77 Notable alumni of
Ben-Gurion University of the Negev

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The Ben-Gurion University of the Negev is 791st in the world, 157th in Asia, and 6th in Israel by aggregated alumni prominence. Below is the list of 77 notable alumni from the Ben-Gurion University of the Negev sorted by their wiki pages popularity. The directory includes famous graduates and former students along with research and academic staff.

  1. Mordechai Vanunu

    Mordechai Vanunu
    Born in
    Morocco Flag Morocco
    Years
    1954-.. (age 71)
    Occupations
    whistleblowertechnicianactivist
    Biography

    Mordechai Vanunu, also known as John Crossman, is an Israeli former nuclear technician and peace activist who, citing his opposition to weapons of mass destruction, revealed details of Israel's nuclear weapons program to the British press in 1986. He was subsequently lured to Italy by the Israeli intelligence agency Mossad, where he was drugged and abducted. He was secretly transported to Israel and ultimately convicted in a trial that was held behind closed doors.

  2. Dany Cushmaro

    Dany Cushmaro
    Born in
    Israel Flag Israel
    Years
    1968-.. (age 57)
    Occupations
    broadcasterjournalisttelevision presenter
    Biography

    Danny Kushmaro is an Israeli journalist, news anchor, and television host.

  3. Tamar Zandberg

    Tamar Zandberg
    Born in
    Israel Flag Israel
    Years
    1976-.. (age 49)
    Occupations
    politicianactivisteducatorhuman rights activist
    Biography

    Tamar Zandberg is an Israeli politician who served as Minister of Environmental Protection from 2021 to 2022, as a member of the Knesset for Meretz from 2013 to 2021, and as the party's leader between 2018 and 2019.

  4. Miriam Peretz

    Miriam Peretz
    Born in
    Morocco Flag Morocco
    Years
    1954-.. (age 71)
    Enrolled in the Ben-Gurion University of the Negev
    Graduated with Bachelor of Arts in literature and history
    Occupations
    educatorschool superintendent
    Biography

    Miriam Peretz is an Israeli educator and public speaker. After the deaths of two of her sons during their service in the Israel Defense Forces, Peretz became a lecturer on Zionism and living with loss. She was the recipient of the Israel Prize in 2018, for lifetime achievement.

  5. Gila Gamliel

    Gila Gamliel
    Born in
    Israel Flag Israel
    Years
    1974-.. (age 51)
    Occupations
    trade unionistpolitician
    Biography

    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.

  6. Avi Issacharoff

    Avi Issacharoff
    Born in
    Israel Flag Israel
    Years
    1973-.. (age 52)
    Occupations
    screenwriterwriterdocumentarianjournalist
    Biography

    Avi Issacharoff is an Israeli journalist, known for his focus on Palestinian affairs. He is a Middle East commentator for The Times of Israel and its sister news outlet Walla!, and the Palestinian and Arab Affairs Correspondent for Haaretz. Issacharoff is known as one of the creators of the TV-series Fauda.

  7. Shlomo Karhi

    Shlomo Karhi
    Born in
    Israel Flag Israel
    Years
    1982-.. (age 43)
    Enrolled in the Ben-Gurion University of the Negev
    2011-2013 graduated with Doctor of Philosophy
    Occupations
    university teacherpolitician
    Biography

    Shlomo Karhi is an Israeli academic and politician. He is currently a member of the Knesset for Likud and serving as the Minister of Communications in the thirty-seventh government.

  8. Orna Barbivai

    Orna Barbivai
    Born in
    Israel Flag Israel
    Years
    1962-.. (age 63)
    Occupations
    Knesset member
    Biography

    Orna Barbivai is the former Minister of Economy, a retired major general in the Israel Defense Forces, and the former head of its Manpower Directorate. She was the first woman to be made Major-general (Aluf), the IDF's second highest rank. On 1 January 2019, she announced that she would enter politics and seek a Knesset seat on the list of Yesh Atid, which she won as part of the Blue and White slate. Her place in the Knesset was taken by Yasmin Fridman.

