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==Notable people== ===Faculty=== <!--- please include only faculty with an article (with the university mentioned in the article), that is faculty notable by Wikipedia standards ----> [[File:Prof Ariel Porat-012 (cropped).jpg|thumb|160px|[[Ariel Porat]], President of Tel Aviv University]] [[File:Daniel Chamovitz.png|thumb|160px|Daniel Chamovitz]] [[File:Israel Ben-Shalom.jpg|thumb|160px|[[Yisrael Friedman (Pashkaner Rebbe)|Yisrael Friedman]]]] [[File:Benjamin Isaac.jpg|thumb|160px|[[Benjamin Isaac]]]] [[File:Ariel Rubinstein1.jpg|thumb|160px|[[Ariel Rubinstein]]]] [[File:Anita Shapira.jpg|thumb|160px|[[Anita Shapira]]]] [[File:Lev vaidman.jpg|thumb|160px|[[Lev Vaidman]]]] Notable faculty members (past and present) include: *[[Joseph Agassi]], philosopher *[[Yakir Aharonov]], physicist *[[Noga Alon]], mathematician *[[Yitzhak Arad]], historian *[[Karen Avraham]], geneticist *[[Shlomo Ben-Ami]], historian, former Minister of Foreign Affairs *[[Yoav Benjamini]], statistician *[[Ziva Ben-Porat]], literary theorist, writer, and editor *[[Joseph Bernstein]], mathematician *[[Silvia Blumenfeld]], curator of the fungi collection *[[Athalya Brenner]], feminist Biblical scholar *[[Daniel Chamovitz]], biologist *[[Guy Deutscher (physicist)|Guy Deutscher]], physicist *[[Yoram Dinstein]], international law professor emeritus and former president of Tel Aviv University *[[Uzi Even]], chemist and political activist for [[LGBT]] rights *[[Margalit Finkelberg]], historian and linguist *[[Israel Finkelstein]], archaeologist *[[Yisrael Friedman (Pashkaner Rebbe)|Yisrael Friedman]], historian *[[Raphael E. Freundlich]], Biblical studies and Latin *[[Ehud Gazit]], nanotechnologist, chief scientist – ministry of Science *[[David Ginzburg]], mathematician *[[Bob Griffin (basketball)|Bob Griffin]] (born 1980), basketball player and English Literature professor *[[Daphna Hacker]], lawyer *[[Sylvie Honigman]], senior lecturer in ancient history *[[Benjamin Isaac]], historian *[[Joshua Jortner]], physical chemist *[[Shoshana Kamin]], mathematician *[[Aryeh Kasher]], historian *[[Asa Kasher]], philosopher and authority on Ethics, author of IDF's Code of Conduct *[[David S. Katz]], historian *[[Joseph Klafter]], [[chemical physics]], the eighth president of Tel Aviv University *[[Shaul Ladany]], industrial engineering *[[Fred Landman]], semanticist *[[Zvi Laron]], pediatric endocrinologist *[[Orna Lin]], lawyer *[[Raphael Mahler]], historian *[[Yossi Matias]], Computer Scientist *[[Vitali Milman]], mathematician *[[Moshé Mizrahi]], Oscar-winning film director *[[Baruch Modan]], oncologist *[[Yuval Ne'eman]] (1925–2006), physicist, former minister of Science and Technology *[[Abraham Nitzan]], chemical physicist. *[[Kennedy Otieno]], criminologist *[[Ariel Porat]], legal scholar and president of Tel Aviv University *[[Itamar Rabinovich]], former Israeli ambassador to the United States and former president of Tel Aviv University *[[Aviad Raz]], sociologist *[[Tanya Reinhart]] (1943–2007), linguist *[[Amnon Rubinstein]], former Dean of Law, also former Education minister *[[Ariel Rubinstein]], economist *[[Joseph Sadan]], emeritus professor, Department of Arabic and Islamic Studies *[[Pnina Salzman]], pianist and piano pedagogue *[[Shlomo Sand]], historian *[[Leon Schidlowsky]], composer *[[Milette Shamir]], scholar of American literature and vice president of Tel Aviv University *[[Anita Shapira]], historian *[[Micha Sharir]], mathematician *[[Edna Shavit]], drama *[[Margot Shiner]], gastroenterologist *[[Joshua Sobol]], playwright, writer, and director *[[David Soudry]], mathematician *[[Carlo Strenger]] psychologist, philosopher *[[Leonard Susskind]], physicist *[[Boris Tsirelson]], mathematician *[[Jacob Turkel]], Israeli Supreme Court Justice *[[Lev Vaidman]], physicist *Avi Weinroth, lawyer *[[Paul Wexler (linguist)|Paul Wexler]], linguist *[[George S. Wise]], first president of the university (1963–1971) *[[Moshe Wolman]], neuropathologist *[[Amotz Zahavi]], biologist *[[Moshe Zviran]], Dean of the Coller School of Management ===Alumni=== <!