100 Notable alumni of
University of Haifa
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The University of Haifa is 361st in the world, 69th 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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- military personnelpolitician
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Benjamin "Benny" Gantz is an Israeli politician and retired army general. He served as a minister without portfolio from 2023 to 2024, as the 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 Gallant
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- politicianmilitary personnelcivil servant
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Yoav Gallant is an Israeli politician and former military officer who served as minister of defense between 2022 and 2024. Gallant was an officer in the Southern Command of the Israel Defense Forces, serving in the Israeli Navy. 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, shortly after which he became minister of Aliyah and Integration. In 2020 he was appointed minister of education, and the following year became minister of defense. On 5 November 2024, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu announced that he had dismissed Gallant, effective 7 November, and sought to have Israel Katz replace him. Gallant subsequently resigned from the Knesset on 5 January 2025.
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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 from 2023 to 2024, as a minister without portfolio in Israel's unity 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 Israel-Hamas war.
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Moshe Ya'alon
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- politicianmilitary personnelmilitary 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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- spymilitary officer
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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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- politicianmilitary personnelmilitary 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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Idan Ofer
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- entrepreneurbusinessperson
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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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- politicianpolitical activistdentist
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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. He is a dentist by trade.
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Yifat Shasha-Biton
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- educatorpolitician
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Yifat Shasha-Biton is an Israeli educator and politician who served as Minister of Education between 2021 and 2022. She also served as a Member of the Knesset between 2015 and 2024, as minister without portfolio between 2023 and 2024, and as Minister of Construction and Housing from 2019 to 2020.
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Avigdor Kahalani
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- warriorpoliticianmilitary 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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- politician
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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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Ronen Bergman
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- opinion journalistjournalisttelevision presenterinvestigative journalisthistorian
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Ronen Bergman is an Israeli investigative journalist and author. He previously wrote for Haaretz, and as of 2010, was a senior political and military analyst for Yedioth Ahronoth. He won a Pulitzer Prize for his coverage of the Israel–Hamas war.
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Amichai Chikli
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- politician
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Amichai Chikli is an Israeli politician currently serving as the Minister of Diaspora Affairs. 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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Mazi Melesa Pilip
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- politician
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Mazi Melesa Pilip is an American politician in the Nassau County Legislature representing the 10th district. A Republican, she is an Ethiopian Jew who immigrated to Israel when she was 12 years old, and later served as a gunsmith in the Israel Defense Forces. After her IDF service, she attended college at the University of Haifa and graduate school at Tel Aviv University. She immigrated to the United States in 2005.
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Amikam Norkin
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- air force officermilitary aviator
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Aluf Amikam Norkin is a retired 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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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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Ofer Winter
- Enrolled in the University of Haifa
- Graduated with political science
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- military officer
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Ofer Winter is a retired IDF officer with the rank of Brigadier General, in the reserves since 2024. He served as the commander of 98th Paratroopers Division, the military secretary to the Israeli Minister of Defense, the Chief of Staff of the Central Command, the commander of the Givati Brigade, the commander of the Northern Brigade in the Gaza Strip, the commander of the 646 Brigade, the commander of the Duvdevan Unit, and the commander of the Givati Reconnaissance Battalion.
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Nadav Argaman
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- intelligence officer
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Nadav Argaman is a former 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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Isaac Mordechai
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- politicianmilitary personnelmilitary 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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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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Ram Ben-Barak
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- spypolitician
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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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Mickey Levy
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- businesspersonpoliticianpolice officer
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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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Mira Awad
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- songwriterstage actortelevision presenteractorlocal politician
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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 2, 2022.
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Asaf Hamami
- Enrolled in the University of Haifa
- Graduated with Master of Political Science in political science
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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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Eli Marom
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- naval 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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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 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 intelligence officer 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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Effi Eitam
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- politicianmilitary officer
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Efraim "Effi" Eitam is an Israeli brigadier general, former commander of the 91st Division, and 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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Aida Touma-Sliman
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- politicianactivist
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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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Ofir Sofer
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- politician
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Ofir Sofer is an Israeli politician. He is currently the Minister of Aliyah and Integration and a member of the Knesset for the National Religious Party–Religious Zionism.
