- Israel Knohl
Israel Knohl is the professor of Biblical studies at the Hebrew University in Jerusalem. He is best known for his "The Sanctuary of Silence", a "popular science" book concerning his theories about the dating of the Priestly Source. In this, he proposes that the Priestly Source (P) dates from a much earlier period than it is usually dated to, …
- Martin van Creveld
Martin van Creveld (born 1946) is an Israeli military historian and theorist. He was born in the Netherlands but has lived in Israel since shortly after his birth. He holds degrees from the London School of Economics and The Hebrew University in Jerusalem, where he has been on the faculty since 1971. He is the author of fifteen books on military history and strategy, of which "Command in War" (1985), "Supplying War" (1977, 2nd edition 2004), …
- Shlomo Avineri
Shlomo Avineri is an Israeli political scientist. He is Emeritus Professor of Political Science at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem.
- Israel Shahak
Israel Shahak (April 28, 1933 - July 2, 2001) was a Polish-born Israeli Professor of Chemistry at Hebrew University in Jerusalem, the former president of the Israeli League for Human and Civil Rights, and an outspoken critic of the Israeli government and of Israeli society in general. Shahak's writings on Judaism have been the source of considerable controversy
- Yehuda Bauer
Yehuda Bauer (born 1926) is a historian and scholar of the Holocaust. He is a Professor of Holocaust Studies at the Avraham Harman Institute of Contemporary Jewry at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem.
- Ehud Netzer
Ehud Netzer (b. 1934) is an Israeli archaeologist and Professor "emeritus" at the Institute of Archeology at the Hebrew University in Jerusalem. The subjects he teaches combine architecture and archeology. An expert on the architecture of Herod the Great, Netzer led a team of archaeologists who in 2007 reported that they located the tomb of Herod the Great in Herodium, south of Jerusalem.
- 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.
- Yehuda Amichai
Yehuda Amichai was an Israeli poet. Amichai is considered by many to be the greatest modern Israeli poet, and was one of the first to write in colloquial Hebrew.
- David Grossman
David Grossman born in Jerusalem on January 25, 1954, is an Israeli author of fiction, nonfiction, and youth and children's literature. His books have been translated into numerous languages. "The Yellow Wind", his nonfiction study of the Palestinians in the Israeli-occupied West Bank and Gaza Strip met with acclaim abroad but sparked controversy at home. Grossman studied Philosophy and Theater at Hebrew University.
- Baruch Kimmerling
Baruch Kimmerling (b. 16 October 1939 - d. 20 May 2007) was a Professor of Sociology at the Hebrew University, Jerusalem. Born in Turda, Romania, he emigrated to Israel in 1952 and was well-known as a sociologist and social-historian. He had a reputation as a vocal critic of Israeli policies and practice related to the Arab-Israeli conflict and the Israeli government. Kimmerling, who had cerebral palsy, died at the age of 67 after a long battle with cancer.
- Tom Segev
Tom Segev (born 1945, Jerusalem) is an Israeli intellectual, journalist, and historian. Segev's parents fled Nazi Germany in 1935 and settled in Palestine. His father was killed in the 1948 Arab-Israeli War. After his early education in Israel, he studied history at Hebrew University and then received a doctorate in history from Boston University in the seventies. Segev writes for Ha'aretz, a major Israeli liberal newspaper, and has published several books.
- Amihai Mazar
Amihai "Ami" Mazar (born 1942) is an Israeli archaeologist. Born in Haifa, Israel (then in Palestine), he is currently (since 1994) Professor at the Institute of Archaeology of the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, holding the Eleazer Sukenik Chair in the Archaeology of Israel.
- Daniel Kahneman
Daniel Kahneman (born March 5, 1934 in Tel Aviv), is an Israeli-American psychologist and Nobel laureate, notable for his pioneering work on behavioral finance and hedonic psychology. With Amos Tversky and others, Kahneman established a cognitive basis for common human errors using heuristics and in developing prospect theory. Kahneman spent his childhood years in Paris, France and moved to Israel in 1946. He received his B.Sc.
- Tanya Reinhart
Tanya Reinhart was an Israeli linguist who wrote frequently on the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. She contributed columns to the Israeli newspaper "Yediot Aharonot" and longer articles to the "CounterPunch", "Znet", and "Israeli Indymedia" websites. Reinhart studied philosophy and Hebrew literature at the Hebrew University, Jerusalem as an undergraduate, where she later received an M.A. in comparative literature and philosophy.
