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TEL AVIV

Most Famous People Born in Tel Aviv, Israel

Notable people
911
Peak decade
1940s
Median birth year
1953
Most distinctive
Rabbi 11.8×

The Bauhaus beach city is essentially the secular twin of its uphill sibling, and the roster follows suit: a Rabbi bench running at better than eleven times the global baseline sits alongside disproportionate Conductor, Photographer, and Mathematician counts. Central European émigrés stepped off the boats in the 1930s with violins and proof techniques in their luggage, and the city never got over it.

Through the Decades

One face per decade — the most globally famous figure born in Tel Aviv during each.

Notable Births by Decade

Click a decade to filter the list below. Peak: 1940s with 167 notable births.

What Tel Aviv Is Known For

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Politician is Tel Aviv's biggest profession — 7% of all notables (62).

Tel Aviv over-indexes on rabbi11.8× the global rate.

Tel Aviv under-produces politician — only 0.6× the global rate.

  1. Politician62
  2. Football60
  3. Actor55
  4. Singer43
  5. Composer30
  6. Film27
  7. Writer26
  8. Artist26
  1. Rabbi1211.8×
  2. Conductor125.1×
  3. Photographer214.8×
  4. Mathematician194.2×
  5. Entrepreneur113.5×
  6. Artist262.8×
  7. Diplomat142.6×
  8. Composer302.5×
  1. Politician620.6×
  2. Football600.6×
  3. Player120.7×

Profession Mix Over Time

Each band shows a profession family's share of Tel Aviv's notable births by decade. Hover the chart for the breakdown at any decade.

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911 notable people

0001 POLITICIAN

Benjamin Netanyahu

Born 1949

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0002 PSYCHOLOGIST

Daniel Kahneman

Born 1934

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0003 SINGER

Ofra Haza

1957 - 2000

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0004 ACTOR

Chaim Topol

Born 1935

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0005 SINGER

Dana International

Born 1969

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0006 ILLUSIONIST

Uri Geller

Born 1946

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0007 ACTOR

Yvan Attal

Born 1965

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0008 SINGER

Achinoam Nini

Born 1969

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0009 ACTOR

Oded Fehr

Born 1970

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0010 ACTOR

Ayelet Zurer

Born 1969

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0011 JOURNALIST

Yair Lapid

Born 1963

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0012 COMMANDER

Ezer Weizman

1924 - 2005

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0013 CONDUCTOR

Pinchas Zukerman

Born 1948

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0014 SINGER

Arik Einstein

1939 - 2013

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0015 MATHEMATICIAN

Adi Shamir

Born 1952

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0016 POLITICIAN

Tzipi Livni

Born 1958

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0017 COMPUTER SCIENTIST

Judea Pearl

Born 1936

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0018 FASHION MODEL

Esti Ginzburg

Born 1990

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0019 PHYSICIST

Dan Shechtman

Born 1941

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0020 ARCHITECT

Ron Arad (industrial designer)

Born 1951

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0021 WRITER

Gilad Atzmon

Born 1963

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0022 PRODUCER

Borgore

Born 1987

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0023 JOURNALIST

Gideon Levy

Born 1953

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0024 PHYSICIST

Yuval Ne'eman

1925 - 2006

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0025 POLITICIAN

Isaac Herzog

Born 1960

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0026 SINGER

Ilanit

Born 1947

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0027 PAINTER

Yoram Kaniuk

1930 - 2013

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0028 SCULPTOR

Dani Karavan

Born 1930

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0029 POET

Hanoch Levin

1943 - 1999

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0030 POET

Haim Gouri

1923 - 2018

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0031 POLITICIAN

Shulamit Aloni

1928 - 2014

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0032 COMPOSER

Miri Ben-Ari

Born 1978

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0033 FILM

Boaz Davidson

Born 1943

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0034 COMPOSER

Shuki Levy

Born 1947

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0035 AIR FORCE

Dan Halutz

Born 1948

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0036 NOVELIST

Batya Gur

1947 - 2005

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0037 SONGWRITER

Nurit Hirsh

Born 1942

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0038 PRODUCER

Subliminal (rapper)