  9. Shelly Yachimovich

    Shelly Yachimovich
    Born in
    Israel Flag Israel
    Years
    1960-.. (age 65)
    Occupations
    politicianwriterreporterjournalist
    Biography

    Shelly Rachel Yachimovich is an Israeli politician, who served three terms as the official Leader of the Opposition, a member of the Knesset, and a member of the Foreign Affairs and Defense Committee. She served as leader of the Israeli Labor Party between 2011 and 2013. Before entering politics, she was a journalist, an author, and a television and radio commentator.

  10. Amos Yadlin

    Amos Yadlin
    Born in
    Israel Flag Israel
    Years
    1951-.. (age 74)
    Occupations
    politicianmilitary officer
    Biography

    Aluf Amos Yadlin (Hebrew: עמוס ידלין; born 20 November 1951) is a former general in the Israeli Air Force (IAF), Israel Defense Forces military attaché to Washington, D.C., and head of the IDF Military Intelligence Directorate (Aman).

  11. Silvan Shalom

    Silvan Shalom
    Born in
    Tunisia Flag Tunisia
    Years
    1958-.. (age 67)
    Occupations
    politiciandiplomateconomist
    Biography

    Zion Silvan Shalom is an Israeli politician who served as a member of the Knesset for Likud between 1992 and 2015. He held several prominent ministerial positions, including Vice Prime Minister and Minister of the Interior. He resigned on 24 December 2015 following allegations of sexual harassment. Later on, the Attorney-General closed this investigation and said these claims were unsubstantiated.

  12. Barak Hiram

    Barak Hiram
    Born in
    Israel Flag Israel
    Years
    1979-.. (age 46)
    Occupations
    military officer
    Biography

    Barak Hiram is an IDF officer with the rank of Brigadier general, currently serving as the commander of the 99th Infantry Division. Previously, he served as the commander of the Golani Brigade, the commander of the live-fire training center in the IDF, the commander of the Golani Brigade, the commander of Golani's training base, and the commander of Battalion 51.

  13. Ruvik Danilovich

    Ruvik Danilovich
    Born in
    Israel Flag Israel
    Years
    1971-.. (age 54)
    Occupations
    mayor
    Biography

    Reuven "Ruvik" Danilovich is an Israeli politician. In 2008, he was elected mayor of Beersheba, after serving as deputy mayor under Yaakov Turner.

  14. Meir Cohen

    Meir Cohen
    Born in
    Morocco Flag Morocco
    Years
    1955-.. (age 70)
    Occupations
    politician
    Biography

    Meir Cohen is an Israeli politician. A former mayor of Dimona, and former Minister of Welfare and Social Affairs. Cohen is currently a member of the Knesset for Yesh Atid. He previously held the position from 2013–2014.

  15. Yaniv Asor

    Yaniv Asor
    Born in
    Israel Flag Israel
    Years
    1972-.. (age 53)
    Occupations
    military officer
    Biography

    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.

  16. Eliezer Shkedi

    Eliezer Shkedi
    Born in
    Israel Flag Israel
    Years
    1957-.. (age 68)
    Occupations
    air force officer
    Biography

    Aluf Eliezer Shkedy is a retired general in the Israel Defense Forces, who served as commander of the Israeli Air Force from 4 April 2004 until 13 May 2008. He is also a former CEO of El Al, the flag carrier of Israel.

  17. Yaakov Turner

    Yaakov Turner
    Born in
    Israel Flag Israel
    Years
    1935-2024 (aged 89)
    Enrolled in the Ben-Gurion University of the Negev
    Studied behavioral sciences
    Occupations
    military personnelpolitician
    Biography

    Yaakov Turner was an Israeli general and politician who served as the mayor of Beersheba. Prior to his election as mayor, he was an Israel Air Force pilot and the country's Chief of Police. Turner was the founder and head of the Israeli Air Force Museum.

  18. Dror Mishani

    Dror Mishani
    Born in
    Israel Flag Israel
    Years
    1975-.. (age 50)
    Occupations
    translatorwriterman of letterseditoruniversity teacher
    Biography

    Dror Mishani is an Israeli crime writer, translator and literary scholar, specializing in the history of detective fiction.

