- Gideon Levy
Gideon Levy is an Israeli journalist for Ha'aretz, a member of its editorial board and former spokesman for Shimon Peres A recurring theme of his articles is what he calls the "moral blindness" of the Israeli society to the effects of its acts of war and occupation, an attitude which he attributes to the systematic dehumanization of Israel's neighbours. - Shmuel Rosner
Shmuel Rosner is currently the chief United States correspondent for the Israeli daily newspaper Haaretz. He reports from Washington, D.C. and lives in Maryland - Amira Hass
Amira Hass ; born 1956) is an Israeli journalist and author, mostly known for her columns in the daily newspaper "Ha'aretz". She is especially famous for living in the West Bank and Gaza Strip and reporting on events from the Palestinian perspective of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. The daughter of two Holocaust survivors (Bergen-Belsen), Hass was born in Jerusalem. - Yossi Sarid
Yossi Sarid (born October 24, 1940) is a left-wing Israeli news commentator and former politician. Sarid was member of the Meretz-Yachad party in the Knesset until he withdrew from politics shortly before the 2006 elections. Sarid holds a Master's degree in Political Science from New School for Social Research, New York. He writes a weekly column for the daily, … - Yossi Melman
Yossi Melman is an Israeli writer and journalist. Receiving his B.A. from Hebrew University in Jerusalem, he was also a Nieman Fellow at Harvard. Melman is currently an intelligence correspondent with "Haaretz". Melman has stated that he considers himself a left-wing Israeli, and that Israel must abandon the occupied territories to live in peace with a Palestinian state. However, he has said that Palestinians should not be given the right of return, … - Yossi Beilin
Dr. Yossef ("Yossi") Beilin is a leftist Israeli politician, Knesset member, and a former deputy foreign minister and justice minister within the Israeli Labour Party. He is currently chairman of Meretz-Yachad. He is best known for his involvement with the Oslo accords, the Geneva Initiative and the Israeli-Palestinian peace process in general. - Danny Rubinstein
Danny Rubinstein is an Israeli journalist. Rubinstein was born in Jerusalem in 1937. From 1967 to 1990, he worked for the now-defunct newspaper "Davar", as a columnist and Jerusalem bureau chief. Since 1990 he has worked for "Haaretz", where he is a member of the editorial board. He writes regular columns on the Arab-Israeli conflict and Palestinian affairs. He has spoken Arabic from childhood. - Ze'Ev Schiff
Ze'ev Schiff (Hebrew: זאב שיף) was a French-born, journalist, author and military commentator who worked for the Israeli newspaper "Ha'aretz". Schiff wrote numerous books, including "Israel's Lebanon War" and "Intifada", both with Ehud Ya'ari, and "A History of the Israeli Army: 1874 to the Present". Paul Reynolds, a World Affairs correspondent, called him "the most respected military analyst in Israel". - Meron Benvenisti
Meron Benvenisti is an Israeli political scientist who was Deputy Mayor of Jerusalem under Teddy Kollek from 1971 to 1978 and administered East Jerusalem and its largely Arab neighbourhoods. He has long been a critic of Israel's policies towards Palestinians in the West Bank and Gaza Strip and is an advocate of the idea of a binational state. - Antony Loewenstein
Antony Loewenstein is a Jewish-Australian, Sydney-based freelance journalist, author and blogger. Antony Loewenstein has written for The Guardian, Haaretz, the Washington Post, "Sydney Morning Herald", "The Australian", Sydney’s "Sun-Herald", "The Bulletin", Znet, "The Big Issue", "Crikey", "Counterpunch" and others. Antony contributed a major chapter to 2004’s best-seller, "Not Happy, … - Moshe Ya'Alon
Moshe Ya'alon is a Lieutenant General (res.) on July 9, 2002, and served in that position until June 1, 2005, during which time he led the army’s effort to quell the al-Aqsa Intifada launched in September 2000. He is currently a Distinguished Fellow at the Adelson Institute for Strategic Studies at the Shalem Center Institute for International and Middle East Studies. Ya'alon's public pronouncements have been controversial. - Amnon Rubinstein
