Israelis (Hebrew : ישראלים Yiśraʾelim ) are the citizens or permanent residents of the State of Israel , a multiethnic state populated by people of different ethnic backgrounds . The largest ethnic groups in Israel are Jews (75%), followed by Arabs (20%) and other minorities (5%).[1]
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Lists of Israelis
By ethnicity
Israeli Jews:
Ethiopian Jews
Arab citizens of Israel:
Arab Muslims , Druze , Arab Christians
Various:
Circassians
By descent
Afghan , Algerian , American , Argentine , Armenian , Australian , Austrian
Belarusian , Belgian , Bosnian , Brazilian , British , Bulgarian
Canadian , Chilean , Chinese , Croatian , Czech
Danish , Dutch
Egyptian , Estonian , Ethiopian
Finnish , French
Georgian , German , Greek , Guatemalan
Hungarian
Indian , Iranian , Iraqi , Irish , Italian
Kazakhstani
Latvian , Libyan , Lithuanian
Mexican , Moldovan , Moroccan , Nigerian
Polish
Romanian , Russian
Serbian , Slovak , South African , Sudanese , Swedish , Swiss , Syrian
Tunisian , Turkish
Ukrainian , Uzbekistani
Yemeni
By place of residence
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Biology and medicine
Nobel Prize winner Aaron Ciechanover Nobel Prize winner Avram Hershko Nobel Prize winner Ada Yonath Aaron Valero – Professor of Medicine, founder of Faculty of Medicine at the Technion, director of government hospitalAaron Ciechanover and Avram Hershko – ubiquitin system; Lasker Award (2000), Nobel Prize in Chemistry (2004)Moshe Feldenkrais – invented Feldenkrais Method used in movement therapyHossam Haick – inventor of an electric nose for diagnosis of cancer[2] Israel Hanukoglu – structures of cytoskeletal keratins, NADP binding proteins, steroidogenic enzymes, Epithelial Sodium Channels (ENaC)Gavriel Iddan – inventor of capsule endoscopyDanny Ionescu – aquatic microbial ecologistBenjamin Kahn – marine biologist, defender of the Red Sea reefAlexander Levitzki – cancer research; Wolf Prize in Medicine (2005)Yadin Dudai – memory researchGideon Mer – scientist, malaria controlSaul Merin – ophthalmologist, author of Inherited Eye DiseasesRaphael Mechoulam – chemist, discoverer of tetrahydrocannabinol and anandamide Leo Sachs – blood cell research; Wolf Prize in Medicine (1980)Asya Rolls – psychoneuroimmunologistMichael Sela and Ruth Arnon – developed Copaxone ; Wolf Prize in Medicine (1998)Rahel Straus (1880–1963) – German-Jewish medical doctor and feministJoel Sussman – 3D structure of acetylcholinesterase, Elkeles Prize for Research in Medicine (2005)Meir Wilchek – affinity chromatography; Wolf Prize in Medicine (1987)Ada Yonath – structure of ribosome, Nobel Prize in Chemistry (2009)Amotz Zahavi – Handicap Principle Abraham Zangen – psycholobiologyComputing and mathematics
Nobel Prize winner Robert Aumann Shafi Goldwasser Elon Lindenstrauss Ron Aharoni – mathematicianNoga Alon – mathematician, computer scientist, winner of the Gödel Prize (2005)Shimshon Amitsur – mathematician ring theory abstract algebra Robert Aumann – mathematician game theory ; Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences (2005)Amir Ban and Shay Bushinsky – programmers of Junior (chess) Yehoshua Bar-Hillel – machine translationJoseph Bernstein – mathematicianEli Biham – differential cryptanalysis Yair Censor – mathematicianAryeh Dvoretzky – mathematician, eighth president of the Weizmann Institute of Science Uriel Feige – computer scientist, winner of the Gödel Prize (2001)Abraham Fraenkel – ZF set theoryHillel Furstenberg – mathematician; Wolf Prize in Mathematics (2006/7)Shafi Goldwasser – computer scientist, winner of the Gödel Prize (1993 and 2001)David Harel – computer