People from Israel

Yuri Milner

Investor behind DST Global and the Breakthrough Prizes

Born 1961

Michael O. Rabin

Israeli computer scientist who brought randomness and nondeterminism into computing

1931 – 2026

Avi Wigderson

Israeli theorist who showed how randomness and computation relate

Born 1956

Arkady Volozh

Founder of Yandex, Russia’s search giant, and CEO of Nebius

Born 1964

Adi Shamir

Israeli cryptographer, the “S” in RSA

Born 1952

Jacob Ziv

Israeli engineer who co-invented the Lempel–Ziv compression algorithms

1931 – 2023

Ilya Sutskever

Deep-learning researcher who co-founded OpenAI and Safe Superintelligence

Born 1986

Gil Shwed

Israeli co-founder of Check Point, inventor of the stateful firewall

Amnon Shashua

Israeli computer scientist who co-founded Mobileye

Born 1960

Amir Pnueli

Israeli computer scientist who brought temporal logic into computing

1941 – 2009

Uri Levine

Israeli co-founder of the navigation app Waze

Dov Frohman

Inventor of EPROM memory and founder of Intel Israel

Born 1939

Abraham Lempel

Israeli computer scientist who co-invented Lempel–Ziv compression

1936 – 2023