- Aren Maeir
Aren Maeir is a Professor at Bar Ilan University and Director of the Tel esSafi/Gath Archaeological Project. Born in 1958 in Rochester, NY, USA, he moved to Israel in 1969 and has lived there since. He did his studies at the Hebrew University in Jerusalem (PhD 1997 summa cum lauda). He has participated in and directed numerous archaeological excavations in Israel. His expertise lies in the Bronze and Iron Age cultures of the Eastern Mediterranean, …
- Daniel Sperber
Rabbi Dr. Daniel Sperber is a professor of Talmud at Bar-Ilan University in Israel, and an expert in classical philology, history of Jewish customs, Jewish art history, Jewish education and Talmudic studies. Sperber was born on November 4, 1940 in Gwrych Castle, Wales. He studied for rabbinical ordination at Yeshivat Kol Torah in Israel, earned a doctorate from University College, London in the departments of Ancient History and Hebrew Studies.
- Eytan Gilboa
Eytan Gilboa is professor of communication and government, Director of the PhD Program in communication, Senior Research Associate at the Begin-Sadat Center for Strategic Studies, and faculty member of the Program on Conflict Management and Negotiation, all at Bar-Ilan University in Israel. He is a world-known expert on international communication and U.S. Policy in the Middle East.
- Jonathan Fox
Jonathan Fox is a Senior Lecturer in the Department of Political Science at Bar-Ilan University in Ramat Gan, Israel. He has authored, coauthored, or edited four books and over 40 journal articles and book chapters on topics such as domestic and international ethnic and religious conflict and the role of religion in politics.
- Meir Sheetrit
Meir Sheetrit (born 10 October 1948) is an Israeli politician, Knesset member, and Minister of the Interior. He also served as Acting Justice Minister for three months in 2006. Sheetrit was born in Ksar Souk (now Errachidia), in Morocco, in 1957 his family immigrated to Israel. Sheetrit holds a Master's degree in Public Policy from Bar-Ilan University. Sheetrit is married and is a father to two children.
- Avishai Raviv
Avishai Raviv was a member of Israel's Shin Bet or Shabak, Israel's Secret Police, as part of the Shabak Jewish Section, a controversial section of the Shabak that is used to monitor Jewish opponents of Israeli government activities. Avishai Raviv, was a paid agent of Israel's Shabak charged with the mission of perpetrating acts of "right-wing Zionist violence" which the government and media could blame on their right-wing opponents.
- Cecil Roth
Cecil Roth was a British Jewish historian and educator. He was educated at Merton College, Oxford (Ph.D., 1924) and returned to Oxford as reader in Jewish Studies from 1939 to 1964. Thereafter he was visiting professor at Bar-Ilan University, Israel (1964–1965), and at the City University of New York (1966–1969). He was editor of "Encyclopedia Judaica" from 1965 until his death.
- Moshe Kaplinsky
Maj. Gen. Moshe Kaplinski (b. 1957), is Deputy Chief of the General Staff of the Israel Defense Forces. He was previously head of the Israel Defense Force's Central Command, whose area of responsibility includes the occupied West Bank. As Deputy Chief of the General Staff he is second in command of the Israel Defense Forces. In August 2002, he took over as General Officer Commanding, Central Command from Major General Yitzhak Eitan.
- Avshalom Elitzur
Avshalom Cyrus Elitzur is an Israeli physicist and philosopher. He is a senior lecturer at the Unit for Interdisciplinary Studies, Bar-Ilan University, Ramat-Gan, Israel. He is noted for the Elitzur-Vaidman bomb-testing problem in quantum mechanics, which was widely publicised by Roger Penrose in his book "Shadows of the Mind". Elitzur received no formal university training before obtaining his PhD.
- Max Jammer
Max Jammer (born 1915 in Berlin, Germany) is an Israeli physicist and philosopher of physics. He studied physics, philosophy and history of Science at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. After a PhD in experimental physics, Jammer went to Harvard University for postgraduate work. He subsequently became a lecturer there and a close colleague of Albert Einstein at Princeton University. He taught at Harvard, the University of Oklahoma and Boston University, …
- Admiel Kosman
Admiel Kosman, Israeli poet, was born in Haifa in 1957. He studied in religious schools and yeshivot, but after his service in the Israeli Defense Forces he entered the Bezalel Art Academy in Jerusalem. Later he became a lecturer in the Department of Talmudic Studies at Bar-Ilan University in Tel Aviv. Kosman began writing in the 1980's and has published three books of poetry. His poems often deal with the tension between his religious faith and his artistic sensibilities.