--- please include only graduates with an article (with the university mentioned in the article), that is graduates notable by Wikipedia standards ----> [[File:AYELET_SHAKED.jpg|thumb|160px|[[Ayelet Shaked]], former Israel's Minister of Interior]] [[File:Tal Friedman 23032007.jpg|thumb|160px|[[Tal Friedman]]]] [[File:Ilan Ramon, NASA photo portrait in orange suit.jpg|thumb|160px|[[Ilan Ramon]]]] [[File:Michael Harris PhD Academic.png|thumb|160px|[[Michael Harris (academic)|Michael Harris]]]] *[[Carmela Abraham]], neuroscientist and Alzheimer's disease researcher *[[Nadav Ahituv]], bioengineering professor and geneticist *[[Zvi Arad]] (1942–2018), mathematician, acting president of [[Bar-Ilan University]], president of [[Netanya Academic College]] *[[Dan Ariely]], author and academic *[[Shai Avivi]], actor *[[Fouad Awad]], theatre director *[[Lucy Ayoub]], actress and television host *[[Alon Bar]], award-winning filmmaker *[[Daphne Barak Erez]], current [[Supreme Court of Israel]] justice *[[Mohammad Barakeh]], Knesset member and leader of [[Hadash]] *[[Rebecka Belldegrun]] (born 1950), [[ophthalmologist]] and businesswoman *[[Shlomo Ben-Ami]], historian, former Minister of Foreign Affairs (Labor) *[[Yochai Benkler]], co-director of the Berkman Center, [[Harvard Law School]] *[[Aluf Benn]], editor-in-chief of ''[[Haaretz]]'' *[[Avishay Braverman]] (born 1948), Knesset member and president of the [[Ben-Gurion University of the Negev]] *[[Shimshon Brokman]] (born 1957), Olympic sailor *[[Moran Cerf]] (born 1977), [[neuroscientist]], professor at the [[Kellogg School of Management at Northwestern University]] *[[Nili Cohen]] (born 1947), professor and legal expert *[[Ran Cohen]], former Minister of Housing (Meretz) *[[Simon L. Dolan]], Israeli-born academic *[[Orna Donath]] (born 1976), academic and activist *[[Arie Eldad]], former Knesset member ([[National Union (Israel)]]) *[[Israel Eliashiv]], former Israeli Ambassador to Singapore *[[Dana Erlich]], Israeli Ambassador to Ireland *[[Nancy Ezer]], author and professor of Hebrew at [[UCLA]] *[[Yael S. Feldman]], Abraham I. Katsh Professor of Hebrew Culture and Education and professor of Hebrew and Judaic studies at [[New York University]] *[[Ari Folman]], filmmaker (Director of ''[[Waltz with Bashir]]'') *[[Tal Friedman]], comedian, actor, and musician *[[Amir Gal-Or]], founder of the [[Infinity Group]] *[[Zvi Galil]] (born 1947), computer scientist, mathematician, and president of Tel Aviv University *[[Benny Gantz]], [[Chief of General Staff (Israel)|Chief of General Staff]] of the [[Israel Defense Forces]]. *[[Lior Geller]], [[Academy Awards|Academy Award]] and [[Emmy Award]] nominated filmmaker and [[Guinness World Records|Guinness World Record]] holder *[[Dan Gillerman]], former [[Permanent Representative of Israel to the United Nations|Israeli Ambassador to the UN]], and vice-president of the 60th [[UN General Assembly]] *[[Bob Griffin (basketball)|Bob Griffin]] (born 1950), basketball player and English Literature professor *[[Tamar Halperin]], harpsichordist, pianist and musicologist *[[Tzachi Hanegbi]], member of Knesset, former minister of Internal Security ([[Likud]] and [[Kadima]]) *[[Rafael Harpaz]], Israeli Ambassador to the Philippines *[[Michael Harris (public policy scholar)|Michael