33 Notable alumni of
Interdisciplinary Center
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Interdisciplinary Center is 1175th in the world, 249th in Asia, and 9th in Israel by aggregated alumni prominence. Below is the list of 33 notable alumni from Interdisciplinary Center sorted by their wiki pages popularity. The directory includes famous graduates and former students along with research and academic staff.
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Gal Gadot
- Enrolled in Interdisciplinary Center
- In 2007 graduated with bachelor's degree in law
- Occupations
- film producerfilm actorbeauty pageant contestantfashion modeltelevision actor
- Biography
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Gal Gadot is an Israeli actress. She gained recognition for portraying Wonder Woman in the DC Extended Universe films (2016–2023). In 2018, Gadot was named one of Time's 100 most influential people and ranked by Forbes as the tenth-highest-paid actress, later rising to third in 2020. She became the first Israeli actor to receive a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame in 2025.
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Gilad Shalit
- Enrolled in Interdisciplinary Center
- Studied in 2013
- Occupations
- military personnelinvestment advisorsports columnistwriterjournalist
- Biography
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Gilad Shalit is an Israeli former soldier who, on 25 June 2006, was captured by Palestinian militants in a cross-border raid via tunnels near the Israeli border. Hamas held him captive for over five years until his release on 18 October 2011 as part of a prisoner exchange deal.
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Rotem Sela
- Occupations
- actorlawyermodelcelebrity endorseradvocate
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Rotem Sela is an Israeli model, television presenter, and actress who starred as Noa Hollander on the Israeli television series Beauty and the Baker (2013–2021) and co-hosted the singing reality show Rising Star since 2014. In 2022, she was described by Haaretz as "the most successful actress in Israel right now."
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Orly Levy-Abekasis
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- modeljournalisttelevision presenterpolitician
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Orly Levy-Abekasis is an Israeli politician and former member of the Knesset. Formerly a model, Levy-Abekasis first entered the Knesset in 2009 as a representative of Yisrael Beiteinu, but left the party in 2017 to sit as an independent. In 2019, she formed her own party, Gesher, to contest the April 2019 elections. Although the party failed to win a seat, she returned to the Knesset following the September 2019 elections, in which Gesher ran together with the Labor Party. In May 2020, she was appointed by Prime Minister Netanyahu as the newly created Minister for Community Empowerment and Advancement.
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Amir Baram
- Occupations
- manager
- Biography
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Amir Baram is an Israel Defense Forces major general (Aluf) who currently serves as the Director-General of the Israeli Ministry of Defense. He previously served as the Deputy Chief of General Staff, commander of the Northern Command, commander of the IDF Military Colleges, commander of the 91st Division, commander of 98th Paratroopers Division and commander of the Paratroopers Brigade.
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Yityish Titi Aynaw
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- fashion modelbeauty pageant contestantmodelreality television participantbeauty pageant winner
- Biography
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Yityish "Titi" Aynaw is an Israeli model, television personality, and beauty pageant titleholder who was crowned Miss Israel 2013. She is the first Ethiopian Jew and Israeli of African heritage to win the contest. As Miss Israel, Aynaw represented Israel at the Miss Universe 2013 competition, although she did not place.
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Dalia Itzik
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- educatorpoliticiantrade unionist
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Dalia Itzik is an Israeli former politician who last served as a member of the Knesset for Kadima. She has previously served in several ministerial positions, and on 4 May 2006 became the first female speaker of the Knesset, and served as President of Israel in an interim capacity in July 2007.
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Roni Duani
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- television presenterentrepreneurmodelstage actortelevision actor
- Biography
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Liron Roni Duani-Moncaz, formerly known by her professional name Roni Superstar (רוני סופרסטאר), is an Israeli pop singer, model, actress, television host, fitness instructor and entrepreneur. During her singing career, she was often compared to Britney Spears.
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Yuval Zellner
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- advocatemanagerchief executive officerpolitician
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Yuval Zellner is an Israeli politician. He served as a member of the Knesset for Kadima between 2012 and 2013, and again from 2014 until 2015. He currently serves as a member of the Tel Aviv city council.
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Meirav Ben-Ari
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- management consultantpolitician
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Meirav Ben-Ari is an Israeli politician. She currently serves as a member of the Knesset for Yesh Atid and was previously a member of the Knesset for Kulanu between 2015 and 2019.
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Inbal Gavrieli
- Occupations
- politician
- Biography
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Inbal Gavrieli is an Israeli former politician who served as a member of the Knesset for Likud from 2003 until 2006.
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Carmel Shama
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- lawyerpolitician
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Carmel Shama-Hacohen is an Israeli lawyer and politician. He served as a member of the Knesset for Likud in two spells between 2009 and 2014, before becoming Israel's envoy to the OECD, UNESCO and the Council of Europe. In 2018 he was elected mayor of Ramat Gan.
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Gonen Ben Itzhak
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- 1971-.. (age 55)
- Occupations
- activistlawyerintelligence officer
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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".
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Yael German
- Occupations
- politician
- Biography
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Yael German is an Israeli politician and diplomat who served as a member of the Knesset for Yesh Atid and the Blue and White alliance between 2013 and 2020. She was minister of health between 2013 and 2014 and mayor of Herzliya between 1998 and 2013. German was appointed as the Israeli ambassador to France in 2021 but resigned in 2022.
