100 Notable alumni of
University of Haifa
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The University of Haifa is 389th in the world, 75th in Asia, and 4th in Israel by aggregated alumni prominence. Below is the list of 100 notable alumni from the University of Haifa sorted by their wiki pages popularity. The directory includes famous graduates and former students along with research and academic staff.
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Benny Gantz
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- politicianmilitary personnel
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Benjamin Gantz is an Israeli politician and retired army general who has served as minister without portfolio since 2023. Gantz also served as Minister of Defense between 2020 and 2022 and as deputy prime minister between 2021 and 2022. From 2020 to 2021, he was the alternate prime minister.
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Yoav Galant
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- military officerpolitician
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Yoav Gallant is an Israeli politician and retired military general. A member of the Knesset for Likud, he has served as Minister of Defense since 2022. He is a former commander of the Southern Command in the Israel Defense Forces. In January 2015, he entered politics, joining the new Kulanu party. After being elected to the Knesset, he was appointed Minister of Construction. At the end of 2018, he joined Likud. Gallant also previously held the posts of Minister of Aliyah and Integration and Minister of Education.
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Moshe Ya'alon
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- military personnelpoliticianmilitary officer
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Moshe "Bogie" Ya'alon is an Israeli politician and former Chief of Staff of the Israel Defense Forces, who also served as Israel's Defense Minister under Benjamin Netanyahu from 2013 until his resignation on 20 May 2016. Ya'alon ran for Knesset in 2019 as the number three member of the Blue and White party, a joint list created by the merging of the Israel Resilience Party, led by former IDF chief of staff Benny Gantz, and Yesh Atid, led by Yair Lapid. Ya'alon briefly served as the number 2 on the Yesh Atid-Telem list that was created following the 2020 Israeli legislative election. Ya'alon retired from politics in the lead up to the 2021 election after testing the waters by splitting his Telem party from Yesh Atid.
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Meir Dagan
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- military officerspy
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Aluf Meir Dagan was an Israel Defense Forces Major General (reserve) and Director of the Mossad.
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Gabi Ashkenazi
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- military personnelpoliticianmilitary officer
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Gabriel "Gabi" Ashkenazi is an Israeli politician and former military leader. He previously served as the Minister of Foreign Affairs. He was the Chief of General Staff of the Israel Defense Forces from 2007 to 2011. Ashkenazi served as a member of Blue and White in the Knesset.
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Gadi Eisenkot
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- military officer
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Gadi Eisenkot, also spelt Eizenkot, is an Israeli general and politician from the Israeli National Unity party. He served as the 21st Chief of Staff of the Israel Defense Forces from 2015 to 2019 and as of 2023, serves as a minister without portfolio in Israel's government. Eisenkot, who grew up in Eilat, pursued maritime studies and later served in the IDF's Golani Brigade. He holds a B.A. in History from Tel Aviv University and a post-graduate degree in Political Science from Haifa University. Married with five children, he resides in Herzliya. One of his sons, Gal was killed in action during the 2023 Israel-Hamas war.
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Idan Ofer
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- entrepreneurbusinesspersoninternational forum participant
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Idan Ofer is an Israeli billionaire businessman and philanthropist, with interests in shipping, energy, mining and sports. He is the founder of the principal of the Quantum Pacific Group, a holding company. He is majority shareholder of the Israel Corporation, listed on the Tel Aviv Stock Exchange, as well as Kenon Holdings, listed on the Tel Aviv and New York Stock Exchange. He is also the owner of the Israeli holding company Lynav Holdings and the Dutch-based Ansonia Holdings.
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Mansour Abbas
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- politiciandentist
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Mansour Abbas is an Israeli Arab politician. He is currently the leader of the United Arab List and represents the party in the Knesset. He was appointed as the chair of Special Committee on Arab Society Affairs in the Knesset on 27 April 2021. In 2021, Abbas made history by becoming the first Israeli Arab political leader to join an Israeli governing coalition.
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Yifat Shasha-Biton
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- politicianeducator
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Yifat Shasha-Biton is an Israeli educator and politician. She was appointed Minister of Education in June 2021. She was elected to the twenty-fourth Knesset on the New Hope list, after serving as an MK for Kulanu and Likud. She held the post of Minister of Construction and Housing from 2019 to 2020. She serves as a minister without portfolio in the Thirty-seventh government of Israel.