- Gilad Erdan
Gilad Moshe Erdan (born 30 September, 1970) is an Israeli political and member of the Knesset for Likud. He is currently the chairman of the Likud Youth. Born in Ashkelon, Erdan was a Lieutenant in the IDF. After finishing his military service, he studied Law at Bar-Ilan University, gaining an LL.B, and started working as an attorney. Becoming involved in politics, Erdan worked as an advisor to Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu, …
- Cyril Domb
Cyril Domb (born 9 December 1920) is a British scientist now living in Israel. He was university lecturer in mathematics at Cambridge University between 1952 and 1954 and Professor of Theoretical Physics at King's College London between 1954 and 1981. Domb was Professor of Physics at Bar-Ilan University between 1981-89 and currently Professor Emeritus there. He is also President of the Association of Orthodox Jewish Scientists.
- Yoram Rubin
Yoram Rubin was one of the bodyguards of Yitzhak Rabin, when Rabin was assassinated by Yigal Amir. Rubin was lightly wounded by a shot of the murderer that missed the late prime minister of Israel. Next to his work for the Shabak, Rubin was also a second year Geography student at Bar-Ilan University at the time of the assassination. The man who shot Rubin and murdered Yitzhak Rabin studied at the same university.
- Susan Starr Sered
Susan Starr Sered is the Senior Research Associate at Suffolk University's Center for Women's Health and Human Rights, having previously been the director of the "Religion, Health and Healing Initiative" at the Harvard University Center for the Study of World Religions, and a Professor of Sociology and Anthropology at Bar-Ilan University, Israel, and is the author of several books focusing on women's health and religious issues, …
- Isaac Wolfson
Sir Isaac Wolfson, 1st Baronet FRS (September 17, 1897 - June 20, 1991) was a businessman and philanthropist. He was chairman of The Great Universal Stores Limited 1947-1987 and established the Wolfson Foundation. Isaac Wolfson was the son of a Jewish cabinet maker, an immigrant from Russia who settled in the Gorbals in Glasgow, Scotland. He was educated at Queen's Park School, Glasgow. His significant fortune was based on a very successful mail order business, …
- Moshe Goshen-Gottstein
Moshe Goshen-Gottstein was professor of Semitic linguistics and biblical philology at the Hebrew University and director of the lexicographical institute and Biblical research institute of Bar-Ilan University. Escaping the Nazis to Palestine in 1939, he studied at the Hebrew University and taught there from 1950 on, becoming a professor in 1967. In 1988 he was awarded the Israel Prize in Jewish studies. He made many contributions in the areas of Biblical studies, …
- Ibrahim Sarsur
Sheikh Ibrahim Sarsur (born February 2, 1959) is an Israeli Arab politician and Knesset member, and is currently leader of the United Arab List. A native of Kafr Qasim, Sarsur served on its council between 1989 and 1999. During the 1970s, he studied English literature and English linguistics at Bar-Ilan University. In 1999, he became head of the southern faction of the Islamic Movement (considered more moderate than its northern counterpart).
- Fanya Heller
Fanya Gottesfeld Heller is a noted Holocaust survivor, author and philanthropist. Born into a traditional Jewish family in a small village in the Ukraine in 1924, she and her family hid from the Nazi death squads with the help of two Christian rescuers. Heller recently reissued her autobiography under a new title, "Love in a World of Sorrow" (Devora Publishing, 2005). Originally entitled "Strange and Unexpected Love: A Teenage Girl's Holocaust Memoirs" (KTAV, …
- Martin Boykan
Martin Boykan (b. 1931) studied composition with Walter Piston,Aaron Copland and Paul Hindemith, and piano with Eduard Steuermann. He received a BA from Harvard University, 1951, and an MM from Yale University, 1953. In 1953-55 he was in Vienna on a Fulbright Fellowship, and upon his return founded the Brandeis Chamber Ensemble whose other members included Robert Koff (Juilliard Quartet), Nancy Cirillo (Wellesley), Eugene Lehner (Kolisch Quartet), …
- Lazarus Phillips
Lazarus Phillips, O.B.E., Q.C., LL.D. (October 10 1895 - December 30 1986) was a Canadian lawyer and Senator. Born in Montreal, Quebec, he served with the Canadian Expeditionary Force in Siberia during World War I. In 1918, he received a Bachelor of Civil Law from McGill University and was called to the Quebec Bar in 1920. A practicing lawyer, he was a senior partner of the Montreal law firm, Phillips and Vineberg (now Davies Ward Phillips & Vineberg).
