- Ehud Olmert
Ehud Olmert ; born September 30, 1945) is the 12th and current Prime Minister of Israel. Olmert became Prime Minister on April 14, 2006 but had been exercising the powers of the office since they were transferred to him on January 4, 2006 after Ariel Sharon suffered a severe hemorrhagic stroke. Olmert's title for that period was Acting Prime Minister. Olmert has previously been the Vice Prime Minister of Israel, Finance minister, Minister of Industry, Trade and Labor, …
- 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, …
- Robert H. Smith
Robert H. Smith (b. 19??) is a successful builder-developer. Smith is chairman of Charles E. Smith Co. Commercial Realty, a division of Vornado Realty Trust, and chairman of Charles E. Smith Co. Residential, a division of Archstone-Smith, both REITs listed on the New York Stock Exchange. Smith is best known for spearheading the development of the Crystal City complex in northern Virginia. Smith has given generously to the University of Maryland, College Park, …
- 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."
- Robert Aumann
Yisrael Robert John Aumann (born June 8, 1930) is an Israeli mathematician and a member of the United States National Academy of Sciences. He works at the Center for the Study of Rationality in the Hebrew University of Jerusalem in Israel. Aumann was awarded the 2005 Nobel Memorial Prize in Economics for "having enhanced our understanding of conflict and cooperation through game-theory analysis". He shared the prize with Thomas Schelling.
- Gershom Scholem
Gershom Scholem (December 5, 1897 - February 21, 1982), also known as Gerhard Scholem, was a Jewish philosopher and historian raised in Germany. He is widely regarded as the modern founder of the scholarly study of Kabbalah, becoming the first Professor of Jewish Mysticism at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. Scholem is best known for his collection of lectures, "Major Trends in Jewish Mysticism" (1941) and for his biography "Sabbatai Zevi, …
- Avraham Harman
Avraham Harman (1915-1992) was an Israeli diplomat and academic administrator. Born in London, England, he received a law degree from Wadham College, Oxford in 1935. In 1938, he immigrated to Palestine. In 1949, he was appointed Israel's first consul-general in Montreal, Quebec. In 1950, he worked in the Israeli delegation to the United Nations. From 1953 to 1955, he was the consul-general in New York, New York.
- Nir Shaviv
Nir Shaviv is an Israeli associate professor of physics, carrying out research in the fields of astrophysics and climate science. He is currently an associate professor at the Racah Institute of Physics of the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. He is most well-known for his solar and cosmic rays hypothesis of climate change.
- Yuli Tamir
Professor Yuli Tamir (born Yael Tamir, 26 February 1954) is an Israeli scholar and politician and former Minister of Immigrant Absorption. She is now Minister of Education, representing the Labour Party. Between 1972-1974, she served in Aman's 848 Unit, and during the Yom Kippur War, she served as an officer in an outpost on the Sinai. Tamir received a BA in Biology and an MA in Political Science from the Hebrew University of Jerusalem.
- Avishai Margalit
Avishai Margalit is an Israeli author and scholar. Born in Palestine in 1939 he was raised and educated in Jerusalem. He received a Ph.D., "summa cum laude", in 1970 from the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. Margalit traveled abroad teaching and lecturing, acting as a British Council Scholar at Oxford University and a visiting scholar at Harvard University. He occasionally contributes to the "New York Review of Books".
- 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.
- 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.
- Eilat Mazar
Eilat Mazar is a third-generation Israeli archaeologist, specializing in Jerusalem and Phoenician archaeology. A senior fellow at the Shalem Center, she has worked on the Temple Mount excavations, as well as excavations at Achzib. In addition to heading the Shalem Center's Institute of Archaeology, she is affiliated with the Hebrew University of Jerusalem.
- Dan Gillerman
Dan Gillerman, born in British Mandate Palestine in 1944, is Israel's 13th Permanent Representative to the United Nations. He was appointed in July 2002 and assumed his post on January 1, 2003. Educated at Tel Aviv University and the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Gillerman served as the CEO of several Israeli companies, Chairman of the Federation of Israeli Chambers of Commerce, …
- Matthias Küntzel
Matthias Küntzel, is a German author and a political scientist. He is a research associate at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem and a member of Scholars for Peace in the Middle East.