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Avigdor Kahalani
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- politicianwarriormilitary officer
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Tat Aluf Avigdor Kahalani (Hebrew: אביגדור קהלני, born 16 June 1944) is a former Israeli soldier and politician.
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Moshe Kahlon
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- international forum participantpolitician
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Moshe Kahlon is a retired Israeli politician. Between 2003 and 2013 he served as a member of the Knesset for Likud, and as Minister of Communications and Minister of Welfare & Social Services. After taking a break from politics, he founded the Kulanu party in 2014, and returned to the Knesset the following year. In 2015, he was appointed Minister of Finance in the Netanyahu IV cabinet. On 12 January 2020, Kahlon announced that he would be retiring from politics.
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Amichai Chikli
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- politician
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Amichai Chikli is an Israeli politician who serves as the Minister of Diaspora Affairs and the Minister for Social Equality. He served in the 24th Knesset as part of the Yamina party slate, and in the 25th Knesset as part of Likud.
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Amikam Norkin
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- military aviatorair force officer
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Aluf Amikam Norkin is an Israeli general, who served as commander of the Israeli Air Force (IAF) from 2017 to 2022. Before his selection to succeed Amir Eshel as commander of the IAF, Norkin served as head of the IDF Planning Directorate.
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Ronen Bergman
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- political analystwriterhistorianinvestigative journalisttelevision presenter
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Ronen Bergman is an Israeli investigative journalist and author. He is a senior political and military analyst for Yedioth Ahronoth, Israel's largest-circulation daily.
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Tal Russo
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- military officer
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Tal Rousso is a general of the Israel Defense Forces, serving in the reserves. He heads the IDF's Depth Corps. He also served as an MK for the Labor Party.
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Yitzhak Mordechai
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- military personnelpoliticianmilitary officer
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Yitzhak "Itzik" Mordechai is an Israeli former general and politician. He served as a member of the Knesset between 1996 and 2001, and as Minister of Defense and Minister of Transport. He retired from political life after being indicted for sexual assaults during his military service and later periods.
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Nadav Argaman
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- intelligence officer
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Nadav Argaman was director of Shin Bet from 8 May 2016 to 13 October 2021. He previously served as deputy head of Shin Bet, Operations Division chief, and the Shin Bet representative in the United States. He was appointed by Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on 11 February 2016 and assumed office in May 2016.
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Roni Alsheikh
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- police officer
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Roni Alsheikh is an Israeli former intelligence officer and head of the Israel Police. After serving as an officer in the Israel Defense Forces, Alsheikh joined Shin Bet and rose to become its deputy head before being appointed General Commissioner of the Israel Police, serving in the role from 2015 to 2018.
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Mickey Levy
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- police officerpoliticianbusinessperson
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Mickey Levy is an Israeli politician who currently serves as a member of the Knesset for Yesh Atid and is a former Speaker of the Knesset. He served as Deputy Minister of Finance between 2013 and 2014. Before entering politics, he was a police officer.
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Ram Ben-Barak
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- politicianspy
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Ram Ben-Barak is an Israeli politician and former member of the Israeli security forces. He served as deputy director of the Mossad and director general of the Ministry of Intelligence Services and the Ministry of Strategic Affairs.
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Mira Awad
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- stage actorlocal politiciancomposertelevision presenteractor
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Mīrā Anwar ‘Awaḍ is an Arab-Israeli singer-songwriter, actress, television host, and political activist of Palestinian Arab and Bulgarian descent.
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Amir Eshel
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- air force officer
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Amir Eshel is a former Israeli general who served as commander of the Israeli Air Force and served as Director General of the Israeli Ministry of Defense until January 2nd 2022.
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Carine Goren
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- pastry chef
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Carine Goren is an Israeli pastry chef, bestselling cookbook author, and television personality. She began her culinary career at age 26 as a recipe writer and editor at the Israeli food magazine Al Hashulchan (Around the Table), and in 2006 published her first dessert cookbook, Sweet Secrets. As of 2016 she has published five cookbooks, including one for children, and is the host of her own television baking show, also called Sweet Secrets. In 2016, she became a judge on the new Israeli reality television show Bake-Off Israel. She was the most googled person in Israel in 2015.
