- Martin Kramer
Martin Kramer (b. 1954, Washington, DC) is an American scholar of the Middle East at the Washington Institute for Near East Policy, the Shalem Center, and the Olin Institute, Harvard University. His focus is on Islam and Arab politics.
- Israel Finkelstein
Israel Finkelstein is the Jacob M. Alkow Professor of Archaeology of Israel in the Bronze Age and Iron Ages at Tel Aviv University. Born in Petah Tikva, he was previously Director of the Sonia and Marco Nadler Institute of Archaeology at Tel Aviv University from 1996-2002. He is currently the co-director of the renewed excavations at the important archaeological site of Megiddo in northern Israel.
- Tanya Reinhart
Tanya Reinhart was an Israeli linguist who wrote frequently on the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. She contributed columns to the Israeli newspaper "Yediot Aharonot" and longer articles to the "CounterPunch", "Znet", and "Israeli Indymedia" websites. Reinhart studied philosophy and Hebrew literature at the Hebrew University, Jerusalem as an undergraduate, where she later received an M.A. in comparative literature and philosophy.
- Noga Alon
Noga Alon is an Israeli mathematician noted for his prolific contributions to combinatorics and theoretical computer science, having authored hundreds of papers. He received his PhD from the Hebrew University of Jerusalem in 1983 and is currently on the faculty of Tel Aviv University. Alon is the principal founder of the powerful Combinatorial Nullstellensatz which has many applications in combinatorics and number theory.
- Silvan Shalom
"'"' (born 4 October 1958) is an Israeli politician and former Foreign Minister (2003-2006) and Finance Minister (2001-2003). He remains a Likud Party member of the Knesset, in which he has served since 1992. Born in Gabès, Tunisia to the Beit Shalom dynasty, Shalom emigrated to Israel in 1959. Like most Israelis, Shalom was inducted into the Israel Defense Forces at the age of 18 and achieved the rank of Sergeant. Shalom attended Ben-Gurion University of the Negev in Be'er Sheva, …
- Yuli Tamir
Professor Yuli Tamir (born Yael Tamir, 26 February 1954) is an Israeli scholar and politician and former Minister of Immigrant Absorption. She is now Minister of Education, representing the Labour Party. Between 1972-1974, she served in Aman's 848 Unit, and during the Yom Kippur War, she served as an officer in an outpost on the Sinai. Tamir received a BA in Biology and an MA in Political Science from the Hebrew University of Jerusalem.
- 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, …
- Martin Indyk
Martin S. Indyk, born July 1, 1951, to a Jewish family in London, England, is a Senior Fellow and Director of the Saban Center for Middle East Policy in the Foreign Policy Studies program at The Brookings Institution and a former United States ambassador to Israel. He grew up and was educated in Australia, gaining a BEcon from the University of Sydney in 1972 and a PhD in international relations from the Australian National University in 1977.
- 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.
- David Ussishkin
David Ussishkin is a noted Israeli archaeologist. Now retired (2005) as Professor of Archaeology at Tel Aviv University, Ussishkin has directed and co-directed important excavations at a variety of sites, including Lachish and Megiddo.
- Dan Gillerman
Dan Gillerman, born in British Mandate Palestine in 1944, is Israel's 13th Permanent Representative to the United Nations. He was appointed in July 2002 and assumed his post on January 1, 2003. Educated at Tel Aviv University and the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Gillerman served as the CEO of several Israeli companies, Chairman of the Federation of Israeli Chambers of Commerce, …
- Zvi Galil
Zvi Galil is the President of Tel Aviv University and the former dean of The Fu Foundation School of Engineering and Applied Science at Columbia University and served as the Julian Clarence Levi Professor of Mathematical Methods and Computer Science. A member of the National Academy of Engineering, he was elected for his contributions to the design and analysis of algorithms and for leadership in computer science and engineering.
- Uzi Even
Uzi Even is an Israeli professor of chemistry in Tel Aviv University as well as a politician. He was born in Haifa to eastern European Jewish immigrants. Even studied for a B.Sc. and M.Sc. in Physics at the Technion, and a Ph.D at Tel Aviv University. He lists his specializations as spectroscopy of super cold molecules, molecular clusters and cluster impact chemistry, and the quantum properties of helium clusters.
- Zvi Hercowitz
Zvi Hercowitz was born Rosario, Argentina on December 21, 1945 and in December 1965 he emigrated to Israel. In October 1969, after serving in the army, he began his studies at the Hebrew University in Jerusalem, where he received the Bachelors degree in Economics in February 1973 and the Master of Arts in Economics in July 1975. Immediately after that, he began graduate work at the University of Rochester.