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Oded Forer
- Occupations
- politician
- Biography
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Oded Forer is an Israeli politician who currently serves as a member of the Knesset for Yisrael Beiteinu since 2022, previously serving from 2015 to 2021. Forer also served as the Minister of Agriculture and Rural Development and Minister for the Development of the Periphery, the Negev and the Galilee from 2021 to 2022.
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Sean Goldberg
- Enrolled in Interdisciplinary Center
- In 2022 studied business administration
- Occupations
- association football player
- Biography
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Sean Goldberg is an Israeli footballer who plays as a center-back or as a left-back for Israeli Premier League club Maccabi Haifa and the Israel national team.
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Eitan Ginzburg
- Occupations
- politician
- Biography
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Eitan Ginzburg is an Israeli politician who currently serves as a Member of the Knesset for Blue and White. The first openly gay mayor in Israel when he became mayor of Ra'anana in 2018, he was elected to the Knesset the following year and served as Minister of Communications in 2021.
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Yehiel Lasri
- Enrolled in Interdisciplinary Center
- Graduated with master's degree
- Occupations
- politicianphysician
- Biography
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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.
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Yoel Hasson
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- art collectorconsultantlecturerpolitician
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Yoel Hasson is an Israeli politician and member of the Knesset for Kadima and Hatnuah. Yoel has been a member of the seventeenth, eighteenth, and twentieth Knessets, and is currently a member of the opposition movement, in a center left party.
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Johnny Chetboun
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- military personnelbusiness theoristpolitician
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Jonathan "Yoni" Chetboun is an Israeli public figure, businessman, and retired IDF Colonel. Chetboun served as a member of the Knesset, where he sat on the Foreign Affairs and Defense Committee. During his active-duty service, the IDF awarded him the Chief of Staff Citation for actions taken during the Second Lebanon War. He serves as the CEO of KANAF – International Business Development.
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Tal Ohana
- Occupations
- council member
- Biography
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Tal Ohana is the mayor of Yeruham, Israel.
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Ron Scherf
- Occupations
- vice presidentactivistpolitical activist
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Ron Scherf is an Israeli social and political activist, a former Lt. Colonel in the Sayeret Matkal unit of the IDF, and one of the founding members and leaders of the "Brothers in Arms" organization standing at the forefront of the protests against judicial reform of the thirty-seventh government of Israel.
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Vered Buskila
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- sailor
- Biography
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Vered Bouskila is an Israeli Olympic sailor. She competes in the 470 Class double-handed monohull planing dinghy with a centerboard, Bermuda rig, and center sheeting. She won a world championship in the women's 420 at the age of 15, and a bronze medal in the world championships in the 470 six years later.
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Amir Kochavi
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- politician
- Biography
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Amir Kochavi is the mayor of Hod HaSharon, Israel.
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Eytan Ben-David
- Years
- 1963-.. (age 63)
- Biography
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Eytan Ben-David is a former senior Israel Security Agency official, currently serving as Acting National Security Advisor and Head of the National Security Council in the Office of the Prime Minister of Israel.
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Yossi Brodny
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- chief executive officerpoliticianmanager
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Yosef Brodny (Hebrew: יוסי ברודני; born 15 January 1971) is an Israeli politician who is the head of the electoral slate for The Jewish Home for the 2022 Israeli legislative election and has been the mayor of the Israeli city of Giv'at Shmuel since 2008.
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Meli Polishook-Bloch
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- advocatelawyerpolitician
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Meli Polishook-Bloch is an Israeli former politician who served as a member of the Knesset for Shinui and the Secular Faction between 2003 and 2006.
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Yuval Freilich
- Occupations
- fencer
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Yuval Shalom Freilich is an Israeli left-handed épée fencer, ranked 9th in the world in 2023-24. In both 2014 and 2015 Freilich won the European Men's Épée Junior Championship. He won the individual épée gold medal at the 2019 European Fencing Championships, the épée team silver medal with Israel at the 2022 European Fencing Championships, and the gold medal at the 2024 Epee Grand Prix event in Qatar.
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Yizhar Hess
- Occupations
- chief executive officermanagerjournalist
- Biography
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Yizhar Hess is Vice Chairman of the World Zionist Organization. He was elected to that role in 2020 as a representative of MERCAZ, the Zionist slate of the global Masorti/Conservative Movement. He is an activist and commentator on issues of religion and state in Israel, religious pluralism, and Israel-Diaspora relations. Hess previously served for thirteen years as CEO of the Masorti Movement in Israel.
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Doron Saphir
- Years
- 1959-.. (age 67)
- Occupations
- advocatemanagerlawyerchief executive officer
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Doron Sapir was the first deputy mayor of Tel Aviv – Jaffa between 1996-2024. He was also chairman of the building and Planning committee and a board member at the Dan Municipal Sanitation Association and is until today a board member at ISWA (International Solid Waste Association).
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Iftach Ian Amit
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Iftach Ian Amit is an Israeli security hacker/computer security researcher and practitioner. He is one of the co-founders of the Tel Aviv DEF CON Group DC9723, the Penetration Testing Execution Standard, and presented at security hacker conventions such as DEF CON, Black Hat, BlueHat, RSA Conference. He has been named SC Magazine's top experts and featured at Narratively's cover piece on Attack of the Superhackers and is frequently quoted and interviewed
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Udi Gal
- Occupations
- sailor
- Biography
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Udi Gal is an Israeli Olympic sailor, who is a sailing world championship three-time bronze medalist.
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Tomer Or
- Occupations
- fencer
- Biography
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Tomer Or is an Israeli foil fencer.
