WDov Alfon is an Israeli journalist and author. He was the chief editor of Kinneret Zmora-Bitan Dvir, Israel's largest publishing house. From 2008 to 2011, he was editor in chief of Haaretz, one of the most respected newspapers in the world. He is currently the CEO of Storyvid.io, a non-profit cultural venture aiming to bridge between literature and new media. He is also the editor in chief of Alaxon, an Hebrew digital journal for Science and the Arts.
WNathan Alterman was an Israeli poet, playwright, journalist, and translator. Though never holding any elected office, Alterman was highly influential in Socialist Zionist politics, both before and after the establishment of the State of Israel.
WDaniel "Danny" Ayalon Hebrew: דניאל "דני" אילון Arabic: دانيال "داني" أيالون; born 17 December 1955) is an Israeli diplomat, columnist and politician. He served as Deputy Foreign Minister and as a member of the Knesset. He was the Israeli Ambassador to the United States from 2002 until 2006. Previously, he worked as senior foreign policy advisor to Prime Ministers Ariel Sharon, Ehud Barak, and Benjamin Netanyahu.
WAdam Baruch was an Israeli journalist, newspaper editor, writer and art critic.
WGershon Baskin is the founder and former co-chairman of IPCRI - Israel/Palestine Center for Research and Information, dedicated to the resolution of the Israeli–Palestinian conflict on the basis of a "two-states for two peoples" solution. He is a social and political activist and a researcher of the Israeli–Palestinian conflict and peace process. Baskin founded IPCRI in March 1988 and served as its Co-Director until January 2012. Baskin is an award winning columnist for The Jerusalem Post. His weekly column is also published in Arabic in the Jerusalem Al Quds daily newspaper and in Hebrew on the website: https://www.dyoma.co.il. He describes himself as a social and political entrepreneur. Baskin's writings and video recordings are archived on his website: http://gershonbaskin.com
WAluf Benn is an Israeli journalist, author and editor-in-chief of the liberal Israeli national daily Haaretz.
WErez Biton is an Israeli poet of Algerian and Moroccan descent. He is the 2015 recipient of the Israel Prize for Hebrew Literature and Poetry, among other literary awards.
WSarah Blau is an Israeli author, journalist, playwright, and actress. She won the Israeli Prime Minister's prize in 2015., and the 2017 Bar-Ilan University Alumni Achievement Award.
WLevi Cooper is an Orthodox Jewish teacher, author, and community leader who lives in Tzur Hadassah, Israel. He is a faculty member of the Pardes Institute for Jewish Studies in Jerusalem, where he teaches Midrash, Talmud, Rambam, and Hasidism. Originally from Australia, Cooper lectures extensively on the topics of law and Halakha, Jewish spirituality and Hasidic thought. Since 1996, he has also served as a historian with Heritage Seminars. He has studied at Chabad, Yeshivat Sha'alvim, the Kollel at Bar-Ilan University and Beit Morasha.
WYaël Dayan is an Israeli politician and author. She served as a member of the Knesset between 1992 and 2003, and from 2008 to 2013 was the chair of Tel Aviv city council. Her service on the city council ended with the 2013 election. She is the daughter of Moshe Dayan and sister of Assi Dayan and Udi Dayan.
WMoshe Zalman Feiglin is an Israeli politician and activist, and the leader of libertarian Zionist party Zehut. A former member of Likud, he headed the Manhigut Yehudit faction within the party, and represented Likud in the Knesset between 2013 and 2015.
WRoman Frister wrote The Cap: The Price of a Life, an autobiographical account of his life living in Nazi occupied Poland and then Poland under the communists.
WDudu Geva was an Israeli cartoonist, illustrator, and comic book creator.
WYaron Golan was an Israeli publisher.
WAmos Harel is an Israeli journalist.
WBat-Sheva Ofra Haza-Ashkenazi, known professionally as Ofra Haza, was an Israeli singer, actress and Grammy Award-nominee recording artist, commonly known in the Western world as "The Israeli Madonna", or "Madonna of the East". Her voice has been described as a "tender" mezzo-soprano.
