WMoshe Arens was an Israeli aeronautical engineer, researcher, diplomat and Likud politician. A member of the Knesset between 1973 and 1992 and again from 1999 until 2003, he served as Minister of Defense three times and once as Minister of Foreign Affairs. Arens also served as the Israeli ambassador to the U.S. and was a professor at the Technion in Haifa.
WYevgeny Arye is an Israeli theater director, playwright, scriptwriter, and set designer.
WNir Baram is an Israeli author. Baram studied literature in Tel Aviv University and was an editor in Am Oved publishing house. His novels, The Remaker of Dreams (2006), Good People (2010), At night Ends (2018) were short listed for Israel's Sapir Prize for Literature and were Best sellers in Israel. Good people was translated into 10 languages and in 2010 Baram won the Prime Minister's Award for Hebrew literature and was short listed for the Rome Prize for literature. His novel World Shadow, published in 2013, was a bestseller and attracted many responses inside the literary world and outside of it. Baram writes for Haaretz and other newspapers and is known for his political opinions. In the summer of 2006 he was one of the leaders of the young poets and authors who called for the cease-fire in the 2006 Lebanon War and in 2010 he gave a political and controversial speech in the opening of the 2nd International Writers Festival in Jerusalem.
WBinyamin Lipkin is a Chabad, Hasidic author and newspaper editor.
WOmri Boehm is an Israeli philosopher and associate professor of philosophy at the New School for Social Research. He is known for his interpretation of the Binding of Isaac, work on Kant, and writing on Israel and Zionism.
WAvraham "Avrum" Burg is an Israeli author, politician and businessman: he was a member of the Knesset, chairman of the Jewish Agency for Israel, Speaker of the Knesset, and Interim President of Israel. He was the first Speaker of the Knesset to have been born in Israeli territory after independence in 1948. A member of the Labor Party when he was a member of the Knesset, Burg announced in January 2015 that he had joined Hadash.
WDan Chamizer is an Israeli artist, radio and television host, journalist and quiz master.
WMartin Levi van Creveld is an Israeli military historian and theorist.
WDavid Elieser Deutsch is a British physicist at the University of Oxford. He is a Visiting Professor in the Department of Atomic and Laser Physics at the Centre for Quantum Computation (CQC) in the Clarendon Laboratory of the University of Oxford. He pioneered the field of quantum computation by formulating a description for a quantum Turing machine, as well as specifying an algorithm designed to run on a quantum computer. He has also proposed the use of entangled states and Bell's theorem for quantum key distribution and is a proponent of the many-worlds interpretation of quantum mechanics.
WOrna Donath is an Israeli sociologist, lecturer, writer and feminist activst. She teaches at Tel Aviv University, Ben Gurion University, and the Academic College of Tel Aviv-Yafo. Her field of study focuses on the social expectations projected on women, both those who are mothers and those who are not, especially by choice.
WMichael Dorfman is a writer, essayist, journalist, human rights activist and activist of the Yiddish culture revivalist movement.
WNeil Druckmann is an Israeli-American writer, creative director, and programmer, and Vice President of Naughty Dog, best known for his work on the Uncharted and The Last of Us video game franchises. He was born and raised until the age of 10 in Israel, where his experiences with entertainment would later influence his storytelling techniques. He studied computer science at Carnegie Mellon University, before searching for work in the video game industry.
WFreddy Eytan, is an Israeli diplomat, former ambassador, writer and journalist.
WSalman Hamud Fallah, was an educator, writer, and a history researcher who established the Druze Scouts Association in Israel. He was a supervisor at the Druze Education department and a vice president of the Ministry of Education and Culture. Falach wrote more than 80 books in Arabic, Hebrew and English on history and education. As a teenager he moved to Haifa city, where he graduated from secondary school at the Hebrew Reali School in 1954. After graduating his studies for the first and second degree (1963), he fulfilled his PHD at Princeton University in the USA (1997). Dr. Salman Hamud Fallah implemented the legacy of Druze studies as an integral part of the higher education curriculum. In 2017 the Centre of the Druze Legacy was established in his name in his native village Kisra-Smea.
WMatti Friedman is an Israeli Canadian journalist and author. He is an op-ed contributor for the New York Times.
WMirna Funk is a German journalist and author.
WAssaf Gavron is an Israeli writer, novelist, translator and musician, formerly a journalist and hi-tech worker. His books have been translated to several languages and won awards such as the Bernstein Prize for The Hilltop (2013), Prix Courrier International (France) for Croc Attack (2012), "Ein Buch für die Stadt" for the same novel (2012), and the Israeli Prime Minister Award for authors (2011).
WYosef Govrin is an Israeli Diplomat who served in Israel's Foreign Service between 1953 and 1995. He was Ambassador to Romania (1985-1989). He’s also served as Ambassador to Austria, Slovenia, Slovakia and the United Nations in Vienna.
WDror Green is a psychotherapist and author. He developed the method of Emotional Training, based on his concept of human nature. Although he was descended from a family that had lived in Israel for ten generations, he did not identify with Zionism, as he writes in the introduction to his book, ABC of Israeli Apartheid.
WOfer Grosbard is a clinical psychologist, cultural researcher, Israeli writer and lecturer at Tel Aviv University.
WYehudit Hendel was an award-winning Israeli author. She wrote novels, short stories, and non-fiction.
WEtgar Keret is an Israeli writer known for his short stories, graphic novels, and scriptwriting for film and television.
WShalom Kramer, was an Israeli essayist, editor and literary critic.
WErich Kulka was a Czech-Israeli writer, historian and journalist who survived the Holocaust. After World War II, he made it his life's mission to research the Holocaust and publicize facts about it.
