100 Notable alumni of
Bar-Ilan University
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Bar-Ilan University is 297th in the world, 57th in Asia, and 3rd in Israel by aggregated alumni prominence. Below is the list of 100 notable alumni from Bar-Ilan University sorted by their wiki pages popularity. The directory includes famous graduates and former students along with research and academic staff.
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Yossi Cohen
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- spymilitary officer
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Yosef "Yossi" Meir Cohen is an Israeli intelligence officer.
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Tzipi Livni
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- politicianspydiplomatchief executive officerlawyer
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Tziporah Malka "Tzipi" Livni is an Israeli politician, diplomat and lawyer.
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Shaul Mofaz
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- politicianmilitary officer
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Shaul Mofaz is a retired Israeli military officer and politician. He joined the Israel Defense Forces in 1966 and served in the Paratroopers Brigade. He fought in the Six-Day War, Yom Kippur War, 1982 Lebanon War, and Operation Entebbe with the paratroopers and Sayeret Matkal, an elite special forces unit. In 1998 he became the IDF's sixteenth Chief of staff, serving until 2002. He is of Iranian Jewish ancestry.
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Aharon Haliva
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- military personnelmilitary officer
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Aharon Haliva is a former Israeli Major general (Aluf) who commanded the Israel Defense Forces' Military Intelligence Directorate. He previously served as the head of the Operations Directorate, the head of the Technological and Logistics Directorate, the head of the operations division in the operations directorate, the commander of the 98th Paratroopers Division, the commander of the paratroopers brigade, and the commander of The IDF Officers' School (Bahad 1). He resigned his position on April 22, 2024.
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Gilad Erdan
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- politician
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Gilad Menashe Erdan is an Israeli politician and diplomat who served as Permanent Representative of Israel to the United Nations from 2020 through 2024.
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Avi Dichter
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- politiciansoldier
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Abraham Moshe "Avi" Dichter is an Israeli politician currently serving as the Minister of Agriculture and Rural Development. A former Minister of Internal Security and Shin Bet director, he resigned from the Knesset and left Kadima in August 2012 in order to become Minister of Home Front Defense, a position he vacated in March 2013.
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Dudi Amsalem
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- politicianeconomist
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David "Dudi" Amsalem, is an Israeli politician. He currently serves as a member of the Knesset for Likud. He previously held the posts of Minister of Communications, the Minister for Cyber and National Digital Matters and as the Government-Knesset Liaison.
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Mickey Zohar
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- politician
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Makhlouf "Miki" Zohar is an Israeli politician. He currently serves as the Minister of Culture and Sports in the thirty-seventh government. Zohar previously served as a member of the Knesset for Likud and chairman of Global Likud.
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Tzipi Hotovely
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- politicianwriteropinion journalistadvocatejournalist
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Tzipura "Tzipi" Hotovely is an Israeli diplomat and former politician who serves as the current Ambassador of Israel to the United Kingdom. She served as Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs, Minister of Diaspora Affairs, Minister of Settlement Affairs, and as a member of the Knesset for the Likud party.
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Moshe Leon
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- politiciancertified public accountantbusinesspersonchief executive officer
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Moshe Lion, or Moshe Leon, is an Israeli politician who is currently the Mayor of Jerusalem. He previously served as a member of the Jerusalem City Council, director-general of the Prime Minister's Office, Chairman of the Israel Railways, and head of the Jerusalem Development Authority.
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Gal Hirsch
- Enrolled in Bar-Ilan University
- Graduated with bachelor's degree
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- military officer
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Gal Hirsch is an Israeli former military commander and author. As Brigadier General, he commanded the 91st Division of Israel Defense Forces (IDF) during the 2006 Lebanon War. Currently coordinates the negotiations for the captives and missing of the October 7 2023 Hamas-led attack on Israel.
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Gila Gamliel
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- trade unionistpolitician
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Gila Gamliel-Demri is an Israeli politician who currently serves as Minister of Science and Technology, and also as a member of the Knesset for Likud. She also previously served as Minister for Social Equality and as Minister of Environmental Protection.