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Yuval Diskin
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Yuval Diskin is a former Director of the Israeli Internal Security Service Shabak (frequently referred to in English as the "Shin Bet"), serving as its 13th director from 2005 to 2011. He was appointed by Prime Minister Ariel Sharon, and later served under subsequent Prime Ministers Ehud Olmert and Benjamin Netanyahu.
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Yoram Cohen
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Yoram Cohen is a retired Israeli security person who served as the Director of Shin Bet, from May 15, 2011 until May 8, 2016, when he was replaced by Nadav Argaman.
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Eli Marom
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- military officer
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Eliezer Marom ("Chayni") (Hebrew: אליעזר "אלי" מרום "צ'ייני", born in 1955, Sde Eliezer, Upper Galilee, Israel) is the former Commander of the Israeli Navy serving from 2007 to 2011. As of 2015 he serves as the head of the Israel Airports Authority.
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Aida Touma-Sliman
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- activistpolitician
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Aida Touma-Suleiman is an Israeli Arab journalist and politician. She has been a member of the Knesset for Hadash since 2015.
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Effi Eitam
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- military officerpolitician
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Efraim "Effi" Eitam (Hebrew: אפרים "אפי" איתם, born 25 July 1952) is an Israeli brigadier general, former commander of the 91st Division, and a politician. A former leader of the National Religious Party, he later led a breakaway faction, Ahi, which merged into Likud in 2009. He served as a member of the Knesset between 2003 and 2009.
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Erez Gerstein
- Enrolled in the University of Haifa
- Graduated with bachelor's degree in political science
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- military officermilitary personnel
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Erez Gerstein was an Israeli Brigadier General (Tat Aluf) who commanded the Israel Defense Forces Lebanon Liaison Unit and died in the South Lebanon conflict (1985–2000) with Hezbollah and Lebanese proxy militias.
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Haim Yavin
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- television presenterjournalistfilm director
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Haim Yavin is an Israeli television anchor and documentary filmmaker. He was one of Israel's leading news presenters, associated with the job for so many decades that he was known as "Mr. Television."
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Ram Rothberg
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- military officernaval officer
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Aluf Ram Rothberg is an admiral in the Israel Defense Forces who was the head of the Israel Navy.
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Amram Mitzna
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- military officerpolitician
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Amram Mitzna is an Israeli politician and former general in the IDF. He is a former mayor of Haifa (1993–2003) and Yeruham (2005–2010) and led the Labor Party from 2002 to 2003. In 2012 he joined Hatnuah.
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Yoav Mordechai
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- military officer
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Yoav "Poli" Mordechai is a retired major general in the Israel Defense Forces. He concluded his 36-year career in the IDF in 2018 as the Coordinator of Government Activities in the Territories.
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Eli Sharvit
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- military officer
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Aluf Eli Sharvit is a general in the Israel Defense Forces who served as the Commander of the Israeli Navy between 2016 and 2021.
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Amir Haskel
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- military officerhistorian
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Amir Abraham Haskel is an IDF Brigadier General and Air Force Pilot in reserve and a researcher of the Holocaust. Haskel is one of the prominent figures in the ongoing wave of protests against Benjamin Netanyahu.
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Yaakov Amidror
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- 1948-.. (age 76)
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- military officer
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Yaakov Amidror is a former major general and National Security Advisor of Israel, and was also the head of the Research Department of Israeli military intelligence. Today, he is the Anne and Greg Rosshandler Senior Fellow at the Jerusalem Institute for Strategic Studies, a conservative security think tank.
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Carmi Gillon
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- diplomatspypolitician
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Carmi Gillon is an Israeli politician and a former Israeli ambassador to Denmark and head of Shabak, the internal General Security Service (GSS; Israeli Security Agency, ISA) of Israel.
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Shmuel Ben-Artzi
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- writereducatorpoet
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Shmuel Ben-Artzi was a Polish-born Israeli writer, poet and educator. Ben-Artzi was also the father in-law of Israeli prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu.