- Anita Shapira
Anita Shapira (born 1940-) Poland. is founder of the Yitzhak Rabin Center for Israel Studies, Ruben Merenfeld Professor of the Study of Zionism and head of the Weizmann Institute for the Study of Zionism at Tel Aviv University
- Dan Ariely
Dan Ariely is the James B. Duke Professor of Behavioural Economics at Duke University and a visiting Professor at MIT's Media Lab. He is an expert on how people actually act (irrationally)-and why they act-in all kinds of business and economic environments, and what this means for business innovation, strategy and marketing. Ariely is the author of the New York Times Best Seller Predictably Irrational . Few heavy thinkers are as funny or as engaging as he is.
- 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.
- Etgar Keret
Etgar Keret (born 1967) is an Israeli writer of short stories, as well as Graphic Novels and occasional writing for television and film. His writing style is lean, utilizing everyday language, slang, and dialect. His writing has influenced many writers of his generation, as well as brought a renewed surge in the popularity of the short story form in Israel in the second half of the 1990s.
- Eva Jablonka
Eva Jablonka, born in 1952 in Poland and emigrated to Israel in 1957. She is a professor at the Cohn Institute for the History of Philosophy of Science and Ideas at Tel Aviv University who was awarded the Landau Prize of Israel in 1981 and the Marcus prize in 1988. She publishes about evolutionary themes.
- Avner Cohen
Avner Cohen is writer, historian, and professor, and is well known for his works on nuclear weapons. Cohen received a B.A. in Philosophy from Tel Aviv University in 1975. He went on to study at York University where he received a M.A. in Philosophy in 1977 and four years later earned a Ph.D. from the University of Chicago in the History of Culture. After these studies he embarked on an academic career, …
- Adi Ophir
Adi Ophir (born 22 September 1951) is an Israeli philosopher. Professor Ophir teaches philosophy at the Cohn Institute for the History and Philosophy of Science and Ideas at Tel Aviv University.
- Yossi Shain
Yossi Shain (b. September 21 1956 in Israel) is an academic specializing in international relations, comparative politics and diaspora politics. Yossi received his PhD from Yale in 1988. He formerly headed of the political science department at Tel Aviv University (located in Israel). From 1999-2003, he was the "Goldman visiting Professor of Government" at Georgetown University (located in Washington DC, United States).
- Tzachi Hanegbi
Tzachi Hanegbi (born 26 February 1957) is an Israeli politician and Member of the Knesset for Kadima. A former Justice Minister, in 2006 he was indicted for making political appointments to civil service posts during his time as Environment Minister, despite his claims that it was normal practice. His trial is ongoing.
- Ran Cohen
Ran Cohen (born 20 June 1937) is an Israeli politician and Knesset member for Meretz-Yachad. He is a resident of Mevaseret Zion and married with four children. Born in Baghdad, Iraq, Cohen was 13 years old when he immigrated to Israel through Iran. He grew in Kibbutz Gan Shmuel, where he absorbed Socialist and Zionist ideologies. During his military service he rose to the rank of Colonel (Aluf Mishne).
- Yakir Aharonov
Yakir Aharonov was born in 1932 in Haifa, Israel. He is a physicist specialising in Quantum Physics and holds a joint professorship at Tel Aviv University, Israel and the University of South Carolina, America since 1973. In the Fall of 2006, he joined the newly formed Center for Quantum Studies at George Mason University in Fairfax, Virginia. In honor of his arrival at Mason, the Aharonov Lecture Series was established.
- Azar Gat
Azar Gat (b 1959) is a researcher and author on military history. He was the Chair of the Department of Political Science at Tel Aviv University (since 1999). Professor Gat has a BA from Haifa University (1975-8), an MA from Tel Aviv University (1979-83), and his PhD from the University of Oxford (1984-6). He has been an Alexander von Humboldt Fellow in Germany (Freiburg), a Fulbright Fellow in the USA (Yale), a British Council Scholar in Britain (Oxford), …
- Ron Huldai
Ron Huldai is an Israeli politician and former fighter pilot. He was born in 1944 in Kibbutz Hulda to Polish Jews from Łódź. He is a graduate of Tel Aviv University in history, Auburn University at Montgomery (Alabama), the U.S. Air Force Air War College at Maxwell Air Force Base (Montgomery, AL), and the Advanced Management Program at Wharton College, University of Pennsylvania. He is married, has three children and two grandchildren.
