List of Israelis
Israelis are the citizens or permanent residents of the State of Israel. The largest ethnic groups in Israel are Jews, followed by Palestinians and Arabs and other minorities.
Academics
Archaeology
- Israel Finkelstein
- Amihai Mazar
- Benjamin Mazar
- Eilat Mazar
- Yigael Yadin
Biology and medicine
- Aaron Valero – Professor of Medicine, founder of Faculty of Medicine at the Technion, director of government hospital
- Aaron Ciechanover and Avram Hershko – ubiquitin system; Lasker Award, Nobel Prize in Chemistry
- Moshe Feldenkrais – invented Feldenkrais Method used in movement therapy
- Hossam Haick – inventor of an electric nose for diagnosis of cancer
- Israel Hanukoglu – structures of cytoskeletal keratins, NADP binding proteins, steroidogenic enzymes, Epithelial Sodium Channels
- Gavriel Iddan – inventor of capsule endoscopy
- Danny Ionescu – aquatic microbial ecologist
- Benjamin Kahn – marine biologist, defender of the Red Sea reef
- Alexander Levitzki – cancer research; Wolf Prize in Medicine
- Yadin Dudai – memory research
- Gideon Mer – scientist, malaria control
- Saul Merin – ophthalmologist, author of Inherited Eye Diseases
- Raphael Mechoulam – chemist, discoverer of tetrahydrocannabinol and anandamide
- Leo Sachs – blood cell research; Wolf Prize in Medicine
- Asya Rolls – psychoneuroimmunologist
- Michael Sela and Ruth Arnon – developed Copaxone; Wolf Prize in Medicine
- Michal Schwartz – neuroimmunology of age-related neurological disease
- Rahel Straus – German-Jewish medical doctor and feminist
- Joel Sussman – 3D structure of acetylcholinesterase, Elkeles Prize for Research in Medicine
- Meir Wilchek – affinity chromatography; Wolf Prize in Medicine
- Ada Yonath – structure of ribosome, Nobel Prize in Chemistry
- Amotz Zahavi – Handicap Principle
- Abraham Zangen – psycholobiology
Computing and mathematics
- Ron Aharoni – mathematician
- Noga Alon – mathematician, computer scientist, winner of the Gödel Prize
- Shimshon Amitsur – mathematician ring theory abstract algebra
- Robert Aumann – mathematician game theory; Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences
- Amir Ban and Shay Bushinsky – programmers of Junior
- Yehoshua Bar-Hillel – machine translation
- Joseph Bernstein – mathematician
- Eli Biham – differential cryptanalysis
- Yair Censor – mathematician
- Aryeh Dvoretzky – mathematician, eighth president of the Weizmann Institute of Science
- Uriel Feige – computer scientist, winner of the Gödel Prize
- Abraham Fraenkel – ZF set theory
- Hillel Furstenberg – mathematician; Wolf Prize in Mathematics
- Shafi Goldwasser – computer scientist, winner of the Gödel Prize
- David Harel – computer science; Israel Prize
- Gad M. Landau – computer scientist
- Abraham Lempel and Jacob Ziv – LZW compression; IEEE Richard W. Hamming Medal
- Joram Lindenstrauss – mathematician Johnson–Lindenstrauss lemma
- Elon Lindenstrauss – mathematician
- Michel Loève – probabilist
- Joel Moses – MIT provost and writer of Macsyma
- Yoram Moses – computer scientist, winner of the Gödel Prize
- Judea Pearl – artificial intelligence, philosophy of action; Turing Award
- Ilya Piatetski-Shapiro – representation theory; Wolf Prize in Mathematics
- Amir Pnueli – temporal logic; Turing Award
- Michael O. Rabin – nondeterminism, primality testing; Turing Award
