Ephraim Halevy is an Israeli lawyer and intelligence expert. He was the ninth director of Mossad and the 2nd head of the Israeli National Security Council. Halevy was born in the United Kingdom to an established Orthodox Jewish family. He immigrated to Israel in 1948. He graduated (with commendation) as a certified lawyer. Between 1957-1961 he was the editor of the journal "Survery" (סקירה), published by the Chief Education Officer.

Meir Dagan is an Israeli military figure and current Director of the Mossad. Born Meir Huberman in the Soviet Union in 1945, Dagan is the son of Holocaust survivors. Dagan's family immigrated to Israel in 1950 and settled in Bat Yam, a coastal city south of Tel Aviv. In 1963 Dagan enlisted in the Israel Defense Forces (IDF) and served in the paratrooper brigade. In the 1967 Six Day War he commanded a company which fought in Sinai, …

Avraham Stern, alias Yair was the founder and leader of the Zionist militant organization later known as Lehi which was also known as the "Stern Gang". Stern was born in Suwałki, Poland, immigrated to the British Mandate of Palestine in 1925, and studied in the Hebrew Gymnasium in Jerusalem, and afterwards in the Hebrew University on Mount Scopus. He specialized in Classic languages and literature (Greek and Latin).

Zachary Baumel (born November 17, 1960) is an Israeli MIA soldier. Baumel, a dual American-Israeli was a sergeant in the IDF. He along with four other Israeli soldiers were captured in the battle of Sultan Yacoub on June 11, 1982. Two of the soldiers were later exchanged, however Baumel's fate along with two others has yet to be determined. Time Magazine reporter and journalist, Dean Brelis was the last to report seeing Baumel alive, …

Tzvi Feldman (born December 29, 1956) is an Israeli MIA soldier. Feldman was a first sergeant in the IDF. He along with four other Israeli soldiers were captured in the battle of Sultan Yacoub on June 11, 1982. Two of the soldiers were later exchanged, however Feldman's fate along with two others has yet to be determined. It is believed they are dead.

David Shaltiel (1903-1969) is most well-known for being the district commander of the Haganah in Jerusalem during the 1948 Arab-Israeli war. He was born into an Portuguese orthodox Jewish family in Hamburg. At 16, Shaltiel joined the Zionist youth movement Blau Weiss, and he went to Palestine in 1923. However, he was not happy there, and returned to Europe in 1925. From 1925-1930 he was enlisted in the French Foreign Legion. In 1934 he returned to Palestine.

Guy Hever (born May 30, 1977) is an Israeli MIA who was long presumed dead since no group had ever claimed responsibility for his abduction. Hever, a member of the Israel Defense Forces went missing from his post in the southern part of the Golan Heights on August 17, 1997. No trace of him has been uncovered, nor explanation for his disappearance been forthcoming.

Shaul Avigur (1899-1978) was a founder of the Israeli Intelligence Community. Avigur was born in Latvia under the name Saul Meyeroff{Meirovbut when his son Gur Meyeroff was killed in the 1948 Arab-Israeli War, he changed it to Avigur, meaning "Father of Gur". Along with Reuven Shiloah, Avigur was instrumental in forming SHAI, the intelligence wing of the Haganah, in 1934.

Yisrael Galili (10 February 1911-8 February 1986) was an Israeli politician and member of Knesset. Before Israel's independence in 1948, he had served as Chief of Staff of the Haganah. Galili was born in the town of Brailov in Poland (now Ukraine). His family immigrated to Palestine when he was three years old, and settled in Tel Aviv. Galili attended school there and apprenticed with a printer. Galili began his military career in 1927, when he enlisted in the Haganah.

Ilan Ramon (June 20 1954 - February 1 2003;) was a combat pilot in the Israeli Air Force, and later the first Israeli astronaut. Ramon was the space shuttle payload specialist of STS-107, the fatal mission of "Columbia", where he and the other crew were killed in a re-entry accident over Texas. Ramon is a recipient of the Congressional Space Medal of Honor.

Yonatan "Yoni" Netanyahu or Jonathan Netanyahu, for his conduct in the Yom Kippur War. He was killed in action during Operation Entebbe at Entebbe airport, by Ugandan soldiers, where the Israeli military rescued hostages after an aircraft hijacking. He was the leader of the assault, and the only Israeli military casualty of the raid.

Golan Cipel was born in Tel Aviv, Israel in 1968, and grew up in the city of Rishon LeZion. He served in the Israel Defense Forces (IDF) for five years as a naval officer, eventually rising to the rank of lieutenant. Following his service in the military, Golan held several positions in government. He began his career in 1992 as Parliamentary Aide in the Israeli Parliament, the Knesset, where he was responsible for policy formation, as well as the drafting of legislation.

