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Hebrew University of Jerusalem
The Hebrew University of Jerusalem (Hebrew: האוניברסיטה העברית בירושלים, ha'universita ha'ivrit birushalayim; Arabic: الجامعة العبرية في القدس, Al-Jāmi`ah al-`Ibriyyah fil-Quds; abbreviated HUJI) is Israel's oldest university.
The First Board of Governors included Albert Einstein, Sigmund Freud,...
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Saharon Shelah
Saharon Shelah (Hebrew: שהרן שלח, born July 3, 1945 in Jerusalem) is an Israeli mathematician.
Shelah received his Ph.D. in 1969 from the Hebrew University. He is a professor of mathematics at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem and also at Rutgers...
David Gross
David Jonathan Gross (born February 19, 1941 in Washington, D.C.) is an American particle physicist and string theorist. Along with Frank Wilczek and David Politzer, he was awarded the 2004 Nobel Prize in Physics for his discovery of asymptotic...
Dan Charash
Dan has a decade of experience in digital
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Yael Elish
Yael Elish is a 12 year veteran of several Internet start-ups with
management positions in marketing, product management and business
development positions. Before founding eSnips / Net Snippets in 2001,
Yael was the Vice President of Strategic...
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Aviva Gatt
Ms. Gatt joined Traiana in July 2006 as Vice President, Human Resources. She previously held the position of Vice President, Human Resources in Metalink Broadband Access where from 2000 she had responsibility for Human Resources in Metalink...
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Yossi Barak
Yossi Barak brings over 23 years of
executive-level experience in software development and management to
Fraud Sciences. Most recently, he was the Site Manager at IBM Israel
Software Labs. Before joining IBM, Yossi was General Manager of iPhrase...
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Rona Segev-Gal
Rona Segev-Gal joined Pitango as a Partner in mid 2005 to head the Enterprise Software sector. Formerly a Partner at Evergreen, she brings with her a great deal of expertise in the software investments, as well as strong Venture Capital experience....
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Daniel Kahneman
Daniel Kahneman (Hebrew: דניאל כהנמן) (born 5 March 1934) is an Israeli psychologist and Nobel laureate, notable for his work on the psychology of judgment and decision-making, behavioral economics and hedonic psychology.
With Amos Tversky and...
Gerson Goldhaber
Gerson Goldhaber (born February 20, 1924) is an American particle physicist and astrophysicist. He is one of the discoverers of the D meson which confirmed the existence of the charm quark. He currently works at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory...
Joshua Jortner
Joshua Jortner (Hebrew: יהושע יורטנר) (March 14, 1933) is an Israeli physical chemist. He is a Professor Emeritus at School of Chemistry, The Sackler Faculty of Exact Sciences, Tel Aviv University in Tel Aviv, Israel.
Joshua Jortner was born on...
Daphne Koller
Daphne Koller is a Professor in the Department of Computer Science at Stanford University and a MacArthur Fellowship recipient. Her general research area is artificial intelligence. Koller was featured in an article by MIT Technology Review titled ...
Ernst G. Straus
Ernst Gabor Straus (February 25, 1922 – July 12, 1983) was a German-American mathematician who helped found the theories of Euclidean Ramsey theory and of the arithmetic properties of analytic functions. His extensive list of co-authors includes...
Sulamith Goldhaber
Sulamith Goldhaber (November 4, 1923 – December 11, 1965) was a high-energy physicist and molecular spectroscopist. Goldhaber was a world expert on the interactions of K mesons with nucleons and made numerous discoveries relating to it.
Goldhaber...
Galia Maor
Galia Maor is currently the chief executive of Israel's Bank Leumi. She has been President and CEO since 1995. She is also a member of the advisory committee to the Bank of Israel. She earned her masters...
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- 1967
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Galia Maor
Galia Maor is currently the chief executive of Israel's Bank Leumi. She has been President and CEO since 1995. She is also a member of the advisory committee to the Bank of Israel. She earned her masters...
