- 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. - Itzhak Perlman
Perlman began his music career at the Academy of Music in Tel-Aviv, Israel. In 1958, at the age of 13, Itzhak Perlman won an Israeli talent competition. This win made it possible for Perlman to travel to the United States to tour and appear on television. He then stayed in the U.S. and continued his musical training at the Juilliard School in New York City. In 1964, Perlman won a contest among young musicians known as the Leventritt Competition. - Uri Geller
Uri Geller is an Israeli-British performer and celebrity famous for his claimed psychic powers. Geller rose to fame after performing a series of televised performances which he said were paranormal demonstrations of psychokinesis, dowsing and telepathy. His performance included bending spoons, describing hidden drawings, and making watches appear to stop or run faster. Geller says he performs these feats through willpower and the strength of his mind. - 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. - Arik Einstein
Arik Einstein (born January 3, 1939) is an Israeli singer. He was part of the bands "Green Onion", "Yarkon Bridge Trio" and "The High Windows". His collaboration with Shalom Hanoch and the band the Churchills planted the seeds for the first Israeli rock albums. Einstein wrote many of the songs that he performed. Famous ones are "Ani VeAta" ("lit." Me and You), "Sa Leat" ("lit." Drive Slowly), … - Chava Alberstein
Chava Alberstein (born December 8, 1947 in Szczecin, Poland) is an Israeli singer, lyricist, composer, musical arranger, and actress. She is one of the most important Israeli singers, with a career spanning more than forty years. Chava Alberstein was born in the town of Szczecin in Northern Poland. She came to Israel at age four, and grew up in Kiryat Chaim. In 1964, when she was 17, a nightclub appearance in Jaffa led to a CBS recording contract. - Rod Lurie
Rod Lurie (born May 15, 1962) is an American director, screenwriter and former film critic. The son of internationally syndicated cartoonist Ranan Lurie, he was born in Israel but moved to the United States at a young age, growing up in Greenwich, Connecticut and Honolulu, Hawaii. Graduating from the United States Military Academy at West Point in 1984, he served in the U.S. Army as an Air Defense Artillery officer, then became an entertainment reporter and film critic, … - Bar Refaeli
Bar Refaeli born June 4, 1985) is an Israeli international supermodel, known for her work for Sports Illustrated, her relationship with American actor Leonardo DiCaprio and previously with David Charvet. - Avi Mograbi
Avi Mograbi is an Israeli documentary filmmaker. His films are often experimental in form and are highly critical of Israel's treatment of the Palestinian people. Mograbi studied philosophy at Tel Aviv University from 1979 to 1982, and art at Ramat Hasharon Art School. His most recent film "Avenge But One of My Two Eyes" premiered at the 2005 Cannes Film Festival. - Inon Zur
Inon Zur (born July 4, 1965) is an award-winning music composer for movies, television, and video games. - Aki Avni
Aki Avni (born April 27, 1967) is an Israeli actor, entertainer and a television host. He appeared in the movie "Free Zone" with Natalie Portman. He also played the character Mohsen in the second season of the television series "24". Husband of Israeli supermodel Sandy Bar. Avni was born and raised in Rechovot. While in school he began performing in various shows in his home town. When growing up he had a mediocre modeling career, … - Yehuda Levi
Yehuda Levi (born June 29, 1979) is an Israeli actor and model. He grew up in the city of Tel Aviv, where he still lives. He attended the "Telma-Yalin" High school of stage art, and graduated with excellence. His noticeable breakthrough was in TV-series "Lechayey Ha'ahava" (Here's To Love) (2001). He is an established actor, but most of his work is done in Israeli telenovelas. In May 2006, "HaAloofa" (The Champion), a soap opera centered around a soccer team, … - Shuki Levy