Moshe Carmel (born 17 January 1911, died August 14 2003) was an Israeli soldier and politician. He served as Minister of Transportation for eight years.

Lieutenant Colonel Amos Yarkoni (born 1920, died 7 February 1991) was a legendary officer in the Israel Defense Forces and one of six Israeli Arabs to have received the IDF's third highest decoration, the Medal of Distinguished Service. He was the first commander of the Shaked Reconnaissance Battalion of the Givati Brigade.

Avraham Yoffe was a general in the Israeli Army during the Six-Day War. He commanded a troop division in Egypt during the attack on the Sinai Peninsula, through Wadi Haroudin, an area impassable to the Israeli tanks. His army captured the Bir - Lafhan junction, effectively preventing the Egyptian army from calling for reinforcements.

Carmi Gillon (b. January 1950) is a former Israeli ambassador to Denmark and a former head of Shabak (often called Shin Bet), the Internal General Security Service of Israel. After the assassination of Yitzhak Rabin, he attracted criticism for failing to provide adequate security. Carmi Gillon is currently the mayor of the Jerusalem suburb Mevasseret Zion and vice-president of external relations for the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. Gillon headed Shabak from 1994 to 1996.

Michael "Mike" Harari (born 1927) was a member of the Mossad who directed the failed Lillehammer affair, and later became an arms-dealer and high-level advisor to General Manuel Noriega of Panama. Harari began his intelligence work facilitating illegal Jewish immigration to Israel after World War II. He then spent time in the army and Shin Bet before being recruited by the Mossad in the 1960s. During his time in the Mossad he ran agents in Europe, …

Col. Binyamin Gibli was the head of Aman from 1950 to 1955. As head he was responsible for launching "Operation Suzannah", whose purpose was to keep the British in the Suez Canal by creating an environment of instability. After carrying out a number of non-fatal bombings, Egyptian authorities unraveled the plot, which clearly pointed to Israeli involvement. Known as the Lavon Affair, this failure forced Gibli to resign his post.

Uziel "Uzi" Gal, born Gotthard Glass, was a German-born- Israeli gun designer best remembered as the designer and namesake of the Uzi submachine gun. Gal was born in Weimar, Germany. When the Nazis came to power in 1933 he moved first to England and later, in 1936, to Kibbutz Yagur in the British Mandate of Palestine. In 1943 he was arrested for illegally carrying a gun and sentenced to six years in prison. However he was pardoned and released in 1946, …

Elchanan Tannenbaum, (born 12 August 1946) is an Israeli businessman and formerly a colonel in the Israel Defense Force. Tannenbaum's kidnapping was announced on 16 October 2000 by the Lebanese militant group Hizbullah after being lured out of Israel under the false pretenses of a drug deal. He was kidnapped in Dubai and taken to Lebanon. His abduction is believed to have been conducted by Imad Mugniyah, a senior member of Hezbollah.

Amira Dotan (born 28 July 1947) is an Israeli military figure and member of Knesset from the Kadima party. Dotan served in the Israel Defense Force (IDF) from 1965 to 1988, ending her career as the Head of the Women's Corps, with the rank of Brigadier-General. She was the first woman in the history of the IDF to attain this rank. She also completed a B.A. in Behavioral Science and an M.A. in Psychology from the Ben Gurion University of the Negev.

Benjamin (Ben) Dunkelman (1913 - June 11 1997) was a Canadian Jew who served in the Canadian Army during the Second World War. Educated at Upper Canada College in Toronto, Dunkleman enlisted with The Queen's Own Rifles of Canada and saw action at Caen, Falaise, and the Battle of the Scheldt. His father was David Dunkelman, the founder of the Canadian men's retailers, Tip Top Tailors. After the war, Dunkelman returned to Canada, but again decided to travel to war, …

David Raziel (December 19, 1910 - May 20, 1941) was a fighter of the Jewish underground during the British mandate, and one of the founders of the Irgun. Born in Smorgon, Vilna district in the Russian Empire, he immigrated with his family at the age of three to British Mandate of Palestine, where his father became a Hebrew teacher at a Tel-Aviv elementary school. When the 1929 Hebron massacre broke out, he joined the Haganah in Jerusalem, …

Imad Fares is an Israeli Druze, and is a Brig. General in the Israeli Defense Force. He won acclaim as the commander of the Givati Brigade (infantry) from 2001–2003. Fares is today the director of security of all Israeli military forces including the IDF, Border Guard, and police on the southern Israel-Egypt border.

