List of Famous people born in Haifa District, Israel
Eyal Ofer
Eyal Ofer is a Monaco-based Israeli billionaire real estate and shipping magnate, and a philanthropist. He is the chairman of Ofer Global, Zodiac Group and Global Holdings.
Alon Abutbul
Alon Moni Abutbul is an Israeli actor. He won the IFFI Best Actor Award (Male) at the 44th International Film Festival of India.
Yousef Sweid
Yousef "Joe" Sweid is a Christian-Israeli actor and dancer.
Doron Zeilberger
Doron Zeilberger is an Israeli mathematician, known for his work in combinatorics.
Ari Folman
Ari Folman is an Israeli film director, screenwriter, animator and film score composer. He directed the Oscar-nominated animated documentary film Waltz with Bashir (2008) and the live-action/animated film The Congress.
Hasson Hasson
Omer Bar-Lev
Israel Omer Barlev is an Israeli politician who served as an MK for the Labor Party. He was placed seventh on the party's list for the 2013 Knesset elections, and serves as the Party's point person on issues of peace and defense. Bar-Lev is an IDF reserve officer with the rank of colonel, who was commander of the Sayeret Matkal elite commando unit between 1984 and 1987.
Norman Issa
Norman Issa is an Arab-Israeli actor, active in cinema, theatre and television. His parents, who are Maronite Christians, are from the village of Kafr Bir'im.
Akram Hasson
Akram Hasson is an Israeli Druze politician who served as a member of the Knesset from 2012-2019. He served as an MK for Kadima between 2012 and 2013, becoming the last leader of the party in 2015, the first time a Druze had led a Jewish party. He then served as an MK for Kulanu from 2016 to 2019.
David Deutsch
David 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.