Shuki Levy is a music composer whose best known work is soundtrack compositions for children's television programs of the 1980s, such as "Inspector Gadget", "The Mysterious Cities of Gold", "M.A.S.K.", "Dinosaucers", "Dragon Quest", "He-Man and the Masters of the Universe", "G Force" (aka "Battle of the Planets"; "Eagle Riders"), "She-Ra", and "Jayce and the Wheeled Warriors". - Avner Dorman
Avner Dorman (born April 14, 1975 in Tel Aviv, Israel) is an Israeli composer. - Boaz Davidson
Boaz Davidson (born 11 August 1943) is a film director, producer and scriptwriter. He was born in Tel Aviv, Israel and studied film in London. He directed the television show "Lool" (1969) and the movie "Shablul" (1971). Later he directed Israeli cult films such as "Charlie Ve'hetzi" (1974) and "Hagiga B'Snuker" (1975). In 1974 he directed the film "Mishpahat Tzan'ani". - Yoram Globus
Yoram Globus (born 1941 in Tiberias, Palestine (now Israel)) is a film producer and financier who, along with his cousin, Menahem Golan (born Menahem Globus) bought the Cannon Group production company in 1979 and ran it throughout the 1980s. Because of their fast, low-budget style of filmmaking, they earned the nickname "the Go-Go Boys". However, quite a few of the films produced by the Cannon Group have become quite renowned, … - Aharon Davidi
Aharon Davidi (born 1927) is an Israeli general and has founded the Sar-El volunteer program of the IDF. He was born in Israel in as son of a Ukrainian immigrant family. From the age of fifteen, he served with the Haganah and Palmach. In the Israeli War of Independence (1948) he fought in the southern front with the Negev Brigade where he met his future wife Hassida. In 1953 he volunteered for the new IDF paratroopers as a company commander. - 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, … - Amos Kollek
Amos Kollek is a film director, writer and actor, born in Jerusalem, Israel in 1947. He is the son of the long-time mayor of Jerusalem, Teddy Kollek, about whom he also made a film. - Meital Dohan
Meital Dohan is an Israeli actress currently starring as Yael Hoffman on the Showtime primetime show "Weeds". Dohan was born and raised in a small village in central Israel. She is Jewish, and her grandmother was a Holocaust survivor. Dohan began studying acting at thirteen, and later joined Nissan Nativ – a highly prestigious acting school regarded as being the best in Israel. - Nehemiah Persoff
Nehemiah Persoff (born 1919, Jerusalem) is an actor. Since his retirement (due to ill health) in 1985, he has become a painter, specialising in watercolour. Persoff appeared in such television series as The Untouchables, Star Trek, Charlie's Angels, Hunter (TV series) and Magnum, P.I. - Michal Yannai
Michal Yannai (b. June 18, 1972) is an Israeli actress and model. - Hanoch Bartov
Hanoch Bartov (born 1926) is an Israeli author and opinion writer. Hanoch Bartov was born in Petah Tikva, where he attended first a religious school and then the Achad Haam gymnasium. After two years working in diamond polishing and welding, he enlisted in 1943 (aged 17) in the Palestine Regiment of the British Army. He served for three years in the Jewish Brigade, first in Palestine and then in Italy and the Low Countries. - Raz Degan
Raz Degan (born August 25, 1968) is an Israeli actor - Eddie Carmel
Eddie Carmel was a well-known sufferer of acromegaly, a disorder of the pituitary gland, caused in his case by a tumor of the gland, which, untreated, causes uncontrolled growth. Popularly known as "The Jewish Giant", Carmel was billed at the height of 8 ft 9 in (268 cm), though he may have more realistically been around 7 ft 6 ¾ in. At the time of his death at age 36, he had dropped down to 7 ft 0 in tall, due to kyphoscoliosis (curvature of the spine, … - Born In Israel
Born in Israel , Leon is the third generation of the Recanati family – a driving force in the Israeli economy and Israeli society since pre-statehood days. Leon received his BA and M.B.A. from The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, and an Honorary Doctorate from the Technion Institute of Technology and Tel Aviv University. - Born In Israel
