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This is a list of notable Israeli Ashkenazi Jews, including both original immigrants who obtained Israeli citizenship and their Israeli descendants.
Although traditionally the term "Ashkenazi Jews" was used as an all encompassing term referring to the Jews descended from the Jewish communities of Europe, due to the melting pot affect of the Israeli society the term "Ashkenazi Jews" gradually becomes more vague as many of the Israeli descendants of the Ashkenazi Jews immigrants gradually adopted the characteristics of the Israeli culture and as more decedents intermarry with descendants of other Jewish communities.
The list is ordered by category of human endeavor. Persons with significant contributions in two fields are listed in both of the pertinent categories, to facilitate easy lookup.
Politicians
Military
Religious figures
Religious-Zionist rabbis
Haredi rabbis
- Uri Zohar – former film director, actor, and comedian who left the entertainment world to become a rabbi
- Avraham Yeshayeh Karelitz, Chazon Ish, (1878–1953)
- Elazar Menachem Shach, Rav Shach, (1899–2001)
- Moshe Shmuel Shapira, rosh yeshiva of Beer Yaakov
- Nissim Karelitz, Head Justice of Rabbinical Court of Bnei Brak
- Chaim Kanievsky
- Yosef Sholom Eliashiv
- Shlomo Zalman Auerbach
- Yosef Chaim Sonnenfeld, Chief Rabbi of Jerusalem (Edah HaChareidis)
- Yitzchok Tuvia Weiss, Chief Rabbi of Jerusalem (Edah HaChareidis)
- Yosef Tzvi Dushinsky (I), Chief Rabbi of Jerusalem (Edah HaChareidis)
- Yaakov Aryeh Alter, Gerrer Rebbe
- Yissachar Dov Rokeach (II), Belzer Rebbe
Activists
Cultural figures
Film, TV, and stage
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- Alona Tal – actress
- Tuvia Tzafir – actor
- Yoav Tzafir – actor
- Michal Yannai – actress
- Shaike Ophir – actor
- Zvika Hadar – actor
- Samuel Vilozny – actor
- Alma Zak – actress
- Tzipi Shavit – actress
- Moni Moshonov – actor
- Adir Miller – actor
- Hanna Maron – actress
- Anat Atzmon – actress
- Tal Friedman – comedian, actor and musician
- Avi Kushnir – actor
- Eyal Kitzis – actor, comedian and TV host
- Menahem Golan - director and producer
- Uri Zohar – former film director, actor, and comedian who left the entertainment world to become a rabbi
- Dudu Topaz – TV personality, comedian, actor, screenwriter, playwright, author and radio and television host
- Yaron London - media personality, journalist, actor and songwriter
- Moti Kirschenbaum - media personality and documentarian
- Ya'akov Eilon - News anchorman
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Popular musicians
Classical musicians
Writers
Artists
Models
Academic figures
Physics and chemistry
Biology and medicine
- Aaron Ciechanover and Avram Hershko – ubiquitin system; Lasker Award (2000), Nobel Prize in Chemistry (2004)
- Moshe Feldenkrais – invented Feldenkrais method used in movement therapy
- Lior Gepstein – American College of Cardiology's Zipes Award for his development of heart cells and pacemakers from stem cells.[3]
- Eyal Gur – selected by Newsweek as one of the world's top microsurgeons [3]
- Hossam Haick – inventor of an electric nose for diagnosis of cancer [3]
- Israel Hanukoglu – structures of cytoskeletal keratins, NADP binding proteins, steroidogenic enzymes, Epithelial Sodium Channels (ENaC)
- Gavriel Iddan – inventor of capsule endoscopy
- Benjamin Kahn – marine biologist, defender of the Red Sea reef
- Gideon Mer – malaria control
- Andy Lehrer, entomologist
- Shulamit Levenberg – inventor of a muscle tissue which isn't rejected by the body after transplant. Selected by Scientific American as one of the 50 leading scientists in the world.[3]