  19. Michael Biton

    Michael Biton
    Born in
    Israel Flag Israel
    Years
    1970-.. (age 55)
    Occupations
    activist
    Biography

    Michael Mordecai Biton is an Israeli politician. He formerly served as Minister of Strategic Affairs and as minister for civic issues within the Ministry of Defense. He was previously mayor of Yeruham between 2010 and 2018.

  20. Gonen Ben Itzhak

    Gonen Ben Itzhak
    Years
    1971-.. (age 54)
    Occupations
    intelligence officeractivistlawyer
    Biography

    Gonen Ben Itzhak is an Israeli lawyer, former Shin Bet coordinator, and social activist. He is one of the former handlers of undercover informant Mosab Hassan Yousef ("The Green Prince"). He is one of the leading figures in the protests against Benjamin Netanyahu, and is among the founders of the anti-Netanyahu protest movement "Crime Minister".

  21. Alon Schuster

    Alon Schuster
    Born in
    Israel Flag Israel
    Years
    1957-.. (age 68)
    Occupations
    politician
    Biography

    Alon Natan Schuster is an Israeli politician currently serving as a member of the Knesset for the National Unity Party. He was mayor of Sha'ar HaNegev Regional Council between 2002 and 2018, the Minister of Agriculture from 2020 to 2021 and the Deputy Minister of Defense from 2021 to 2022.

  22. Haim Jelin

    Haim Jelin
    Born in
    Argentina Flag Argentina
    Years
    1958-.. (age 67)
    Occupations
    politician
    Biography

    Haim Jelin is an Israeli politician. He served as a member of the Knesset for Yesh Atid from 2015 to 2019, having previously been head of Eshkol Regional Council from 2007 to 2015.

  23. Shuli Mualem

    Shuli Mualem
    Born in
    Israel Flag Israel
    Years
    1965-.. (age 60)
    Occupations
    politicianpedagoguenurse
    Biography

    Shulamit "Shuli" Mualem-Rafaeli is an Israeli nurse and politician. She served as a member of the Knesset for the Jewish Home between February 2013 and March 2015, and again from October 2015 until December 2018, when she joined the New Right.

  24. Hossam Haick

    Hossam Haick
    Born in
    Israel Flag Israel
    Years
    1975-.. (age 50)
    Occupations
    chemical engineerchemist
    Biography

    Hossam Haick is an Arab-Israeli scientist and engineer, and the current dean of undergraduate studies at the Israel Institute of Technology. He is a pioneer known for inventing the Nano Artificial Nose (NA-NOSE) for detection of disease from exhaled breath, by which he was highlighted as MIT's Innovators under 35; and which is widely used for sniffing out diseases' biomarkers in labs and industries. He has many contributions in multidisciplinary fields such as Nanotechnology, Nanosensors,, Volatile Biomarkers, and Molecular Electronics.

  25. Yehiel Lasri

    Yehiel Lasri
    Born in
    Morocco Flag Morocco
    Years
    1957-.. (age 68)
    Occupations
    politicianphysician
    Biography

    Yechiel Lasri is an Israeli physician and politician who serves as mayor of Ashdod. He previously served as a member of the Knesset for the Center Party, Lev and Likud.

  26. Karim Younis

    Karim Younis
    Born in
    Israel Flag Israel
    Years
    1956-.. (age 69)
    Occupations
    politician
    Biography

    Karim Youssef Fadl Younis is a Palestinian citizen of Israel who served 40 years in Israeli prison after being convicted in 1983 of the 1980 kidnapping and murder of Israeli soldier Avraham Bromberg. After serving his sentence, he was released in 2023. Younis was the longest-serving Palestinian in Israeli prison.

  27. Yoav Gelber

    Yoav Gelber
    Years
    1943-.. (age 82)
    Occupations
    university teacherhistorianmilitary historian
    Biography

    Yoav Gelber is a professor of history at the University of Haifa, and was formerly a visiting professor at the University of Texas at Austin.