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Matan Kahana
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- military personnel
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Matan Kahana is an Israeli politician who served as Minister of Religious Services and as a member of Knesset for New Right and Yamina. He was an officer in the IDF with the rank of colonel, who served as a combat soldier in Sayeret Matkal, and as a fighter pilot in the Israeli Air Force. He was also a commander of a squadron of F-16s. After retiring from the army, he joined the New Right party, which is part of the Yamina alliance. In 2022 he joined the National Unity alliance.
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Avichai Mandelblit
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- military personnelmilitary officer
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Avichai Mandelblit is an Israeli jurist who served as the Attorney General of Israel from 2016 to 2022. Mandelblit had a long career in the Israel Defense Forces legal system, eventually serving as the Chief Military Advocate General between 2004 and 2011. In April 2013, he was appointed Cabinet Secretary. In February 2016, he was appointed Attorney General. In November 2019, following a three-year investigation, Mandelblit formally indicted Israel's sitting Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on three charges of fraud and breach of trust, and one charge of bribery.
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Ofer Winter
- Enrolled in Bar-Ilan University
- Graduated with Palestinian studies
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- military officer
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Ofer Winter is a retired IDF officer with the rank of Brigadier General, in the reserves since 2024. He served as the commander of 98th Paratroopers Division, the military secretary to the Israeli Minister of Defense, the Chief of Staff of the Central Command, the commander of the Givati Brigade, the commander of the Northern Brigade in the Gaza Strip, the commander of the 646 Brigade, the commander of the Duvdevan Unit, and the commander of the Givati Reconnaissance Battalion.
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Tali Gottleib
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- lawyerpolitician
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Revital "Tally" Gotliv is an Israeli lawyer and politician. She is currently a member of the Knesset for the Likud.
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Ami Ayalon
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- politicianmilitary officer
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Amichai "Ami" Ayalon is an Israeli politician and a former member of the Knesset for the Labor Party. He was previously head of the Shin Bet, Israel's secret service, and commander-in-chief of the Navy. He came in second to Ehud Barak in a Labor party leadership election in June 2007, and was appointed a Minister without Portfolio in September 2007. He is one of the recipients of Israel's highest decoration, the Medal of Valor.
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Michael Ben-Ari
- Enrolled in Bar-Ilan University
- Graduated with master's degree
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- opinion journalistpoliticianteacherarchaeologisthistorian
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Michael Ben-Ari is an Israeli politician, and former member of the Knesset. During the 18th Knesset, Ben Ari was a member of the National Union party, until it broke up as elections for the 19th Knesset approached and he co-established the Otzma LeYisrael party. He failed to be re-elected to the 19th Knesset. He was banned by the courts from running in the 2019 election. He was the first outspoken disciple of Rabbi Meir Kahane to have been elected to the Knesset. He has a Ph.D in Land of Israel and Archaeology studies.
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Avishai Raviv
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- spy
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Avishai Raviv is a former agent of Israel's Shin Bet (Shabak), Israel's domestic intelligence service, whose mission was to monitor the activities of right-wing extremists. His code name was 'Champagne' (Hebrew: שמפניה, romanized: Shampaniyah).
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Moshe Klughaft
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- business consultantmanagement consultantsongwriter
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Moshe Klughaft is an Israeli campaign manager, strategic advisor, songwriter and filmmaker. He has managed campaigns for global leaders and was named by the Jerusalem Post as one of the 50 most influential Jews in the world.
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Roi Levy
- Enrolled in Bar-Ilan University
- Graduated with Master of Laws
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- military officer
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Roi Yosef Levy was an officer in the Israel Defense Forces (IDF) with the rank of colonel who served in his last position as commander of the Multidimensional Unit. He had previously served as commander of the Fire Training Center in Melah, commander of the Bar'am Brigade, commander of the Unit 621 - 'Egoz', commander of the Hadar Battalion and commander of the 1st 'Golani' Brigade. He was killed in the battle of Re'im during an encounter with Palestinian militants during the Israel–Hamas war.
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Eitan Ben Eliyahu
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- air force officer
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Aluf Eitan Ben Eliyahu is a retired major general in the Israel Defense Forces and was commander of the Israeli Air Force (IAF).
