This is a list of notable
IsraeliAshkenazi 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.
Shulamit Levenberg – inventor of a muscle tissue which isn't rejected by the body after transplant; selected by Scientific American as one of the 50 leading scientists in the world[76]
Elon Lindenstrauss – mathematician; known in the area of dynamics, particularly in the area of ergodic theory and its applications in number theory;
Fields Medal recipient (2010)
Yoram Moses – computer scientist, winner of the 2000 Gödel Prize in theoretical computer science and the 2009
Dijkstra Prize in distributed computing
Judea Pearl – computer scientist and philosopher; known for championing the probabilistic approach to artificial intelligence and the development of Bayesian networks (see the article on belief propagation);
Turing Award winner (2011)
Ilya Piatetski-Shapiro – mathematician; representation theory; Wolf Prize in Mathematics winner (1990)
Yossi Gross – recipient of almost 600 patents; founder of 27 medical technology companies in Israel; Chief Technology Office officer of Rainbow Medical[121]
Guy Oseary – talent agent, businessman, investor, and music manager; founder of
Maverick Records; personal music manager of American entertainer
Madonna[134]
Judith Haspel (born "Judith Deutsch") – Austrian-born Israeli; held every Austrian women's middle- and long-distance freestyle record in 1935; refused to represent Austria at the 1936 Summer Olympics, protesting Hitler, stating, "I refuse to enter a contest in a land which so shamefully persecutes my people"[167]
Dan Kutler – US-born Israeli; 100-m butterfly, 4×100-m medley relay[168]
Avraham Hirschson – politician who was among other things the former Israeli Minister of Finance; convicted of stealing close to 2 million NIS from the National Workers Labor Federation while he was its chairman[186]
Gonen Segev – former Israeli member of Knesset and government minister; convicted for an attempt of drug smuggling, for forgery and electronic commerce fraud[188]
Dudu Topaz – TV personality, comedian, actor, screenwriter, playwright, author and radio and television host; committed suicide in August 2009 after being charged with inciting violence against national media figures[190]
^Shlomo Nakdimon[in Hebrew]; Shaul Mayzlish (1985). דה האן : הרצח הפוליטי הראשון בארץ ישראל Deh Han : ha-retsah ha-politi ha-rishon be-Erets Yisraʼel / De Haan: The first political assassination in Israel (in Hebrew) (1st ed.).
Tel Aviv: Modan Press.
OCLC21528172.
^Even though the State of Israel did not yet exist at the time of his death, he is commonly referred to as the first Ashkenazic Chief Rabbi of the State of Israel.
^Rieder-Indursky, Estee. An Apple & Tree in Tel Aviv: Rabbis Yisrael Meir and Tzvi Yehuda Lau perpetuate a rabbinic chain. Mishpacha Special Supplement: A Father to Follow: Fathers, sons, and their intertwining paths. Pesach 5771 (April 2011), pp. 8–17.
^Maruch Miller, Rochelle.
"Award-Winning Marketing Guru Rabbi Issamar Ginzberg". 5 Towns Jewish Times. Retrieved 15 May 2014. There is even more to Rabbi Issamar Ginzberg than meets the eye; something about him that many find truly fascinating. "I am technically a Chassidic rebbe; this means that I have signed 'hachtara' letters from rebbes saying that I am expected to be the continuation of the dynasty of Nadvorna-Kechnia,"
^Hergig, Gur Aryeh (April 10, 2013). "Rabbi Issamar Ginzberg Galvanizes Global Audiences". Hamodia. In it he gives Reb Issamar his blessing to continue in his role as Kechnier Rebbe in addition to succeeding in business, as many of the previous Nadvorna Rebbes
^"Eliyahu M. Goldratt, Renowned Business 'Guru' and Author of International Best-Selling Business Novel 'The Goal,' Dies at Age 64",
"PR Newswire", June 14, 2011. Retrieved June 16, 2011.