WHaim Hefer was a Polish-born Israeli songwriter, poet and writer. He wrote for numerous composers and musical artists, as well as for military bands. Several of his songs, including "Hafinjan" and "Hayu Zmanim", are considered Israeli classics. He was awarded the Israel Prize in 1983 as recognition for his contributions to Israeli music.
WTzipi Hotovely is an Israeli former politician. She served as Minister of Diaspora Affairs, Minister of Settlement Affairs and as a member of the Knesset for the Likud.
WAvi Issacharoff is an Israeli journalist known for his focus on Palestinian affairs. He is Middle East analyst for The Times of Israel and its sister news portal Walla!, and the Palestinian and Arab Affairs Correspondent for Haaretz.
WAmos Kenan, also Amos Keinan, was an Israeli columnist, painter, sculptor, playwright and novelist.
WYosef (Joseph) "Tommy" Lapid was a Serbian-born Israeli radio and television presenter, playwright, journalist, politician and government minister known for his sharp tongue and acerbic wit. Lapid headed the secular-liberal Shinui party from 1999 to 2006. He fiercely opposed the ultra-Orthodox political parties and actively sought to exclude any religious observance from the legal structure of the Israeli State.
WGideon Levy is an Israeli journalist and author. Levy writes opinion pieces and a weekly column for the newspaper Haaretz that often focus on the Israeli occupation of the Palestinian territories. Levy has won prizes for his articles on human rights in the Israeli-occupied territories. His critics characterize him as left-wing and accuse him of being a propagandist for Hamas.
WDan Margalit is an Israeli journalist, author and television host.
WEliezer Melamed is an Israeli Orthodox rabbi and the rosh yeshiva of Yeshivat Har Bracha, rabbi of the community Har Bracha, and author of the book series Peninei Halachah.
WUri Shraga Orbach was an Israeli Religious Zionist writer, journalist, and politician. He served as a member of the Knesset for the Jewish Home party, and as Minister of Pensioner Affairs.
WRon Prosor is an Israeli diplomat, writer, and columnist. He is the Head of the Abba Eban Institute for International Diplomacy in IDC Herzliya Lauder School of Government, Diplomacy & Strategy. He served as Israel's Permanent Representative to the United Nations from 2011 to 2015. He has previously served as Israel's Ambassador to the United Kingdom, Director-General of Israel's Foreign Ministry and political consul at the Israeli embassy in Washington.
WSheizaf Rafaeli is an Israeli researcher, scholar of computer-mediated communication and newspaper columnist. He is professor and dean at the School of Management 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.
WDaniel Rogov was an Israeli food and wine critic. The author of Rogov's Guide to Wine, the most authoritative guide to Israeli wine, as well as a columnist for both Haaretz and the Jerusalem Post, he was Israel's most influential wine critic.
WDaniel "Danny" Rubinstein is an Israeli journalist and author. He previously worked for Haaretz, where he was an Arab affairs analyst and a member of the editorial board.
WGilad Shalit is a former MIA soldier of the Israel Defense Forces (IDF) who on 25 June 2006, was captured by Palestinian militants in a cross-border raid via tunnels near the Israeli border. Hamas held him captive for over five years, until his release on 18 October 2011 as part of a prisoner exchange deal.
WAri Shavit is an Israeli reporter and writer. Shavit was a Senior Correspondent at the left-of-center Israeli newspaper Haaretz before he resigned when a pattern of sexual misconduct came to public attention.
WGerald M. Steinberg. a professor of politics at Bar Ilan University, is an Israeli academic, political scientist, and political activist. He is founder and president of NGO Monitor, a policy analysis think tank focusing on non governmental organizations.
WFriedel Stern was a German- born Israeli cartoonist and illustrator.
WGadi Taub is an Israeli historian, author, screenwriter, political commentator, and conspiracy theorist. He is a Senior Lecturer in the School of Public Policy and the Department of Communications at The Hebrew University of Jerusalem. Taub is also an internationally noticed voice in the discourse on Zionism.
WEinat Wilf is a former Israeli politician who served as a member of the Knesset for Independence and the Labor Party.
WBen-Dror Yemini is an Israeli journalist. He has worked for the daily newspaper Maariv, and in Spring 2014 began writing for the daily Yedioth Ahronoth.