100 Notable alumni of
Technion - Israel Institute of Technology
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Technion - Israel Institute of Technology is 449th in the world, 90th in Asia, and 5th in Israel by aggregated alumni prominence. Below is the list of 100 notable alumni from Technion - Israel Institute of Technology sorted by their wiki pages popularity. The directory includes famous graduates and former students along with research and academic staff. 3 individuals affiliated with Technion - Israel Institute of Technology won Nobel Prizes in Chemistry.
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Neri Oxman
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- designerartistuniversity teacherarchitect
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Neri Oxman is an American-Israeli designer and former professor known for art that combines design, biology, computing, and materials engineering. She coined the phrase "material ecology" to define her work.
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Meyer Habib
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- businesspersoningénieurs et cadres techniques d'entreprisepolitician
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Meyer Dov Habib is a French-Israeli politician who served as a member of the French National Assembly from June 2013 to February 2023 and April 2023 to June 2024, representing the eighth constituency for French residents overseas.
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Peter Max
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- paintergraphic designerdesigner
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Peter Max is a German-American artist known for using bright colors in his work. Works by Max are associated with the visual arts and culture of the 1960s, particularly psychedelic art and pop art.
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Judea Pearl
- Enrolled in Technion - Israel Institute of Technology
- In 1960 graduated with Bachelor of Science in electrical engineering
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- artificial intelligence researcheruniversity teacherphilosopherengineerphysicist
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Judea Pearl is an Israeli-American computer scientist and philosopher, best known for championing the probabilistic approach to artificial intelligence and the development of Bayesian networks (see the article on belief propagation). He is also credited for developing a theory of causal and counterfactual inference based on structural models (see article on causality). In 2011, the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) awarded Pearl with the Turing Award, the highest distinction in computer science, "for fundamental contributions to artificial intelligence through the development of a calculus for probabilistic and causal reasoning". He is the author of several books, including the technical Causality: Models, Reasoning and Inference, and The Book of Why, a book on causality aimed at the general public.
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Dan Shechtman
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- chemistpedagogueuniversity teachercrystallographerengineer
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Dan Shechtman is the Philip Tobias Professor of Materials Science at the Technion – Israel Institute of Technology, an Associate of the US Department of Energy's Ames National Laboratory, and Professor of Materials Science at Iowa State University. On April 8, 1982, while on sabbatical at the U.S. National Bureau of Standards in Washington, D.C., Shechtman discovered the icosahedral phase, which opened the new field of quasiperiodic crystals, also referred to as "quasicrystals." For this discovery, he was awarded the 2011 Nobel Prize in Chemistry, making him one of six Israelis who have won the Nobel Prize in Chemistry.
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Shikma Bressler
- Enrolled in Technion - Israel Institute of Technology
- Studied in 2000-2010
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- activistbasketball playerphysicist
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Shikma Schwarzmann-Bressler is an Israeli physicist. A researcher at the Weizmann Institute of Science, she is among those taking part in research at the CERN particle accelerator in Switzerland as a member of the ATLAS collaboration. She is also a social activist and leading figure in the "Black Flags" protests against Benjamin Netanyahu.
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Amos Gitai
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- film producerfilmmakerfilm directorarchitectactor
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Amos Gitai is an Israeli artist and filmmaker, born 11 October 1950 in Haifa, Israel.
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Aaron Ciechanover
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- university teacherpedagoguechemistbiochemistphysician
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Aaron Ciechanover is an Israeli biologist who won the Nobel Prize in Chemistry for characterizing the method that cells use to degrade and recycle proteins using ubiquitin.
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Yaron Brook
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- writerpolitical activistentrepreneuropinion journalist
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Yaron Brook is an Israeli-American Objectivist writer who is the current chairman of the board at the Ayn Rand Institute (ARI), where he was executive director from 2000 to 2017. Prior to joining ARI, he was a finance professor at Santa Clara University, where he taught for seven years.
