List of Famous people born in Israel

Tzufit Grant is an Israeli actress and former host of the television show Milkshake. She was born in Petah Tikva, Israel.

Liraz Charhi is an Israeli actress, singer and dancer of Iranian origin.

Yehuda Pearl is an Israeli-American computer scientist and philosopher, best known for championing the probabilistic approach to artificial intelligence and the development of Bayesian networks. He is also credited for developing a theory of causal and counterfactual inference based on structural models. In 2011, the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) awarded Pearl with the Turing Award, the highest distinction in computer science, "for fundamental contributions to artificial intelligence through the development of a calculus for probabilistic and causal reasoning".

Aryeh Eldad, M.D. is an Israeli physician and politician, and a former member of the Knesset for the National Union and Otzma LeYisrael.

Miriam "Miri" Regev is an Israeli politician and a former Brigadier-general in the Israel Defense Forces, in which she served as IDF Spokeswoman. She is currently a member of the Knesset for Likud, and Minister of Transportation. She also previously served as Minister of Culture and Sport. On June 14, 2017, she was appointed acting PM to serve while PM Netanyahu would be abroad.

Yousef "Joe" Sweid is a Christian-Israeli actor and dancer.

Oded Goldreich is a professor of Computer Science at the Faculty of Mathematics and Computer Science of Weizmann Institute of Science, Israel. His research interests lie within the theory of computation and are, specifically, the interplay of randomness and computation, the foundations of cryptography, and computational complexity theory. He won the Knuth Prize in 2017.

Idan Ofer is an Israeli billionaire businessman, with interests in shipping, Energy mining and Sport. He is the founder of Eastern Pacific Shipping and the principal of the Quantum Pacific Group, a holding company. He is majority shareholder of the Israel Corporation, listed on the Tel Aviv Stock Exchange, as well as Kenon Holdings, listed on the Tel Aviv and New York Stock Exchange.

Yitzhak "Aki" Avni, is an Israeli actor, entertainer and television host. He appeared in the movie Free Zone with Natalie Portman. He also played the character Mohsen in the second season of the television series 24.