List of Israelis: Encyclopedia II - List of Israelis - Cultural figures

List of Israelis - Cultural figures

List of Israelis - Film TV and stage

See also: List of Israeli actors.

• Gila Almagor - actress
• Yvan Attal - actor, director (Israeli-born)
• Mili Avital - actress
• Aki Avni - actor
• Nir Bergman - director
• Nina Brosh - model
• Oded Fehr - actor
• Eytan Fox - director
• Uri Geller - tv personality, self-proclaimed psychic
• Ido Gideon - tv producer
• Amos Gitai - director
• Ralph Inbar, Dutch-born TV personality (Banana Split)
• Daphna Kastner, actress; married to actor Harvey Keitel
• Nimrod Kamer - filmmaker, actor
• Amos Kollek - director, writer
• Dover Kosashvili - director
• Hanna Laslo - actress
• Daliah Lavi - actress
• Ari Libsker - filmmaker
• Rod Lurie - director, film critic (Israeli-born)
• Arnon Milchan - producer
• Ohad Naharin - choreographer
• Joseph Pitchhadze - director
• Eyal Podell - Actor
• Natalie Portman - actress (Israeli-born)
• Haim Saban - tv producer
• Elia Suleiman - director
• Chaim Topol - actor
• Haim Yavin - TV anchor
• Keren Yedaya - director

List of Israelis - Popular musicians

See also: List of Israeli musical artists.

• Chava Alberstein - singer/songwriter
• Shlomo Artzi - singer/songwriter
• Ehud Banai
• Eef Barzelay - founder of Clem Snide
• Miri Ben-Ari - jazz & hip hop violinist
• Mike Brant - French-language singer
• David Broza - singer/songwriter
• Avishai Cohen - jazz bassist
• Arik Einstein - singer, actor, writer
• Yuval Gabay - drummer for Soul Coughing
• Aviv Geffen - singer/songwriter
• Gidi Gov
• Ofra Haza - singer
• Dana International - pop singer
• Ishtar - vocalist for Alabína
• Amal Murkus - singer
• Ahinoam Nini (Noa) - singer
• Esther Ofarim - singer
• Guy Oseary - head of Maverick Records
• Idan Raichel - world fusion
• Barry Sharof - main Indie artist
• Naomi Shemer - songwriter
• Gene Simmons - bass player for KISS
• Hillel Slovak - original guitarist for Red Hot Chilli Peppers
• Rika Zaraï, singer
• Nir Zidkyahu - drummer, briefly in Genesis
• Matti Caspi - singer, multi-instrumentalist and composer
• Shlomo Gronich - singer and composer
• Yoni Rechter - composer and arranger
• Rafi Kadischsohn - arranger and orchestrator
• Zeev Tene - singer\song writer

List of Israelis - Classical musicians

• Adi Bar - pianist[1]
• Daniel Barenboim - conductor and pianist
• Paul Ben-Haim - composer
• Bart Berman - pianist
• Gary Bertini - conductor
• Yefim Bronfman - pianist
• Avner Dorman - composerBold text

• Miriam Fried - violinist
• Ivry Gitlis - violinist
• Matt Haimovitz - cellist
• Ofra Harnoy - cellist
• Eliahu Inbal - conductor
• Joseph Kalichstein - pianist
• Yoel Levi - conductor
• Mischa Maisky - cellist
• Michael Croitoru-Weissman - cellist
• Shlomo Mintz - violinist
• Itzhak Perlman - violinist
• Shulamit Ran - composer
• Ghil Shaham - violinist
• Noam Sheriff - composer
• Josef Tal - composer
• Yoav Talmi - conductor
• Pinchas Zukerman - violinist
• Ghil Shohat - composer
• Mordechai Seter - composer
• Zubin Mehta - Indian-Israeli conductor and director of the Israeli Philharmonic orchestra
• Michael Shani - conductor
• Dan Ettinger - conductor
• Giora Feidman - clarinetist
• Richard Lesser - clarinetist and proffesor
• Ilan Schul - clarinetist and proffesor
• Aaron Harlap - composer and conductor
• Arie Vardi - pianist

List of Israelis - Writers

• Shmuel Yosef Agnon - author, Nobel Prize in Literature (1966)
• Nathan Alterman - poet
• Yehuda Amichai - poet
• Zelda - poet
• Aharon Appelfeld - author, Prix Médicis étranger (2004)
• Roy Arad - Poet & Musician
• Hayyim Nahman Bialik - poet
• Max Brod - author, composer & friend of Kafka
• Orly Castel-Bloom - author
• Leah Goldberg - poet
• David Grossman - writer
• Batya Gur - author
• Emile Habibi - author
• Amira Haess - journalist & author
• Etgar Keret - author
• Ephraim Kishon - satirist
• Hanoch Levin - playwright
• Aharon Megged - author
• Sami Michael - author
• Uri Orlev - author, Hans Christian Andersen Award (1996)
• Amos Oz - author & journalist, Goethe Prize (2005)
• Dalia Rabikovich - poet
• Rachel - poet
• Meir Shalev - author & journalist
• Zeruya Shalev - author
• Anton Shammas - author
• Avraham Shlonsky - poet
• A.B. Yehoshua - author
• Benny Ziffer - author, journalist and translator
• Abraham Sutzkever - yiddish poet
• Yehonatan Gheffen - author, poet and lyricist
• Nathan Zach - poet
• Samir Naqqash- novelist

List of Israelis - Artists

• Yaacov Agam - kinetic artist
• Michael Arad - architect
• Ron Arad - designer
• Mordecai Ardon - painter
• Yigal Azrouel - fashion designer
• Ralph Bakshi - animator
• Alber Elbaz - fashion designer
• Dudu Geva - artist and comic-strip illustrator
• Leah Gottlieb - fashion designer (Gottex swimsuits)
• Nahum Gutman - painter
• Dani Karavan - sculptor
• Ranan Lurie - political cartoonist
• Michal Rovner - photographer
• Reuven Rubin - painter
• Moshe Safdie - architect
• Elie Tahari - fashion designer
• Moshe Ziffer - sculptor
• Ronit Zilkha - fashion designer

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