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David Ben-Gurion was the first

Prime Minister of Israel. He is
considered the "father" of modern
Israel. Ben-Gurion was also named
one of Time Magazine's 100 Most
Important People of the Century.

In 1969 Golda Meir became Israel's first and

the world's third woman to hold the Prime
Minister office .She was described as the
"Iron Lady" of Israeli politics.

Marcel Iancu was a Romanian and

Israeli visual artist and architect who
contributed to the early development
of the Israeli art.
He is also well - known as the coinventor of Dadaism. (new ways of
experimenting with abstract sight
and thought).
After 1953 his work centered on the
establishment of Ein Hod, an art
.colony

Reuven Rubin was a Romanian-born Israeli painter and Israel's

first ambassador to Romania.
He was one of the founders of the new Eretz-Yisrael style. His
themes were the biblical landscape, folklore and people. Many of
his paintings are about Jerusalem and the Galilee.

Yaacov Agam is a sculptor.

His work is usually abstract, kinetic art, with movement, viewer participation
and frequent use of light and sound. His works are placed in many public
places. The fountain is in Tel Aviv.

Ilana Goor is an international artist known for her uniquely styled sculptures,
furniture, lighting, jewelry, and accessories.
She works and lives in a restored 18th-century house located in the very heart of
ancient Jaffa and overlooking the Mediterranean. She's turned part of it into a
museum of her sculptures in wood, stone, and metal ,alongside works of art from her
private collection.In the 18th century the house was used as the first khan for Jewish
pilgrims en route to Jerusalem.

Ephraim Kishon - author, dramatist, screenwriter, and film director. He is one of the most
widely-read contemporary satirists in the world. Kishon's books have been translated into 37
languages .
He wrote, directed and produced five feature films (all of them comedic /satirical movies).
Three movies were nominated for major international awards (The Golden Globe award), two
.were nominated for the Oscar: Sallah Shabati and Ha-Shoter Azoulay

Naomi Ragen is an American-born novelist, playwright and journalist who has lived in
Jerusalem since 1971 and who writes regularly to her mailing list about Israel and Jewish
issues. Naomi has published eight internationally best selling novels, and is the author of
a hit play (Women's Minyan) which has been performed more than 500 times in Israel's
National Theatre (Habimah) as well as in the United States and Argentina.

Amos Oz was in recent years a serious candidate to receive Nobel Prize in Literature. He has
published 35 books since 1965, including 13 novels, four volumes of short stories and novels,
childrens books and nine books containing essays and articles.
Amos Oz is known for books like A Perfect Peace (1982), Black Box (1987), How to Cure a
Fanatic (2006),
A Tale of Love and Darkness (2003), Scenes from Village Life (2009).
In 2007, his book "A Tale of Love and Darkness" was nominated one of the ten most
important books since the creation of the State of Israel.

Colonel Ilan Ramon was the first Israeli

astronaut. In 2003, he died as a member
of the crew on the Space Shuttle
Columbia.

Shmuel Yosef Agnon,

Nobel prize for Literature, 1966
His works deal with the conflict between the traditional Jewish life and
language and the modern world. They also attempt to revive the fading
.traditions of the European shtetl (village)

Avram Hershko,
Nobel Prize for
Chemistry, 2004

Daniel
Kahneman, Nobel
Prize for
Economics, 2002

Aaron
, Ciechanover
Chemistry, 2004

Robert Aumann,
Nobel Prize for Economics,
2005

Dan Shechtman,
Nobel Prize for
Chemistry, 2011

, Ada E. Yonath
Nobel Prize for
Chemistry, 2009

Daniel Oren has conducted at the Royal Opera House Covent Garden, the
Metropolitan in New York, the Arena in Verona, the Vienna Staatsoper, the Bastille in
Paris and the opera houses of Rome, Trieste, Genoa, Florence, Parma, Turin, Venice,
Buenos Aires, San Francisco, Tokyo, Huston,
Washington and many others.
At Masada : Nabuco,Aida,Carmen

Itzhak Perlman is a violinist, conductor, and instructor of master classes. He is

regarded as one of the preeminent violinists of the 20th and early-21st centuries .
Perlman has also played jazz and klezmer. He has been a soloist for a number of
movie scores, such as the 1993 film Schindler's List and Memoirs of a Geisha, along
with cellist Yo-Yo Ma.

Shlomo Mintz and

Pinchas Zukerman are
violin virtuosos, violists and
conductors. They regularly
appear with orchestras and
conductors on the
international scene and are
heard in recitals and
concerts around the world.

Guy Braunstein ,violonist,

developed a solo and chamber
music career. He performed as a
soloist with leading orchestras
.around the world
In 2000 Braunstein was appointed
as the concertmaster of the
.Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra

Yoav Talmi,
conductor and composer.
Music Director, San Diego Symphony
19871996.
Chief Conductor, Hamburg Symphony
Orchestra
2000-2004.
Talmi's compositions include an Elegy
for Strings, Timpani and Accordion
("Dachau Reflections").