science; Israel Prize (2004)Gad M. Landau – computer scientistAbraham Lempel and Jacob Ziv – LZW compression; IEEE Richard W. Hamming Medal (2007 and 1995)Joram Lindenstrauss – mathematician Johnson–Lindenstrauss lemma Elon Lindenstrauss – mathematicianMichel Loève – probabilistJoel Moses – MIT provost and writer of Macsyma Yoram Moses – computer scientist, winner of the Gödel Prize (1997)Judea Pearl – artificial intelligence, philosophy of action; Turing Award (2011)Ilya Piatetski-Shapiro – representation theory; Wolf Prize in Mathematics (1990)Amir Pnueli – temporal logic; Turing Award (1996)Michael O. Rabin – nondeterminism, primality testing; Turing Award (1976)Shmuel Safra – computer scientist, winner of the Gödel Prize (2001)Nir Shavit – computer scientist, winner of the Gödel Prize (2004)Adi Shamir – RSA encryption, differential cryptanalysis; Turing Award (2002)Saharon Shelah – logic; Wolf Prize in Mathematics (2001)Ehud Shapiro – Concurrent Prolog, DNA computing pioneerMoshe Y. Vardi – computer scientist, winner of the Gödel Prize (2000)Avi Wigderson – randomized algorithms; Nevanlinna Prize (1994)Doron Zeilberger – combinatorics
Yossi Benayoun Avram Grant Avram Grant – Israeli head coach and manager (Chelsea F.C. & Israel national team)Eyal Ben Ami – midfielder various clubs, national team [3] Yaniv Ben-Nissan – midfielderDudu Aouate – goalkeeper (RCD Mallorca , national team)[4] Jonathan Assous – defensive midfielder (Hapoel Petah Tikva ), of French origin[5] Gai Assulin – winger/attacking midfielder (Manchester City , national team)Ronen Badash – midfielderPini Balili – striker (Bnei Yehuda Tel Aviv , Israel national team)Nir Bitton – midfielder, (Celtic , Maccabi Tel Aviv , SC Ashdod , Israel national teamYossi Benayoun – attacking midfielder, (Israel national tema captain, as well as the national most capped footballer) Hapoel Be'er Sheva , Maccabi Haifa , Racing Santander , West Ham United , Liverpool , Chelsea Gil Cain – defender, Hapoel Azor David "Dedi" Ben Dayan – left defender (Hapoel Tel Aviv , national team)[6] [7] Tal Ben Haim – center back/right back, Maccabi Tel Aviv , Bolton Wanderers, Chelsea, West Ham United [8] Daniel Brailovski – midfielder (Argentina, Uruguay, and Israel national teams)[9] Roberto Colautti – Argentine born-strikerTomer Chencinski – goaltender (Vaasan Palloseura )Avi Cohen – defender, Liverpool and national teamTamir Cohen – midfielder (Bolton Wanderers and national team)[10] Rami Gershon – centre back / left backTvrtko Kale – Croatia/Israel, goalkeeper (Hapoel Haifa )[11] Yaniv Katan – forward/winger (Maccabi Haifa , national team)Eli Ohana – won UEFA Cup Winners' Cup and Bravo Award (most outstanding young player in Europe); national team; managerHaim Revivo – attacking/side midfielder (Israel national team), Maccabi Haifa, Celta de Vigo, Fenerbahçe , Galatasaray Ronnie Rosenthal – left winger/striker (Israel national team), Maccabi Haifa, Liverpool, Tottenham, Watford[12] Ben Sahar – striker/winger (Hapoel Tel Aviv , national team)[13] Mordechai Spiegler – striker (Israel national team), managerIdan Tal – midfielder (Beitar Jerusalem FC and Israel national team)Salim Tuama – soccer player playing for Hapoel Tel Aviv who has in the past played for Standard Liège , Maccabi Petah Tikva , Kayserispor , Larissa and the youth club Gadna Tel Aviv Yehuda .Rifaat Turk – Team Israel Olympic midfielderYochanan Vollach – defender (Israel national team); current president of Maccabi Haifa Pini Zahavi – UK-based super-agentItzik Zohar – attacking midfielder (Israel national team), Maccabi Jaffa, Maccabi Tel Aviv, Royal Antwerp, Beitar Jerusalem, Crystal Palace, Maccabi Haifa, Maccabi Herzliya, Maccabi Netanya, F.C. Ashdod, Hapoel Nazareth IllitEyal Berkovic – attacking midfielder (English Premier League clubs & Celtic F.C . & Israel national team)Eran Zahavi – forward (PSV Eindhoven & Israel national team captain, as well as the national top goalscorer)Manor Solomon – winger/attacking midfielder (Tottenham Hotspur F.C., Leeds United AFC & Israel national team) Basketball