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Omer Yankelevich
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- lawyerpolitician
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Omer Yankelevich is an Israeli attorney, educator, social activist, and politician. She was the Minister of Diaspora Affairs and was a Member of the Knesset for the Blue and White from 2019 to 2021. She is a co-founder of the "Just Begun Foundation", which sponsors social initiatives to help integrate peripheral and marginalized populations in Israel, with an emphasis on the Haredi sector. In 2019, she joined the Israel Resilience Party, which is part of the Blue and White political alliance, and was placed #23 on the faction's list for the April 2019 Knesset election. The Blue and White alliance gained 35 seats in the election, resulting in Yankelevich becoming a Member of the Knesset. She was subsequently elected to the Knesset as part of the Blue and White alliance in the September 2019 and March 2020 elections. In the national unity government which comprised the thirty-fifth government of Israel, Yankelevich was named Minister of Diaspora Affairs, becoming the first-ever Haredi woman cabinet minister.
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Elazar Stern
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Elazar Stern is an Israeli politician and military general. He was a major general (res.) in the Israel Defense Forces, serving as Head of the Manpower Directorate, commander of the IDF Officers Training School, and Chief Education Officer, as well as a combat soldier and commander in the Paratroopers Brigade. He has served as a Member of Knesset for eight years, first, as a member of the Hatnuah party, and then in 2015 he joined the Yesh Atid, and served as the Minister of Intelligence between 2021 and 2022.
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Raviv Drucker
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- 1970-.. (age 55)
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- writerjournalistopinion journalist
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Raviv Drucker is an Israeli journalist, political commentator and investigative reporter.
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Boaz Bismuth
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- opinion journalistnewspaper editorjournalistdiplomat
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Boaz Bismuth is a member of the Israeli Knesset, a journalist and columnist who served as editor-in-chief of Israel Hayom between April 2017 and January 2022, and Israeli Ambassador to Mauritania between 2004 and 2008.
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Zahava Gal-On
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- politician
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Zehava Galon, is an Israeli politician, the president of the research institute ZULAT for Equality and Human Rights and former leader of Meretz.
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Israel Ziv
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- military officer
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Israel Ziv is an Israeli retired general who held several prominent posts including the head of the Israel Defense Force's Operations Directorate. During the 2023 Israel–Hamas war, Ziv emerged as a symbol of individual resistance and initiative, engaging directly in conflict zones, organizing military efforts, and spearheading civilian defense initiatives amidst a Hamas incursion.
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Edy Cohen
- Enrolled in Bar-Ilan University
- 1996-2014 graduated with Doctor of Philosophy
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- journalistorientalist
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Edy Cohen is an Israeli of Lebanese origin, researcher, journalist and specialist in the Arab–Israeli conflict. He is a commentator on Arab social media.
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Yaron Zelicha
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- economist
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Yaron Zelekha is an Israeli economist and political figure who heads the New Economic Party.
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Yuval Diskin
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Yuval Diskin is a former director of the Israeli internal security service Shin Bet, serving as its 13th director from 2005 to 2011. He was appointed by Prime Minister Ariel Sharon, and later served under subsequent Prime Ministers Ehud Olmert and Benjamin Netanyahu.
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Nachman Shai
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- politicianspokespersonjournalistmilitary officer
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Nachman Shai is an Israeli journalist and politician who served as Israel's Minister of Diaspora Affairs. He previously served as a member of the Knesset and its Deputy Speaker, as well as the IDF spokesman. In April 2024 he was appointed Dean of the Hebrew Union College-Jewish Institute of Religion Taube Family Campus in Jerusalem.
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Udi Adam
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- military personnelmilitary officer
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Aluf Ehud "Udi" Adam is a former general in the Israel Defense Forces and the former head of the Israeli Northern Command.
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Giora Eiland
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- managerchief executive officermilitary officer
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Giora Eiland is a retired Major General of the Israel Defense Forces and a former head of the Israeli National Security Council. After his retirement from the public sector, he was a senior research associate at the Institute for National Security Studies (INSS).
