- Tzipi Livni
Tzipora Malka "Tzipi" Livni (born July 8 1958 in Tel Aviv, Israel) is Foreign Affairs Minister, Acting Prime Minister of Israel, and a leading member of the Kadima party. Following the March 2006 Knesset election and the subsequent negotations for formation of Israel's 31st Government, some observers believed that Livni had emerged as "the second most powerful politician in Israel," after Ehud Olmert.
- Benjamin Netanyahu
"', transliterated Binyamin "Bibi" Netanyahu"', born October 21, 1949, Tel Aviv) was the 9th Prime Minister of Israel and is Chairman of the Likud Party. As leader of the conservative Likud party, he was Prime Minister from June 1996 to July 1999. He is the first (and to date only) Prime Minister of Israel to be born after the State of Israel's foundation. He was Finance Minister of Israel until August 9, 2005, …
- Ron Arad
Ron Arad (b. 1951) is an industrial designer, artist and architect. He attended the Jerusalem Academy of Art between 1971-73 and the Architectural Association in London from 1974-79. He has produced furniture and lighting design for many (mainly Italian) companies including Alessi, Vitra, Flos, Artemide and Kartell. His most notable industrial design works include the Tom Vac stackable chair for Vitra, and the Book Worm for Kartell.
- Dan Halutz
"'"' (born August 71948 in Tel Aviv, Israel) is an Israeli Air Force Lt. General and former Israeli Air Force commander. Halutz was appointed as Chief of Staff of the Israel Defense Forces on June 1, 2005. On January 17 2007 he announced his resignation. He has a degree in economics.
- Meir Dagan
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, …
- Yigal Amir
Yigal Amir (born May 23, 1970) is the Israeli assassin of the late Prime Minister of Israel Yitzhak Rabin. The assassination took place November 4, 1995 at the conclusion of a rally in Tel Aviv. Amir is currently serving a life sentence for murder plus 14 years for conspiracy to murder Yitzhak Rabin on different occasions and for injuring Rabin's bodyguard, Yoram Rubin.
- Gilad Atzmon
Gilad Atzmon (born June 9, 1963) is a jazz musician, author and anti-Zionist activist, who was born in Israel and currently lives in London. He was born a secular Israeli Jew in Tel Aviv, and trained at the Rubin Academy of Music in Jerusalem. He studied philosophy in Germany and moved to London at age 32.
- Jonathan Cook
Jonathan Cook (born in 1965 in Buckinghamshire, England) is a British freelance journalist based in Nazareth, Israel, who has published in "The Guardian", "The Observer", "ZNet", "Electronic Intifada", "CounterPunch", Al Jazeera and Information Clearing House. He authored the book "Blood and Religion: The Unmasking of the Jewish and Democratic State".
- Dana Olmert
Dana Olmert is a daughter of Israel prime minister Ehud Olmert. She works as a lecturer of literature at the Tel Aviv University and is also the editor of a literature series. She is a self-identified lesbian and lives with her partner in Tel Aviv. Her parents are accepting of her sexual identity and partner. Dana is active in the Jerusalem branch of the Israeli human rights organization Machsom Watch.
- Alien Project
Alien Project is the psychedelic trance artist Ari Linker from Tel Aviv, Israel. He has been DJing and producing music since 1994, and his sound has evolved into a recognizably upbeat psytrance sound. He is heavily influenced by Shpongle and Astral Projection.
- 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.
- Limor Livnat
Limor Livnat (born in Haifa, 22 September 1950) is an Israeli politician, former education minister and currently a member of the Knesset for Likud. A senior member of the party, Livnat served in Ariel Sharon's government before resigning on January 14, 2006. Her departure followed Sharon's formation of the new Kadima party, while Livnat remained in Likud and left the cabinet along with other Likud members. A resident of Tel Aviv, Livnat is married and has two children.
- Moshe Sharett
Moshe Sharett, born Moshe Shertok (Hebrew: משה שרתוק was the second Prime Minister of Israel (1954-1955), serving for a little under two years between David Ben-Gurion's two terms. Born in Kherson, Ukraine, then part of the Russian Empire, Moshe Sharett emigrated to Palestine in 1908. His family was one of the founders of Tel Aviv. He was a member of the first graduating class of the Herzliya Hebrew High School.