- Aharon Shabtai
Aharon Shabtai (born 1939) is one of the Hebrew language's leading poets, as well as a translator of Greek drama into Hebrew. He studied Greek and philosophy in Jerusalem, at the Sorbonne and at Cambridge, and he teaches literature in Tel Aviv University. For his translations, he was given the Israeli Prime Minister's Prize in 1993. As a poet, he has published some 20 books, and English translations of his poetry have appeared in numerous journals, …
- Avishay Braverman
Avishay Braverman (born 15 January 1948) is an Israeli economist and politician, former president of the Ben-Gurion University of the Negev. He is number four on the Labour list. Braverman studied statistics and economics in Tel Aviv University and received his PhD in economics from Stanford. After serving as a senior official in the World Bank in Washington, specializing in economic development with an emphasis on social justice, …
- Boris Tsirelson
Boris Semyonovich Tsirelson is Soviet-Israeli mathematician and Professor of Mathematics in the Tel Aviv University in Israel.
- Eytan Fox
Eytan Fox is an Israeli film director. He was born in New York City and moved with his family to Israel when he was two. He is openly gay.
- Itamar Even-Zohar
Itamar Even-Zohar. An Israeli researcher of culture, born 1939 in Tel Aviv, now professor at the Unit of Culture Research, Tel Aviv University. Even-Zohar’s integral contribution is internationally known under the umbrella of Polysystem theory and the theory of Cultural repertoires, which gave rise to a line of research areas.
- Joseph Bernstein
Joseph Bernstein, "Iosif Naumovič Bernštejn", "'"' is an Israeli mathematician at Tel Aviv University who works in algebraic geometry, representation theory, and number theory. He received his PhD in 1972 under Israil Gelfand at Moscow State University and was elected to the National Academy of Sciences in 2004. He was awarded the Israel Prize in mathematics in 2004. Some of his students include Edward Frenkel, Roman Bezrukavnikov, Alexander Braverman, …
- Joseph Agassi
Joseph Agassi, born in Jerusalem on May 7, 1927, is an Israeli academic with contributions in logic, scientific method, and philosophy. He studied under Karl Popper and taught at the London School of Economics. He later taught at the University of Hong Kong, the University of Illinois, Boston University, and York University in Canada. He had dual appointments in the last positions with Tel Aviv University.
- Lev Vaidman
Lev Vaidman is an Israeli physicist working at Tel Aviv University, Israel. He is noted for the Elitzur-Vaidman bomb-testing problem in quantum mechanics.
- Moshe Gil
Moshe Gil (b. 1921) is an Israeli historian who specializes in the historical interaction between Islam and the Jews, including the history of Palestine under the Islamic domination, the institution of the Exilarchate, and Jewish merchants such as the Radhanites. Gil is professor emeritus of the Chaim Rosenberg School of Jewish Studies at Tel Aviv University and incumbent of the Joseph and Ceil Mazer Chair in the History of the Jews in Muslim Lands.
- Moshe Kaplinsky
Maj. Gen. Moshe Kaplinski (b. 1957), is Deputy Chief of the General Staff of the Israel Defense Forces. He was previously head of the Israel Defense Force's Central Command, whose area of responsibility includes the occupied West Bank. As Deputy Chief of the General Staff he is second in command of the Israel Defense Forces. In August 2002, he took over as General Officer Commanding, Central Command from Major General Yitzhak Eitan.
- Yosef Gorny
Yosef Gorny (born 1933), is Professor of Study of Zionism and head of the Zionist Research Institute at the Tel Aviv University. He is a former head of the Weizmann Institute for the Study of Zionism at the same university.
- Arnold Eisen
Arnold (Arnie) Eisen, Ph.D. (1951-) is Koshland Professor of Jewish Culture and Religion and Chair of the Department of Religious Studies at Stanford University. He joined the Stanford faculty in 1986. Prior to teaching at Stanford, he taught at Tel Aviv University and Columbia University. Eisen has been appointed the seventh Chancellor of the Jewish Theological Seminary, replacing Rabbi Dr. Ismar Schorsch. Eisen will be the second non-rabbi, after Cyrus Adler, …
- Eben Moglen
Eben Moglen is a professor of law and legal history at Columbia University, and is the founder, Director-Counsel and Chairman of Software Freedom Law Center, whose client list includes numerous pro bono clients, such as the Free Software Foundation.