List of Famous people born in Israel

Shelly Rachel Yachimovich is an Israeli politician, who served as the leader of the opposition three times, a member of the Knesset, and a member of the Foreign Affairs and Defense Committee. She served as leader of the Israeli Labor Party between 2011 and 2013. Before entering politics, she was a journalist, an author, and a television and radio commentator.

Linor Abargil is an Israeli lawyer, actress, model, and beauty queen who won the Miss World beauty pageant in 1998, shortly after being raped. Since then, she has become a global advocate in the fight against sexual violence. She was crowned by her predecessor Miss World 1997, Diana Hayden.

Ron Arad is an Israeli industrial designer, artist, and architectural designer.

Aaron Ciechanover is an Israeli biologist, who won the Nobel prize in Chemistry for characterizing the method that cells use to degrade and recycle proteins using ubiquitin.

Rami Heuberger is an Israeli director, actor and entertainer.

Assaf Naor is an Israeli American and Czech mathematician, computer scientist, and a professor of mathematics at Princeton University.

Moshe Safdie is an architect, urban planner, educator, theorist, and author. Safdie’s projects can be found in North and South America, the Middle East and throughout Asia. He is most identified with designing Marina Bay Sands and Jewel Changi Airport, as well as his debut project, Habitat 67, originally conceived as his master's thesis at McGill University, which paved the way for his international career. Safdie’s thought leadership and exemplary projects have been identified in and inspiration for generations of architects and architecture.

Ronald Raphael Coifman is the Phillips Professor of Mathematics at Yale University. Coifman earned a doctorate from the University of Geneva in 1965, supervised by Jovan Karamata.