List of Famous people born in Israel
Shon Weissman
Shon Zalman Weissman is an Israeli professional footballer who plays as a forward for the Spanish club Real Valladolid and the Israel national team.
Oscar Bronner
Oscar Bronner is an Austrian newspaper publisher and painter.
Chanoch Nissany
Chanoch Nissany is an Israeli-Hungarian auto racing driver now based in Budapest, Hungary. He is a businessman, and initially took up motor racing as a hobby. He is the first Israeli racing driver to compete in some of the higher levels of the international racing sports, such as International Formula 3000 and World Series Lights. Nissany is the first Israeli who participated at a Formula One Grand Prix weekend, on his birthday, 29 July 2005, in the first free practice session of the 2005 Hungarian Grand Prix, when he drove at the Hungaroring as one of the official test drivers of the Minardi F1 Team. He was 6.8 seconds slower than teammate Christijan Albers in free practice at the event. After spinning the car, he was unable to take the steering wheel out of his Minardi so he was recovered with the car.
Yehoshua Kenaz
Yehoshua Kenaz was an Israeli novelist who studied at the Hebrew University and at the Sorbonne. Kenaz is best known for his novel Infiltration, published in 1986. He died in October 2020.
Kobi Marimi
Yaakov "Kobi" Marimi is an Israeli singer and actor who represented Israel in the Eurovision Song Contest 2019.
Yaël Abecassis
Yael Abecassis is an Israeli actress and model.
Boaz Davidson
Boaz Davidson is an Israeli film director, producer and screenwriter. He was born in Tel Aviv, Israel and studied film in London at London Film School.
Avshalom Kor
Dr. Avshalom Kor is an Israeli linguist and expert on Hebrew grammar and semantics.
Noa
Achinoam Nini, also known professionally as Noa (נועה), is an Israeli singer-songwriter, percussionist, poet, composer, and human rights activist working internationally. She is accompanied by guitarist Gil Dor and often plays the conga drums and percussions as she sings. Noa represented Israel at the Eurovision Song Contest in 2009 together with singer Mira Awad, with the song "There Must Be Another Way". Her music is known to fuse languages and styles. She has performed in 52 countries and was the first Israeli artist to perform in the Vatican.
Heorhiy Tsitaishvili
Giorgi Tsitaishvili is a professional Ukrainian football midfielder who plays for FC Dynamo Kyiv.