- Abraham Hirschfeld
Abraham Jacob "Abe" Hirschfeld, was a Polish-born New York real estate developer known for his eccentric endeavors, love for publicity, $2 neckties, and strong Yiddish accent. Hirschfeld was born in Tarnów, Poland and immigrated to the British Mandate of Palestine in the early 1930s. He said most of his extended family stayed and died in the Holocaust.
- Ehud Shani
Aluf Ehud Shani (born May 9, 1957) is a general in the Israel Defense Forces and currently Head of C4I and Senior Field Commander. Born in Haifa, Shani went to "Reali" High School, a military boarding school. He first joined the IDF Armor Corps in 1975 as an elisted soldier, but the following year he attended Officers School to become an officer. He was the Deputy Commander of an armor battalion during the 1982 Lebanon War.
- Margalit Matitiahu
Margalit Matitiahu is a poet in Ladino and Hebrew from Israel. After the Holocaust, her parents moved to Israel from Thessaloniki, Greece where they were Sephardi Jews who were descendants of Jews from León. She studied Hebrew Literature and Philosophy at Bar Ilan University. She started writing in Hebrew and in 1988 she published "Curtijo Quemado" (later in "Vela de luz") in Ladino, which is a testimony of Nazi destruction.
- Yaakov Neeman
Yaakov Neeman (b. Tel Aviv, Israel on September 16, 1939) is an Israeli lawyer and former minister. He received a LL.B ("with honors") from the Hebrew University of Jerusalem (1964), and LL.M and J.S.D ("with honors") from New York University (1965 and 1968). Neeman is one of the three founding partners of Herzog, Fox & Neeman, the largest law firm in Israel. Neeman is one of Israel's leading lawyers in corporate law and tax law.
- Moshe Karadi
Moshe Karadi (b. 1960) is an Israeli police officer and was the general commissioner of the Israel Police, between 2004 and February 2007. Karadi was born and raised in Bat Yam, and currently resides in Rishon LeZion. He is married with three children. Karadi has a bachelor's degree in criminology from the Bar Ilan University and a master's degree in public administration from the University of Haifa.
- Zevulun Hammer
Zevulun Hammer (May 31, 1936 - January 20, 1998) was an Israeli politician from the National Religious Party. Hammer was born in Haifa, joined the Bnei Akiva youth movement, and served in the Israeli Armored Corps within a Nahal programme. He graduated from the Bar Ilan University. Hammer married Menahemia and they had four children. Hammer became Minister of Welfare in Israel's 17th government, in November 1975.
- Elazar Stern
Aluf Elazar Stern (b. 1956) is a general in the Israel Defense Forces and the current head of the Israeli Human Resources Directorate. Born in Tel Aviv, Stern attended Bar Ilan University, where he received a B.A. in Economy and Israel Studies. He also received a Business Management M.B.A. from Tel Aviv University and Northwestern University. Stern joined the IDF in 1974 as a paratrooper, eventually becoming the reserve commander of the Paratroopers Brigade in 1991.
- Pynchas Brener
Pynchas Brener is the Chief Ashkenazi Rabbi of Caracas, Venezuela since 1967, Bachelor of Arts & Rabbinic Ordination from Yeshiva University, Master of Arts from Columbia University, and he is also a PhD "honoris causa" of Bar Ilan University. He is a president of the Committee of Liaisons between Churches and Synagogues in Venezuela and member of the Board of Directors of Bar Ilan University in Israel. He is the author of several books about Judaism, …
- Tzvi Arad
Zvi Arad was born April 1942 in Petach Tikva, Israel, where he still lives today with his wife, Rivka. His children and grandchildren also live in Petach Tikva, as did his late parents. Subsequent to the completion of his high school education he began his academic studies in the Mathematics Department of Bar Ilan University (Israel).
