pqatl=google "Pooling their Talent"], Joel Gordin, ''[[The Jerusalem Post]]'', July 2, 1993, Retrieved January 1, 2011</ref> * [[Adi Bichman]] – 400-m and 800-m freestyle, 400-m [[Medley swimming|medley]]<ref>{{cite web|url=http://dev.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/items/11985.html |title=Sports in Israel |work=Jewish Virtual Library |first=Simon |last=Griver |date=June 1999 |accessdate=December 23, 2010 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110726203303/http://dev.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/items/11985.html |archive-date=July 26, 2011 }}</ref> * [[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 stroke|butterfly]] * [[Michael Halika|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 (swimmer)|Ruth Langer]] and Lucie Goldner, protesting Hitler, stating, "We do not boycott Olympia, but Berlin".<ref name="NYTLanger">{{cite news |last1=Litsky |first1=Frank |title=Ruth Langer Lawrence, 77, Who Boycotted '36 Olympics |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1999/06/06/sports/ruth-langer-lawrence-77-who-boycotted-36-olympics.html |accessdate=30 October 2018 |work=New York Times |date=1999-06-06 |ref=Frank Litsky}}</ref> * [[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 US origin; 100-m butterfly, 4×100-m medley relay<ref>[https://pqasb.pqarchiver.com/jpost/access/62544619.html?dids=62544619:62544619&FMT=ABS&FMTS=ABS:FT&date=Oct+08%2C+1995&author=HEATHER+CHAIT&pub=Jerusalem+Post&desc=American+%27amphibious+creature%27+dives+right+in&pqatl=google "American 'amphibious creature' dives right in"] {{Webarchive|url=https://archive.today/20120713220113/http://pqasb.pqarchiver.com/jpost/access/62544619.html?dids=62544619:62544619&FMT=ABS&FMTS=ABS:FT&date=Oct+08,+1995&author=HEATHER+CHAIT&pub=Jerusalem+Post&desc=American+'amphibious+creature'+dives+right+in&pqatl=google |date=2012-07-13 }}, Heather Chait, ''The Jerusalem Post'', October 8, 1995, Retrieved January 1, 2011</ref> * [[Keren Leibovitch]] – Paralympic swimmer, 4× gold medal winner, 100m backstroke, 50m and 100m freestyle, 200m individual medley * [[Tal Stricker]] – 100- and 200-m breaststroke, 4×100-m medley relay<ref>{{cite web|url=https://pqasb.pqarchiver.com/jpost/access/60647336.html?dids=60647336:60647336&FMT=ABS&FMTS=ABS:FT&date=Sep+19%2C+2000&author=VIVA+SARAH+PRESS&pub=Jerusalem+Post&desc=Orbach+falters+in+bid+for+medal&pqatl=google|title=Orbach falters in bid for medal|work=The Jerusalem Post|date=September 19, 2000|author=Viva Sarah Press|accessdate=December 24, 2010|archive-date=July 12, 2012|archive-url=https://archive.today/20120712153114/http://pqasb.pqarchiver.com/jpost/access/60647336.html?dids=60647336:60647336&FMT=ABS&FMTS=ABS:FT&date=Sep+19,+2000&author=VIVA+SARAH+PRESS&pub=Jerusalem+Post&desc=Orbach+falters+in+bid+for+medal&pqatl=google|url-status=dead}}</ref> * [[Eithan Urbach]] – backstroke swimmer, European championship silver and bronze; 100-m backstroke<ref>[https://pqasb.pqarchiver.com/USAToday/access/16397422.html?dids=16397422:16397422&FMT=ABS&FMTS=ABS:FT&type=current&date=Jul+20%2C+1996&author=&pub=USA+TODAY+(pre-1997+Fulltext)&desc=Synchro+team+strength+wows+Cabinet+members&pqatl=google "Synchro team strength wows Cabinet members"] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20121105195325/http://pqasb.pqarchiver.com/USAToday/access/16397422.html?dids=16397422:16397422&FMT=ABS&FMTS=ABS:FT&type=current&date=Jul+20,+1996&author=&pub=USA+TODAY+(pre-1997+Fulltext)&desc=Synchro+team+strength+wows+Cabinet+members&pqatl=google |date=2012-11-05 }}, ''[[USA Today]]'', July 20, 1996, Retrieved January 1, 2011</ref>
=== Table tennis === * [[Marina Kravchenko]] – table tennis player, Soviet and Israel national teams<ref name="jewishvirtuallibrary9">{{cite web|url=https://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/jsource/History/tabletennistoc.html |title=Jews in Sports: Table Tennis |publisher=Jewish Virtual Library|accessdate=May 25, 2010}}</ref> * [[Angelica Rozeanu]] – (Adelstin), of Romanian origin, 17-time world table tennis champion, ITTFHoF