- Max Brod
Max Brod and graduated in 1907 to work in the civil service. From 1912 he was a pronounced Zionist (which he attributed to the influence of Martin Buber) and when Czechoslovakia became independent in 1918, he briefly served as vice-president of the "Jüdischer Nationalrat". From 1924, already an established writer, he worked as a critic for the "Prager Tagblatt". In 1939, as the Nazis took over Prague, …
- Ofra Haza
Ofra Haza November 19 1957 - February 23 2000) was a popular Israeli singer, actress and international recording artist. Of Yemenite Jewish ancestry, Haza was born the youngest of nine children in the poor Tel Aviv neighborhood of Hatikvah. She became an instant local and then national success story, the subject of great pride for many Israelis of Yemenite origin. Her voice has been described as mezzo-soprano, of near-flawless tonal quality, …
- Daniel Levy
Daniel Levy is the Director of Policy and International Efforts at Heskem, the Israeli headquarters of the joint non-governmental Israeli-Palestinian Geneva Initiative. He was the lead Israeli drafter of the Geneva Accord and led the working-level Israeli negotiating team for over two years. Levy previously served as senior policy adviser to former Israeli Minister of Justice, Yossi Beilin, from March 2000 to March 2001.
- 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.
- Dana International
Dana International (Hebrew: דנה אינטרנשיונל; stage name of Sharon Cohen, born Yaron Cohen in Tel Aviv, Israel on February 2, 1969) is an Israeli transsexual pop singer of Yemenite origin, who won the 1998 Eurovision Song Contest for her song "Diva". Next to original songs, Dana International is known for her cover versions of old hits.
- 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.
- Roni Bar-On
Roni Bar-On (born 2 June 1948) is an Israeli politician and lawyer. He was elected to the 17th Knesset on Kadima's list and currently serves as Minister of Finance.
- Offer Nissim
Offer Nissim is a popular Israeli DJ and producer. He was born in 1964 in Tel Aviv, Israel. Nissim produces mostly house music, including exclusive tracks featuring female vocalists (most notably Dana International and Maya Simantov). As a DJ, Nissim plays twice a month at the TLV club, In Tel Aviv, Israel and occasionally plays in New York City (most recently at club Stereo). Nissim has remixed and collaborated with other artists such Donna Summer, Deborah Cox, …
- Yotam Halperin
Yotam Halperin (Hebrew:יוֹתָם הַלְפֶּרִין ;born January 24, 1984 in Tel Aviv, Israel) is an Israeli basketball player currently playing with Maccabi Tel Aviv. Yotam grew up in Tel Aviv and was the basketball star of Metrowest High School in Ra'anana. He declared himself eligible for the 2006 NBA Draft, and the Seattle SuperSonics selected him in the second round, with the 53rd overall pick.
- 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.
- Shlomo Amar
Rabbi Shlomo Amar (born in 1948) has been the Sephardi Chief Rabbi of Israel since his appointment in 2003. His colleague is Rabbi Yona Metzger, the Ashkenazi Chief Rabbi of Israel. Rabbi Amar was born in Casablanca, Morocco and immigrated to Israel in 1962 at age 14. He is a close associate of the spiritual leader of the Shas Party and former Sephardi Chief Rabbi Ovadia Yosef.
- Adam Keller
Adam Keller (born 1955 in Tel Aviv-Yafo) is an Israeli peace activist who was among the founders of Gush Shalom, of which he is a spokesperson.
- Elyakim Rubinstein
Elyakim Rubinstein (born 1947) was the Attorney General of Israel from 1997 to 2004. Rubinstein, a lifelong Israeli diplomat and civil servant, has had an influential role in that country's internal and external politics, most notably in helping to shape its peace treaties with Egypt and Jordan. Born in Tel Aviv, he earned his bachelor's (1969) and master's (1974) degrees from Hebrew University in Jerusalem, and launched a career in law, …
- 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.
- Pinchas Zukerman
Pinchas Zukerman is a noted Israeli violinist, violist, and conductor who was appointed Music Director of Canada's National Arts Centre Orchestra in April 1998. Zukerman was born in Tel Aviv. He left for the United States and studied at the Juilliard School. He made his New York début in 1963. From 1980 to 1987 he was the director of the Saint Paul Chamber Orchestra in Minnesota. He married actress Tuesday Weld in 1985 but they divorced in 1998.
- Derrick Sharp
Derrick Sharp (born October 5, 1971 in Orlando, Florida, USA) is an American-Israeli professional basketball player. Currently plays for Maccabi Tel-Aviv basketball club. As of 2006, he is the team's most senior member with 11 seasons with the club. *Height: 183 cm. *Position: Shooting guard/Point guard. Sharp went to Israel in 1993 after playing for the University of South Florida and joined Maccabi Hadera from Leumit Bet (Third League).