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Shai Agassi
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- business executive
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Shai Agassi is an Israeli entrepreneur known for his involvement in the electric vehicle industry. He is the founder and former CEO of Better Place, which had developed a model and infrastructure for employing electric cars as an alternative to fossil fuel technology. The company went bankrupt in 2013, after Agassi spent over $850 million on publicity while deploying fewer than 1000 cars.
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Eyal Waldman
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- businessperson
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Eyal Waldman is an Israeli businessman, philanthropist, and peace activist. In 1999, he co-founded chip maker Mellanox Technologies, which was sold to Nvidia for US$6.9 billion in 2019. Waldman received the Israel Prize, Israel's highest civilian honor, in 2024.
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Nitzan Alon
- Enrolled in Technion - Israel Institute of Technology
- Graduated with Bachelor of Science in physics and materials engineering
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- military officer
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Major General Nitzan Alon is a general in the Israel Defense Forces. In December 2011, he was named the General officer commanding Central Command and became Head of Central Command in early 2012.
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Avram Hershko
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- physicianeducatorbiochemistuniversity teacher
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Avram Hershko is a Hungarian-born Israeli biochemist who received the Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 2004.
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Shaul Ladany
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- university teacherathletics competitorengineer
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Shaul Paul Ladany is an Israeli Holocaust survivor, racewalker and two-time Olympian. He holds the world record in the 50-mile walk (7:23:50), and the Israeli national record in the 50-kilometer walk (4:17:07). He is a former world champion in the 100-kilometer walk.
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Avi Wigderson
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- computer scientistpedagogueuniversity teachermathematician
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Avi Wigderson is an Israeli computer scientist and mathematician. He is the Herbert H. Maass Professor in the school of mathematics at the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton, New Jersey, United States of America. His research interests include complexity theory, parallel algorithms, graph theory, cryptography, and distributed computing. Wigderson received the Abel Prize in 2021 for his work in theoretical computer science. He also received the 2023 Turing Award for his contributions to the understanding of randomness in the theory of computation.
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Dalal Abu Amneh
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- lecturerwriterproducersocial activistpoet
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Dalal Ghazi Muhammad Abu Amneh is a Palestinian-Israeli singer, producer, and a neuroscientist.
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Itzhak Brik
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- military officer
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Itzhak Brik is an Israeli IDF General (reserve). He served in the Armored Corps as a brigade, division and troops commander and served as the commander of the IDF Military Colleges. He fought as a reserve company commander in the Yom Kippur War and was decorated with the Medal of Courage.
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Arieh Warshel
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- biochemistchemistuniversity teacherbiophysicist
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Arieh Warshel is an Israeli-American biochemist and biophysicist. He is a pioneer in computational studies on functional properties of biological molecules, Distinguished Professor of Chemistry and Biochemistry, and holds the Dana and David Dornsife Chair in Chemistry at the University of Southern California. He received the 2013 Nobel Prize in Chemistry, together with Michael Levitt and Martin Karplus for "the development of multiscale models for complex chemical systems".
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Yakir Aharonov
- Enrolled in Technion - Israel Institute of Technology
- Graduated with Bachelor of Science
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- physicistuniversity teacher
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Yakir Aharonov ForMemRS is an Israeli physicist specializing in quantum physics. He has been a Professor of Theoretical Physics and the James J. Farley Professor of Natural Philosophy at Chapman University in California since 2008. He was a distinguished professor in the Perimeter Institute between 2009-2012 and is a professor emeritus at Tel Aviv University and at University of South Carolina. He is president of the IYAR, The Israeli Institute for Advanced Research.
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Yigal Shilon
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- television presentertelevision directorfilm director
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Yigal Shilon was an Israeli television producer, screenwriter, director, and host, best known for his role in creating popular Israeli prank shows.
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David Azrieli
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- chief executive officerentrepreneurarchitectmanagerbusinessperson
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David Joshua Azrieli CM CQ was an Israeli-Canadian tycoon, real estate developer, architect, and philanthropist. With an estimated net worth of US$3.1 billion in March 2013, he was ranked by Forbes as the ninth-wealthiest Canadian and the 401st wealthiest person overall.
