Famous people from Israel
The most-searched people from Israel right now, with the latest news on each.
Mansour Abbas
Mansour Abbas is an Arab-Israeli dentist and politician. He is currently the leader of Ra'am and a Knesset Member on the party's behalf. He was appointed as the chair of Special Committee on Arab Society Affairs in the Knesset on 27 April 2021 and served as deputy Chairman of the Knesset. In 2021, Abbas became the first Israeli of Arab-Muslim origin to join an Israeli governing coalition as minister.
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Yousef Jabareen
Yousef Taysir Jabareen is an Israeli Arab academic and politician. He served as a member of the Knesset for Hadash and the Joint List between 2015 and 2021.
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Yair Golan
Yair Golan is an Israeli politician, the leader of The Democrats party, and reserve major general in the Israel Defense Forces.
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Bezalel Smotrich
Bezalel Yoel Smotrich is an Israeli politician and lawyer who has served as the Minister of Finance since 2022. The leader of the Religious Zionist Party, he previously served as a Knesset member for the Jewish Home and Yamina, leaving in 2023 after resigning under the Norwegian Law, allowing him to remain a minister in the government while his seat in the Knesset could be taken by another candidate from his party.
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Naftali Bennett
Prime Minister of Israel from 2021 to 2022
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Isaac Herzog
President of Israel since 2021
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Yair Lapid
Leader of the Opposition in the Knesset (Israeli Parliament), Former Prime Minister of Israel in 2022 and Chairman of the Yesh Atid Party
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Yuval Noah Harari
Israeli historian and author of popular science bestsellers
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Ehud Barak
10th Prime Minister of Israel
Benny Gantz
Israeli military officer and politician (born 1959)
Ehud Olmert
Prime Minister of Israel from 2006 to 2009
Israel Katz
Israeli politician, Minister of Defense of Israel
Yossi Benayoun
Israeli association football player (born 1980)
Gadi Eisenkot
Gadi Eisenkot, also spelt Eizenkot, is an Israeli general, politician, and leader of the Yashar party. He served from 2015 to 2019 as the 21st chief of staff of the Israel Defense Forces and from 2023 to 2024 as a minister without portfolio in Israel's unity government. Eisenkot, who grew up in Eilat, pursued maritime studies and later served in the IDF's Golani Brigade. He holds a B.A. in history from Tel Aviv University and a post-graduate degree in political science from Haifa University. ...
Reuven Rivlin
10th President of Israel (2014–2021)
Gilad Shalit
Israeli writer, soldier, and former hostage
Gal Gadot
Israeli actress, and model; Miss Israel 2004 (born 1985)
Tzipi Livni
Israeli politician, former Israeli Foreign Minister and former leader of the Coalition: Zionist Union together with Isaac Herzog from 2015 to 2019
Moshe Katsav
8th President of Israel (2000–2007)
Benjamin Netanyahu
Prime Minister of Israel (born 1949), (1996–1999; 2009–2021; 2022–present)
Dan Shechtman
Israeli scientist
Boris Gelfand
Belarusian-Israeli chess player
Etgar Keret
Israeli writer and screenwriter
Adi Shamir
Israeli cryptographer (born 1952)