page_title: List of Israeli Mizrahi and Sephardi Jews
section_title: Academic figures
hierarchical_section_title: List of Israeli Mizrahi and Sephardi Jews / Academic figures
caption_attribution_description: English: Dr. Avshalom Elitzur
context_page_description: 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.
context_section_description: 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
  Maor Farid    - researcher at Massachusetts Institute of Technology, social activist and author
  Raphael Mechoulam – chemist, discoverer of tetrahydrocannabinol and anandamide
caption: Avshalom Elitzur - Israeli Physicist
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