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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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Showing 64 of 911 notable people

0012 COMMANDER

Ezer Weizman

1924 - 2005

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0024 PHYSICIST

Yuval Ne'eman

1925 - 2006

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0030 POET

Haim Gouri

1923 - 2018

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0031 POLITICIAN

Shulamit Aloni

1928 - 2014

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0063 SCULPTOR

Amos Kenan

1927 - 2009

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0067 POLITICIAN

Geulah Cohen

1925 - 2019

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0068 PSYCHOLOGIST

Haim Ginott

1922 - 1973

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0084 PLAYWRIGHT

Nisim Aloni

1926 - 1998

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0099 OFFICER

Benny Peled

1928 - 2002

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0102 ACTOR

Zaharira Harifai

1929 - 2013

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0114 OFFICER

Michael Harari

1927 - 2014

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0153 WRITER

Nathan Shaham

1925 - 2018

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0158 POET

Shimon Tzabar

1926 - 2007

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0162 POLITICIAN

Yitzhak Moda'i

1926 - 1998

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0167 MOSSAD

Yitzhak Hofi

1927 - 2014

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0173 MATHEMATICIAN

Shmuel Agmon

Born 1922

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0175 PIANIST

Pnina Salzman

1922 - 2006

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0211 FOOTBALL

Yehoshua Glazer

1927 - 2018

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0214 SOLDIER

Dan Tolkowsky

Born 1921

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0220 JUDGE

Eliyahu Winograd

1926 - 2018

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0252 POLITICIAN

Simcha Dinitz

1929 - 2003

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0260 AUTHOR

Netiva Ben-Yehuda

1928 - 2011

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0262 BUSINESS

Ted Arison

1924 - 1999

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0267 ARCHITECT

Yaakov Rechter

1924 - 2001

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0333 POLITICIAN

Zvi Dinstein

1926 - 2012

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0334 WRITER

Uriel Ofek

1926 - 1987

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0382 SCULPTOR

Gidon Graetz

Born 1929

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0390 POLITICIAN

Mordechai Bar-On

Born 1928

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0391 ACADEMIC

Aharon Davidi

1927 - 2012

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0396 SINGER

Naomi Polani

Born 1927

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0401 COMMANDER

Joseph Tabenkin

1921 - 1987

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0413 MUSIC

Amichai Paglin

1922 - 1978

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0420 FOOTBALL

David Schweitzer

1925 - 1997

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0423 LAWYER

Yigal Arnon

1929 - 2014

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0426 BIOLOGIST

Eviatar Nevo

Born 1929

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0430 POLITICIAN

Amos Degani

1926 - 2012

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0448 SOLDIER

Yekutiel Adam

1927 - 1982

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0476 CONDUCTOR

Elyakum Shapirra

1926 - 2014

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0482 POLITICIAN

Yisrael Peled

1921 - 2016

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0485 MINISTER

Eliyahu Bet-Zuri

1922 - 1945

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0488 COMMISSIONER

Herzl Shafir

Born 1929

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0499 MUSIC

Shalom Ronli-Riklis

1922 - 1994

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0529 SOCIOLOGIST

Mosche Lissak

1928 - 2018

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0533 CHEMIST

Avner Treinin

1928 - 2011

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0544 POLITICIAN

Daniel Rosolio

1927 - 2005

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0569 WRITER

On Sarig

1926 - 2012

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0585 ACTOR

Elisheva Michaeli

1928 - 2009

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0595 ACTOR

Reuven Shefer

1925 - 2011

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0613 POLICE

Shaul Rosolio

1923 - 1992

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0622 BANK

Yehoshua Ben-Zion

1924 - 2004

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0638 BASKET

Menahem Degani

1927 - 2018

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0644 SCULPTOR

Emanuel Hatzofe

1928 - 2019

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0660 POLITICIAN

Pesah Grupper

1924 - 2013

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0726 MISSING

Yeshayahu Gavish

Born 1925

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0772 DIPLOMAT

Moshe Gidron

1925 - 2009

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0779 TRANSLATOR

Daniel Doron

Born 1929

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0795 MUSIC

Uzi Wiesel

1927 - 2019

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0799 SOLDIER

Zvi Zibel

1925 - 1948

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0825 ACTIVIST

Pnina Bor

1924 - 2009

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0840 ACADEMIC

Michael Feldman

1926 - 2005

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0866 FOOTBALL

Avraham Bendori

1928 - 2019

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0871 FOOTBALL

Moshe Litvak

1926 - 2012

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0882 ATHLETIC

Reuven Helman

1927 - 2013

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0884 SCIENTIST

Dahlia Gredinger

1926 - 1979

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