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Israelis (Hebrew: ישראלים Yiśraʾelim) are the citizens or permanent residents of the State of Israel, a multiethnic state populated by people of different ethnic backgrounds. The largest ethnic groups in Israel are Jews (75%), followed by Arabs (20%) and other minorities (5%).[1]

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Lists of Israelis
 
By ethnicity
Israeli Jews:
Ethiopian Jews
Arab citizens of Israel:
Arab Muslims, Druze, Arab Christians
Various:
Circassians
By descent
Afghan, Algerian, American, Argentine, Armenian, Australian, Austrian
Belarusian, Belgian, Bosnian, Brazilian, British, Bulgarian
Canadian, Chilean, Chinese, Croatian, Czech
Danish, Dutch
Egyptian, Estonian, Ethiopian
Finnish, French
Georgian, German, Greek, Guatemalan
Hungarian
Indian, Iranian, Iraqi, Irish, Italian
Kazakhstani
Latvian, Libyan, Lithuanian
Mexican, Moldovan, Moroccan, Nigerian
Polish
Romanian, Russian
Serbian, Slovak, South African, Sudanese, Swedish, Swiss, Syrian
Tunisian, Turkish
Ukrainian, Uzbekistani
Yemeni
By place of residence
 


Academics

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Archaeology

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Biology and medicine

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Nobel Prize winner Aaron Ciechanover
 
Nobel Prize winner Avram Hershko
 
Nobel Prize winner Ada Yonath

Computing and mathematics

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Nobel Prize winner Robert Aumann
 
Shafi Goldwasser
 
Elon Lindenstrauss

Engineering

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Humanities

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Philosophy

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Physics and chemistry

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Josef Imry
 
Nobel Prize winner Michael Levitt
 
Nobel Prize winner Dan Shechtman
 
Nobel Prize winner Arieh Warshel

Social sciences

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Nobel Prize winner Daniel Kahneman
 
Ariel Rubinstein

Activists

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Architects

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Athletes

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Association football (soccer)

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Yossi Benayoun
 
Avram Grant

Basketball

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Omri Casspi
 
Gal Mekel

Bodybuilding

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  • Alana Shipp – American/Israeli IFBB professional bodybuilder
  • Eli Hanania – American/Israeli bodybuilder and model

Boxing

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Yuri Foreman

Cycling

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Fencing

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Delila Hatuel

Figure skating

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Golf

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Laetitia Beck

Gymnastics

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Linoy Ashram

Judo

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Or Sasson
 
Ariel Ze'evi
 
Oren Smadja
  • Yael Arad – judoka (Olympic silver: 1992, European champion: 1993, world silver: 1993). first Israeli Olympic medalist; light-middleweight
  • Yarden Gerbi – judoka (Olympic bronze: 2016)
  • Andrian Kordon – European Championship bronze; heavyweight
  • Daniela Krukower – Israeli/Argentine judoka, World Champion (under 63 kg)[33]
  • Timna Nelson-Levy (born 1994) – judoka (Olympic bronze: 2020), European champion
  • Yoel Razvozov – 2-time European Championship silver; lightweight
  • Or Sasson – judoka (Olympic bronze: 2016)
  • Oren Smadja – judoka (Olympic bronze: 1992; lightweight)
  • Ehud Vaks – judoka (half-lightweight)[34]
  • Gal Yekutiel – European championship bronze
  • Ariel Ze'evi – judoka (European champion: 2000, 2003, 2004; Olympic bronze: 2004; 100 kg)

Motor racing

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Sailing

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Gal Fridman
 
Shahar Tzuberi

Surfing

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Anat Lelior
  • Anat Lelior – female surfer who competed for Israel at the 2020 Olympic Games

Swimming

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  • Vadim Alexeev – swimmer, breaststroke[39]
  • Adi Bichman – 400-m and 800-m freestyle, 400-m medley[40]
  • Yoav Bruck – 50-m freestyle and 100-m freestyle
  • Anastasia Gorbenko (born 2003) – backstroke, breaststroke, and 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"), of Austrian origin, 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, "We do not boycott Olympia, but Berlin".[41]
  • Marc Hinawi – record holder in the European Games
  • Amit Ivry – Maccabiah and Israeli records in Women's 100 m butterfly, Israeli record in Women's 200 m Individual Medley, bronze medal in 100 m butterfly at the European Swimming Championships.
  • Dan Kutler – of U.S. origin; 100-m butterfly, 4×100-m medley relay[42]
  • 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[43]
  • Eithan Urbach – backstroke swimmer, European championship silver and bronze; 100-m backstroke[44]

Table tennis

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Taekwondo

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Avishag Semberg

Tennis

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Andy Ram and Jonathan Erlich
 
Shahar Pe'er

Track and field

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Other

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See also: List of Israeli chess players

Chefs

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Michal Ansky

Entertainment

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Artists

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Sigalit Landau

Film, TV, radio, and stage

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Gal Gadot
 
Avi Arad
 
Natalie Portman
 
Rotem Sela
 
Ayelet Zurer

Musicians

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For a more comprehensive list, see List of Israeli musical artists.

Classical composers

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Rami Bar-Niv

Classical musicians

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Itzhak Perlman
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Etti Ankri
 
Shlomo Artzi
 
Eyal Golan
 
Ofra Haza
 
Noa Kirel
 
Ninet Tayeb

News anchors

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Poets

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Yehuda Amichai

Writers

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Nobel Prize winner Shmuel Yosef Agnon
 
Etgar Keret

Entrepreneurs

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Tech

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Andi Gutmans
 
Yossi Vardi

Other

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Fashion models

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Bar Refaeli
 
Esti Ginzburg
 
Shani Hazan

Military

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Moshe Dayan
 
Ilan Ramon

Politicians

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For a more comprehensive list, see List of Israeli politicians.
 
Golda Meir
 
Benjamin Netanyahu
 
Ayelet Shaked
 
Yair Lapid
 
Meirav Cohen
 
Amir Ohana

Religious figures

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Haredi Rabbis

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Avraham Yeshayeh Karelitz
 
Yissachar Dov Rokeach
 
Ovadia Yosef

Reform Rabbis

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Religious-Zionist Rabbis

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Other

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See also

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References

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