Omri Casspi Gal Mekel Miki Berkovich – Maccabi Tel Aviv David Blu – (formerly "Bluthenthal"), EuroLeague 6' 7" forward (Maccabi Tel Aviv )[14] Tal Brody – Euroleague 6' 2" shooting guard , Maccabi Tel Aviv Tal Burstein – Maccabi Tel Aviv Omri Casspi – 6' 9" small forward, drafted in 1st round of 2009 NBA draft (Golden State Warriors )[15] Tanhum Cohen-Mintz – 6' 8" center; 2× Euroleague All-StarShay Doron – WNBA 5' 9" guard, University of Maryland (New York Liberty )[16] Lior Eliyahu – 6' 9" power forward, NBA draft 2006 (Orlando Magic ; traded to Houston Rockets ), but completed mandatory service in the Israel Defense Forces and played in the Euroleague (Maccabi Tel Aviv)Tamir Goodman – U.S. and Israel, 6' 3" shooting guard[17] Yotam Halperin – 6' 5" guard, drafted in 2006 NBA draft by Seattle SuperSonics (Olympiacos )T. J. Leaf – NBA basketball player[18] Gal Mekel – NBA basketball playerYehoshua Rozin – basketball coachDerrick Sharp – American-Israeli basketball playerAmit Tamir – 6' 10" center/forward, University of California, PAOK Thessaloniki (Hapoel Jerusalem )[19] [20] Bodybuilding
Alana Shipp – American/Israeli IFBB professional bodybuilderEli Hanania – American/Israeli bodybuilder and model
Alexei Beletski – ice dancer , Olympian[26] Oleksii Bychenko – figure skater, Olympian, European silver medallist 2016Galit Chait – ice dancer, World Championship bronze 2002Natalia Gudina – figure skater , Olympian[27] Tamar Katz – figure skater[28] Lionel Rumi – ice dancerSergei Sakhnovsky – ice dancer, World Championship Bronze medal 2002Daniel Samohin – figure skater, Olympian, 2016 World Junior ChampionMichael Shmerkin – figure skater[29] Alexandra Zaretski – ice dancer, Olympian[30] Roman Zaretski – ice dancer, Olympian[31] Swimming
Vadim Alexeev – swimmer, breaststroke [39] Adi Bichman – 400-m and 800-m freestyle, 400-m medley [40] Yoav Bruck – 50-m freestyle and 100-m freestyleAnastasia Gorbenko (born 2003) – backstroke, breaststroke, and freestyleEran Groumi – 100 and 200 m backstroke, 100-m butterfly Michael "Miki" Halika – 200-m butterfly, 200- and 400-m individual medleyJudith Haspel – (born "Judith Deutsch"), of Austrian origin, held every Austrian women's middle and long-distance freestyle record in 1935; refused to represent Austria in 1936 Summer Olympics along with Ruth Langer and Lucie Goldner, protesting Hitler, stating, "We do not boycott Olympia, but Berlin".[41] Marc Hinawi – record holder in the European Games Amit Ivry – Maccabiah and Israeli records in Women's 100 m butterfly, Israeli record in Women's 200 m Individual Medley, bronze medal in 100 m butterfly at the European Swimming Championships.Dan Kutler – of U.S. origin; 100-m butterfly, 4×100-m medley relay[42] Keren Leibovitch – Paralympic swimmer, 4x-gold-medal-winner, 100-m backstroke, 50- and 100-m freestyle, 200-m individual medleyTal Stricker – 100- and 200-m breaststroke, 4×100-m medley relay[43] Eithan Urbach – backstroke swimmer, European championship silver and bronze; 100-m backstroke[44] Tennis