=== Taekwondo === [[File:Avishag Semberg in 2020.jpg|thumb|right|upright|[[Avishag Semberg]]]] * [[Avishag Semberg]] – taekwondo female athlete (Olympic bronze: 2020)
=== Tennis === [[File:ErlichRam.jpg|thumb|180px|[[Andy Ram]] and [[Jonathan Erlich]]]] [[File:Shahar_Peer.jpg|thumb|180px|[[Shahar Pe'er]]]] * [[Noam Behr]]<ref name="jewishvirtuallibrary10">{{cite web|url=https://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/jsource/History/tennistoc.html |title=Jews in Sports: Tennis|publisher=Jewish Virtual Library |accessdate=May 25, 2010}}</ref> * [[Ilana Berger]]<ref>[http://docs.newsbank.com/g/GooglePM/PBPB/lib00161,0EAF82F28D65C8B0.html "Evert Fans Haven't Seen Player's Last Wave"], Janet Graham, ''[[The Palm Beach Post]]'', July 23, 1989. Retrieved June 21, 2010.</ref> * [[Gilad Bloom]]<ref>{{cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=TflZAAAAIAAJ&q=jewish+%22gilad+bloom%22|author=Morning Freiheit Association|title=Jewish Currents |year=1980 |accessdate=June 2, 2010}}</ref> * [[Jonathan Erlich]] – 6 doubles titles, 6 doubles finals; won 2008 [[Australian Open]] Men's Doubles (w/Andy Ram), highest world doubles ranking # <nowiki>5</nowiki><ref name="jewishledger2">{{cite web|last=Blas |first=Howard |url=http://www.jewishledger.com/articles/2008/08/27/news/news10.txt |title=x |publisher=The Jewish Ledger |date=August 27, 2008 |accessdate=May 26, 2010 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090628113644/http://www.jewishledger.com/articles/2008/08/27/news/news10.txt |archive-date=June 28, 2009 }}</ref> * [[Shlomo Glickstein]] – highest world singles ranking # <nowiki>22</nowiki>, highest world doubles ranking # <nowiki>28</nowiki> * [[Julia Glushko]]<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.juliaglushko.com/scarsdale.php |title=Israeli Immigrants Help Change View of Homeland |publisher=Juliaglushko.com |accessdate=June 2, 2010 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110528170742/http://www.juliaglushko.com/scarsdale.php |archive-date=May 28, 2011 }}</ref> * [[Amir Hadad]] * [[Harel Levy]] – highest world singles ranking # <nowiki>30</nowiki> * [[Evgenia Linetskaya]] * [[Amos Mansdorf]] – highest world singles ranking # <nowiki>18</nowiki> * [[Tzipora Obziler]] * [[Noam Okun]] * [[Yshai Oliel]] * [[Shahar Pe'er]] – (3 [[Women's Tennis Association|WTA]] career titles), highest world singles ranking # <nowiki>11</nowiki>, highest world doubles ranking # <nowiki>14</nowiki> * [[Keren Shlomo]] – (3 [[International Tennis Federation|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 # <nowiki>5</nowiki> * [[Eyal Ran]]<ref>{{cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=21YEN44PsWcC&q=jewish+%22eyal+ran%22&pg=PA43|author= Mitchell Smith|title=Baseballs, Basketballs and Matzah Balls: What Sports Can Teach Us about the Jewish Holidays... and Vice Versa| isbn=978-1-4389-1744-3|year=2009 |accessdate=June 2, 2010}}</ref> * [[Dudi Sela]] – highest world singles ranking # <nowiki>29</nowiki> * [[Anna Smashnova]] – (12 [[Women's Tennis Association|WTA]] career titles), highest world singles ranking # <nowiki>15</nowiki>
=== Track and field === * [[Alex Averbukh]] – pole vaulter (European champion: 2002, 2006)<ref name="jewishvirtuallibrary11">{{cite web|url=https://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/jsource/History/tracktoc.html |title=Jews in Sports: Track & Field |publisher=Jewish Virtual Library |accessdate=May 25, 2010}}</ref> * [[Ayele Seteng]] – long-distance runner, was the oldest track and field athlete competing at the 2004 Olympics and 2008 Olympics. * [[Danielle Frenkel]] – high jump champion * [[Hanna Knyazyeva-Minenko]] – triple jumper and long jumper; participated in 2012 Summer Olympics * [[Shaul Ladany]] – world-record-holding racewalker, [[Bergen-Belsen concentration camp|Bergen-Belsen]] survivor, [[Munich Massacre]] survivor, professor of industrial engineering *[[Lonah Chemtai Salpeter]] – Kenyan-Israeli Olympic marathon runner * [[Esther Roth-Shachamarov]] – track and field, hurdler and sprinter (5 Asian Game golds)
