People from Israel
37 people remembered here.
Yossi Pollak1945 – 2026 · ActorIsraeli stage giant of Habima and Cameri who brought fire to Lear, Othello and Nevalot.
93 candles · 9 tributes
Ilan Dar1937 – 2026 · Actor (stageIsraeli stage and screen giant; forever Ilan of Krovim Krovim.
78 candles · 8 tributes
Esterina Tartman1957 – 2026 · PoliticianA blunt Yisrael Beiteinu MK and Channel 14 panelist who never softened her line.
77 candles · 8 tributes
Yehuda Widawski1919 – 2026 · Holocaust survivorIsrael's oldest Holocaust survivor; his revenge was that the Nazis lost and Israel lives.
32 candles · 6 tributes
Rabbi Shmuel Yitzchak Malov1975 – 2026 · EducatorChabad educator who filled his neighbourhood synagogue with children learning Torah each night.
10 candles · 1 tributes
Guy Kapulnik† 2026 · ActorActor, pilot and adventurer who moved between the stage, the sea and the skies
10 candles · 1 tributes
Yosi Silman1959 – 2026 · IDF brigadier generalArmour general who led Israel's welfare ministry and Holon city hall.
10 candles · 1 tributes
Gideon Kutz1948 – 2026 · JournalistIsraeli Paris correspondent and Hebrew-press historian who bridged Israel, France and Europe for four decades.
9 candles · 1 tributes
Sheffi Paz1952 – 2026 · ActivistA south Tel Aviv activist who never stopped fighting for her neighbourhood as she saw it.
8 candles · 1 tributes
Edna Arbel1944 – 2026 · State Attorney of Israel and Supreme Court justiceState Attorney and Supreme Court justice who believed that behind every case stood a person.
8 candles · 1 tributes
Vladimir Khanan1945 – 2026 · PoetPetersburg underground poet who rebuilt a free literary life in Jerusalem.
7 candles · 1 tributes
Arnon Soffer1935 – 2026 · Geographer and professorA founder of Haifa's geography department who spent his life studying Israel's land and people.
7 candles · 1 tributes
Yehuda Cohen1958 – 2026 · Public administratorA lifelong public servant who ran councils across Israel and led the administration of its Chief Rabbinate.
6 candles · 1 tributes
Boris Kochubievsky† 2026 · Engineer and dissidentHe told Brezhnev he would walk to Israel if he had to, and paid with three years in a Soviet camp.
6 candles · 1 tributes
Gilad Ben Shach1941 – 2026 · Radio music editorIsraeli radio music editor and composer who nurtured Hebrew song.
6 candles · 1 tributes
Motti Kastón1961 – 2026 · baritoneIsraeli baritone and Stuttgart Kammersänger whose Met training shaped a 35-year ensemble career.
6 candles · 1 tributes
Mordechai Auerbach1942 – 2026 · RabbiAbir Yaakov rav of Tel Aviv; a guide to many paths under one Torah.
6 candles · 1 tributes
Rachel Rabin1925 – 2026 · EducatorKibbutz Manara pioneer and educator who taught generations and guarded her brother's memory.
6 candles · 1 tributes
Oren Nahari† 2026 · Journalist and broadcasterJournalist who spent four decades bringing the wider world to Israeli audiences.
6 candles · 1 tributes
Matti Caspi1949 – 2026 · Israeli composerThe kibbutz boy whose harmonies changed Hebrew song. Composer, arranger and the voice of Brit Olam.
6 candles · 1 tributes
Yishai Zimmerman1933 – 2026 · SoldierHe kept showing up for his country long after anyone expected him to.
5 candles · 1 tributes
Yosef Hagoel1946 – 2026 · Israeli military officerParatrooper whose wounds and a medic's sacrifice became Israel's Ballad for a Medic.
5 candles · 1 tributes
Mordechai Shechter1937 – 2026 · Environmental economist and university administratorPioneer of environmental economics in Israel, Haifa rector and Tel-Hai president.
4 candles · 1 tributes
Illy Gorlizki (Ilie Gorlitzki)1935 – 2026 · ActorThe star of King Solomon and Shalmai the Shoemaker, who fought for every performer's due.
4 candles · 1 tributes
Erez Halevi1954 – 2026 · SingerHe sang that nature made us as we are, and gave Israel songs that still feel like the night.
4 candles · 1 tributes
Ofir Sarid† 2026 · Chief executiveMelisron chief executive who steered Israel's Ofer mall group through growth and change.
4 candles · 1 tributes
Rabbi David Batzri1941 – 2026 · KabbalistJerusalem kabbalist who led Yeshivat HaShalom for decades.
4 candles · 1 tributes
Yehuda Atlas1937 – 2026 · PoetThe poet who gave Israeli children a voice for their small, ordinary worries.
4 candles · 1 tributes
Jacob Goldwasser1950 – 2026 · Film and television directorIsraeli filmmaker of Abba Ganuv and Beyond the Sea who bridged cult comedy and intimate family drama.
4 candles · 1 tributes
Israël Isaac Besançon1944 – 2026 · RabbiFrench-Israeli Breslov rabbi, painter and founder of Shir Hadash in Tel Aviv.
4 candles · 1 tributes
Haim Yavin1932 – 2026 · Television news anchor and documentary filmmakerIsrael's Mr. Television who coined mahapach and voiced the nation's news for four decades.
4 candles · 1 tributes
Zvi Kohavi1935 – 2026 · Computer scientist and electrical engineerTechnion professor whose switching-theory textbook shaped generations of engineers.
3 candles · 1 tributes
Ori Goldberg1975 – 2026 · Scholar of Iran and Shi'i IslamA scholar of faith and politics who said plainly what he believed.
3 candles · 2 tributes
Yaki Hetz1946 – 2026 · ParatrooperThe simple soldier who led the charge on Ammunition Hill, then spent his life making sure others came home safely.
3 candles · 1 tributes
Menashe Raz1946 – 2026 · JournalistA defining voice of Israeli public television for a generation.
3 candles · 1 tributes
Tsuri Sagi1934 – 2026 · Israeli paratrooper and brigadier generalParatrooper, farmer and the Israeli officer who taught Kurdish fighters to win in the mountains.
3 candles · 1 tributes