- Uri Avnery
Uri Avnery (also transliterated Uri Avneri, born September 10, 1923 in Beckum, Germany as Helmut Ostermann), is a German-born Israeli journalist, left-wing peace activist, and former Knesset member, who was originally a member of the right-wing Revisionist Zionist movement. - Ariel Sharon
"' (also known by his diminutive Arik אָרִיק"' is a former Israeli Prime Minister and military leader whose political career was ended by a massive stroke that he suffered in early 2006. Sharon served as Prime Minister from March 2001 until April 2006, though the powers of his office were exercised by acting Prime Minister Ehud Olmert following Sharon's stroke on 4 January2006. At that time, Sharon fell into a coma; as of July 2007, … - Shimon Peres
"' (born Szymon Perski"' on August 2, 1923 in eastern Poland) is the 9th President of the State of Israel. He is a senior Israeli statesman with a political career spanning more than 65 years. He joined the Knesset in November 1959 and, except for a three-month-long hiatus in early 2006, served continuously until June 13, 2007, the day he was elected President of Israel. - Ehud Barak
Ehud Barak is an Israeli politician, former Prime Minster, and current Minister of Defense, deputy prime minister and leader of Israel's Labor Party. Barak served as the 10th Prime Minister of Israel from 1999 to 2001. After losing the 2001 election, Barak embarked on a business career. On June 12, 2007, he completed a political comeback by winning election to the Labor Party leadership. He was appointed as Israeli Minister of Defence, … - Yitzhak Rabin
"'"', <font color="white">a</font>(March 1, 1922 – November 4, 1995) was an Israeli politician and general. He was the fifth Prime Minister of Israel with two periods in office, from 1974 until 1977 and from 1992 until his assassination in 1995. In 1994 during his second term Rabin won the Nobel Peace Prize together with Shimon Peres and Yasser Arafat, for their efforts towards peace which culminated in the Oslo Accords. - David Ben-Gurion
"'"' (October 16, 1886 – December 1, 1973;) was the first Prime Minister of Israel. Ben-Gurion's passion for Zionism, which began early in life, culminated in his instrumental role in the founding of the state of Israel. After leading Israel to victory in the 1948 Arab-Israeli War, Ben-Gurion helped build the state institutions and oversaw the absorption of vast numbers of Jews from all over the world. Upon retiring from political life in 1970, he moved to Sde Boker, … - Golda Meir
Golda Meir (born Golda Mabovitz on 3 May 1898, died December 8, 1978, also known as Golda Myerson from 1917-1956), was one of the founders of the State of Israel. Meir served as the Minister of Labour, Foreign Minister, and then as the fourth Prime Minister of Israel from March 17, 1969, to June 3, 1974. As the BBC put it, Golda Meir was the "Iron Lady" of Israeli politics years before the epithet was coined for Margaret Thatcher. - Azmi Bishara
Azmi Bishara is a Palestinian Christian who was a Member of the Israeli Knesset and leader of the Balad party from 1996 until resigning in April 2007. His resignation took place amidst news of a series of "serious" but "unspecified" criminal charges being laid against him by Israeli security services, which were later revealed to be treason and espionage. By resigning, Bishara lost his parliamentary immunity and has chosen to remain abroad, … - Abba Eban
Abba Eban (born February 2, 1915, died November 17, 2002) was an Israeli diplomat and politician. Born with the name Aubrey Solomon Meir in Cape Town, South Africa, Eban moved to England at an early age. He was educated at St Olave's Grammar School before studying Classics and Oriental languages at Queens' College, Cambridge. After graduating with a "Triple-Starred First", he researched Arabic and Hebrew as a Fellow of Pembroke College from 1938-1939. - Natan Sharansky
Natan Sharansky </ref> He resigned from the Knesset on November 20, 2006. As of June 18, 2007, Sharansky is the president of Beit Hatefutsot, the Jewish diaspora museum. - Yitzhak Shamir
Shamir first described a meeting he had recently had with a Vermont-based psychoanalyst, the nephew of Israel's first Prime Minister, David Ben-Gurion. The nephew prided himself on the fact that his closest friends were Palestinians, and that he rejected the idea of a Jewish "tribal" identity, preferring to view all human beings as brethren. Shamir observed, "That is the last thing the bosses want. - Meir Kahane
Rabbi Meir David Kahane (also known by the pseudonyms Michael King, David Sinai and Hayim Yerushalmi, 1 August 1932 – 5 November 1990) was an American-Israeli Orthodox rabbi, author, political activist, and a former member of the Israeli Knesset. Kahane was known in the United States and Israel for his strong political and nationalist views, … - Amram Mitzna
Amram Mitzna is an Israeli politician who served as the mayor of Haifa from 1993 to 2003. He was born in Kibbutz Dovrat to German Jewish refugees. He retired from the Israel Defense Forces in 1993 with the rank of major general (2nd highest ranking in the IDF) and had previously commanded the IDF Northern Command, he was decorated with the Medal of Distinguished Service for his actions during the Six-Day War. He was elected mayor of Haifa the same year. - Shulamit Aloni