=== Other === * [[Israel at the 1972 Summer Olympics|1972 Olympic team]] – see [[Munich Massacre]] * [[David Mark Berger]] – weightlifter originally from US, Maccabiah champion (middleweight); killed in the [[Munich Massacre]]<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.espn.com/gen/s/2002/0903/1426796.html |author=Tom Farrey |title=Keeping the torch lit |publisher=ESPN |date=September 5, 2002 |access-date=September 28, 2010 |url-status=bot: unknown |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100217042242/http://espn.go.com/gen/s/2002/0903/1426796.html |archive-date=February 17, 2010 }}</ref> * [[Max Birbraer]] – ice hockey player drafted by [[National Hockey League|NHL]] team ([[New Jersey Devils]])<ref name="jewishvirtuallibrary6">{{cite web|url=https://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/jsource/History/hockeytoc.html |title=Jews in Sports: Hockey |publisher=Jewish Virtual Library|accessdate=May 25, 2010}}</ref> *[[Nili Block]] (born 1995) – world champion kickboxer and Muay Thai fighter<ref name="israel21c.org1">{{cite web|url=https://www.israel21c.org/israeli-fighter-wins-muaythai-world-championship/|author=Viva Sarah Press|title=Israeli fighter wins Muaythai World Championship|publisher=Israel21c|date=May 29, 2016|access-date=December 28, 2017|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20171228234102/https://www.israel21c.org/israeli-fighter-wins-muaythai-world-championship/|archive-date=December 28, 2017|url-status=dead}}</ref> * [[Noam Dar]] – Israeli-born Scottish wrestler * [[Oren Eizenman]] – ice hockey player, Israel national team; [[Connecticut Whale (AHL)|Connecticut Whale]]) * [[Eli Elezra]] – professional poker player * [[Boris Gelfand]], [[Emil Sutovsky]], [[Ilya Smirin]] – chess Grandmasters (~2700 peak [[Elo rating system|Elo rating]]) * [[Bar Greenzaid]] – indoor skydiving athlete, singer and model * [[Baruch Hagai]] – wheelchair athlete (multiple paralympic golds) * [[Michael Kolganov]] – sprint canoer/kayak paddler, world champion, Olympic bronze 2000 (K-1 500-meter) * [[Dean Kremer]] (born 1996) – Israeli-American Major League Baseball pitcher * [[Imi Lichtenfeld]] – Hungarian-born Israeli martial artist, developer of [[Krav Maga]] * [[Ido Pariente]] – [[mixed martial artist]] * [[Eliezer Sherbatov]] (born 1991) – Israeli-Canadian ice hockey player *[[Shachar Sagiv]] (born 1994) – Olympic triathlete * [[Chagai Zamir]] – four-time Paralympic Games champion *[[Misha Zilberman]] (born 1989) – Olympic badminton player {{See also|List of Israeli chess players}}
== Chefs == [[File:Michal Ansky four1.jpg|thumb|180px|upright|[[Michal Ansky]]]] * [[Yisrael Aharoni]] – chef and [[restaurateur]] and reality television judge * [[Michal Ansky]] – female chef and reality television judge * [[Jamie Geller]] – American born-Israeli chef * [[Erez Komarovsky]] – first artisanal bread baker in Israel and reality television judge * [[Yotam Ottolenghi]] – Israeli-British chef * [[Moshik Roth]] – chef with two [[Michelin star]]s and reality television judge * [[Assaf Granit]] – chef with one Michelin star and reality television judge
== Entertainment ==