Zvi Brenner was an Israeli leader during World War II and the early days of the State of Israel. He trained under Orde Wingate and served alongside Moshe Dayan. He was one of the founders of the Israeli Defense Forces along with Dayan and Yigal Alon. After being wounded badly, he later served as the Secretary of the Kibbutzim Movement. He was a leader of kibbutz Afikim until his death.

Avraham 'Albert' Mandler was an Israeli general. He was killed by Egyptian artillery fire on 13 October, 1973 during the Yom Kippur War. In the 1967 Six-Day War he was a colonel commanding the 8th Mechanized Infantry Brigade.

Elad Peled was an Israeli general. He commanded a division which operated in the West Bank during the Six-Day War. In the 1948 Arab-Israeli War he was a squad commander in the Palmach.

Motti Ashkenazi, a 33-year-old reserve captain in the Israel Defense Forces (IDF), helped spark the movement that led to the resignations of Prime Minister Golda Meir and Defense Minister Moshe Dayan. He was the captain of Budapest, an Israeli outpost on the Suez Canal. This was one of the only IDF outposts that did not fall to the Egyptians in the Yom Kippur War.

Giora Epstein was an Israeli fighter pilot in the Israeli Air Force, and is the current modern-day "ace of aces" in shooting down jet fighters since 1970. Epstein has a total of 17 downed aircraft to his name, all of which are confirmed. Epstein shot down 8 enemy planes flying the Mirage III and 9 while flying the IAI Nesher, an Israeli built version of the Mirage.

Yehuda Arazi (1907-1959), code name "Alon", was a Polish Jew active in the Haganah paramilitary in Palestine and subsequently the Israeli Defense Force after the creation of the state of Israel. Arazi was born in Lvov in 1907. He immigrated with his parents to Tel Aviv in 1924, studying in the Gymnasia Herzlia. While in Palestine, Arazi joined Haganah and the Palestine British Police.

Meir Har-Zion (b. 1934) is an Israeli military commando fighter. He has gained notability for serving in Unit 101 of the Israel Defense Forces. In September 1956, Har-Zion was wounded in a retaliation mission, and was saved after being operated on in the field. Due to his service as one of the tactical commanders of Unit 101 and his conduct in battle, he was awarded the rank of an officer and the Medal of Courage.

Eli Geva was an Israeli brigade commander, who during the Siege of Beirut (in the early stage of the 1982 Lebanon War), refused to lead his forces into the city for moral reasons which he termed "the excess killing of civilians." The Israeli Chief of Staff, Rafael Eitan, attempted to negotiate with Geva, but he insisted and was consequently dismissed from the IDF. The event drew a great deal of controversy in Israel at the time, …

Guy Spigelman is an Israel Defense Forces spokesperson, originally from Sydney, Australia. Because of his native English skills, he is often seen in the English language media (notably on CNN, Fox News and BBC). He is also active within Israeli politics, serving as an advisor to Amir Peretz, and running for the Knesset (Israeli parliament) with the Ha'avoda (Labour) party in 2006. Spigelman is a graduate and former federal mazkir of Habonim Dror Australia.

Zvi Magen was a colonel in Aman research division, Deputy head of Nativ, Israeli ambassador to Ukraine in 1993, ambassador to Russia in 1998, and Head of Nativ from 1999 to 2005. Magen wished to retire from his post during the Sharon government, but was convinced to stay until a replacement was found. This search was delayed because of Sharon's coma and Ehud Olmert's ascension, but was finally completed in November 2006 when ambassador to Ukraine Naomi Ben-Ami was chosen.

Zvika "Zvi" Greengold was an Israeli IDF tank commander who fought during the 1973 Yom Kippur War. Due to his actions during the war he became a national hero in Israel, and was awarded the Medal of Valor (the nation's highest medal for heroism awarded to only 6 people during the war). He reportedly lives in a Galilee hilltop settlement, and is managing director of Frutarom chemical company.

Rafi Izbicki is an Israel Defense Forces spokesperson, originally from Geneva, Switzerland. Born in 1962, he was the contact between Tsahal and the European press during the beginning of the second Intifada. Izbicki serves with the grade of major in the reserve duty of the IDF spokesperson. Beside his activity as a military, he also works as a tour guide, especially for French, German and English speaking public. He's also a lecturer in those same languages.

Shimon Avidan was the commander of the Givati Brigade during the 1948 Arab-Israeli war and also the commander of Operation Nachshon.