Military
- Ron Arad – MIA navigator
- Gabi Ashkenazi – former Chief of the IDF General Staff
- Yohai Ben-Nun – sixth commander of the Israeli Navy
- Eli Cohen – spy
- Wolfgang Lotz – spy
- Moshe Dayan – military leader
- Giora Epstein – combat pilot, modern-day "ace of aces"
- Dan Halutz – Chief of the IDF General Staff (2005–07)
- Uziel Gal – designer of the Uzi submachine gun
- Tzvi Malkhin – Mossad agent, captured Adolf Eichmann
- Yonatan Netanyahu – Sayeret Matkal commando, leader of Operation Entebbe
- Ilan Ramon – astronaut on Columbia flight STS-107
- Gilad Shalit – kidnapped soldier held in Gaza
- Avraham Stern – underground military leader
- Israel Tal – general, father of Merkava tank
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Famous quotes containing the word military:
“Stately as a galleon, I sail across the floor,
Doing the military two-step, as in the days of yore.”
—Joyce Grenfell (1910–1979)
“The military and the clergy cause us much annoyance; the clergy and the military, they empty our wallets and rob our intelligence.”
—Franz Grillparzer (1791–1872)
“[I]t is a civil Cowardice to be backward in asserting what you ought to expect, as it is a military Fear to be slow in attacking when it is your Duty.”
—Richard Steele (1672–1729)