- 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, …
- Avraham Sela
Avraham Sela is an Israeli authority on the politics of the Middle East and international relations. He studied at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem gaining a BA in 1971, an MA in 1974 and a PhD in 1986. Sela is currently a professor of Middle East studies in the Department of International Relations at the Hebrew University and visiting assistant professor of political science at Colgate University.
- David Flusser
David Flusser was the professor of Early Christianity and Judaism of the Second Temple Period at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, a member of the Israel Academy of Sciences and Humanities and a recipient of the national Israel Prize in 1980 for his academic achievements. Lawrence Schiffman, chairman of the Skirball department of Hebrew and Judaic studies at New York University, …
- Mark Regev
Mark Regev is the Spokesman of the Israel Ministry of Foreign Affairs. Prior to occupying his current post, he has served as Deputy Chief of Mission at the Consulate General in Hong Kong, Spokesman at the Embassy in Beijing and at the Jordan Division at the Foreign Affairs Ministry in Jerusalem, and as a professor of International Relations and Strategy at the Israel Defense Forces' Staff College. Born in Australia, and a graduate of Mount Scopus Memorial College, …
- Edwin Seroussi
Edwin Seroussi is a leading contemporary musicologist. Currently professor of musicology and director of the Jewish Music Research Centre at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, he examines Jewish musical traditions in North Africa and the Middle East, as well as Israeli popular music. Seroussi's publications include "Spanish-Portuguese Synagogue Music in Reform Sources from Hamburg" (1996) and the "Cancionero sefardi" (1995) by Alberto Hemsi.
- Menachem Mazuz
Menachem Mazuz (born 1955) is an Israeli jurist, who currently serves as Israel's Attorney General. Mazuz was born in Djerba, Tunisia. His family immigrated to Israel during his childhood, settling in Netivot. Mazuz served his compulsory military service in the IDF Armor Corps, and then studied law at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, earning his law degree in 1980 specializing in public and administrative law.
- 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".
- Ariel Rubinstein
Ariel Rubinstein (born April 13, 1951) is an economist who works in game theory. He was educated at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, 1972-1979, in both mathematics and economics. He is currently (2006) a professor of economics with the School of Economics at Tel Aviv University and with the Department of Economics at New York University. In 1982, he published "Perfect equilibrium in a bargaining model", Econometrica 50/1, 97-109, …
- Noga Alon
Noga Alon is an Israeli mathematician noted for his prolific contributions to combinatorics and theoretical computer science, having authored hundreds of papers. He received his PhD from the Hebrew University of Jerusalem in 1983 and is currently on the faculty of Tel Aviv University. Alon is the principal founder of the powerful Combinatorial Nullstellensatz which has many applications in combinatorics and number theory.
- Avishai Dekel
Avishai Dekel is a professor of physics at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel, doing research in astrophysics and cosmology. Prof. Dekel got his Ph.D. from the Hebrew University in 1980, and was a research fellow at Caltech and an assistant professor at Yale University before joining the faculty of the Hebrew University in 1986.
- 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, …
- Jacob Bekenstein
Jacob David Bekenstein (born May 1, 1947) is a physicist who has contributed to the foundation of black hole thermodynamics and to other aspects of the connections between information and gravitation. He was born in Mexico City, Mexico. He is Polak Professor of Theoretical Physics at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, a member of the Israel Academy of Sciences and Humanities and of The World Jewish Academy of Sciences, …
- Meir Shamgar
Meir Shamgar (b. Danzig, 1925) was President of the Israeli Supreme Court from 1983 until 1995. Shamgar studied history and philosophy at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem and law at the Government Law School of London University. He served in the Israel Defense Forces, attaining the rank of Brigadier General. In 1996 Shamgar chaired the Commission of Inquiry into murder of Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin.
- Ronnie Kosloff
Ronnnie Kosloff (b. July 27, 1948 in Los Angeles, California) is a professor of Theoretical Chemistry, Institute of Chemistry and Fritz Haber Center for Molecular Dynamics, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel. He is the author of numerous papers in the field. His important Contributions include: Development of time dependent quantum mechanical methods for molecular dynamics. Introduction of wavepacket representation by the Fourier method.
