- Ephraim Kishon
"'"' (August 23, 1924 - January 29, 2005) was an Israeli writer, satirist, dramatist, screenwriter, and film director. - Yeshayahu Leibowitz
Yeshayahu Leibowitz (1903-1994) was an Israeli scientist, philosopher and public figure noted for his outspoken and often controversial opinions regarding morals, ethics, politics, and religion. - David Harel
David Harel (born 1950) is a professor of computer science at the Weizmann Institute of Science in Israel. Born in London, England, he was Dean of the Faculty of Mathematics and Computer Science at the institute for seven years. Harel is best known for his work on dynamic logic, computability and software engineering. In the 1980s he invented the graphical language of Statecharts, which has been adopted as part of the UML standard. - Martin Buber
Martin Buber was an Austrian-Jewish philosopher, translator, and educator, whose work centered on theistic ideals of religious consciousness, interpersonal relations, and community. Buber's evocative, sometimes poetic writing style has marked the major themes in his work: the retelling of Hasidic tales, Biblical commentary, and metaphysical dialogue. A cultural Zionist, Buber was active in the Jewish and educational communities of Germany and Israel. - 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, … - Amos Oz
Amos Oz (born May 4, 1939), birth name Amos Klausner) is an Israeli writer, novelist, and journalist. He is also a professor of literature at Ben-Gurion University in Be'er Sheva. Since 1967, he has been a prominent advocate of a two-state solution to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. - Joshua Prawer
Joshua Prawer was a notable Israeli historian and a scholar of the Crusades and Kingdom of Jerusalem whose work often attempted to portray Crusader society as a forerunner to later European colonialist expansion. He was also an important figure in Israeli higher education, was one of the founders of the University of Haifa and Ben-Gurion University, and was a major reformer of the Israeli education system. - 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. - Zubin Mehta
Zubin Mehta (b. April 29, 1936) is an Indian conductor of classical music. Zubin Mehta was born into an aristocratic Indian Parsi family in Bombay (now Mumbai), India, the son of Mehli and Tehmina Mehta. His father Mehli Mehta was a violinist and founding conductor of the Bombay Symphony Orchestra. Zubin is an alumnus of St Mary's School (I.C.S.E.), Mazagoan, Mumbai. - A. B. Yehoshua
Avraham "Boolie" Yehoshua (born in Jerusalem in 1936) is an Israeli novelist, essayist, and playwright, known publicly as A. B. Yehoshua, and familiarly as "Boolie". - 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. - Elhanan Helpman
Elhanan Helpman (born March 30, 1946 in Dzalabad, former Soviet Union) is an Israeli economist who works in the field of international trade. Born in the Soviet Union, his parents later emigrated to Israel. After serving in the military from 1963 to 1966, he studied economics and statistics at Tel Aviv University and graduated with a B.A. in 1969 and an M.A. in 1971. He enrolled at Harvard University in 1971 and graduated with a Ph.D. in economics in 1974. - 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. - 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. - Moshe Greenberg
Moshe Greenberg is a major scholar in the area of Biblical studies, in the course of a career that has spanned half a century. He has also made major contributions to the study of Semitic languages. He was born in Philadelphia on 10 July, 1928. At the University of Pennsylvania, where he received his Ph.D. in 1954, he studied Bible and Assyriology with E. A. Speiser; simultaneously, he studied post-Biblical Judaica at the Jewish Theological Seminary of America. - Shmuel Yosef Agnon
Shmuel Yosef Agnon. One of the central figures in modern Hebrew fiction, Agnon was born in Galicia, later immigrated as a Zionist to Ottoman Palestine, and died in Jerusalem. His works deal with the conflict between the traditional Jewish life and language and the modern world. They also attempt to recapture the fading traditions of the European "shtetl" (village). In a wider context, he also contributed to the narrator's character in modern literature. - Gila Almagor
Gila Almagor (born July 22, 1939) is commonly known as the first lady of Israeli stage and film. She was raised in an orphanage, and it was there that she was recognized as a great actress. Since her stage debut at the age of 17 in Habima's production of "The Skin of Our Teeth", she has acted in countless productions both on stage and on the big screen, often in starring roles. She is also a successful author of young adult fiction. - 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. - 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. - 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. - 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." - Adin Steinsaltz
Rabbi Adin Steinsaltz (Hebrew: עדין שטיינזלץ) or Adin Even Yisrael (born 1937) is most commonly known for his popular commentary and translation of both Talmuds into Hebrew, French, Russian and Spanish. In 1988, he was awarded the Israel Prize, Israel's highest honor. Steinsaltz is a noted scholar, philosopher, social critic and author world wide whose background also includes extensive scientific training. - Yuval Neeman