=== Artists === [[File:Portrait of Sigalit Landau.jpg|thumb|150px|[[Sigalit Landau]]]] * [[File:IAFFartist.jpg|thumb|258x258px|[[Yitzhak Frenkel]], École de Paris painter and sculptor]][[Yaacov Agam]] – kinetic artist * [[Ron Arad (industrial designer)|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|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[[File:Moshe Castel.jpg|thumb|185x185px|[[Moshe Castel]], volcanic ash artist]] * [[Israel Hershberg]] – realist painter * [[Shimshon Holzman]] – painter * [[Leo Kahn (painter)|Leo Kahn]] – painter * [[Shmuel Katz (artist)|Shmuel Katz]] – illustrator * [[Uri Katzenstein]] – visual artist * [[Dani Karavan]] – sculptor * [[Joseph Kossonogi]] – painter * [[Elyasaf Kowner]] – video artist * [[Sigalit Landau]] – video, installation, sculpture * [[File:Holzman001-size.jpg|thumb|256x256px|[[Shimshon Holzman]], water colourist]][[Alex Levac]] – photographer * [[Batia Lishansky]] – sculptor * [[Ranan Lurie]] – political cartoonist * [[Lea Nikel]] – painter * [[Zvi Malnovitzer]] – painter * [[Elyada Merioz]] – painter and art dealer * [[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 === [[File:Gal Gadot 2016 lighting corrected.jpg|thumb|180px|[[Gal Gadot]]]] [[File:Avi Arad by Gage Skidmore.jpg|thumb|150px|[[Avi Arad]]]] [[File:Natalie_Portman_AA_2011.jpg|thumb|180px|[[Natalie Portman]]]] [[File:רותם סלע (cropped).jpg|thumb|150px|[[Rotem Sela]]]] [[File:איילת_זורר.png|thumb|150px|[[Ayelet Zurer]]]] * [[Avital Abergel]] – film and TV actress * [[Gila Almagor]] – actress * [[Aviv Alush]] – actor * [[Lior Ashkenazi]] – actor * [[Yossi Atia]] – film director * [[Yvan Attal]] – actor and director * [[Mili Avital]] – actress * [[Aki Avni]] – actor * [[Orna Banai]] – actress * [[Theodore Bikel]] – actor * [[Eddie Carmel]], born Oded Ha-Carmeili – actor, singer, and circus sideshow act * [[Jason Danino-Holt]] – television presenter * [[Ronit Elkabetz]] – actress * [[David Faitelson]] – Mexican television sports commentator, born in Israel * [[Oded Fehr]] – actor * [[Eytan Fox]] – director * [[Tal Friedman]] – actor and comedian * [[Gal Gadot]] – actress and mode, Miss Israel 2004 * [[Uri Geller]] – TV personality, self-proclaimed psychic * [[Amos Gitai]] – director * [[Yasmeen Godder]] – choreographer and dancer * [[Arnon Goldfinger]] – director * [[Yael Grobglas]] – actress * [[Shira Haas]] – actress * [[Dana Ivgy]] – actress * [[Michael Karpin]] – broadcast journalist and author * [[Daphna Kastner]] – actress; married to actor [[Harvey Keitel]] * [[Nisan Katz]] – producer and director * [[Juliano Mer-Khamis]] – actor * [[Hila Klein]] – YouTuber of h3h3productions * [[Amos Kollek]] – director and writer * [[Dover Kosashvili]] – director * [[Hanna Laslo]] – actress * [[Daliah Lavi]] – actress * [[Inbar Lavi]] – actress * [[Bar Paly]] – actress and model * [[Jonah Lotan]] – actor * [[Rod Lurie]] – director and film critic * [[Arnon Milchan]] – producer * [[Avi Arad]] – producer and founder of [[Marvel Studios]] * [[Samuel Maoz]] – director * [[Ohad Naharin]] – choreographer * [[Eyal Podell]] – actor * [[Orna Porat]] – actress * [[Natalie Portman]] – actress * [[Lior Raz]] – actor and screenwriter * [[Ze'ev Revach]] – actor and comedian * [[Agam Rudberg]] – actress and model * [[Avner Strauss]] – musician * [[Haim Saban]] – TV producer and co-founder of [[Saban Entertainment]] * [[Elia Suleiman]] – director * [[Alona Tal]] – actress * [[Noa Tishby]] – actress and producer * [[Chaim Topol]] – actor * [[Raviv Ullman]] – actor * [[Yaron London]] – journalist and television host * [[Keren Yedaya]] – director * [[Becky Griffin]] – television host and model * [[Rotem Sela]] – television host, actress and model * [[Ayelet Zurer]] – actress * [[Odeya Rush]] – actress and model * [[Tomer Capone]] – actor *[[Nas Daily|Nuseir Yassin]] – YouTube vlogger, founder of Nas Daily
=== Musicians === {{main list|List of Israeli musical artists}}
==== Classical composers ==== [[File:Rami Bar-Niv.jpg|thumb|180px|[[Rami Bar-Niv]]]] * [[Rami Bar-Niv]] * [[Ofer Ben-Amots]] * [[Paul Ben-Haim]] * [[Avner Dorman]] * [[Dror Elimelech]] * [[Andre Hajdu]] * [[Gilad Hochman]] * [[Mark Kopytman]] * [[Matti Kovler]] * [[Betty Olivero]] * [[Shulamit Ran]] * [[Leon Schidlowsky]] * [[Noam Sheriff]] * [[Gil Shohat]] * [[Josef Tal]] * [[Yitzhak Yedid]]