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- 1964
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Orit Gadiesh
ORIT GADIESH is the Chairman of Bain & Company, the global strategy consulting firm. Ms. Gadiesh has worked with hundreds of CEOs and senior executives of major international companies. Her first job was working as the assistant...
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Dina Dublon
Dina Dublon is a current member of the boards of directors at Microsoft, Accenture, and PepsiCo. She also serves as a trustee of Carnegie Mellon University and on the boards of several non-profit organizations, including the Global Fund for Women...
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Menachem Magidor
Menachem Magidor (1946 - ) is an Israeli mathematician who specializes in mathematical logic, in particular set theory. He served as President of the Hebrew University of Jerusalem.
Menachem Magidor was born in Petah Tikva on January 24, 1946. He...
Mario Livio
Mario Livio (born 1945) is an astrophysicist and an author of works that popularize science and mathematics. He is currently an astronomer and head of public outreach at the Space Telescope Science Institute, which operates the Hubble Space...
Ada Yonath
Ada E. Yonath (born 1939) (Hebrew: עדה יונת, pronounced [ˈada joˈnat]) is an Israeli crystallographer best known for her pioneering work on the structure of the ribosome. She is the current director of the Helen and Milton A. Kimmelman Center for...
Alexander Levitzki
Alexander Levitzki (Hebrew: אלכסנדר לויצקי) (born 1940) is an Israeli biochemist who is a Professor of Biochemistry at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem.
Alexander Levitzki was born in 1940 in Palestine. He completed his M.Sc. in Chemistry from the...
Elie Yossef
Elie Yossef (also Eli Joseph, Hebrew: אֵלִי יוֹסֵף) is a London-born Israeli educator and political activist.
Eli Yossef grew up in London and attended the Hasmonean High School where he established Betar England in 1973. In 1975, Yossef came on...
Yochanan Vollach
Yochanan Vollach (Hebrew: יוחנן וולך, sometimes spelled Jochanan Wallach or Yohanan Wallach, born 14 May 1945) is a former Israeli footballer. He was a member of the Israeli national team that competed at the 1970 FIFA World Cup. Today, Vollach is...
Haim Harari
Haim Harari (Hebrew: חיים הררי) (born 1940) is an Israeli theoretical physicist who has made contributions in particle physics, science education, and other fields.
Haim Harari was born in Jerusalem in 1940 into a family that had lived in the region...
Avishai Margalit
Avishai Margalit (born in 1939) is the George F. Kennan Professor at the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton, and Professor Emeritus in Philosophy at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem.
Avishai Margalit grew up in Jerusalem. He was educated in...
Uri Davis
Uriel "Uri" Davis (Hebrew: אוריאל "אורי" דייוויס, born 1943 in Jerusalem) is an academic and activist who says that he works on civil rights in Israel, Palestinian National Authority and the Middle East. Davis has served as Vice-Chairman of the...
Roman Bronfman
Dr. Roman Bronfman (Hebrew: רומן ברונפמן, born 22 April 1954) is a left wing Israeli politician. He was born in Ukraine, and immigrated to Israel in 1980.
He holds a PhD in Political Science from Hebrew University of Jerusalem. Before entering...
Eilat Mazar
Eilat Mazar (Hebrew: אילת מזר; born September 10, 1956) is a third-generation Israeli archaeologist, specializing in Jerusalem and Phoenician archeology. A senior fellow at the Shalem Center, she has worked on the Temple Mount excavations, as well...
Amnon Jackont
Amnon Jackont (born 1948 in Ramat Gan) is an Israeli author of thrillers, an historian and a literary editor.
Jackont was allowed to postpone his military service for law studies at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. During the summer breaks he...
Yael Dayan
Yaël Dayan (Hebrew: יעל דיין, born 2 December 1939) is an Israeli politician and author.
Yael Dayan, born in Nahalal, is the daughter of Moshe Dayan and granddaughter of Shmuel Dayan, both politicians in Israel's early years of statehood. After...
David Grossman
David Grossman (Hebrew: דויד גרוסמן) born in Jerusalem on January 25, 1954, is an Israeli author of fiction, nonfiction, and youth and children's literature. His books have been translated into numerous languages. The Yellow Wind, his nonfiction...