^Shye, S. (1997). "Guttman, Louis". In Johnson, Norman L.; Kotz, Samuel (eds.). Leading Personalities in Statistical Sciences. New York: Wiley. pp. 112–117.
ISBN0-471-16381-3.
^Rossner, Rena (January 26, 2006).
"The once and future city". The Jerusalem Post. Retrieved November 15, 2009. Mazar, a senior fellow at the Shalem Center, a Jerusalem-based conservative think tank, is a graduate of the Hebrew University, and granddaughter of the famous archeologist Binyamin Mazar.
^"Anat Rafaeli Papers". The William Davidson Faculty of Industrial Engineering and Management at the Technion. Archived from
the original on 2018-03-01. Retrieved 2021-01-24.
^Maccorduck, Pamela (2004). Machines Who Think: A Personal Inquiry Into the History and Prospects of Artificial Intelligence. A K Peters, Ltd. p. 482.
ISBN1-56881-205-1.
^Rosenstein, Neil (1990), The Unbroken Chain: Biographical Sketches and Genealogy of Illustrious Jewish Families from the 15th–20th Century, vol. 1, 2 (revised ed.), New York: CIS,
ISBN0-9610578-4-X
^Green, Kenneth Hart (1997). "Leo Strauss as a Modern Jewish Thinker" [editor's introduction], in: Leo Strauss, Jewish Philosophy and the Crisis of Modernity, ed. Green. Albany: State University of New York Press.
ISBN9780791427736. p. 55.
^Turk Rosenblatt, Judith (1987). Who's Who in World Jewry: A Biographical Dictionary of Outstanding Jews. Who's Who in World Jewry. p. 64.
ISBN0961827203.
^Westbrook, Matt (2014). Broadcasting Jesus' Return: Televangelism and the Appropriation of Israel through Israeli-Granted Broadcasting Rights; a Chapter in Comprehending Christian Zionism.
Augsburg Fortress Publishers. p. 61.
ISBN9781451472264.
This is a list of notable
IsraeliAshkenazi 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.
Shulamit Levenberg – inventor of a muscle tissue which isn't rejected by the body after transplant; selected by Scientific American as one of the 50 leading scientists in the world[76]
Elon Lindenstrauss – mathematician; known in the area of dynamics, particularly in the area of ergodic theory and its applications in number theory;
Fields Medal recipient (2010)
Yoram Moses – computer scientist, winner of the 2000 Gödel Prize in theoretical computer science and the 2009
Dijkstra Prize in distributed computing
Judea Pearl – computer scientist and philosopher; known for championing the probabilistic approach to artificial intelligence and the development of Bayesian networks (see the article on belief propagation);
Turing Award winner (2011)
Ilya Piatetski-Shapiro – mathematician; representation theory; Wolf Prize in Mathematics winner (1990)
Yossi Gross – recipient of almost 600 patents; founder of 27 medical technology companies in Israel; Chief Technology Office officer of Rainbow Medical[121]
Guy Oseary – talent agent, businessman, investor, and music manager; founder of
Maverick Records; personal music manager of American entertainer
Madonna[134]
Judith Haspel (born "Judith Deutsch") – Austrian-born Israeli; held every Austrian women's middle- and long-distance freestyle record in 1935; refused to represent Austria at the 1936 Summer Olympics, protesting Hitler, stating, "I refuse to enter a contest in a land which so shamefully persecutes my people"[167]
Dan Kutler – US-born Israeli; 100-m butterfly, 4×100-m medley relay[168]
Avraham Hirschson – politician who was among other things the former Israeli Minister of Finance; convicted of stealing close to 2 million NIS from the National Workers Labor Federation while he was its chairman[186]
Gonen Segev – former Israeli member of Knesset and government minister; convicted for an attempt of drug smuggling, for forgery and electronic commerce fraud[188]
Dudu Topaz – TV personality, comedian, actor, screenwriter, playwright, author and radio and television host; committed suicide in August 2009 after being charged with inciting violence against national media figures[190]
^Shlomo Nakdimon[in Hebrew]; Shaul Mayzlish (1985). דה האן : הרצח הפוליטי הראשון בארץ ישראל Deh Han : ha-retsah ha-politi ha-rishon be-Erets Yisraʼel / De Haan: The first political assassination in Israel (in Hebrew) (1st ed.).