WJacob Meyer Levy was an Israeli educator, historian, translator and writer.
WYitzhak Livni was an Israeli media personality and writer. He served as editor of the magazines Bamahane Nahal and Bamahane (1961–1971), the head of IDF's radio station Galatz (1968–1974), CEO of the Israel Broadcasting Authority (1974–1979), special advisor and later head of the steering committee for the experimental Channel 2 and then chairman of Channel 2 news company.
WDr. Asael Lubotzky is a former Israel Defense Forces officer wounded in combat, who has become an Israeli physician, author and molecular biologist.
WItamar Marcus is a researcher and the founder and director of Palestinian Media Watch, which studies Palestinian society by monitoring and analyzing the Palestinian Authority (PA) through its media and schoolbooks.
WDidi Menosi was an Israeli writer, journalist, poet, lyricist, dramatist, columnist and satirist.
WShmuel Moreh was a professor of Arabic Language and Literature at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem and a recipient of the Israel Prize in Middle Eastern studies in 1999. In addition to having written many books and articles dealing with Arabic literature in general and Iraqi Jewish Arabic literature in particular, he has been a major contributor to Elaph, the first online daily independent journal in the Arabic language. Professor Moreh wrote in Arabic, Hebrew, and English.
WSalman Natour (Arabic: سلمان ناطور, 1949-2016) was an Israeli writer and novelist, Born in Daliyat al-Karmel south of Haifa in 1949, and graduated in his hometown's high school then attained higher education in Jerusalem then in Haifa.
WYael Neeman, is an Israeli author.
WTzvika Nir is an Israeli writer, poet, lawyer and former politician. He briefly served as a member of the Knesset in 1996 and is currently chairman of the Hebrew Writers Association in Israel.
WTal Nitzán is an Israeli poet, writer, translator and editor.
WMichael Omer is an Israeli novelist. He is the author of "A Killer's Mind", published in 2018, which climbed to number 1 on Amazon's best-seller list. His novel "Spider's Web", published in 2016, and its sequels in his successful "Glenmore Park Mystery" book series allowed Omer to pursue writing full-time.
WDorit Rabinyan is an Israeli writer and screenwriter.
WGideon "Gidi" Raff is an Israeli film and television director, screenwriter, and writer. He is best known for his creation of the Channel 2 thriller drama series Prisoners of War, from which he later co-developed the American version of the series Homeland.
WDaniel Ravner is an Israeli writer, speaker, and cross media creator. He is known for his work on Israeli television and blogging on crossmedia and internet trends. In March 2017, Ravner launched his startup news site "The Perspective", which offers his readers contradicting point of view analysis of current affairs.
WYehoshua Ḥana Rawnitzki was a Hebrew publisher, editor, and collaborator of Hayim Nahman Bialik.
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.
WHaim Shapira is an Israeli mathematician, pianist, speaker, philosopher and game theorist. He writes in Hebrew, and his books have been translated into English, Spanish, German, Portuguese, Italian, Russian and Korean. He is one of the most sought-after lecturers in Israel, and was also a keynote speaker at TEDxJaffa on game theory and strategy. His first two books in English are Happiness and Other Small Things of Absolute Importance and Gladiators, Pirates and Games of Trust. He also arranged and performed music on the soundtrack for John Wick: Chapter 2.
WGad Shimron is an Israeli journalist, author and military affairs commentator.
WShoshana Shababo was an Israeli writer.
WRonen Shoval is an Israeli writer and right-wing activist. He is the founder of the extra-parliamentary movement Im Tirtzu, and presided as its first chairman (2007–2013). Ronen is the author of the book Herzl's Vision 2.0, a manifest for the rejuvenating Zionism. He is a columnist in the Israeli newspaper Maariv and previously wrote in Haaretz and Makor Rishon. He was a lecturer at Bar-Ilan University, at a pre-army mechina, and at other colleges in Israel. He was also a research associate at the Institute for Zionist Strategies. He was elected a board member of the World Zionist Organization, the Jewish Agency and Keren Hayesod. In 2013, Ronen was named by the Algemeiner Journal as one of the 100 people who had the biggest positive impact on Jewish life in 2012.
WSasson Somekh was an Israeli academic, writer and translator. He was professor emeritus of Modern Arab Literature at Tel Aviv University.
WAdi Sorek (1970) is an Israeli writer and editor who lives in Tel-Aviv. she is the author of five fiction books, winner of the 2019 Levi Eshkol Prime Minister’s Award for Hebrew Authors, the 2012 Leib-Goldberg Award for Literary Works and the second place of the 1999 Moses Foundation Literary Award. Her latest Novel, Nathan, was nominated for the 2019 Sapir Prize.
WYoram Taharlev is an Israeli poet, lyricist, author and comedian. He wrote lyrics for hundreds of songs that were composed and recorded by prominent composers and performers.
WVadim Izrailevich Teplitsky was a Soviet and Israeli engineer-economist, journalist and chess historian. He is the author of more than 20 books, including monographs on the history of chess, as well as over 400 articles, essays, reports, poems, parodies, epigrams published in Ukrainian, Israeli, Russian and American press, as well as on the Internet. He was a Soviet Chess Master Candidate. Teplitsky co-authored the Encyclopedic Dictionary of Chess.
WDavid Tidhar was a Jewish-Israeli police officer, private detective and author.
WDov Yaffe (Hebrew: דב יפה; 1928–2017) was a Lithuanian-born Israeli rabbi, mashgiach, and leader of the Musar movement.
WAbraham Shalom Yahuda was a Palestinian Jew, polymath, teacher, writer, researcher, linguist, and collector of rare documents.
WZvi Yanai was an Israeli civil servant and author.