Harris]], academic *[[Avi Hasson]], current Chief Scientist of the Ministry of Economy *[[Natasha Hausdorff]] (born 1989), British [[barrister]], international news commentator, and Israel advocate *[[Zvi Heifetz]], former Israeli Ambassador to the United Kingdom *[[Ron Huldai]], current mayor of [[Tel Aviv]] *[[Benjamin Isaac]], historian *[[Moshe Kam]], 49th President of [[IEEE]] and Dean of the [[Newark College of Engineering]] *[[Moshe Kaplinsky]], Deputy Chief of the IDF General Staff *[[Efraim Karsh]], historian *[[Rita Katz]], terrorism analyst *[[Etgar Keret]], writer *[[Dov Khenin]], political scientist and Knesset member [[Hadash]] *[[Joseph Klafter]], [[chemical physics]] professor, the eighth president of Tel Aviv University *[[Yosef Lapid]], former Israeli vice premier, Minister of Justice and founder of the [[Shinui]] party *[[Amos Lapidot]] (1934–2019), fighter pilot, 10th commander of the [[Israeli Air Force]], and president of [[Technion – Israel Institute of Technology]] *[[Peretz Lavie]] (born 1949), expert in the [[psychophysiology]] of [[sleep disorders|sleep and sleep disorders]], 16th president of the [[Technion - Israel Institute of Technology]], Dean of the [[Rappaport Faculty of Medicine]] *[[Keren Leibovitch]], champion Paralympic swimmer *[[Hanoch Levin]] (1943–99), dramatist, theater director, author and poet *[[Amnon Lipkin-Shahak]], former Israeli Chief of Staff and Minister of Tourism and Transportation *[[Yossi Matias]], computer scientist and Google executive *[[Amit Mekel]] (born 1980), [[List of ambassadors of Israel to Paraguay|Israeli Ambassador to Paraguay]] *[[Moni Moshonov]], actor and comedian *[[Yitzhak Mordechai]], former Israeli Minister of Defense and Transportation *[[Natasha Mozgovaya]], journalist *[[Abraham Nitzan]], chemical physicist *[[Sassona Norton]], sculptor *[[Daniella Ohad Smith]], design historian *[[Yitzhak Orpaz-Auerbach]], author * [[Mazi Melesa Pilip]], Ethiopian-born American politician *[[Ophir Pines-Paz]], former Interior Minister (Labor) *[[Ariel Porat]] (born 1956), president of Tel Aviv University *[[Gideon Raff]], director and screenwriter, creator of the award-winning Israeli TV series [[Prisoners of War (TV series)|''Prisoners of War'']], adapted into [[Homeland (TV series)|''Homeland'']] *[[Haim Ramon]], former Minister of Health and Justice (Labor and Kadima) *[[Ilan Ramon]] (1954–2003), first Israeli astronaut *[[Yoram Raved]], attorney *[[Daniel Reisner]], former Head of the International Law Branch of the IDF Legal Division *[[Elie Rekhess]], historian of the [[Israeli–Palestinian conflict]] and faculty of [[Northwestern University]] *[[Gideon Sa'ar]], Knesset member and Minister of Interior Affairs (Likud) *[[Areej Sabbagh-Khoury]], sociologist * [[Anat Schwartz]], filmmaker *[[Shay Segev]], business executive<ref name="Todorov">{{cite news|last=Todorov|first=Stoyan|title=Entain CEO Shay Segev: Don’t Educate Audiences How Good Existing Products Are, Create Products That Fit New Audiences|url=https://www.gamblingnews.com/news/entain-ceo-shay-segev-create-products-that-fit-new-audiences/|date=23 December 2020|publisher=Gambling News}}</ref> * [[Hanoch Senderowitz]] (born 1963), Israeli chemist *[[Hamutal Shabtai]], novelist *[[Ron Shachar]], professor and researcher *[[Simon Shaheen]], musician *[[Silvan Shalom]], former minister of Finance and Foreign Affairs (Likud) *[[Ayelet Shaked]], Israel's former Minister of Justice and former Minister of Interior (Yamina) *[[Adi Shamir]], cryptographer, co-inventor of the [[RSA (algorithm)|RSA]] cryptosystem *[[Ariel Sharon]] (1928–2014), Prime Minister of Israel (Likud and Kadima) *[[Lou Silver]], basketball player *[[Daniel Sivan]], professor *[[Uri