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Dani Dayan
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- businesspersonpoliticiandiplomat
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Dani Dayan is an Argentine-born Israeli public figure and entrepreneur. He is chairman of Yad Vashem.
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Yaniv Asor
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- military officer
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Yaniv Asor is a member of Israel Defense Forces with the rank of Aluf, serving as Head of the IDF Personnel Directorate. Previously he served as head of the Operations Branch in the Operations Directorate, commander of the Bashan Division, commander of the Golani Brigade, deputy commander of the Ga'ash Formation, and commander of the Hirum Formation.
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Norman Lebrecht
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- journalistmusic criticradio personalitywriternovelist
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Norman Lebrecht is a British music journalist and author who specializes in classical music. He is best known as the owner of the classical music blog Slipped Disc, in which he frequently publishes articles. Unlike other writers on music, Lebrecht rarely reviews concerts or recordings, preferring to report on the people and organizations who engage in classical music. Described by Gilbert Kaplan as "surely the most controversial and arguably the most influential journalist covering classical music", his writings have been praised as entertaining and revealing, while others have accused them of sensationalism and criticized their inaccuracies.
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Meir Sheetrit
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- politician
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Meir Sheetrit is an Israeli politician. He served as a member of the Knesset in two spells for Likud between 1981 and 1988, and again from 1992 until 2005, when he joined Kadima. He remained a Knesset member for Kadima until joining Hatnuah in 2012, for whom he served until 2015. He also held several ministerial posts, including being Minister of the Interior, Minister of Housing & Construction, Minister of Finance, Minister of Justice, Minister of Transportation and Minister of Education, Culture & Sport. He was also a candidate for President of Israel in 2014.
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Daniella Weiss
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- politician
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Daniella Weiss is a far-right Israeli Orthodox Zionist, founder of Nachala, an Israeli settler organization, and a former mayor of Kedumim, an Israeli settlement located in the West Bank. She was first elected mayor of Kedumim in September 1996, and was re-elected for a second term in November 2001 through 2007. Weiss' organization, Nachala, has been involved in at least one killing. She was sanctioned by Canada in June 2024 for violence against civilians in the West Bank.
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Yoav Mordechai
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- military officer
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Yoav "Poli" Mordechai is a retired major general in the Israel Defense Forces.
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Michal Shir
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- politician
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Michal Shir Segman is an Israeli politician. She is currently a member of the Knesset for Yesh Atid, having previously served as an MK for New Hope from 2021 to 2022 and for Likud between 2019 and 2020.
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Shai Piron
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- pedagoguepoliticianeducatorrabbi
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Shai Moshe Piron is an Israeli Orthodox rabbi, educator, and politician. A religious Zionist, he served as a member of the Knesset for Yesh Atid between 2013 and 2015, and as Minister of Education between 2013 and 2014.
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Meir Ben Shabbat
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- consultant
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Meir Ben-Shabbat was Israel's National Security Adviser and Chief of Staff for National Security. He was former head of the Southern Region in the General Security Service. In July 2021, Ben Shabbat announced that he would step down from the National Security Adviser post by late August.
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G. Yafit
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- advertising person
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Yafit Greenberg, commonly known as G. Yafit (Hebrew: ג. יפית, Gimmel Yafit), was an Israeli businesswoman specialising in advertising.
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Moshe Kaplinsky
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- military officer
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Maj. Gen. Moshe Kaplinsky is an Israeli army general and businessman who was CEO of the Israeli subsidiary of Better Place. Most recently, he was Deputy Chief of the General Staff of the Israel Defense Forces. He was previously head of the Israel Defense Forces's Central Command, whose area of responsibility includes the West Bank. As Deputy Chief of the General Staff he was second in command of the Israel Defense Forces.
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Binyamin Lau
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- rabbi
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Binyamin Tzvi Lau, (born October 20, 1961, Tel Aviv) is an Israeli rabbi, community leader, activist, author, and public speaker who lives in Jerusalem. He is the head of 929: Tanach B'yachad and headed the Kehillat Ramban synagogue in Jerusalem for 18 years. He is also the head of the "Human Rights and Judaism in Action Project" at the Israel Democracy Institute. Previously, he was the director of a number of programs at Beit Morasha in Jerusalem, including their Center for Judaism and Society, their Institute for Social Justice, and their Israel Institute for Conversion Policy. He is also a well-known writer, and makes frequent appearances in the media.