  28. Sharon Nir

    Sharon Nir
    Born in
    Israel Flag Israel
    Years
    1970-.. (age 55)
    Occupations
    military officer
    Biography

    Sharon Nir is an Israeli politician who currently serves as a member of the Knesset for Yisrael Beiteinu following the 2022 Israeli legislative election.

  29. Agi Mishol

    Agi Mishol
    Born in
    Romania Flag Romania
    Years
    1946-.. (age 79)
    Occupations
    poetwriter
    Biography

    Agi Mishol is an Israeli poet. Mishol's work has been published in several languages, and has won various awards including the Zbigniew Herbert International Literary Award, the Horst Bienek Prize for Poetry and the Yehuda Amichai prize for literature.

  30. Chen Kugel

    Chen Kugel
    Years
    1962-.. (age 63)
    Enrolled in the Ben-Gurion University of the Negev
    In 1987 graduated with Doctor of Medicine in medicine
    Occupations
    military physicianphysician
    Biography

    Chen Kugel is an Israeli forensic pathologist, and chief pathologist of the Abu Kabir Forensic Institute.

  31. Yael Cohen Paran

    Yael Cohen Paran
    Years
    1973-.. (age 52)
    Occupations
    chief executive officerpolitician
    Biography

    Yael Cohen Paran is an Israeli environmentalist and politician, and co-chair of the Green Movement. She was a member of the Knesset for the Zionist Union and Hatnua from 2015 to 2019.

  32. Gabi Siboni

    Gabi Siboni
    Born in
    Israel Flag Israel
    Years
    1957-.. (age 68)
    Occupations
    academicmilitary officer
    Biography

    Gabriel "Gabi" Siboni is a colonel in the Israel Defense Forces Reserve service, and a senior research fellow and the director of the Military and Strategic Affairs and Cyber Security programs at the Institute for National Security Studies. Additionally, he serves as editor of the tri-yearly published, Military and Strategic Affairs academic journal at INSS. Siboni is a senior expert on national security, military strategy and operations, military technology, cyber warfare, and force buildup. Siboni is an Associate Professor, working specifically in the management of Cyber Security and a part-time lecturer at the Francisco de Vitoria University in Madrid

  33. Michael W. Sonnenfeldt

    Michael W. Sonnenfeldt
    Years
    1955-.. (age 70)
    Occupations
    entrepreneur
    Biography

    Michael W. Sonnenfeldt is an American entrepreneur, philanthropist, and political activist. Currently, he is the founder and chairman of TIGER 21, chairman of MUUS & Company and MUUS Climate Partners, Co-Chairman, Climate Pathways Project at the Sloan School, MIT, Board member Center for New American Security (CNAS), President, Goldman-Sonnenfeldt Foundation and author of “Think Bigger and 39 Other Lessons from Successful Entrepreneurs" published by Bloomberg/Wiley in 2017.

  34. Gilad Bracha

    Gilad Bracha
    Occupations
    engineer
    Biography

    Gilad Bracha is a software engineer at F5, and formerly at Google, where he was on the Dart programming language team. He is creator of the Newspeak language, and co-author of the second and third editions of the Java Language Specification, and a major contributor to the second edition of the Java Virtual Machine Specification.

  35. Tarif Bader

    Tarif Bader
    Born in
    Israel Flag Israel
    Years
    1967-.. (age 58)
    Occupations
    pediatricianmilitary officer
    Biography

    Tarif Bader is an Israeli-Druze physician and a retired Brigadier General who served in the Israel Defense Forces for more than 35 years in various positions, during his tenure, he was responsible for several Operations of Humanitarian Assistance and Rescue Missions of the IDF around the world. Prof. Bader held the position of the Surgeon General of the Medical Corps (Hebrew: חֵיל הָרְפוּאָה, Heil HaRfu'a) from August 2017 – September 2020.

  36. Pini Badash

    Pini Badash
    Born in
    Israel Flag Israel
    Years
    1952-.. (age 73)
    Occupations
    politician
    Biography

    Pinhas "Pini" Badash is an Israeli politician who has served as mayor of Omer local council since 1990. He was also a member of the Knesset for Tzomet between 1992 and 1998.