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Yuval Ne'eman
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- pedagogueuniversity teachernuclear physicistmilitary officerpolitician
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Yuval Ne'eman was an Israeli theoretical physicist, military scientist, and politician. He was Minister of Science and Development in the 1980s and early 1990s. He was the President of Tel Aviv University from 1971 to 1977. He was awarded the Israel Prize in the field of exact sciences (which he returned in 1992 in protest of the award of the Israel Prize to Emile Habibi), the Albert Einstein Award, the Wigner Medal, and the EMET Prize for Arts, Sciences and Culture.
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Yizhar Shai
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- businessperson
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Yizhar Nitzan Shai is an Israeli entrepreneur, venture capitalist, and politician. He served as a member of the Knesset for Blue and White between 2019 and 2021, and as Minister of Science & Technology from 2020 to 2021.
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Benny Peled
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- air force officer
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Benny Peled was the commander of the Israeli Air Force during the Yom Kippur War and Operation Entebbe. He retired with the rank of Aluf (major general).
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Noga Alon
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- computer scientistmathematicianprofessor
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Noga M. Alon is an Israeli mathematician and a professor of mathematics at Princeton University noted for his contributions to combinatorics and theoretical computer science, having authored hundreds of papers.
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Kira Radinsky
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- computer scientist
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Kira Radinsky is a Ukrainian-born Israeli computer scientist, inventor and entrepreneur, specializing in predictive data mining. and artificial intelligence, a high-tech manager, scientist, and a visiting professor at the Technion. She is a member of the Israel Securities Authority. Former Director of Data Science and Chief Scientist at eBay Israel.
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Yossi Vardi
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- entrepreneurbusinessperson
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Joseph "Yossi" Vardi is an Israeli entrepreneur and investor. He is known for his involvement in the early development of Israel's high-tech sector and the Israeli internet industry. He has been involved in the founding and development of over 85 high-tech companies across various fields, including software, energy, internet, mobile, electro-optics, and water technology, over a span of more than 47 years.
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Maria Chudnovsky
- Enrolled in Technion - Israel Institute of Technology
- In 1999 graduated with Master of Science
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- mathematicianuniversity teacher
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Maria Chudnovsky is an Israeli-American mathematician working on graph theory and combinatorial optimization. She is a 2012 MacArthur Fellow.
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Jacob Ziv
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- computer scientistengineerpedagogueuniversity teacher
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Jacob Ziv was an Israeli electrical engineer and information theorist who developed the LZ family of lossless data compression algorithms alongside Abraham Lempel. He is also a namesake of the Ziv–Zakai bound in estimation theory, with Moshe Zakai.
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Andi Gutmans
- Enrolled in Technion - Israel Institute of Technology
- Graduated with Bachelor of Arts
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- computer scientistprogrammerbusinesspersonentrepreneur
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Andi Gutmans is an Israeli programmer and entrepreneur.
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Daniel Hershkowitz
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- university teacherpoliticianrabbimathematicianpedagogue
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Daniel Hershkowitz is an Israeli politician, mathematician, and Orthodox rabbi. Since 2018, he has headed the Israel Civil Service Commission. He is professor emeritus of mathematics at the Technion, and is also rabbi of the Ahuza neighborhood in Haifa. He was president of Bar-Ilan University from 2013-17.
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Abraham Lempel
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- computer scientistuniversity teachercryptographer
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Abraham Lempel was an Israeli computer scientist and one of the fathers of the LZ family of lossless data compression algorithms.
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Zeev Suraski
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- computer scientistengineerprogrammerbusinessperson
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Zeev Suraski born February 18, 1976, is an Israeli programmer, PHP developer and co-founder of Zend Technologies. A graduate of the Technion in Haifa, Israel, Suraski and Andi Gutmans created PHP 3 in 1997. In 1999 they wrote the Zend Engine, the core of PHP 4, and founded Zend Technologies, which has since overseen PHP advances. The name Zend is a portmanteau of their forenames, Zeev and Andi.