==== Classical musicians ==== <!-- Deleted image removed: [[File:Hagai Shaham 2.jpg|thumb|right|180px|[[Hagai Shaham]]]] --> [[File:ItzhakPerlmanWhitehouse2.jpg|thumb|right|180px|[[Itzhak Perlman]]]] * [[Moshe Atzmon]] – conductor * [[Daniel Barenboim]] – conductor and pianist * [[Rami Bar-Niv]] – pianist and composer * [[Bart Berman]] – pianist * [[Gary Bertini]] – conductor * [[Natan Brand]] – pianist * [[Yefim Bronfman]] – pianist * [[Giora Feidman]] – clarinetist * [[Ivry Gitlis]] – violinist * [[Matt Haimovitz]] – cellist *[[Alice Herz-Sommer]] – pianist * [[Ofra Harnoy]] – cellist * [[Eliahu Inbal]] – conductor * [[Sharon Kam]] – clarinetist * [[Amir Katz]] – pianist * [[Evgeny Kissin]] – pianist * [[Yoel Levi]] – conductor * [[Mischa Maisky]] – cellist * [[Shlomo Mintz]] – violinist * [[Itzhak Perlman]] – violinist * [[Inbal Segev]] – cellist * [[Gil Shaham]] – violinist * [[Hagai Shaham]] – violinist * [[Michael Shani]] – conductor * [[Edna Stern]] – pianist * [[Yoav Talmi]] – conductor * [[Arie Vardi]] – pianist *[[Maxim Vengerov]] – violinist, violist and conductor * [[Ilana Vered]] – pianist * [[Pinchas Zukerman]] – violinist
==== Popular musicians ==== [[File:Etti Ankri.jpg|thumb|180px|[[Etti Ankri]]]] [[File:Shlomo Artzi portrait.jpg|thumb|180px|[[Shlomo Artzi]]]] [[File:Eyal golan 2011.jpg|thumb|180px|[[Eyal Golan]]]] [[File:Ofra Haza 1981 (עפרה חזה 1981).jpg|thumb|270x270px|[[Ofra Haza]]]] [[File:Noa_Kirel_in_2016.jpg|thumb|180px|[[Noa Kirel]]]] [[File:Ninet Tayeb - February 2017 - 3.jpg|thumb|180px|[[Ninet Tayeb]]]] * [[Chava Alberstein]] – singer-songwriter * [[Etti Ankri]] – singer-songwriter * [[Yardena Arazi]] – singer and TV host * [[Shlomo Artzi]] – singer-songwriter * [[Ehud Banai]] – singer-songwriter * [[Abatte Barihun]] – jazz saxophonist and composer * [[Eef Barzelay]] – founder of [[Clem Snide]] * [[Netta Barzilai]] – singer * [[Miri Ben-Ari]] – jazz and hip hop violinist * [[Mosh Ben-Ari]] – singer-songwriter * [[Borgore]] – electronic dance music producer and DJ * [[Mike Brant]] – French-language singer * [[David Broza]] – singer-songwriter * [[Matti Caspi]] – singer, multi-instrumentalist and composer * [[Avishai Cohen (bassist)|Avishai Cohen]] – jazz bassist * [[David D'Or]] – singer-songwriter * [[Arkadi Duchin]] – singer-songwriter, musical producer * [[Arik Einstein]] – singer, actor, writer * [[Gad Elbaz]] – singer * [[Ethnix]] – pop-rock band * [[Rita Yahan-Farouz]] – singer, actress * [[Uri Frost]] – rock guitarist, producer and director * [[Aviv Geffen]] – singer-songwriter * [[Eyal Golan]] – singer * [[Gidi Gov]] – singer * [[Dedi Graucher]] – [[Orthodox Judaism|Orthodox Jewish]] singer * [[Shlomo Gronich]] – singer and composer * [[Nadav Guedj]] – singer * [[Sarit Hadad]] – Mizrahi singer * [[Victoria Hanna]] – singer-songwriter * [[Ofra Haza]] – singer * [[Dana International]] – pop singer * [[Ishtar (singer)|Ishtar]] – vocalist for [[Alabina]] * [[Rami Kleinstein]] – singer-songwriter, composer * [[Ehud Manor]] – songwriter and translator * [[Amal Murkus]] – singer * [[Infected Mushroom]] – musical duo * [[Yael Naim|Yael Naïm]] – solo singer/musician * [[Ahinoam Nini]] (Noa) – singer * [[Esther Ofarim]] – singer * [[Yehuda Poliker]] – singer * [[Ester Rada]] – singer * [[Idan Raichel]] – Ethiopian and Israeli music * [[Yoni Rechter]] – composer and arranger * [[Ishai Ribo]] – singer-songwriter * [[Berry Sakharof]] – singer * [[Naomi Shemer]] – songwriter * [[Gene Simmons]] (real name Chaim Weitz) – lead member of [[Kiss (band)|Kiss]] * [[Hillel Slovak]] – original guitarist for [[Red Hot Chili Peppers]] * [[Pe'er Tasi]] – singer-songwriter * [[Ninet Tayeb]] – pop rock singer and actress * [[Hagit Yaso]] – singer * [[Rika Zaraï]] – singer * [[Nir Zidkyahu]] – drummer, briefly in [[Genesis (band)|Genesis]] * [[Zino and Tommy]] – popular duo, songs in US films * [[Eden Ben Zaken]] – singer * [[Noa Kirel]] – singer and actress * [[Rucka Rucka Ali]] – rapper, YouTuber, parodist