- Emanuel Tov
Emanuel Tov (born September 1941, Amsterdam) is a Dutch-Israeli Bible scholar and, since 1986, has been a Professor in the Department of the Bible at the Hebrew University in Jerusalem. He is a respected textual critic and has published widely on the Qumran biblical texts and their history. Appointed to the editorial team working on the Dead Sea Scrolls in 1984, …
- Aaron Ciechanover
Aaron Ciechanover is an Israeli biologist. In 2000 he received the Albert Lasker Award for Basic Medical Research. Along with Avram Hershko and Irwin Rose, he was awarded the 2004 Nobel Prize in Chemistry for the discovery of ubiquitin-mediated protein degradation. Born in Haifa, Israel, he received his Master of Science in 1971 and his M.D. in 1974 from the Hadassah Medical School of the Hebrew University in Jerusalem.
- Saharon Shelah
Saharon Shelah (born July 3, 1945 in Jerusalem) is an Israeli mathematician. He is a professor of mathematics at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem and also at Rutgers University in New Jersey, USA. Shelah's main interest lies in mathematical logic, in particular in model theory and set theory. Shelah is one of the most prolific contemporary mathematicians. As of 2006, he had (together with over 200 coauthors) published nearly 900 mathematical papers.
- Abraham
Abraham (Avi) Loeb is an American/Israeli theoretical physicist who works on astrophysics and cosmology. He is currently a professor of astronomy and the director of the Institute for Theory and Computation (ITC) at Harvard University. Loeb was born in Israel in 1962 and took part in the national Talpiot program before receiving a graduate degree in Plasma Physics at age 24 from the Hebrew University in Jerusalem.
- Ruth Gavison
Ruth Gavison (Born: Jerusalem, March 28, 1945) is an Israeli Law professor at the Hebrew University in Jerusalem. She is also a Senior Fellow Emeritus at the Israel Democracy Institute. Her areas of research include Ethnic Conflict, the Protection of Minorities, Human Rights, Political Theory, Judiciary Law, Religion and Politics, and Israel as a Jewish and Democratic State.
- Avram Hershko
Dr. Avram Hershko was born in 1937, in Karcag, Hungary . In 1950, Hershko and his family emigrated from Hungary to Israel . Hershko is a Distinguished Professor at the Unit of Biochemistry, the Rappaport Faculty of Medicine at the Technion (Israel Institute of Technology) in Haifa , Israel. He became a Professor at the Technion in 1980, and was an Associate Professor there from 1972 to 1980.
- Khaled Abu Toameh
Khaled Abu Toameh is an Israeli Arab Muslim journalist, documentarian and the West Bank and Gaza correspondent for the Jerusalem Post and U.S. News and World Report. He is also the Palestinian affairs producer for NBC News since 1988. His articles are published in numerous publications such as "The Sunday Times", "Daily Express" and the "New Republic". Khaled Abu Toameh was previously a senior writer for The Jerusalem Report, …
- Robert S. Wistrich
Robert Solomon Wistrich (born 1945) is the Neuburger Professor of European and Jewish history at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, and the head of the University's Vidal Sassoon International Center for the Study of Anti-Semitism.
- Zeev Sternhell
Zeev Sternhell is the Léon Blum Professor of Political Science at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. Born in Poland in 1935, he emigrated to Israel in 1951. Between 1957 and 1960 he studied History and Political Science at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem and received BA cum laude in 1960. In 1969 he awarded a Ph.D. degree, cum laude at the University of Paris, for a thesis on "The Social and Political Ideas of Maurice Barrès".
- 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.
- Yossi Melman
Yossi Melman is an Israeli writer and journalist. Receiving his B.A. from Hebrew University in Jerusalem, he was also a Nieman Fellow at Harvard. Melman is currently an intelligence correspondent with "Haaretz". Melman has stated that he considers himself a left-wing Israeli, and that Israel must abandon the occupied territories to live in peace with a Palestinian state. However, he has said that Palestinians should not be given the right of return, …
- Rachel Elior
Rachel Elior is an Israeli professor of at the Hebrew University in Jerusalem, Israel. She is the "John and Golda Cohen Professor of Jewish Philosophy and Jewish Mystical Thought", and has been a faculty member at the university since 1978. She achieved her PhD Summa cum Laude, in 1976, and maintains interests in Early Jewish Mysticism, the Dead Sea Scrolls, Messianism, Sabbatianism, Hasidism, Frankism and the role of Women in Jewish Culture.
- Amos Tversky
Amos Tversky (March 16, 1937 - June 2, 1996) was a pioneer of cognitive science, a longtime collaborator of Daniel Kahneman, and a key figure in the discovery of systematic human cognitive bias and handling of risk. Much of his early work concerned the foundations of measurement. He was co-author of a three-volume treatise, Foundations of Measurement (recently reprinted). His early work with Kahneman focused on the psychology of prediction and probability judgment.
- Leon Hadar
Leon T. Hadar specializes in foreign policy, international trade, the Middle East, and South and East Asia. He is the former United Nations bureau chief for the Jerusalem Post and is currently the Washington correspondent for the Singapore Business Times .