Aaron Ciechanover
Aaron Ciechanover (אהרן צ'חנובר) (born October 1, 1947) is an Israeli biologist, and Nobel laureate in Chemistry.
Ciechanover was born in Haifa, Palestine, a year before the establishment of the State of Israel. His family had immigrated from Poland...
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- 1971
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Ehud Olmert
Ehud Olmert (Hebrew: אהוד אולמרט, IPA: [ɛˈhud ˈolmeʁt] ( listen), born 30 September 1945) is an Israeli political figure, and former Prime Minister of Israel having served from 2006 to 2009. Olmert was the mayor of Jerusalem from 1993 to 2003. In...
Yitzhak Navon
Yitzhak Navon (Hebrew: יצחק נבון, born 9 April 1921) is an Israeli politician, diplomat and author. He was the fifth President of Israel.
Born in Jerusalem, Navon is a multilingual descendant of a Sephardi family of rabbis. On his father's side, he...
Zeev Sternhell
Zeev Sternhell (Hebrew: זאב שטרנהל,born 1935) is an Israeli historian and one of the world's leading experts on Fascism. Sternhell headed the Department of Political Science at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem and writes for Haaretz newspaper....
Miri Rubin
Miri Rubin (born 1956) is a medieval historian who is Professor of Early Modern History at Queen Mary, University of London. She was educated at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem and the University of Cambridge, where she took her doctorate.
Rubin...
Yehoshua Bar-Hillel
Yehoshua Bar-Hillel (Hebrew: יהושע בר-הלל; 1915 in Vienna – 1975 in Jerusalem) was a philosopher, mathematician, and linguist at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, best known for his pioneering work in machine translation and formal linguistics....
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Amos Oz
Amos Oz (Hebrew: עמוס עוז) (born May 4, 1939, birth name Amos Klausner) is an Israeli writer, novelist, and journalist. He is also a professor of literature at Ben-Gurion University in Be'er Sheva. Since 1967, he has been a prominent advocate and...
Michael O. Rabin
Michael Oser Rabin (Hebrew: מִיכָאֵל אֹשֶׁר רַבִּין, born September 1, 1931 in Breslau, Germany, today in Poland) is a computer scientist and a recipient of the Turing Award.
Rabin was born as the son of a rabbi in what was then known as Breslau ...
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- 1953
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Moshe Katsav
Moshe Katsav (Hebrew: משה קצב), (born Mūsā Qasāb ((Persian: موسى قصاب)) December 5, 1945 in Yazd, Iran), is a former President of Israel and member of the Israeli Knesset.
The end of his term of President was marked by controversy, and from 25...
Ehud Barak
Ehud Barak (Hebrew: אֵהוּד בָּרָק (help·info), born Ehud Brog on 12 February 1942) is an Israeli politician, former Prime Minister, and current Minister of Defense, deputy prime minister and leader of Israel's Labor Party.
Barak served as the 10th...
Moshé Machover
Moshé Machover (born 1936) is a mathematician, philosopher, and socialist activist, noted for his writings against Zionism. Born to a Jewish family in Tel Aviv, then part of the British Mandate of Palestine, Machover moved to Britain in 1968 where...
Yohanan Plesner
Yohanan Plesner (Hebrew: יוחנן פלסנר, born 17 January 1972) is an Israeli politician and a member of the Knesset for Kadima.
Born in England, Plesner grew up in Jerusalem and served with the Sayeret Matkal during his national service in the IDF...
Menachem Ben-Sasson
Professor Menachem Ben-Sasson (Hebrew: מנחם בן-ששון, born 7 July 1951) is an Israeli politician and a former member of the Knesset for Kadima. He is the president of Hebrew University of Jerusalem, succeeding Menachem Magidor.
Born in Jerusalem,...
Marcelle Machluf
Prof. Marcelle Machluf is a senior lecturer at the Technion Faculty of Biotechnology and Food Engineering in Israel. Her research interests include: Developing nano-particles for the delivery of anti cancer drugs to the brain and other organs;...