Born in Israel , Nurit graduated from Dartmouth Medical School after earning a B.A. in political science from Columbia University. She has volunteered her time as a student coordinator, an educator, and a pregnancy and birth control counselor. She has worked both in Alaska and in California at Indian Health Service sites and completed a Health Promotion Disease prevention project in Bethel, AK for the NHSC (National Health Service Corps). She speaks Hebrew and Spanish. - Dan Turgeman
- Keren Falkenstein
Agnostic Jew who likes getting Christmas presents. - Ralph Bakshi
Ralph Bakshi worked his way up from Brooklyn and became an animation legend. Born on October 29, 1938, in Haifa, Bakshi grew up in Brownsville after his family came to New York to escape World War II. Bakshi attended the Thomas Jefferson High School and was later transferred to the High School of Industrial Arts and graduated with an award in cartooning in 1957. At the Terrytoons studio, he started as a cel polisher then graduated to cel painting. Practicing nights and weekends, he... - Dan Wolman
Dan Wolman - has been an independent filmmaker since the late sixties. His feature films have won numerous prizes and represented Israel in Cannes, Venice and many other film festivals. Among his films: "The Dreamer" (1970), "Floch" (1972), "My Michael" (1975), "Hide and Seek" (1979) - winner of the Silver Rose award in Israel for best movie, best director and best script -, "Soldier of The Night" (1985) , "Ben’s Biography" (2004), "Foreign Sister" (2000), and others. - Seth Holt
Seth Holt began as an assistant editor at Ealing in 1944, graduating to editor (1949), producer (1955) and director (1958).He returned to editing for Charles Crichton's The Battle of the Sexes (1959) and for Saturday Night and Sunday Morning (1960). Probably his best known film is The Nanny (1965), with Bette Davis. He was working on Blood from the Mummy's Tomb (1971) when he died. - Nurith Aviv
Professor at La Fémis (Paris) She was the first woman in France to be officially recognized, in 1975, as a Director of Photography by the CNC (Centre National de la cinematographie). - Assi Dayan
Son of Moshe Dayan, former Israeli chief-of-staff and defense minister. Brother of Yael Dayan, Israeli MK (Labor), and Udi Dayan, sculptor. Assi Dayan has 4 children. Aarona Malkind gave birth to Amalia and to Avner. Caroline Langford gave birth to Lior. A fourth child, Assia Noiman, was born to Assi Dayan & Augusta Noiman as a result of a short affair. She lives in Italy with her mother. Was cast as Perchik in Fiddler on the Roof (1971) but couldn't handle the English dialogue and was... - Shaike Ophir
Born In Jerusalem Novenber 4th, 1926. Fourth generation Israeli. Educated at "Alliance" school of Jerusalem. In his teens studied at "Ha'ohel" Theatre Studio. at the age of 15 joined the Palmach forces and participated in safeguarding the convoys to Jerusalem. Also fought at the Palyam Naval forces, where he met Dan Ben Amotz, who was very impressed with his comic talents, and appointed him to his friend Haim Heffer, founder of the "The Cheezbatron", the Palmach's entertainment troupe.... - Ziva Shapir
Measurements: 35.5-21-35 (Source: Celebrity Sleuth magazine) Smouldering Israeli-born beauty who figured prominently in a number of "Hollywood turkeys" of the late 50s and early 60s, including "Macumba Love," "College Confidential" and "3 Nuts in Search of a Bolt." Played the nefarious Nefertiti opposite Victor Buono's King Tut on the "Batman" 60s TV series. Returned to Israel in the late 60s and eventually retired. - Eli Cohen
Father of Kaipo Cohen - Yoav Tzafir
Son of Tuvia Tzafir - Naim Ibrahim Attallah
Publisher, entrepreneur and film producer. - Mordechay Gur
The chief of staff of the Israeli army (1974-1978) Member of the Israeli parliament "Ha-Knesset" (1981-1995, his deaht)
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