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Naama Lazimi
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- activistpolitician
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Naama Lazimi is a politician and Member of the Knesset for the Labor Party. Previously, she was a member of the Haifa City Council and vice chairman of the Student Association at the University of Haifa. She is also involved in LGBT rights activism.
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Avi Benayahu
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- military officerjournalist
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Brigadier General Avraham "Avi" Benayahu, is a former Israel Defense Forces Spokesperson.
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Moti Yogev
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- military officerpolitician
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Mordechai "Moti" Yogev is a former IDF colonel and Israeli politician who served as a member of the Knesset for the Jewish Home between 2013 and 2020. He was formerly the Secretary General of Bnei Akiva, Chairman of the Company for the Reconstruction and Development of the Jewish Quarter, and Deputy and Acting Head of the Mateh Binyamin Regional Council.
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Gadeer Mreeh
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- ambassador
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Gadeer Kamal-Mreeh is an Israeli Druze politician and journalist. She became the first Druze woman to anchor a Hebrew-language news program on Israeli television in 2017. In April 2019, she was elected to the Knesset as a member of the Blue and White alliance, making history as the first Druze woman to become a Member of the Knesset. She was subsequently elected to the Knesset as part of the Blue and White alliance in the September 2019 and March 2020 elections. She left Blue and White on 29 March 2020 and joined Yesh Atid. In June 2021, Kamal-Mreeh became the Jewish Agency's first Druze emissary to the U.S., based in Washington D.C.
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Yosef Elron
- Enrolled in the University of Haifa
- In 1982 graduated with Bachelor of Laws
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- judge
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Yosef Elron is an Israeli judge who has served as a justice of the Supreme Court of Israel since 2017.
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Yom-Tov Samia
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- military officerpolitician
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Yom Tov Samia is a retired Israeli general. He was head of the Israel Defense Forces' Southern Command from January 2001 to December 2003. He retired from military service as a major general.
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Haim Bibas
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- politician
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Haim Bibas is the third mayor of Modi'in-Maccabim-Re'ut, an Israeli city, in office since 2008. Bibas has lived there with his wife and three children since 1997. He is the head of The Federation of Local Authorities in Israel since 2014.
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Anna Azari
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- diplomat
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Anna Azari is an Israeli diplomat, and the current Ambassador of Israel to the Czech Republic. She has previously been Israel's Ambassador to Russia (2006–2010) and Poland (2014–2019).
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Sharon Afek
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- military officermilitary personnel
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Sharon Afek is the Deputy Attorney General (Director of Legal Counsel and Legislative Affairs) in the Israel's Ministry of Justice. Previously, Afek was the chief military advocate general of the Israel Defense Forces (IDF) in 2015–2021.
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Saar Salame
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- military officerwarrior
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David Saar Salama is an IDF Major General (Aluf) who currently serves as the commander of the Israeli navy.
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Dan Harel
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- military officercivil servant
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Aluf Dan Harel is a retired general in the Israel Defense Forces and a former Deputy Chief of the General Staff. Harel served as the Director General of the Ministry of Defense from 2013 to 2016.
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Yair Naveh
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- chief executive officermanagermilitary officer
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Yair Naveh is a major general in the Israel Defense Forces and a former Deputy Chief of the General Staff. In 1975, he was drafted into the IDF where he served in all positions in the Golani Infantry Brigade from Company Commander to Brigade Commander. He lives in Zikhron Ya'akov.
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Moshe Idel
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- historianuniversity teacherphilologistphilosopher
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Moshe Idel is a Romanian-born Israeli historian and philosopher of Jewish mysticism. He is Emeritus Max Cooper Professor in Jewish Thought at the Hebrew University, Jerusalem, and a Senior Researcher at the Shalom Hartman Institute.
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Pedro Brieger
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- sociologistjournalist
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Pedro Rubén Brieger is an Argentine journalist and sociologist. He is a professor of Middle East Sociology at the University of Buenos Aires Faculty of Social Sciences. He worked for different newspapers, including Clarín, El Cronista, La Nación, Página/12, Perfil and Miami Herald; and magazines like Noticias, Tres Puntos, Revista Veintitrés and Le Monde diplomatique.