- Shmuel Safra – computer scientist, winner of the Gödel Prize
- Nir Shavit – computer scientist, winner of the Gödel Prize
- Adi Shamir – RSA encryption, differential cryptanalysis; Turing Award
- Saharon Shelah – logic; Wolf Prize in Mathematics
- Ehud Shapiro – Concurrent Prolog, DNA computing pioneer
- Moshe Y. Vardi – computer scientist, winner of the Gödel Prize
- Avi Wigderson – randomized algorithms; Nevanlinna Prize
- Doron Zeilberger – combinatorics
Journalists
- Suleiman Maswadeh
- Ilana Dayan
- Ehud Yaari
- Dan Margalit
- Ze'ev Schiff
- Ayala Hasson
- Amit Segal
- Yonit Levi
- Yaakov Bardugo
Engineering
- Yaakov Bar-Shalom – electrical engineer
- David Faiman – solar engineer and director of the National Solar Energy Center
- Yoram Koren – mechanical engineer
- Liviu Librescu – Professor of Engineering Science and Mechanics at Virginia Tech, killed in the Virginia Tech massacre
- Hagit Messer Yaron – electrical engineer
- Moshe Zakai – electrical engineer
- Jacob Ziv – electrical engineer
Humanities
- Aharon Dolgopolsky – linguist: Nostratic
- Moshe Goshen-Gottstein – Biblical scholar
- Elias Khoury – law
- Hans Jakob Polotsky – linguist
- Chaim Rabin – Biblical scholar
- Alice Shalvi – English literature, educator
- Gershon Shaked – Hebrew literature
- Shemaryahu Talmon – Biblical scholar
- Emanuel Tov – Biblical scholar
- Ghil'ad Zuckermann – linguist, revivalist
Philosophy
- Martin Buber
- Berl Katznelson
- Yeshayahu Leibowitz
- Avishai Margalit
- Joseph Raz
- Gershom Scholem
Physics and chemistry
- Yakir Aharonov – Aharonov–Bohm effect; Wolf Prize in Physics
- Uri Banin – chemist
- Amiram Barkai – biochemist
- Jacob Bekenstein – black hole thermodynamics; Wolf Prize in Physics
- David Deutsch – quantum computing pioneer; Paul Dirac Prize
- Joshua Jortner and Rafi Levine – molecular energy; Wolf Prize in Chemistry
- Josef Imry – physicist
- Aaron Katzir – physical chemistry
- Ephraim Katzir – immobilized enzymes; Japan Prize ; fourth president of Israel List of presidents of Israel
- Michael Levitt – Nobel Prize in Chemistry
- Zvi Lipkin – physicist
- Dan T. Major – professor of chemistry
- Boris Mavashev – seismologist
- Mordehai Milgrom – Modified Newtonian Dynamics
- Yuval Ne'eman – the "Eightfold way"
- Israel Pelah – nuclear physics
- Asher Peres – quantum theory
- Giulio Racah – spectroscopy
- Nathan Rosen – EPR paradox
- Nathan Seiberg – string theory
- Dan Shechtman – quasicrystals; Wolf Prize in Physics, Nobel Prize in Chemistry
- Igal Talmi – nuclear physics
- Tsippy Tamiri – chemistry
- Reshef Tenne – discovered inorganic fullerenes and non-carbon nanotubes
- Arieh Warshel – Nobel Prize in Chemistry
- Chaim Weizmann – acetone production
Social sciences
- Yehuda Bauer – Holocaust historian
- Dany Bahar – economist
- Daniel Elazar – political scientist
- Esther Farbstein – historian
- Ayelet Frish – strategic consultant
- Haim Ginott – psychologist: child psychology
- Eliyahu Goldratt – business consultant: Theory of Constraints
- Louis Guttman – sociologist
- Yuval Noah Harari – historian and author who wrote best selling book Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind
- Michael Harris – public policy scholar and university administrator
- Elhanan Helpman – economist: international trade
