- Shimon Peres
"' (born Szymon Perski"' on August 2, 1923 in eastern Poland) is the 9th President of the State of Israel. He is a senior Israeli statesman with a political career spanning more than 65 years. He joined the Knesset in November 1959 and, except for a three-month-long hiatus in early 2006, served continuously until June 13, 2007, the day he was elected President of Israel. - Chaim Weizmann
Chaim Azriel Weizmann November 27, 1874 – November 9, 1952) was a chemist, statesman, President of the World Zionist Organization, first President of Israel (elected February 1, 1949, served 1949 - 1952) and founder of a research institute in Israel that eventually became the Weizmann Institute of Science. - Moshe Katsav
Moshe Katsav (born Musā Qassāb on 5 December 1945) is a former President of Israel and member of the Knesset. The end of his term of President was marked by controversy, and from 25 January 2007 until his resignation on 1 July 2007, he was on a leave of absence amid impending charges of crimes stemming from his alleged rape of one female subordinate which was later dropped, as well as the sexual harassment of others. - Chaim Herzog
Chaim Herzog served as the sixth President of Israel (1983–1993), following a distinguished career in both the British Army and the Israel Defense Forces (IDF). - Ezer Weizman
"'"' ((June 15,1924-April 24, 2005) was the seventh President of the State of Israel. He served a seven-year term, 1993–2000. Before the presidency, Weizman was commander of the Israeli air force and Minister of Defense. - 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. - Dalia Itzik
Dalia Itzik (born 20 October 1952) is an Israeli politician, and currently holds the position of Knesset speaker. A member of the Kadima party, she was elected and took office as the first female speaker of the Knesset on May 4, 2006. Itzik was born in Jerusalem to a family of Iraqi origin. Before being elected to the 13th Knesset in 1992, she served as Jerusalem's deputy mayor. As a member of the Labour party, she served as Commerce, Environment and, most recently, … - Zalman Shazar
Zalman Shazar (born Shneur Zalman Rubrashov on 24 November 1889, died October 5, 1974) was an author, poet, and the third President of Israel from 1963 to 1973. Born to a Hasidic family of the Chabad-Lubavitch stream in Mir, near Minsk, he received a religious education as a youth. In his teenage years he became involved in the Poalei Zion Movement. - Yitzhak Ben-Zvi
Yitzhak Ben-Zvi ((November 24, 1884 - April 23, 1963) was a historian, Labor Zionist leader, and the second and longest serving President of Israel. Born in Poltava, Ukraine, Ben-Zvi was the eldest son of Zvi Shimshelevitz, who later took the name Shimshi. He was active in the Jewish self-defense units organized in Ukraine to defend Jews during the pogroms of 1905, and joined the Poalei Zion (Workers of Zion) Zionist political party. - Yitzhak Navon
Yitzhak Navon (born April 9 1921) is an Israeli politician, diplomat and author. He was the fifth President of Israel. - Ephraim Katzir
Ephraim Katzir (born May 16 1916) is an Israeli biophysicist and Israeli Labour Party politician. He served as the President of Israel for a five-year term, from 1973 until 1978. Katzir was born in Kiev, Ukraine with the name Ephraim Katchalsky. He changed his last name to the Hebrew name Katzir in 1973, after being elected President by the Knesset. Katzir was at Harvard University when Golda Meir contacted him about being the President of Israel. - Israel Prize
The Israel Prize is the most prestigious award handed out by the State of Israel. It is presented annually, on Israeli Independence Day, in a state ceremony in Jerusalem, in the presence of the President, the Prime Minister, the Knesset (Israel's legislature) chairperson, and the Supreme Court president. The prize was set up in 1953 at the initiative of the Minister of Education Ben-Tzur Dinor, who himself went on to win the prize in 1958 and 1973. - Isaac Herzog
Isaac "Buzi" Herzog (born 22 September 1960) is an Israeli politician and lawyer. He currently serves in the Knesset on behalf of the Labor Party as both Minister of Welfare & Social Services and Minister of the Diaspora, Society, and the Fight Against Antisemitism. He was also previously Minister of Housing and Building and Minister of Tourism. - Colette Avital
Colette Avital (born May 1, 1940) is an Israeli Knesset Member on behalf of the Labor Party, which she has represented since 1999. Born in Bucharest, Romania, she immigrated to Israel with her family in 1950. While still a student, she began working in Israel's Ministry of Foreign Affairs as a secretary in order to cover the cost of her tuition. Over the years, she rose through the ranks at the Ministry; she served with the Israeli delegation to Paris (1982-1985), … - 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. - Yosef Sprinzak
Yosef Sprinzak was a leading Zionist activist in the first half of the 20th century, an Israeli politician, and the first Speaker of the Knesset, a role he held from 1949 until his death in 1959. Sprinzak was born in Moscow, Russia but following the expulsion of Jews in 1891 moved with his family to Kishinev where he was a founder of the Tze'irei Zion (Zion Youth). He began medical school at the American University in Beirut in 1908 and settled in Palestine in 1910, … - Yitzhak Halevi Herzog
Rabbi Yitzhak HaLevi Herzog (1889-1959), also known as Isaac Herzog, was the first Chief Rabbi of Ireland, his term lasting from 1921 to 1936. From 1937 until his death, he was Chief Rabbi of the British Mandate of Palestine and Israel, once formed. Rabbi Herzog was born in Lomza, Poland, and moved to the United Kingdom with his family in 1898, where they settled in Leeds. His initial schooling was largely at the instruction of his father, Joel Leib Herzog, … - 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. - Ofira Navon