Amnon Rubinstein (born 1931) is an Israeli law scholar, politician, and columnist. A member of the Knesset since 1977, he founded Shinui (The Center Party) in 1974, and has served as the Minister for Communications and as Education Minister. He is currently dean of the Interdisciplinary Center (IDC) in Herzliya. In his columns for Haaretz and Maariv, Rubinstein has focused on countering what he perceives as anti-Semitism and anti-Zionism within the European left. - Benny Ziffer
Benny Ziffer (born 1953), an Israeli author and journalist, was born in Tel Aviv to Heinz and Nira Ziffer, a pioneer couple who immigrated to Israel from Turkey in 1949. Since 1988, he has been the literary editor of "Haaretz" daily newspaper, one of the most important Hebrew language newspapers. He has published three novels: "Turkish March" (Hebrew for 'Rondo alla Turka')(1995), … - Amos Elon
Amos Elon is an acclaimed historian and social critic and is the author of eight widely praised books on Germany, Jewish history, and the Middle East, including Founder: A Portrait of the First Rothschild and the New York Times bestseller, Israelis: Founders and Sons . He is a former foreign correspondent (in Washington, Paris, Bonn, and Cairo) and political columnist for Haaretz. He studied law and history in Israel and England. - Dan Margalit
Dan Margalit (born 1939) is an Israeli journalist and columnist. Margalit holds a Master's degree in Modern Jewish history and a Bachelor's degree in international relations. Margalit started writing for "Haaretz" in the 1960s. He became famous when in 1977, while serving as Washington correspondent of Haaretz, he revealed that Israeli prime minister Yitzhak Rabin illegally had a United States bank account. - Amira Hess
Amira Hess is an Israeli poet and artist. Arriving in Israel in 1951, she first lived in an immigrant transit camp, then moved to Jerusalem, where she still lives today. her first book, "And the Moon is Dripping Madness", was awarded the Luria Prize (named for the poet Yerucham Luria). Her other volumes of poetry in Hebrew include "Two Horses by the Light Line", "The Information Eater", "Yovel", and "There is no Real Woman in Israel". - Batya Gur
Batya Gur (20th January 1947, Tel Aviv - May 19, 2005) was an Israeli writer, specializing in detective fiction. She received a master's degree in comparative literature from the Hebrew University. She taught literature in high schools and spent a number of years in the U.S. Gur was known for her social and political sensitivity, and has published a non-fiction book called "Next to the Hunger Road" (Keter, 1990). She has also published several works of fiction, … - Shimon Tzabar
Shimon Tzabar (born 5 March, 1926 in Tel Aviv, died 19 March, 2007 in London) was a member of the editorial board of Imperial News. He described himself as a "Hebrew speaking Palestinian". In his teens he was a member of all three Jewish underground military organizations in British Mandatory Palestine: Lehi [the Stern Gang], Etzel, and Haganah (Palmach) that fought the British and the surrounding Arab populations as Arab attacks on Jews increased, … - Yoel Esteron
Yoel Esteron is an Israeli journalist, and has been Managing Editor of Yedioth Ahronoth, Israel's leading newspaper, since January 2005. Esteron started his career at the Israeli Defence Forces radio station as a military correspondent during the 1973 Yom Kippur War in the Middle East, and then as diplomatic correspondent during Henry Kissinger's shuttle diplomacy in the region in 1974-1975. - Dudu Geva
Dudu Geva. An Israeli artist, writer, cartoonist, illustrator, and comic book creator. Considered the most well-known and beloved Israeli comic creator. Dudu Geva started his artistic career at the age of 17, in a youth weekly newspaper named "HaAretz Shelanu". In his army service, Geva contributed his talent to the military's newspaper "BaMahane". After his military service, Geva joined the staff of Israel TV's Channel One (the mainstream, … - Yonatan Ratosh
