Dutch people in Israel

Dutch people in Israel (Dutch: Nederlanders in Israël) include Israeli citizens or residents who were born in the Netherlands or are of Dutch descent.

List of Dutch Israelis[edit]

Arts[edit]

• Helen Berman - painter (Dutch-born)
• Hannah Yakin - painter (Dutch-born)

Business[edit]

• Dov Frohman - director-general of Intel Israel, inventor of the EPROM (Dutch-born)

Civil service[edit]

• Ya'akov Arnon - director-general of the Israeli ministry of Finance (Dutch-born)

Music[edit]

• Keren Ann - recording artist, singer-songwriter and producer
• Carmit Bachar - singer (American-born, of mixed Dutch-Israeli descent, with some Indonesian, Jewish, and Chinese roots)
• Bart Berman - pianist and composer (Dutch-born)

Politics[edit]

• Ophir Pines-Paz - Knesset member and former cabinet minister (was a citizen of the Netherlands; Dutch-born father)

Science[edit]

• Martin van Creveld - military historian
• Chaim Elata - professor emeritus of mechanical engineering and President of Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, and Chairman of the Israel Public Utility Authority for Electricity
• Manfred Gerstenfeld - political scientist

Sports[edit]

• Daniël de Ridder - soccer player
• Levie Van Ouwerkerk - soccer player

Theatre[edit]

• Nissan Nativ - Israeli actor and theater educator (fled Germany to Amsterdam, then made aliyah)

See also[edit]

• Israel–Netherlands relations
• List of Dutch Jews
• History of the Jews in the Netherlands

References[edit]