Andy Ram and Jonathan Erlich Shahar Pe'er Noam Behr [46] Ilana Berger [47] Gilad Bloom [48] Jonathan Erlich – 6 doubles titles, 6 doubles finals; won 2008 Australian Open Men's Doubles (w/Andy Ram), highest world doubles ranking # 5 [49] Shlomo Glickstein – highest world singles ranking # 22 , highest world doubles ranking # 28 Julia Glushko [50] Amir Hadad Harel Levy – highest world singles ranking # 30 Evgenia Linetskaya Amos Mansdorf – highest world singles ranking # 18 Tzipora Obziler Noam Okun Yshai Oliel Shahar Pe'er – (3 WTA career titles), highest world singles ranking # 11 , highest world doubles ranking # 14 Keren Shlomo – (3 ITF career titles)Shahar Perkiss Andy Ram – 6 doubles titles, 6 doubles finals, 1 mixed double title (won 2006 Wimbledon Mixed Doubles (w/Vera Zvonareva ), 2007 French Open Mixed Doubles (w/Nathalie Dechy ), 2008 Australian Open Men's Doubles (w/Jonathan Erlich), highest world doubles ranking # 5 Eyal Ran [51] Dudi Sela – highest world singles ranking # 29 Denis Shapovalov (born 1999) – Israeli-Canadian tennis player, born in Tel Aviv, highest world singles ranking # 29 Anna Smashnova – (12 WTA career titles), highest world singles ranking # 15
Artists
Sigalit Landau Yaacov Agam – kinetic artistRon Arad – designerMordecai Ardon – painterDavid Ascalon – sculptor and synagogue designerMaurice Ascalon – sculptor and industrial designerIsidor Ascheim – painter and printmakerMordechai Avniel – painter and sculptorYigal Azrouel – fashion designerRalph Bakshi – animation (director)Eyal ben-Moshe (Eyal B) – animator and directorTuvia Beeri – printmakerAlexander Bogen – painterRhea Carmi – painterYitzhak Danziger – sculptorAlber Elbaz – fashion designerOhad Elimelech – artist, director, editor, photographer, animator, lecturer, and graphic designerOsnat Elkabir – dancer, artist and theatre directionSharon Eyal – dancer, choreographerGadi Fraiman – sculptorYitzhak Frenkel Frenel – École de Paris painter and sculptorGideon Gechtman – sculptorMoshe Gershuni – painterDudu Geva – artist and comic-strip illustratorPinhas Golan – sculptorNachum Gutman – painterIsrael Hershberg – realist painterShimshon Holzman – painterLeo Kahn – painterShmuel Katz – illustratorUri Katzenstein – visual artistDani Karavan – sculptorJoseph Kossonogi – painterElyasaf Kowner – video artistSigalit Landau – video, installation, sculptureAlex Levac – photographerBatia Lishansky – sculptorRanan Lurie – political cartoonistLea Nikel – painterZvi Malnovitzer – painterTamara Musakhanova – sculptor and ceramistMushail Mushailov – painterIlana Raviv – painterLeo Roth – painterReuven Rubin – painterHagit Shahal – painterDavid Tartakover – graphic designerAnna Ticho – painterIgael Tumarkin – sculptorYemima Ergas Vroman – painter, sculptor, installation artistSergey Zagraevsky – painterMoshe Ziffer – sculptorWriters
Nobel Prize winner Shmuel Yosef Agnon Etgar Keret Shmuel Yosef Agnon (Shmuel Yosef Halevi Czaczkes) – author, Nobel Prize in Literature (1966)Aharon Appelfeld – Prix Médicis étranger (2004)Yoni Ben-Menachem – journalistRon Ben-Yishai – journalistNahum Benari – author and playwrightMax Brod – author, composer and friend of KafkaOrly Castel-Bloom – authorYehonatan Geffen – author, poet and lyricistDavid Grossman – authorBatya Gur – authorEmile Habibi – authorAmira Hass – journalist and authorShmuel Katz – author and journalistEtgar Keret – authorAdi Keissar – poetEphraim Kishon – satiristHanoch Levin – playwrightJulius Margolin – writerAharon Megged – authorSami Michael – authorSamir Naqqash – authorUri Orlev – author, Hans Christian Andersen Award (1996)Amos Oz (Amos Klausner) – author and journalist, Goethe Prize (2005)Ruchoma Shain – authorMeir Shalev – author and journalistZeruya Shalev – authorMoshe Shamir – author, poetMati Shemoelof – poet, editor and journalistLilac Sigan – writer, journalist, and public speakerMordechai Tsanin - journalist, writerChaim Walder – Haredi children's writerA.B. Yehoshua – authorBenny Ziffer – author, journalist and translator