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Miriam Feirberg
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- social workerpolitician
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Miriam Feirberg-Ikar is an Israeli politician currently serving as the mayor of Netanya, a city in the Central District of Israel. Feirberg is the first (elected) female mayor in Netanya and one of the few women who have served as mayors of Israeli cities.
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Faina Kirschenbaum
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- nursepolitician
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Faina Kirschenbaum is an Israeli politician who served as a member of the Knesset for Yisrael Beiteinu between 2009 and 2015. In July 2021 she was sentenced to ten years in prison following a conviction for bribery.
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Hamad Amar
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- politicianadvocatelawyer
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Hamad Amar is an Israeli Druze politician who currently serves as a member of Knesset for Yisrael Beiteinu since 2022, previously serving from 2009 to 2019 and again from 2019 to 2021. Amar also served as a Minister in the Finance Ministry from 2021 to 2022.
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Giora Romm
- Enrolled in Bar-Ilan University
- Graduated with Bachelor of Arts in economics and political science
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- aircraft pilotmilitary officer
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Giora Romm was an Israeli military officer who served as deputy commander of the Israeli Air Force (IAF), Israel's military attaché in the United States and as director of the Civil Aviation Authority of Israel. Romm was the IAF's first jet ace, scoring five kills during the 1967 Six-Day War. In 1969, during the War of Attrition, Romm was shot down and spent several months in Egyptian captivity. He commanded the IAF's 115 Squadron through the intensive fighting of the 1973 Yom Kippur War and participated in Operation Wooden Leg, the 1985 raid against PLO headquarters in Tunisia.
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Anastassia Michaeli
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- engineerpoliticiantelevision presentermodeljournalist
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Anastassia Yehudith Michaeli is an Israeli journalist, television presenter, and politician. She served as a member of Knesset for Yisrael Beiteinu between 2009 and 2013. During her Knesset term she received media attention for attempting to physically disturb an Arab representative's speech and for comments she made on the psychology of gays and lesbians. While in the Knesset she was active in the international arena as chairperson of several parliamentary friendship leagues (with the legislatures of Estonia, Austria and Switzerland) and represented the Knesset in official delegations to the European Union, France, Great Britain and Taiwan.
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Revital Swid
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- politicianadvocatelawyer
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Revital Swid is an Israeli criminal defense lawyer and politician. She served as a member of Knesset for the Zionist Union and serves as a member of the Labor Party.
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Gadeer Mreeh
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- ambassador
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Gadeer Kamal-Mreeh is an Israeli Druze politician and journalist. She became the first Druze woman to anchor a Hebrew-language news program on Israeli television in 2017. In April 2019, she was elected to the Knesset as a member of the Blue and White alliance, making history as the first Druze woman to become a Member of the Knesset. She was subsequently elected to the Knesset as part of the Blue and White alliance in the September 2019 and March 2020 elections. She left Blue and White on 29 March 2020 and joined Yesh Atid. In June 2021, Kamal-Mreeh became the Jewish Agency's first Druze emissary to the US, based in Washington DC.
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Anat Berko
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- politicianscientist
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Anat Berko is an Israeli criminologist and politician. An expert in the fields of counter-terrorism, she served as a member of the Knesset for Likud between 2015 and 2019.
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Haim Bibas
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- politician
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Haim Bibas is the third mayor of Modi'in-Maccabim-Re'ut, an Israeli city, in office since 2008. Bibas has lived there with his wife and three children since 1997. He is the head of The Federation of Local Authorities in Israel since 2014.
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Cathy Sheetrit
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- politician
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Katrin "Keti" Shitrit-Peretz is an Israeli politician currently serving as a member of the Knesset for Likud. She previously held the role from 2019 to 2022.
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Nir Orbach
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- Knesset memberpolitician
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Nir Orbach is an Israeli politician. He was a member of the Knesset for the Yamina party from 2021 to 2022.