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Oded Goldreich
- Enrolled in Technion - Israel Institute of Technology
- 1977-1980 graduated with Bachelor of Arts
- 1980-1982 graduated with Master of Science
- 1982-1983 graduated with Doctor of Science
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- computer scientistmathematiciancryptographer
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Oded Goldreich is a professor of computer science at the faculty of mathematics and computer science of the Weizmann Institute of Science, Israel. His research interests lie within the theory of computation and are, specifically, the interplay of randomness and computation, the foundations of cryptography, and computational complexity theory. He won the Knuth Prize in 2017 and was selected in 2021 to receive the Israel Prize in mathematics. He is a member of the Israel Academy of Sciences and Humanities.
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Uzi Landau
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- military personnelpolitician
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Uzi Landau is an Israeli politician and systems analyst. He served as a member of the Knesset for Likud between 1984 and 2006, and for Yisrael Beiteinu between 2009 and 2015. He also held several ministerial posts, including Minister of Public Security, Minister in the Prime Minister's Office, Minister of Energy and Water Resources and Minister of Tourism.
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Amir Pnueli
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- university teachercomputer scientistmathematicianpedagogueengineer
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Amir Pnueli was an Israeli computer scientist and the 1996 Turing Award recipient.
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Rivka Oxman
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- 1948-2025 (aged 77)
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- university teacherarchitect
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Rivka Oxman was an Israeli architect, researcher, and professor at the Technion Institute in Haifa. Her research interests are related to design and computation, including digital architecture and methods, and exploring their contribution to the emergence of new paradigms of architectural design and practice.
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Einat Kalisch-Rotem
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- urban plannerarchitectpolitician
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Einat Kalisch-Rotem is an Israeli urban planner and politician who served as mayor of Haifa from 2018 to 2024. She was the first female mayor to lead any of the three major cities in Israel.
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Abraham Shochat
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- engineerpolitician
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Avraham Shochat was an Israeli politician who twice served as Minister of Finance. Shochat was mayor of Arad for 20 years.
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Dan Boneh
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- academicuniversity teachercomputer scientistmathematiciancryptographer
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Dan Boneh is an Israeli–American professor in applied cryptography and computer security at Stanford University.
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Yitzhak Kroizer
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- 1985-.. (age 41)
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- politician
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Yitzhak Kroizer is an Israeli far-right politician who has served as a Member of the Knesset for Otzma Yehudit since 2023. He is a resident of the Golan Heights settlement of Natur.
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Basel Ghattas
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- writeractivistpublisherpoliticianengineer
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Basel Ghattas is an Israeli Arab politician. A member of Balad, he served as a member of the Knesset for Balad and the Joint List from 2015 until 2017. In December 2016, he was stripped of his parliamentary immunity and arrested after he was caught on video providing convicted Palestinian prisoners with cell phones and SIM cards. He served a two-year prison term over the crime.
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Hossam Haick
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- chemical engineerchemist
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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 the detection of disease from exhaled breath, for which he was highlighted as MIT's Innovators under 35; and which is widely used for sniffing out disease's biomarkers in labs and industries. He has many contributions in multidisciplinary fields such as Nanotechnology, Nanosensors, Volatile Biomarkers, and Molecular Electronics.
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Salomón Lerner Ghitis
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- engineerbusinesspersonpolitician
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Salomón Lerner Ghitis, also known as Siomi Lerner is a Peruvian businessman and politician, who was the Prime Minister of Peru from 28 July to 10 December 2011 and leader of the political movement Citizens for Change (CxC). He was appointed prime minister following the 2011 general election which was won by Ollanta Humala. Lerner resigned on 10 December 2011.
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Ariel Kallner
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- politician
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Ariel Kallner is an Israeli politician. He has served as a member of the Knesset for Likud since 2023, having previously served between 2020 and 2021 and from April to September 2019.
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Isaac Moda'i
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- industrialistlawyerpolitician
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Yitzhak Moda'i was an Israeli politician who served five terms in the Knesset for Likud and then the New Liberal Party over the course of a 20-year career.