  37. Barak Feldman

    Barak Feldman
    Years
    1972-.. (age 53)
    Enrolled in the Ben-Gurion University of the Negev
    Studied in 1990-1994
    Occupations
    engineerpoetsongwriter
    Biography

    Barak Feldman is an Israeli songwriter, known especially for his collaboration with Yoni Bloch and Efrat Gosh.

  38. Hamed Abu Daabas

    Hamed Abu Daabas
    Years
    1961-.. (age 64)
    Occupations
    politician
    Biography

    Sheikh Hamed Abu Daabas [ħmeð abu ðabas] is an Arab-Israeli of Bedouin descent, and the chairman of the southern branch of the Islamic Movement in Israel.

  39. Marcelle Machluf

    Marcelle Machluf
    Born in
    Morocco Flag Morocco
    Years
    1963-.. (age 62)
    Occupations
    biochemistphysician
    Biography

    Marcelle Machluf is an Israeli biologist.

  40. Avi Vartzman

    Avi Vartzman
    Born in
    Israel Flag Israel
    Years
    1970-.. (age 55)
    Occupations
    politician
    Biography

    Avraham "Avi" Wortzman is an Israeli politician and a former member of the Knesset for the Jewish Home. He also served as Deputy Minister of Education between 2013 and 2015.

  41. Aviram Dahari

    Aviram Dahari
    Born in
    Israel Flag Israel
    Years
    1963-.. (age 62)
    Occupations
    software engineerpoliticianmayor
    Biography

    Aviram Dahari is an Israeli politician and current mayor of the Israeli city of Kiryat Gat since 2003 before 2024.

  42. Alon Chen

    Alon Chen
    Born in
    Israel Flag Israel
    Years
    1970-.. (age 55)
    Occupations
    neuroscientistresearcher
    Biography

    Alon Chen is an Israeli neuroscientist and the 11th President of the Weizmann Institute of Science.

  43. Youssef Atauna

    Youssef Atauna
    Born in
    Israel Flag Israel
    Years
    1966-.. (age 59)
    Occupations
    politician
    Biography

    Youssef Atauna is an Israeli Arab politician currently serving as a member of the Knesset for Hadash. He previously served as a member for the Joint List between October 2017 and February 2018.

  44. Hagar Yanai

    Hagar Yanai
    Born in
    Israel Flag Israel
    Years
    1973-.. (age 52)
    Occupations
    journalistwriter
    Biography

    Hagar Yanai is an Israeli author. She is the recipient of the 2008 Prime Minister's Award for Israeli Authors, and of the Devora Omer Award for Work of Literature for Middle Grade and Young Adults. She is also a three-time recipient of the Geffen Award for Best Original Hebrew Fantasy.

  45. Eli Eshed

    Eli Eshed
    Years
    1965-.. (age 60)
    Occupations
    librarianliterary editorliterary criticjournalist
    Biography

    Eli Eshed is an Israeli researcher of popular culture.

  46. Shalom Danino

    Shalom Danino
    Born in
    Israel Flag Israel
    Years
    1956-.. (age 69)
    Occupations
    politician
    Biography

    Shalom Danino is an Israeli businessman and politician who currently serves as a member of the Knesset for Likud.

  47. Moshe Bar

    Moshe Bar
    Years
    1964-.. (age 61)
    Occupations
    neuroscientistresearcher
    Biography

    Moshe Bar is an Israeli cognitive neuroscientist. He is a professor at Bar-Ilan University. He was previously head of the Gonda Multidisciplinary Brain Research Center at Bar-Ilan University and before that director of the Cognitive Neuroscience Laboratory at Harvard Medical School and Massachusetts General Hospital.

  48. Amira Dotan

    Amira Dotan
    Born in
    Israel Flag Israel
    Years
    1947-.. (age 78)
    Occupations
    politicianmilitary officer
    Biography

    Amira Dotan is an Israeli military figure and a former member of Knesset for Kadima.

