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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 158 of 911 notable people

0003 SINGER

Ofra Haza

1957 - 2000

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0015 MATHEMATICIAN

Adi Shamir

Born 1952

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0016 POLITICIAN

Tzipi Livni

Born 1958

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0020 ARCHITECT

Ron Arad (industrial designer)

Born 1951

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0023 JOURNALIST

Gideon Levy

Born 1953

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0065 COMPOSER

Dror Feiler

Born 1951

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0066 SCULPTOR

Uri Katzenstein

1951 - 2018

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0069 ARTIST

Michal Rovner

Born 1957

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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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0080 PROFESSOR

Oded Goldreich

Born 1957

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0090 MATHEMATICIAN

Gil Kalai

Born 1955

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0101 PHYSICIST

Nathan Seiberg

Born 1956

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0107 MUSIC

Yoni Rechter

Born 1951

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0111 HISTORIAN

Gideon Greif

Born 1951

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0115 POET

Benny Ziffer

Born 1953

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0118 ACTOR

Anat Atzmon

Born 1958

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0120 FILM

Avi Mograbi

Born 1956

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0123 COMPOSER

Ilan Chester

Born 1952

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0134 WRITER

Lizzie Doron

Born 1953

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0136 CHESS

Yochanan Afek

Born 1952

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0139 LINGUIST

Avshalom Kor

Born 1950

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0146 FILM

Dror Zahavi

Born 1959

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0148 POLITICIAN

Danny Ayalon

Born 1955

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0152 POET

Amir Or

Born 1956

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0154 ATHLETIC

Esther Roth-Shahamorov

Born 1952

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0168 WORKER

Nadia Hilou

1953 - 2015

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0185 POLITICIAN

Elazar Stern

Born 1956

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0189 BASKET

Zvi Sherf

Born 1951

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0191 FILM

Niv Fichman

Born 1958

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0206 JOURNALIST

Gad Shimron

Born 1950

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0209 BASKET

Pini Gershon

Born 1951

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0212 MATHEMATICIAN

Mina Teicher

Born 1950

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0218 CONDUCTOR

Lior Shambadal

Born 1950

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0227 JOURNALIST

Ben-Dror Yemini

Born 1954

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0229 ARTIST

Boaz Arad

1956 - 2018

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0231 COMPOSER

Betty Olivero

Born 1954

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0240 ECONOMIST

Avner Greif

Born 1955

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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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0249 POLITICIAN

Avi Beker

1951 - 2015

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0253 PHOTOGRAPHER

Michal Heiman

Born 1954

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0256 MILITAR

Menachem Finkelstein

Born 1951

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0284 ACTOR

Menashe Noy

Born 1959

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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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0299 SINGER

