This is a list of notable Mizrahi Jews and Sephardi Jews in Israel, including both original immigrants who obtained Israeli citizenship and their Israeli descendants.
Traditionally the terms "Mizrahi Jews" and "Sephardi Jews" were used as all encompassing terms referring to the Jews descended from the Jewish communities of Iberia, North Africa and the Middle East; but due to the melting pot effect of the Israeli society the terms have gradually become more vague. Many Israeli descendants of Mizrahi and Sephardi Jewish immigrants have gradually adopted the Israeli culture and intermarried with descendants of other Jewish communities.
Businesspeople and entrepreneurs
Shai Agassi - Israeli entrepreneur. The founder and CEO of Better Place, which has developed a model and infrastructure for employing electric cars as an alternative to fossil fuel technology.
Haim Saban – Israeli-American television and media proprietor. Saban was ranked by Forbes as the 104th richest person in America.
Lev Leviev – diamond tycoon
Yitzhak Tshuva - Israeli business magnate.
Michel Abitbol, historian, professor, and chair of the Department of African Studies at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem.
Amnon Netzer – historian, researcher, professor and journalist.
Avshalom Elitzur – physicist and philosopher
Moshe Bar-Asher – linguist
Smadar Lavie - anthropologist, visiting fellow at the University of California, Berkeley
Raphael Mechoulam – chemist, discoverer of tetrahydrocannabinol and anandamide
Moran Atias – model and actress
Sandy Bar – model and actress
Yael Abecassis – model and actress
Linor Abargil – Israeli beauty pageant contestant who won the Miss World beauty pageant in 1998
Miri Bohadana – model and actress
Ilanit Levi – model and actress
Orly Levy – former model who is currently a politician
Mali Levi – model and actress
Natali Atiya – model and actress
Becky Griffin – model, TV presenter and an actress
Yehuda Levi - actor and model
Adi Nes – Photographer
Dudu Aouate – goalkeeper (RCD Mallorca, national team)
Gai Assulin – winger/attacking midfielder (Manchester City, national team)
Pini Balili, Israel/Turkey – striker (Bnei Yehuda Tel Aviv, national team)
Yossi Benayoun – attacking midfielder, national team captain, Hapoel Be'er Sheva, Maccabi Haifa, Racing Santander, West Ham United, Liverpool, Chelsea
Omri Casspi – 6' 9" small forward, drafted in 1st round of 2009 NBA Draft (Cleveland Cavaliers)
Tal Ben Haim – center back/right back, Maccabi Tel Aviv, Bolton Wanderers, Chelsea, West Ham United
Avi Cohen – defender, Liverpool and national team
Yaniv Katan – forward/winger (Maccabi Haifa, national team)
Eli Ohana – won UEFA Cup Winners' Cup and Bravo Award (most outstanding young player in Europe); national team; manager
Haim Revivo – attacking/side midfielder (national team), Maccabi Haifa, Celta de Vigo, Fenerbahçe, Galatasaray
Idan Tal – midfielder (Beitar Jerusalem FC & national team)
Itzik Zohar – attacking midfielder (national team), Maccabi Jaffa, Maccabi Tel Aviv, Royal Antwerp, Beitar Jerusalem, Crystal Palace, Maccabi Haifa, Maccabi Herzliya, Maccabi Netanya, F.C. Ashdod, Hapoel Nazareth Illit
Shahar Tzuberi, Israel, windsurfer, Olympic bronze (RS:X discipline); 2009 & 2010 European Windsurf champion
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