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Yair Shamir
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- businesspersonpolitician
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Yair Shamir is an Israeli politician, businessman and former military officer. He served as a member of the Knesset for Yisrael Beiteinu between 2013 and 2015, during which he also held the post of Minister of Agriculture.
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Nir Shaviv
- Enrolled in Technion - Israel Institute of Technology
- In 1996 graduated with Doctor of Philosophy
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- astrophysicistphysicistclimatologistuniversity teacher
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Nir Joseph Shaviv is an Israeli‐American physics professor. He is professor at the Racah Institute of Physics of the Hebrew University of Jerusalem.
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Adam Milstein
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- businesspersonphilanthropist
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Adam Milstein is an Israeli-American investor and philanthropist. He is a managing partner at Hager Pacific Properties.
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Alena Yiv
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- actordirectorstunt performerstage actorfilm director
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Alena Yiv (Hebrew: אלונה איב, Russian: Алёна Ив; born on November 30, 1979) is an Israeli actress and director.
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Salman Zarka
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- researcherphysician
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Salman Zarka is an Israeli physician and the current Director of Ziv Medical Center in Safed. He is a reservist of the Israel Defense Forces in the rank of Colonel, and a senior lecturer at the Faculty of Social Welfare and Health in the School of Public Health of Haifa University and the Department of Military Medicine in the military doctors top track of Hebrew University in Jerusalem.
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Uzi Even
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- chemistpedagoguephysicistuniversity teacherhuman rights defender
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Uzi Even is an Israeli professor emeritus of physical chemistry at Tel Aviv University and a former politician well known for being the first openly gay member of the Knesset (the Israeli Parliament).
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Gilad Japhet
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- genealogist
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Gilad Japhet is an Israeli entrepreneur and genealogist. He is the founder and CEO of MyHeritage, a high-tech company that has developed a platform for preserving family history and creating family trees. It also offers DNA testing.
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Eliyahu Zini
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- mathematician
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Eliyahu Rahamim Zini is the rosh yeshiva of Yeshivat Or Vishua, which he founded in Haifa in 2001. In the past, he has served as the rabbi of the Technion, as a lecturer in its Faculty of Mathematics, and in the Department of Humanities and Arts.
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Yaakov Rechter
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- architect
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Yaakov Rechter was an Israeli architect and an Israel Prize recipient. Rechter was influenced by the works of Charles-Édouard Jeanneret, known as Le Corbusier, and one of several Israeli architects who designed cubist buildings in Tel Aviv with flat roofs, taking their inspiration from architecture in North Africa.
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Moni Naor
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- 1961-.. (age 65)
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- computer scientistengineeruniversity teachermathematician
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Moni Naor is an Israeli computer scientist, currently a professor at the Weizmann Institute of Science. Naor received his Ph.D. in 1989 at the University of California, Berkeley. His advisor was Manuel Blum.
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Zvi Hecker
- Enrolled in Technion - Israel Institute of Technology
- Studied in 1954-2023
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- academicarchitect
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Zvi Hecker was a Polish-born Israeli architect. His work is known for its emphasis on geometry and asymmetry.
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Ehud Netzer
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- pedagogueanthropologistuniversity teacherarchitectart historian
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Ehud Netzer was an Israeli architect, archaeologist and educator, known for his extensive excavations at Herodium, where in 2007 he found and identified the tomb of Herod the Great; and the discovery of a structure defined by Netzer as a synagogue, which, if true would be the oldest one ever found (the "Wadi Qelt Synagogue").
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Dov Frohman
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- computer scientistengineerphysicistbusinessperson
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Dov Frohman is an Israeli electrical engineer and business executive. A former vice president of Intel Corporation, he is the inventor of the erasable programmable read only memory (EPROM) and the founder and first general manager of Intel Israel. He is also the author (with Robert Howard) of Leadership the Hard Way (Jossey-Bass, 2008).
