List of Famous people born in Israel
Kais Nashef
Kais Nashef is an Arab-Israeli actor of Palestinian and German descent.
Ram Rothberg
Aluf Ram Rothberg is a general in the Israel Defense Forces who was the head of the Israel Navy.
Roni Bar-On
Roni Bar-On is an Israeli politician and lawyer. He served as a member of the Knesset for Likud and Kadima between 2003 and 2011, and is also a former Minister of Finance.
Danny Danon
Danny Danon served as Israel’s 17th Permanent Representative to the United Nations, and currently serves as Chairman of the World Likud. Danon previously served as a member of the Knesset from the Likud Party, as Minister of Science, Technology and Space, and as Deputy Minister of Defense. During his term in the 18th Knesset, Danon served as Deputy Speaker, Chair of the Special Committee on the Rights of the Child, and Chair of the Committee for Immigration, Absorption and Diaspora Affairs. In June 2016, Danon was elected as chair of the UN’s Legal Committee, the first Israeli to ever hold the position.
Avi Yehezkel
Avraham "Avi" Yehezkel is a former Israeli politician who served as a member of the Knesset for the Labor Party between 1992 and 2003, and again briefly in 2006.
Galit Chait
Galit Chait is an Israeli former competitive ice dancer. She and her partner Sergei Sakhnovski competed internationally for Israel from 1995 to 2006, becoming the 2002 World bronze medalists.
Gassan Abbas
Yossi Abukasis
Yosef "Yossi" Abukasis is a former Israeli football Midfielder and current coach of Hapoel Be'er Sheva.
Miriam Feirberg
Miriam Feirberg Ikar is the mayor of Netanya, a city in the Central District of Israel. Feirberg is the first (elected) female mayor in Netanya and one of the few women who have served as mayors of Israeli cities.
Dan Halutz
Dan Halutz is an Israeli Air Force lieutenant general and former Chief of Staff of the Israel Defense Forces and commander of the Israeli Air Force. Halutz served as chief of staff in 2005–2007.