The Israel Defense Prize (Hebrew: פרס בטחון ישראל), also known as the Israel Defense Award is an award presented annually by the President of Israel to...
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Israel Tal (Hebrew: ישראל טל, 13 September 1924 – 8 September 2010), also known as Talik (Hebrew: טליק), was an Israel Defense Forces (IDF) general known...
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The Israel Defense Forces (IDF; Hebrew: צְבָא הַהֲגָנָה לְיִשְׂרָאֵל Tsva ha-Hagana le-Yisra'el, lit. 'The Army of the Defense for Israel'), alternatively...
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Uziel Gal (category Israel Defense Prize recipients)
shortly after the founding of Israel and the 1948 Arab–Israeli War. In 1951, it was officially adopted by the Israel Defense Forces and was called the Uzi...
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Moshe Arens (category Israel Defense Prize recipients)
Gefen, 2011. In Defense of Israel: A Memoir of a Political Life. Washington DC: Brookings, 2018. In 1971, Arens won the Israel Defense Prize. In 2016, Nefesh...
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Haim Eshed (category Israel Defense Prize recipients)
Throughout his career he also received the Israel Defense Prize - the highest civilian defense honor of the State of Israel - three times, but the reasons remain...
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Tamir Pardo (category Israel Defense Prize recipients)
Serbian-Jewish origin. At age 18, when he began his compulsory service in the Israel Defense Forces, he volunteered for the paratroopers. He graduated from an officers'...
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Yossi Cohen (category Israel Defense Prize recipients)
September 1961) is an Israeli intelligence officer. After mandatory service in the Israeli Defense Forces, Cohen joined in the Mossad, Israel's national intelligence...
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Yisrael Galili (inventor) (category Israel Defense Prize recipients)
received the Israel Defense Prize for this achievement. Yisrael Galili died of a heart attack on March 9, 1995. R4 assault rifle "The Israeli Galil". 23...
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IMI 120 mm gun (category Tank guns of Israel)
Mark III. In 1990 the Israel Defense Prize was awarded to Israeli Military Industries for this development, which gave Israel the means to produce tank...
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(1999). 1972: The Israel Defense Prize — for developing a bombing system for the F-4 Phantom II 1976: The Israeli Air Force Prize — for developing a...
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Uzi Rubin (category Israel Defense Prize recipients)
of Israel's Arrow anti-missile defense system. He was awarded the Israel Defense Prize in 1996. He is a fellow of the Begin-Sadat Center for Strategic Studies...
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Israel, officially the State of Israel, is a country in the Southern Levant region of West Asia. It is bordered by Lebanon and Syria to the north, the...
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Ernst David Bergmann (category Israel Defense Prize recipients)
science in Israel. In 1968, Bergmann was awarded the Israel Prize in life sciences. List of Israel Prize recipients David Bergmann (1903-1975) Davies, Harold...
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Unit 81 (category Military units and formations of Israel)
independent service of the Israel Defense Forces (IDF). The unit focuses on building and supplying cutting-edge technologies to Israeli combat soldiers and spies...
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Jacob Ziv (category Israel Defense Prize recipients)
senior research engineer for the Scientific Department of the Israel Ministry of Defense, focused on research and development of communication systems...
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Peter Malkin (category Israel Defense Prize recipients)
team that captured Adolf Eichmann in Argentina in 1960 and brought him to Israel to stand trial for crimes against humanity. Peter Zvi ("Zvika") Malkin was...
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Noga Alon (category Israel Defense Prize recipients)
frequency moments" on streaming algorithms 2008 – Israel Prize, for mathematics. 2011 – EMET Prize, with Saharon Shelah, for mathematics. 2019 – Paris...
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Gili Raanan (category Israel Defense Prize recipients)
Gili Raanan (born 1969) is an Israeli venture capitalist and one of the inventors of CAPTCHA, the WAF and many other inventions in the fields of Cybersecurity...
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Elon Lindenstrauss (category Israel Defense Prize recipients)
represented Israel in the International Mathematical Olympiad and won a bronze medal. During his service in the IDF, he was awarded the Israel Defense Prize. In...
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Joseph Ciechanover (category Israel Prize recipients)
and General Counsel to the Israel Ministry of Defense and Ministry of Agriculture. In 2021 he received the Israel Prize for lifetime achievement and...
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Kira Radinsky (category Israel Defense Prize recipients)
Radinsky (Hebrew: קירה רדינסקי; born July 28, 1986) is a Ukraine-born Israeli computer scientist, inventor and entrepreneur, specializing in predictive...
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Arrow (missile family) (redirect from Arrow 2 (Israeli missile))
family of anti-ballistic missiles designed to fulfill an Israeli requirement for a missile defense system that would be more effective against ballistic...
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Yair Shamir (category Israel Defense Prize recipients)
Yair Shamir (Hebrew: יאיר שמיר; born 18 August 1945) is an Israeli politician, businessman and former military officer. He served as a member of the Knesset...
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Haim Laskov (category Israel Defense Prize recipients)
לסקוב; 1919 – 8 December 1982) was an Israeli public figure and the fifth Chief of Staff of the Israel Defense Forces. Haim Laskov was born in Barysaw...
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IAI Scout (category 1970s Israeli military reconnaissance aircraft)
and Michael Shefer who were all awarded the 1981 Israel Defense Prize. During the 1970s, the Israeli military was becoming increasingly interested in...
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Dorit Dor (category Israel Defense Prize recipients)
Haifa) is an Israeli executive, computer scientist, Chief technology officer of Check Point Software Technologies Ltd. and Israel Defense Prize winner. Dorit...
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Yoav Gallant (category Ministers of defense of Israel)
November 1958) is an Israeli politician and retired military general. A member of the Knesset for Likud, he has served as Minister of Defense since 2022. Gallant...
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Aby Har Even (category Israel Defense Prize recipients)
rank of colonel. In 1977 he was in charge of the team which won the Israel Defense Prize. During his military service Har Even graduated with an MBA from...
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Amir Nachumi (category Israel Defense Prize recipients)
reactor. Born in Jerusalem in 1945, Amir Nachumi was drafted into the Israel Defense Forces in 1962. Failing to complete IAF flight course 44, Nachumi joined...
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