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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 personnelmilitary officer
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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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- film directorjournalisttelevision presenter
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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." And he was in the Jess Webster film, the adult cartoons wars the final destination for vbirds (1978)
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Yoav Mordechai
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- military officer
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Yoav "Poli" Mordechai is a retired major general in the Israel Defense Forces.
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Naama Lazimi
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- politicianactivist
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Naama Lazimi is a politician and Member of the Knesset for the Democrats and previously 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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Ram Rothberg
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- naval officermilitary officer
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Aluf Ram Rothberg is a retired admiral in the Israel Defense Forces who was the head of the Israel Navy.
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Amram Mitzna
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- politicianmilitary officer
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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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Pedro Brieger
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- journalistsociologist
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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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Yaakov Amidror
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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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Shmuel Ben-Artzi
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- writerpoeteducator
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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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Carmi Gillon
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- politicianspydiplomat
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Carmi Gillon is an Israeli politician and a former Israeli ambassador to Denmark and head of Shin Bet, Israel's internal security service, from 1994 to 1996.
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Saar Salame
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- warriormilitary officer
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David Saar Salama is an Israeli Vice Admiral (Aluf) who currently serves as the commander of the Israeli Navy.
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Amir Haskel
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- historianmilitary officer
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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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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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Avi Benayahu
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- journalistmilitary officer
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Brigadier General Avraham "Avi" Benayahu, is a former Israel Defense Forces Spokesperson.
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Gadeer Mreeh
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- ambassador
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Gadeer Kamal-Mreeh is an Israeli Druze politician and journalist. She became the first Druze woman to anchor a Hebrew-language news program on Israeli television in 2017. In April 2019, she was elected to the Knesset as a member of the Blue and White alliance, making history as the first Druze woman to become a Member of the Knesset. She was subsequently elected to the Knesset as part of the Blue and White alliance in the September 2019 and March 2020 elections. She left Blue and White on 29 March 2020 and joined Yesh Atid. In June 2021, Kamal-Mreeh became the Jewish Agency's first Druze emissary to the US, based in Washington DC.
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Joseph Elron
- Enrolled in the University of Haifa
- In 1982 graduated with Bachelor of Laws
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- judge
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Joseph Elron is an Israeli judge who has served as a justice of the Supreme Court of Israel since 2017.
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Moti Yogev
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- politicianmilitary officer
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Mordechai "Moti" Yogev is a former IDF colonel and Israeli Jewish 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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Yom-Tov Samia
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- politicianmilitary officer
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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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Dan Harel
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- civil servantmilitary officer
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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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Sharon Afek
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- military personnelmilitary officer
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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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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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Yair Naveh
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- managerchief executive officermilitary 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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- university teacherhistorianphilosopherphilologist
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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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Moran Samuel
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- wheelchair basketball playerrowerbasketball 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. She won a gold medal competing for Israel at the 2024 Paris Paralympics in the Women's single sculls.
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Uri Sagi
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- chief executive officermilitary 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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Isaac 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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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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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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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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Israel Hasson
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- politicianmanagerbusinesspersonchief executive officer
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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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Ruth Calderon
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- pedagoguepoliticianactivisteducator
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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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Ghaida Rinawie Zoabi
- Enrolled in the University of Haifa
- Graduated with master's degree in literature
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- politician
- Biography
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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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Yochanan Vollach
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- businesspersonmilitary officerassociation football playerchief executive officerassociation 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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Eyal Ben-Reuven
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- politicianmilitary officer
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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
- Biography
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Majalli Wahabi is a 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 Acting President due to the President of Israel Mr. Moshe Katsav's leave of absence as well as due to Interim and Acting President of Israel Mrs. Dalia Itzik's diplomatic trips abroad that took place during 2007; making him the first non-jew and the first Druze to be Israel's acting head of state; although assuming it for a mere few short periods during that year.