- Elyakim Rubinstein
Elyakim Rubinstein (born 1947) was the Attorney General of Israel from 1997 to 2004. Rubinstein, a lifelong Israeli diplomat and civil servant, has had an influential role in that country's internal and external politics, most notably in helping to shape its peace treaties with Egypt and Jordan. Born in Tel Aviv, he earned his bachelor's (1969) and master's (1974) degrees from Hebrew University in Jerusalem, and launched a career in law, …
- Tzachi Hanegbi
Tzachi Hanegbi (born 26 February 1957) is an Israeli politician and Member of the Knesset for Kadima. A former Justice Minister, in 2006 he was indicted for making political appointments to civil service posts during his time as Environment Minister, despite his claims that it was normal practice. His trial is ongoing.
- Eliyahu Rips
Eliyahu Rips (born 1948) - is an Israeli-Latvian mathematician known for his research in geometric group theory. He achieved public notoriety as a result of coauthoring a paper on the Bible codes. Rips grew up in Latvia (then part of Soviet Union). He was the first high school student from Latvia to participate in the International Mathematical Olympiad.
- Aharon Appelfeld
Aharon Appelfeld (born February 16, 1932 in Czernowitz, Romania) is an Israeli novelist. In 1940, the Nazis invaded his hometown. His mother was killed and Appelfeld, a boy of eight, was deported with his father to a concentration camp in Ukraine. He escaped and hid for three years before joining the Soviet Army as a cook. After World War II, Appelfeld spent several months in a displaced persons camp in Italy before immigrating to Palestine in 1946, …
- Raphael Patai
Raphael Patai (1910-1996) was a Hungarian-Jewish ethnographer and anthropologist whose life spanned most of the twentieth century. He was born Ervin Gyorgy Patai in Budapest, Hungary on November 22, 1910. His parents were Edith Ehrenfeld Patai and Jozsef Patai. His father Jozsef was a prominent literary figure, author of numerous Zionist and other writings, including a biography of Theodore Herzl.
- David Ellenson
David Ellenson is a rabbi who is known as a leader of the Reform movement in Judaism. He is the president of the Hebrew Union College-Jewish Institute of Religion (HUC-JIR), and the I.H. and Anna Grancell Professor of Jewish Religious Thought. He is also a fellow of the Shalom Hartman Institute of Jerusalem, and a fellow and lecturer at the Institute of Advanced Studies at Hebrew University in Jerusalem. Ellenson is the author of "Tradition in Transition: Orthodoxy, …
- Mordechai Nisan
Mordechai Nisan is a professor and scholar of Middle East studies at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem and consultant for the Jerusalem Institute for Western Defence. He is recognised authority on the history of minorities in the Middle East.
- Nurit Peled-Elhanan
Nurit Peled-Elhanan is an Israeli peace activist, professor at Hebrew University, and is among the founders of the Bereaved Families for Peace. After the death of Elhanan's 13 year-old daughter in 1997, she became an outspoken critic of the Israeli occupation of the West Bank and Gaza.
- Jacob Rader Marcus
Jacob Rader Marcus (1896-1995) was a scholar of Jewish history and a Reform rabbi. Born in New Haven, Pennsylvania, United States, into a traditional Jewish family, Marcus became interested in Reform Judaism at the age of 15. At that time, he travelled to Hebrew Union College (HUC), in Cincinnati, Ohio, to begin his rabbinical training. After a two-year interim during World War I, when he served in the American military, Marcus returned to graduate studies in Cincinnati.
- Helen Dukas
Helen Dukas (17 October 1896-10 February 1982) was Albert Einstein's secretary. She also co-authored "Einstein: Creator and Rebel" and co-edited "Albert Einstein: The Human Side" with Dr. Banesh Hoffmann. Dukas was one of two trustees chosen by Einstein, according to his Last Will and Testament, to hold the literary rights to all of his manuscripts, copyrights, publication rights, royalties, and royalty agreements. The other trustee was the economist Dr.
- Nahman Avigad
Dr. Nahman Avigad (1905-1992), born in Zawalow, Galicia (then Austrian, now in the western region of Ukraine), was an Israeli archaeologist. He studied architecture in what is now the town of Brno, Czech Republic. Avigad emigrated to Mandatory Palestine in 1926. He married Shulamit (nee Levin) Avigad in 1928. He worked in the excavations of the Beth Alpha synagogue and the Hammat-Gader synagogue.
- Nachman Ben-Yehuda
Nachman Ben-Yehuda is a professor and dean of the department of sociology at the Hebrew University in Jerusalem, Israel. He views the story of Masada as a modern legend. According to his book "Sacrificing Truth", the rendition of Josephus was embellished before and after the establishment of the State of Israel.