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:
“In early times every sort of advantage tends to become a military advantage; such is the best way, then, to keep it alive. But the Jewish advantage never did so; beginning in religion, contrary to a thousand analogies, it remained religious. For that we care for them; from that have issued endless consequences.”
—Walter Bagehot (1826–1877)
“In politics, it seems, retreat is honorable if dictated by military considerations and shameful if even suggested for ethical reasons.”
—Mary McCarthy (1912–1989)
“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)