Tel Aviv University - Notable Alumni

Notable Alumni

  • Dan Ariely
  • Fouad Awad, theatre director
  • Alon Bar, award-winning filmmaker
  • Mohammad Barakeh, member of parliament and party leader
  • Shlomo Ben-Ami, historian, former Minister of Foreign Affairs (Labor)
  • Yochai Benkler, law professor at Yale
  • Ran Cohen, former minister of Housing
  • Arie Eldad, far-rightist member of Knesset
  • Idan Blank, PhD candidate at MIT, and theatre director. Notable for his work on face perception.
  • Israel Eliashiv, former Israeli Ambassador to Singapore
  • Yael S. Feldman (B.A. 1967), Abraham I. Katsh Professor of Hebrew Culture and Education and Professor of Hebrew and Judaic Studies at New York University
  • Ari Folman, Cinematographer (Director of Waltz with Bashir)
  • Tal Friedman (born 1963), comedian, actor and musician
  • Amir Gal-Or, founder of the Infinity Group
  • Benjamin Gantz, Commander of the GOC Army Headquarters
  • Dan Gillerman, former Israeli Ambassador to the UN, and Vice-President of the 60th UN General Assembly
  • Tzachi Hanegbi, former minister of Internal Security (Likud and Kadima)
  • Michael Harris (academic), named the best Israeli in the field of academics, as one of "The 10 Most Successful Israelis in 10 Different Fields in the World" by Maariv (newspaper) in April 2012.
  • Zvi Heifetz, former Israeli Ambassador to the United Kingdom
  • Ron Huldai, current mayor of Tel Aviv
  • Benjamin Isaac, historian
  • Elie Rekhess, historian of the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict and faculty of Northwestern University
  • Moshe Kam, 49th President of IEEE
  • Moshe Kaplinsky, Deputy Chief of the IDF General Staff
  • Efraim Karsh, historian
  • Rita Katz, terrorism analyst
  • Dov Khenin, political scientist and member of Knesset
  • Yosef Lapid, former vice premier, Justice minister and founder of the secularist Shinui party
  • Keren Leibovitch, champion Paralympic swimmer
  • Hanoch Levin (1943–99), dramatist, theater director, author and poet
  • Amnon Lipkin-Shahak, former Chief of Staff and minister of Tourism and Transportation
  • Moni Moshonov, (born 1951), actor and comedian
  • Yitzhak Mordechai, former Minister of Defense and Transportation
  • Abraham Nitzan, chemical physicist.
  • Daniella Ohad Smith, design historian
  • Yitzhak Orpaz-Auerbach, author
  • Ophir Pines-Paz, former Interior Minister (Labor)
  • Haim Ramon, former minister of Health and Justice (Labor and Kadima)
  • Ilan Ramon (1954–2003), first Israeli astronaut
  • Daniel Reisner, former Head of the International Law Branch of the IDF Legal Division
  • Gideon Sa'ar, member of Knesset
  • Adi Shamir, inventor of the RSA algorithm
  • Simon Shaheen, musician
  • Silvan Shalom, former minister of Finance and Foreign Affairs (Likud)
  • Ariel Sharon (born 1928), former Prime Minister of Israel (Likud and Kadima)
  • Gadi Taub (born 1965), historian, author, screenwriter, and political commentator
  • Natan Yonatan (1923–2004), poet
  • Bat-Sheva Zeisler, singer and actress
  • Abdel Rahman Zuabi, Arab Israeli judge
  • Ghil'ad Zuckermann, linguist
  • Yuval Tal, founder of Payoneer
  • Nancy Ezer, author and Professor of Hebrew in UCLA

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