- Martin Fletcher
Martin Fletcher is NBC News' Middle East correspondent and Tel Aviv Bureau chief. Born in London, graduated from the University of Bradford in 1970. Worked as a French and German interpreter for the Common Market. Began career as a television news programming writer for VisNews in the UK in 1970. Started with NBC News as a cameraman in 1977, began Tel Aviv assignment in 1982. Has received four Emmy awards.
- Aryeh Eldad
Prof. Aryeh Eldad, M.D. (also spelt Arie Eldad, born 1 May 1950) is a member of the Israeli Knesset and a physician. He belongs to the Moledet party, part of the National Union list in the Israeli Knesset. Eldad was born in Tel Aviv in 1950. He is married with five children. His father, Israel Eldad, was a well known Israeli public thinker and formerly one of the leaders of the underground group Lehi. He is a resident of Kfar Adumim.
- Patrick Geddes
Sir Patrick Geddes (1854 - 1932) was Scottish biologist and botanist, known also as an innovative thinker in the fields of urban planning and education. He was responsible for introducing the concept of "region" to architecture and planning and is also known to have coined the term conurbation. He was born in Ballater, Aberdeenshire, Scotland on October 2, 1854 and died in Montpellier, France on April 17, 1932. He was knighted in 1932 shortly before his death.
- Shlomo Lahat
Maj. Gen. Shlomo "Chich" Lahat was born in Germany in 1925 and has lived in Israel since 1933. He served in the Haganah and the Israel Defense Forces. In the IDF, he eventually became the head of the Personnel Directorate until 1972. He was also the 8th mayor of Tel Aviv.
- Eliyahu Winograd
Eliyahu Winograd is a former Israeli acting Supreme Court judge and former president of the Tel Aviv District Court. As of September 11, 2006, he chairs the Winograd Commission to investigate the failures experienced by Israel during the 2006 Israel-Lebanon conflict. Winograd holds a PhD in Law from the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. He was appointed as a judge in 1972 and was eventually appointed president of the Tel Aviv District Court.
- Shlomo Artzi
Shlomo Artzi is an Israeli folk rock singer-songwriter and a composer. He was born on November 26, 1949 and spent his childhood in Ramat Israel. When he was 8 years old, his family moved to northern Tel Aviv. His parents were survivors of the Shoa (Jewish Holocaust) in Europe/Germany and their memories deeply influenced him and his sister. He is one of the most successful singers in Israel and has sold over a million albums.
- Achinoam Nini
Known in Israel by her given name Achinoam Nini, Noa is Israel's leading international concert and recording artist. Born in Tel Aviv in 1969 Noa lived in New York City from age 2 until her return to Israel alone at the age of 17. Her family is originally from Yemen. After serving the mandatory two years in the Israeli Army in a military entertainment unit, Noa studied music at the Rimon School where she met her long-time partner and collaborator Gil Dor.
- Gideon Sa'Ar
Gideon Sa'ar (born 9 December 1966) is an Israeli politician and Member of the Knesset for Likud. He is currently a Deputy Speaker of the Knesset. Born in Tel Aviv, Sa'ar studied political science at Tel Aviv University after his national service, earning a BA, before gaining an LL.B from the same institution. He worked as an aide to the Attorney General between 1995 and 1997, and then as an aide to the State Attorney until 1998.
- Yair Lapid
Yair Lapid (Born November 5, 1963) is an Israeli journalist, author, and TV presenter. He is the son of politician Yosef (Tomy) Lapid and author Shulamit Lapid. He is married to journalist Lihi Lapid, whom he met while on IDF reserve duty. Lapid was born in Tel Aviv, and started his journalism career as a military correspondent for the IDF's weekly magazine, "Ba-Mahane ("In the Camp")," and writing for the mainstream daily newspaper, "Maariv".
- Daniel Kahneman
Daniel Kahneman (born March 5, 1934 in Tel Aviv), is an Israeli-American psychologist and Nobel laureate, notable for his pioneering work on behavioral finance and hedonic psychology. With Amos Tversky and others, Kahneman established a cognitive basis for common human errors using heuristics and in developing prospect theory. Kahneman spent his childhood years in Paris, France and moved to Israel in 1946. He received his B.Sc.
- Michael Lewis
Michael Lewis (born December 21, 1987) is an Israeli professional basketball player, actor and fashion model born and raised in Tel Aviv, Israel. He started working as a model at the age of 17 and he rose to popularity after working for Abercrombie & Fitch, he then starred in a number of TV shows and is currently one of the main characters of the popular Israeli soap-opera, "Ha-Alufa", where he plays the role of a teenage student.