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Amos Horev
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- scientistmilitary officerengineer
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Amos Horev is an Israeli military official and expert. He served as a commander in the Palmach the elite force of the Haganah before the founding of the state, and was later an Israel Defense Forces (IDF) Major-General, Chief of Ordnance and subsequently Quartermaster General and Chief Scientist of the IDF, nuclear scientist, President of Technion University, and Chairman of Rafael. In June 2010, he was appointed to the Israeli special independent Turkel Commission of Inquiry into the 2010 Gaza flotilla raid.
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Moshe Yanai
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- 1948-.. (age 78)
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- entrepreneur
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Moshe Yanai is an Israeli electrical engineer. He is an inventor, businessman, entrepreneur, aviator, investor, and philanthropist. He led the development of the EMC Symmetrix, the flagship product of EMC Corporation in the 1990s, which prevented, to some extent, financial chaos in New York Stock Exchange and certain banks after the September 11 attacks.
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Udi Manber
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- computer scientist
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Udi Manber is an Israeli computer scientist. He is one of the authors of agrep and GLIMPSE. After a career in engineering and management, he worked on medical research.
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Janina Altman
- Enrolled in Technion - Israel Institute of Technology
- In 1962 graduated with doctorate in chemistry
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- chemistwriternon-fiction writer
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Janina Altman was a Polish-Israeli chemist, author and a Holocaust survivor.
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Asher Peres
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- physicistuniversity teacher
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Asher Peres was an Israeli physicist. Peres is best known for his work relating quantum mechanics and information theory. He helped to develop the Peres–Horodecki criterion for quantum entanglement, as well as the concept of quantum teleportation, and collaborated with others on quantum information and special relativity. He also introduced the Peres metric and researched the Hamilton–Jacobi–Einstein equation in general relativity. With Mario Feingold, he published work in quantum chaos that is known to mathematicians as the Feingold–Peres conjecture and to physicists as the Feingold–Peres theory.
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Tsvi Misinai
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- anthropologisthistorian
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Tsvi Jekhorin Misinai is an Israeli researcher, writer, historian, computer scientist and entrepreneur. A pioneer of the Israeli software industry, he now spends most of his time researching and documenting the common Hebrew roots he believes shared by world Jewry and the Palestinians (including Arab citizens of Israel).
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Ruth Kedar
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- designer
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Ruth Kedar is a Brazilian-born artist and designer, best known for designing the Google logo that was displayed from May 31, 1999 to September 1, 2015. Larry Page and Sergey Brin were looking at designers to design their logo and website and Kedar was asked to present them with some preliminary design ideas. They liked her approach and design style, and she was hired to design both. The design was accepted due to its playful design, the customized Catull typeface and unique visual expression.
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Michael Bronstein
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- computer scientist
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Michael Bronstein is a British-Israeli computer scientist and entrepreneur. He is a computer science professor at the University of Oxford and founding scientific director of Aithyra Institute at the Vienna Biocenter in Austria.
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Meir Nitzan
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- opticianmilitary officerpolitician
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Meir Nitzan was an Israeli politician. He was mayor of Rishon LeZion for five consecutive terms.
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Andrei Broder
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- computer scientist
- Biography
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Andrei Zary Broder is a distinguished scientist at Google. Previously, he was a research fellow and vice president of computational advertising for Yahoo!, and before that, the vice president of research for AltaVista. He has also worked for IBM Research as a distinguished engineer and was CTO of IBM's Institute for Search and Text Analysis.
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Reda Mansour
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- historianpoetdiplomatwriter
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Reda Mansour is an Israeli Druze poet, historian and diplomat. He has published three books of Hebrew poetry and received the University of Haifa Miller Award as well as the State President Scholarship for young writers.
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Yoav Shoham
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- computer scientistacademicuniversity teacher
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Yoav Shoham is a computer scientist and a professor emeritus at Stanford University. His research spans artificial intelligence, logic and game theory. He has also founded and sold several AI companies.
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Shlomo Ben-Haim
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- businesspersonscientist
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Shlomo Ben-Haim is an Israeli-born professor of medicine, a serial entrepreneur specializing in the fields of healthcare and biotech, and a philanthropist. He is the co-founder of Biosense Inc., Spectrum Dynamics LLC., Radiancy Inc., X-Technologies, Impulse Dynamics, InStent Inc., Disc-O-Tech Ltd. and EPD Solutions Ltd. He is the inventor of about 560 patents and patent applications.