- Alexander Levitzki – cancer research; Wolf Prize in Medicine (2005)
- Saul Merin – Ophthalmologist, author of Inherited Eye Diseases
- Raphael Mechoulam – Chemist, discoverer of tetrahydrocannabinol and anandamide
- Leo Sachs – blood cell research; Wolf Prize in Medicine (1980)
- Michael Sela and Ruth Arnon – developed Copaxone; Wolf Prize in Medicine (1998)
- Joel Sussman – 3D structure of acetylcholinesterase, Elkeles Prize for Research in Medicine (2005)
- Valero Aaron-Professor of Medicine, founder of Faculty of Medicine at the Technion, director of government hospital
- Meir Wilchek – affinity chromatography; Wolf Prize in Medicine (1987)
- Ada Yonath – structure of ribosome. She received the Nobel Prize in Chemistry (2009)
- Amotz Zahavi – Handicap Principle
Social sciences
Computing and mathematics
- Ron Aharoni – mathematician
- Noga Alon – mathematician, computer scientist, winner of the Gödel Prize (2005)
- Shimshon Amitsur- mathematician ring theory abstract algebra
- Robert Aumann – mathematical game theory; Nobel Prize in Economics (2005)
- Amir Ban and Shay Bushinsky – programmers of Junior (chess)
- Moshe Bar – creator and main developer of openMosix
- Yehoshua Bar-Hillel – machine translation
- Joseph Bernstein – mathematician
- Eli Biham – differential cryptanalysis
- Aryeh Dvoretzky, mathematician
- Uriel Feige – computer scientist, winner of the Gödel Prize(2001)
- Abraham Fraenkel – ZF set theory
- Hillel Furstenberg – mathematician; Wolf Prize in Mathematics (2006/7)
- Shafi Goldwasser – computer scientist, winner of the Gödel Prize (1993 and 2001)
- David Harel – computer science; Israel Prize (2004)
- Abraham Lempel and Jacob Ziv – LZW compression; IEEE Richard W. Hamming Medal (2007 and 1995)
- Joram Lindenstrauss – mathematician Johnson–Lindenstrauss lemma
- Elon Lindenstrauss – mathematician the 2010 Fields Medal awarded
- Michel Loève – probabilist
- Joel Moses – MIT provost and writer of Macsyma
- Yoram Moses – computer scientist, winner of the(1997)
- Judea Pearl – artificial intelligence, philosophy of action
- Ilya Piatetski-Shapiro – representation theory; Wolf Prize in Mathematics (1990)
- Amir Pnueli – temporal logic; Turing Award (1996)
- Shmuel Safra – computer scientist, winner of the (2001)
- Nir Shavit- computer scientist, winner of the (2001)
- Michael O. Rabin – nondeterminism, primality testing; Turing Award (1976)
- Adi Shamir – RSA encryption, differential cryptanalysis; Turing Award (2002)
- Saharon Shelah – logic; Wolf Prize in Mathematics (2001)
- Ehud Shapiro – Concurrent Prolog, DNA computing pioneer
- Moshe Y. Vardi – computer scientist, winner of the(2000)
- Avi Wigderson – randomized algorithms; Nevanlinna Prize (1994)
- Doron Zeilberger – combinatorics
Engineering
Philosophy
Humanities
- Aharon Dolgopolsky, linguist: Nostratic
- Moshe Goshen-Gottstein, Bible scholar
- Elias Khoury, law
- Hans Jakob Polotsky, linguist
- Chaim Rabin, Bible scholar
- Alice Shalvi, English literature, educator
- Gershon Shaked, Hebrew literature
- Shemaryahu Talmon, Bible scholar
- Emanuel Tov, Bible scholar
Entrepreneurs
High-tech
Other
Sports
- Ronnie Rosenthal – left winger/striker (national team), Maccabi Haifa, Liverpool, Tottenham, Watford[4]
- Mordechai Spiegler, Soviet Union/Israel – striker (Israel national team), manager
- Eyal Berkovic – midfielder (national team), Maccabi Haifa, Southampton, West Ham United, Celtic, Manchester City, Portsmouth
- Yochanan Vollach – defender (national team), Maccabi Haifa, Hapoel Haifa, HKFC; current president of Maccabi Haifa[5]
Basketball
- Miki Berkovich – Maccabi Tel-Aviv
- David Blu (formerly "Bluthenthal"), US & Israel, Euroleague 6' 7" forward (Maccabi Tel Aviv)[6]