=== News anchors === * [[Yonit Levi]] * [[Haim Yavin]] * [[Miki Haimovich]] * [[Ya'akov Eilon]] * [[Yigal Ravid]] * [[Ya'akov Ahimeir]]
=== Poets === [[File:עמיחי קורא בתמול.jpg|thumb|180px|[[Yehuda Amichai]]]]
* [[Nathan Alterman]] * [[Yehuda Amichai]] * [[Sivan Beskin]] * [[Erez Biton]] * [[Leah Goldberg]] * [[Uri Zvi Greenberg]] * [[Vaan Nguyen]] * [[Dahlia Ravikovich]] * [[Naomi Shemer]] – songwriter and lyricist * [[Avraham Shlonsky]] * [[Avraham Stern]] * [[Abraham Sutzkever]] * [[Yona Wallach]] * [[Nathan Zach]] * [[Zelda Schneersohn Mishkovsky|Zelda]]
=== Writers === * [[Shmuel Yosef Agnon]] (Shmuel Yosef Halevi Czaczkes) – author, [[Nobel Prize in Literature]] (1966) * [[Aharon Appelfeld]] – [[Prix Médicis]] étranger (2004) * [[File:Etgar-keret-photo-by-moti-kikayon.jpg|thumb| 180px| [[Etgar Keret]]]][[Yoni Ben-Menachem]] – journalist * [[Ron Ben-Yishai]] – journalist[[File:Ephraim Kishon (997009327552305171) (cropped).jpg|thumb|255x255px|[[Ephraim Kishon]], author and satirist]] * [[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 (politician)|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 === [[File:Andi Gutmans 1.jpg|thumb| right| 180px |[[Andi Gutmans]]]] [[File:Yossi Vardi, 2005.jpg|thumb| right| 180px |[[Yossi Vardi]]]] * [[Beny Alagem]] – founder of [[Packard Bell]] * [[Moshe Bar (investor)|Moshe Bar]] – founder of [[XenSource]], [[Qumranet]] * [[Safra Catz]] – president of [[Oracle Corporation|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. * [[Itzik Kotler]] – founder and CTO of SafeBreach, [[Information security|Information Security Specialist]] * [[Daniel M. Lewin]] – founder of [[Akamai Technologies]] * [[Shai Reshef]] – educational entrepreneur, founder and president of [[University of the People]] * [[Bob Rosenschein]] – founder of [[GuruNet]], [[Answers.com]] (Israeli-based) * [[Gil Schwed]] – founder of [[Check Point Software Technologies|Check Point]] * [[Zeev Suraski]] and [[Andi Gutmans]] – founders of [[Zend Technologies]] (developers of [[PHP]]) * [[Arik Vardi|Arik]] and [[Yossi Vardi]], [[Yair Goldfinger]], [[Sefi Vigiser]] and [[Amnon Amir]] – founders of [[Mirabilis (company)|Mirabilis]] (developers of [[ICQ]]) * [[Zohar Zisapel]] – co-founder of the [[RAD Group]] * [[Iftach Ian Amit]] – co-founder of BeeFence, prominent [[Hacker (computer security)|Hacker]] and [[Information security|Information Security Practitioner]]
=== Other === * [[Isaac Perlmutter]] – chairman and former CEO of [[Marvel Entertainment]] * [[Ted Arison|Ted]], [[Micky Arison|Micky]] and [[Shari Arison]] – founder/owners of [[Carnival Corporation]] * [[Yossi Dina]] – pawnbroker * [[Dan Gertler]] – diamond tycoon * [[Alec Gores]] – Israeli-American businessman and investor. * [[Eli Hurvitz]] – head of [[Teva Pharmaceutical Industries|Teva Pharmaceuticals]] * [[Lev Avnerovich Leviev|Lev Leviev]] – diamond tycoon * [[Mordecai Meirowitz]] – inventor of the [[Mastermind (board game)|Mastermind]] board game * [[Aviad Meitar]] * [[Dorrit Moussaieff]] – Israeli-British businesswoman, entrepreneur, philanthropist and the [[List of spouses and partners of Icelandic presidents|First Lady of Iceland]] * [[Sammy Ofer]] – shipping magnate * [[Guy Oseary]] – head of [[Maverick (company)|Maverick Records]], manager of [[Madonna]] * [[Itschak Shrem]] – investor * [[Guy Spier]] – author and investor * [[Beny Steinmetz]] – diamond tycoon * [[Stef Wertheimer]] – industrialist
