List of Famous people born in Israel

Elana Eden is an Israeli actress of film, television, and stage, best known for her film debut as the title role in 20th Century Fox's biblical epic The Story of Ruth (1960).

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.

Sendi Bar is an Israeli actress and model.

Nurit Hirsh is an Israeli composer, arranger and conductor who has written over a thousand Hebrew songs. Two of her most famous and widely known songs are Ba-Shanah ha-Ba'ah, Oseh Shalom bi-Meromav. and A-Ba-Ni-Bi, the winning entry in the 1978 Eurovision Song Contest.

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.

Lavie Tidhar is an Israeli-born writer, working across multiple genres. He has lived in the United Kingdom and South Africa for long periods of time, as well as Laos and Vanuatu. As of 2013, Tidhar lives in London. His novel Osama won the 2012 World Fantasy Award for Best Novel, beating Stephen King's 11/22/63 and George R. R. Martin's A Dance with Dragons. His novel A Man Lies Dreaming won the £5000 Jerwood Fiction Uncovered Prize, for Best British Fiction, in 2015. He won the John W. Campbell Memorial Award for Best Science Fiction Novel in 2017, for Central Station.