32.0799° N, 34.7800° E

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 121 of 911 notable people

0002 PSYCHOLOGIST

Daniel Kahneman

Born 1934

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0004 ACTOR

Chaim Topol

Born 1935

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0014 SINGER

Arik Einstein

1939 - 2013

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0017 COMPUTER SCIENTIST

Judea Pearl

Born 1936

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0027 PAINTER

Yoram Kaniuk

1930 - 2013

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0028 SCULPTOR

Dani Karavan

Born 1930

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0041 ARTIST

Menashe Kadishman

1932 - 2015

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0044 FILM

Uri Zohar

Born 1935

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0050 PHYSICIST

Amnon Yariv

Born 1930

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0056 SCULPTOR

Moshe Gershuni

1936 - 2017

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0059 DANCER

Samy Molcho

Born 1936

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0075 SINGER

Carmela Corren

Born 1938

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0079 FILM

Oded Kotler

Born 1937

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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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0088 POET

David Avidan

1934 - 1995

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0089 COMPOSER

Noam Sheriff

1935 - 2018

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0091 MATHEMATICIAN

Joram Lindenstrauss

1936 - 2012

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0095 DIPLOMAT

Avi Primor

Born 1935

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0097 EDUCATION

Amnon Rubinstein

Born 1931

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0105 SCULPTOR

Micha Ullman

Born 1939

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0109 BIOLOGIST

Ruth Arnon

Born 1933

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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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0137 LAWYER

Yaakov Neeman

1939 - 2017

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0142 WRITER

Margalit Matitiahu

Born 1935

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0143 OFFICER

Moshe Levi

1936 - 2008

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0155 WRITER

Shulamit Lapid

Born 1934

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0172 MATHEMATICIAN

Shimon Even

1935 - 2004

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0177 LAWYER

Ram Oren

Born 1936

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0188 ARCHITECT

Ada Karmi-Melamede

Born 1936

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0192 PSYCHOLOGIST

Gavriel Salomon

1938 - 2016

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0194 SINGER

Elisa Gabbai

1933 - 2010

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0201 POLITICIAN

Avraham Shochat

Born 1936

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0219 PHOTOGRAPHER

Uri Dan

1935 - 2006

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0223 POLITICIAN

Avraham Ravitz

1934 - 2009

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0230 BIOCHEMIST

Aharon Razin

1935 - 2019

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0234 CINEMA

David Gurfinkel

Born 1938

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0238 LITERARY

Dan Miron

Born 1934

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0241 POLITICIAN

Yoram Aridor

Born 1933

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0257 JOURNALIST

Dan Margalit

Born 1938

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0265 WRITER

Ephraim Katz

1932 - 1992

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0273 COMPOSER

Yardena Alotin

1930 - 1994

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0278 CHOREOGRAPHER

Rina Schenfeld

Born 1938

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0292 MATHEMATICIAN

Moshé Flato

1937 - 1998

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0297 POET

Akiva Nof

Born 1936

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0307 COACH

Amitzur Shapira

1932 - 1972

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0309 PALAEONTOLOGIST

Eitan Tchernov

1935 - 2002

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0310 BIOLOGIST

Robin Holliday

1932 - 2014

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0319 RABBI

Zalman Baruch Melamed

Born 1937

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0326 DIPLOMAT

Reuven Merhav

Born 1936

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0327 MATHEMATICIAN

Moshé Machover

Born 1936

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0336 LAWYER

Yoram Dinstein

Born 1936

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0352 GEOGRAPHER

Arnon Soffer

Born 1935

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0354 AUTHOR

Sara Kishon

1931 - 2002

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0368 SINGER

Lilith Nagar

Born 1935

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0369 SCHOLAR

Moshe Garsiel

Born 1936

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0386 POET

Aharon Shabtai

Born 1939

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0387 ENTOMOLOGIST

Anna Levinson

1939 - 2015

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0399 ECONOMIST

David Klein (economist)