Sivan]], physicist, professor, and president of the [[Technion – Israel Institute of Technology]] *[[Nahum Sonenberg]], biochemist at [[McGill University]] *[[Michael Wolffsohn]],<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.wolffsohn.de/cms/vita.html |title=Vita |website=www.wolffsohn.de |access-date=2018-06-05 |archive-date=2018-05-03 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180503181349/https://www.wolffsohn.de/cms/vita.html |url-status=live }}</ref> author and former professor for contemporary history at the [[Bundeswehr University Munich]] *[[Yuval Tal]], founder of Payoneer *[[Gadi Taub]], historian, author, screenwriter, and political commentator *[[Hagit Messer Yaron]] (born 1953), electrical engineer, businesswoman, and president of [[Open University of Israel]] *[[Natan Yonatan]] (1923–2004), poet *[[Poju Zabludowicz]], billionaire, philanthropist, and owner of [[Tamares Group]]<ref>{{cite web |author=Zabludowicz Collection |url=http://www.zabludowiczcollection.com/collection/people |title=People – About |publisher=Zabludowicz Collection |access-date=2016-02-04 |archive-date=2015-04-10 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150410083822/http://www.zabludowiczcollection.com/collection/people |url-status=live }}</ref> *[[Bat-Sheva Zeisler]], singer and actress *[[Misha Zilberman]] (born 1989), Olympic badminton player *[[Abdel Rahman Zuabi]], former Supreme Court of Israel justice *[[Ghil'ad Zuckermann]], linguist *[[Igal Vardi]] (born 1953), [[Graphology|graphologist]] and psychologist '''Sackler Family''' Tel Aviv University held significant ties to the [[Sackler family]]. As more became known of the role of members of the Sackler family in the global opioid crisis, many including the [[Israel Medical Association]] called for the removal of the Sackler name from the Faculty of Medicine.<ref>{{Cite news |title=Tel Aviv University Resists Pressure to Remove Sackler Name Over Opioid Crisis |language=en |work=Haaretz |url=https://www.haaretz.com/israel-news/.premium-tel-aviv-university-resists-pressure-to-remove-sackler-name-over-opioid-crisis-1.10397211 |access-date=2021-11-23 |archive-date=2021-11-23 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20211123074136/https://www.haaretz.com/israel-news/.premium-tel-aviv-university-resists-pressure-to-remove-sackler-name-over-opioid-crisis-1.10397211 |url-status=live }}</ref> As of November 2021, no members of the Sackler family served on the university's board of governors.<ref>{{Cite web |date=2012-10-31 |title=Tel Aviv University Governors Roll |url=https://english.tau.ac.il/tau_governors_roll |access-date=2021-11-23 |website=Tel Aviv University |language=en-US |archive-date=2021-11-23 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20211123192738/https://english.tau.ac.il/tau_governors_roll |url-status=live }}</ref> In June 2023, the Sackler name was removed from the university's Faculty of Medicine.<ref>{{cite news |last1=Ghert-Zand |first1=Renee |title=Sackler family name removed from Tel Aviv University medical school |url=https://www.timesofisrael.com/sackler-family-name-removed-from-tel-aviv-university-medical-school/ |access-date=29 April 2025 |work=www.timesofisrael.com |date=21 June 2023}}</ref> In November 2024, the university stripped the Sackler name from its international prize in biophysics.<ref>{{Cite web |title=Sackler family’s opioid history leads Israeli university to strip name from science prize |url=https://www.science.org/content/article/sackler-family-s-opioid-history-leads-israeli-university-strip-name-science-prize |access-date=2024-12-05 |website=www.science.org |language=en}}</ref>
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