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page 1Soviet emigrants to Israel
Avigdor Lieberman
Israeli politician, member of the Knesset
Boris Gelfand
Belarusian-Israeli chess player
Natan Sharansky
Israeli politician (born 1948)
Mordechai Spiegler
Israeli footballer and manager
Meir Dagan
Israeli general and spy (1945–2016)
July Edelstein
Israeli politician
Maria Gorokhovskaya
Soviet-Israeli artistic gymnast (1921–2001)
Anna Smashnova
Belarusian-born Israeli tennis player
Mirza Khazar
Azerbaijani writer, journalist, publisher, radio and television host
Dina Rubina
Russian-Israeli writer
Ilya Piatetski-Shapiro
Russian mathematician (1929–2009)
Rudolf Barshai
Russian conductor (1924–2010)
Emil Sutovsky
Israeli chess player
Zahava Gal-On
Israeli politician
Yelena Dembo
Russian-Greek chess player
Alla Kushnir
Russian-Israeli chess player (1941–2013)
Tuvia Bielski
Polish resistance member (1906–1987)
Lev Leviev
Israeli-Russian businessman, philanthropist and investor
Eliyahu Rips
Israeli-Latvian mathematician (1948-2024)
Michael Kolganov
Soviet Uzbek-born Israeli canoeist
Itzhak Shum
Israeli footballer
Joel Razvozov
Israeli politician and former judoka
Eve Harlow
USSR-born Canadian actress
Ze'ev Elkin
Israeli politician
Mark Ivanir
Israeli actor
Igor Guberman
Israeli writer
Arcadi Gaydamak
Israeli businessman
Yuri Foreman
Israeli boxer and rabbinical student
Sofa Landver
Israeli politician
Aharon Dolgopolsky
Russian-Israeli linguist (1930-2012)
Itamar Golan
Israeli pianist of Lithuanian origin
Yuri Ahronovitch
Music conductor (1932–2002)
Eliezer Halfin
Munich Massacre victim (1948–1972)
Faina Kirschenbaum
Israeli politician
Tali Ploskov
Israeli politician
Mark Slavin
Israeli wrestler and Munich Massacre victim (1954–1972)
Mark Tseitlin
Israeli chess grandmaster
Moysey Fishbein
Ukrainian writer (1946-2020)
Ksenia Svetlova
Israeli politician
Dani Bondar
Israeli footballer
Elhanan Helpman
Israeli-American economist
Shoshana Parsitz
Israeli politician (1892–1969)
Amnon Cohen
Israeli politician
Robert Ilatov
Israeli politician
Leonid Gofshtein
Israeli chess player (1953–2015)
Yakov Kedmi
former Israeli politician
Jacob Tsimerman
Canadian mathematician
Meir Wieseltier
Israeli poet (1941–2023)
Yosef Shagal
USSR-born Israeli politician
Roman Bronfman
Israeli politician
Israel Gohberg
Russian mathematician (1928-2009)
Anna Azari
Israeli diplomat
Boris Trakhtenbrot
Russian-Israeli mathematician
Mikhail Agursky
Jewish sovietologist, cybernetic, and historian (1933-1991)
David Milman
Ukrainian-born Israeli mathematician
Ljuba Kristol
Israeli chess player
Marina Maximilian Blumin
Soviet Ukrainian-born Israeli singer and actress
Yocheved Bat-Miriam
Israeli poet (1901-1980)
Vladimir Liberzon
Israeli chess player (1937–1996)
Samuel Merlin
Israeli politician (1910–1994)