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Israeli emigrants to the United States

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Natalie Portman
Natalie Hershlag, known professionally as Natalie Portman, is an actress, film producer and director with dual Israeli and American citizenship. She has had a prolific screen career from her teenage years and has starred in various blockbusters and independent films, receiving multiple accolades, including an Academy Award, a BAFTA Award, and two Golden Globe Awards.
Daniel Kahneman
Israeli-American psychologist and economist (1934–2024)
Arieh Warshel
chemist, biochemist and biophysicist
Gene Simmons
Gene Simmons, also known by his stage persona "the Demon", is an Israeli-American musician. He was the bassist and co-lead singer of the hard rock band Kiss, which he co-founded with Paul Stanley, Ace Frehley, and Peter Criss in 1973. Simmons, alongside Stanley, remained a constant member of the band until their dissolution in 2023. Simmons is also known for his long tongue and for his reality television show, Gene Simmons Family Jewels, which aired from 2006 to 2012. He was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 2014 as a member of Kiss.
Itzhak Perlman
Israeli-American violinist and conductor (born 1945)
Hillel Slovak
Hillel Slovak was an Israeli-American musician, best known as an early guitarist of the Los Angeles rock band the Red Hot Chili Peppers, with whom he recorded two albums. His guitar work was rooted in funk and hard rock, and he often experimented with other genres, including reggae and speed metal. He is considered to have been a major influence on the Red Hot Chili Peppers' early sound.
Avi Arad
Israeli-American film producer
Judea Pearl
Israeli-American computer scientist (born 1936)
Zecharia Sitchin
American-Israeli author of Azerbaijani origin (1920-2010)
Amos Tversky
Israeli psychologist (1937–1996)
Leigh Bardugo
Israeli-American author
Mili Avital
Israeli actress
Theodore Bikel
Austrian-American actor, folk singer, musician, composer, unionist and political activist (1924-2015)
Safra Catz
Israeli-American business executive
Brian George
British actor
Odeya Rush
Israeli actress and model
Alona Tal
Israeli actress and singer
Moran Atias
Israeli-American actress
Daliah Lavi
Israeli actress, singer and model (1942-2017)
Inon Zur
Israeli-American composer
Uziel Gal
Israeli firearm designer (1923-2002)
Haim Saban
Israeli–American media proprietor, investor
Avi Loeb
Israeli astrophysicist (1962-)
Saul Friedländer
Israeli historian and Holocaust survivor (born 1932)
Ricky Ullman
Israeli actor
Amitai Etzioni
German-Israeli immigrant to the United States, sociologist and political theorist of communitarianism
Walter Abish
Austrian-American author
Sulamith Goldhaber
Austrian-American high-energy physicist, molecular spectroscopist (1923-1965)
Isaac Berger
American weightlifter (1936–2022)
Menahem Pressler
German-born American classical pianist
Miriam Adelson
American and Israeli billionaire (born 1945)
Yael Grobglas
French-Israeli actress
Tuvia Bielski
Polish resistance member (1906–1987)
Vladimir Shainsky
Soviet and Russian composer (1925—2017)
Micky Arison
Israeli-born American businessman
Bar Paly
American actress
Miri Ben-Ari
American musician
Oren Peli
Israeli filmmaker
Carmela Corren
Israeli singer and actress (1938–2022)
Boris Avrukh
Israeli chess grandmaster
Ronen Rubinstein
Israeli-American actor
Etan Cohen
Israeli–American filmmaker
Sam Firstenberg
Israeli-American film director
Rod Lurie
Israeli-American director, screenwriter and former film critic
Rucka Rucka Ali
Israeli-American musician, comedian and YouTuber
Theodor Meron
Israeli judge and lawyer
Ziva Rodann
Israeli-American actress and mime artist
Shelomo Dov Goitein
German-Jewish ethnographer, historian and Arabist (1900–1985)
Noa Tishby
Israeli actress, television host, executive producer, singer, model, and political activist
Amir Aczel
lecturer (1950-2015)
Amnon Yariv
American electrical engineer
Avi Lerner
American film producer
Ayelet Waldman
America-Israel writer
Aliza Gur
former Israeli actress and model; Miss Israel 1960
Thomas Blatt
Holocaust survivor (1927–2015)
Raphael Patai
Hungarian academic (1910–1996)
Drew Tal
artist and fine art photographer
Ernst G. Straus
German-American mathematician
Yaron Brook
political activist
Nathan Rapoport
Polish-born Jewish sculptor and painter (1911-1987)