page_title: Tel Aviv University
section_title: Notable alumni
hierarchical_section_title: Tel Aviv University / Notable alumni
caption_attribution_description: English: Ilan Ramon, astronaut killed during the failed re-entry of the Space Shuttle Columbia. עברית: אילן רמון Español: Ilan Ramon, astronauta fallecido durante la reentrada fallida del Columbia.
context_page_description: Tel Aviv University is a public research university in Tel Aviv, Israel. With over 30,000 students, it is the largest university in the country. Located in northwest Tel Aviv, the university is the center of teaching and research of the city, comprising 9 faculties, 17 teaching hospitals, 18 performing arts centers, 27 schools, 106 departments, 340 research centers, and 400 laboratories.
  Besides being the largest university in Israel, Tel Aviv University is also the largest Jewish university in the world. It originated in 1956 when three education units merged to form the university. The original 170-acre campus was expanded and now makes up 220 acres in Tel Aviv's Ramat Aviv neighborhood. It regularly ranks among the top academic institutions in the world by the THE World University Rankings, QS World University Rankings, and the Shanghai Ranking.
context_section_description: Zvi Arad (1942-2018), mathematician, acting President of Bar-Ilan University, President of Netanya Academic College
  Dan Ariely, author and academic
  Fouad Awad, theatre director
  Lucy Ayoub, 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
  Nili Cohen (born 1947), professor and legal expert
  Ran Cohen, former Minister of Housing (Meretz)
  Arie Eldad, former Knesset member (National Union (Israel))
  Israel Eliashiv, former Israeli Ambassador to Singapore
  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 of the Israel Defense Forces.
  Lior Geller, Academy Award and Emmy Award nominated filmmaker and Guinness World Record holder
  Dan Gillerman, former Israeli Ambassador to the UN, and Vice-President of the 60th UN General Assembly
  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, academic
  Avi Hasson, current Chief Scientist of the Ministry of Economy
  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 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
  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
  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, adapted into 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)
  Simon Shaheen, musician
  Silvan Shalom, former minister of Finance and Foreign Affairs (Liku
caption: Ilan Ramon
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