Tel Aviv: Modan Press.
OCLC21528172.
^Even though the State of Israel did not yet exist at the time of his death, he is commonly referred to as the first Ashkenazic Chief Rabbi of the State of Israel.
^Rieder-Indursky, Estee. An Apple & Tree in Tel Aviv: Rabbis Yisrael Meir and Tzvi Yehuda Lau perpetuate a rabbinic chain. Mishpacha Special Supplement: A Father to Follow: Fathers, sons, and their intertwining paths. Pesach 5771 (April 2011), pp. 8–17.
^Maruch Miller, Rochelle.
"Award-Winning Marketing Guru Rabbi Issamar Ginzberg". 5 Towns Jewish Times. Retrieved 15 May 2014. There is even more to Rabbi Issamar Ginzberg than meets the eye; something about him that many find truly fascinating. "I am technically a Chassidic rebbe; this means that I have signed 'hachtara' letters from rebbes saying that I am expected to be the continuation of the dynasty of Nadvorna-Kechnia,"
^Hergig, Gur Aryeh (April 10, 2013). "Rabbi Issamar Ginzberg Galvanizes Global Audiences". Hamodia. In it he gives Reb Issamar his blessing to continue in his role as Kechnier Rebbe in addition to succeeding in business, as many of the previous Nadvorna Rebbes
^"Eliyahu M. Goldratt, Renowned Business 'Guru' and Author of International Best-Selling Business Novel 'The Goal,' Dies at Age 64",
"PR Newswire", June 14, 2011. Retrieved June 16, 2011.
^Shye, S. (1997). "Guttman, Louis". In Johnson, Norman L.; Kotz, Samuel (eds.). Leading Personalities in Statistical Sciences. New York: Wiley. pp. 112–117.
ISBN0-471-16381-3.
^Rossner, Rena (January 26, 2006).
"The once and future city". The Jerusalem Post. Retrieved November 15, 2009. Mazar, a senior fellow at the Shalem Center, a Jerusalem-based conservative think tank, is a graduate of the Hebrew University, and granddaughter of the famous archeologist Binyamin Mazar.
^"Anat Rafaeli Papers". The William Davidson Faculty of Industrial Engineering and Management at the Technion. Archived from
the original on 2018-03-01. Retrieved 2021-01-24.
^Maccorduck, Pamela (2004). Machines Who Think: A Personal Inquiry Into the History and Prospects of Artificial Intelligence. A K Peters, Ltd. p. 482.
ISBN1-56881-205-1.
^Rosenstein, Neil (1990), The Unbroken Chain: Biographical Sketches and Genealogy of Illustrious Jewish Families from the 15th–20th Century, vol. 1, 2 (revised ed.), New York: CIS,
ISBN0-9610578-4-X
^Green, Kenneth Hart (1997). "Leo Strauss as a Modern Jewish Thinker" [editor's introduction], in: Leo Strauss, Jewish Philosophy and the Crisis of Modernity, ed. Green. Albany: State University of New York Press.
ISBN9780791427736. p. 55.
^Turk Rosenblatt, Judith (1987). Who's Who in World Jewry: A Biographical Dictionary of Outstanding Jews. Who's Who in World Jewry. p. 64.
ISBN0961827203.
^Westbrook, Matt (2014). Broadcasting Jesus' Return: Televangelism and the Appropriation of Israel through Israeli-Granted Broadcasting Rights; a Chapter in Comprehending Christian Zionism.
Augsburg Fortress Publishers. p. 61.
ISBN9781451472264.