Ofira Navon, wife of Yitzhak Navon, the fifth President of Israel, was born in Tel Aviv, to Batya and Eliezer Resnikov, Prisoners of Zion from Russia. Navon had an MA in education and psychology, with a professional certification in rehabilitation psychology from Columbia University, and established the “Presidents Council for the Welfare of the Child". - Yosef Dayan
Yosef Dayan was born in 1945 in Mexico to Sephardic Jewish parents from Aleppo, Syria. The Dayan family traces its lineage directly to the Exilarchs of the ancient Near East. Dayan made aliyah (emigrated to Israel) in 1968 and joined Rabbi Meir Kahane's Kach movement. He was instrumental in establishing the Hebron Hills settlement of El-Nakam, which was destroyed on the orders of the then-Minister of Defense, Moshe Arens in 1982. He styles himself as a rabbi. - Dermot Fitzgerald
Dermot FitzGerald (March 20, 1935-February 5, 2006) was a leading Irish businessman and philanthropist. A descendant of the aristocratic Earls of Desmond, FitzGerald was born in Limerick, Ireland to a southern Irish Protestant family. His father, Gerald FitzGerald, was a bank manager. He attended Wesley College, a prestigious Dublin school run by his maternal uncle Gerald Myles. - Shimon Peres
Shimon Peres Wednesday became the 9th President of the State of Israel. - Chaim B. Weizmann
Chaim Weizmann , the son of Jewish parents, was born in Russia in 1874. He studied at Pinsk, Darmstadt and Berlin before obtaining his doctorate from the University of Fribourg, Switzerland. He later taught chemistry at the University of Geneva. Weizmann developed a number of successful patents on dyes. In 1904 he moved to Manchester where he worked with the chemist Henry Perkin . - David Yaish
David Yaish , Founder, President & CEO Prior to founding Wisair, David was CEO at DSPC Systems (Formerly CTP Systems) until its acquisition by Intel. Before DSPC, David held several management positions at the electronic R&D department of the Israeli Ministry of Defense (IMOD). During that period, David was granted the Israel Defense Award from the president of Israel, as part of a wireless project team. - Nadav Tamir
Nadav Tamir serves as Consul General of Israel at the Consulate General of Israel to New England. Consul General Nadav Tamir was born and raised in Kibbutz Manara in northern Israel. He began his career of public service in 1980 in the IDF, where he eventually served as a company commander and retired with the rank of Major. - David Meshulam
David Yaish , Founder, President & CEO Prior to founding Wisair, David was CEO at DSPC Systems (Formerly CTP Systems) until its acquisition by Intel. Before DSPC, David held several management positions at the electronic R&D department of the Israeli Ministry of Defense (IMOD). During that period, David was granted the Israel Defense Award from the president of Israel, as part of a wireless project team. - Joshua Nelson
Joshua Nelson Joshua Nelson was discovered when he was eight years old. He has spread the sheer joy and fervent spirituality of Gospel music to audiences from New Jersey to Jerusalem and throughout the world. Nelson has performed in concert halls, synagogues, churches and at various outdoor venues, both solo and with various musical luminaries. Nelson recently embarked on an extensive European tour. - Izhak Nakar
Izhak Nakar founded the Company and served as its Chairman of the Board and CEO from inception until May 2001. He has been a member of the Board of Directors of the Company since 1991. In 1997 he initiated an entrepreneurial venture, TopGuard that was later sold to Elron. - Thomas Kent Dettweiler
Mr. Dettweiler earned Engineering Degrees from Purdue University and the University of Miami. He is a leader in the industry of Deep Ocean Exploration and participated in the development of the Deep Ocean Manganese Nodule Mining Industry. He served as the Science Officer on Jacques Cousteau's CALYPSO and also as the Deep Submergence Laboratory Operations Director at the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institute, under Dr. Robert Ballard. - Raya Strauss Ben-Dror
Raya Strauss Ben-Dror Ms. Raya Strauss Ben-Dror represents one of the most influential and dynamic families of the Israeli business sector. She is Co-owner and board member of The Strauss-Elite Group, a multi-national organization with almost $1 billion in sales, member of the Board of Directors of Strauss Senior Management Team, The Strauss Dairy with Danone and Strauss Ice-Cream with Unilever. - Ilan Caspi
ILAN CASPI Ilan Caspi is the Executive Vice-President of Global Security Group, Inc., a risk, crisis and counter-terrorism consulting company with offices in New York City, Long Island and Chicago. A former member of the Israeli General Security Service (Shin Bet), the Israeli Diplomatic Security Service and El Al Israel Airline Security, he is a counter-terrorism expert with more than a decade of experience in the military, intelligence and security industries. - Sara S. Lee
Sara S. Lee is director of the Rhea Hirsch School of Education at Hebrew Union College-Jewish Institute of Religion in Los Angeles. She is a recipient of the Samuel Rothberg Prize in Jewish Education from Hebrew Univer-sity in Jerusalem and of the Pras HaNasi , the President of Israel's Award for Distinguished Leadership of Jewish Education in the Diaspora. Like Mary Boys, Sara Lee has served as president of the Association of Professors and Researchers in Religions Education. - Amit Gavish
Amit Gavish, Senior Counter Terrorism Consultant, ARM. Former, Deputy Director of Security at the Office of the President of Israel. Consultant for DHS on Suicide Bombing Course. Masters Degree: Contemporary Middle Eastern Studies, Hebrew University, Jerusalem, Israel. More... - Raymond Davis Jr.
Raymond Davis, Jr. '37 A&S, M.S. '39, research professor of astronomy at the University of Pennsylvania, has been awarded the Wolf Foundation Prize in Physics for 2000. The $100,000 prize was presented this May by Ezer Weizman, the president of Israel, at a special ceremony in the Knesset. - Chiam Hertzog
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