== Fashion models == [[File:Bar Refaeli 2011.jpg|thumb|180px|[[Bar Refaeli]]]] [[File:Esti Ginzborg, taken by Michal Bar.jpg|thumb|180px|[[Esti Ginzburg]]]] [[File:Shani Hazan in 2016.jpg|thumb|160px|[[Shani Hazan]]]] * [[Neta Alchimister]] (female) * [[Moran Atias]] (female) * [[Sendi Bar]] (female) * [[Nina Brosh]] (female) * [[Chava Mond]] (female) * [[Pnina Rosenblum]] (female) – [[Knesset]] parliament member for [[Likud]] (2005–2006) * [[Orly Levy-Abekasis]] (female) – Knesset parliament member for [[Likud]] (2009–) and minister (2020–2021) * [[Noa Tishby]] (female) * [[Tami Ben-Ami]] (female) * [[Sharon Ganish]] (female) * [[Maayan Keret]] (female) * [[Michaela Bercu]] (female) * [[Esti Ginzburg]] (female) * [[Yael Shelbia]] (female) * [[Shlomit Malka]] (female) * [[Tahounia Rubel]] (female) * [[Yityish Titi Aynaw]] (female) – Miss Israel 2013 * [[Shani Hazan]] (female) – Miss Israel 2012 at both Miss World 2012 and Miss International 2014 * [[Raz Meirman]] (male) * [[Michael Lewis (model)|Michael Lewis]] (male) * [[Agam Rudberg]] (female) * [[Bar Refaeli]] (female) * [[Yael Goldman]] (female) * [[Odeya Rush]] (female) * [[Gal Gadot]] (female) – Miss Israel 2004 * [[Avigail Alfatov]] (female) – [[Miss Israel|Na'art Israel]] (Miss Israel's runner-up) at Miss Universe 2015 * [[Miri Bohadana]] (female) – Na'art Israel (Miss Israel's runner-up)at Miss World 1995 * [[Anat Zamir]] (female) – Na'art Israel (Miss Israel's runner-up) at Miss World 1980 * [[Adi Himelbloy]] (female) * [[Linor Abargil]] (female) – Miss Israel and [[Miss World 1998]] * [[Rina Mor]] (female) – Miss Israel and [[Miss Universe 1976]]
== Military == [[File:Mosche Dajan.jpg|thumb|180px|[[Moshe Dayan]]]] [[File:Ilan Ramon, NASA photo portrait in orange suit.jpg|thumb|180px|[[Ilan Ramon]]]] * [[Ron Arad (pilot)|Ron Arad]] – MIA navigator * [[Gabi Ashkenazi]] – [[Ramatkal|Chief of the IDF General Staff]] * [[Yohai Ben-Nun]] – sixth commander of the [[Israeli Navy]] * [[Elihu Ben-Onn]] – Brigadier General, spokesman of the [[Israel Police]] * [[Eli Cohen]] – spy * [[Moshe Dayan]] – military leader * [[Rafael Eitan]] – [[Ramatkal|Chief of the IDF General Staff]] * [[Gadi Eizenkot]] – [[Ramatkal|Chief of the IDF General Staff]] * [[David Elazar]] – [[Ramatkal|Chief of the IDF General Staff]] * [[Giora Epstein]] – combat pilot, modern-day "[[flying ace|ace of aces]]" * [[Hoshea Friedman]] – brigadier general in the IDF * [[Uziel Gal]] – designer of the [[Uzi]] submachine gun * [[Benny Gantz]] – [[Ramatkal|Chief of the IDF General Staff]] * [[Dan Halutz]] – [[Ramatkal|Chief of the IDF General Staff]] * [[Wolfgang Lotz]] – spy * [[Peter Malkin|Tzvi Malkhin]] – [[Mossad]] agent, captured [[Adolf Eichmann]] * [[Eli Marom]] – former commander of the Israeli Navy * [[Yonatan Netanyahu]] – [[Sayeret Matkal]] commando, leader of [[Operation Entebbe]] * [[Ilan Ramon]] – astronaut on [[Space Shuttle Columbia|Columbia]] flight [[STS-107]] * [[Gilad Shalit]] – kidnapped soldier held in Gaza, released in 2011 * [[Avraham Stern]] – underground military leader * [[Yoel Strick]] – general * [[Israel Tal]] – general, father of [[Merkava]] tank * [[Captain Ella|Ella Waweya]] - known as Captain Ella, highest-ranking Muslim Arab woman in the IDF * [[Moshe Ya'alon]] – [[Ramatkal|Chief of the IDF General Staff]] * [[Yigael Yadin]] – [[Ramatkal|Chief of the IDF General Staff]]
== Politicians ==
{{main list|List of Israeli politicians}} [[File:Golda Meir 03265u.jpg|thumb|180px|[[Golda Meir]]]] [[File:Benjamin Netanyahu 2010.jpg|thumb|180px|[[Benjamin Netanyahu]]]] [[File:AYELET SHAKED.jpg|thumb|180px|[[Ayelet Shaked]]]] [[File:Yair Lapid (D1237-011).jpg|thumb|180px|[[Yair Lapid]]]] [[File:Merav Cohen 1 (cropped).JPG|thumb|180px|[[Meirav Cohen]]]] [[File:MK Amir Ohana (cropped).jpg|thumb|180px|[[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 of Israel (1999–2001) * [[Menachem Begin]] – prime minister of Israel (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 of Israel (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) and minister of foreign affairs * [[Yosef Lapid]] – former leader of the [[Shinui]] party * [[Amir Ohana]] – first openly gay right-wing ([[Likud]]) member of the Knesset and former minister of justice * [[Shimon Peres]] – [[President of Israel]] (2007–2014); prime minister of Israel (1984–86, 1995–96); [[Nobel Peace Prize]] (1994) * [[Yitzhak