- Yitzhak Yitzhaky
Yitzhak Yitzhaky was an Israeli educator and politician. He was elected to the ninth Knesset as a member of Ariel Sharon's Shlomtzion. Yitzhaky was born in Tiberias and was an active member of the Maccabee youth movement. He studied psychology and education at Bar Ilan and Tel Aviv universities.
- Meir Bar-Ilan
Meir Berlin, later Hebraized to Meir Bar-Ilan, (1880-1949), born Volozhin, Lithuania, died Jerusalem, Israel) was an Orthodox rabbi and leader of Religious Zionism, the "Mizrachi" movement in USA and British Mandate of Palestine. He inspired the founding of Bar Ilan University in Israel which is named for him.
- David Tzuriel
David Tzuriel is Israeli clinical and educational psychologist. His expertice is dynamic assessment. Currently he works as a professor at Bar Ilan University.
- Menachem Friedman
Menachem Friedman is an Israeli anthropologist and sociologist at Bar Ilan University, Ramat-Gan. He explores the field of religion and the confrontations between religious and secular Judaism in modern history. He also studies the modern process of Halachic decision making.
- Rabbi Yeroham Simsovic
Rabbi Yeroham Simsovic and his wife Hadas have arrived in Oxford where they will care for the 1000 Jewish students between Oxford University and Oxford Brookes with the wealth of experience they have. The Simsovic’s come from Israel where they were studying at Bar Ilan University and involved in Jewish education initiatives. Their activities includes: Classes, 1on1 learning, counceling, organizing social & religious events etc. Working closely with JSOC.
- James Kugel
James L. Kugel (1945-) is chair of the Institute for the History of the Jewish Bible at Bar Ilan University in Israel and the Harry M. Starr Professor Emeritus of Classical and Modern Hebrew Literature at Harvard University. James Kugel is the author and editor of 15 books and numerous articles on the Bible and its early commentators, focusing on the Second Temple period. In 2001, his book, the "Bible As It Was" won the Grawemeyer Award in religion.
- Moshe Kletenik
Rabbi Moshe Kletenik is an American rabbi. He was born in Chicago in 1954 to Rabbi Shya and Rochelle Kletenik. After studying in the Hebrew Theological College and Yeshivas Brisk of Chicago, he received semicha from Rabbi Ahron Soloveichik and completed his BA at Roosevelt University in mathematics. Kletenik's first job was as the principal of Mesivta of Greater Miami. In 1982 he served as the rabbi of Shaare Torah Congregation of Pittsburgh in Pittsburgh, …
- Aharon Barak
Aharon Barak ( Hebrew : O a, birth name Arik Brick , born September 16, 1936) is a professor of law at the Interdisciplinary Center Herzliya and a lecturer in law at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem and a lecturer in law at the Yale Law School and the University of Toronto Faculty of Law . Aharon Barak was President of the Supreme Court of Israel from 1995 until the middle of 2006. Legal scholars have called him the " John Marshall " of Israel, the "world's greatest living jurist."
- Ariel Toaff
Ariel Toaff is a professor of Medieval and Renaissance History at Bar Ilan University. He is the son of Elio Toaff, a former Chief Rabbi of Rome. Among his works are "The Jews in Medieval Assisi 1305-1487: A social and economic history of a small Jewish community" (1979), "Il vino e la carne. Una comunità ebraica nel Medioevo" ("The Wine and the Meat. A Jewish Community in the Middle Ages", 1989), "Mostri giudei.
- Udi Adam
Aluf Ehud "Udi" Adam (in Hebrew: אהוד ("אודי") אדם is a General in the Israel Defense Forces and the former head of the Israeli Northern Command. Adam has received a B.A. in Psychology and Sociology from Bar Ilan University and later studied at the School for War Studies in Paris, where he received a M.A. in Strategic Studies. His father was General Yekutiel Adam, former Deputy Chief of Staff of the Israeli Defence Forces, …