Michael O. Rabin

Michael O. Rabin

male, 78 years old
Michael Oser Rabin is a computer scientist and a recipient of the Turing Award. Rabin was born as the son of a rabbi in what was then known as...
Nathan Alterman

Nathan Alterman

male, deceased (1970)
Natan Alterman (born 1910, Warsaw - died 1970, in Israel) was an Israeli poet, journalist, and translator. He was born in Warsaw, and moved to Tel...
Chaim Sheba

Chaim Sheba

male, deceased (1971)
Chaim Sheba (1908, Frasin, near Gura Humora, Romania-1971) was an Israeli physician. Born to the well known Scheiber Hasidic family, in 1929, he...
Amnon Rubinstein

Amnon Rubinstein

male, 78 years old
Amnon Rubinstein (born 1931) is an Israeli law scholar, politician, and columnist. A member of the Knesset since 1977, he founded Shinui (The...
Ruth Arnon

Ruth Arnon

female
Ruth Arnon is an Israeli biochemist and codeveloper of the multiple sclerosis drug Copaxone. She was awarded the Wolf Prize in Medicine in 1998....
Pnina Salzman

Pnina Salzman

female, deceased (2006)
Pnina Salzman (b. February 24 1922, Tel Aviv, Palestine - d. December 16 2006, Tel Aviv, Israel) was an Israeli classical pianist and piano...
Joseph Bau

Joseph Bau

male, 89 years old
Joseph Bau is a graphic artist and poet, survivor of the Plaszow Nazi concentration camp of World War II.
Jacob Bekenstein

Jacob Bekenstein

male, 62 years old
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...
Meir Wieseltier

Meir Wieseltier

male
Meir Wieseltier, Israeli poet, was born in 1941 in Moscow and migrated to Israel in 1949. He has published ten volumes of verse, and translations...
Menahem Stern

Menahem Stern

male, deceased (1989)
Menahem Stern, Israeli historian, one of the greatest researchers of the period of the Second Temple. He received the Israel Prize for History of...