List of Famous people born in Northern District, Israel

Amram Mitzna

First Name Amram
Last Name Mitzna
Born on February 20, 1945 (age 81)

Amram Mitzna is an Israeli politician and former general in the IDF. He is a former mayor of Haifa (1993–2003) and Yeruham (2005–2010) and led the Labor Party from 2002 to 2003. In 2012 he joined Hatnuah.

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Lavie Tidhar

First Name Lavie
Last Name Tidhar
Born on November 16, 1976 (age 49)

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.

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Gadi Eisenkott

First Name Gadi
Last Name Eisenkott
Born on May 19, 1960 (age 66)

Gadi Eizenkot or Eisenkot was the 21st Chief of General Staff of the Israel Defense Forces. He is the originator of the so-called Dahiya doctrine.

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Yousef Tafesh

First Name Yousef
Last Name Tafesh
Born on November 30, 1937 (age 88)
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Jacob Ziv

First Name Jacob
Last Name Ziv
Born on November 27, 1931 (age 94)

Yaakov Ziv is an Israeli electrical engineer who, along with Abraham Lempel, developed the LZ family of lossless data compression algorithms.

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Israël Nisand

First Name Israël
Last Name Nisand
Born on December 13, 1950 (age 75)
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Ofer Lahav

First Name Ofer
Last Name Lahav
Born on April 5, 1959 (age 67)

Ofer Lahav is Perren Chair of Astronomy at University College London (UCL), Vice-Dean (International) of the UCL Faculty of Mathematical and Physical Sciences (MAPS) and Co-Director of the STFC Centre for Doctoral Training in Data Intensive Science. His research area is Observational Cosmology, in particular probing Dark Matter and Dark Energy. His work involves Machine Learning for Big Data.

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Yoram Moses

First Name Yoram
Born on January 3, 1957 (age 69)

Yoram Moses is a Professor in the Electrical Engineering Department at the Technion - Israel Institute of Technology.

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Loai Nofi

First Name Loai
Born on January 14, 1985 (age 41)
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Eli Marom

First Name Eli
Born on November 13, 1955 (age 70)

Eliezer (Eli) Marom ("Chayni") is the former Commander of the Israeli Navy serving from 2007–2011. As of 2015 he serves as the head of the Israel Airports Authority.

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