Ivry Gitlis - violinist. He has performed

with the world's top orchestras (New York
Philharmonic, Berlin Philharmonic, Vienna
Philharmonic, Philadelphia Orchestra, and
Israel Philharmonic), and many of his
recordings are considered classics.

Violinist Gil Shaham is

internationally
recognized by audiences
and critics alike as one of
todays most virtuosic
and engaging classical
.artists

Haim Topol came to greatest

prominence in the role of
Tevye the milkman in the
long-running musical show
Fiddler on the Roof. He later
starred in the 1971 film
version.
In 1972, Topol won a Golden
Globe Award and was
nominated for a Best Actor
Oscar for his performance in
.the film

Natalie Portman is a very talented

Israeli American actress
Academy Award for Best Actress
2011 in the film Black Swan.

Ofra Haza , a very popular singer, was invited to sing in front of the Pope, as well as on
other major and important occasions such as the Nobel Prize ceremonies and the peace
deal signing in Israel.
Her music fused elements of Eastern and Western instrumentation, orchestration and
dance-beat. She became successful in Europe and the Americas; during her singing
career, she earned many platinum and gold discs.

Achinoam Nini ,also known by her professional name Noa, is a

leading Israeli international concert and recording artist.
Noa has performed in Carnegie Hall and Avery Fisher Hall in New
York City, Olympia in Paris, Rome's Colosseum. In 2000, Noa
recorded the theme song of "Life Is Beautiful", Roberto Benigni's
Oscar award-winning film.

The popular ICQ instant-messaging program was created by four Israeli computer geeks: Yair
Goldfinger, Arik Vardi, Sefi Vigiser and Amnon Amir four men who have really
changed the world. For the first time it was possible for people to communicate with their
friends and know when their friends are online.

In 1999, Dov Moran, an Israeli engineer and

entrepreneur, along with his colleagues at
msystems, invented an innovative device
that could be connected to a computer
quickly and easily. The device did not require
a preliminary installation process and it
operated using a standard connection that
exists in any modern computer. It was small,
reliable and enabled unlimited expansion of
the scope of memory.

VoIP technology enables telephone calls

to be transmitted via the internet.
The internet was originally designed to
transfer computer data, thus a special
application that would allow the
transfer of telephone calls via internet
had to be developed.
This type of innovative software was
first developed in 1995 by Alon Cohen,
Lior Haramati, Ofer Shem-Tov, Elad
Sion, Opher Kahane and Dror Tirosh . Israeli software developers at VocalTec

In 1995, Israeli entrepreneur

Amnon Ovadia
identified the need for an
online EnglishHebrew
dictionary that did not
interrupt the reading
process. As a result,
Babylon Ltd. was founded
in 1997 and launched the
first version of Babylon, a
computer dictionary and
translation program.

Drip irrigation - the system that is based on using plastic pipes that release small amounts of
water next to roots of plants - was developed by the Israeli engineer Simcha Blas.
The invention caused a revolution in agriculture and has been adopted by farmers in many
countries .
Blass and his son Yeshayahu and the desert-based Kibbutz Hatzerim (near Beer Sheva )
established Netafim Irrigation Company. Production began in 1966. Netafim engineers
working with Blass, developed the online dripper - indeed allowing the desert to bloom.

Aleksandr Averbukh won

three gold medals in the pole
vault at European
championships (2000 indoor,
2002 and 2006) as well as two
medals at the World
championships (1999 and
.2001)

Shahar Pe'er - ranked #11 at her

best
the doubles team of Andy Ram
and Joni Erlich (world #7 team )
,in 2006 and 2008 Australian Open
champions.
Dudi Sela ranked # 29 at his best

Athens Olympic Games in Greece, August

25, 2004. Gal Fridman became the first
Israeli competitor to win an Olympic
.Games gold medal

Photo:People's Daily
Online

In 1992 at the Barcelona Olympic

games,judoca Yael Arad won a silver
medal and became the first Israeli to
win an Olympic medal.

Tal Brody a former basketball player. In 1979 he was awarded the country's
highest civilian honor, the Israel Prize. In 1977, he led tiny Israel's basketball
team to the European Cup Basketball Championship. Along the way, his team
defeated the heavily favored CSKA Moscow.
Brody's famous remark upon beating the Soviets "We are on the map! And
we are staying on the map not only in sports, but in everything."
became a part of Israeli culture

Dear Israel,
We wish you a happy, long, long life.
We wish you
Peace !
Love and
understanding !
We wish you to flourish !
We wish you all the best
in the world .
In Israel, in order to be a realist you must believe in miracles
David Ben-Gurion

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Ein Hod, Jerusalem,Masada,Ashdod,
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