Rabin]] – prime minister of Israel (1974–77, 1992–95); [[Nobel Peace Prize]] (1994) (assassinated November 1995) * [[Reuven Rivlin]] – President of Israel * [[Ayelet Shaked]] – Knesset parliament right-wing member (2013–) and minister (2015–) * [[Yitzhak Shamir]] – prime minister of Israel (1983–84, 1986–92) * [[Yisrael Yeshayahu Sharabi]] – former speaker of the Knesset * [[Moshe Sharett]] – prime minister of Israel (1954–55) * [[Ariel Sharon]] – prime minister of Israel (2001–06) * [[Ahmad Tibi]] - Leader of the Ta'al party * [[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 and minister (assassinated by [[Palestinians]] in October 2001) * [[Meirav Cohen]] – minister for social equality and Knesset parliament member (2019–)
== Religious figures == === Haredi rabbis === [[File:Chazon Ish.jpg|thumb|180px|[[Avraham Yeshayeh Karelitz]]]] [[File:Yissachar Dov Rokeach (II).jpg|thumb|180px|[[Yissachar Dov Rokeach (fifth Belzer rebbe)|Yissachar Dov Rokeach]]]] [[File:Ovadia Yosef.jpg|thumb|180px|[[Ovadia Yosef]]]] * [[Yaakov Aryeh Alter]] [[Ger (Hasidic dynasty)|Gerrer]] – Rebbe * [[Shlomo Zalman Auerbach]] * [[Yaakov Blau]] * [[Yisroel Moshe Dushinsky]] – Chief Rabbi of Jerusalem ([[Edah HaChareidis]]) * [[Yosef Tzvi Dushinsky (first Dushinsky rebbe)|Yosef Tzvi Dushinsky]] – Chief Rabbi of Jerusalem (Edah HaChareidis) * [[Yosef Sholom Eliashiv]] * [[Mordechai Eliyahu]] – Sephardi Chief Rabbi of Israel 1983–93, (1929–2010) * [[Chaim Kanievsky]] * [[Avraham Yeshayeh Karelitz]], ''Chazon Ish'' – (1878–1953) * [[Nissim Karelitz]] – Head Justice of Rabbinical Court of [[Bnei Brak]] * [[Meir Kessler]] – Chief Rabbi of [[Modi'in Illit]] * [[Zundel Kroizer]] – author of ''Ohr Hachamah'' * [[Dov Landau]] – ''[[rosh yeshiva]]'' of Slabodka yeshiva of Bnei Brak * [[Yissachar Dov Rokeach (fifth Belzer rebbe)|Yissachar Dov Rokeach]] – the fifth [[Belz (Hasidic dynasty)|Belzer]] rebbe * [[Yitzchok Scheiner]] – ''rosh yeshiva'' of Kamenitz yeshiva of Jerusalem * [[Elazar Menachem Shach]], ''Rav Shach'' – (1899–2001) * [[Moshe Shmuel Shapira]] – ''rosh yeshiva'' of Be'er Ya'akov * [[Dovid Shmidel]] – Chairman of Asra Kadisha * [[Yosef Chaim Sonnenfeld]] – Chief Rabbi of Jerusalem (Edah HaChareidis) * [[Yitzchok Tuvia Weiss]] – Chief Rabbi of Jerusalem (Edah HaChareidis) * [[Amram Zaks]] – ''rosh yeshiva'' of the Slabodka yeshiva of Bnei Brak * [[Ovadia Yosef]]
=== Reform rabbis === *[[Gilad Kariv]]
=== Religious-Zionist rabbis === * [[Shlomo Amar]] – Sephardic Chief Rabbi of Israel * [[David Hartman (rabbi)|David Hartman]] * [[Avraham Yitzchak Kook]] – pre-state Ashkenazic Chief Rabbi of the Land of Israel,<ref>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.</ref> (1865–1935) * [[Israel Meir Lau]] – Ashkenazic Chief Rabbi of Israel (1993–2003), Chief Rabbi of Netanya (1978–88), (1937–) * [[Aharon Lichtenstein]] * [[Yona Metzger]] – Ashkenazic Chief Rabbi of Israel * [[Shlomo Riskin]] – Ashkenazic Chief Rabbi of Efrat
== Other ==
*[[Yigal Amir]] – assassin of left-wing prime minister [[Yitzhak Rabin]] * [[Baruch Goldstein]] – murderer * [[Ami Popper]] – murderer * [[Eden-Nathan Zada]] – murderer
== See also == * [[List of Israeli Nobel laureates]] * [[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]], [[List of Hebrew language poets|poets]] and [[List of Hebrew language playwrights|playwrights]] * [[List of Israeli Arab Muslims]] * [[List of Dutch Israelis]] * [[List of Israeli Druze]] * [[List of Israeli Ethiopian Jews|List of notable Ethiopian Jews in Israel]] * [[List of people from Jerusalem]] * [[List of people from Haifa]]
== References == {{reflist|colwidth=30em}} __NOTOC__
== Related links == * [https://www.science.co.il/gov/Presidents.asp Presidents of Israel] * [https://web.archive.org/web/20131005032556/http://www.science.co.il/gov/Prime-Ministers.asp Prime Ministers of Israel]
{{DEFAULTSORT:Israelis}} [[Category:Lists of Israeli people| ]]