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Danny Cohen
- Enrolled in Technion - Israel Institute of Technology
- In 1963 graduated with Bachelor of Science in mathematics
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- computer scientistuniversity teacher
- Biography
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Danny Cohen was an Israeli-American computer scientist specializing in computer networking. He was involved in the ARPAnet project and helped develop various fundamental applications for the Internet. He was one of the key figures behind the separation of TCP and IP (early versions of TCP did not have a separate IP layer); this allowed the later creation of UDP.
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Ada Karmi-Melamede
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- architect
- Biography
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Ada Karmi-Melamede is a noted Israeli architect.
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Scandar Copti
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- screenwriterfilm directoractorfilm editor
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Scandar Copti, also known as Iskandar Qubti, is an Israeli Palestinian director, screenwriter, actor, and producer. He is known for his feature films Ajami (2009) and Happy Holidays (2024).
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Amos Shapira
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- 1949-.. (age 77)
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- managerchief executive officer
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Amos Shapira is an Israeli businessman. He is the former president of El Al Airlines, Cellcom, and the University of Haifa.
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Yakov Engel
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- businessperson
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Jacob Engel is an Israeli billionaire primarily involved in the real estate, infrastructure, technology, and mining fields. He is the chairman of Engelinvest Group.
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Hod Lipson
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- university teacherroboticistengineer
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Hod Lipson is an American-Israeli robotics engineer. He is the director of Columbia University's Creative Machines Lab. Lipson's work focuses on evolutionary robotics, digital manufacturing, artificial life, and creating machines that can demonstrate some aspects of human creativity and Self Awareness. His publications have been cited more than 56,000 times, and he has an h-index of 94, as of 17 October 2025. Lipson is interviewed in the 2018 documentary on artificial intelligence Do You Trust This Computer?
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Abi Har Even
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- electrical engineer
- Biography
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Aby Har Even was an Israeli military scientist and the fifth Director General of the Israeli Space Agency (1995-2004). Har Even was instrumental to the Israeli space program, served pivotal roles in the Israel Aerospace Industries and was one of the founders of the IDF's missile and advanced weaponry programs. He was recipient of the Israel Defense Prize in 1977.
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Nir Shavit
- Years
- 1959-.. (age 67)
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- computer scientistengineeruniversity teacher
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Nir Shavit is an Israeli computer scientist. He was a professor in the Computer Science Department at Tel Aviv University and is a professor in the Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
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Moti Bodek
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- architect
- Biography
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Moti Bodek is an Israeli architect. He is the CEO of Bodek Architects based in Tel Aviv and a Professor of Architecture at Bezalel Academy of Art and Design, Jerusalem & at Tel Aviv University.
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Asher Kravitz
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- mathematicianwriterphysicist
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Asher Kravitz, is an Israeli author and lecturer on physics and mathematics at the Academic College of Engineering in Jerusalem and the Open University. He is also an animal rights activist and wildlife photographer.
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Marcelle Machluf
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- biochemistphysician
- Biography
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Marcelle Machluf is an Israeli biologist.
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Zohar Zisapel
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- industrialistbusinesspersonentrepreneur
- Biography
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Zohar Zisapel was an Israeli entrepreneur, businessman and philanthropist. He founded the RAD Group of companies with his brother, Yehuda.
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Joseph Wang
- Years
- 1948-.. (age 78)
- Occupations
- chemist
- Biography
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Joseph Wang is an American biomedical engineer and inventor. He is a professor, SAIC Endowed Chair, and a former Chair of the Department of Chemical and Nano-Technology Engineering at the University of California, San Diego. Wang currently serves as the director of the UCSD Center for Wearable Sensors and as the co-director of the UCSD Center for Mobile Health Systems and Applications (CMSA).
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Daniel Zajfman
- Occupations
- physicistuniversity teacher
- Biography
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Daniel Zajfman is an Israeli physicist whose main research interests are centered on the physics of simple molecular ions. On December 1, 2006, he was elected as the tenth president of the Weizmann Institute.