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Pinchas Lapide
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- theologianuniversity teacherhistoriandiplomatphilosopher
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Pinchas Lapide was a Jewish theologian and Israeli historian. He was an Israeli diplomat from 1951 to 1969, acting as Israeli Consul to Milan, and was instrumental in gaining recognition for the young state of Israel. He wrote more than 35 books during his lifetime. Lapide was married to Ruth Lapide, with whom he shared his interests and endeavors.
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Michal Rozin
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- politicianactivist
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Michal Rozin is an Israeli politician who served as a member of the Knesset for Meretz from 2013 to 2019 and then again from 2021 until 2022.
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Itzhak Ilan
- Enrolled in Bar-Ilan University
- Graduated with bachelor's degree in social science
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- military officer
- Biography
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Itzhak Ilan or Yitzhak Ilan, served in the Israel Security Agency (a.k.a. ISA, Shin-Bet, Shabak) during the years 1982–2012, and served during his last position as the Deputy Director of the ISA during the years 2010–2011.
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Ruth Wasserman Lande
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- Knesset member
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Ruth Wasserman Lande is an Israeli politician, diplomat and activist. She was a member of the Knesset for the Blue and White party from 2021 until 2022 and also was an MK for the party in two short spells in early 2021.
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Nitsana Darshan-Leitner
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- activistadvocatehuman rights activistlawyer
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Nitsana Darshan-Leitner is an Israeli attorney, human rights activist, and the founder of Shurat HaDin – Israeli Law Center. As the president of the Shurat HaDin, she has represented hundreds of terror victims in legal actions against terror organizations and their supporters. Darshan-Leitner initiated a legal campaign to deprive terrorists of social media resources such as Facebook and Twitter. Darshan-Leitner assisted in blocking the Gaza Freedom Flotilla.
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Michelle Waldiger
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- politicianactivistlawyer
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Michal Miriam Waldiger is an Israeli lawyer and politician. She is currently a member of the Knesset for the National Religious Party–Religious Zionism.
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Aharon Abuhatzira
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- politicianpedagogue
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Aharon Abuhatzira was an Israeli politician. After serving as mayor of Ramla, he held several ministerial portfolios in the late 1970s and early 1980s. He resigned from the cabinet after being convicted of larceny, breach of trust and fraud.
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Zevulun Hammer
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- politician
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Zevulun Hammer was an Israeli politician, minister and Deputy Prime Minister.
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Yehuda Weinstein
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- boxeradvocatelawyer
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Yehuda Weinstein is an Israeli lawyer and former Attorney General of Israel, having replaced the previous attorney general, Menachem Mazuz, on 1 February 2010.
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Moshe Karadi
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- police officer
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Moshe Karadi is a former Israeli police officer and general commissioner of the Israel Police between 2004 and May 1, 2007.
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Aliza Lavie
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- writerpoliticianpedagogue
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Aliza Lavie is an Israeli public figure, author, and social entrepreneur. She served as a member of the Knesset for Yesh Atid between 2013 and 2019, and is currently a senior lecturer at the School of Communication at Bar-Ilan University and chairperson of the Israel Film Council. Her work focuses on gender issues and multiculturalism in Judaism and Israeli society.
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Yossi Dagan
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- politiciancommunity organizer
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Yossi Dagan is an Israeli activist and politician who has been the head of the Shomron Regional Council since August 2015.
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Herzl Bodinger
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- air force officer
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Aluf Herzl Bodinger (Hebrew: הרצל בודינגר; born 1943) is a retired general in the Israel Defense Forces, he served as the former Commander in Chief of the Israeli Air Force and currently serves as a member of the International Board of Governors for Ariel University.
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Aliza Bloch
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- teacherpolitician
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Geulah Aliza Bloch is an Israeli teacher and politician. In 2018, she became the first female mayor of Beit Shemesh, and in 2019 she was named by The Jerusalem Post as one of the world's 50 most influential Jews.
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Nira Shpak
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Nira Shpak is an Israeli soldier, civil servant and politician. She was a member of the Knesset for Yesh Atid from 2021 to 2022.