Golda Meir Benjamin Netanyahu Ayelet Shaked Yair Lapid Meirav Cohen Amir Ohana Golda Meir – female Prime Minister of Israel (1969–74)Benjamin Netanyahu – prime minister of Israel (1996–99), (2009–); right-wing Likud party chairmanNaftali Bennett – prime minister of Israel (2021–), leader of The Jewish Home party, minister of economy and minister of religious services (2013–present)Ehud Barak – prime minister (1999–2001)Menachem Begin – prime minister (1977–83); Nobel Peace Prize (1978)David Ben-Gurion – first Prime Minister of Israel (1948–54, 1955–63)Yitzhak Ben-Zvi – first elected/second president President of Israel (1952–63)Ehud Olmert – prime minister (2006–09); former mayor of JerusalemYossi Beilin – leader of the Meretz-Yachad party and peace negotiatorGeula Cohen – politician, activist and "Israel Prize" recipientAbba Eban – diplomat and Foreign Affairs Minister of Israel (1966–74)Yuli-Yoel Edelstein – speaker of the KnessetUzi Eilam – ex-director of Israel's Atomic Energy CommissionEffie Eitam – former leader of the National Religious Party , now head of the Renewed Religious National Zionist party Levi Eshkol – prime minister (1963–69)Chaim Herzog – former president of Israel, first and only Irish-born Israeli PresidentMoshe Katsav – president (2000–07), and convicted rapistTeddy Kollek – former mayor of Jerusalem Pnina Tamano-Shata – Current Member of Knesset for National Unity (Israel) Yair Lapid – leader of the Yesh Atid party, minister of finance (2013–March 2015) & minister of foreign affairsYosef Lapid – former leader of the Shinui partyAmir Ohana – first openly gay right-wing (Likud ) member of the Knesset & former minister of justiceShimon Peres – President of Israel (2007–2014); prime minister (1984–86, 1995–96); Nobel Peace Prize (1994)Yitzhak Rabin – prime minister (1974–77, 1992–95); Nobel Peace Prize (1994) (assassinated November 1995)Reuven Rivlin – President of IsraelAyelet Shaked – Knesset parliament right-wing member (2013–) & minister (2015–)Yitzhak Shamir – prime minister (1983–84, 1986–92)Yisrael Yeshayahu Sharabi – former speaker of the Knesset Moshe Sharett – prime minister (1954–55)Ariel Sharon – prime minister (2001–06)Chaim Weizmann – first President of Israel (1949–52)Ovadia Yosef – spiritual leader of the Shas partyRehavam Zeevi – founder of the Moledet party, Knesset parliament member & minister (assassinated by Palestinians in October 2001)Meirav Cohen – minister for social equality & Knesset parliament member (2019–)
Spunder, Or (January 24, 2008). הקשר ג'ונתן אסוס מועמד למכבי ת"א . Retrieved January 28, 2008 . קשרה היהודי/צרפתי של ראים מהליגה ה-2 בצרפת עשוי להגיע להתרשמות במכבי. Guy Ben-Porat, Amir Ben-Porat (December 2004). "(Un)Bounded Soccer; Globalization and Localization of the Game in Israel". International Review for the Sociology of Sport . 39 (4): 421–36. doi :10.1177/1012690204049064 . S2CID 143958510 . Morning Freiheit Association (1980). Jewish Currents . Retrieved June 2, 2010 . Blas, Howard (August 27, 2008). "x" . The Jewish Ledger. Archived from the original on June 28, 2009. Retrieved May 26, 2010 . Tom Farrey (September 5, 2002). "Keeping the torch lit" . ESPN. Archived from the original on February 17, 2010. Retrieved September 28, 2010 . {{cite web }}: CS1 maint: bot: original URL status unknown (link )Even though the State of Israel did not yet exist at the time of his death, he is commonly referred to as the first Ashkenazic Chief Rabbi of the State of Israel.
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