Yonatan Ratosh, Israeli poet, was the nom de plume of Uriel Shelach (אוריאל שלח). Born as Uriel Halperin (אוריאל הלפרין) in the Russian Empire in 1908 to a Zionist family. His father, Yechiel, was a Hebraist educator and raised Ratosh and his siblings (including linguist Uzzi Ornan) in Hebrew. In 1921, he migrated to Mandated Palestine to learn at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. - Benjamin Tammuz
Benjamin Tammuz (July 11, 1919-July 19, 1989) was an Israeli writer and artist who contributed to Israeli culture in many disciplines, as a novelist, journalist, critic, painter, and sculptor. Benjamin Tammuz was born in Russia. When he was five years old, he immigrated with his parents to the Land of Israel. He attended the Tachkemoni school and the Herzliya Hebrew High School in Tel Aviv. From an early age he engaged in writing, sculpture, and painting. - Ezri Tarazi
Prof. Ezri Tarazi Israeli industrial designer and educator 1986-90, Tarazi studied industrial design at the Bezalel Academy of Art and Design in Jerusalem. Subsequently, he was a coordinator of instructors' education for leadersthip in the Maritime Academy of the Israeli Navy. Early employment included serving as the project manager of industrial-design projects at DEA R&D in Jerusalem in 1990–96, and somewhat concurrently, was active as a freelance designer in 1993–96. - Yaron Golan
Yaron Golan (lived 1949-23 January, 2007) was an Israeli publisher. Yaron Golan, originally a literature columnist in "Haaretz", established a publishing company in 1990. While refusing to submit to conventional rules of publishing only popular or profitable books, he used to take on himself to publish every book submitted to him, publishing over 1000 books, often at a personal loss. However he still was the publisher of many important works, … - Yoni Raz Portugali
Yoni Raz Portugali is a journalist, writer, and food critic working in Tel Aviv (Israel) and currently living in Jafa. Portugali had published a poet book and his articles are monthly published in the business magazine on Firma, Globes - Israel's leading business paper. Since 2005 Portugali is a member of the board of cinema writers of Maarvon - Israel's new cinema magazine. - Doron Sabag
Doron Sabag is the biggest Israeli art patron and a CEO of a big human resources contractor, O.R.S Sabag also runs Mehalev, a controversial Israeli version of "Wisconsin Plan" in the city of Ashkelon. In 2002, when he was the head of the Israeli art council, the newspaper Haaretz choose Sabag as the most influential person on the Israeli art scene. In 2006, Minshar gallery in Tel Aviv, put on an exhibition named "Doron" (Curators: Joshua Simon, … - Nili Tal
Nili Tal (born Nili Herman on January 15,1944 in Tel Aviv, Israel) is an Israeli journalist and documentary film director and producer. Tal began her journalism career at the Israeli "Haaretz" daily newspaper in 1965, where she spent some ten years of writings. She since has also contributed, as a freelancer, to other Israeli newspapers such as "Yedioth Ahronoth" and "Maariv". - Avner Shats
Avner Shats (b. 1959) is an Israeli novelist and poet. Born in Kiryat Yam, Israel, he now lives in Haifa. Having attended the naval academy in Acre as a boy, Shats commanded a swift boat on the Dead Sea before going to work for a shipping company. He is held to be an expert on maritime lore in general and the brief, checkered history of seafaring Israel in particular. - Mordechai Geldman
Mordechai Geldman (born 1946 in Munich) is an Israeli artist, author, poet and psychologist. Geldman was born to parents who survived the Holocaust. He immigrated with his family to Israel in 1949 and ever since lives in Tel Aviv. As a psychologist he is very engaged in psychotherapy. As a poet and author he published 11 poetry books and 4 non-fiction books, winning several prizes. He also covers special art events for the Israeli daily Haaretz. - Salman Schocken