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Meir Javedanfar
- Enrolled in the University of Haifa
- Graduated with Doctor of Philosophy
- Occupations
- journalist
- Biography
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Meir Javedanfar is an Iranian-born Israeli Middle East commentator and academic. He left Iran in 1987, and now lives in Israel. He has worked as a foreign affairs commentator at BBC Persian. With Yossi Melman, he co-authored The Nuclear Sphinx of Tehran: Mahmoud Ahmadinejad and the State of Iran.
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Aleksandr Lapshin
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- photographerexplorerblogger
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Alexander Valerievich Lapshin is a Soviet-born travel blogger and journalist. Lapshin holds Ukrainian and Israeli 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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Jacob Edery
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- politician
- Biography
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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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Yedidya Ya'ari
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- military officer
- Biography
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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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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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Azar Gat
- Enrolled in the University of Haifa
- Graduated with bachelor's degree
- Occupations
- university teacherhistorianauthormilitary historian
- Biography
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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 twelve 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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Gideon Ezra
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- businesspersonpoliticiangeographer
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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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Masud Ghnaim
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- politicianhistorianeducator
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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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Sheizaf Rafaeli
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- columnistcomputer scientistresearcherjournalist
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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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Heba Yazbak
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- sociologistpolitician
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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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Orna Berry
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- computer scientist
- Biography
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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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- politicianactoractivist
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Mehereta Baruch-Ron Hebrew: מהרטה ברוך-רון, born 3 December 1974) is a politician in the State of Israel.
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Yossi Yona
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- university teacherpoliticianactivisteducator
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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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Moshe Shahal
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- politicianadvocatelawyer
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Moshe Shahal is an Israeli former politician.
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Iman Khatib-Yasin
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- social workerpolitician
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Iman Khatib-Yassin is an Israeli Arab social worker and politician who currently serves as a member of the Knesset for the United Arab List. 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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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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Eli Somer
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- psychologistresearcher
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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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Salah Tarif
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- politician
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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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Fateen Mulla
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- politician
- Biography
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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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Zvi Gendelman
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- politicianmilitary officer
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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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Daniel Ben-Simon
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- writerjournalistpolitician
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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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David Ben-Besht
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- military officer
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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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Shalom Simhon
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- social workerpolitician
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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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Yechiel Leiter
- Enrolled in the University of Haifa
- Graduated with Doctor of Philosophy
- Occupations
- political scientistrabbi
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Yechiel "Michael" Leiter is an American-born Israeli historian of philosophy, public policy analyst, rabbi and settlement activist. He is a resident scholar at the Herzl Institute in Jerusalem. On January 24, 2025, he assumed the position of Israeli ambassador to the United States. He previously served as chief of staff to Benjamin Netanyahu at the Israeli Ministry of Finance and as political assistant to Ariel Sharon in the Israeli parliament. An ordained rabbi, Leiter has written three books and numerous essays on the politics of the Middle East. He is affiliated with the Kohelet Policy Forum.
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Eyal Zamir
- Enrolled in the University of Haifa
- Graduated with master's degree
- Occupations
- military officer
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Eyal Zamir is an Israeli retired Aluf, currently serving as Director-General of the Israeli Ministry of Defense. Zamir previously served as the Deputy Chief of Staff between December 2018 and July 2021, commander of the Southern Command, Military Secretary to the Prime Minister, commander of the 36th Division and commander of the 7th Armored Brigade. Zamir is the IDF's designated Chief of the General Staff, set to take office on 6 March 2025, contingent upon government approval.
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Eyal Doron
- Years
- 1969-.. (age 56)
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- writertelevision director
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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
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- writerhistorianpoetdiplomat
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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
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- 1949-.. (age 76)
- Occupations
- managerchief executive officer
- 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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Yehuda Lancry
- Enrolled in the University of Haifa
- Graduated with doctorate
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- politicianuniversity teacherdiplomat
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Dr Yehuda Lancry is a Moroccan-born former Israeli politician and ambassador to France and the United Nations.
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Shaul Arieli
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- opinion journalistpoliticianmilitary officer
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Shaul Arieli is an Israeli retired military officer and expert on the Israeli–Palestinian conflict.