- Hillel Furstenberg
Hillel (Harry) Furstenberg is an Israeli mathematician. He is known for his application of probability theory and ergodic theory methods, to other areas including number theory and Lie groups. In 1977, he gave an ergodic theory reformulation, and subsequently proof, of Szemerédi's theorem. He was born in Berlin, in 1935, and soon emigrated to the US. In the Yeshiva University he concluded his BA and MSc studies in 1955. He obtained his Ph.
- Fred Alan Wolf
Fred Alan Wolf is a physicist, a writer and lecturer with a PhD in theoretical physics. He puts his many facets into not only teaching all around the world but also into publishing books, 12 successful books to date including one National Book Award.
- Dorit Beinisch
Dorit Beinisch (born: 1942) is the president of the Supreme Court of Israel. With the retirement of outgoing president Aharon Barak, she was appointed to the position on September 7, 2006. She is the first woman to serve as president of the Supreme Court. <sup></sup> She appears likely to continue Barak's judicial-activist approach. A member of Israel's Supreme Court since 1995, Beinisch has an extensive career in public service.
- Yitzhak Navon
Yitzhak Navon (born April 9 1921) is an Israeli politician, diplomat and author. He was the fifth President of Israel.
- Reuven Rivlin
Reuven Rivlin (born 9 September, 1939) is an Israeli lawyer, politician, member of the Knesset from the Likud party, and former Speaker of the Knesset. In 2007 he ran for the election for President as the candidate of the Likud party. He withdrew after the first round of voting when it became clear that Kadima MK Shimon Peres had sufficiently broad support to inevitably win in a run-off. Born in Jerusalem, he received a LL.B. from the Hebrew University of Jerusalem.
- Yehoshafat Harkabi
Yehoshafat Harkabi (1921-1994) was chief of Israeli military intelligence from 1955 until 1959. He is known primarily for his gradual development from uncompromising hardliner to a PLO state. Following his military career Harkabi served as a visiting professor at Princeton University and as a guest scholar at the Brookings Institute.
- Dror Bar-Natan
Dror Bar-Natan (born January 30, 1966, Israel) is a mathematics professor at the University of Toronto, Canada. His main research interests include knot theory, finite type invariants, and Khovanov homology. Bar-Natan earned his B.Sc. in mathematics at Tel Aviv University in 1984. After performing his military service as a teacher, he came in 1987 to study in the United States, at Princeton University. He obtained his Ph.D. in mathematics in 1991, …
- Dorit Aharonov
Dorit Aharonov (born 1970) is an Israeli computer scientist specializing in quantum computing. Aharonov received her doctorate in 1999 from the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, where she is now senior lecturer at the Department of Computer Science and Engineering. Her thesis was entitled "Noisy Quantum Computation." In 2005, Aharonov was profiled by the journal "Nature" as one of four "young theorists... who are making waves in their chosen fields."
- Yehoshua Porath
Yehoshua Porath is Professor Emeritus of Middle East History at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. He specializes in the history of the Palestinian nationalist movement and related issues. In the 1992 election, he was the 13th name on the list of Meretz candidates to Knesset.
- Barry Chamish
Barry Chamish (born Winnipeg, 1952) is a Canadian-Israeli religious Zionist activist and writer, best known as a conspiracy theorist. He studied at the University of Manitoba and later immigrated to Israel. In 1975 he attended the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. Recently he left Israel and relocated to Vancouver, Canada, while lecturing to religious and non-religious groups in Canada and the US. He now resides in St. Augustine, Florida, after marrying his second wife.
- Yigal Arnon
Yigal Arnon (b. Tel Aviv, Israel on December 9, 1929) is an Israeli lawyer and founder of Yigal Arnon & Co., one of the largest law firms in Israel. Arnon received his LL.M degree from the Hebrew University of Jerusalem in 1953, and was admitted to the Israel Bar in 1954. On the Israeli Friends of the Hebrew University of Jerusalem web site, he is described as one of the leading jurists in Israel. He served as the chairman of the First International Bank of Israel, …