Yuval Neeman, was an Israeli soldier, physicist and politician, serving as a Minister during the 1980s and early 1990s - Ehud Manor
Ehud Manor (July 13, 1941 - April 12, 2005) was an Israeli songwriter, translator and radio and TV personality. He composed many well-known songs including "Ein Li Eretz Acheret" (I Have No Other Country), "Brit Olam" (World Covenant), "BaShanah HaBaah" (In The Next Year), "Zo Yalduti HaShniya" (This Is My Second Childhood), and "Achi HaTza'ir Yehuda" (My Younger Brother Jouda). - Nahum Gutman
Nahum Gutman was an Israeli painter, sculptor and author born in what is now Teleneşti, Moldova, then part of the Russian Empire. In 1903, he and his parents moved to Odessa; in 1905, they emigrated to Israel. Gutman helped pioneer a distinctively Israeli style, different from the European models of his teachers. He was quite eclectic as an artist, working in oils, watercolours, gouache, sculpture, mosaics, and engravings. - Joseph Klausner
Joseph Gedaliah Klausner , also known as Yosef Klauzner (יוסף קלוזנר) was a Jewish scholar born in Olkeniki, Lithuania who emigrated to the British Mandate of Palestine in 1919, and died in Israel. He was an intellectual and specialist in Jewish religion and history, and a scholar of modern Hebrew literature. He was the chief redacter of "The Hebrew Encylopedia", and taught Hebrew literature at Hebrew University in Jerusalem. - Naomi Shemer
Naomi Shemer was one of Israel's most important and prolific song writers, considered by some "the First Lady of Israeli Song". Born as Naomi Sapir, Shemer wrote both words and lyrics to her own songs, composed music to words by others (such as the poet Rachel), and set Hebrew words to internationally known tunes (such as "Hey Jude" by the Beatles); she has probably made more lasting contributions to Israeli song than any other single songwriter. - Yehoram Gaon
Mr. Gaon is an acclaimed singer, actor and social commentator in Israel, with a list of accomplishments in the entertainment world that dates back to the 1960s. As a public icon, he has used his influence to promote Jewish and Israeli heritage through books, theater performances, television shows and the music industry. Mr. Gaon has hosted popular radio and TV programs and has also directed movies and plays. - Nechama Leibowitz
Nechama Leibowitz (1905 in Riga, Latvia - 12 April 1997 in Jerusalem) was a noted Israeli biblical scholar and commentator, who rekindled an intense interest in the study of the Bible and its commentaries among Jews everywhere. Leibowitz was born to an Orthodox Jewish family in Riga, two years after her elder brother, the philosopher Yeshayahu Leibowitz. - Dahlia Ravikovitch
Dahlia Ravikovitch (17 November 1936 - 21 August 2005) was an Israeli poet and peace activist best known for the freedom of expression in her romantic poetry and her principled engagement with current events. - 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. - 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. - Emile Habibi
Imil (Emile) Shukri Habibi (August 1921 - May 3, 1996), born in Haifa to a Protestant Palestinian Arab family, was a writer and politician. - Reuven Rubin
Reuven Rubin (born Reuven Zelicovici; November 13, 1893 - October 13, 1974) was a Romanian-born Israeli painter. - Uri Zvi Greenberg
Uri Zvi Greenberg (1896-1981), the son of a distinguished Hasidic family was raised in Lvov (now in Ukraine) and received a traditional religious education. Before he was twenty, his first poems, written in Yiddish and Hebrew, were published in contemporary periodicals. He was drafted into the Austrian army in 1915 and served until he deserted two years later. Returning to Lvov, he witnessed the pogroms of November, 1918, … - 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, … - Menahem Golan
Menahem Golan (born Menahem Globus on May 31, 1929 in Tiberias, Israel) is an Israeli director and producer who is most famous for his association with Cannon Films Inc., a company he ran with his cousin Yoram Globus. Cannon produced a long line of movies during the 1980s and early 1990s, such as "Delta Force", "Runaway Train" and some of the "Death Wish" sequels. Golan has produced movies for such stars as Sean Connery, … - Ohad Naharin
Ohad Naharin is a dancer and choreographer. Naharin studied at Juilliard and with the Martha Graham company before returning to Israel to direct the Batsheva Dance Company, which was founded in 1964 by Martha Graham and Baroness Batsheva De Rothschild. Naharin's works are performed by the Lyon Opera Ballet, Les Grands Ballets Canadiens, Nederlands Dans Theatre, Frankfurt Ballet, Hubbard Street Dance Chicago, and Rambert Dance Company. - Dani Karavan
Dani Karavan (born 1930 in Tel Aviv) is an Israeli sculptor best known for site specific memorials and monuments which merge into the environment, though he has made important installations as well as other significant contributions to art and architecture. - Amir Pnueli
Amir Pnueli (born April 22, 1941) is an Israeli computer scientist who received the Turing Award in 1996 "for seminal work introducing temporal logic into computing science and for outstanding contributions to program and systems verification". Born in Nahalal, Israel, Pnueli received a Bachelor's degree in Mathematics at the Technion in Haifa, and Ph.D. in applied mathematics from the Weizmann Institute of Science.
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