Born 1979

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0039 ACTOR

Daphne Rosen

Born 1982

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0040 ARTIST

Rutu Modan

Born 1966

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0041 ARTIST

Menashe Kadishman

1932 - 2015

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0042 POLITICIAN

Ayelet Shaked

Born 1976

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0043 SINGER

Oren Lavie

Born 1976

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0044 FILM

Uri Zohar

Born 1935

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0045 SINGER

Noam Kaniel

Born 1962

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0046 POET

Yona Wallach

1944 - 1985

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0047 FOOTBALL

Eliran Atar

Born 1987

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0048 PRODUCER

Offer Nissim

Born 1964

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0049 HISTORIAN

Michael Wolffsohn

Born 1947

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0050 PHYSICIST

Amnon Yariv

Born 1930

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0051 MUSIC

Avishai Cohen (trumpeter)

Born 1978

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0052 BASKET

Yotam Halperin

Born 1984

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0053 JOURNALIST

Ronen Bergman

Born 1972

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0054 JUDO

Yael Arad

Born 1967

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0055 FOOTBALL

Tamir Cohen

Born 1984

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0056 SCULPTOR

Moshe Gershuni

1936 - 2017

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0057 SINGER

Yoav (musician)

Born 1979

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0058 FOOTBALL

Avi Nimni

Born 1972

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0059 DANCER

Samy Molcho

Born 1936

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0060 ACTOR

Eyal Podell

Born 1975

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0061 SINGER

Riff Cohen

Born 1984

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0062 POLITICIAN

Efraim Sneh

Born 1944

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0063 SCULPTOR

Amos Kenan

1927 - 2009

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0064 WRITER

Orly Castel-Bloom

Born 1960

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0065 COMPOSER

Dror Feiler

Born 1951

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0066 SCULPTOR

Uri Katzenstein

1951 - 2018

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0067 POLITICIAN

Geulah Cohen

1925 - 2019

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0068 PSYCHOLOGIST

Haim Ginott

1922 - 1973

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0069 ARTIST

Michal Rovner

Born 1957

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0070 MUSIC

Sharon Bezaly

Born 1972

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0071 POLITICIAN

Yuli Tamir

Born 1954

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0072 PHYSICIAN

Aryeh Eldad

Born 1950

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0073 CONDUCTOR

Daniel Oren

Born 1955

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0074 FOOTBALL

Sheran Yeini

Born 1986

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0075 SINGER

Carmela Corren

Born 1938

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0076 ACTOR

Yehezkel Lazarov

Born 1974

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0077 MUSIC

Yaron Herman

Born 1981

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0078 PAINTER

Bracha L. Ettinger

Born 1948

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0079 FILM

Oded Kotler

Born 1937

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0080 PROFESSOR

Oded Goldreich

Born 1957

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0081 LINGUIST

Itamar Even-Zohar

Born 1939

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0082 PHYSICIST

Yoseph Imry

1939 - 2018

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0083 COMPOSER

Shulamit Ran

Born 1949

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0084 PLAYWRIGHT

Nisim Aloni

1926 - 1998

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0085 POLITICIAN

Gideon Sa'ar

Born 1966

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0086 PLAYER

Denis Shapovalov

Born 1999

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0087 PLAYER

Amos Mansdorf

Born 1965

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0088 POET

David Avidan

1934 - 1995

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0089 COMPOSER

Noam Sheriff

1935 - 2018

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0090 MATHEMATICIAN

Gil Kalai

Born 1955

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0091 MATHEMATICIAN

Joram Lindenstrauss

1936 - 2012

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0092 ACTOR

Netta Garti

Born 1980

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0093 CLARINET

Anat Cohen

Born 1975

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0094 PAINTER

Tal R

Born 1967

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0095 DIPLOMAT

Avi Primor

Born 1935

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0096 PLAYER

Tzipora Obziler

Born 1973

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0097 EDUCATION

Amnon Rubinstein

Born 1931

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0098 MATHEMATICIAN

Ronald Coifman

Born 1941

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0099 OFFICER

Benny Peled

1928 - 2002

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0100 PHOTOGRAPHER

Nadav Kander

Born 1961

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0101 PHYSICIST

Nathan Seiberg

Born 1956

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0102 ACTOR

Zaharira Harifai

1929 - 2013

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0103 WRESTLER

Noam Dar

Born 1993

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0104 FILM

Uri Barbash

Born 1946

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0105 SCULPTOR

Micha Ullman

Born 1939

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0106 FOOTBALL

Menachem Bello

Born 1947

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0107 MUSIC

Yoni Rechter

Born 1951

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0108 SINGER

Dennis Lloyd

Born 1993

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0109 BIOLOGIST

Ruth Arnon

Born 1933

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0110 SINGER

Assaf Amdursky

Born 1971

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0111 HISTORIAN

Gideon Greif

Born 1951

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0112 BIOLOGIST

Mayana Zatz

Born 1947

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0113 ACTOR

Noa Tishby

Born 1977

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0114 OFFICER

Michael Harari

1927 - 2014

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0115 POET

Benny Ziffer

Born 1953

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0116 FOOTBALL

Alon Mizrahi

Born 1971

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0117 WRITER

Doron Rabinovici

Born 1961

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0118 ACTOR

Anat Atzmon

Born 1958

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0119 JUDGE

Elyakim Rubinstein

Born 1947

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0120 FILM

Avi Mograbi

Born 1956

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0121 FILM

Yoav Shamir

Born 1975

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0122 FILM

Nadav Lapid

Born 1975

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0123 COMPOSER

Ilan Chester

Born 1952

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0124 FILM

Scandar Copti

Born 1975

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0125 LINGUIST

Guy Deutscher (linguist)

