Maxine Fassberg, 1953-CIE+
Named one of CNN’s “10 Most Powerful Women in Tech” in 2010, Fassberg immigrated from South Africa in 1975, rose to become CEO of Intel Israel and retired in 2016 after 33 years with the…
Max Fisher, 1908-2005CIE+
Pittsburgh native Fisher, who made his fortune in Midwestern gas stations and real estate, advised Republican presidents from Richard Nixon to George W. Bush on the Middle East and Jewish issues. He helped persuade Nixon…
Abraham Foxman, 1940-CIE+
Foxman was the national director of the Anti-Defamation League from 1987 to 2015. He and ADL spoke out against rising anti-Israel sentiment as an expression of increasing antisemitism beginning in the late 1990s. A Holocaust…
Gal Fridman, 1975-CIE+
Fridman was the first Israeli to win an Olympic gold medal, which he earned in windsurfing in Athens in 2004 after taking the bronze in Atlanta in 1996. He also was the first Israeli to…
Gal Gadot, 1985-CIE+
Born in Rosh Haayin and crowned Miss Israel at 18, Gadot served in the military and became a model, singer and martial artist. She has emerged as one of the world’s most recognized actresses, first…
Benny Gantz, 1959-CIE+
Gantz was a paratrooper who rose to serve as the chief of the IDF general staff from 2011 to 2015. He entered politics by launching Israel Resilience in late 2018, then merged it into Blue…
Jorge García-Granados, 1900-1961CIE+
García-Granados, Guatemala’s ambassador to the United Nations and a member of the U.N. Special Committee on Palestine, was moved by Chaim Weizmann’s partition pleas to UNSCOP in July 1947 and cast the first vote for…
David Lloyd George, 1863-1945CIE+
Lloyd George was the British prime minister from 1916 to 1922. His government issued the Balfour Declaration and took control of Palestine during World War I, negotiated for the inclusion of the declaration’s language at…
Amir Gilboa, 1917-1984CIE+
Ukraine-born Gilboa was one of Israel’s leading poets, winning the Bialik and Israel prizes. His poems incorporated a biblical theme of moral ambiguity and reflected his experience as a soldier in World War II with…
Arthur Goldberg, 1908-1990CIE+
Goldberg resigned as a U.S. Supreme Court justice in 1965 to serve as the U.S. ambassador to the United Nations. He drafted the text of U.N. Security Council Resolution 242, the basis of all “land…
Leah Goldberg, 1911-1970CIE+
Raised in Lithuania, Goldberg settled in Tel Aviv in 1935 and became a Hebrew poet, literary translator, and author of children’s books and plays. She referenced the effects of World War II on Jews in…
Gila Goldstein, 1947-2017CIE+
A singer, actress, and advocate for trans and gay rights, Goldstein in 1960 was the first trans Israeli woman to have sanctioned sex reassignment surgery. She co-founded the nonprofit organization Aguda in 1975 to help…
Leah Gottlieb, 1918-2012CIE+
Gottlieb, who escaped the Holocaust in Hungary, was world-renowned and known as the “queen of Israeli fashion” for her swimsuit designs for Gottex, the textile company she created with her husband, Armin. The couple tried…
Abraham Granot, 1890-1962CIE+
Moldova-born Granot (originally Granovsky) led the Jewish National Fund in expanding land purchases during the British Mandate. As JNF director-general starting in 1940, he led settlement and forestry initiatives. A signatory of the Declaration of…
Eilam Gross, 1960-CIE+
Gross is a physicist at the Weizmann Institute of Science. Searching for the Higgs boson, known as the “God particle,” Gross applied machine learning in particle physics to help develop the ATLAS detector. As a…
David Grossman, 1954-CIE+
A Jerusalem native, Grossman is one of Israel’s most prolific and most acclaimed writers. His books have been translated into more than 30 languages. His 2017 novel, “A Horse Walks Into a Bar,” received the…
Sarit Hadad, 1978-CIE+
Hadad is one of Israel’s most popular singers. She was a 2002 Eurovision contestant and was Israeli Music TV’s Best Female Singer of the 2000s. She was a judge on “The Voice Israel” and was…
Shalom Hanoch, 1946-CIE+
Singer and composer Hanoch is considered the father of Israeli rock and is known for poetic lyrics. Born on Kibbutz Mishmarot, he began writing songs at 14 and joined the army band during his military…
David Harris, 1949-CIE+
Harris served as the chief executive of the American Jewish Committee from 1990 until the end of September 2022. He made advocacy for a Jewish, democratic, internationally accepted Israel a fundamental part of AJC’s efforts….
Gideon Hausner, 1915-1990CIE+
As Israel’s attorney general from 1960 to 1963, Poland-born Hausner successfully prosecuted Adolf Eichmann in 1961 for his crimes against humanity and the Jewish people during the Holocaust. Hausner persuaded the court to sentence Eichmann…
Esther Hayut, 1953-CIE+
Hayut is the Israeli Supreme Court’s president, a post she is due to hold until October 2023. The Jerusalem Post says she could be Israel’s most influential chief justice since Aharon Barak by reasserting the…
Ofra Haza, 1957-2000CIE+
Born into a Yemeni family in Tel Aviv, singer Haza helped popularize Mizrahi culture. Her song “Ga’agu’im” (“Yearning”) launched her career in 1973. She was Israel’s Singer of the Year from 1980 to 1983 and…
Avram Hershko, 1937-CIE+
A native of Hungary who immigrated to Israel in 1950, Hershko led the biochemistry department at the Technion. He and colleague Aaron Ciechanover became the first Israelis to win a Nobel Prize in the natural…
Arthur Hertzberg, 1921-2006CIE+
Hertzberg, who arrived in the United States from Poland in 1926, was a Conservative rabbi and scholar. He was the president of the American Jewish Congress in the 1970s and vice president of the World…