Akiva Eldar
Akiva Eldar (Hebrew: עקיבא אלדר) is an Israeli journalist and author, currently a chief political columnist and editorial writer for the Israeli national daily Ha'aretz. His columns also appear regularly in the Ha'aretz-International Herald Tribune...
Moshe Y. Vardi
Moshe Yaakov Vardi (Hebrew: משה יעקב ורדי) is a Professor of Computer Science at Rice University, USA. He is the Karen Ostrum George Professor in Computational Engineering and Director of the Computer and Information Technology Institute. His...
Sylvain cypel
Sylvain Cypel is senior editor at the French newspaper Le Monde.
Cypel holds degrees in Sociology, Contemporary History and International Relations. Cypel, whose father was a leader of the Zionist movement in France, lived in Israel for 12 years. He...
Yoram Aridor
Yoram Aridor (Hebrew: יורם ארידור, born 24 October 1933) is a former right-wing Israeli politician, Knesset member and minister.
Born in Tel Aviv, Aridor studied law at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, and practiced law while being active in the...
Galila Ron-Feder Amit
Galila Ron-Feder Amit (Hebrew: גלילה רון־פדר-עמית, born 1949) is an Israeli children books author.
Born in Haifa, Israel and studied in the Hebrew Reali School and later Hebrew University of Jerusalem. She was married to Avi Feder and after their...
Aviva Cantor
Aviva Cantor (born 1940) is an American journalist, lecturer and author. An advocate of feminism and the democratization of Jewish communal life, Cantor has been actively involved in promoting progressive Jewish causes for over 40 years. She was a...
Yoav Gelber
Yoav Gelber (Hebrew: יואב גלבר) (born 1943) is a professor of history at the University of Haifa, and was formerly a visiting professor at The University of Texas at Austin.
Gelber was born in Mandatory Palestine in 1943 and studied world and...
Saul Berman
Saul J. Berman (born April 30 1939) is a prominent American scholar and leading Modern Orthodox rabbi.
As a rabbi, scholar, and educator he has made extensive contributions to the intensification of Jewish education for Jewish women on many levels,...
Yoram Moses
Yoram Moses (Hebrew: יוֹרָם מוֹזֶס) is an Associate Professor in the Electrical Engineering Department at the Technion - Israel Institute of Technology.
Yoram Moses received a B.Sc. in mathematics from the Hebrew University of Jerusalem in 1981,...
Yona Sabar
Yona Sabar, (1938- ), is a Kurdish Jewish scholar, linguist and researcher. He was born in the town of Zakho in the Kurdish region of Northern Iraq. His family moved to Israel in 1951. He received a B.A. in Hebrew and Arabic from the Hebrew...
Noga Alon
Noga Alon (born 1956) (Hebrew: נוגה אלון) is an Israeli mathematician noted for his contributions to combinatorics and theoretical computer science, having authored hundreds of papers.
Alon is currently on the faculty of Tel Aviv University.
He is...
Avraham Burg
Avraham "Avrum" Burg (Hebrew: אברהם בורג, born January 19, 1955) is an Israeli author; he was formerly a member of the Knesset, a chairman of the Jewish Agency for Israel and a Speaker of the Knesset.
Burg was born and raised in Jerusalem's Rehavia...
Michael Bar-Zohar
Dr Michael Bar-Zohar (Hebrew: מיכאל בר-זוהר, born 30 January 1938) is an Israeli historian, novelist and politician. His World War II-era nonfiction and fiction works have been published in English, French, Hebrew, and other languages. He was also...
Avigdor Liberman
Avigdor Lieberman (Hebrew: אביגדור ליברמן (audio) (help·info), Russian: Авигдор (Эве́т Львович) Либерман, born 5 June 1958 as Evet Lieberman) is a Soviet-born Israeli politician and Member of the Knesset as well as the current Israeli Minister of...
Branko Grünbaum
Branko Grünbaum (born 1929) is a Croatian-born mathematician and a professor emeritus at the University of Washington in Seattle. He received his Ph.D. in 1957 from Hebrew University of Jerusalem in Israel. He has authored over 200 papers, mostly in...