Born 1935

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0403 ARTIST

Avraham Eilat

Born 1939

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0404 POLITICIAN

Avraham Katz-Oz

Born 1934

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0419 COMMANDER

Ze'ev Almog

Born 1935

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0422 LAWYER

Shimon Mizrahi

Born 1939

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0439 PROFESSOR

Joseph Sadan

Born 1939

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0455 WRITER

Tamar Adar

Born 1939

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0458 LITERARY

Nira Harel

Born 1936

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0464 LAWYER

David Libai

Born 1934

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0465 ANTHROPOLOGIST

Amir Drori

1937 - 2005

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0469 RABBI

Aryeh Finkel

1931 - 2016

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0479 SINGER

Dalia Friedland

Born 1935

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0483 POLITICIAN

Haim Kaufman

1934 - 1995

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0487 HISTORIAN

Yehoshua Porath

1938 - 2019

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0489 CONDUCTOR

Arie Vardi

Born 1937

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0493 PAINTER

Uri Lifschitz

1936 - 2011

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0494 COMPOSER

Dafna Eilat

1938 - 2002

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0497 ACTOR

Rachel Attas

1934 - 2004

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0501 HISTORIAN

Shmuel Ahituv

Born 1935

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0509 RABBI

Yeshayahu Hadari

1933 - 2018

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0514 ECONOMIST

Reuben Gronau

Born 1937

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0530 POLITICIAN

Yigal Cohen-Orgad

1937 - 2019

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0564 MANAGER

Zvi Alderoti

1934 - 2018

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0566 AUTHOR

Aharon Almog

Born 1931

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0568 ENGINEER

Uzi Rubin

Born 1937

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0603 CHESS

Zadok Domnitz

Born 1933

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0604 OLYMPIC

Gideon Ariel

Born 1939

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0609 PHYSICIAN

Moshe Abeles

Born 1936

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0614 JUDGE

Jacob Turkel

Born 1935

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0620 POLITICIAN

Pinchas Goldstein

1939 - 2007

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0628 PAINTER

Ruth Horam

Born 1931

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0634 ARACHNOLOGIST

Gershom Levy

1937 - 2009

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0637 PHYSICIAN

Tsvi Nussbaum

1935 - 2012

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0646 CHESS

Raaphi Persitz

1934 - 2009

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0653 ARTIST

Tova Beck-Friedman

Born 1934

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0675 POLITICIAN

David Golomb

1933 - 2019

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0677 BOTANIST

Zohara Yaniv

Born 1937

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0680 ANTHROPOLOGIST

Moshe Shokeid

Born 1936

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0698 ARTIST

Yoav Bar El

1933 - 1977

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0702 BASKET

Dan Erez

1933 - 2015

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0704 ACTIVIST

Ofira Navon

1936 - 1993

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0714 VIOLIN

Igal Shamir

Born 1938

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0715 FOOTBALL

Gideon Tish

Born 1939

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0730 ENTERTAINER

Eddie Carmel

1936 - 1972

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0740 POLITICIAN

Yitzhak Ziv

Born 1937

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0754 FOOTBALL

Ben Zinn

Born 1937

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0759 JOURNALIST

Jack Rosenthal (journalist)

1935 - 2017

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0766 OLYMPIC

Ralli Ben-Yehuda

Born 1934

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0777 AUTHOR

Tamar Bergman

1939 - 2016

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0789 OLYMPIC

Arieh Batun-Kleinstub

Born 1933

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0791 POLITICIAN

Boaz Moav

1938 - 2002

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0796 MATHEMATICIAN

Alexander Zabrodsky

1936 - 1986

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0812 FOOTBALL

Itche Menahem

1939 - 2014

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0823 ART HISTORIAN

Eli Lancman

Born 1936

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0842 SPORT

Nehemia Sirkis

1932 - 2018

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0849 VIOLIST

Amnon Weinstein

Born 1939

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0868 SPORT

Hannan Crystal

Born 1938

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0872 BASKET

Erez Lustig

Born 1933

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0875 BASKET

Azriel Luboshitz

1938 - 1971

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0878 BIOCHEMIST

Amiram Barkai

1936 - 2014

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0901 FOOTBALL

Zvi Markus

Born 1938

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0903 ARCHITECT

Michael Seelig

Born 1938

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