  49. Anastasia Gloushkov

    Anastasia Gloushkov
    Born in
    Russia Flag Russia
    Years
    1985-.. (age 40)
    Occupations
    swimmersynchronized swimmer
    Biography

    Anastasia Gloushkov is an Israeli Olympic synchronized swimmer.

  50. Juma Azbarga

    Juma Azbarga
    Born in
    Israel Flag Israel
    Years
    1956-.. (age 69)
    Occupations
    politician
    Biography

    Juma Azbarga is a Bedouin Israeli Arab politician. He served as a member of the Knesset for the Joint List between 2017 and 2019.

  51. Yael Grossman

    Yael Grossman
    Occupations
    military officer
    Biography

    Yael Grossman is the commander and Brigadier General of the Israeli Defense Force's technology and intelligence unit Lotem.

  52. Shimon Solomon

    Shimon Solomon
    Born in
    Ethiopia Flag Ethiopia
    Years
    1968-.. (age 57)
    Occupations
    politicianactivisthuman rights activistdiplomat
    Biography

    Shimon Solomon is an Israeli diplomat and former politician. He served as a member of the Knesset for Yesh Atid between 2013 and 2015 and was appointed Ambassador to Angola in 2022.

  53. Amir Ganiel

    Amir Ganiel
    Years
    1963-2018 (aged 55)
    Occupations
    swimmersurgeon
    Biography

    Amir Ganiel was an Israeli swimming champion.

  54. Avishai Henik

    Avishai Henik
    Born in
    Israel Flag Israel
    Years
    1945-.. (age 80)
    Enrolled in the Ben-Gurion University of the Negev
    1967-1971 graduated with Bachelor of Arts
    Occupations
    cognitive scientist
    Biography

    Avishai Henik is an Israeli neurocognitive psychologist who works at Ben-Gurion University of the Negev (BGU). Henik studies voluntary and automatic (non-voluntary/reflexive) processes involved in cognitive operations. He characterizes automatic processes (in various areas of research), and clarifies their importance, the relationship between automatic and voluntary processes, and their neural underpinnings. Most of his work involves research with human participants and in recent years, he has been working with Archer fish to examine evolutionary aspects of various cognitive functions.

  55. Moshe ben Yosef Firrouz

    Moshe ben Yosef Firrouz
    Years
    1972-.. (age 53)
    Biography

    Ḥakham Moshe ben Yoseph Firrouz is an Israeli Karaite Hakham and Torah scholar (sage). He is the former Chief Ḥakham (spiritual leader) as well as Registrar of Marriage and Divorce of Israel's traditional Karaite Jewish Community. He served as Chairman of the Council of Sages of World Karaite Judaism and its religious council. Though Karaites do not have Rabbis, he is considered a Rabbi for the purpose of accommodating the Israeli authorities.

  56. Amir Rapaport

    Amir Rapaport
    Born in
    Israel Flag Israel
    Years
    1970-.. (age 55)
    Occupations
    journalist
    Biography

    Amir Rapaport is an Israeli analyst, journalist, entrepreneur, and cyber expert.

  57. Shimshon Rozen

    Shimshon Rozen
    Born in
    Israel Flag Israel
    Years
    1952-2011 (aged 59)
    Occupations
    military personnelmilitary officer
    Biography

    Shimshon Rozen was an Israeli Air Force weapon systems officer and a colonel in the Israeli Defense Forces (IDF). Rozen participated in the Yom Kippur War and 1982 Lebanon War, accumulating hundreds of operational flying hours. Rozen also participated in the IAF's historic flight over the Auschwitz concentration camp.

  58. Dr. Muhammad Al-Nabari

    Dr. Muhammad Al-Nabari
    Born in
    Israel Flag Israel
    Years
    1970-.. (age 55)
    Occupations
    politician
    Biography

    Dr. Muhammad Al-Nabari is a Bedouin, citizen of Israel, who served as the mayor of Hura, a Bedouin village in the south of Israel. He was elected in 2004, when he was only 34 years old. During his tenure, Al-Nabari successfully decreased the unemployment rate, improved the education system and developed four models to provide employment for the men and women of Hura. Al-Nabari received the Movement for Quality Government in Israel award, for local government for his achievements in Hura.