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Ron Aharoni
- Years
- 1952-.. (age 74)
- Occupations
- mathematician
- Biography
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Ron Aharoni is an Israeli mathematician, working in finite and infinite combinatorics. Aharoni is a professor at the Technion – Israel Institute of Technology, where he received his Ph.D. in mathematics in 1979. With Nash-Williams and Shelah he generalized Hall's marriage theorem by obtaining the right transfinite conditions for infinite bipartite graphs. He subsequently proved the appropriate versions of the Kőnig theorem and the Menger theorem for infinite graphs (the latter with Eli Berger).
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Zvi Zilker
- Enrolled in Technion - Israel Institute of Technology
- Graduated with Master of Engineering in civil engineering
- Occupations
- politician
- Biography
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Zvi Zilker was an Israeli politician who served as the fourth and sixth mayor of Ashdod.
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Aviezri Fraenkel
- Occupations
- computer scientistmathematician
- Biography
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Aviezri Siegmund Fraenkel is an Israeli mathematician who has made contributions to combinatorial game theory.
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Hana Sweid
- Occupations
- engineerpolitician
- Biography
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Hana Swaid is an Israeli Arab politician who served as a member of the Knesset for Hadash from 2006 to 2015.
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Chaim Landau
- Occupations
- politician
- Biography
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Haim Landau was an Israeli independence fighter, Knesset member and Minister in the governments of Golda Meir and Menachem Begin.
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Abd al-Hakim Hajj Yahya
- Occupations
- engineerpolitician
- Biography
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Abd al-Hakim Hajj Yahya is an Israeli Arab engineer and politician. He was a member of the Knesset for the United Arab List.
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Ramiz Jaraisy
- Occupations
- engineerpolitician
- Biography
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Ramiz Jaraisy is a Palestinian politician, mechanical engineer, civil engineer and the former mayor of Nazareth.
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Rafael Beyar
- Occupations
- physicianresearchercardiologistuniversity teacher
- Biography
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Rafael Beyar (Hebrew: רפי ביאר; born 20 January 1952) is an Israeli medical doctor, entrepreneur, and professor who is the eighth director of Rambam Health Care Campus since 1996. Beyar, an authority on interventional cardiology, also continues to practice in his specialty of clinical invasive cardiology. Beyar is the editor of several books related to cardiology and electrophysiology, including Frontiers in Interventional Cardiology, Proceedings from International Meetings, Analysis of Cardiac Development: from Embryo to Old Age; and co-founder of Corindus Vascular Robotics.
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Shaul Gutman
- Occupations
- politicianpedagogue
- Biography
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Shaul Gutman is an Israeli academic and former politician.
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Dan Roth
- Born in
- Israel
- Occupations
- computer scientist
- Biography
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Dan Roth is the Eduardo D. Glandt Distinguished Professor of Computer and Information Science at the University of Pennsylvania and the Chief AI Scientist at Oracle. Until June 2024 Roth was a VP and distinguished scientist at AWS AI. In his role at AWS, Roth led over the last three years the scientific effort behind the first-generation Generative AI products from AWS, including Titan Models, Amazon Q efforts, and Bedrock, from inception until they became generally available.
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Yoash Tzidon
- Occupations
- industrialistAliyah Bet activistpolitician
- Biography
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Yoash "Matti" Tzidon was an Israeli Air Force commander and politician.
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Inbal Pezaro
- Occupations
- swimmerpara swimmer
- Biography
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Inbal Pezaro is an Israeli Paralympic swimmer.
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Rostam Bastuni
- Occupations
- writerjournalistpoliticianarchitect
- Biography
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Rostam Bastuni was an Israeli politician and journalist, and the first Israeli Arab to represent a Zionist party in the Knesset.
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Michael Horodniceanu
- Occupations
- engineer
- Biography
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Michael Horodniceanu was a Romanian-born American civil engineer who served as traffic commissioner of New York City. He was also the president of MTA Capital Construction.