Danielle Messia

1956 - 1985

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0301 FOOTBALL

Ronnie Calderon

Born 1952

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0304 SCULPTOR

Ilan Averbuch

Born 1953

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0308 JOURNALIST

Yigal Ravid

Born 1957

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0342 FILM

Yaky Yosha

Born 1951

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0344 MUSIC

Marvin Goldstein

Born 1950

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0345 WRITER

Daniella Carmi

Born 1956

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0349 WRITER

Shifra Horn

Born 1951

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0356 JOURNALIST

Ron Pundak

1955 - 2014

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0359 ACTOR

Hanny Nahmias

Born 1959

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0384 PSYCHOLOGIST

Ziva Kunda

1955 - 2004

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0385 WRITER

Michal Govrin

Born 1950

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0400 HISTORIAN

Ron Robin

Born 1951

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0406 POLITICIAN

Moshe Gafni

Born 1952

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0412 BIOLOGIST

Michael Karin

Born 1951

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0414 JOURNALIST

Igal Sarna

Born 1952

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0416 HEZBOLLAH

Udi Adam

Born 1958

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0427 WRITER

Limor Schreibman-Sharir

Born 1954

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0432 JOURNALIST

Avi Benayahu

Born 1959

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0434 CONDUCTOR

David Shallon

1950 - 2000

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0438 BASKET

Muli Katzurin

Born 1954

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0440 ARTIST

Tamar Getter

Born 1953

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0444 ENGINEER

Oded Golan

Born 1951

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0446 ACTOR

Nitza Saul

Born 1950

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0457 POLITICIAN

Ronit Tirosh

Born 1953

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0463 CONDUCTOR

Itay Talgam

Born 1958

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0470 SINGER

Danny Maseng

Born 1950

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0478 ACTOR

Chelli Goldenberg

Born 1954

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0491 SCREENWRITER

Jacob Goldwasser

Born 1950

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0502 COMPOSER

Uri Fineman

Born 1959

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0507 PAINTER

Hagit Shahal

Born 1950

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0510 ARCHITECT

Sharon Rotbard

Born 1959

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0515 ACTOR

Suhel Haddad

Born 1951

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0517 PHOTOGRAPHER

Nino Herman

Born 1952

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0522 PAINTER

Yigal Ozeri

Born 1958

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0525 SOCIOLOGIST

Tamar El Or

Born 1955

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0527 ACADEMIC

Dorit Abusch

Born 1955

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0528 HISTORIAN

Hanna Yablonka

Born 1950

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0531 WRITER

Azila Talit Reisenberger

Born 1952

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0532 AUTHOR

Itamar Levy

Born 1956

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0536 JUDGE

Uzi Vogelman

Born 1954

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0543 SCULPTOR

Zvi Lachman

Born 1950

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0545 LAW

Michael Goldsmith

1951 - 2009

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0548 FOOTBALL

Ehud Ben-Tovim

Born 1952

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0555 JUDGE

Hanan Melcer

Born 1951

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0560 DIPLOMAT

Yuval Rotem

Born 1959

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0565 JUDGE

Yitzhak Amit

Born 1958

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0575 MANAGER

Nathan Birnboim

Born 1950

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0577 EDUCATOR

Dalit Stauber

Born 1959

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0593 PHOTOGRAPHER

Vardi Kahana

Born 1959

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0594 POLITICIAN

Ehud Rassabi

Born 1953

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0596 SCULPTOR

Dan Zakhem

1958 - 1994

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0600 POLITICIAN

Avi Yehezkel

Born 1958

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0601 COMPUTER SCIENTIST

Uzi Vishkin

Born 1953

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0610 ARTIST

Dorit Cypis

Born 1951

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0618 ARTIST

Adina Bar-On

Born 1951

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0621 THEATRE

Omri Nitzan

Born 1950

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0624 PSYCHOLOGIST

Ofer Grosbard

Born 1954

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0635 WRITER

Gail Hareven

Born 1959

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0636 HISTORIAN

Daniel Blatman

Born 1953

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0641 PHOTOGRAPHER

Nurit Yarden

Born 1959

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0645 DIPLOMAT

Yakov Hadas-Handelsman

Born 1957

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0650 POLITICAL SCIENTIST

Tamar Meisels

Born 1950

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0651 SCULPTOR

Maya Cohen Levy

Born 1955

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0654 SCULPTOR

Jehoshua Rozenman

Born 1955

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0661 POLITICIAN

Moshe Matalon

Born 1953

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0663 SINGER

Edna Béjarano

Born 1951

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0670 BASKET

Pinhas Hozez

Born 1957

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0671 POLITICIAN

Gila Finkelstein

Born 1950

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0672 PAINTER

Naomie Kremer

Born 1953

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0673 GEOLOGIST

Amos Frumkin

Born 1953

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0676 OLYMPIC

Shimshon Brokman

Born 1957

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0686 ARTIST

Dvora Bochman

Born 1950

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0688 LAWYER

Eli Goldschmidt

Born 1953

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0689 PHYSICIST

Aharon Kapitulnik

Born 1953

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0690 BUSINESS

Ilan Ben-Dov

Born 1957

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0692 BUSINESS

Nochi Dankner

Born 1954

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0697 DRUG TRAFFICK

Zeev Rosenstein

Born 1954

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0700 EDUCATION

Idit Harel

Born 1958

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0717 LITERARY

Nitza Ben-Dov

Born 1950

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0727 REAL ESTATE

Izek Shomof

Born 1959

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0733 ACADEMIC

Anat Feinberg

Born 1951

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0737 GURU

Goel Razon

Born 1950

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0739 HISTORIAN

Daniel Cil Brecher

Born 1951

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0741 PHOTOGRAPHER

Rafael Herlich

Born 1954

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0742 IMMUNOLOGIST

Michal Schwartz

Born 1950

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0743 ADVISOR

Yoram Dori

Born 1950

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0750 BUSINESS

Moishe Mana

Born 1956

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0753 ACTOR

Gadi Roll

Born 1959

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0761 BUSINESS

Eli Azur

Born 1958

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0762 WRITER

Daniel Milo

Born 1953

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0773 DIPLOMAT

Barukh Binah

Born 1950

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0780 LAWYER

Uri Regev

Born 1951

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0786 ACADEMIC

Schlomo Staszewski

Born 1951

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0793 PIANIST

Jonathan Gee

Born 1959

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0804 JOURNALIST

Doron Galezer

Born 1952

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0807 PHOTOGRAPHER

Moshe Ninio

Born 1953

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0814 PUBLISHER

Batya Horn

Born 1952

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0817 ARTIST

Shai Zakai

Born 1957

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0822 ENGINEER

Moshe Kam

Born 1955

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0824 LIBRARIAN

Rachel Heuberger

Born 1951

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0830 DIPLOMAT

Doron Grossman

1956 - 2005

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0833 VORSITZENDE

Hanna Sperling

Born 1952

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0844 THEATRE

Dedi Baron

Born 1954

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0860 COMPOSER

Kiki Keren-Huss

Born 1955

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0861 RABBI

Avraham Jacobovitz

Born 1950

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0864 DIPLOMAT

Béla Szombati

Born 1955

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0876 EDUCATION

Zvi Eliezer Alonie

Born 1951

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0894 DIPLOMAT

Aviv Shir-On

Born 1952

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0911 DIPLOMAT

Avi Granot

Born 1950

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