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Salman Zarka
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- physicianresearcher
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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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Yitzhak Aharonovich
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- politician
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Yitzhak Aharonovich is an Israeli businessman and former politician. He served as a member of the Knesset for Yisrael Beiteinu between 2006 and 2015, and also held the posts of Minister of Tourism and Minister of Public Security. He is currently Chairman of Mekorot.
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Ghaida Rinawie Zoabi
- Enrolled in the University of Haifa
- Graduated with master's degree in literature
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- politician
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Ghaida Rinawie Zoabi is an Israeli Arab activist, politician and diplomat. She was a member of the Knesset representing Meretz from 2021 to 2022.
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Moran Samuel
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- rowerwheelchair basketball playerbasketball player
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Moran Samuel is an Israeli paralympic basketball player and world champion rower. She was chosen to light a ceremonial torch on Israel's Independence Day in 2019. She represented Israel at the 2020 Summer Paralympics.
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Moshe Karadi
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- police officer
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Moshe Karadi is a former Israeli police officer and general commissioner of the Israel Police between 2004 and May 1, 2007.
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Lorenzo Dellai
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- politician
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Lorenzo Dellai is an Italian politician. He is a former member of the Chamber of Deputies, former mayor of Trento, former governor of the Autonomous Province of Trento, and former president of the region of Trentino-Alto Adige/Südtirol.
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Ruth Calderon
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- educatoractivistpoliticianpedagogue
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Ruth Calderon is an Israeli academic and politician. She served as a member of Knesset for Yesh Atid between 2013 and 2015.
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Yochanan Vollach
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- chief executive officerassociation football playermilitary officerbusinesspersonassociation football manager
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Yochanan Vollach is an Israeli former footballer. He was a member of the Israel national team that competed at the 1970 FIFA World Cup. He is a member of the Israeli Football Hall of Fame.
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Uri Sagi
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- military officerchief executive officer
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Uri Sagi is an Israeli retired general who held several prominent posts including commander of the Golani Brigade and chief of the IDF's Military Intelligence Directorate.
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Yisrael Hasson
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- managerpoliticianchief executive officerbusinessperson
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Yisrael Hasson is an Israeli politician and former Deputy Director of Shin Bet. He served as a member of the Knesset for Yisrael Beiteinu and Kadima between 2006 and 2014, before becoming Chairman of the Israel Antiquities Authority.
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Ariel Kellner
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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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Yaakov Edri
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- politician
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Ya'akov Edri is an Israeli politician, serving as the mayor of Or Akiva. He served as a member of the Knesset for Likud and Kadima between 2003 and 2013, as well as holding the posts of Minister of Immigrant Absorption, Minister of Negev and Galilee Development, Minister of Health and a Minister without Portfolio.
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Mtanes Shehadeh
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- politician
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Mtanes Shehadeh is an Israeli Arab politician. A former leader of the Balad, he served as a member of the Knesset from 2019 to 2021.
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Eyal Ben-Reuven
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- military officerpolitician
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Aluf Eyal Ben-Reuven is a retired major general in the Israel Defense Forces and commander of the IDF Military Colleges and senior field commander. He is the former deputy commander of the Northern Command, for which he still serves as a reserve.
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Majalli Wahabi
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- politician
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Majalli Wahabi is an Druze-Israeli politician who served as a member of the Knesset for Likud, Kadima and Hatnuah between 2003 and 2013. He briefly assumed the position of Israel's Acting President due to President Moshe Katzav's leave of absence and Interim President Dalia Itzik's trip abroad in February 2007, making him the first non-Jew and the first Druze to be Israel's acting head of state.
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Yedidya Ya'ari
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- military officer
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Yedidya Ya'ari was the commander of the Israeli Navy from 2000 to 2004. He was succeeded by David Ben Ba'ashat.
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Aleksandr Lapshin
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- explorerphotographerblogger
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Alexander Valerievich Lapshin is a Soviet-born travel blogger and journalist. Lapshin holds Russian, Israeli, and Ukrainian citizenship. In 2016 Lapshin was arrested in Minsk at the request of the Azerbaijani authorities and extradited to Baku due to a visit to Nagorno-Karabakh. On May 20, 2021, the European Court of Human Rights in Strasbourg ruled on the blogger's complaint against the Republic of Azerbaijan, finding the country's authorities responsible for the illegal arrest, torture and attempted murder against Lapshin.