  59. Golan Shahar

    Golan Shahar
    Born in
    Israel Flag Israel
    Years
    1968-.. (age 57)
    Enrolled in the Ben-Gurion University of the Negev
    1990-1993 graduated with bachelor's degree
    Occupations
    psychologistresearcher
    Biography

    Golan Shahar is an Israeli clinical health psychologist and an interdisciplinary stress/psychopathology researcher.

  60. Yosef Bittón

    Yosef Bittón
    Born in
    Argentina Flag Argentina
    Occupations
    Chief Rabbi
    Biography

    Rabbi Yosef Bittón is an Argentinian-born community rabbi and the former Chief Rabbi of Uruguay.

  61. Ofer Lahav

    Ofer Lahav
    Born in
    Israel Flag Israel
    Years
    1959-.. (age 66)
    Enrolled in the Ben-Gurion University of the Negev
    Studied in 1985
    Occupations
    astronomerastrophysicistresearcherphysicist
    Biography

    Ofer Lahav FRAS FInstP is Perren Chair of Astronomy at University College London (UCL), Vice-Dean (International) of the UCL Faculty of Mathematical and Physical Sciences (MAPS) and Co-Director of the STFC Centre for Doctoral Training in Data Intensive Science. His research area is Observational Cosmology, in particular probing Dark Matter and Dark Energy. His work involves Machine Learning for Big Data.

  62. Tuvia Friling

    Tuvia Friling
    Born in
    Romania Flag Romania
    Years
    1953-.. (age 72)
    Occupations
    historianarchivist
    Biography

    Tuvia Friling is an Emeritus professor at Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, Israel. Previously he served as a senior researcher at the Ben-Gurion Research Institute for the Study of Israel and Zionism and a lecturer at the Israel Studies Program both at Ben-Gurion University of the Negev.

  63. Arieh Iserles

    Arieh Iserles
    Years
    1947-.. (age 78)
    Occupations
    mathematician
    Biography

    Arieh Iserles is a computational mathematician, currently Professor of the Numerical Analysis of Differential Equations at the University of Cambridge and a member of the Department of Applied Mathematics and Theoretical Physics.

  64. Muhamad Kanan

    Muhamad Kanan
    Born in
    Israel Flag Israel
    Years
    1955-.. (age 70)
    Occupations
    politician
    Biography

    Muhamad Kanan is an Israeli Arab politician who served as a member of the Knesset for the United Arab List and the Arab National Party between 1999 and 2003.

  65. Yuval Elovici

    Yuval Elovici
    Born in
    Israel Flag Israel
    Years
    1966-.. (age 59)
    Occupations
    computer scientistresearcher
    Biography

    Yuval Elovici is a computer scientist. He is a professor in the Department of Software and Information Systems Engineering at Ben-Gurion University of the Negev (BGU), where he is the incumbent of the Davide and Irene Sala Chair in Homeland Security Research. He is the director of the Cyber Security Research Center at BGU and the founder and director of the Telekom Innovation Laboratories at Ben-Gurion University. In addition to his roles at BGU, he also serves as the lab director of Singapore University of Technology and Design’s (SUTD) ST Electronics-SUTD Cyber Security Laboratory, as well as the research director of iTrust. In 2014 he co-founded Morphisec, a start-up company, that develops cyber security mechanisms related to moving target defense.

  66. Raanan Zilberman

    Raanan Zilberman
    Born in
    Israel Flag Israel
    Years
    1960-.. (age 65)
    Occupations
    managerchief executive officer
    Biography

    Raanan Zilberman has served as CEO & president of several multinational corporations, most recently as CEO of Caesarstone, a Nasdaq listed multinational manufacturer of engineered quartz surfaces. Zilberman was appointed as CEO in September 2016 and his tenure at Caesarstone was from February 2017 to March 2018.

  67. Ibrahim Hijazi

    Ibrahim Hijazi
    Born in
    Israel Flag Israel
    Years
    1977-.. (age 48)
    Occupations
    politician
    Biography

    Ibrahim Hijazi is an Israeli Arab politician who briefly served as a member of the Knesset for the Joint List in 2017.