Shulamit Aloni (born November 29 1928) is an Israeli politician and left-wing activist. She is a prominent member of the Israeli peace camp, founded the Ratz party and was leader of the Meretz party and served as Israel's minister of education from 1992 to 1993. Born Shulamit Adler in Tel Aviv, her mother was a seamstress and her father was a carpenter, both descended from Polish Jewish rabbinical families. - Levi Eshkol
"', born Levi Shkolnik, Hebrew לֵוִי שׁקוֹלנִיק"'; October 25, 1895 - February 26, 1969), served as the third Prime Minister of Israel from 1963 until his death from a heart attack in 1969. He was the first Israeli Prime Minister to die in office. Levi Shkolnik was born in the village of Oratov near Kiev, Ukraine. His mother came from an Hasidic background and his father came from a family of Mitnagdim. - Yigal Allon
Yigal Allon (born October 10, 1918, died February 29, 1980), commander of the Palmach, was an Israeli politician, serving as one of the leaders of Mapai and the Alignment, acting Prime Minister of Israel, member of Knesset and government minister from the tenth through the seventeenth Knessets. Alon was born in Kfar Tavor and studied at the Kadoori Agricultural High School. As a young man he joined the Jewish Settlement Police as a police officer. - Yossi Sarid
Yossi Sarid (born October 24, 1940) is a left-wing Israeli news commentator and former politician. Sarid was member of the Meretz-Yachad party in the Knesset until he withdrew from politics shortly before the 2006 elections. Sarid holds a Master's degree in Political Science from New School for Social Research, New York. He writes a weekly column for the daily, … - Yehiel Hazan
Yehiel Hazan is an Israeli politician. - Ezer Weizman
"'"' ((June 15,1924-April 24, 2005) was the seventh President of the State of Israel. He served a seven-year term, 1993–2000. Before the presidency, Weizman was commander of the Israeli air force and Minister of Defense. - Shlomo Ben-Ami
Shlomo Ben-Ami (born July 17 1943) is an Israeli diplomat, politician and historian. Ben-Ami was born in Tangier, Morocco to Sephardic Jewish parents. He immigrated to Israel in 1955. He was educated at Tel-Aviv University and Oxford University (England) from which he received a Ph.D. in History. He was a historian at Tel-Aviv University from the mid-1970s, serving as head of the School of History from 1982 to 1986. His initial field of study was Spanish history, … - Moshe Sharett
Moshe Sharett, born Moshe Shertok (Hebrew: משה שרתוק was the second Prime Minister of Israel (1954-1955), serving for a little under two years between David Ben-Gurion's two terms. Born in Kherson, Ukraine, then part of the Russian Empire, Moshe Sharett emigrated to Palestine in 1908. His family was one of the founders of Tel Aviv. He was a member of the first graduating class of the Herzliya Hebrew High School. - Rafael Eitan
Rafael Eitan <font color="white">a</font>(January 11, 1929 - November 23, 2004) was an Israeli general, former Chief of Staff of the Israeli Defence Forces and later a politician, a Knesset member, and Minister of Agriculture. He was known by the nickname of "Raful" (רפול). Rafael Eitan was born in 1929 in Afula, in the British Mandate of Palestine and was raised in Moshav Tel Adashim, where he spent most of his life. - Issam Makhoul
Issam Makhoul, is the Secretary General of the Communist Party of Israel. Together with the Central Committee of the party (of which he is a member), he directs all communist activities in Israel as well as being responsible for relationship with communist parties in other countries. An Israeli Arab sociologist and politician, he is a former member of the Hadash Movement (Democratic Front for Peace and Equality) in Israel's parliament, the Knesset. - Moshe Arens
Moshe Arens (born 27 December 1925 in Kaunas, Lithuania) is an Israeli politician. He was a member of the Likud party, and served as Minister of Defense three times. Arens immigrated to the United States with his family in 1939 and became an American citizen. As a youth, Arens became a leader in the Betar Zionist youth movement. In 1948, when Israel achieved its independence and was invaded by seven Arab armies, Arens immigrated to Israel and joined the Irgun forces, … - Michael Bar-Zohar
Dr Michael Bar-Zohar (born 30 January 1938) is an Israeli historian, novelist and politician. His World War II-era nonfiction and fiction works have been published in English, French, Hebrew, and other languages. He was also a member of the Knesset on behalf of the Alignment. - Moshe Katsav
Moshe Katsav (born Musā Qassāb on 5 December 1945) is a former President of Israel and member of the Knesset. The end of his term of President was marked by controversy, and from 25 January 2007 until his resignation on 1 July 2007, he was on a leave of absence amid impending charges of crimes stemming from his alleged rape of one female subordinate which was later dropped, as well as the sexual harassment of others. - Uzi Landau