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Masud Ghnaim
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- historianpoliticianeducator
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Masud Ghnaim is an Israeli Arab politician. He served as a member of the Knesset for the United Arab List between 2009 and 2019.
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Azar Gat
- Enrolled in the University of Haifa
- Graduated with bachelor's degree
- Occupations
- military historianauthorhistorianuniversity teacher
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Azar Gat is an Israeli researcher of war, nationalism and ideology, and a professor at the School of Political Science, Government, and International Relations at Tel Aviv University. His research combines expertise in the fields of history, evolution, anthropology, and social sciences. He is the author of ten books that deal with the history of military thought, the fundamental questions of war and its causes, the struggles between democratic and non-democratic states, nationalism, and the phenomenon of ideological fixation. His books have been translated into many languages.
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Yossi Yona
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- educatoractivistpoliticianuniversity teacher
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Yosef "Yossi" Yona is an Israeli academic and politician. He served as a member of the Knesset for the Labor Party between 2015 and 2019.
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Sheizaf Rafaeli
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- journalistresearchercomputer scientistcolumnist
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Sheizaf Rafaeli is an Israeli researcher, scholar of computer-mediated communication and newspaper columnist. He is professor and dean at the School of Management (Graduate School of Business Administration) Haifa GSB, University of Haifa Israel and additionally director of the Center for Internet Research Center for Internet Research and the Games for Managers Project. In the 1980s and 1990s he served as head of the Information Systems area at the Graduate School of business in the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. He is a senior research fellow at the Samuel Neaman Institute for National Policy, Technion.
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Orna Berry
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- computer scientist
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Orna Berry, is an Israeli computer scientist, high-tech entrepreneur, and senior executive in the Israeli science and technology industries. In 1996, Berry became the first woman to serve as chief scientist and head of the industrial R&D operation of the Israeli Ministry of Industry, Trade and Labour. She was awarded the "Yekirat Hanegev" award from Ben-Gurion University of the Negev in 2012.
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Mehereta Baruch-Ron
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- actorpoliticianactivist
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Mehereta Baruch-Ron is a politician in the State of Israel.
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Heba Yazbak
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- politiciansociologist
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Heba Yazbak is an Israeli Arab politician, sociologist and academic. She served as a member of the Knesset for Balad and the Joint List from 2019 to 2021.
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Gideon Ezra
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- politicianbusinesspersongeographer
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Gideon Ezra was an Israeli politician. He served as a member of the Knesset for Likud and Kadima between 1996 and 2012, and also held several ministerial portfolios.
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Dov Tamari
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- military officer
- Biography
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Dov Tamari was an Israeli military leader. He retired as a brigadier general. He held several prominent posts, including the IDF's Chief Intelligence Officer.
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Fateen Mulla
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- politician
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Fateen Mulla is an Israeli Druze politician. He served as a member of the Knesset for Likud in two spells between 2019 and 2022 and served as Deputy Minister in the Prime Minister's Office.
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Eli Somer
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- psychologist
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Eli Somer (Hebrew: אלי זומר; born 1951) is an Israeli Professor of Clinical Psychology at the University of Haifa, School of Social Work. He is the former President of both the European Society for Trauma and Dissociation (ESTD, 2009-2011) and the International Society for the Study of Trauma and Dissociation (ISSTD, 2005-2006), and serves as scientific advisor in Trauma and Dissociation Israel.
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Moshe Shahal
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- politicianlawyeradvocate
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Moshe Shahal is a former Israeli politician.
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Asaf Hamami
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- military officer
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Asaf Hamami was an IDF officer with the rank of colonel, serving as the commander of the Southern Brigade in the Gaza Strip. Prior to that, he served as the commander of the Negev Brigade, commander of the Oz Brigade training school, and commander of the Tzabar Battalion.
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Zvi Gendelman
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- military officerpolitician
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Zvi "Zvika" Gendelman is an Israeli politician who is the current mayor of Hadera. He is also a former Brigadier-general in the Israel Defense Forces. A member of a centrist independent political group, Gendelman was elected in the 2013 municipal elections, defeating then-Mayor Chaim Avitan. He was re-elected in 2018.
