List of Famous people born in Israel
Maisa Abd Elhadi
Maisa Abd Elhadi is an Israeli Arab actress. Abd Elhadi won the best actress award at the Dubai Film Festival in 2011.
Ehud Barak
Ehud Barak is an Israeli general and politician who served as the tenth Prime Minister from 1999 to 2001. He was leader of the Labor Party until January 2011. He previously held the posts of Minister of Defense and Deputy Prime Minister under Ehud Olmert and then in Benjamin Netanyahu's second government from 2007 to 2013, as he retired from politics at the end of the tenure, though he returned in June 2019 with the formation of a new party.
Hany Abu-Assad
Hany Abu-Assad is a Palestinian film director. He has received two Academy Award nominations: in 2006 for his film Paradise Now, and again in 2013 for his film Omar.
Shai Agassi
Shai Agassi is an Israeli entrepreneur. He is the founder and former CEO of Better Place, which had developed a model and infrastructure for employing electric cars as an alternative to fossil fuel technology. The company went bankrupt in 2013, having spent over $850 million while deploying less than 1000 cars.
Basel Ghattas
Dr Basel Ghattas is an Israeli Arab politician. A member of Balad, he served as a member of the Knesset for Balad and the Joint List from 2015 until 2017. In December 2016, he was stripped of his diplomatic immunity and arrested after he was caught on video providing convicted Palestinian terrorists with cell phones and SIM cards. He served a two-year prison term over the crime.
Ghassan Alian
Ghassan Alian, is an Israeli executive officer of IDF's Central Command, Major general by rank. Alian is one of the highest ranking Druze in the IDF and has served since 1990.
Sami Abu Shehadeh
Sami Abu Shehadeh is an Israeli Arab politician. He is a member of the Knesset for the Joint List and was elected leader of Balad on 23 January 2021.
Haim Revivo
Haim Michael Revivo is a retired Israeli football player who played as a midfielder, and a businessman.
Aviv Kochavi
Rav-Aluf Aviv Kochavi is the Chief of General Staff of the Israel Defense Forces, having taken the oath of office on January 15, 2019. He was the commander of the Gaza Division during the unilateral disengagement, and also the head of the Northern Command. Between November 2010 and September 2014 Kochavi served as the Military Intelligence Director.
Moshe Sharon
Moshe Sharon is an Israeli historian of Islam who has been called "Israel's greatest Middle East scholar."