Born 1969

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0126 NOVELIST

Yaakov Shabtai

1934 - 1981

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0127 COMPUTER SCIENTIST

Shmuel Winograd

1936 - 2019

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0128 CHEMIST

Alexander Pines

Born 1945

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0129 POLITICIAN

Amnon Lipkin-Shahak

1944 - 2012

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0130 PHOTOGRAPHER

Ziv Koren

Born 1970

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0131 BUSINESS

Yaakov Peri

Born 1944

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0132 PLAYER

Gilad Bloom

Born 1967

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0133 BASKET

Guy Pnini

Born 1983

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0134 WRITER

Lizzie Doron

Born 1953

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0135 LAWYER

Yishai Sarid

Born 1965

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0136 CHESS

Yochanan Afek

Born 1952

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0137 LAWYER

Yaakov Neeman

1939 - 2017

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0138 FOOTBALL

Dan Mori

Born 1988

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0139 LINGUIST

Avshalom Kor

Born 1950

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0140 CONDUCTOR

Ilan Volkov

Born 1976

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0141 ACTOR

Asi Levi

Born 1969

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0142 WRITER

Margalit Matitiahu

Born 1935

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0143 OFFICER

Moshe Levi

1936 - 2008

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0144 MUSIC

Ori Kaplan

Born 1969

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0145 COMPOSER

Yair Rosenblum

1944 - 1996

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0146 FILM

Dror Zahavi

Born 1959

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0147 FOOTBALL

Alon Harazi

Born 1971

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0148 POLITICIAN

Danny Ayalon

Born 1955

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0149 LAWYER

Roni Milo

Born 1949

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0150 FOOTBALL

Amir Schelach

Born 1970

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0151 JUDGE

Dorit Beinisch

Born 1942

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0152 POET

Amir Or

Born 1956

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0153 WRITER

Nathan Shaham

1925 - 2018

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0154 ATHLETIC

Esther Roth-Shahamorov

Born 1952

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0155 WRITER

Shulamit Lapid

Born 1934

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0156 COMPOSER

Avner Dorman

Born 1975

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0157 COMPOSER

Boaz Sharabi

Born 1947

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0158 POET

Shimon Tzabar

1926 - 2007

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0159 BUSINESS

Micky Arison

Born 1949

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0160 HISTORIAN

Raanan Rein

Born 1960

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0161 ECONOMIST

Itzhak Gilboa

Born 1963

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0162 POLITICIAN

Yitzhak Moda'i

1926 - 1998

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0163 CARICATURIST

Asaf Hanuka

Born 1974

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0164 ACTOR

Yuval Scharf

Born 1985

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0165 POLITICIAN

Ofir Akunis

Born 1973

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0166 FOOTBALL

Moshe Romano

Born 1946

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0167 MOSSAD

Yitzhak Hofi

1927 - 2014

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0168 WORKER

Nadia Hilou

1953 - 2015

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0169 MATHEMATICIAN

Omer Reingold

Born 1973

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0170 ENTREPRENEUR

Yossi Vardi

Born 1942

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0171 MUSIC

Rivka Golani

Born 1946

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0172 MATHEMATICIAN

Shimon Even

1935 - 2004

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0173 MATHEMATICIAN

Shmuel Agmon

Born 1922

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0174 FOOTBALL

Shimon Gershon

Born 1977

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0175 PIANIST

Pnina Salzman

1922 - 2006

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0176 RABBI

Binyamin Lau

Born 1961

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0177 LAWYER

Ram Oren

Born 1936

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0178 ECONOMIST

Ehud Kalai

Born 1942

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0179 ACTOR

Maya Maron

Born 1980

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0180 SCIENTIST

Isaac Ben Israel

Born 1949

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0181 ACTOR

Ido Mosseri

Born 1978

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0182 ACTOR

Abdallah El Akal

Born 1998

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0183 BIOINFORMATICIAN

Uri Alon

Born 1969

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0184 SINGER