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Zvi Bar
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- politicianpolice officermilitary officer
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Zvi Bar is a retired Israeli military officer, police official, and politician. After serving in a variety of military and police command positions, Bar served as the fourth mayor of the Israeli city of Ramat Gan between 1989 and 2013.
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Yuval Dor
- Enrolled in Bar-Ilan University
- Graduated with psychology
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- dub actorcomposerpoetsinger
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Yuval Dor is an Israeli singer-songwriter, composer and voice actor.
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Assaf Hefetz
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- military officer
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Assaf Hefetz was commissioner of the Israeli Police.
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Moshe Vardi
- Enrolled in Bar-Ilan University
- In 1974 graduated with Bachelor of Science in physics and computer science
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- university teachermathematiciancomputer scientistengineer
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Moshe Ya'akov Vardi MAE ForMemRS is an Israeli theoretical computer scientist. He is the Karen Ostrum George Distinguished Service Professor in Computational Engineering at Rice University, United States. and a faculty advisor for the Ken Kennedy Institute. His interests focus on applications of logic to computer science, including database theory, finite model theory, knowledge of multi-agent systems, computer-aided verification and reasoning, and teaching logic across the curriculum. He is an expert in model checking, constraint satisfaction and database theory, common knowledge (logic), and theoretical computer science.
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Ziv Cojocaru
- Enrolled in Bar-Ilan University
- In 2018 graduated with doctorate
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- composermusic arrangerconductor
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Ziv "Kojo" Cojocaru is an Israeli composer, conductor and arranger who serves as Head of Composition, Conducting and Music Theory Department at the Jerusalem Academy of Music and Dance and as Conductor in Residence of the Israel Sinfonietta Orchestra.
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Pinchas Polonsky
- Enrolled in Bar-Ilan University
- Studied in 1995-1999
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- sociologistJudaic scholaruniversity teachertheologianphilosopher
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Pinchas Polonsky is a rabbi, Russian-Israeli Jewish-religious philosopher, researcher, and educator active among the Russian-speaking Jewish community. He has written original books and a number of translations of works on Judaism.
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Natan Slifkin
- Enrolled in Bar-Ilan University
- Graduated with Doctor of Philosophy
- Occupations
- rabbi
- Biography
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Natan Slifkin, popularly known as the "Zoo Rabbi," is a British-born Israeli Modern Orthodox community rabbi and the director of the Biblical Museum of Natural History in Beit Shemesh, Israel. Slifkin is best known for his interests in zoology, Judaism's relationship to evolution, Jewish and biblical history, and his writing on these topics.
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Nurit Koren
- Enrolled in Bar-Ilan University
- Graduated with Master of Laws
- Occupations
- lawyerpolitician
- Biography
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Nurit Koren is an Israeli lawyer and politician. She served as a member of the Knesset for Likud between 2015 and 2019.
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Alexander Lubotzky
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- pedagogueuniversity teacherpoliticianmathematicianresearcher
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Alexander Lubotzky is an Israeli mathematician and former politician who is currently a professor at the Weizmann Institute of Science and an adjunct professor at Yale University. He served as a member of the Knesset for The Third Way party between 1996 and 1999. In 2018 he won the Israel Prize for his accomplishments in mathematics and computer science.
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Eli Geva
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- military officer
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Eli Geva is an Israeli brigade commander, who during the Siege of Beirut (in the early stage of the 1982 Lebanon War), refused to lead his forces into the city for moral reasons which he termed "endangerment of both soldiers and civilians in urban warfare". The Israeli Chief of Staff, Rafael Eitan, and Prime Minister Menachem Begin attempted to negotiate with Geva, but he insisted and was consequently dismissed from the Israel Defense Forces. At the time, Geva was the youngest Colonel in the IDF.
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Robert Ilatov
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- politician
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Robert Ilatov is an Israeli politician and member of the Knesset for Yisrael Beiteinu.
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Edna Arbel
- Enrolled in Bar-Ilan University
- Studied in 1975-1979
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- judge
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Edna Arbel is an Israeli lawyer who was a justice on the Supreme Court of Israel from May 2004 to June 2014. She is a native of Jerusalem.