Salman Schocken was a German publisher and entrepreneur of Jewish origin. After his apprenticeship Schocken started to work in the department store of his brother Simon in Zwickau in 1901. Together they enlarged the enterprise and founded new stores (e.g. in Stuttgart where architect Erich Mendelsohn built the famous "Kaufhaus Schocken")). After Simon's death in 1929 Salman Schocken became sole owner of the firm. - Yehoshua Kenaz
Yehoshua Kenaz (born 1937, Petah Tikva, Israel) is one of Israel's leading novelists. Kenaz studied Philosophy and Romance languages at the Hebrew University, and French literature at the Sorbonne. A translator of French classics into Hebrew, he has worked on the editorial staff of the Ha'aretz newspaper. Kenaz currently lives in Tel Aviv. He was awarded the Alterman Prize in 1991, the Newman Prize in 1992, the Agnon Prize (1993), … - Raed Salah
Raed Salah is the leader of the northern branch of the Islamic Movement inside Israel. First known among Arab citizens of Israel as a poet and father of eight children, Sheikh Salah also served as the mayor of Umm al-Fahm in the 1990s. Salah's popularity grew after he was arrested and jailed on suspicion of raising millions of dollars for Hamas in May 2003. - Naor Gilon
Naor Gilon is the Minister-Counselor for Political Affairs at the Embassy of Israel in Washington, D.C. who was the subject of FBI investigations into the AIPAC espionage scandal, the leaking of classified information by pro-Israeli employees at the United States Department of Defense. - Robert Whitehill
Robert Whitehill is an American Hebrew poet. Robert Whitehill was born in 1947 in High Point, North Carolina, and grew up in Lubbock, Texas, where he attended Texas Tech University. Although he was raised with little Jewish identity, Whitehill was fascinated by Israel and Zionism. Starting at the age of 15, Whitehill studied Hebrew using self-help books and vinyl records, then found his first Hebrew conversational partner in a fellow Texas Tech student—an Israeli Arab. - Aleksandar Šarić
Aleksandar Saric is a Serbian soccer goalkeeper. He was born in Belgrade on 27 January, 1974. During the 11 years of his professional career he has played for clubs in six different countries(Serbia,Germany,Portugal,Israel,Romania,Austria) and he is still active as a professional player in Austrian Red Zac League. - Yanush ben Gal
Avigdor "Yanush" Ben-Gal, a former Israeli General, commanded the 7th Israeli Brigade during the Yom Kippur War in 1973 and oversaw the defence of Golan Heights under Syrian attack. In late-summer of 1981, ben Gal was replaced as commander of the Northern Command and was replaced by General Amir Drori. - Johann Hari
Johann Hari (born January 21, 1979) is a British journalist and writer. He is a columnist for "The Independent" and the "Evening Standard". His work has also appeared in the "New York Times", the "Los Angeles Times", The New Republic, "Le Monde" and "Ha'aretz". - Tom Segev
Tom Segev (born 1945, Jerusalem) is an Israeli intellectual, journalist, and historian. Segev's parents fled Nazi Germany in 1935 and settled in Palestine. His father was killed in the 1948 Arab-Israeli War. After his early education in Israel, he studied history at Hebrew University and then received a doctorate in history from Boston University in the seventies. Segev writes for Ha'aretz, a major Israeli liberal newspaper, and has published several books. - Hanadi Jaradat
Hanadi Tayseer Abdul Malek Jaradat, a Palestinian suicide bomber from Jenin, blew herself up on Saturday, October 4, 2003 in an attack on Maxim's restaurant in the northern Israeli city of Haifa. Twenty-one people of various nationalities were killed and 51 were injured. She was one of the Al-Aqsa Intifada's first female suicide bombers. Jaradat was a lawyer and a member of Palestinian Islamic Jihad, an Islamist organization. - Aluf Benn
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