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Yusef Mishleb
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- military officer
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Aluf Yusef Mishleb (sometimes spelled Yosef Mishlev) (Arabic: يوسف مشلب, Hebrew: יוסף מישלב; born 1952) is a retired Druze general in the Israel Defense Forces serving last in the position as the Coordinator of Government Activities in the Territories. Mishleb retired in September 2008 after four years in the job and over 35 years in the Israel Defense Forces.
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Salah Tarif
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- politician
- Biography
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Salah Tarif is a Druze Israeli politician who served as a member of the Knesset between 1992 and 2006. When appointed Minister without Portfolio by Ariel Sharon in 2001, he became Israel's first non-Jewish government minister.
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Daniel Ben-Simon
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- journalistwriterpolitician
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Daniel Ben-Simon is an Israeli journalist and politician, who served as a member of the Knesset for the Labor Party between 2009 and 2013.
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Iman Khatib-Yasin
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- politiciansocial worker
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Iman Khatib-Yassin is an Israeli Arab social worker and politician. A member of the United Arab List party, she was first elected to the Knesset in 2020 as a member of the Joint List, becoming the first woman from the United Arab List and the first hijab-wearing woman elected to the Knesset.
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Shalom Simhon
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- politiciansocial worker
- Biography
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Shalom Simhon is an Israeli politician and former member of the Knesset for Independence and the Labor Party. He previously served as the Minister of Industry, Trade and Labour and Minister of Minorities in the Israeli cabinet.
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Eyal Doron
- Years
- 1969-.. (age 55)
- Occupations
- writer
- Biography
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Eyal Doron is a lecturer and researcher in the field of creative thinking, author, executive coach and organizational consultant in Israel and worldwide, and head of the executive management program at the Reichman University. Formerly a TV and theater creator. In recent years Doron has been engaged in the field of creative education and the challenges of the new world of work in the technological age with the rise of artificial intelligence.
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Reda Mansour
- Occupations
- poethistorianwriterdiplomat
- Biography
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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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Amos Shapira
- Years
- 1949-.. (age 75)
- Occupations
- chief executive officermanager
- Biography
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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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David Ben-Besht
- Occupations
- military officer
- Biography
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David Ben-Besht is a general in the Israel Defense Forces. Until 2007 he was commander of the Israeli Navy.
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Amir Gal-Or
- Occupations
- entrepreneur
- Biography
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Amir Gal-Or is an Israeli businessman renowned for his extensive and distinguished experience in venture capital, cutting-edge technologies, and East Asian enterprises. He is the founder and managing partner of Infinity Group, and founder and chairman of Innonation. Gal-Or served as a pilot in the Israeli Air Force.
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Shaul Arieli
- Occupations
- politicianopinion journalistmilitary officer
- Biography
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Shaul Arieli is an Israeli retired military officer and expert on the Israeli–Palestinian conflict.
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Ishmael Khaldi
- Occupations
- diplomat
- Biography
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Ismail Khaldi is the first Bedouin diplomat in the Israeli Ministry of Foreign Affairs.
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Ilan Shohat
- Occupations
- politician
- Biography
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Ilan Shohat is an Israeli politician, and the mayor of Safed in the Israeli Galilee since 2008.
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Mufid Mari
- Occupations
- military officerpolitician
- Biography
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Mufid Mari is an Israeli Druze politician. He was a member in the Knesset for Blue and White from 2021 to 2022.
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Aaron Ben-Ze'ev
- Years
- 1949-.. (age 75)
- Occupations
- philosopheruniversity teacher
- Biography
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Aaron Ben-Ze'ev is an Israeli philosopher. He was President of the University of Haifa from 2004 to 2012.
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Simona Sharoni
- Years
- 1961-.. (age 63)
- Occupations
- sociologist
- Biography
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Simona Sharoni is a feminist scholar and activist who is currently Professor of Women’s and Gender Studies at Merrimack College.
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Dana Amir
- Enrolled in the University of Haifa
- Graduated with Doctor of Philosophy
- Occupations
- poetresearcherwriterpsychologist
- Biography
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Dana Amir is a full professor at Haifa University, clinical psychologist, psychoanalyst, poet and literature researcher.