  68. Shmuel Avital

    Shmuel Avital
    Born in
    Morocco Flag Morocco
    Years
    1951-.. (age 74)
    Occupations
    politician
    Biography

    Shmuel Avital is an Israeli former politician who served as a minister without portfolio responsible for social coordination from March 2001 until February 2002.

  69. Isaac Berzin

    Isaac Berzin
    Years
    1967-.. (age 58)
    Occupations
    engineerscientist
    Biography

    Isaac Berzin is an Israeli scientist and entrepreneur.

  70. Ami Moyal

    Ami Moyal
    Years
    1962-.. (age 63)
    Occupations
    electrical engineer
    Biography

    Ami Moyal is the third president of Afeka Tel Aviv Academic College of Engineering. He is a professor in electrical and computer engineering and expert in the field of human machine interaction via speech recognition.

  71. Ashraf Brik

    Ashraf Brik
    Born in
    Israel Flag Israel
    Occupations
    researcherchemist
    Biography

    Ashraf Brik is a full professor at the Schulich Faculty of Chemistry at the Technion Institute of Technology, Israel. His laboratory specializes in developing synthetic methods for chemical synthesis of proteins with post-translational modifications (PTMs) in quantities that allow for them to be studied thoroughly. Brik's group is developing novel modulators based on small molecules, peptides and peptidomimetics, to influence enzymes (such as deubiquitinases) and proteins involved in various diseases. With the help of these tools, it is possible to understand how molecules and biological systems affect health.

  72. Yuval Ben-Itzhak

    Yuval Ben-Itzhak
    Born in
    Israel Flag Israel
    Years
    1970-.. (age 55)
    Occupations
    businessperson
    Biography

    Yuval Ben-Itzhak is an executive and entrepreneur. He received a number of honors and public recognition for his work as a chief technology officer throughout his career. Ben-Itzhak has been selected as the 25 most influencing CTO by InfoWorld, 40 Innovative IT People To Watch by Computerworld, and 2017 Chief Technology Officer of the Year by GeekTime. He was the Chief Technology Officer at AVG and was part of the leadership team that took AVG through its initial public offering on the New York Stock Exchange in 2012. He was the Chief Technology Officer at Outbrain until 2017, and led the acquisition of Socialbakers by Astute in 2020 as the Chief Executive Officer. Yuval is the inventor of 26 US patents. And Currently resides in Prague, Czech Republic

  73. Richard K. Bell

    Richard K. Bell
    Occupations
    diplomat
    Biography

    Richard K. Bell is an American diplomat who served as the United States Ambassador to Ivory Coast from October 10, 2019, to January 31, 2023.

  74. Yonit Naaman

    Yonit Naaman
    Born in
    Israel Flag Israel
    Years
    1975-.. (age 50)
    Occupations
    poetliterary editor
    Biography

    Yonit Naaman is an Israeli poet, essayist, editor, and literary and cultural researcher.

  75. Dan Amiram

    Dan Amiram
    Years
    1977-.. (age 48)
    Occupations
    scientist
    Biography

    Dan Amiram is the Dean and the Joseph Safra Capital markets and Financial Institutions Chaired professor of Business at the Coller School of Management at Tel Aviv University. He also serves as the head of the Fintech concentration in the MBA program. He served and currently serves on public companies' board of directors in the United States and Israel.

  76. Talia Rahimi

    Talia Rahimi
    Born in
    Israel Flag Israel
    Years
    1978-.. (age 47)
    Occupations
    writerchildren's writereducator
    Biography

    Talia Rahimi is an Israeli author, poet, teacher and linguist.

  77. Avigad Vonshak

    Avigad Vonshak
    Born in
    Germany Flag Germany
    Years
    1947-.. (age 78)
    Occupations
    biologistresearcher
    Biography

    Avigad Vonshak is a Professor Emeritus at the French Associates Institute for Agriculture and Biotechnology of Drylands at the Jacob Blaustein Institutes for Desert Research at Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, Israel.