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List of Israeli Ashkenazi Jews

List of Israeli Ashkenazi Jews

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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 effect of Israeli society the term "Ashkenazi Jews" gradually becomes more vague as many of the Israeli descendants of the Ashkenazi Jewish immigrants gradually adopted the characteristics of Israeli culture and as more descendants intermarry with descendants of other Jewish communities.

The list is ordered by category of human endeavor. Persons with significant contributions in two of these are listed in both of them, to facilitate easy lookup.

Notice: On Oct. 1, 2023, a hacker known as “Golem” claimed to have stolen DNA data from 23andMe and according, to the complaint, “As proof… published the alleged data of one million users of Jewish Ashkenazi descent.

Politicians

Military

Religious figures

Religious-rabbis

Israel Meir Lau

Haredi rabbis

Uri Zohar

Activists

Natan Sharansky

Cultural and entertainment figures

Film, TV, and stage

Classical musicians

Itzhak Perlman

Writers

Artists

Dudu Geva

Models

Bar Refaeli

Academic figures

Physics and chemistry

Arieh Warshel, 2013 Nobel Prize in Chemistry Laureate for "the development of multiscale models for complex chemical systems"

Biology and medicine

Aaron Ciechanover
Ada Yonath

Social sciences

Daniel Kahneman

Computing and mathematics

Shafi Goldwasser
Elon Lindenstrauss

Engineering

Philosophy

Humanities

Architecture

Entrepreneurs and businesspeople

Technology

Andi Gutmans
Stef Wertheimer

Other industries

Sports

Association football

Basketball

Gal Mekel

Boxing

Fencing

Figure skating

Galit Chait and Sergei Sakhnovsky

Sailing

Gal Fridman

Swimming

Tennis

Shahar Pe'er

Other

Criminals

Zeev Rosenstein

See also


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