- Daniel Kahneman – behavioural scientist: prospect theory; Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences
- Smadar Lavie – anthropologist
- Benny Morris – historian
- Erich Neumann – analytical psychologist: development, consciousness
- Nurit Peled-Elhanan – educator
- Renee Rabinowitz – psychologist and lawyer
- Sheizaf Rafaeli – management, information, communication
- Anat Rafaeli – organisational behaviour
- Ariel Rubinstein – economist
- Moshe Sharon – historian
- Avi Shlaim – historian
- Abraham Solomonick – semiotician, linguist
- Amos Tversky – behavioral scientist: prospect theory with Daniel Kahneman
- Hanan Yoran – historian
Activists
- Uri Avnery – peace activist, Gush Shalom
- Yael Dayan – writer, politician, activist
- Esther Eillam – feminist activist
- Uzi Even – gay rights activist
- Yehuda Glick – activist for Jewish rights at the Temple Mount
- Shula Keshet – Mizrahi feminist, activist and artist
- Hagar Rublev – peace activist
- Uri Savir – peace negotiator, Peres Center for Peace
- Israel Shahak – political activist
- Natan Sharansky – Soviet-era human rights activist
- Ronny Edry and Michal Tamir – originators of the Israel-Loves-Iran peace movement and its offshoots
Architects
- Michael Arad
- Ram Karmi
- Richard Kauffmann
- David Kroyanker
- David Resnick
- Moshe Safdie
- Arieh Sharon
Athletes
Association football (soccer)
- Avram Grant – Israeli head coach and manager
- Eyal Ben Ami – midfielder various clubs, national team
- Yaniv Ben-Nissan – midfielder
- Dudu Aouate – goalkeeper
- Jonathan Assous – defensive midfielder, of French origin
- Gai Assulin – winger/attacking midfielder
- Ronen Badash – midfielder
- Pini Balili – striker
- Nir Bitton – midfielder, Hapoel Be'er Sheva, Maccabi Haifa, Racing Santander, West Ham United, Liverpool, Chelsea
- Gil Cain – defender, Hapoel Azor
- David "Dedi" Ben Dayan – left defender
- Tal Ben Haim – center back/right back, Maccabi Tel Aviv, Bolton Wanderers, Chelsea, West Ham United
- Daniel Brailovski – midfielder
- Roberto Colautti – Argentine born-striker
- Tomer Chencinski – goaltender
- Avi Cohen – defender, Liverpool and national team
- Tamir Cohen – midfielder
- Rami Gershon – centre back / left back
- Tvrtko Kale – Croatia/Israel, goalkeeper
- Oscar Gloukh - Attacking Midfielder / Winger for Ajax
- Yaniv Katan – forward/winger
- Eli Ohana – won UEFA Cup Winners' Cup and Bravo Award ; national team; manager
- Haim Revivo – attacking/side midfielder, Maccabi Haifa, Celta de Vigo, Fenerbahçe, Galatasaray
- Ronnie Rosenthal – left winger/striker, Maccabi Haifa, Liverpool, Tottenham, Watford
- Ben Sahar – striker/winger
- Mordechai Spiegler – striker, manager
- Idan Tal – midfielder
- Salim Tuama – soccer player playing for Hapoel Tel Aviv who has in the past played for Standard Liège, Maccabi Petah Tikva, Kayserispor, AEL and the youth club Gadna Tel Aviv Yehuda.
- Rifaat Turk – Team Israel Olympic midfielder
- Yochanan Vollach – defender ; current president of Maccabi Haifa
- Pini Zahavi – UK-based super-agent
- Itzik Zohar – attacking midfielder, Maccabi Jaffa, Maccabi Tel Aviv, Royal Antwerp, Beitar Jerusalem, Crystal Palace, Maccabi Haifa, Maccabi Herzliya, Maccabi Netanya, F.C. Ashdod, Hapoel Nazareth Illit
- Eyal Berkovic – attacking midfielder
- Eran Zahavi – forward
- Manor Solomon – winger/attacking midfielder