Idan Yaniv

Born 1986

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0185 POLITICIAN

Elazar Stern

Born 1956

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0186 POLITICIAN

Ruth Calderon

Born 1961

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0187 CINEMA

Nurith Aviv

Born 1945

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0188 ARCHITECT

Ada Karmi-Melamede

Born 1936

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0189 BASKET

Zvi Sherf

Born 1951

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0190 MODEL

Michaela Bercu

Born 1967

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0191 FILM

Niv Fichman

Born 1958

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0192 PSYCHOLOGIST

Gavriel Salomon

1938 - 2016

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0193 SINGER

Hila Bronstein

Born 1983

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0194 SINGER

Elisa Gabbai

1933 - 2010

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0195 ARTIST

Arik Levy

Born 1963

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0196 POLITICIAN

Yoel Hasson

Born 1973

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0197 RABBI

Yisrael Rosen

1941 - 2017

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0198 CONCERTMASTER

Guy Braunstein

Born 1971

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0199 JOURNALIST

Hila Korach

Born 1984

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0200 COMPOSER

Gil Shohat

Born 1973

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0201 POLITICIAN

Avraham Shochat

Born 1936

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0202 BASKET

T. J. Leaf

Born 1997

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0203 EDUCATION

Gabriela Shalev

Born 1941

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0204 ASTROPHYSICIST

Tsvi Piran

Born 1949

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0205 FOOTBALL

Boni Ginzburg

Born 1964

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0206 JOURNALIST

Gad Shimron

Born 1950

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0207 BASKET

Gur Shelef

Born 1974

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0208 ACTOR

Yaron London

Born 1940

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0209 BASKET

Pini Gershon

Born 1951

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0210 JUDGE

Roni Bar-On

Born 1948

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0211 FOOTBALL

Yehoshua Glazer

1927 - 2018

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0212 MATHEMATICIAN

Mina Teicher

Born 1950

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0213 POLITICIAN

Michael Eitan

Born 1944

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0214 SOLDIER

Dan Tolkowsky

Born 1921

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0215 FILM

Veronica Kedar

Born 1984

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0216 PEDIATRICIAN

Gideon Koren

Born 1947

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0217 MENTALIST

Lior Suchard

Born 1981

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0218 CONDUCTOR

Lior Shambadal

Born 1950

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0219 PHOTOGRAPHER

Uri Dan

1935 - 2006

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0220 JUDGE

Eliyahu Winograd

1926 - 2018

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0221 COMPOSER

Koby Israelite

Born 1966

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0222 ACTOR

Alma Zack

Born 1970

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0223 POLITICIAN

Avraham Ravitz

1934 - 2009

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0224 ACTOR

Sendi Bar

Born 1976

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0225 SINGER

Maya Dunietz

Born 1981

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0226 MODEL

Yael Bar Zohar

Born 1980

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0227 JOURNALIST

Ben-Dror Yemini

Born 1954

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0228 LAWYER

Ayelet Nahmias-Verbin

Born 1970

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0229 ARTIST

Boaz Arad

1956 - 2018

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0230 BIOCHEMIST

Aharon Razin

1935 - 2019

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0231 COMPOSER

Betty Olivero

Born 1954

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0232 ACTOR

Michael Moshonov

Born 1986

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0233 BASKET

Gili Mossinson

Born 1978

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0234 CINEMA

David Gurfinkel

Born 1938

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0235 PROFESSOR

Amir Hetsroni

Born 1968

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0236 PRODUCER

Guy Gerber

Born 1974

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0237 ACTOR

Orli Shoshan

Born 1976

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0238 LITERARY

Dan Miron

Born 1934

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0239 ARTIST

Keren Cytter

Born 1977

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0240 ECONOMIST

Avner Greif

Born 1955

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0241 POLITICIAN

Yoram Aridor

Born 1933

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0242 PHILOSOPHER

Khen Lampert

Born 1957

