Israel Arab politics (names)
Baruch Goldstein
(1956-1994) An American physician who immigrated to Israel. In February 1994 he entered a religious site in Hebron wearing his Israeli military uniform. He then began shooting Muslim worshippers, killing twenty-nine and wounding more than a hundred
Bashir Gemayal
Bachir Pierre Gemayel was a Lebanese militia commander who led the Lebanese Forces, the military wing of the Kataeb Party in the Lebanese Civil War and was elected President of Lebanon in 1982
Ari Folman
Director of Waltz With Bashir
Sami Awad
Executive Director of Holy Land Trust. He was born in the U.S. His parents are both Palestinians;
David Ben-Gurion
First Prime Minister of Israel
Moshe Dayan
Head of the IDF, was an Israeli military leader and politician. The fourth Chief of Staff of the Israel Defense Forces. Huge help during six day war but may have missed some of the signs for yom kippur war.
Yitzhak Shamir
Head of the Likud government, advocating a hard-line policy to continue against Palestinians
Ehud Barak
Israeli Prime Minister in 2000 who met with president Clinton to discuss a peace agreement
Yair Lapid
Israeli politician and former journalist serving as the Alternate Prime Minister of Israel and Minister of Foreign Affairs since 2021.
Naftali Bennett
Israeli politician who has been serving as the 13th prime minister of Israel since 2021 and the leader of the New Right party since 2018, having previously led The Jewish Home party between 2012 and 2018
Yigal Amir
Israeli right wing who detmerined to murder Yitzhak Rabin because of Rabin's attempts to reach an agreement with Palestinians; A True Believer
Menachem Begnin
Menachem Begin was an Israeli politician, founder of Likud and the sixth Prime Minister of Israel.
Ehud Olmert
Prime Minister of Israel. Sent to Prison on corruption charges that he was a traitor.
Natan Sharansky
Russian dissident and founder of the Refusenik Movement. He was imprisoned in 1977 for speaking out for greater human rights in the Soviet Union--particularly for Russian Jews
Sheik Ahmed Yassin
Spiritual leader and founder of Hamas. Was assassinated by Israeli forces they blame for terrorist attacks and suicide bombings that killed Israeli citizens and soldiers
Yitzhak Rabin
The Israeli prime minister who agreed to grant the Palestinians their own land. In 1995 he was killed by Jewish extremists
Ariel Sharon
former Israeli Prime Minister (mainly responsible, in 2004, for the unilateral withdrawal of Israeli forces from the Gaza Strip and the evacuation of Jewish settlements there.
Mahmoud Darwish
a Palestinian poet and author who was regarded as the Palestinian national poet.
Avigdor Lieberman
a Soviet-born Israeli politician serving as Minister of Finance since 2021, having previously served twice as Deputy Prime Minister of Israel from 2006 to 2008 and 2009 to 2012
Gilad Shalit
a former MIA soldier of the Israel Defense Forces who was captured by Hamas in a cross-border raid via tunnels near the Israeli border.
Khaled Mashal
a former leader of the Palestinian organization Hamas. After the founding of Hamas in 1987, Mashal became the leader of the Kuwaiti branch of the organization. In 1992, he became a founding member of Hamas' politburo and its chairman.
Ismail Haniyyah
a senior political leader of Hamas and formerly one of two disputed Prime Ministers of the Palestinian National Authority. Haniyeh became prime minister after Hamas won the Palestinian legislative elections of 2006
Peter Beinert
an American liberal columnist, journalist, and political commentator.
Benny Gantz
an Israeli politician and retired army general serving as Minister of Defense since 2020 and Deputy Prime Minister of Israel since 2021. He previously served as the Alternate Prime Minister of Israel from 2020 to 2021
Teddy Kollec
an Israeli politician who served as the mayor of Jerusalem from 1965 to 1993, and founder of the Jerusalem Foundation.
Benjamin Netanyahu
an Israeli politician who served as the ninth prime minister of Israel from 1996 to 1999 and from 2009 to 2021. Netanyahu currently serves as Leader of the Opposition and as the chairman of the Likud - National Liberal Movement.
Rabbi Zvi Kook
an Orthodox rabbi, a prominent leader of Religious Zionism, and Rosh Yeshiva of the Mercaz HaRav yeshiva. He was the son of Rabbi Abraham Isaac Kook, the first Ashkenazi chief rabbi of British Mandatory Palestine.
Yahya Ayyash
assassinated in 1996; known as "the engineer," chief bomb maker for Hamas;
Marwan Barghouti
is the alleged leader of the al Aqsa Martyrs Brigade.
Abu Mazen
is the president of the State of Palestine and the Palestinian National Authority
Yasir Arafat
leader of the Palestinian Liberation Organization and his goal was the destruction of Israel
Meir Kahane
was an American-Israeli Orthodox rabbi... created jewish defense league