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Ruhama Abraham
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- politician
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Ruhama Avraham Balila is an Israeli politician who served as a member of the Knesset for Likud and Kadima between 2003 and 2013. She also held the positions of Deputy minister of interior Minister of Tourism and Minister without Portfolio responsible for liaison with the Knesset and was in charge of the Israel's 60th Independence Day celebrations.
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Alex Goldfarb
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- businesspersonpolitician
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Alex Goldfarb is a former Israeli politician.
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Nissan Slomiansky
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- physicistpolitician
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Nissan Slomiansky is an Israeli politician. He served as a member of the Knesset for the National Religious Party between 1996 and 1999, and again from 2003-2009, and was re-elected again in 2013. He is a member of the Jewish Home party.
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Yaakov Katz
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- opinion journalistediting staffuniversity teachernewspaper editorjournalist
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Yaakov Katz is an American-born Israeli journalist and author who served as the Editor-in-Chief of The Jerusalem Post.
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Evgeny Sova
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- politicianjournalisttelevision presenter
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Evgeny Sova is an Israeli journalist, television presenter and politician who currently serves as a member of the Knesset for Yisrael Beiteinu.
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Lizzie Doron
- Enrolled in Bar-Ilan University
- Graduated with bachelor's degree in sociology and criminology
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- writeroccupational therapist
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Lizzie Doron is an Israeli author.
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Amnon Cohen
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- politician
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Amnon Cohen is an Israeli former politician. He served as a member of the Knesset for Shas from 1999 until 2015.
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Ibrahim Sarsur
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- politician
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Sheikh Ibrahim Sarsur is an Israeli Arab politician. A former leader of the United Arab List, he represented the party in the Knesset from 2006 to 2015.
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Gad Barzilai
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- political scientistactivistlegal scholarlawyer
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Gad Barzilai was an Israeli professor of law, political science and international studies, famous for his work on the politics of law, comparative law and politics, human rights, and communities. Barzilai published 18 books and 173 articles in major academic refereed journals and publishing houses. He had been a full professor of law, societies and justice, and international studies at the University of Washington and the University of Haifa Faculty of Law. Gad Barzilai had served as the dean of the Faculty of Law at University of Haifa (2012–2017) and was the vice provost of University of Haifa from 2016 until 2019.
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Etty Atia
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- politician
- Biography
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Eti Hava Atiya is an Israeli politician currently serving as a member of the Knesset for Likud.
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Aharon Razel
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- singermusician
- Biography
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Aharon Razel is an Israeli musician. His music explores topics such as the Torah, Orthodox Judaism and living in Israel.
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Naomi Blumenthal
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- stage actorpoliticianactor
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Naomi Blumenthal is a former Israeli politician. First elected to the Knesset in 1992, her political career was ended by a conviction for corruption in 2006.
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Assaf Inbari
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- writerlectureressayist
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Assaf Inbari is an Israeli novelist and journalist. He is the Asper Chair in Zionist Studies at Shalem College in Jerusalem and teaches at Kinneret College and Alma College (Tel Aviv).
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Shlomo Molla
- Enrolled in Bar-Ilan University
- In 1991 graduated with Bachelor of Arts in social work
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- politician
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Shlomo Molla is an Israeli politician who served as a member of the Knesset for Kadima and Hatnuah between 2008 and 2013. He became Israel's second MK of Ethiopian origin. He later joined the Meretz party.
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Tsega Melaku
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- journalistpolitician
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Tsega Melaku is an Israeli author, journalist, community activist and politician currently serving as a member of the Knesset for Likud. She is the former director of Kol Yisrael's Reshet Aleph ("Network A") radio station. Melaku was disqualified from running in Israel's 2015 election with the Kulanu party for failing to complete her cooling-off period from government service, where it was believed she could become a Member of the Knesset. She then became an MK in 2023 after running with Likud in the previous year's election.
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Sarah Blau
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- writerjournalistopinion journalist
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Sarah Blau is an Israeli author and playwright. She won the Levi Eshkol's Prize for Hebrew Literature in 2015 and the 2017 Bar-Ilan University Alumni Achievement Award.
