It’s impossible to pick 75 people to represent all aspects of a state of more than 9 million people, let alone to pick the 75 most important or most influential people, but these diverse 75 are Israelis worth knowing across a range of fields to gain a better understanding of the current State of Israel. They join our lists of 75 people from Israel’s history, 75 Zionist founders and 75 non-Israelis, plus a list of Zionist and Israeli artworks.
View the Full List as a PDF- Mansour Abbas, 1974-
- Chava Alberstein, 1946-
- Ghassan Alian, 1972-
- Doron Almog, 1951-
- Ruth Almog, 1936-
- Yael Arad, 1967-
- Linoy Ashram, 1999-
- Robert Aumann, 1930-
- Deni Avdija, 2001-
- Shlomo Avineri, 1933-
- Mira Awad, 1975-
- Ehud Barak, 1942-
- Netta Barzilai, 1993-
- Naftali Bennett, 1972-
- Orna Berry, 1949-
- Tal Brody, 1943-
- David Broza, 1952-
- Omri Casspi, 1988-
- Aaron Ciechanover, 1947-
- Dani Dayan, 1955-
- Artem Dolgopyat, 1997-
- Karine Elharrar, 1977-
- Rabbanit Michelle Cohen Farber, 1971-
- Maxine Fassberg, 1953-
- Gal Fridman, 1975-
- Gal Gadot, 1985-
- Benny Gantz, 1959-
- Eilam Gross, 1960-
- David Grossman, 1954-
- Sarit Hadad, 1978-
- Shalom Hanoch, 1946-
- Esther Hayut, 1953-
- Avram Hershko, 1937-
- Isaac Herzog, 1960-
- Dana International, 1969-
- Dalia Itzik, 1952-
- Morris Kahn, 1930-
- Daniel Kahneman, 1934-
- Gadeer Kamal-Mreeh, 1984-
- Sayed Kashua, 1975-
- Etgar Keret, 1967-
- Noa Kirel, 2001-
- Sigalit Landau, 1969-
- Yair Lapid, 1963-
- Rabbi Yisrael Meir Lau, 1937-
- Avigdor Liberman, 1958-
- Merav Michaeli, 1966-
- Adi Nes, 1966-
- Benjamin Netanyahu, 1949-
- Ayman Odeh, 1975-
- Shahar Pe’er, 1987-
- Itzhak Perlman, 1945-
- Yohanan Plesner, 1972-
- Natalie Portman, 1981-
- Itamar Rabinovich, 1942-
- Miri Regev, 1965-
- Reuven Rivlin, 1939-
- Haim Saban, 1944-
- Rabbi Noa Sattath, 1977-
- Stav Shaffir, 1985-
- Nachman Shai, 1946-
- Ayelet Shaked, 1976-
- Shimon Shamir, 1933-
- Anita Shapira, 1940-
- Natan Sharansky, 1948-
- Dan Shechtman, 1941-
- Michael Solomonov, 1978-
- Alon Tal, 1960-
- Pnina Tamano-Shata, 1981-
- David Vital, 1927-
- Arieh Warshel, 1940-
- Noa Wertheim, 1965-
- Avraham Yitzhak, 1972-
- Ada Yonath, 1939-
- Ghaida Rinawie Zoabi, 1972-