- Tal Brody – US & Israel, Euroleague 6' 2" shooting guard, Maccabi Tel-Aviv
- Tal Burstein – Maccabi Tel-Aviv
- Omri Casspi – 6' 9" small forward, drafted in 1st round of 2009 NBA Draft (Cleveland Cavaliers)[7]
- Tanhum Cohen-Mintz, Latvian-born Israeli, 6' 8" center; 2x Euroleague All-Star
- Shay Doron – Israel & US, WNBA 5' 9" guard, University of Maryland (New York Liberty)[8]
- Lior Eliyahu, 6' 9" power forward, NBA draft 2006 (Orlando Magic; traded to Houston Rockets), but completing mandatory IDF service & playing in the Euroleague (Maccabi Tel Aviv)
- Tamir Goodman, US & Israel, 6' 3" shooting guard[9]
- Yotam Halperin – 6' 5" guard, drafted in 2006 NBA draft by Seattle Supersonics(Olympiacos)
- Amit Tamir – 6' 10" center/forward, University of California, PAOK Thessaloniki (Hapoel Jerusalem)[10][11]
Boxing
Fencing
Figure skating
- Alexei Beletski, Ukrainian-born Israeli, ice dancer, Olympian[17]
- Galit Chait – ice dancer, World Championship bronze 2002
- Natalia Gudina, Ukrainian-born Israeli – figure skater, Olympian[18]
- Tamar Katz, US-born Israeli – figure skater[19]
- Lionel Rumi, ice dancer
- Sergei Sakhnovsky – ice dancer, World Championship bronze 2002
- Michael Shmerkin, Soviet-born Israeli – figure skater[20]
- Alexandra Zaretski, Belarusian-born Israeli – ice dancer, Olympian[21]
- Roman Zaretski, Belarusian-born Israeli – ice dancer, Olympian[22]
Sailing
Swimming
- Vadim Alexeev, Kazakhstan-born Israeli swimmer, breaststroke[26]
- Adi Bichman – 400-m and 800-m freestyle, 400-m medley[27]
- Yoav Bruck – 50-m freestyle and 100-m freestyle
- Eran Groumi – 100 and 200 m backstroke, 100-m butterfly
- Michael "Miki" Halika – 200-m butterfly, 200- and 400-m individual medley
- Judith Haspel (born "Judith Deutsch"), Austrian-born Israeli; held every Austrian women's middle and long distance freestyle record in 1935; refused to represent Austria in 1936 Summer Olympics along with Ruth Langer and Lucie Goldner, protesting Hitler, stating, "I refuse to enter a contest in a land which so shamefully persecutes my people."[28]
- Dan Kutler, US-born Israeli; 100-m butterfly, 4×100-m medley relay[29]
- Keren Leibovitch, Paralympic swimmer, 4x-gold-medal-winner, 100-m backstroke, 50- and 100-m freestyle, 200-m individual medley
- Tal Stricker – 100- and 200-m breaststroke, 4×100-m medley relay[30]
- Eithan Urbach – backstroke swimmer, European championship silver & bronze; 100-m backstroke[31]
Tennis
Other
Criminals
- Baruch Goldstein – massacred 29 Arabs in the Cave of the Patriarchs
- Zeev Rosenstein – mob boss and drug trafficker
- Avraham Hirschson - politician whom was among other things the former Israeli Minister of Finance, whom convicted of stealing close to 2 million NIS from the National Workers Labor Federation while he was its chairman.
- Gonen Segev – Former Israeli member of Knesset and government minister who was convicted for an attempt of drug smuggling, for forgery and electronic commerce fraud.
- Dudu Topaz – TV personality, comedian, actor, screenwriter, playwright, author and radio and television host whom committed suicide in August 2009 after being charged with inciting violence against national media figures.
- Ehud Tenenbaum – computer hacker also known as The Analyzer whom became famous in 1998 when he was caught by the FBI after hacking into the computers of NASA, the Pentagon, the Knesset and the US Army, and after installing trojan horse software on some of those computers.
- Hanan Goldblatt – actor, comedian and singer whom in 2008 was convicted of perpetrating acts of rape as well as other sex offenses against women in his acting class.
See also
References
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