Uzi Landau (born August 2, 1943) is an Israeli politician from the Likud party. Landau was born in Haifa. He served in the Paratroopers Brigade of the Israel Defence Forces, and reached the rank of Major. Landau is a systems analyst, with B.Sc. and M.Sc. degrees from the Technion and a Ph.D. from MIT. He served as the Director-General of the Ministry of Transport, a lecturer in the Technion, a member of the Boards of El Al Israel Airlines, … - Omri Sharon
Omri Sharon is the son of former Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon and a former member of the Likud party in the Israeli Knesset. Critics accused Sharon and his father, Ariel Sharon, of nepotism, especially when Ariel sent Omri as his unofficial representative for talks with members of the Palestinian Authority. Omri later became involved in a scandal relating to fundraising for his father's 1999 bid to lead the Likud party. - Chaim Herzog
Chaim Herzog served as the sixth President of Israel (1983–1993), following a distinguished career in both the British Army and the Israel Defense Forces (IDF). - Avraham Burg
Avraham Burg (nickname: Avrum, born January 19 1955) is an Israeli politician. Burg was born in Jerusalem and is the son of Yosef Shlomo Burg, a minister in several Israeli governments himself. He served in the Israel Defense Forces and graduated as a lieutenant in the paratroopers brigade. He then studied Social Sciences at Hebrew University in Jerusalem. Burg was an activist in left wing organizations and the Peace Now movement. - Rehavam Ze'Evi
"'"', born 20 June 1926, died 17 October 2001) was an Israeli general, politician and historian who founded the right-wing nationalist Moledet party. He was assassinated by the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine (PFLP), becoming the only Israeli politician to be assassinated during the Al-Aqsa intifada. - Tawfiq Ziad
Tawfiq Ziad, also transliterated as Tawfik Zayyad, 7 May 1929 – 5 July 1994) was a Palestinian Arab citizen of Israel, well-known for his "poetry of protest". Born in the Galilee, Zayyad studied literature in Russia. After returning home, he was elected mayor of Nazareth on 9 December 1973, as head of Rakah, a Communist party, a victory that is said to have "surprised and alarmed" Israelis. - Amnon Rubinstein
Amnon Rubinstein (born 1931) is an Israeli law scholar, politician, and columnist. A member of the Knesset since 1977, he founded Shinui (The Center Party) in 1974, and has served as the Minister for Communications and as Education Minister. He is currently dean of the Interdisciplinary Center (IDC) in Herzliya. In his columns for Haaretz and Maariv, Rubinstein has focused on countering what he perceives as anti-Semitism and anti-Zionism within the European left. - David Levy
David Levy (sometimes written David Levi born December 21, 1937) is an Israeli politician. A construction worker originally, he was born in Morocco and made Aliyah to Israel in 1957. His background as a leader of Beit Shean's poor, uneducated, Moroccan working class earned Levy a huge advantage in his early career as a union activist when he began to campaign for membership in the Histadrut Labour Federation's executive body, … - Meir Amit
Meir Amit (born 17 March 1921) was the Director of the Mossad from 1963 to 1968. Born in Palestine during the British mandate, he fought for the Haganah during the 1948 Arab-Israeli War. In the late 1950s Amit studied in the United States, earning a business degree from Columbia Business School. After returning to Israel, Amit entered the Israeli intelligence community, first as a Major General at the head of IDF Intelligence in 1961, and then as Mossad Director in 1963. - Yitzhak Navon
Yitzhak Navon (born April 9 1921) is an Israeli politician, diplomat and author. He was the fifth President of Israel. - Amnon Lipkin-Shahak
Amnon Lipkin-Shahak (born 18 March 1944) is a former Chief of Staff of the Israel Defense Forces, Member of the Knesset and Minister of Transportation and Tourism. - Zalman Shoval
Zalman Shoval is a former Israeli politician and diplomat. Born in Gdańsk, Poland, he made Aliyah in 1938. He was a member of the 7th, 8th, 9th, and 12th Knesset. He was the Israeli ambassadors to the United States from 1990 to 1993 and again from 1998 to 2000. - Yigael Yadin
Yigael Yadin (Hebrew: יגאל ידין, born Yigal Sukenik on March 20, 1917, died June 28, 1984) was an Israeli archeologist, politician, and the second Chief of Staff of the Israel Defense Forces (IDF). The Israeli actor Yossi Yadin was his brother. Yadin was born in 1917 to noted archeologist Eliezer Sukenik. He joined the Haganah at age fifteen and served there in a variety of different capacities. - Uzi Even
Uzi Even is an Israeli professor of chemistry in Tel Aviv University as well as a politician. He was born in Haifa to eastern European Jewish immigrants. Even studied for a B.Sc. and M.Sc. in Physics at the Technion, and a Ph.D at Tel Aviv University. He lists his specializations as spectroscopy of super cold molecules, molecular clusters and cluster impact chemistry, and the quantum properties of helium clusters.
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