Notable Alumni
- Yitzhak Navon (class of 1939) – fifth President of Israel
- Yohai Ben-Nun (1942) – sixth commander of the Israeli Sea Corps
- Daniel Kahneman (1951) – awarded the 2002 Nobel Prize in Economics
- Aharon Barak (1954) – professor of law at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, lecturer in law at the Yale Law School, President of the Supreme Court of Israel from 1995 to 2006
- Yehoram Gaon (1956) – singer and actor
- David Gross (1959) – awarded the 2004 Nobel Prize in Physics
- Tom Segev (1963) – journalist and historian
- Meir Shalev (1966) – writer
- Gil Shwed (1986) - founder of Checkpoint
- David Grossman (1972) – author of fiction, nonfiction, and youth and children's literature
- Ido Nehoshtan (1975) - sixteenth commander of the Israeli Air Force
- Etgar Keret (1985) – writer. The title of one of his books, Kneler's Summer Camp, is a reference to the school principal at his time, Dr. Shmuel Kneler.
- Elon Lindenstrauss (1988) – awarded the 2010 Fields medal in Mathematics
- Anat Kamm (2005) - journalist which has be convicted as a spy, as part of the Anat Kamm-Uri Blau affair. Blau is another graduate of the school.
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