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Assembled by Ken Stein and Eli Sperling Emory University and Center for Israel Education kenstein@israeled.org or kstein@emory.edu Raphael Ahren, “As Israel fetes Air India flight over Saudi airspace, El Al cries foul,” Times of Israel, March 26, 2018. https://www.timesofisrael.com/as-israel-fetes-air-india-flight-over-saudi-airspace-el-al-cries-foul/ Meirav Arlossoroff, “When Ben-Gurion saved Israel’s Economy at any Price,” Haaretz, March 23, 2018. https://www.haaretz.com/israel-news/MAGAZINE-when-ben-gurion-saved-israel-s-economy-at-any-price-1.5936686 Amoz Asa-El, “Yair Lapid’s […]

Kollek served as the Mayor of Jerusalem for nearly 30 years, having been in office from 1965 until 1993. Some have referred to him as the builder of Jerusalem, as the city developed into an urban entity that assured free access to all religions. In the pre-state period, he worked in the Haganah and Mossad […]

A professor of materials science at the Technion in Haifa, Dan Schechtman became Israel’s eighth Nobel Prize winner in 2011. Schechtman won the Nobel Prize for Chemistry for the discovery of “Quasicrystals.”

Born in Jerusalem, Rabi Moshe Levinger, who founded Gush Emunin in 1974, was the leader of the Jewish settlement movement in the West Bank. In June 1968, Levinger brought thirty families to a hotel in Hebron, eventually forcing the government to grant them the right to create a community. In 1988, following an attack on […]

The first woman to serve as the president of the Israeli Supreme Court, Beinisch’s work on the court was primarly focused on government corruption, child protection, and women’s rights.

Moshe Sharett insta a los británicos y a Estados Unidos a abrir Palestina para la inmigración judía desde Europa sin restricciones.

Sharett was the second Prime Minister of Israel and can be seen on the 20 Shekel banknote. During World War II, Sharett established the Jewish Brigade, an independent, national Jewish military formation that fought as part of the British army. He served as Israel’s first Foreign Minister and was a signer of the Israeli Declaration […]

Often called the most important man in Israeli music, Einstein’s music has been celebrated for more than fifty years. He is a musical pioneer who introduced rock music in Israel in the 1960s, produced the first Israeli music video, and created the first Israeli CD album. His music continues to influence many aspects of Israeli […]

Rabbi Ovadia Yosef was the founder of the Orthodox “Shas” party, and was known by Israel’s Haredi and Mizrahi communities as an enormously important talmudic scholar and spiritual leader. Originally from Iraq, Yosef would eventually rise to the level of Sephardi Chief Rabbi of Tel Aviv. His controversial statements regarding the Holocaust, the role of […]

Kashua was born in 1975 and attended the prestigious Israel Arts and Science Academy boarding school in Jerusalem. Israel’s most well-known Arab author, Kashua writes predominantly in Hebrew. His works explore themes of living between two worlds and feelings of being an outsider in Israeli society. Perhaps his most well-known work is the semi-autobographical television […]

One of Israel’s foremost choreographers and contributors to Israeli cultural life, Levy-Tanai was one of the first to integrate Mizrahi and Sephardi culture into her art. In 1949, she founded the Inbal Dance Theater which she directed until the 1990s. In 1973 she received the Israel Prize in Art, Music and Dance.

Eli Hurvitz was born in Jerusalem in 1932. A graduate of the Hebrew University, in 1976 he helped to merge three companies into Teva Pharmecuticals. As president and chief executive officer for the next quarter century, he guided Teva to become the world’s largest manufacturer of generic pharmaceuticals. Before passing away in 2011, he also […]