List of Famous people born in Northern District, Israel

Yael Dayan

First Name Yael
Born on February 12, 1939 (age 87)

Yaël Dayan is an Israeli politician and author. She served as a member of the Knesset between 1992 and 2003, and from 2008 to 2013 was the chair of Tel Aviv city council. Her service on the city council ended with the 2013 election. She is the daughter of Moshe Dayan and sister of Assi Dayan and Udi Dayan.

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Yehonatan Geffen

First Name Yehonatan
Born on February 22, 1947 (age 79)

Yehonatan Geffen also known as Yonatan Gefen, is an Israeli author, poet, songwriter, journalist, and playwright.

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Samira Azzam

First Name Samira
Born on September 13, 1927
Died on November 30, 1966 (aged 39)

Samira Azzam was a Palestinian writer, broadcaster, and translator known for her collections of short stories. In 1948, Azzam fled Palestine with her husband and family in the midst of the 1948 Palestine War. Her collections of stories are renowned for examining the entirety of the Palestinian identity during this time period. Her first set of short stories, Small Things, was published in 1954, and examined women's role in Palestinian society. After returning to Beirut in 1959, she examined other Palestinian social structures such as the class hierarchy. She published two more collections of short stories during her life, The Big Shadow and The Clock and the Man. Throughout her writing, she does not cast blame as to the cause of these social structures, but rather creates plot lines that characterize these different sub-cultures within Palestinian society, relating them to political situation of this historical period. Therefore, her writing creates a very holistic view of Palestinian national identity during this time in history.

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Nabil Shaath

First Name Nabil
Last Name Shaath
Born on July 31, 1938 (age 87)

Nabil Ali Muhammad Shaath is a senior Palestinian official.

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Elia Suleiman

First Name Elia
Last Name Suleiman
Born on July 28, 1960 (age 65)

Elia Suleiman is a Palestinian film director and actor of Rûm Greek Orthodox origin. He is best known for the 2002 film Divine Intervention, a modern tragic comedy on living under occupation in Palestine which won the Jury Prize at the 2002 Cannes Film Festival. Elia Suleiman's cinematic style is often compared to that of Jacques Tati and Buster Keaton, for its poetic interplay between "burlesque and sobriety". He is married to Lebanese singer and actress Yasmine Hamdan.

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Mohammad Bakri

First Name Mohammad
Last Name Bakri
Born on November 27, 1953 (age 72)

Mohammad Bakri is a Palestinian actor and film director.

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Alec Gores

First Name Alec
Born on November 30, 1952 (age 73)
Net Worth $3.0B

Alec E. Gores is an American billionaire businessman, who made his fortune through leveraged buyouts of technology firms at the firm Gores Group.

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Orly Levy-Abekasis

Orly Levy
First Name Orly
Born on November 11, 1973 (age 52)

Orly Levy-Abekasis is an Israeli politician who currently serves as a member of the Knesset for Likud. Formerly a model, Levy-Abekasis first entered the Knesset in 2009 as a representative of Yisrael Beiteinu, but left the party in 2017 to sit as an independent. In 2019, she formed her own party, Gesher, to contest the April 2019 elections. Although the party failed to win a seat, she returned to the Knesset following the September 2019 elections, in which Gesher ran together with the Labor Party. In May 2020 she was appointed by Prime Minister Netanyahu as the newly created Minister for Community Empowerment and Advancement.

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Uzi Dayan

First Name Uzi
Last Name Dayan
Born on January 4, 1948 (age 78)

Aluf Uzi Dayan is a former general in the Israel Defense Forces and an Israeli politician. He is currently a member of the Knesset for Likud.

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Arieh Warshel

First Name Arieh

Arieh Warshel is an Israeli-American biochemist and biophysicist. He is a pioneer in computational studies on functional properties of biological molecules, Distinguished Professor of Chemistry and Biochemistry, and holds the Dana and David Dornsife Chair in Chemistry at the University of Southern California. He received the 2013 Nobel Prize in Chemistry, together with Michael Levitt and Martin Karplus for "the development of multiscale models for complex chemical systems".

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