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0243 COMPUTER SCIENTIST

Micha Sharir

Born 1950

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0244 COMPOSER

Adam Ben Ezra

Born 1982

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0245 MUSIC

Shmuel Ashkenasi

Born 1941

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0246 HISTORIAN

Reviel Netz

Born 1968

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0247 CONDUCTOR

Lahav Shani

Born 1989

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0248 MILITAR

Shmuel Tankus

1914 - 2012

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0249 POLITICIAN

Avi Beker

1951 - 2015

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0250 POLITICIAN

Itzik Shmuli

Born 1980

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0251 FILM

Ram Loevy

Born 1940

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0252 POLITICIAN

Simcha Dinitz

1929 - 2003

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0253 PHOTOGRAPHER

Michal Heiman

Born 1954

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0254 POLITICIAN

Aharon Remez

1919 - 1994

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0255 SOCIOLOGIST

Moshe Zuckermann

Born 1949

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0256 MILITAR

Menachem Finkelstein

Born 1951

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0257 JOURNALIST

Dan Margalit

Born 1938

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0258 AUTHOR

Lea Aini

Born 1962

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0259 PHOTOGRAPHER

Ori Gersht

Born 1967

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0260 AUTHOR

Netiva Ben-Yehuda

1928 - 2011

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0261 JOURNALIST

Rafael Seligmann

Born 1947

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0262 BUSINESS

Ted Arison

1924 - 1999

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0263 ACTOR

Nataly Attiya

Born 1975

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0264 CONDUCTOR

Tamar Halperin

Born 1976

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0265 WRITER

Ephraim Katz

1932 - 1992

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0266 CHESS

Tal Baron

Born 1992

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0267 ARCHITECT

Yaakov Rechter

1924 - 2001

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0268 PRESENTER

Daniel Pe'er

1943 - 2017

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0269 COMMANDER

Giora Romm

Born 1945

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0270 SINGER

Hanan Goldblatt

Born 1941

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0271 WRITER

Irit Linur

Born 1961

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0272 SINGER

Guy Zu-Aretz

Born 1973

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0273 COMPOSER

Yardena Alotin

1930 - 1994

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0274 PRESENTER

Erez Tal

Born 1961

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0275 JOURNALIST

Dan Shilon

Born 1940

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0276 COMPOSER

Lior Navok

Born 1971

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0277 SINGER

Yuval Banay

Born 1962

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0278 CHOREOGRAPHER

Rina Schenfeld

Born 1938

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0279 JUDGE

Asher Grunis

Born 1945

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0280 ARCHITECT

David Fisher (architect)

Born 1949

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0281 ACTOR

Orly Weinerman

Born 1971

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0282 ACTOR

Rami Heuberger

Born 1963

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0283 SINGER

Ariel Zilber

Born 1943

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0284 ACTOR

Menashe Noy

Born 1959

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0285 POLITICIAN

Moshe Lion

Born 1961

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0286 MUSIC

Gavriel Lipkind

Born 1977

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0287 POLITICIAN

Mickey Rosenthal

Born 1955

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0288 POLITICIAN

Yoram Gutgeld

Born 1959

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0289 LECTURER

Mordechai Kedar

Born 1952

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0290 LAWYER

Yehuda Weinstein

Born 1944

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0291 HISTORIAN

Haggai Erlich

Born 1942

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0292 MATHEMATICIAN

Moshé Flato

1937 - 1998

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0293 PSYCHOLOGIST

Benny Shanon

Born 1948

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0294 ACTOR

Michael Aloni

Born 1984

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0295 POLITICIAN

Ron Nachman

1942 - 2013

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0296 SONGWRITER

Ahuva Ozeri

1948 - 2016

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0297 POET

Akiva Nof

Born 1936

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0298 PLAYER

Keren Shlomo

Born 1988

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0299 SINGER

Danielle Messia

1956 - 1985

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0300 ACTOR

Itzik Cohen (actor)

Born 1968

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